Don't mess with that Miao boy, he's sickly and perverted.

Chai Xiaomi opened her eyes and spat out the flower petals that were stuck to the tip of her tongue.

Having spent so much time together, she had long been familiar with Wu Li's subtle micro-expressions. Just now, when he handed her the flower petals, his expression was perfectly calm, yet she still sensed something was amiss.

She didn't know what would happen if she swallowed the flower petals. When she saw Lao Ji, Yu Ge, and Yao Jie fall down one after another, she immediately pretended to faint.

I don't know what Wu Li is up to, but I'll just go along with him.

It wasn't until she overheard his conversation with the Snow King and his resolute killing that she realized the gravity of the situation.

If she wasn't mistaken, the person the Snow King was referring to was—the High Priest.

As Chai Xiaomi was lost in thought, a shower of ice shards suddenly fell in front of her.

She was startled and raised her hand to block it.

The white cat was covered in a thick layer of ice shards, and it was tiptoeing and shaking its fur frantically, with ice shards falling down in a flurry.

"That heartless little brat!" it cursed, trembling. "He knows to shield his own wife, but he doesn't even know how to shield his master!"

Upon meeting Chai Xiaomi's eyes, the cat's fur instantly stood on end.

"Oh my god, you scared me to death!" It jumped back a step. "Little Xiaomi, why are you awake too?"

The cat's eyes darted around and caught sight of the flower petals in her hand, instantly understanding.

"So you didn't eat these petals." It turned its head to look at Jiang Zhiyu and Song Yueyao, who were lying unconscious beside it, and clicked its tongue twice. "The brains of two older people are really not as good as those of two younger people."

Chai Xiaomi didn't respond to that question, instead asking, "Old Ji, how come you're fine after eating it?"

"If I've lived this long and still can't see through or neutralize such a simple Gu, then I've lived in vain."

The two were talking back and forth, neither of them noticing the snake head that was tilted back next to them.

The red dragon twisted its head back and forth, looking at this and then at that, its snake eyes filled with astonishment.

The Gu poison planted by the master clearly requires an incense stick's worth of time to awaken.

Who would have thought that two of them would act unpredictably and pretend to be asleep as if they were really asleep?

It was struggling to find a way to explain why they were asleep, and was still racking its brains for words when the two looked at it and asked in unison:

Where did Lili go?

"Where did that brat go?"

Red Dragon: "..."

The snake's head stiffly twisted to the left, then to the right, momentarily unsure which to answer first.

At this moment, Chai Xiaomi received a notification from You Tiao in her mind: "Host, the system has just detected a key supporting character in this map: the High Priest."

You Tiao's tone was slightly tense: "According to the original work, the appearance of this character signifies that an important plot point is about to begin—"

He paused for a moment.

in unison.

Fried dough sticks: "Massacre the entire village!"

Chai Xiaomi: "Massacre the entire village!"

The two voices almost overlapped, but only Chai Xiaomi's voice reached the white cat's ears.

"Slaughter the stronghold..." The white cat was taken aback.

It looked up and saw that the little girl's face had instantly lost all color, turning pale and unsightly.

These two words were like an icicle, driven deep into Chai Xiaomi's mind.

She remembered this part from the original story, which was the moment when Wu Li truly rebelled against the High Priest. He slaughtered the entire Wugu clan and completely turned against the High Priest.

However, the cost was devastating.

Perhaps it's related to the malevolent aura emanating from him.

From then on, it headed towards its self-destructive end.

She recalled what he had whispered in her ear: "I'll go and take care of the trouble, and I'll be back."

So that's what it meant.

"Lili..." Chai Xiaomi's heart tightened. Without thinking, she took a step and rushed out.

The red dragon hurriedly caught up, flicked its tail, and hooked itself onto her shoulder.

The white cat's pupils darkened, and it instantly guessed what was going on.

The little brat said he wouldn't slaughter the entire witchcraft clan, but he broke his promise.

But now that things have come to this, how could it not know that if it doesn't strike first, it will only be suppressed by the other side?

One step forward, and there's a cliff.

Taking a step back is the same.

This child was forced into this situation step by step.

The white cat closed its eyes briefly, and when it opened them again, its eyes were clear and bright.

It quickly cast a spell, and two beams of light fell between Jiang Zhiyu and Song Yueyao's eyebrows. A moment later, their eyelashes trembled slightly, showing signs of awakening.

It looked at the pile of debris on the ground in the distance. In the end, this monster was also trying to protect itself. The white cat whispered a rebirth mantra to help the snowball beast pass on, and at the same time, it was also helping Wu Li to reduce the sin of killing that had been added to his hands.

"Um?"

There was a noise behind me.

Jiang Zhiyu and Song Yueyao woke up one after the other, feeling a layer of ice shards on their heads and bodies. Before they could figure out what was happening, they heard the white cat urge them, "Don't just stand there!"

"Hurry and follow me, something might have happened to Wu Li!"

The two men's expressions changed drastically. Without asking any questions, they scrambled to their feet and followed the white figure out of the snow and ice cave.

Outside the cave, the wind and snow were so strong that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes.

This was completely different from when I first came here.

The group squinted and ran forward against the strong wind, stopping abruptly after running for several dozen feet.

In the distance, on a snow-covered slope, a person is kneeling.

Alone and small, it looked like a speck of ink left behind in the vast world.

The adorable tiger-head hat was blown to the ground, rolled twice, and buried in the snow. Her hair was disheveled, and stray strands were pulled and messed up by the wind, slapping haphazardly against her face. Her cloak billowed in the wind, making her look even more frail.

"Millet......"

Song Yueyao's voice trembled.

The group immediately ran over.

They only saw it clearly when they got closer.

She held a pile of snow in her hands.

A pile of red snow.

Chai Xiaomi followed the footprints to this spot. Although the small pool of blood was covered by snow, she still noticed a suspicious bulge.

She squatted down, carefully parted the pieces, and scooped them up.

And then he never got up again.

They had never seen millet like this before.

That little girl who always had a smile on her face, that little girl who was as bright as a little sun, was now kneeling in the snow, her eyelashes covered with thick snow, her eyes as empty as two dry wells.

The tear stains on her face quickly froze into ice.

Her disheveled hair slapped against her face, but she was completely unaware.

"What should we do...?"

Her voice was forced out of her throat, hoarse and unlike her own.

"I can't call him... I can't call Lili anymore..."

She looked up at the familiar faces in front of her, as if pleading for help, or perhaps asking herself a question.

She tried it.

I called his name in my heart over and over again.

Once, twice, many, many times, but nothing came of it.

The bell on her ankle hung quietly, without making a sound.