When I Lay Flat, the Female Lead Panicked - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Robbery
In a lush forest, in a wide, open clearing.
At this moment, a carriage, simple on the outside but extremely luxurious on the inside, was speeding steadily.
The interior of the carriage was covered with expensive, soft Persian rugs. The exquisite bronze burner was lit with the elegant and pleasant scent of ambergris.
On the small table made of precious camphor wood, all kinds of fresh fruits, exquisite pastries, and delicious snacks were placed, rare for ordinary families and even in the cultivation world.
Even the soft bed for lying down was paved with layers of precious Cloud Brocade, as if money was no object. It made one click their tongue in admiration of the owner’s lavishness.
“Hmph hmph, not bad, not bad…”
She chose a big shot’s posture, lying comfortably on her side. She casually picked up a piece of the artfully arranged and beautifully shaped pastry from the plate and put it in her mouth.
As if she remembered something funny, while happily chewing, Luo Xiaoxiao’s eyes curved. She showed a small row of white, pearly teeth, laughing so hard her eyes were almost squeezed shut. She was incredibly smug.
As for what made Luo Xiaoxiao so happy? It was her audacious, robber-style looting operation before she left the Demon Palace.
Because she knew that if she stayed in the Demon Palace, she would soon be disgracefully kicked out by evil people breaking down the door.
So, with her knowledge as a clairvoyant who knew the plot, how could Luo Xiaoxiao allow herself to be so disgraced?
Leaving was a definite, she didn’t plan to stay. But since she had to leave, she certainly had to bring some travel money for herself, right?
As for where to get the money? Heh.
Who is she?
She is the honorable daughter of the Demon Lord!
Where is she?
In the magnificent Demon Palace!
So… hehe~~
Following the principle that not taking advantage of a bargain is stupid. Luo Xiaoxiao, like a weasel entering a chicken coop, quickly emptied the Demon Palace.
Even the deep-sea night-glowing pearls embedded in the walls for lighting, she had Fatty and Monkey pry them out one by one and take them.
So, what if those powerful demons broke in later?
Thinking of the unlucky demon who would eventually win after a tough fight, who would see the Demon Palace that he had fought so hard to enter.
All of its possessions already packed up and taken away by her. The place would be left with only four walls, empty of people, and full of drafts. Luo Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but laugh.
After all, one reason why the Demon Lord’s position was so coveted was because the Demon Palace had all sorts of expensive and rare treasures.
The description “as many as a mountain” wasn’t an exaggeration for the Demon Palace treasury. Because… she had emptied a total of ten mountains!
Ehhehe…
Thinking that just one of these treasures, if sold for money, would be enough for her to live a carefree life like a nouveau riche for a long time.
Luo Xiaoxiao’s smile became even more genuine.
And, these treasures were left to her by her cheap father. In the end, didn’t that make them hers?
Hehe~~ It was a rare chance for her to become a rich woman. She wasn’t about to give these treasures away to the real robbers who were going to forcefully enter her home.
However, she was lucky that the group of idiots in the Demon Race were busy with their infighting to choose the next Demon Lord and didn’t have time to deal with her, an unthreatening “daughter of the Demon Lord.”
The original servants in the Demon Palace also heard the rumors of a coming change and were scared away, leaving only Fatty and Monkey, her two loyal lackeys. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so easy for her to escape with so many treasures.
Thinking this, she raised her hand and looked at the silver, finely crafted, tiny immortal-level storage bracelet on her fair wrist. It had long since been bound to her by a drop of bl00d.
She thought of its many functions: it could hold another hundred spaces the size of the Demon Palace, only she could retrieve things, it could change into any accessory, it could prevent powerful individuals from prying, it could make itself invisible, and more. Luo Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but laugh even more happily.
The Breath Concealment Pearl, the Black Gold Armor, the Giant Spirit Ship, the Wind-Riding Boots…
Hehe, any of these would be a sky-high price if she sold them.
She was a liberated serf singing songs. She finally got to experience what it felt like to be rich, ohohoho…
In her mind, she was excitedly calculating her assets, which were comparable to the world’s richest person. On this side, Luo Xiaoxiao was incredibly happy.
