God's Gift

Seeing Ye Li was angry, Fang Ziang quickly apologized.

“I’m sorry, A-li…” Fang Ziang’s eyes dodged, and he pointed at Yu Youyou and said, “It was Yu Youyou. She told me that she saw Lu Keming and the people from the church enter the forest together! That’s why I followed her to see.”

Ye Li had a cold face and looked at Yu Youyou who was staring with wide eyes as if she was an outsider, without saying anything.

At this moment, a gentle voice interrupted.

"Don't be angry, Ye Li. I think Youyou is just being kind and she wants to help us."

Shen Minghua looked at Yu Youyou and smiled soothingly.

"It's just that Youyou doesn't have any mental strength. Next time, you should discuss it with us first if you have anything to do."

"You also know that she has no mental power. Since you elected me as the captain for this trial, Yu Youyou is my team member. I need to be responsible for her. How am I going to explain if anything goes wrong with her?" Seeing Shen Minghua defending Yu Youyou, Ye Li's voice became even colder.

Shen Minghua smiled awkwardly, "Isn't this with Ziang? Ziang can protect her no matter what."

"I don't want to protect her." Fang Ziang muttered.

"Zi'ang, Youyou lives in your house, so she can be considered your sister. When aunt sent Youyou to school, she also told you to take good care of her."

Shen Minghua always knew that Fang Ziang was a bit unreasonable, but he didn't expect that he would be like this towards Youyou as well.

"My mother also asked you to take care of Yu Youyou. Isn't it enough to have you around? She always holds me back all day long. It's so annoying." Fang Ziang said impatiently.

Yu Youyou wrinkled her face as she listened to Fang Ziang's words, and explained seriously:

"No, it was you who told me to please A-Li, and then told me to keep an eye on Lu Keming and the others, and to tell A-Li if I found anything wrong with them."

"And you can't protect me, even if you want to." Yu Youyou commented seriously: "You are too weak."

Yu Youyou's words almost made Fang Ziang faint, but at least he forced a smile in front of his sweetheart.

Ye Li glanced at Yu Youyou and sighed.

"Okay, it's good that you're alright, go back quickly."

Seeing that the situation had eased a lot, Shen Minghua breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the dog next to Yu Youyou.

"This is Godot, why is he following you?"

Yu Youyou raised her eyebrows, touched Godot's ear, and blinked: "So your name is Godot, what a cool name."

Smiling and touching Godot's head, Yu Youyou looked up at Shen Minghua, "Godot also got lost and followed us out."

Godot saw Shen Minghua and held his head high.

Shen Minghua smiled and said to them, "Okay, let's go. Tell us what you encountered on the way back."

Fang Ziang pushed Yu Youyou to Shen Minghua's side, and then inserted himself between Ye Li and Shen Minghua, perfectly separating the two.

Ye Li glanced at Fang Ziang and said nothing.

Fang Ziang smiled flatteringly and quickly took credit: "Ali, we saw Lu Keming and the people from the church get together."

"Church?" Ye Li frowned, "What does Lu Keming want to do?"

"We don't know yet what mission Blue Dragon has accepted." Shen Minghua thought for a while, "But our first mission is to extinguish the fire of hell, and the second mission is to protect the villagers."

"Although the church and the villagers all live in the village and there doesn't seem to be any major conflict, the missions that the blue dragons take should be the opposite of ours. They are close to the church... Could it be that the church and the villagers are in opposition?"

"That should be the case." Ye Li nodded. Although Fang Ziang and Yu Youyou were between her and Shen Minghua, they seemed to be unaffected at all.

Fang Ziang's sense of crisis grew stronger and stronger, and he quickly replied: "And we saw the fire of hell!"

"Hellfire?" Ye Li suddenly turned his head and looked at Fang Ziang.

"Yes, Lu Keming probably saw that the truth had been revealed, so he ordered his men to hunt down Yu Youyou and me, hoping to get us out of the game so that we wouldn't be able to notify you."

Fang Ziang saw Ye Li looking at him, and continued with some pride:

"On the way to escape, we took the wrong road. There was a faint light in the forest. We thought it was the light of the village, so we walked in that direction, but there was no village at all. It was a fire burning on the forest floor."

Yu Youyou, who was jumping and skipping nearby and sticking close to Godot from time to time, stopped and looked at Fang Ziang strangely.

She didn't think it was the light of the village.

Humph.

But she quickly shifted her attention and continued to look at the scenery along the way with curiosity.

"And it seemed like something was following us in that forest. When we met Godot, it was rushing back from the direction of the fire. Then something tried to grab Yu Youyou, but I cut off one of its tentacles."

Hearing his name, Godot shifted his gaze from Yu Youyou who was constantly making trouble and looked at Fang Ziang.

Fang Ziang glanced at Godot and said, "I think its owner must know more than us. Moreover, it came from the Hellfire, so it must have seen more things. It's a pity that it can't speak."

Shen Minghua's expression became much more serious. "Our mission is to protect the villagers, and something unknown appeared near the Hellfire. It might be the enemy that threatens the villagers."

"Yu Youyou, did you see anything else?" Ye Li looked at Yu Youyou who was having fun on the side and suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Yu Youyou was originally looking at the surrounding mountains. When she heard Ye Li asking her, she turned her head in confusion.

"Youyou must be frightened. Ziang knows so much information. Asking Youyou may not help." Shen Minghua saw Ye Li shift the conversation to Yu Youyou, looked at Yu Youyou, who was specifically instructed to be taken care of by her aunt, and hurriedly stopped Ye Li.

"I saw it!" Yu Youyou rolled her eyes and walked a few steps to the front of the group.

"That thing with tentacles, its hands are..." Yu Youyou spread her arms and gestured, "this long."

"And there are thorns on its back and hands. It's so fierce!" Yu Youyou pulled at its eyelids and lips with her hands and made a face, "It's so fierce."

"And it has a mouth full of teeth!" Yu Youyou frowned and imitated the way the monster bared its teeth before, showing it to the others, "It can bar its teeth like this."

"And its eyes are as black as two grapes." Yu Youyou put her hands on her eye sockets and stared at the few people with wide eyes.

Ye Li looked at Yu Youyou dancing and his expression froze for a moment. He didn't know what to say for a moment.

Yu Youyou's expression was really lively, and Shen Minghua laughed when he saw it.

"You're talking nonsense. I didn't see anything. How did you see it?" Fang Ziang looked at Yu Youyou's unrestrained look and then saw Shen Minghua who was amused, and he became furious.

She still wants to pursue Shen Minghua, how could Shen Minghua like this!

"Okay, okay, it's enough to know that there are strange-looking things in the forest." Shen Minghua stopped Yu Youyou from continuing to show off and continued walking.

Fang Ziang continued to tell Ye Li about the rest of the details.

Yu Youyou was interrupted and stopped talking. She frowned and rubbed her chin.

But that thing looks a little familiar.

Yu Youyou remained quiet along the way. Godot raised his head and glanced at Yu Youyou.

It was not until they reached the entrance of the village that Yu Youyou suddenly had an idea.

"I remember now! Its outline is roughly like... a skinned human!"

Shen Minghua wanted to hear what she said, but his attention was attracted by a group of people standing at the entrance of the village.

"Captain Ye."

Yu Youyou raised her head and saw Lu Keming standing in front of a group of people in uniform.

Lu Keming had taken off his black priest robe and was wearing a black gilded court robe. He was standing under the street light at the entrance of the village, looking at Ye Li with a smile.