Qingchen quickly caught up with the orc who had caused the trouble.
He was a fish-beastman from the tribe. He was quite happy to see Qingchen and greeted him, "Qingchen, you're hunting in the mountains too?"
Qingchen's expression was very unpleasant.
"Did you just extinguish a Nine Netherworld Flame?"
The fish-beastman paused for a moment, then replied, "Yes, you saw it too, right? That fire is huge. If it keeps burning like this, it'll burn the whole forest down."
Looking at the fish-beastman's calm demeanor, Qingchen finally realized that he truly knew nothing.
With his expression softening slightly, Qingchen explained, "I lit the fire. Green Pearl's clone was causing trouble and trying to harm my family. I sealed her away and brought her up the mountain, intending to burn her to death with Yin Fire."
As a result, everything was ruined by this guy who knew nothing.
The fish-beastman was extremely embarrassed. He scratched his head and chuckled sheepishly, "This, this, this is a huge misunderstanding. I really didn't know you were burning Green Pearl's clone. Well, it should have burned to death by now."
He asked, clinging to his last glimmer of hope.
Qingchen uttered a few words, "No, they ran away."
To make amends for his mistake and redeem himself, the fish-beastman offered to help Qingchen capture Green Pearl. Qingchen agreed, as the fish-beastman had done something wrong and naturally wanted to rectify it.
Green Pearl was very good at hiding herself. The four of them chased her for a long time before finally finding her in a valley.
However, once they entered the valley, Green Pearl disappeared again, and the group split up to search for her.
After searching for a while, Shen Miao suddenly smelled a strong stench of blood, accompanied by the sound of weapons clashing. She was startled and, not understanding what was happening, quickly hid and peeked out.
Not far away, the fish-beastman was seen fighting with Qingchen.
The fish-beastman looked extremely ferocious and pressed forward relentlessly. Qingchen was already unable to defend himself and was about to have his heart pierced by the fish-beastman's stone spear in the next second.
Shen Miao was greatly surprised.
Is this fish-beastman on Green Pearl's side? Why would he attack them?
However, she couldn't think of that for the time being. The situation was critical. Without thinking, Shen Miao released a burst of spiritual energy. The green spiritual energy pierced into the fish-beastman's back like a sharp knife and came out from his chest.
The fish-beastman's stone spear stopped at Qingchen's chest, only an inch or two away from piercing his chest.
Shen Miao ran over, still shaken, and asked anxiously, "What happened? Why did you and the fish-beastman fight?"
Qingchen smiled at her, and Shen Miao felt that the smile was very strange, but before she could think about it, she heard Qingchen say, "Shen Miao, only one person can get out of this valley alive, so I killed you. You won't mind, will you?"
What.
Shen Miao was stunned. The next second, Qing Chen's handsome face suddenly turned fierce. He raised the stone spear and thrust it into Shen Miao's heart without hesitation.
The two were too close, and Shen Miao had no defenses against Qing Chen. Now she couldn't hide even if she wanted to, and could only watch helplessly as the stone spear got closer and closer to her.
Just then, Qingchen suddenly disappeared, and the scenery changed accordingly.
Shen Miao heard a shrill scream and instinctively looked toward the source of the sound. She saw that Green Pearl's clone had been shattered by Qing Chen's spiritual power, its entire body broken into countless pieces.
She was puzzled. How did Qingchen, who was just here, end up over there?
Moreover, she couldn't find Green Pearl, only to find out that Green Pearl was so close to her.
Jiuying also rushed over and said in a deep voice, "It was an illusion. Green Pearl just used evil magic to create an illusion. Is everyone alright?"
His gaze swept over Qingchen and Shen Miao, and then, not far away, he saw the corpse of the fish-beastman.
When Shen Miao heard that it was an illusion, she had a bad feeling. When she saw the fish-beastman on the ground who was no longer breathing, she felt dizzy.
She killed the fish-beastman, who had a large hole in his chest pierced by spiritual power.
Shen Miao's legs suddenly went weak.
To be honest, she had killed people since she came to this world, and she killed quite a few during the fierce battle with the Bloodworm Clan, but this time it was different.
At that time, we were protecting ourselves and our tribe.
Now, she killed a good person. The fish-beastman did nothing to wrong her; he even helped them find Green Pearl.
Jiuying stepped forward, blocking Shen Miao's view, and said, "Don't look."
“I killed him. I didn’t do it on purpose. I saw him trying to kill Qingchen, so I attacked him. I didn’t expect him to not dodge at all,” Shen Miao said incoherently.
She now knows that the scene in the illusion where the fish-beastman and Qingchen were fighting was just a picture that Green Pearl wanted her to see. The one in the illusion was not Qingchen at all.
And she did indeed kill the fish-beastman.
Shen Miao was filled with self-reproach.
“I understand, I understand. We’ve all run into trouble. It was Green Pearl’s trick. It has nothing to do with you. You don’t need to do this. Listen to me, Shen Miao, you don’t need to do this.” Jiu Ying tried her best to comfort her.
Qingchen also came over and said somewhat awkwardly, "In the illusion, no one can say for sure what will happen. The fish-beastman is unlucky."
Shen Miao knew that the two of them were also worried about her. She didn't want Qingchen and Jiuying to worry too much, so she forced herself to stay alert. Qingchen said, "Let's bury the fish-beastmen."
The three of them then worked together to dig a pit. Qingchen and Jiuying carried the fish-beastman and put him in the pit, then filled it with soil.
Shen Miao silently picked some wildflowers and placed them on the fish-beastman's grave, silently saying in her heart, "Fish-beastman, I'm sorry, I hope you can be reborn into a better life."
Although they killed Green Pearl, the three of them couldn't be happy when they returned, especially Shen Miao, whose mood was visibly low.
Jiuying and Qingchen hesitated several times before finally deciding to let Shenmiao process the situation on her own.
The children also noticed Shen Miao's unusual behavior. They spoke in soft, quiet voices, becoming unusually well-behaved. Shen Miao felt a little guilty, thinking that it was because of her that everyone had become so reserved.
She was trying to adjust her mood as soon as possible.
After going to bed at night, tell yourself that you'll be fine the next day.
As a result, she had a nightmare after falling asleep. She dreamed that the fish-beastman was lying on the ground with his eyes wide open and covered in blood. His eyes were staring straight at her, and his lips were opening and closing, making a sound: "Chen Miao, you killed me. Give me back my life. Give me back my life."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, please don't come any closer."
Shen Miao tried to back away, but there was a wall behind her. The pale face drew closer, and Shen Miao screamed in fright, waking up with a start.
When she woke up, she was not fully awake. All she could see was the dead fish-beastman, and she couldn't help but burst into tears.
She was crying so loudly that she woke up the children next door, who came over rubbing their eyes to ask her what was wrong.
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