And on the other side, Fatty and Monkey, who were driving the carriage, heard the occasional giggles from Luo Xiaoxiao inside.
As if they were long used to Luo Xiaoxiao’s occasional fits of madness, Fatty and Monkey were calm and well-adjusted.
“Brother, why do you think the Young Master suddenly wants to go to something called Tranquility Village? I remember that place is human territory, right?”
As he drove the carriage, getting further and further away from the Demon Realm, Fatty looked at Monkey, who was resting with his eyes closed, and asked with some confusion.
“The Young Master must have her reasons for doing this. Maybe the Young Master is now brewing some huge conspiracy that will be enough to overturn the entire Human Realm and Cultivation Realm.”
Making a deep, profound guess about Luo Xiaoxiao’s intentions, Monkey spoke as if Luo Xiaoxiao could conquer the world tomorrow.
“Then… does that conspiracy include emptying the Demon Palace?”
He scratched his head, dumbfounded. He couldn’t quite understand what kind of earth-shattering conspiracy his brother was talking about that required them to tear down their home.
Fatty looked at his hands, which had pried out a full thirty thousand deep-sea night-glowing pearls from the Demon Palace. He almost broke his hands, and the memory was still fresh.
“Heh, I always say you’re stupid, but you never believe me.”
He slowly opened his eyes. Monkey’s usually sarcastic face now held a strange look of certainty.
“We just have to follow the Young Master. The Young Master must have thought this through carefully.
Think about it. Tiger Tyrant, Scarface, One-Eyed Bastard, those dogs have been coveting the Demon Lord’s position for so long. Now, the Young Master isn’t fully powerful yet, so a head-on fight… The Young Master is definitely no match for those cunning and treacherous old guys.
Especially Tiger Tyrant. His four great generals, Fox Vengeance, Rat Terror, Centipede Consolidation, and Snake Brocade, are not to be trifled with. The Young Master must have wanted to make a strategic retreat first, then set up a plan in the shadows, and then strike them with a fatal blow…”
He carefully analyzed the reasons for Luo Xiaoxiao’s actions. Monkey’s analysis was so logical that he completely beautified Luo Xiaoxiao’s image of being greedy and afraid of death into that of a brilliant, far-sighted strategist.
But he hadn’t even finished his analysis…
Whoosh! Whoosh!!
The gentle breeze suddenly became biting. And right as the carriage sped along, the wind that came towards them was mixed with a trace of dangerous demonic energy!
“This is bad, Fatty, stop the carriage quickly!”
His mind’s alarm bells rang. He keenly sensed something was wrong. Monkey’s eyes sharpened as he commanded at top speed.
“Huh? Oh, okay!”
Although he didn’t understand why his brother suddenly gave this order, Fatty wasn’t smart but he was obedient.
He quickly pulled the reins, making a sharp brake that forcibly stopped the speeding carriage.
And in the moment Fatty stopped the carriage, in the spaces in front and behind it where it could have passed.
Swoosh! Suddenly, countless giant black fox claws, radiating a thick, malevolent demonic energy, shot out from the ground, forcibly blocking the way around the carriage.
“Brother, what is this?”
His round, chubby face showed panic. Fatty subconsciously looked at Monkey by his side, who had already entered a state of alert.
“Hmph, I said there was a strong stench here for no reason. Turns out a nasty fox really came.”
He looked coldly at the sharp, poisonous claws that could take a life with a light touch. Monkey’s lips curled into a sneer as he spoke sarcastically.
“Ohh~~ What a big mouth you have~~”
A seductive, feminine voice came from behind the black fox claws, filled with a teasing smile.
Soon, a man dressed in garish, flamboyant clothes, who looked even more feminine than a woman.
With a swaying, S-shaped, slender waist, he gracefully walked forward and stood not far from Luo Xiaoxiao’s carriage.
He lightly waved his folding fan, as if to feign elegance, half-covering his thick, rouge-painted, pink lips. The man’s charming voice was captivating and seductive to the bone.
