Chapter 103 Like a bulging, muscular bullfrog
The man stopped in his tracks, feeling a strange unease, as if some terrible monster was lurking in the darkness, but he quickly dismissed the thought.
Ha, after taking the Rejuvenation Pill, he is now a completely different person. After killing fish in the kitchen for so long every day, his heart has long been as cold as the knife used to kill fish.
The next moment, the man walked steadily toward the bed, his left foot stepping into the trap without him realizing it, simply because he was drawn to the pamphlet on the bed.
Xie Mianmian, who was under the bed, scratched her face. What does this mean? She's so disobedient. She even puts her other foot over here.
The man picked up the booklet with delight and eagerly flipped through it. He found it; he had finally found the cargo ship register, which recorded the numbers, sailing dates, and routes of important transport ships.
This is exactly what important people need!
The man stood up straight in front of the bed excitedly, his right foot naturally joining his other foot.
Xie Mianmian also got excited. She put her feet on the foot of the bed, pulled hard with both hands, and clenched her white teeth tightly, using all her strength.
The child's legs were no joke; they were incredibly strong. All I heard was—
"Um?"
"bump!"
The man's feet were first bound together by a strong force, causing him to lose his balance and fall heavily to the ground, his forehead slamming hard against the hard floor. He was momentarily dizzy.
Seeing that the man had temporarily lost all his strength and abilities, Xie Mianmian crawled out from under the bed. The rope was very long, and she recalled how the Seventh Prince had been tied up in Xiahe Village.
With nimble little hands, she copied the pattern perfectly, tightly binding the man into a large crab shape, leaving him dazed and unable to move for a moment.
Xie Mianmian stood up, proudly patted the dust off her hands, snatched the booklet from the man's hand, stuffed it back under her father's pillow, and then gave it a satisfied pat.
The man slowly regained consciousness, the tinderbox was thrown to the ground, and everything went dark.
He thought to himself that this was bad. Who was this person who had subdued him without him even realizing it? Could it be Governor Xie? But wasn't he on the deck?
The man cried out, "My lord, spare me! I know I was wrong. I was just momentarily blinded by evil spirits. Please let me go. I won't do it again!"
Silent footsteps approached the tinderbox. The man thought in horror, "A master! He's definitely a top-notch master!"
The tinderbox was picked up, and the dim candlelight only hovered in the low air. The man looked up tremblingly and was so frightened by what he saw that he almost lost his soul.
In the flickering candlelight, a hideous, pale ghost face appeared!
"Ah!" the man screamed again, "Ghost! Don't come any closer! Help!" He pleaded for help, confessing his crime!
"What? Where are the ghosts?" came a cute child's voice. The tinderbox was far away, and you could see that it belonged to a beautifully carved little child.
Xie Mianmian looked around but found nothing amiss. She patted her chest reassuringly with her small hand, "You bad person, don't talk nonsense." Mianmian was terrified.
The man squinted. "It's you?!" She was Governor Xie's youngest daughter, who had come to visit today.
"So what if it is? You're really being unreasonable, always jumping around like this. You can stay here, Mianmian is leaving."
Anyway, the man is tied up like that and can't move, so her father should be back soon. She should hurry up and take care of important business.
Unexpectedly, the man suddenly spoke, "Hehehe, now that you know my true colors, do you think you can still leave?"
He's just a five-year-old child. He was caught because he wasn't paying attention. Otherwise, would you really think the Rejuvenation Pill he took was fake?
Hearing this, Xie Mianmian tilted her head and said, "As a bound crab, you should have your own awareness. You're so noisy."
The man fell silent, seemingly preparing something. The next instant, his muscles suddenly tensed and bulged, stretching the hemp ropes binding him until they were round.
Xie Mianmian looked at the person on the ground and felt that something was wrong. He... he looked like a bloated bullfrog! The rope also looked like it was about to snap!
Xie Mianmian turned around and ran away with a wail.
The person yelled "Damn!" and behind her came the sound of ropes tearing apart.
The man stood up and twisted his wrists and neck from side to side, the joints grinding together violently with a terrifying cracking sound.
Xie Mianmian quickly ran towards the door, but the man easily stepped in front of the child and blocked her way.
"You dare to mess with me? Is that fun?"
Xie Mianmian's eyes darted left and right as she ran towards the desk, covering the tinderbox in her hand as she did so. In an instant, the room returned to silence and darkness.
The man quickly caught up, shouting, "I saw you! Get the hell out here!"
Time is running out. Governor Xie is probably coming back soon. I should have grabbed her earlier. Now look what I'm doing playing hide-and-seek with this brat.
The room was cluttered with things. Xie Mianmian walked silently, slowly circling around the man. The man, not noticing the child for a long time, became increasingly impatient.
Xie Mianmian went to the window, unbolted it, and opened the window a crack. She stuck her head out to look outside, and her eyes lit up.
The man naturally noticed that the window had been opened by the child. "Hehehe, found you!"
Xie Mianmian opened the window and began to climb up, huffing and puffing.
"Don't come any closer, or I'll jump into the sea!"
"Go ahead and jump, I'd love for you to jump." He then disappeared without a trace, and no one knew what he had done wrong.
Xie Mianmian half-squatted on the windowsill, gripping the window frame with both hands, and turned to look at the person, "Okay, Mianmian will jump, but don't come over yet."
"Alright." He chuckled menacingly, feeling a thrill of forcing innocent little animals to their own demise. So this is what it feels like to be superior and control the fate of others.
He'll definitely make a great contribution by bringing back the grain transport register this time. He should become a high-ranking consul and stop killing fish!
He smiled smugly.
Xie Mianmian finally made up her mind. She originally wanted to jump down directly, but after thinking about it, she decided to climb over the wall instead.
During the action, she didn't forget to warn the man, "Don't move from where you are."
The person was still lost in their own fantasy.
Soon, Xie Mianmian climbed out of the window, leaving only her two small, white hands, her knuckles white, clinging laboriously to the windowsill.
The man grinned wickedly and tried to go over and see Xie Mianmian off.
Just then, the door opened, and a figure walked in. Caught off guard, the two people's eyes met.
The man turned back to look at the child who had disappeared from the windowsill, and burst into laughter. Karma! He was going to be arrested, and the youngest daughter of the Xie family wouldn't survive either. If he didn't say anything, no one would know that the child had jumped into the sea on her own.
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