"That's... that woman from the Lin family?"
Jiang Nian'an stood on the high place, looking down at Lin Jiayun below who was panting heavily due to exhaustion.
"Um."
Shen Nanxing glanced at Lin Jiayun once before looking away, following Lin Sheng and his group from a distance with a furrowed brow.
"An'an, you and Xiao Zhanzhan wait here for me. I'll go follow them and see!"
He picked up Jiang Nian'an and quickly flashed to the rooftop where the giant eagle was. Xiao Longzhan was circling the giant eagle, muttering something to himself.
"I'll go with you!"
Jiang Nian'an pulled Shen Nanxing back, looking at him with worried eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine."
Shen Nanxing patted her head, his eyes gentle and reassuring, "Besides, we need people here too..."
"I should have known better than to let Yunhu and Xiaosang leave..."
Jiang Nian'an muttered something under her breath, then added worriedly, "You must be careful!"
"Um!"
Shen Nanxing nodded, then leaped off the high building and silently followed Lin Sheng and the others.
"Little Purple, come here!"
Upon hearing Jiang Nian'an's call, Xiao Zi darted over to her in a flash.
"Did you see that woman?"
Jiang Nian'an walked to the edge and squatted down, gesturing for Xiao Zi to look down.
Little Purple peered down.
......
Very good, without eyes, it cannot see.
Xiao Zi wanted to shake her head, but then she heard Jiang Nian'an say, "Go and keep an eye on her, but don't let her find out."
He changed his head from shaking it to nodding it.
Little Purple didn't care what was happening below, and with a flick of its tail, it went down.
Jiang Nian'an turned to look at the giant eagle and the little dragon Zhan.
The giant eagle stood in the middle of the rooftop, closing its eyes to rest, ignoring the incessant chatter of the little dragon Zhan.
On the contrary, the little eagle had already forgotten its earlier fear and was curiously circling around Xiao Longzhan and the little blood fox.
Seeing this, Xiao Longzhan stopped trying to hurt the giant eagle and instead took out a pot of steaming braised meat to tempt the little eagle.
Soon, the three little ones sat down in a row and started sharing the meat.
Jiang Nian'an glanced at them with amusement, then found a spot near the giant eagle, placed a thick cushion, and sat down.
Before long, specks of green glow began to emanate from her body.
Like fireflies, they floated and spread across the rooftop, eventually attaching themselves to the birds perched around them.
'Chirp chirp—' The flock of birds became lively.
Many birds looked at the green spots on their bodies and chirped curiously.
Many birds flapped their wings vigorously, trying to shake off the green specks of light clinging to their bodies.
The giant eagle slightly opened its eyes, its gaze lingering on Jiang Nian'an for a moment before gently raising its wings.
The flock of birds fell silent instantly.
For a moment, the only sound on the entire rooftop was the chewing of the three little ones eating meat.
Time passed by, and soon it was midnight.
Shen Nanxing did not return, and the flock of birds showed no unusual behavior.
Jiang Nian'an stood up and walked around the rooftop.
"Could I have guessed wrong? There's nothing wrong with the monster's flesh?"
She muttered to herself, her surveying gaze sweeping over each bird.
"Sister, what guessed wrong?"
Xiao Longzhan, who was dozing off on the back of the big gray dog while holding the little eagle and the little blood fox, heard her voice and groggily opened his eyes.
"fine."
Jiang Nian'an withdrew her gaze, quickly walked to Big Gray's side, picked up the thick robe that had fallen to the side, and wrapped Little Dragon Zhan, Little Eagle, and Little Blood Fox together.
"Keep sleeping. If anything happens, your sister will call you."
After watching Xiao Longzhan lie down, she gently patted him.
The giant eagle opened its eyes and saw its eaglet, also wrapped tightly in a thick robe and sleeping soundly. It silently moved its feet and used its massive body to shield them from most of the cold wind.
"Thanks!"
After seeing that Xiao Longzhan and the others had fallen asleep, Jiang Nian'an walked to the giant eagle's side and thanked it.
The giant eagle simply stared ahead and did not respond.
"I apologize on behalf of Xiao Zi for what happened before."
As Jiang Nian'an spoke, she took out ten level-three mental crystal cores from her space. "Although it had no malicious intent, it still caused psychological harm to Little Eagle. These are Little Purple's apology to Little Eagle."
'Lí?'
The giant eagle finally reacted when it saw the mental crystal core in Jiang Nian'an's hand.
A longing flashed in its eyes, but after a moment's thought, it shook its head and did not accept.
There's a saying that goes, "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Even if the other party was at fault first, the value of these crystal cores far exceeds the damage suffered by the little eagle, and who knows what the other party might want to do with them.
The giant eagle was extremely vigilant.
Don't worry!
Jiang Nian'an smiled slightly, her eyes clear and devoid of any calculation as she looked at the giant eagle. "If we need your help, we will offer you an even greater gift."
This is merely an apology; it has no other meaning whatsoever.
The giant eagle glanced at her, then, with a hint of disbelief, used its mental power to collect the ten mental crystal cores.
A level three spirit-type crystal core is of little use to it, but it is a rare treasure to the little eagle.
'Cheers!'
The giant eagle let out a soft cry to Jiang Nian'an, indicating that it accepted the favor.
Jiang Nian'an didn't engage in any polite refusals, nor did she continue the topic; instead, she brought up what had happened earlier.
"The insect that the flock of birds was fighting over earlier was a monster that some bad people had experimented on."
The monsters those people experimented with were either very powerful or had special abilities; in short, none of them were useless.
"And that one was very weak, even weaker than yours—"
Jiang Nian'an stopped abruptly before speaking, pausing for a moment before carefully choosing her words, "Even those adorable cheerleaders can easily defeat it, which means it must have some kind of special ability..."
The giant eagle looked down at her, "Cheep?"
【Then what? 】
"I previously suspected that its ability was parasitism, such as pre-installing a virus or parasite inside the body, which would release the virus or parasitize another living thing if it encountered external damage."
But now—"
Jiang Nian'an waved her hand and grabbed a small bird that had previously eaten the long monster's flesh, gently running her fingers over its body.
“The birds that ate the monster’s flesh showed no abnormalities, so I suspect I might be wrong.”
"Li li!"
The giant eagle shook its head and flapped its wings, and a level 5 wind-type red-bellied eagle, more than half a meter long, swooped up from below.
A mutated rat, still struggling, was hanging from its sharp claws.
'Thud!'
The red-bellied eagle tossed the mutated rat directly in front of the man and the eagle, and then flew away.
Jiang Nian'an watched the red-bellied eagle disappear into the night in the blink of an eye, her eyes narrowing slightly.
"So you don't just have cheering birds under your command, you also have such a strong general!"
"Cheers~"
A smug glint flashed in the giant eagle's eyes. "There's more than one."
It controls every little thing that happens in the city, and naturally it has some formidable subordinates.
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