The Spirit World

Chapter 991 Shadow Pendant (Twenty-Seven)
"Ahhhh-"

She was startled and immediately fell off the stool, as if the stool that was retrieved from the carriage that was eaten by the monster had tiptoed over and overturned her. Her cashmere skirt suddenly opened like a peacock's tail, and then her ankles and the pair of flat white shoes were revealed in the air, swinging violently in the air and then falling down again.

It was so scary that people were knocked off their feet.

She fell on the pebbles and was splashed by the water that had accumulated among the pebbles after the rain.

It had been too long since the sun had risen. The stagnant water smelled terrible, and she had to run immediately, grabbing onto rocks and shouting for help.

However, her call for help only brought a brief moment of peace. After the peace, she trembled violently, but the terrifying monster did not come.

"Hahahahahaha...human beings..."

"Artanis! Quiet!"

Chang Yufeng's tone of command was frighteningly soft.

And this ball of fire, Artanis, responded somewhat obediently, and shrank from the huge fire man back into the campfire. As Artanis retreated, the campfire returned to its previous appearance, except that it had eyes and a mouth.

The eyes are the blue flames of fire, and the mouth is the deep red of fire.

The frightened woman cowered as she looked at the ridiculous fire and burst into tears loudly. This crying was somewhat unwilling and she choked with pain, using up all her strength.

“Hahahahaha~ Plurplurplur~”

Artanis was swimming in the flames, smiling with his eyes narrowed. He playfully spit out bubbles of fire, which made popping sounds.

It was a nonchalant smile, as if it had played a trick on a very funny toy. It stammered and wanted to say that this human woman was too timid. It was so funny that it had finally scared her and ended up like this.

But Chang Yufeng asked it to be quiet, so it didn't dare to say anything.

However, this human woman no longer cared about the filth on her body and just kept crying.

"Feel sorry……"

Chang Yufeng opened her eyes and said sorry, but it was obviously to no avail. She cried harder and harder. Although she was not crying like a child anymore, she was still sobbing violently.

Artanis also changed from being mischievous to being at a loss of fear. He looked at Chang Yufeng and at the woman to comfort her.

"Don't cry, don't cry..."

"Don't cry, don't cry... I didn't mean it..."

"I just think you humans are funny... I haven't seen a human in a long time... and you are so easy to bully..."

"No...I mean, I mean, don't cry..."

"Don't cry..."

Artanis looked at Chang Yufeng again, and Chang Yufeng glared at him fiercely. He looked at the woman again, but instead of being comforted, the woman cried even harder. Chang Yufeng coughed violently, and Artanis rushed out of the flames in a hurry. The tall flame brought with it a whirlwind, which instantly swept away the stains on the woman's cashmere sweater, and she was also washed clean by Artanis's strong wind.

"Oh...Isn't it okay for me to apologize to you? I apologize to you!"

"sorry Sorry sorry!"

As Artanis spoke, he quickly took out a small mirror and placed it in front of the woman. The woman sobbed as she looked at herself in the mirror and continued to cry.

“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…”

Artanis's huge body swept out from the flames and moved close to the woman, treating her with great tenderness and coquettishness.

"Alright, alright~ Stop crying, okay? It won't look good if you cry~"

This trick worked a little on the young lady. Her sobbing turned into wiping tears, and her light makeup was smudged. She could only slowly tidy up her manners, wiping tears while humming angrily, and let Artanis whimper and apologize in her ear.

When Artanis saw that she stopped crying, he looked at Chang Yufeng timidly, then immediately shrank into the fire, spitting out bubbles of fire and blinking his eyes at the young lady who was fixing her makeup.

"I'm sorry..." Chang Yufeng took advantage of the woman's silence and said slowly, "That wasn't his original intention... I apologize to you on its behalf..."

"Nothing..." She sniffed, her body jumping up and down like a grass seedling. She fixed her makeup, picked up the package from the ground, and put it in her arms: "It's okay..."

She looked at the bonfire again, the tears in her eyes still sparkling. She was not a crybaby...but...just now, she cried so sadly even though she knew she was being teased...

In the end, it was because the servants who followed her all died tragically. She watched them die in front of her, and experienced so many "rare" grievances. She couldn't stop the sadness of leaving home and being filled with thorns and setbacks, and she cried uncontrollably...

She didn't need to hold herself up anymore, but with everything from the past still fresh in her mind, she had to maintain her elegance.

"Its name is Artanis. It's usually very quiet, but it was a little naughty today..."

Chang Yufeng continued to explain in a helpless tone: "I'm really sorry...it should be a very docile...elf..."

Artanis quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, I am very gentle... Sorry, sorry..."

The woman also shook her head and hugged herself tightly.

"It's okay... I'm not mad at it..."

She really couldn't be angry, could she? If Artanis had any ill intentions, she would have been dead long ago...

"I have realized... my current situation..."

Her eyes gradually became confused...

"I don't have a talent for magic... My parents expected me to marry a magician or a nobleman when I was born... I learned a lot... but none of it had anything to do with magic... In such a chaotic world... without magic, how could I think of anything else? I'm lucky to be alive... If it weren't for you, I would have died in the tiger's mouth a long time ago..."

She glanced at Chang Yufeng, but Chang Yufeng didn't look at her. She only saw Chang Yufeng's profile and turned her head away sadly.

"How can I expect anything else..."

She regained her composure, became melancholy for a moment, and then calmed down.

"..."

Artanis didn't seem to understand why she said that. The bubble of fire burst in the fireworks, and he also glanced at Chang Yufeng. Chang Yufeng stopped talking. He leaned on the sword in his arms to rest and pulled his hood even lower.

He didn't answer, so she could only stop. Then she coughed, but in the end she didn't say anything...

Watching the bonfire, sleeping invaded...

Everything seemed to have returned to calm.

It was as if nothing had happened, but it was true. The two of them stopped talking. Chang Yufeng had no intention of continuing the conversation with her.

The only time he spoke to her was because Artanis had made her cry by playing a trick.

He could have said so many words so gently, but he seemed to be cold to her.

Perhaps this is what makes this man unique.

Beside the quiet campfire, Chang Yufeng slowly closed his eyes, his breath rising and falling only twice. He seemed to be half asleep, giving people a very alert feeling.

In fact, this is also a special defensive posture. Even when he is resting at night, he has to be careful at all times.

He must have been wandering in the wild for a long time.

she thought.

The poor man pierced by loneliness can only seek security from the blade...

His uniqueness became more and more obvious. His stern profile under the black hood was even more dazzling in the dark firelight.

(End of this chapter)