When Stone left just now, he clearly locked the door from the outside. Why would this person try to break the door from the outside?
Yaohua's heart skipped a beat.
Thankfully, there was a kitchen knife left by someone beside the bed. Yaohua steadied herself and tiptoed over to pick it up.
"Sister, open the door. It's me," Stone's voice suddenly came from outside the door. This voice sounded more lively than before. Not to mention how the door was locked in the first place. Even if Yaohua had locked it herself, she didn't dare to open the door for this strange Stone.
"Open the door quickly!"
It was clearly he who locked the door. Why was he so anxiously urging her to open it?
Yaohua held her breath and hid behind the door, gripping the kitchen knife tightly.
If anyone broke in, she would surely make them pay.
"Sister, open the door quickly!"
Stone repeated his words, and the knocking on the door kept ringing.
I don't know how long it had been. Yaohua's hand was sore when the knocking gradually stopped. The faint footsteps faded away, and then a distant knocking sound followed.
It seemed this "Stone" was going to knock on all the doors here.
Yaohua put down the kitchen knife and let out a breath. She moved her sore shoulders.
However, at this moment, the window suddenly creaked. A rotting eye was pressed against the crack, looking inside.
It was the old woman sitting beside the millstone!
Yaohua quickly covered her mouth and crawled under the bed, avoiding the crack in the window frame.
From this angle, the other person couldn't see her no matter how hard they looked. Yaohua quietly waited for the noise to disappear, but unexpectedly, she dozed off.
The next day, she was woken up by a noisy sound. She crawled out from under the bed. The sunlight outside the window was a bit blinding. She had actually stayed in this strange room for a whole night!
It seemed Stone locked her here to protect her.
But Yaohua was still both aggrieved and angry.
Master, where on earth have you gone? You don't even know how badly your beloved disciple has been bullied!
These people are really hateful. How could they bully her just because Master was not around!
The angrier Yaohua thought, the more she walked to the door. She raised her hand and tried to break out, but as soon as her hand touched the door, it opened from the outside.
She stood there stiffly. A chill instantly ran up from the soles of her feet to the back of her neck.
Just thinking about someone staring at her quietly while she was sleeping last night made her hair stand on end!
Master! What on earth is this place?
Where on earth have you gone? Do you really want to watch your dear disciple be scared to death by these strange things?
"Sister, you're awake," Stone poked his head in from outside the door. His fresh face showed no sign of decay.
Yaohua was a bit dazed. Could last night's events have been a hallucination?
"Strange. I don't know who locked the door. It took me a long time to open it," Stone murmured.
Hearing Stone's complaint, Yaohua woke up as if from a dream.
How could it be a hallucination!
After lying under the bed for a whole night, her neck and shoulders were almost rusted! If what happened last night was all fake, could the door have locked itself for no reason?
"Maybe it's your father, that old lecher. He's hiding something from us again," an old and familiar voice came into Yaohua's ears. She suddenly looked up and saw the old woman who had had improper intentions towards her sitting under the tree beside the well, fanning herself idly.
Why is this old woman here too!
Just as one problem was about to be solved, another arose. Yaohua couldn't help but take a half - step back.
"Grandma, don't always speak ill of Dad," Stone said.
So this old woman and Stone were actually family! No wonder she saw this old woman last night.
The old woman showed a look of disdain. She looked at Yaohua with a scrutinizing gaze. "Are you that short - lived man's illegitimate daughter?"
Yaohua slowly showed a smile. "How could that be?"
She tentatively gathered a wisp of spiritual energy, and her heart began to pound. Great! Her spiritual energy had recovered!
She glanced at Stone and silently apologized in her heart. She really couldn't face this old woman.
Before, her second elder brother had told her a story about something called a living corpse. They were originally dead people, but because they didn't realize their own death, they retained their living forms during the day and showed their true forms at night.
If nothing went wrong, Stone and his grandmother should be the same.
Thinking of this, she quickly waved out two strands of spiritual energy towards Stone and the old woman.
There was a spell in the cultivation method taught by her master that could blur people's memories. Before finding her master, she didn't want to be entangled by them anymore.
Yaohua cast a spell and quickly concealed her figure. Without looking back, she left the courtyard.
She walked and stopped along the way, but didn't find any trace of her master. She felt a bit frustrated for a moment.
Did her master hide on purpose and not want her to find him?
Unexpectedly, she walked into a wasteland without realizing it.
The wasteland was overgrown with weeds, messy and some were even tangled together. There was more than enough space to hide a person under them. It was truly desolate.
However, these weeds grew so lushly. If some other things were planted here, they might also grow well.
Since the Great Calamity of the End of the World began, there had hardly been such fertile land in Shenzhou. If they had discovered it earlier, her father and elder brothers wouldn't have to worry so much.
Yaohua had an idea. She immediately made up her mind to tell her father about the existence of this city, completely solve the food and clothing problems of the Phoenix Clan, so that her father and the others could also eat grain, instead of only taking care of the younger generations in the clan.
She was so lost in thought that suddenly her foot stepped into thin air. Her whole body lost its balance, and the next moment she fell hard on something round.
It hurt so much!
Yaohua climbed up with tears in her eyes and rubbed her waist. She found that this was actually a cellar that had been abandoned for who knows how long. She didn't know who was so immoral to cover it with dry grass, as if they were afraid people wouldn't fall to their deaths!
She patted the dirt on her body and saw a pale skull lying at her feet, grinning ferociously at her.
An angry curse immediately welled up in her throat.
When will this end! They always use such means to scare her! Does she look like someone who can be easily scared?
Yaohua wiped away her tears and carefully lifted her foot. Just as she was about to bypass the skull, she found that the place was covered with bare white bones everywhere.
Oh my God!
Master, come out quickly!
Your beloved disciple is almost scared to death!
Where will you find such a cute and intelligent little disciple in the future!
"Aren't these bones really beautiful?"
A cold and evil voice suddenly sounded. At the same time, Yaohua was shocked to find that a black aura had quietly surrounded her.