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Chapter 352 - 319: The Blind Hunter

Chapter 352: Chapter 319: The Blind Hunter

The room was dark, even darker than outside.

In the utter darkness, Kudaka Yuusuke could clearly hear his heart beating "thump-thump."

"Little buddy, where’s the injured person in your mouth?"

When he noticed that the other party remained silent, the old man curiously asked,

Right, where is the person I was carrying?

Just as he turned around, the weight on his back was gone too.

His whole body relaxed all at once, as if there had never been a Little Huahua.

"This... uh, strange..."

"What’s strange?"

The old man suddenly asked creepily beside Kudaka Yuusuke, startling him, who quickly explained.

"Well, old man, I’m going to tell you, but please don’t be scared."

"I’m an old hunter; I won’t be frightened. Please, go ahead."

Yuusuke sat down tremblingly on a chair nearby and said:

"Just now, I was, like, kidnapped by a strange girl..."

"Which girl?" the old man pressed, "How come I didn’t see her?"

"It’s not about which one, it’s that kind... the kind that you instantly get scared of, knowing she’s not like normal girls... She first seduced me, then even said she’d be my beast of burden in the next life... said I have a good body, pfft, who doesn’t know that?"

"Pfft~"

The old man couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.

Kudaka Yuusuke: "?"

"What are you laughing at? Is what I said funny? Thank you!"

There was no helping it; the rule was mentioned.

[When the villagers laugh at you, you must always say "thank you."]

"No, no, no, I just remembered something happy; uh, right, old man, I also kept cattle and horses, as you know, horses and cows."

"Stop!" Yuusuke interrupted the old man: "Not cattle and horses, I meant being a beast of burden!"

"Oh, oh, oh, go on, this strange girl you mentioned... was she pretty?"

Whether she was pretty or not...

Kudaka Yuusuke pondered for a moment, then nostalgically said:

"It’s not about whether she was pretty or not! She really was one of those rare kinds..."

"Ss, her eyes were like mung beans, her nose like a garlic bulb, her teeth sharp, really cute... Sadly, it was too dark at the moment, I couldn’t clearly see her chest.."

"Pfft!"

The old man tried hard to hold back his laughter, but sorry, he couldn’t contain it when it mattered.

Damn!

"Hey! You’re too much! Thank you!"

’Smack!’

Yuusuke slammed his hand down on the table, feeling insulted.

"I’ve tolerated you for a long time! That girl claimed to be Little Huahua! I carried her here and then ’smack’—she was there one second, and the next, she was gone!"

"Wait! What did you just say?!"

The old man interrupted Yuusuke’s words and lit the oil lamp in the room.

When Yuusuke saw the old man’s face clearly, he was startled.

Because the old man’s face had no eyeballs, just two deeply sunken eye sockets.

It turned out that the old man who had let him in was blind.

"What did you just say? The girl’s name?"

"Called, called Little Huahua or Miss Huahua..."

Kudaka Yuusuke weakly replied.

For the first time in decades, an expression appeared on the old man’s uneventful face, his cheek muscles twitching.

"Let’s go! Take me! Let’s find Little Huahua!"

Ah?

"No, I finally escaped, why should we..."

"My daughter is also named Little Huahua!"

Ah!

What the hell?

Was that girl really his lost daughter?!

"Okay, okay! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll take you there right now!"

"Ah! My daughter has been missing for decades, I never thought... One day I would still get to see her again!"

Kudaka Yuusuke’s footsteps froze in place...

Missing for decades?

Are you freaking kidding me?

I was just suspecting that Huahua was a bit off, but with that revelation, isn’t it obvious now?! An old, cunning ghost!

I don’t care who it is, Yuusuke certainly doesn’t want to be the scapegoat leading the way.

"I don’t know if she’s your daughter, but she claims to be Huahua, around fifteen or sixteen years old. She said that this morning her father took her up the mountain, then she got lost on her own. It’s been over a decade, and she still looks like a little girl. If you want to find her, go by yourself!"

Before Kudaka Yuusuke had even finished speaking, the old hunter was already in tears.

"It’s my fault, my fault! I knew we weren’t supposed to go up that mountain, but I didn’t listen! This is my retribution, everything I’m suffering now is retribution!"

Once he calmed down, the old man also knew that going up the mountain now wasn’t a wise choice, so he just collapsed on the ground, mumbling Huahua’s name continuously.

...

"Brother! There’s another one ahead! I’ll take you to handle him!"

Huahua walked proudly in front of Jiang Xiao, leading the way.

"Riding on coattails" perfectly described her demeanor.

Jiang Xiao obliterated the first ghost and Huahua was overwhelmingly shocked.

By the tenth ghost, she had decided that she was the queen of this mountain.

Hahaha, anyone who disagrees, come out and face your death!

"Alright, after I kill this one, I won’t kill anymore."

"What? Why not? Isn’t it good to remove harmful spirits and defeat demons for the people? Just to clarify, I—I am not the ’harmful spirit’, okay? I, Huahua, am actually a good ghost."

These creatures aren’t very strong, was Jiang Xiao’s conclusion after killing the last ghost.

"Or should I say, they don’t have any rules specifically against a chosen one like me, which is why they are so easy to kill?"

Huahua found it hard to understand the words Jiang Xiao murmured to himself.

She only knew this man was extremely powerful; she certainly wouldn’t last a second against his wooden sword.

"So brother, what do you plan to do now?"

"Uh, I wanted to ask you actually. What do you think I should do now?"

Both: ...

"Maybe, you should try going down the mountain? I remember you initially planned to descend, right?"

Oh~

Jiang Xiao slapped his forehead and realized.

"Right, I did plan to go down the mountain just now. Lucky you reminded me, little ghost. Otherwise, I was even thinking about crossing this huge mountain to see what’s on the other side."

"The other...side? Why?"

Huahua was confused, wondering why this man had such a strange idea.

Jiang Xiao glanced at Huahua leisurely and then said with pride,

"You can tell you haven’t read much."

Huh?

"Haven’t you heard? Beyond that mountain, beyond the sea, there are a group of Smurfs. They are lively and smart, mischievous and clever, they live freely there..."

Huahua: ....

Good news: The person is a fool.

Bad news: This fool seems to have a few screws loose.

In the end, Huahua politely declined Jiang Xiao’s invitation to go down the mountain together.

Because her roots were on the mountain, once she passed the stone monument at the foot of the mountain, she would vanish into thin air.

After a night spent defeating demons, when Jiang Xiao headed back down the same path he had come up, it was beginning to dawn.

Kudaka Yuusuke had seen the monument too...

Of course, he didn’t take it to heart.

Strange?

People in these villages should be up early, so why does this place look so lifeless?

Not even a shadow of a person, nor the crowing of a cock or barking of a dog to be heard.

Instead, he saw a big black dog, which, upon seeing Jiang Xiao, didn’t bark but just stood up and stared straight at Jiang Xiao as he walked past the front door.

Jiang Xiao’s verdict was: This dog is no good. It doesn’t even bark at people.

’Thump, thump, thump~’

He casually knocked on the door of a house that looked quite prosperous, made of mahogany.

"Anyone home? I come from the Great Tang of the Eastern Lands, making my way to the Western Skies to worship Buddha and seek scriptures, passing through this area and hoping to stay for two nights."