But the thunder and lightning disappeared.
The surroundings returned to silence.
Zhao Ying carried Shangguan Qingyue to the clinic. The eight survivors had already been treated. Zhao Ying remembered what Shangguan Qingyue said, that they were all ghosts and obsessions, and couldn't help sighing.
People are all afraid of ghosts, but for some reason, these ghosts do not give people a creepy feeling. Instead, they seem fragile and vulnerable.
Zhao Ying stepped forward and everyone greeted him. The few living people also wanted to come forward to greet him, but were stopped by Zhao Ying.
"No need to be polite!"
An old man stood up with both eyes black and blue, and was so thin that only skin and bones remained. His skin was pale due to long periods of no light, and was covered with bacterial warts that only dead people had.
The doctors found nothing unusual. They thought the patient didn't have long to live because of the deathly aura all over his body. Unexpectedly, he had been dead for a long time.
The old man knelt down, his aged voice trembling and rough, "Thank you, Your Highness, Princess, thank you, Your Highness!"
The old man burst into tears, expressing his gratitude to Zhao Ying and the soldiers, his hatred for the foreign invaders, and his own despair and misery...
Zhao Ying felt that he was not interested in this, and seemed to be asking for something.
As expected, after the old man finished speaking, he exchanged glances with his tribesmen, turned back and said firmly, "Your Highness, we...will not survive this night. When the sun rises, we will be gone!"
These words shocked everyone.
"this……"
"Over the years, the people of Dali have died or been buried, leaving only the eight of us. Liu and his men are determined to wipe out our entire race. They did this because they thought that if the eight of us died, the Dali lineage would disappear from this world."
"But they don't know, we have a backup plan! Decades ago, Chief Chu sent his beloved daughter out of Dali. This girl is extraordinary. If she were still alive, she would be the root of Dali. She would carry Dali's bloodline and civilization forever..."
"I beg Your Highness to help me find her!"
Zhao Ying remembered that Liang Su had told her that the Chu family had a baby girl who was regarded as a potential cultivator and was taken away.
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