It was that strange dream… It was impossible to understand.
‘Does it have something to do with me turning into a fox demon?’
Su Mumu’s thoughts were in a chaotic state. She waited quietly for a long while until she confirmed that Jiang Mengxin would not be returning, then she disappointedly crawled out from the bushes.
There were bits of branches and white snow remaining on her head.
Looking at the sky, it was already approaching noon.
The temperature had risen slightly, but it was not enough to dispel the cold Su Mumu felt.
She wandered aimlessly through the Forest.
Everywhere she passed, there was only dead, silent white snow.
‘I’ll just have to look for the Yaoshen powder slowly!’
‘Now, the most important thing is to find a place to stay and save some energy. I’m so cold, cold and tired, and hungry…’
Su Mumu temporarily used her tail as a pillow, which made her feel much warmer.
She couldn’t go back to the previous cave.
It was very likely that Jiang Mengxin would be active around that area.
Was there any other place to rest?
A tree hole?
Or maybe some new cave or something…
If it really came down to it, should she just hang herself on a tree with her tail and sleep?
Su Mumu shook her head, trying to shake off the strange thoughts. ‘I’m so anxious… If I don’t find a place to rest before dark, I’ll have to go back to the original cave.’
As she took step after step, treading on the snow, she kept moving forward.
Suddenly, her ankle seemed to be bound by something.
Following that, the world turned upside down, her body was rapidly pulled away from the ground, and a sense of weightlessness struck her.
“What is happening!? Who is ambushing me!” Su Mumu screamed in panic.
She had stepped into a trap.
She was hanging high in the air, and the origin of the knot was the tree trunk above.
“Hahaha!” A smug and hearty laugh rang out.
Immediately afterward, Su Mumu was surrounded by people. She stared, extremely annoyed. As expected, it was the work of those Shacha elite class students!
“We didn’t catch a rabbit, but caught a fox girl?”
“An unexpected delight, hahaha!”
“Tonight’s dinner is settled!”
Su Mumu was so angry that her tail whipped around madly, like a fluffy, giant lash, lashing at the air.
“I am a person, not an emergency food ration!”
But her words were like light rain, and no one cared at all.
Surrounding her were a group of hungry jackals, and she was a little lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
The eyes of these elite class students were glowing green!
“I’ve been hungry for two or three days, damn it, finally something to eat today!”
“I’ll take the tail! No one compete with me!”
“Then I’ll stew a pot of fox feet! I happened to pick some spiritual grass to add to the ingredients!”
“…Are you insane!” Su Mumu’s face was full of despair, and she shrieked, “Is there anyone here? Help! Someone is going to eat me!”
Her voice expanded rapidly throughout the woods.
But the elite class students around her seemed to be injected with adrenaline; everyone was incredibly excited.
“This fox actually has high intelligence, she knows how to call for help!”
“Don’t mention that, she’s actually really pretty, tsk tsk tsk…”
“I really want to touch her tail!”
“…Hey! I’m a normal person, and also… you are not allowed to touch my tail!” Su Mumu gritted her teeth, her face full of caution.
The group of people around her reached out one after another, trying to grab her fluffy fox tail.
Consequently, she busily controlled her tail to curl upward, dodging the wandering hands.
‘Why am I so unlucky!’
‘I finally managed to get away from Jiang Mengxin, only to be caught by this group of Shacha elite class students…’
‘And I’m going to be eaten…’
‘I shouldn’t have escaped!’
‘I should have just stayed by Jiang Mengxin’s side!’
‘Is there anyone who can save me…’
‘I don’t want to have my tail touched!’
‘I don’t want to go into a cooking pot!’
Su Mumu roared internally.
Clearly, her resistance soon caused their dissatisfaction.
“Damn it, this fox won’t let us touch the tail, she keeps dodging!”
“Let her down! Pin her to the ground and tie her up first!”
Amidst their discussion, they began to take action. Looking at their stance, they were truly preparing to set up a pot and boil oil!
Su Mumu’s face turned ghastly pale, and she shivered all over. She tried to struggle, but because she was hanging by her ankle, every struggle only caused her body to swing violently, making it impossible to break free.
“Help—!!! Someone come!”
“Anyone will do! Save me!!!”
Her cries were pale and powerless.
The snowy forest was silent; besides some echoes, there was no other movement.
Su Mumu felt like she wanted to die.
‘Fine, I’m going to be finished soon…’
Reaching a certain tipping point of emotion, the final string snapped. Su Mumu stopped struggling and went quiet.
A look of fear and pain appeared on her face, as if she were having an internal struggle.
About a few seconds later, a flash of deep desire and despondency passed through her eyes.
Then, her eyelids slowly closed.
Like a fish on a cutting board, waiting for the butcher’s knife to descend.
At the very last moment before her eyelashes closed, the sound of wind reached her ears, like a peregrine falcon passing by at extreme speed.
—Snap.
It was the sound of a rope breaking.
—The sensation of the binding on her foot disappeared.
Su Mumu opened her eyes in astonishment, instinctively using her tail to balance. She adjusted her posture in the air and landed perfectly.
She could not believe the scene in front of her.
Floating beside her shoulder was a small flying sword.
The flying sword emitted a faint green light, and an aura symbolizing life power was permeating the air.
This sword—Su Mumu recognized it, and she would never forget it.
Almost instantly, her eyes grew wet.
“Jiang Mengxin!” she cried out, completely weeping.
From the branches above her head, Jiang Mengxin’s weary and impatient tone came down—
“Stop making noise.”
She leaped down from the tree branch, landing easily. A few snowflakes splashed under her feet, and her beautiful hair fluttered perfectly.
It was enough to make Su Mumu swoon.
‘I declare that Jiang Mengxin is now the most beautiful, cool, and charismatic woman in the world!!!’
“Waaaaah!” Su Mumu stared at her pitifully.
“If you act cute again, I’ll beat you.” Jiang Mengxin said irritably.
“They were going to eat me!” Su Mumu said anxiously, “I… I… I’m terrified.”
The fox tail behind her wagged at a faster frequency.
Jiang Mengxin took a glance; hmm, through the movement of the fox tail, she could analyze the little fox girl’s psychological state.
“Isn’t that great?”
“Great my foot!” Su Mumu shrank her neck in fear, and aggrieved, she muttered extremely softly, “Rather than being eaten, I would rather be caught by you.”
Jiang Mengxin glanced at the little fox girl beside her from the corner of her eye, but did not reply.
Because in front of them, the elite class students were crowding over, baring their fangs and claws like a zombie legion in the apocalypse.
“Dead last? Why are you in the trial world?” A question erupted from the crowd.
“It’s one thing to be a loser normally, but now you’re here to spoil our fun? Damn it!”
“Get lost immediately, don’t disturb our meal!”
The profanity was unreserved.
Su Mumu was slightly distracted and couldn’t help but look at Jiang Mengxin beside her. Jiang Mengxin’s face was calm, and her eyes were as placid as a lake. These similar encounters and ridicules had always been playing out in her world before.
But Su Mumu had never experienced it firsthand.
For some reason, she felt a bit upset.
‘They are saying such terrible things!’
‘This group of Shacha elite class students…’
—Whoosh.
The flying sword, shimmering with the power of life, slowly landed in Jiang Mengxin’s palm.
Her clean face revealed, for the first time, an aura completely inconsistent with the cowardice and inferiority of a dead last—
A cold, confident demeanor.
Her pink lips parted slightly: “The ones who should get lost… are you.”