After Lin Fan came back in, Lala and Xiao Yue immediately came forward to ask him questions.
Both of them were cultivators, so their senses were better than normal people’s. Even if they had stayed inside, they had been able to hear the exchange between Lin Fan and the village chief.
Lala couldn’t help asking in a curious voice, “Why are we going back out? Didn’t we agree that we would find a place to stay in the village before heading out in the morning to look for the spirit beast?”
Xiao Yue also looked at Lin Fan with a curious look as she waited for the answer to this question.
Lin Fan just said with a cold look, “This place stinks to the high heavens, it’s better if we don’t stay here.”
Xiao Yi had just walked by when Lin Fan said this and she immediately bowed down before saying, “It’s all my fault, I let this place become dirty and that’s why it stinks! Please punish me, young master Lin!”
Lin Fan was surprised to see Xiao Yi suddenly acting like this and he didn’t know what to say at first.
Both Lala and Xiao Yue looked at Lin Fan with looks of disdain as they said, “He made her cry…”
Lin Fan’s expression became awkward, but he gave a cough before saying, “I’m not saying that it literally stinks, it’s a metaphor.” Then he revealed a serious look as he said, “Don’t you two find this place suspicious at all?”
Lala and Xiao Yue exchanged confused looks before turning back to Lin Fan and shaking their heads.
While they couldn’t stand how the village people were treating Xiao Yi and her mother, they could understand why they did it. Even back in Xiao Yue’s village, there had been people treated like this.
A widowed woman living alone with her daughter, there was no doubt that this pair would be looked down on in a village like this.
This woman was already defiled and she didn’t have a husband to depend on, so she would be treated as a sl*t and it would even be likely that she would be assaulted by the people of the village.
That was just how this world that was ruled with power was sometimes…
So this village couldn’t be considered suspicious just with this since everything else that had happened was quite normal. In fact, they could be considered strange since they had come to this place to help this mother and daughter pair.
Lin Fan was surprised to see this from them, but he didn’t continue on this topic as he said, “Forget it, let’s just get out of the village and then we’ll talk. After all, sometimes the walls have ears.”
But before they could leave, Xiao Yi came forward to grab at Lin Fan’s shirt and said with a worried look, “Young master Lin, what about my mother?”
Lin Fan looked back and patted her on the head to comfort her before saying, “She’s already taken the medicine, so all she needs now is some rest to heal up. Remember to keep her hydrated and fed and she should be better by tomorrow.”
Xiao Yi felt a bit of warmth from Lin Fan’s hand when he patted her head that she couldn’t help getting intoxicated in before she said with a nod, “Un, I’ll make sure to watch over her.”
Lin Fan nodded before saying, “We’ll be back tomorrow, so just wait for us to come back.”
Xiao Yi revealed a bit of a worried look when she heard this, but she still said with a nod, “I’ll be waiting.”
After that, Lin Fan led Lala and Xiao Yue out of the house and out of the village.
The guards at the gate were surprised to see Lin Fan’s group leaving so soon after arriving, but they didn’t stop them. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to stop them, but rather they were powerless to stop them.
They were just guards in this remote village, they were nothing more than normal humans that didn’t have any cultivation. Against these powerful cultivators, they were nothing more than ants…
Once Lin Fan’s group left the village and were far enough from it, Lin Fan finally explained what happened in the village to Lala and Xiao Yue.
“You’re saying that Xiao Yi’s mother was poisoned!” Lala asked in a shocked voice.
Xiao Yue also had eyes that were wide open in shock when she heard this.
Lin Fan nodded and said, “I’ve already cured the poison with an antidote, but that doesn’t change the fact that someone in the village poisoned her.” Then he gave a sigh and said, “As for why they did that, I have no idea, but it wouldn’t be safe for us to stay in a village like that. Who knows if they suddenly decide to poison us as well.”
Lala and Xiao Yue were silent for a bit before giving a nod in agreement.
However, Lala immediately asked, “But what do we do about the mission then? Do we still hunt down the spirit beast that’s been terrorizing the village?”
Lin Fan was silent for a bit after hearing this before giving a nod, but he also made sure to add, “I don’t know what the situation with the spirit beast is, but it shouldn’t be as simple as they described it. We need to find it first and see what the situation with it is before we decide what to do with it.”
After saying this, Lin Fan couldn’t help putting his face in his palm before giving a sigh while shaking his head and saying, “I just wanted a simple mission, but I never thought that it would be like this. I really was tricked by Tian Tian…”
Lala heard this and immediately said, “Big sister Tian Tian definitely didn’t have that intention!”
Lin Fan revealed a smile and patted her on the head as he said, “I know, she shouldn’t have known about the situation of this village, which was why she asked us to do this mission as a favour.”
Lala calmed down after hearing this, but then she revealed an angry look as she said, “It’s all this village’s fault! I really want to know what kind of shady things they are doing!”
Lin Fan nodded and said, “I really want to know as well.”
It was at this time that Xiao Yue cut in by saying, “Should I sneak into the village and look around?”
Lin Fan shook his head at this suggestion, “There’s no need for that. I’ve already set up a surveillance net in the village that will keep track of everything that happens in the village.”
The two girls revealed surprised looks before they revealed looks of doubt.
They had faith in Lin Fan after everything that they had been through together, but this seemed a bit too incredulous to believe.
Lin Fan naturally didn’t blame them for this since even he wouldn’t have been able to believe it if he hadn’t seen it. But since he said that he was capable of doing this, naturally he wasn’t lying.
Lin Fan just said, “You can trust me, can’t you? You’ve already seen all the things that I’ve done before.”
The two girls looked at each other before giving nods in agreement.
After settling this matter, Lin Fan brought the two girls deeper into the forest where he had sent the Gale Sparrow out to scout. It didn’t take the Gale Sparrow long to find the nest of the spirit beast for the mission, so they quickly gathered near the nest.
According to the Gale Sparrow, the spirit beast that was terrorizing the village was a giant snake that made its nest by this lake in front of them.
When they arrived, they found that the snake was currently resting coiled up by the lake.
The two girls had wanted to attack it while it was sleeping, but Lin Fan raised his hand to stop them. He ignored the looks of doubt that they had and narrowed his eyes to look at the snake.
There were countless wounds and scars that were found all over this snake’s body, almost as if it had been through constant battle. However, that was strange since this snake was already in the Second Qi Gathering Realm.
Most of the beasts here were in the First Qi Gathering Realm, so it was unlikely that they would challenge this snake for no reason. Even if they did, it was impossible for the snake to suffer all these injuries.
So why was the snake in this state?
No matter how he looked at it, something didn’t seem to add up.
So instead of engaging the snake, Lin Fan decided to scout the area first.
The girls clearly didn’t feel the same as him, but since this was what he wanted, they followed him.
They didn’t find anything at first, but as they widened the search area, they found tracks in the woods. Following these tracks, they soon arrived at a clearing that had clear traces of human interference.
There was a trap that was set in the middle of this clearing, which was clearly meant for a spirit beast.
This would seem normal considering what kind of request they had received, but Lin Fan knitted his brows as soon as he saw this.
The way that this trap was set up…
It seemed like there was indeed more than it seemed going on here. It seemed like the village chief had lied when making the mission request.