"Tch, go ahead and leave if you want, you cowards." Someone mocked the other person's cowardice.
After this ordeal, several people left the long queue, but no one at the very front was willing to leave.
As the crowd grew louder and louder in their conversation, dawn gradually broke.
The sun hadn't risen, and the gray sky was oppressive, so stifling it was almost suffocating, as if foreshadowing something bad was about to happen.
"Gege, should we come again tomorrow? This scene gives me a bad feeling," Xiaoshi said.
Its words had barely crossed Lin Jingge's mind when the unexpected happened.
"Chirp—" A very sharp and piercing bird cry was heard, and a giant bird with its whole body in blood-red swooped down.
The giant bird was extremely fast, and it created gusts of wind as it swooped down.
The giant bird was heading straight for the child in front of Lin Jinge.
Lin Jingge realized what was happening and, at the critical moment, pushed the child away.
"Ahhhh—" A series of loud screams erupted from the long queue.
There wasn't just one giant bird. Aside from Lin Jin reacting quickly and rescuing one child, many other children were pecked by the giant bird.
The giant bird's beak is so sharp that it can pierce off a child's entire arm with a single peck.
Lin Jingge didn't know what others thought, but her first reaction upon seeing the mouth was that it was definitely a good material for refining weapons.
The giant bird missed its target and swooped down, then turned back to glare at Lin Jinge, the culprit. With a cry to the sky, it quickly flew into the air and swooped down on Lin Jinge again.
Lin Jingge quickly dodged to the side.
Behind her, many people were already fighting with the giant bird.
Although the people in line were not highly skilled, they were all at the Spirit Master level, and even the aunt with the child had Spirit Master cultivation.
Aside from failing to stop it at the beginning, people have been fighting desperately against the giant bird ever since.
As expected, the spiritual energy on the Cloud Cauldron Continent is so abundant that even ordinary people can achieve the cultivation level of a Spirit Master.
After a struggle by those present, the giant bird was finally forced to retreat.
Lin Jingge was completely unharmed, having never been allowed to get close to the giant bird. In fact, she was even handling the fight with ease.
Blood flowed like a river in the crowd, and cries of pain rose and fell.
There were also many cheers. They felt that they had driven the giant bird away and survived the ordeal.
However, Lin Jingge was not happy.
She frowned slightly, her probing gaze fixed on the direction where the giant bird had just fled.
"Why do I see them heading towards the south of the city?" Lin Jingge asked Xiao Shi subconsciously.
During the fight, she didn't pay much attention to what others were doing, but she saw the giant bird she was facing very clearly.
[No doubt, we've entered the South City.] Xiao Shi flicked its tail and leaped onto Lin Jingge's head, where it lay down.
It kept its eyes and ears open the whole time, and what it saw and heard was far more than what Lin Jingge, who was focused on fighting, could hear.
[Could it be that the formation in the south city is just for show?!] Lin Jingge was startled, feeling that it was somewhat impossible.
Even she couldn't defeat this giant bird, so how could it possibly break through the city's protective formation!
[Someone put it there on purpose.] Xiao Shi nestled on Lin Jingge's head, stretched, and then lay still.
[Intentional?]
"I've read in the Heavenly Book that someone raises beasts with human blood. If successfully raised, they can become invincible, ferocious beasts," Xiao Shi said.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jingge suddenly understood.
Being able to control the city's protective array, he must wield considerable power in the southern part of the city.
Lin Jingge looked around and found that several children's heads had been pecked off by the giant bird.
The manner of his death was extremely tragic.
Many parents were holding their sons and daughters who had stopped breathing and weeping bitterly.
As Lin Jingge looked around, Xiao Shi suddenly remarked, "However, that giant bird looked somewhat familiar."
[Familiar?] Lin Jingge thought about it carefully after hearing this.
Finally, two figures appeared in my mind.
Wu Xuan and Wu Xi!
In that instant, Lin Jingge and Xiao Shi had the same idea.
No wonder it looked familiar; it's just the body shape of a dyed blood-red mandarin duck!
The only difference might be their eyes. Wu Xi and Wu Xuan's eyes were clear, unlike the giant bird's, which was a hazy gray and devoid of any light.
When it came to the nearly extinct blood-red mandarin ducks, Lin Jingge finally took it to heart.
Just as she was thinking about whether she should find an opportunity to enter the secret realm to see Wu Xuan and Wu Xi, there was a sudden commotion at the city gate of the South City.
With a loud thud, the city gate was pushed open from the inside out.
A group of guards filed out and headed toward the corpse on the ground.
"What are you doing?!" a woman screamed, clutching her son's corpse and dodging the guards who tried to take the body.
"We were sent by the city lord to clean the city gates; it's not a suitable place to put corpses," the guard said matter-of-factly.
They didn't force the other party to give them the bodies. Instead, they first collected several unattended corpses.
As I passed by Lin Jingge, I noticed that she stood out from the disheveled crowd around her, so I couldn't help but glance at her a few more times.
Lin Jingge raised her eyes and glanced lightly at the guard.
"I wonder if it's still possible to enter the city now?" Lin Jingge asked.
She still remembered her purpose: no matter what, she should always come after Granny Lin.
When the guards discovered that Lin Jingge was already a Great Spirit Master at such a young age, they instantly became more patient.
"The city gates are open, so you can enter. Just register and pay the fee at the gate, and you can go inside." By the time the guard finished speaking to Lin Jingge, his brothers had already collected all the corpses they could.
As they were about to leave after their playful antics, Lin Jingge quickly asked, "What are you going to do with these corpses?"
Lin Jingge pretended to be simply curious.
Sure enough, the guard believed it without a doubt.
Moreover, no one forbids this kind of thing from being exposed.
He immediately said, "The body needs to be transported to the city lord's mansion..."
"What are you talking about, kid?! You don't want to leave so badly, do you have your eye on that girl?"
The guard who had answered Lin Jingge suddenly stretched out an arm from behind, pulled him back, and said jokingly.
The guard quickly pulled his good brother away, saying as they walked, "That's not true. How could he be worthy of her?"
"You little brat, watch your mouth. Didn't the city lord give you instructions on this matter?"
"I just blurted it out, I didn't say anything, it should be fine, right?" Hearing his good brother's words, the guard suddenly felt a little guilty.
The two walked away, whispering and talking, but Lin Jingge gleaned an important piece of information from them.
The body was being transported to the city lord.
What is the corpse of Wen, the city lord of this vast and bustling southern city, doing here?!
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