When I Lay Flat, the Female Lead Panicked - Chapter 10
Chapter 10: The Mystery
Her hands were propping up her chin. She sat alone on a long bench at a table downstairs in the inn. Luo Xiaoxiao looked at the street scene outside the door, her expression bored.
The innkeeper from last night was long gone. Perhaps he had taken the money and run, or perhaps he had run into something he shouldn’t have at night.
In short, the entire inn was now empty, and only she was left.
Her gaze lazily looked at the dilapidated street outside. Unlike the ghostly village situation near dusk yesterday, An Family Village seemed much more normal during the day.
In broad daylight, a few living villagers had finally appeared and were going out.
But…
Although they were “going out,” most of these villagers had pale faces and expressions of terror. They were dragging large and small bags. Their pace was hurried. They rushed toward the village entrance without daring to stop for a moment.
It was as if they were escaping from some extremely terrifying existence. Even if they dropped something, they didn’t dare to turn back to pick it up, fearing that something might emerge from the empty street behind them.
“Truly, those who can escape have found a way to escape. Those who can’t…”
She subconsciously thought of a bad outcome. Luo Xiaoxiao silently shivered. She once again looked like a “rock waiting for his wife” toward the inn’s door.
Wen Nanshu and her team had gone out early to investigate the situation in An Family Village.
And before they left, they had specifically rearranged the talismans around the inn to ward off evil. And they had specifically drawn a protective circle like Sun Wukong, instructing Luo Xiaoxiao not to step out of the inn’s door before they returned.
Adhering to the principle that listening to advice leads to a full stomach, Luo Xiaoxiao was obedient and did not dare to move. But she couldn’t stand the fact that there was no smartphone in the cultivation world for entertainment, so she could only wait.
“I’m so bored…”
Lazily, she lay on the inn’s paint-chipped mahogany table. Luo Xiaoxiao idly spun a warm jade stone she had taken out from somewhere. She was in a daze.
Her thoughts slowly scattered and drifted away. She remembered when she woke up this morning, Wen Nanshu had not left. She was just sitting by the bed, maintaining a cultivation posture.
When she saw the neatly made bed beside her, Luo Xiaoxiao guessed what had happened last night.
As expected, she had thought too beautifully. To sleep with the female lead.
No wonder Wen Nanshu had agreed so readily. It turned out she hadn’t slept at all and had gone to cultivate diligently.
She pouted her lips. It was an unexpected, but reasonable outcome. It didn’t make Luo Xiaoxiao feel any different.
She wasn’t very clear about some of the specific settings of the cultivation world. Luo Xiaoxiao only knew that once a cultivator reached a certain realm, they didn’t need to eat or sleep as much.
But to give up these two great joys of life so easily for cultivation, these cultivators’ beliefs were truly high.
Of course, there were also cultivators who were completely engrossed in wine, women, and pleasure.
“Hmm, but… cultivation.”
The cool image of Wen Nanshu swinging her sword to drive away evil spirits and killing enemies in mid-air naturally flashed in her mind. She then briefly put herself in that place.
“Emm…”
If she were to kill enemies… what would she use? A dried salted fish?
Thinking of that comical scene, her cool fantasy instantly shattered. She gently shook her head. Luo Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but sigh.
“Sure enough, this cool, handsome cultivator look doesn’t suit a good-for-nothing college student like her. She’s really more suited to be a lazy person who just waits to die…”
But speaking of waiting to die, she wondered how her two subordinate lackeys, who had been sent flying far away, were doing.
Although the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey didn’t have much combat power. Standing together, they only served to look intimidating and scare away little kids.
But the two of them were very loyal to her. Although this loyalty was only a one-sentence setting in the book Sword of Pride.
But meeting these two silly guys as soon as she transmigrated, Luo Xiaoxiao felt that she was still quite lucky.
Otherwise, if she had run into someone like Hu Chou right away, she would probably be a wandering spirit somewhere right now…
“Sigh… I wonder if those two guys, the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey, are still alive. I’m starting to miss…”
She murmured. A hint of longing appeared in Luo Xiaoxiao’s eyes.
“Young Master, are you looking for us?”
“…” She was in a daze, sighing, when two familiar, smiling, fawning, and lowly ugly faces suddenly appeared in front of her.
“?!” Her delicate body trembled. She was so scared she jumped.
The words she was about to murmur about missing their braised pig trotters hadn’t even come out. These two idiots had suddenly run up and appeared…
As a result, by the time Luo Xiaoxiao reacted, her body’s instinct was faster than her fright.
Bang! Bang! It was two punches. One to the left, one to the right, landing on the eyes of the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey.
After punching them, she clutched her chest, her heart beating fast from the shock. She cursed in a delicate voice.
“Darn it, are you two sick? You’re walking so quietly. Why pretend to be ghosts? You scared me to death.”
“Ouch!!” Their eyes saw stars from the punch. Two miserable wails came out at the same time.
The excited and praising expression Luo Xiaoxiao was supposed to have didn’t come.
The clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey were hit hard without warning. They immediately covered their eyes and wailed. They squatted at Luo Xiaoxiao’s feet and looked at her pitifully. They explained aggrievedly.
“Young Master, we didn’t mean to scare you. We were just so happy to see you. Didn’t you just say you were missing us…”
“…” She was speechless for a moment.
