However, he did not take his mother and children back to the village directly at first. Instead, he secretly ambushed Zhou Ermao and Zhou Erleng outside the village and asked them about the situation in the village over the past year. From their conversation, he learned that Zhou Shu's wife had a grudge against Zhou Quan's family, and he told the people on the mountain about this.
The people on the mountain then instructed Zhou Chun to pay Zhou Shu's wife's family to come and work as their inside agents at Zhou Shu's house under the pretext of taking care of Xiao Zhao Shi. They then asked them to find a way to oppose Zhou Quan and cause trouble for his family.
Money makes things easier. Xiao Zhao's cousin was sent over, and Zhou Shu's relationship with this sister-in-law grew better and better, to the point that he completely listened to her.
Their plan was originally very good. With Zhou Shu helping Zhou Chun in the village, he was taken into the village during the few days that Zhou Quan was not back, and even met several clan elders, whom he bribed with money.
They just didn't expect that the clan chief would oppose Zhou Chun's return, and they didn't expect that after Zhou Quan returned, he wouldn't allow Zhou Chun's family to enter the village at all.
After Zhou Chun was unable to enter the village last night, they came up with the idea of using that girl to cause conflict between Zhou Quan and Li Mai today.
They figured that any woman, seeing another woman in her man's arms, especially in front of a crowd, would definitely make a scene, particularly if she was pregnant.
But they failed again.
After seeing their failure again, the man in black tried to use Zhou Quan's mother and child as leverage to punish Zhou Chun. However, Zhou Quan suddenly appeared, and when the man sensed Zhou Quan's presence, he only had time to bring his entire family into the mountains to deal with Zhou Quan.
However, unexpectedly, the man in black suddenly threw the child down, killing Zhou Chunniang, and then ran away, abandoning even his several wild beasts.
Then, the clan chief and the old clan chief were very angry. Many villagers heard about it and went over to condemn Zhou Chun and the four clan elders. Amid the shouts of the people, Zhou Chun and Zhou Shu were also tied up and sent to the government.
Zhou Quan was taking his older sister's family home in the afternoon, and he also planned to go to the government office along the way to help deal with this matter.
This time, it's not just a matter of being driven out of the village; their only fate is to go to jail.
Hearing of their determination, Li Mai was relieved.
However, even if the government goes to that mountain now, they probably won't find anything. Since the man in black has a spatial ability, he must have already cleared the mountain when he left.
Now, all she can do is wait for Gu Zhe to bring back news and the truth.
As the sun set, Zhou Lin brought dinner to Li Mai and also took Zhu Zhu and Xi Que over for dinner.
After they left, Gu Zhe appeared before Li Mai.
However, his face was a little pale, and Li Mai was taken aback. "What's wrong? Are you injured?"
Gu Zhe sat at the table, shook her head, and glanced at the large plate of dumplings in front of her.
"It's alright!"
Seeing the look in his eyes, Li Mai went to get another pair of chopsticks and a bowl and placed them in front of him, then put the dumplings in the middle of the table. "Eat up!"
"Hehe, I'll just try it!"
Li Mai ignored him and slowly began to eat.
Gu Zhe ate a few and then put down his chopsticks, worried that there wouldn't be enough quinoa.
After he finished eating, Li Mai placed a bowl of water on the table with her mind and pushed it towards him, saying, "Spiritual spring water, drink it. It seems you've consumed quite a bit of your spiritual energy."
"Thank you!" Gu Zhe didn't stand on ceremony and drank it. Actually, he also had a space, which contained more fruits and spiritual plants. The spiritual spring water only had one small spring, and he could only take one bowl a day. But today, he gave the bowl to his queen in the morning.
"What is the daily limit for the spiritual spring water in your space?" Li Mai asked.
“One bowl!” Gu Zhe shook his head.
All right!
After Li Mai finished eating, she led him into her own space. "Go have a drink. You can also cultivate here. Tell me about your pursuit of that person today."
Gu Zhe was excited when he saw the stream in the Li Mai space. He ran to the stream and bent down to drink.
Li Mai's lips twitched, but she ignored him and sat down on the rock to the west to rest.
Now that her belly is big, she gets tired after walking for a while.
After Gu Zhe had drunk his fill, he sat cross-legged and practiced his internal energy for a while before opening his eyes and saying, "Our family's experimental base wasn't founded by the Li family alone, but by four families. By the time of your great-grandfather's generation, only our family and the Luo family remained."
"At the same time your grandfather created the space chip, he discovered that the Luo family had also secretly developed a space. The other family's space was mainly beast-oriented, while our family's was water- and plant-oriented. This is because most of our family members have awakened water and wood elements, so the space we developed is mainly designed to assist water and wood element cultivators. The Luo family, on the other hand, focuses on assisting earth and metal element cultivators, and they have more people awakening earth and metal elements."
"And in the space used by his family, they kept every supernatural beast, monster, and wild animal they captured. They then used drugs to turn those beasts into mutated creatures to help their family grow stronger."
"In fact, whether it is our family's strong members or their family's strong members, we all have a natural enemy, which is the ancient divine beast Luo Ying. Because he is a second-generation divine beast, his bloodline restrains the strong members of our two families. And our two families are the same. If we want to improve our own strength, we only need to use Luo Ying's bloodline to improve our strength."
"In the end, our two families each came up with a solution..."
At this point, Gu Zhe glanced at Li Mai silently.
Li Mai's eyes were indifferent; she had guessed it. She guessed that they were after the child in her womb.
But she didn't know what the Luo family wanted from Luo Ying. Did they just want to force him to awaken his divine beast bloodline so they could extract his blood?
Gu Zhe coughed lightly and said, "No, the Luo family's goal is not just to force Zhou Quan to awaken the Luo Ying bloodline. What they want is his bloodline as well. It's just that their path is different from ours. What they are preparing are some female beasts, wanting to capture him and bring him back to breed beasts with divine beast bloodlines for their Luo family. They may want to cultivate an army of beasts with second-generation divine beast bloodlines."
Li Mai stared wide-eyed in disbelief, and after a long while, the corner of her mouth twitched.
In their quest to become stronger, these humans are utterly insane and shameless.
She felt a pang of sympathy for Luo Ying. How had he survived for so many millennia? It seemed that people with ambitions for him weren't just from that apocalyptic era; there must have been people in every generation who wanted to become stronger.
"So, you spent the whole afternoon chasing that man in black to confirm that he's a member of the Luo family?" Li Mai asked.
Gu Zhe nodded and hummed in agreement.
"So where are they hiding now?" Li Mai asked.
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