Chapter 406

Xia Caoqing leaned relaxedly on Huang Debiao.

Huang Debiao lowered his head slightly, smelling the scent emitted from her hair; that scent similar to grass and trees once made him incredibly obsessed, but now only fear and disgust remained.

He liked Xia Caoqing very much.

Once he felt that being able to marry such a woman was a blessing Huang Debiao had cultivated for eight lifetimes, and he swore to protect his wife.

But that vow.

Had already been broken when the big spider pressed his wife under its body yesterday.

Later, although his relationship with his wife reconciled and Xia Caoqing forgave his cowardice, that scene still left a deep crack in Huang Debiao's heart.

He knew that the one who was wrong was himself.

He knew that everything could be salvaged.

But his heart still developed the idea of alienating his wife, because as long as he saw her, he would think of his own embarrassment.

Then.

A voice told him the way to leave this cave.

And also told him that his wife was a monster disguised as a human.

After hearing this.

Huang Debiao didn't feel terrified, but rather a bit relaxed.

An idea grew wildly like weeds.

Leave her.

Kill the monster to leave the cave, leave her here by herself, he would return to the human world, while she would remain in the monster world.

But now.

Wu Xian, who was suspected to be a monster, wouldn't come back.

He wanted to leave this terrifying cave, and only one method remained.

Huang Debiao's hands trembled slightly.

He threw a small pile of Xia Caoqing's fallen hair that he had collected on himself into the fire; the hair instantly turned into ashes, emitting a smell of wood ash.

"It's not the smell of burning hair; really, she really is..."

After verification.

Huang Debiao's eyes became fierce.

The hand placed behind Xia Caoqing gripped the spider-leg spike, slowly approaching her head.

But Xia Caoqing, who was leaning on him, had already opened her eyes.

Swish! The spider-leg spike stabbed toward her head, but Xia Caoqing turned flexibly, jumping away from Huang Debiao, not moving like a human at all; after landing, she looked at Huang Debiao with cold eyes.

Huang Debiao panicked immediately, retreating step by step.

And Xia Caoqing kept pressing forward, coldly questioning Huang Debiao.

"Why do you want to kill me?"

"Because I want to go home, and you are not human!"

"But I was very good to you..."

"Who knows if you were faking it!"

Gong Xiujuan was stunned.

She couldn't imagine in her dreams that this loving couple would turn into enemies in the blink of an eye.

The gradually approaching Xia Caoqing's skin gradually turned deep green, all her beautiful hair fell off, and plant-like patterns appeared on her body, her posture becoming increasingly non-human, bringing huge pressure to Huang Debiao.

But although Xia Caoqing was the dominant party, her heart was torn apart at this moment.

She was a grass spirit from the summer, originally also a monster like an urban horror legend; she wandered in the city, using her harmless and fresh appearance to attract human men to take the initiative to find her.

She would insert her roots into human bodies, suck dry all their flesh and essence, and then find a place to bury the dried corpses.

More than ten years ago, a group of men invited her to go camping.

She knew these people had bad intentions, but she didn't care, because she also had bad intentions.

But during the action, she encountered a bear monster attacking the campsite, and together with that bear monster, she heard the chanting in the flames.

Since then.

She no longer had the intention to harm people, changed her name to Xia Caoqing, and lived in the human world. Life in the human world was good, but male humans were often attracted by her temperament and kept trying to pursue her, which made her unbearable.

She didn't like being too conspicuous, so she married Huang Debiao, the last one who pursued her.

The purpose of the marriage was to get rid of the harassment.

Huang Debiao was the stupidest of the pursuers; only by marrying such a person would her malevolent entity identity not be discovered in life.

She should have not cared about Huang Debiao's opinion.

But when she discovered Huang Debiao wanted to kill her, her heart was still in chaos; she didn't know what to do now, just wanting to make things clear with Huang Debiao.

But after Huang Debiao discovered her original appearance.

He was so scared that he panicked and ran into the dark cave, wailing and screaming.

"Wait, you didn't bring a torch; you'll die like this!"

Xia Caoqing panicked instantly, subconsciously following Huang Debiao into the cave; as she ran, she discovered that Huang Debiao had run into a dead end.

Huang Debiao leaned against the wall, waving his hands, shouting loudly.

"Don't come over, I was wrong, you must not kill me."

He had peed his pants from fear again.

Xia Caoqing shook her head in disappointment, and the last bit of thought for Huang Debiao in her heart finally disappeared.

"Forget it, it's really meaningless."

She walked toward Huang Debiao, preparing to drag this guy to the cave and release him.

Without this guy as a burden, she could find a way to leave this cave; she was a plant spirit, possessing the ability to move underground, and should be able to easily escape the cave.

At least... that's what she thought herself.

She was about to touch Huang Debiao when her body suddenly paused.

There was something behind her! Heavy breathing, dripping saliva, pungent stench, the sound of claws landing on the ground, and the buzzing sound of wings...

"What kind of creature can make this sound?"

"But if there's only one, no matter what it is, I..."

Xia Caoqing turned around, and her eyes revealed despair.

"So... this is a trap!"

Whoosh! The ferocious monsters submerged her slender body.

She fought back hard among the monsters, but only killed two or three monsters before being bitten by other monsters, and then could no longer make an effective counterattack, and the remaining monsters mercilessly swallowed her body.

Huang Debiao's expression was complex.

Yes.

This was a trap.

A trap that only Huang Debiao could complete.

As long as Huang Debiao didn't bring a torch, ran into this road, and lured Xia Caoqing in, even if he killed Xia Caoqing, he could return to the ground.

Although Huang Debiao faithfully executed this task.

But when the task was completed.

He felt uneasy in his heart again; didn't Xia Caoqing following him into the cave show that she cared about him? But now wasn't the time to think about these things.

Huang Debiao tentatively asked: "I, can I go back now?"

A voice that only he could hear came from the wall.

"Of course, you really did me a big favor."

"She was really too strong, able to kill a human-headed spider in one blow, destroying the balance of the maze; I had to solve her to make the game more interesting."

"Speaking of which, setting traps in the maze is really not easy, because there are many roads here, the monsters are scattered and don't all listen to me, and human actions are hard to predict; if you hadn't lured her over, I would have had no way to deal with her before the game ended."

The more Huang Debiao heard, the more uneasy he felt, so he shouted irritably: "I don't want to hear these, let me go back quickly!"

"Okay!"

Those monsters gnawing on Xia Caoqing stopped one after another, then turned their heads to look at Huang Debiao, and pounced on him together...

(End of chapter)