"Miss Bai, you really are thinking highly of yourself." Ming Shu picked up a stick beside her, rising slowly. "But it seems there will be no such 'even' thing between you and me."
Who the hell do you think you are, a goddess?
Shua!
Pa!
With a fierce momentum, the stick whipped against Bai Yanran's body, who started to scream in pain immediately. She tried to shield the injured part, but the stick fell on her body constantly, leaving no time for her to take action. There seemed to be spirit force behind every hit, for each time, Bai Yanran felt as if her skin was going to split.
Ming Shu wore a calm smile during the whole process. That deadwood had clearly changed into a powerful weapon in her rising and falling hands.
Bai Yanran tried to gather her spirit force to fight back. But each try ended in vain because Ming Shu just didn't give her any chance!
"Zhi Po, are you crazy? Stop it!" Bai Yanran shouted in a broken voice. She finally got a chance to flee. Standing far from Ming Shu, arms around her shoulders, Bai Yanran stared at the crazy bully with angry red eyes.
This damn woman, she dared beat me before so many people.
Ming Shu waved the stick in her hand and asked, "Still want the map?"
"..." Bai Yanran was breathing heavily due to fury, face flushed and eyes shining with billowy hatred. She gritted her teeth. "Zhi Po, you will pay for what you did today."
She would let this woman know what's worse than death.
Fiddling with the stick in her hand, Ming Shu smiled breezily and didn't say a word.
But she looked more irritating that way than if she had rampantly retorted.
Bai Yanran stomped her feet angrily and turned around to run away. Someone tried to pay her some care, yet was ignored. Soon she ran out of everyone's sights.
"Miss, Bai Yanran was infuriated by this..." Hui Xue said worriedly after Bai Yanran's figure completely disappeared. "She is narrow-minded and likes to get up to little tricks, I'm afraid..."
As the saying goes, fair and honest revenge is better than intrigue and secret conspiracy. The latter just left you nowhere to hide.
"Hui Xue, this place is the Windy Mountain Range of Demons."
"What's wrong with the Windy Mountain Range of..." After pausing for a moment, Hui Xue understood Ming Shu's words.
The Windy Mountain Range of Demons was thousands of miles away from the Bai family, and Bai Yanran's followers either died or got separated. So it was not so easy for Bai Yanran to scheme something.
Ming Shu kept silent. What she was thinking was, Killing a person in the Windy Mountain Range of Demons is easy, and won't draw much attention.
Clearly Hui Xue misunderstood her meaning, but Ming Shu didn't intend to explain.
...
"Miss Zhi Po, what do we have to do to borrow your map?" The escort came to negotiate with Ming Shu under Feng Cheng's order.
Ming Shu was now riding on the thunder cat with an extremely unrestrained and frank posture and was fiddling with that colorful egg. Hearing the question, she looked up slightly to sweep a glance over the escort. She said slowly, "You really want to know?"
The escort solemnly nodded. "As you just mentioned, if this place really is the Mountain of Dragon Bones, we are all in danger now. We'd better get out of here as soon as possible. You too, Miss Zhi Po."