She silently closed her eyes. Too tired to complain. Luo Xiaoxiao quickly calmed herself down.
And when she opened her eyes again, the weak aura she had cultivated in front of Wen Nanshu changed.
She elegantly crossed her legs. Like a little tyrant, she looked at the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey and asked lazily.
“How did you two find me?”
Logically, they were sent flying so far away by Hu Chou. Plus, she only said she was going to An Family Village, but she didn’t say she would definitely stay here.
Even if they were looking for her, they shouldn’t have been so fast…
“Hehe, Young Master, to be honest, we followed your scent all the way here.”
He proudly reached up and wiped the philtrum under his nose. The clumsy fat one laughed foolishly, seeking praise.
But the expected praise didn’t come. The corner of her mouth twitched. Luo Xiaoxiao just said with a look of disgust.
“…Are you two dogs?”
Although the setting was that the duo was very loyal, they weren’t exactly “loyal dogs,” right…
It was also fortunate that the talismans Wen Nanshu and her team had placed were for evil things and ghosts. It was fine for the people of her demon race as long as they didn’t openly expose their demonic energy and seek death.
…
She asked the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey a few more simple questions.
She roughly understood that the reason they were in the vicinity was because they happened to be sent flying into the mountains near An Family Village. Then, while descending the mountain and passing through An Family Village, they just happened to see her, who was bored in the inn. So they scurried over…
Because she was bored, she watched the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey describe their series of experiences with animated eyebrows and expressions, as if watching a play.
Luo Xiaoxiao’s eyes narrowed slightly. She keenly extracted some information from their words.
“You just said that on your way down the mountain, you passed a dilapidated cellar that was suppressed by iron chains and yellow talismans?”
“Yes! Young Master, you don’t know. That cellar is very spooky. When we passed by at night, there were eerie ghost flames floating around. It scared me and the clumsy fat one so much we almost exposed our demonic forms.”
The skinny monkey patted his chest in fear. He let out a sigh of relief. The fear in his eyes had not dissipated.
“Mmm. Besides that cellar, was there anything else strange that you passed on your way through An Family Village?”
She was curious about the experiences of the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey. Luo Xiaoxiao was contemplating who the boss of this An Family Village dungeon was.
The clumsy fat one then revealed another piece of information to her. “Anything else strange? Hmm… I didn’t feel much. But when we passed a human residence in the east of the village, I smelled a very strong bloody smell. How should I put it, the smell was stronger than that of a butcher who had killed pigs his whole life and hadn’t bathed.”
“Bloody smell? Was it… the smell of human bl00d?”
“No…”
“No? What was it then?”
As she frowned in thought, Luo Xiaoxiao was about to ask for more useful information. Suddenly, several clear and pleasant female voices came from outside.
“We’ve been gone for so long. I wonder if Xiaoxiao is bored alone in the inn.”
“I think she must be hungry.”
“Then let’s walk faster. Let’s hurry up and see her.”
…
“Young Master, not good! It’s cultivators! Don’t be afraid, let us protect…”
They immediately became alert and were about to stand in front of Luo Xiaoxiao to protect her. The skinny monkey and the clumsy fat one were just about to enter a fighting state when their heads were hit hard again.
“Protect a ghost!”
She immediately put down her crossed legs. Listening to the voices of Qiutong and the others getting closer. She saw that they were about to arrive. Luo Xiaoxiao’s expression turned anxious. She lowered her voice and quickly commanded.
“You two! If you don’t want to die! Now! Immediately! Right now! Disappear and hide for me! Hide well! You are absolutely not allowed to come out without my command! Did you hear me! Hurry!!!”
“Ah?… Yes!”
Seeing that Luo Xiaoxiao was so nervous, they subconsciously thought that the cultivators coming were extremely difficult to deal with.
The clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey nodded in panic. They obediently pushed and shoved each other. They hurriedly squeezed together and hid in the inn’s back kitchen.
And at the moment the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey hid, Qiutong’s foot crossed the threshold first.
Then her warm voice came towards Luo Xiaoxiao. “Xiaoxiao, did you miss your older sister?”
“Um, yes, I did…” She put her hands on her legs demurely. Her expression quickly switched to a sweet and obedient one. Luo Xiaoxiao was completely a demure lady from a modest family. She smiled stiffly at the people who came in.
“Xiaoxiao, are you hungry? I bought a lot of human food in my storage bag. If you don’t mind, have some first?”
Like an older sister treating her younger sibling, Ningyu walked over and gently stroked Luo Xiaoxiao’s soft head. She smiled gently and immediately took out a lot of delicious food from her storage bag, placing it on the table in front of Luo Xiaoxiao.
“Okay, thank you, Older Sister Ningyu!”
“After we left, did Xiaoxiao run into any strange people?”
She looked at Luo Xiaoxiao with concern from head to toe. Cangruo swept her gaze around the inn, checking for any potential dangers.
“N-no! Nothing! I’m fine!”
Her expression was a little unnatural and stiff. It was as if she was afraid that Cangruo would follow the trail and find the clumsy fat one and the skinny monkey. Luo Xiaoxiao shook her head hard.
“Really? Phew- that’s good. I was worried you would run into some dirty things by yourself.”
She naturally sat down on the empty long bench to the left of the table. Cangruo propped her chin on her hand and smiled at Luo Xiaoxiao.
The look in her clear eyes was unclear, as if she was hinting at something.