Even hybrid monsters have their day

The girl in front of him had a striking resemblance to his deceased daughter.

"Grandpa? Grandpa?" She called him several times before he came to his senses and murmured, "Oh...oh...okay, nice to be passing by, nice to be passing by..."

"Huh?" Geng Miaowan didn't understand what he meant by suddenly saying that.

Seeing her utterly bewildered expression, the old man's face suddenly changed, and he picked up his basket and headed towards the village. But after taking only one step, he suddenly turned back and glanced at them, especially at Geng Miaowan, his expression towards her extremely complex.

Geng Miaowan took a few steps inside, confused, when the old man suddenly rushed over and shoved her, yelling, "Who let you into the village? You outsiders are the most annoying! We don't welcome you here!"

She was caught off guard by the push, but fortunately Xu Ruwen rushed forward to support her, preventing her from falling to the ground.

"Are you alright?" he asked her with concern. She shook her head and said, "I'm fine."

Xu Ruwen helped Geng Miaowan up before stepping forward to the old man. "How can you be so rude, old man? What's wrong with your village? Why can't we come in?"

Seeing the old man's rudeness, he also lost his usual manners.

The old man's gaze towards Geng Miaowan was complex and difficult to understand, but the look he gave Xu Ruwen at this moment was immediately clear to everyone—fierce, as if he had an irreconcilable hatred for him. "Rude? If you take any more steps forward, I have even more rude things to do."

“I’m going to go in today anyway,” Xu Ruwen said, taking another step forward and looking at the old man defiantly.

The old man looked to be in his sixties, his face full of wrinkles, but he was surprisingly energetic and seemed quite robust. Seeing that Xu Ruwen was ignoring him and defying him, his expression grew even more disgusted. He glanced around, grabbed a piece of wood from the ground, and swung it down at Xu Ruwen's head, yelling, "I told you to come in! I told you to come in!"

Xu Ruwen deftly sidestepped the attack, his eyes filled with disdain as he looked at the old man, as if to say, "You think you can beat me with your meager skills?" This only fueled the old man's rage, as if he were on steroids, relentlessly chasing and striking him.

Although Xu Ruwen wasn't hit by the old man, the old man still wouldn't let him take another step into the village. He said breathlessly, "Aren't you leaving? If you don't leave, I'll break your legs so you can never walk again!"

Geng Miaowan stood by and watched the two chasing and fighting. She felt that the old man's temper was a bit strange, as if he was targeting her specifically.

But is that even possible? They were complete strangers, and she found her own idea rather ridiculous and inexplicable.

Regardless, given the old man's attitude, it wouldn't be easy for them to get in. She stopped Xu Ruwen from continuing to tease the old man and said to him in her mind, "Let's leave first and talk about it later."

Xu Ruwen glared at the old man before being pulled away by Geng Miaowan.

The old man stood there blankly beneath the archway, his eyes welling up with tears as he looked at Geng Miaowan, before leaving. The two were walking back up the mountain when they suddenly heard strange noises ahead. Little White came running up from the front, panting heavily.

"Many carriages are coming from ahead."

"So many carriages?" Xu Ruwen asked in confusion. "How come so many carriages have suddenly entered this village?"

"Could it be that a relative of someone in the village has returned home in triumph?"

Xiao Bai lazily stretched his limbs and said, "I don't think so. Those carriages are all very large, and there are many different human scents on them."

As soon as it finished speaking, the voice grew closer. Just one more turn and they would be face to face. The two exchanged a glance and then ducked into the roadside bushes.

They had barely taken cover when several carriages appeared before them, five in total. The carriages looked ordinary, no different from those of ordinary people.

Geng Miaowan used her spiritual power to probe the interior and discovered that it was indeed full of people. The people inside the carriage were breathing lightly and exhaling fragrant breaths, so they were definitely all women. Now she had to believe Xiaobai's guess; these people were definitely not returning home in glory.

After all five carriages had passed, she and Xu Ruwen emerged from the bushes. They looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.

"Let's go, let's follow them and take a look."

The two followed the carriages at a distance until they reached the foot of the mountain. There was nothing left to hide from them, so they had no choice but to give up and watch as the five carriages drove into Qiluo Village.

"Strange, what are they trying to do?"

Xu Ruwen said that he was not very clear about this issue either.

"Let's sneak in and see what's going on." After saying that, she summoned Xu Ruwen and Xiaobai into her sea of ​​consciousness, and then used an invisibility spell. Her figure slowly disappeared at the foot of the mountain.

Xu Ruwen was stunned when he saw Geng Miaowan use invisibility magic. "Wow, you little girl, you've already learned invisibility magic after only a few days!"

Geng Miaowan gave a wry smile. If it weren't for the circumstances, she wouldn't have wanted to use the invisibility spell at all. It wasn't that she didn't want to, but rather that she felt somewhat powerless when casting the spell, since it wasn't a spell she was at this stage of her cultivation.

Using her invisibility and swift movement, she entered Qiluo Village without alerting anyone.

Under the eaves of a secluded house in the village, Geng Miaowan was gasping for breath. Using the invisibility spell was proving to be incredibly difficult. At this moment, all the spiritual energy she had in her body wasn't enough for her to use the invisibility spell even once more.

She transformed into an old man she had seen at the village entrance earlier. Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, she had become quite convincing. Geng Miaowan checked her appearance to make sure it was correct before stepping out.

In the morning, when she was at the archway, she couldn't see it clearly because it was far away. Now that she has gotten up close, she realizes that these houses are much better than she imagined.

The two wandered around the village, searching for any trace of the women who had gotten off the carriage, but even after searching almost the entire village, they still couldn't find them.

The carriages and the people inside seemed to have vanished without a trace.

Just then, an old man walked towards her, face to face. She was about to approach him to ask what was wrong, but upon recognizing him, she abruptly turned away. (To be continued.)