Quick Transmigration: Still Life Fairy

"rustle--"

A bold guard stepped into the flowers and plants, holding his torch forward and constantly checking every nook and cranny. Yu Liu stood stiffly in the middle of the flowers and plants, not daring to move.

This was a small garden. The Qian family mansion occupied a considerable area, and Yu Liu didn't know exactly where this place belonged. She had just walked over from the side and wanted to go to the rockery in the middle of the garden when this guard came over.

"How's it going? Any trace of them?"

The guards who were hastily transferred here did not act alone, but in pairs, with another person standing outside the garden, shouting in this direction from a distance.

"No, where could a two- or three-year-old child hide?"

The guard who stepped into the garden muttered somewhat unwillingly, "So many people have searched the place thoroughly, where can a two or three-year-old child, who doesn't understand anything, hide so that no one can find him?"

"Who knows? Don't you think this child is a bit strange? I just heard someone say that this child isn't even from the manor. It's like she appeared out of thin air. Nobody knows how she got into the main hall. The only person who's ever had contact with her is the eldest young master... The more I talk about it, the stranger it seems."

Those standing outside were also somewhat unwilling. Unlike the servants inside the mansion, they had been seriously trained by the Qian family after joining their guard team. Being sent to find a two- or three-year-old child was a complete waste of their talents. They had originally thought they could resolve the issue quickly, but after so much time, they hadn't found anything, which inevitably hurt their pride.

"Who says otherwise!... Ouch—"

The guard who had entered the garden was about to leave after finding no trace when he looked down and met a pair of cold eyes.

The thing was as thick as an adult's forearm and looked as long as a person. Its dense scales reflected the firelight, and its cold, vertical pupils looked even more eerie in the darkness—it was a snake, and most likely a snake that had just woken up from hibernation.

Located in the north, Yue Ri City has a much colder climate than other places, so the snakes here hibernate for a relatively longer period.

Snakes that have just awakened from hibernation are very aggressive, especially a large one. The guard, frightened, couldn't tell whether it was a venomous snake or not, so he could only try to keep his body still while his hand quietly reached behind him.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Have you found the child?" Upon hearing the exclamation from the person inside, the person standing outside immediately thought that they had found the child who was hiding, and rushed into the garden with great excitement.

"Don't come in—"

The person inside wanted to warn them, but it was too late.

"what--"

Caught off guard, the man was startled and psychologically shaken, unable to think of what to do. He instinctively backed away.

Yuliu: "!!!"

As the person who came in later got closer and closer to her, Yu Liu finally stopped standing still and began to move her feet quietly.

Snakes don't have very good eyesight. When they hunt at night, they rely on their sensors—a keen sense of smell and thermal imaging. Snakes generally don't attack stationary humans. The retreating guard and Yu Liu, who was trying to sneak away, immediately attracted its attention. It slowly turned its head this way, and its body began to stand upright, making an attacking motion.

Yu Liu moved her feet slowly, not daring to make any big movements. If she moved too much in the grass, it would make a rustling sound, and with two other people around, it would attract attention. But while Yu Liu was slow, the other person was not, especially after noticing that the snake had already made an attacking move.

The person who came in later, perhaps particularly afraid of snakes, immediately stood upright upon seeing the snake. This time, instead of retreating, he turned and ran away.

Before Yu Liu could react, her left leg was already out, and her right leg hadn't followed yet, when she saw that the person was already close to her.

The most coincidental thing was that the person's foot landed right next to her leg, and when he lifted his foot, he bumped into her leg. The person was tripped and fell into the grass due to inertia. Yu Liu's senses were dulled for a second, and the next moment she hugged her leg and rolled around.

"It hurts..."

When a person is running, the force of lifting their foot is relatively large. Yu Liu's body is that of a child, so it hurt a lot after being kicked, and she couldn't help but cry out.

The guard who had entered the garden earlier breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the snake run off with another person. Then he saw a patch of grass not far from him with the blades of grass bent over as if someone had rolled over it. But in the torchlight, it was clear that there was no one there. He heard a child's cry of pain, which sent chills down his spine.

"Damn it-"

Upon seeing this bizarre scene, the man who wasn't frightened by the snake lost his composure. He finally pulled out the hand that had been reaching behind his back, quickly pointed the gun at the strange patch of grass, and irrationally pulled the trigger.

“Bang—bang—bang—”

Firing one bullet wasn't enough; he mechanically pulled the safety catch and dragged the trigger!

The bullet, sparks flying, whizzed past her. Yu Liu paused in her rolling motion, looked at the person who had fired the shot not far away, and suddenly realized something—damn it, there were no gun restrictions during the Republic of China era!!!