Chapter 86 Death

The warmth on her face caught Fan Xiaoxiao off guard, and she touched her face. The scarlet stain on her hand reminded her once again that what she was seeing was not an illusion; Madam Ye had removed Ah Xiang's hand.

"You! My hand!!!" Ah Xiang clutched her severed arm, took a few steps back, and collapsed to the ground, letting out a bloodcurdling scream like a pig being slaughtered.

Lady Ye tilted her head slightly, and her right hand moved slightly, as if she was pulling on something.

"puff"

The world fell silent. Ah Xiang's head landed on the ground. This was the first time Fan Xiaoxiao had witnessed someone's death up close, the stench of blood constantly assaulting her senses. She shuddered, bent over, and began to gag.

"vomit……"

This is fucking too exciting! I can't take it anymore.

"Is that all you've got?" Ye Niangzi's voice, which sounded like a half-smile, came from ahead. Fan Xiaoxiao felt her whole body stiffen and quickly covered her mouth.

She suddenly remembered that she had initially criticized this big shot! Oh my god, this is going to kill me.

"Ah Xiang... Ah Xiang!!!"

After a long period of stunned silence, Alan finally came to her senses. Trembling, she looked at Axiang, who had now materialized. Tears welled up in her eyes, and when she looked up at Lady Ye again, her eyes were already red and swollen.

"I kill you!!!!"

After letting out that roar, Alan charged straight at Madam Ye. Fan Xiaoxiao instinctively dodged to the side. Sure enough, when the woman was still two steps away from Madam Ye, Madam Ye moved, her movements somewhat ghostly.

After a brief moment of near miss, Alan froze in place. Then, her head, still bearing an angry expression, slowly detached from her body. Finally, it fell to the ground along with her robust frame, becoming a soulless mass of flesh and blood.

Fan Xiaoxiao stared blankly at the blood spreading on the ground.

Dead? Another one died?

Are humans really such fragile animals?

"What are you all standing there for? That old hag is about to run away."

"ha?"

Fan Xiaoxiao looked up, bewildered, and saw the old woman running quickly towards the courtyard gate. Fan Xiaoxiao was startled; if the old woman got away, they would be in trouble.

"stop!"

She shouted and chased after the old woman without hesitation. Fortunately, the old woman was old and not very agile. She was tackled to the ground by Fan Xiaoxiao not far away.

The old woman struggled a couple of times in a somewhat disheveled manner, the dust on the ground soiling her clothes that she had just changed into.

"You...you let me go! I'm telling you, if anything happens to me, my grandson will never forgive you!"

At this moment, Fan Xiaoxiao had finally calmed down from the state of seeing the dead body. Hearing the old woman's words, she sneered.

"Ha, your grandson won't let me go? Old lady, you think too highly of yourself! If you're really not afraid, then why did you ask Iron Chicken to bring us up here in the first place? If you're really that important, why don't you have any other guards besides those two idiots who died?"

Fan Xiaoxiao's words seemed to have touched a nerve with the old woman, and she immediately became agitated, breathing heavily and her face contorted with extreme anger. She screamed shrilly, her eyes fixed on Fan Xiaoxiao.

"Shut up! Shut up!!! I am the chieftain's great-grandmother! I am the most important woman in the entire Huilong Village!"

Fan Xiaoxiao looked at her indifferently, her eyes filled with cold pity.

"Oh, you look so pathetic."

The old woman's breath caught in her throat, as if she had been transported back to the time when she had just been captured and brought to Huilong Village. Lost in her own thoughts, she didn't even react when Fan Xiaoxiao tied her up tightly.

Madam Ye walked over, slowly wrapping something around her hands. Fan Xiaoxiao glanced at it; it was coiled silver thread, gleaming coldly in the moonlight. She shivered, suddenly remembering the two corpses lying in the courtyard, and goosebumps instantly rose all over her body.

Fortunately, this big shot didn't seem interested in her. After taking a couple of steps, he stopped precisely in front of the old woman, and then Fan Xiaoxiao watched as the big shot slowly squatted down. This action elicited a reaction from the old woman, who was immersed in her own emotions.

She looked up at Madam Ye, her face returning to its usual expressionless state.

"If you're asking how to get out of Huilong Village, I advise you to save your energy. I was brought here when I was seventeen, and I've never left in my entire life."

Fan Xiaoxiao: "..." So you didn't know how to leave this Huilong Village either! Not only did you not know, but you were also arrested! We're all victims, how can you be so brazen! Have you become mentally disturbed?!

"Little mute, where do you live?"

The old woman was taken aback, not expecting Madam Ye to ask such a strange question. Fan Xiaoxiao was also surprised. The little mute? The child who was just carrying the oil lamp? Does Boss Ye recognize that girl?

Clearly, Fan Xiaoxiao wasn't the only one thinking this way. The old woman coughed a few times and sighed deeply: "I didn't expect you to be after that girl. Well, that makes sense, otherwise, with your skills, how could you have been caught so easily?"

After muttering this to herself, she slightly raised her head: "The little mute girl lives at the bottom of the Cloud Ladder, with her grandfather."

Having received a reply, Lady Ye stood up.

"Let's go."

Fan Xiaoxiao was taken aback, and subconsciously followed.

"Ahem, let me make this clear from the start: you outsiders have no chance of using the Cloud Ascension Ladder."

Lady Ye put her hand on Fan Xiaoxiao's shoulder, letting her lead the way. It seemed that she didn't take the old woman's words to heart at all.

"If you want to go down the Heavenly Ladder, I advise you to save your breath. There are many traps on the Heavenly Ladder. Outsiders who go down it will most likely not make it to the bottom alive. Cough cough cough."

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Fan Xiaoxiao had Ye Da Lao's hand on her shoulder, while she held onto the rope binding the old woman. The three of them, in this strange arrangement, walked to the ladder.

"arrive."

The old woman reached out shakily to touch the brass bell in the corner, and just as she was about to ring it, Fan Xiaoxiao called out to her.

"Wait a moment!"

The old woman paused, glancing at Fan Xiaoxiao with a somewhat ambiguous look in her eyes.

"What's wrong?"

Fan Xiaoxiao took a few steps forward and grasped the rope of the copper bell in her hand. She smiled slightly at the old woman and said, "I still don't think I can let you hold the bell. If you have any malicious intentions, wouldn't both this lady and I be doomed?"

Hearing this, the old woman narrowed her eyes, and after a long while, she said in a low voice, "But if you shake it wrong, the Cloud Ladder won't go down."

"Three long, two short."

After remaining silent the whole way, Madam Ye coldly uttered these words. Fan Xiaoxiao frowned. This seemed to be the secret signal that the old woman had given when they came up.

"Let's give it a try. If it doesn't work, we'll just accept our bad luck. It's not much different if that old woman pulls us anyway."

Fan Xiaoxiao glanced at the old woman, whose head was lowered, lost in thought. Boss Ye was right; if they really let this woman pull them, who knew what would happen? It was better to let them try what she suggested.

"Clang—clang—clang"

(End of this chapter)