Ling Cage: Twelve Talismans? I have everything I need.

Chapter 70 Meeting
The flamingo's voice suddenly rose in pitch.

"Hongkou...you mean Hongkou...she's in Dragonbone Village?!"

She wasn't even aware of her own actions; her body had already instinctively moved forward, and her hands suddenly grabbed Xu Tong's collar!
"Ugh! Cough cough!" Xu Tong was caught off guard and almost passed out from being choked.

His feet left the ground, and he was kicked so hard by the red egret's incredible strength that he swayed. He desperately tried to break free from the red egret's iron-like arms, struggling to escape the sudden, enthusiastic embrace.

He uttered muffled sobs: "Big sister, let...let go...I can't...I can't breathe..."

Honglu couldn't hear what he was saying at all. She shook Xutong violently, her eyes almost spitting fire.

"Answer me! Hongkou! She's in Dragon Bone Village?! How is she?! Is she still alive?! Tell me now!!"

"Yes...yes! Definitely. If he's not on a mission...he's...he's at the training ground, training with...training with the reserve team."

Xu Tong was so dizzy from being shaken that she felt like her neck was about to break: "Let go... let go, big sister! You're... you're going to strangle me."

“Training ground…Dragon Bone Village…” Honglu repeatedly chewed on these words, her body trembling slightly from the intense and excited emotions.

She finally noticed Xu Tong's face, flushed red from suffocation, and his pained expression.

A feeling of apology welled up inside me.

She abruptly released her grip and quickly took a step back.

Xu Tong fell to the ground with a thud, coughing awkwardly.

He rubbed his neck, which was still sore from being strangled, and looked at the red-haired woman in front of him with lingering fear.

"I...I'm sorry!" Honglu's voice was unsteady. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.

But the urgency in his eyes hadn't faded: "I...I was a little too excited just now."

As she apologized, her gaze had already passed over Xu Tong and was fixed on the direction of Dragon Bone Village.

"I must go to Dragonbone Village immediately! Now! Right now!" Red Heron's tone was resolute and brooked no argument.

Before Xu Tong could even catch his breath, she grabbed his arm, her grip much lighter than before, but she still dragged him away.

"Hey? Wait! Captain Honglu!" Xu Tong was pulled so hard he stumbled.

Pointing to the team members still cleaning up in the distance, he asked, "What about the work here... what about here?"

Without stopping or turning her head, Honglu loudly commanded, "A-Jie! You are now in full charge of the cleanup! Xu Tong and I are going to the main village!"

A-Jie, standing some distance away, paused for a moment. Although he didn't know what had happened, he would still firmly obey Honglu's orders.

"Understood, Captain!"

“See, it’s all set.” Honglu said to Xutong in a rapid-fire voice.

Honglu dragged Xutong away from the work area and ran wildly toward the vehicles in the distance.

He walked up to the vehicle, opened the passenger door of the SUV, and then went around to the driver's side.

"Get in! I'll drive!"

"Huh? You...you drive?" Xu Tong hadn't fully recovered and was panting heavily.

"That's right, I'll drive."

Honglu had already gotten into the driver's seat and quickly started the engine, the SUV emitting a deep roar.

Seeing the urgency in Honglu's eyes, Xu Tong knew that saying anything would be useless.

He sighed, opened the passenger door, and got in. As soon as he fastened his seatbelt, the car shot off like an arrow.

The powerful acceleration slammed Xu Tong hard into the seat, and the scenery outside the car rushed past.

"Hey! Captain Red Heron! Slow down! The road conditions are bad!"

Xu Tong watched as Honglu floored the accelerator, accelerating wildly on the bumpy wasteland road. Startled, he quickly grabbed the roof handle, his voice trembling.

Honglu gripped the steering wheel tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white.

"It won't slow down." Before the words were even finished, the SUV roared and rolled over a gravel area, the vehicle shaking violently, and Xu Tong felt like he was about to be shaken apart.

Xu Tong swallowed hard, giving up on persuasion, and just gripped the handrail tightly: "What's your relationship with Hong Kou?"

"She's my sister."

"Sister?!" Xu Tong's eyes widened.
Sister? Wow, what a blood relation!

Doesn't that pot lid prohibit familial relationships? Wasn't there such a rule before?

He stopped talking, but gritted his teeth and gripped the handrail with all his might.

Now all we can do is pray that this off-road vehicle is sturdy enough, so that Honglu doesn't break it apart before she sees her sister.

Red Heron gripped the steering wheel tightly, gritting his teeth.

Hongkou... Sister is here! Sister can finally see you again!
Meanwhile, at the training ground in Longgu Village.

The sun was shining brightly, and Ulan Aodeng was instructing the trainees in their preparations for enlightenment, with shouts and commands rising and falling.

However, in a relatively open corner of the venue, the atmosphere was somewhat subtle.

Hongkou was in her starting stance, her movements precise yet bearing the rigid marks of her Lighthouse training.

Jiu Ge stood a little in front of her, small in stature, with unusually focused eyes.

"Sister Hongkou, you need to be more stable with your lower body,"

The wine song was very soft. She walked around Hongkou for a short distance, her gaze measuring Hongkou's posture like a ruler.

"Lower your center of gravity slightly and bend your knees slightly."

Hongkou adjusted as instructed, and she could feel Jiuge's gaze falling on her waist and legs as if it were a physical object.

Ever since that day when Jiu Ge treated her in that... extremely intimate way, Hong Kou noticed that the way the child looked at her was becoming increasingly strange.

"Well, like this?"

Hongkou steadied herself, trying to ignore the gazes behind her, and made her voice sound calm and even.

"Yes, much better!" Jiu Ge's eyes immediately lit up, and a happy smile bloomed on his face.

She naturally took a step closer, almost touching Hongkou's body.

“Then comes the exertion,” Jiu Ge said, actually extending his hand.

Her small hand, slightly cool in temperature, naturally covered Hongkou's clenched fist wrist, guiding the angle.

"The power must flow continuously, from the heels to the waist and hips, then to the shoulders and arms, and finally converge in the fist..."

When the wine song touched her, Hongkou's body tensed up almost imperceptibly for a moment.

She felt goosebumps all over her body and felt extremely uncomfortable.

Dawn, standing to the side, watched with a twitching eye. He seemed to have heard people say that emotional relationships in the old world did not only exist between men and women.

Jiuge seemed oblivious, or rather, indifferent, as she gently placed her other hand on Hongkou's waist.

"Can you feel the power transfer? Twist your waist to move your arms..."

She tilted her head slightly to look at Hongkou, her breath tickling Hongkou's ear.

Just as she suppressed her discomfort, calmed her mind, and slightly twisted her waist and hips as Jiu Ge instructed,

A voice suddenly came from afar.

"Red Bean!!!"

The voice was so familiar that Hongkou immediately looked in the direction of the sound.

A woman with the same hair color as her stood in the distance.

(End of this chapter)