“…Excuse me?”
“Lady Rosebelia, how much farther until we reach the ‘Red Spring’?”
“It’s nearby.”
“It’s certainly true that more monsters appear near the Red Spring.”
Despite being on the move with the subjugation force near the Red Spring, they were often delayed by sudden monster appearances.
The day was about to fade.
“Could that be the Red Spring?”
The long, straight finger pointed at what Rosebelia remembered as the ‘Red Spring’.
“That’s right.”
“It’s smaller than I thought.”
“Every other spring we saw wasn’t like this… It’s just so red. Like blood.”
It was a chillingly dark red hue.
A spring typically would have water flowing in and out, but neither the incoming nor the outgoing waterways were visible. It looked more like a large puddle.
“May I touch it?”
“No, you can’t. It’s toxic.”
The monster researcher standing near the Red Spring stated firmly.
“How do we transport this water?”
“We have specially made containers.”
Gail, the monster researcher, confidently unrolled a sack revealing several transparent containers.
“Should we place this here?”
“Yes, thank you.”
Several knights who helped carry Gail’s sack put it down near the Red Spring. Behind the busy Gail filling up on spring water, Gabriel looked up at the sky tinged in orange.
“The sun will set soon.”
“Let’s scatter and find places to set up camp.”
Gabriel, stroking his beard, nodded his head.
“It would be best to move a little farther away from the Red Spring.”
“Understood.”
As Linart led the guardian knights downhill, Gabriel approached Gail.
“Gail, how much longer will it take?”
“It will take a while, commander.”
“The two of us will escort this man. The rest of you should go down first.”
The ones who volunteered to escort Gael were unexpectedly two knights from the Rileigh family.
“Only three of us will stay?”
When Lucas asked as if he couldn’t believe it, Pierre responded calmly.
“It’s just for a quick water draw, and we’ll carry the load, so go ahead.”
“Then I’ll leave it to Sir Pierre. Come on, everyone, move down.”
At Lucas’s command, the remaining expedition members moved downward. They had barely taken a few steps when.
“Rosebelia, what are you doing there? Come quickly.”
“Isn’t it a bit strange?”
“What is?”
Normally, he would have somehow left more people behind.
To say they’ll carry the load, so everyone should go?
Considering their usual behavior, they were not the people to say such a thing. Pierre was even less likely to say that.
“I’m going to visit the Red Spring for a moment.”
“Let it be. They want to take the trouble.”
“That’s what’s strange. They’re not usually like that.”
Leaving Lucas tilting his head in a ‘Is that so?’ manner, she climbed the hill where the Red Spring was again.
The sight that met my eyes as I cautiously approached, stifling my footsteps, was…
What are those two doing?
The Beast Research Institute was a little away from the Red Spring, and the two knights from the Rileigh family were closer to the spring.
Something was in both of their hands.
It looked similar to the container Gael had brought?
What was even stranger, unlike Gael who was filling it with spring water, they appeared to be discarding something into it.
“What are you doing here?”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
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Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