“I advise you to be smart~ Just hand over the Demon Lord’s daughter, Luo Xiaoxiao. Otherwise… heh, there are no innocent souls under my little fox claws~~”
“HETUI!” Monkey spat in the direction of Hu Chou with extreme disgust. He was completely loyal.
“Exactly, pah! You disgusting, effeminate fox. You’re sickening! As long as we’re here, you can give up! You’ll never touch a single leg hair on our Young Master!”
His voice was loud and booming like a bell. Fatty stood firm and didn’t back down.
And just when Fatty felt that he had spoken with such loyalty, his Young Master would surely praise his spirit.
“Leg your head, all your family has leg hair! That’s arm hair!!”
She pushed open the carriage curtain and stepped out. After hearing their conversation, Luo Xiaoxiao stumbled. The corner of her mouth twitched as she gritted her teeth and complained irritably.
“Oh?”
His enchanting fox eyes, painted with thick eyeshadow, glanced with a hint of jealousy at Luo Xiaoxiao’s naturally beautiful, unadorned face.
Thinking about his plan to use his claws to scratch Luo Xiaoxiao’s face, Hu Chou’s lips curled into a smile with an unclear meaning. He spoke sarcastically in a passive-aggressive tone.
“The head of the household who’s been hiding for so long like a coward, has finally decided to come out?”
“…”
She looked in his direction. When her eyes fell on Hu Chou’s flamboyantly pink crop top, his dangling accessories, and the way he reeked of a brothel’s courtesan with every move.
Her eyes stung, and she looked at him with disgust. She didn’t plan to tolerate him. Luo Xiaoxiao lazily crossed her arms and looked flatly in Hu Chou’s direction.
She gave a speechless eye roll at the crazy guy who was looking at her with an inexplicable hostility, ready to start a “female competition.” Luo Xiaoxiao’s tongue was as sharp as a sword, and she retorted sarcastically.
“Yes. So when you see your grandpa, why aren’t you kneeling? You turtle-grandson.”
“Hmph, you’re a dead duck with a hard mouth. You won’t know how you died in my hands later.”
“Yes, yes, yes. My mouth is hard, your mouth is soft. Your mouth is the softest, okay? After all, you look like a top-ranked whore with a single vermillion lip tasted by ten thousand people.”
“You!”
“You what you. Hmph, I think you’ve been a top whore for so long, sooner or later, you’ll get old and your butt will get loose, and your farts will be loud.”
“Luo-Xiao-Xiao!”
She looked at the person in front of her with long, light-pink nails. He was so infuriated by her precise attacks that his orchid-finger gesture now looked a little masculine.
She nonchalantly raised a hand to pick at her ear. Luo Xiaoxiao replied with a brilliant smile, her words poisoned and her sass on point.
“Yes~~ Grandpa’s here, obedient grandson~”
“You… sharp-tongued.”
He was successfully infuriated by Luo Xiaoxiao’s words. His eyes were vicious. Hu Chou looked at Luo Xiaoxiao with a poisonous expression and threatened her coldly.
“Hmph, you refuse a toast, so you’ll have to drink a forfeit. Today, meeting me, your life has come to an end.”
“Oh? End of my life?” She scoffed dismissively.
Her plan to ride in the carriage in comfort had already been ruined, and now she was being provoked by this weird, not-human-not-ghost, sissy man. Luo Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow without words, and the first thing she said was a provocation.
“You sissy man, you…”
“This is bad!”
Looking at the opposite side, whose face was visibly darkening after Luo Xiaoxiao’s crisp “sissy man” call. He was already at the edge of his rage.
And the dense, dangerous demonic energy that was rapidly surging. Fatty and Monkey’s hearts sank. They quickly jumped out of the carriage and blocked Luo Xiaoxiao.
“Young Master, this nasty fox is not simple. We might not be his match. Fatty and I will hold him off for you. You find a good moment to… escape~ Ah!!!”
“Wow…”
They hadn’t been out of the carriage for long when they were quickly sent flying by a big black fox palm. They flew off the horizon in a pose similar to a certain grey wolf, turning into two tiny dots, one big and one small.
Luo Xiaoxiao raised her hand like a telescope. Her face was full of amazement. In the end, she heartlessly sighed, “Tsk tsk, pretty high…”