Although Xia Xiang didn't say anything, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She wouldn't have to eat roasted gecko, roasted bat, roasted spider, or roasted lizard later. That was great.

Sure enough, her older brother was the one she admired most! She looked gratefully at Xia Yu, who was standing in front of her.

Xia Yu felt his sister's admiring gaze, turned around and smiled, feeling very happy inside.

So the group divided the work: Xia Yu prepared lunch, Xia Mei assisted, Xia Tian, ​​Ren Chenwen, and Xia Mi Wa Ge set up tents at the campsite, and Xia Xiang and her two friends went into the woods to explore, symbolically collecting a few pieces of wood to light a campfire when they returned.

"Xia Xiang, your family is so interesting! Can I come here often in the future?" Hu Yanjing asked.

"You're dreaming." Xia Xiang refused mercilessly; she couldn't even come back often enough.

"Hey, what happened while cooking? It felt really weird." Ren Chenfeng was still thinking about what was wrong with him earlier. His cousin, Ren Chenwen, looked at him with a mixture of sympathy and regret, which made him feel very strange.

"It's just that my mom's cooking style is rather abstract. You might get a taste of roasted gecko, roasted spider, and roasted bat," Xia Xiang said, looking terrified.

She really couldn't express how she felt every time she ate her mother's cooking and ended up in the hospital with diarrhea; she still feels lingering fear when she thinks about it now.

"..." Hearing this, the two felt their hair stand on end just thinking about it, and they were also glad that they had escaped a disaster.

"Hey, did you know? Something big happened in the supernatural world yesterday." Hu Yanjing suddenly brought up this matter that was giving the Imperial Guards a headache and shared it with his friends.

"What happened?" Xia Xiang and Ren Chenfeng asked.

"It's the case of the demonized people abducting children. I heard the main culprit has been caught, but there are still some henchmen who haven't been caught." Hu Yanjing finished speaking with an angry look on his face. "Hmph, if I, Hu Yanjue Luo Jing, were to encounter them, I would definitely eliminate them as soon as possible."

"Child trafficking?" Xia Xiang asked, puzzled. "Child trafficking of children with special abilities?"

“I heard from my cousin’s teammates that besides people with superpowers, there are also Muggles, which makes things seem particularly strange.” Hu Yanjing pushed up his glasses and said in a mysterious tone, “And most of the trafficked children are twins, which makes it even stranger.”

"Those despicable demons, they're utterly inhuman!" Ren Chenfeng angrily snapped off a dead branch and picked it up.

"The main culprit has been caught. We'll find out by handing him over to the South City Guard for interrogation. There's no one the South City Guard can't get to talk." Xia Xiang thought to herself, planning to go to the South City Guard later to see the human traffickers they had caught.

"You know a lot about the Southern City Guard?" Hu Yanjing asked curiously.

"The South City Guard is so mysterious. The Huyan Jue Luo family is a warrior family, and most of the family members are members of the Ironclad Imperial Guard. Not many people know about the South City Guard. Even the commander of the East City Guard, the chief combat unit, does not have the authority to inquire about the South City Guard."

"No, I was just guessing," Xia Xiang quickly added.

"Look, the East City Guard is always traveling through time and space, the North City Guard is responsible for the safety of the Iron Dimension, the West City Guard is responsible for the safety of the Alliance Leader, and only the South City Guard is the most idle."

"Your guess is quite bold, because the Southern City Guard is practically nonexistent in the Iron Dimension." Ren Chenfeng recalled the rumors he had heard.

"Some people say that the South City Guard was just mentioned incidentally to maintain formation, but in fact, it wasn't mentioned at all."

Xia Xiang's lips twitched violently. "Your guess is truly audacious..."

"You adorable kids, you're the really brave ones." An echoing, androgynous voice rang out not far behind the three.

The three of them turned around abruptly, dropped the branches they were holding, and assumed a defensive stance.

The newcomer was dressed in a mismatched, tattered dark purple robe, with messy purple hair of varying lengths, and his face was covered with bumps of all sizes, obscuring his original skin color. He was grinning with his bright red lips in a very eerie manner.

His red eyes gleamed with an eerie, dark light, and he couldn't contain his excitement, looking at them as if they were delicacies.

Xia Xiang looked around and realized that the surrounding trees were lush and the environment was dark, so they must have been far from the camp.

"How audacious! To remain so calm in the presence of me." The man who called himself "this one" smiled even more broadly, revealing sharp teeth. He licked his lips with his tongue and slurped his saliva. "As expected of a child with special abilities, you're truly different."

"A unique and delicious flavor! Hahahaha—"

"What do you call him?" Hu Yanjing spoke first. "Is he a demon, or a demonized human?"

"It shouldn't be a demon, right? He looks really bad. But if he is a demon, what level is he? A ghoul? Even that doesn't look like him." Ren Chenfeng looked troubled, pinching his chin as he tried to recall which book he had read about this strange creature.

"I wonder what kind of monster he is. He doesn't look like the ones in textbooks at all!" Xia Xiang dropped her defensive stance, dusted off her hands, and secretly prepared for the strange man's movements.

"Hey!" the monster, whose appearance was unknown, shouted, "You three brats, surrender and I'll give you a quick death."

"Heh, do you think we can be intimidated by your ugliness? I'll give you a chance to get lost, or your grandpa Huyan Jue Luo will make you regret ever being born!" Huyan Jing actually dared to provoke him under such circumstances.