The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

541: Ning Bi’s Thoughts

“Don’t even think about it, my brother and I don’t believe you. You won’t fool us and you won’t get Ning Bi either. You want to hurt Ning Bi in front of us? Over our dead bodies!”

Wan Wan had known Ning Bi for years and felt she knew Ning Bi very well. She knew that Ning Bi was normally a kind-hearted girl. How could someone like that kill people for selfish reasons? It was the most ridiculous joke she’d ever heard.

Of course, until everything fell apart, Shui had thought she knew Ning Bi too.

If Wan Wan didn’t believe it, then it was even less likely Wan Cheng would believe it. Between his beloved or two men he had never met before, of course he would believe his beloved.

For Wan Cheng, Ning Bi was the kindest and most perfect woman in the world, a beautiful and harmless white rabbit. To convince him Ning Bi could kill people, that was never going to happen anytime soon.

“I don’t know them! I did nothing wrong but they’ve been chasing and trying to kill me! I don’t understand why they would do this to me!” Ning Bi cried pitifully.

Her extremely weak and helpless image tugged at Wan Cheng’s heart. He was distressed just thinking how much pain the two men were causing her. He wished he could kill them and give Ning Bi justice.

“You want to revive your dead fiancé so you were willing to sacrifice seven friends using the Soul Sacrifice array to do it. Because of you, five girls are already dead! The most damning thing is you wanting to use my sister as a sacrifice. I’ll kill you to save her!”

The Wan siblings were confused by what Juntian said. What was he talking about? Sacrifice the souls of seven friends. . . raise a dead fiancé? Could it be. . . ? Though they were stunned for a moment by what Juntian said, they immediately came back to their senses. Unless they saw it with their own eyes, they would never believe Ning Bi could do such a thing.

“Stop talking nonsense. I’ve known Ning Bi for so many years, don’t you think I’d know what she’s like? Don’t go around slandering people!” Wan Wan glared at Juntian and Tian Ya angrily. She didn’t believe a word of what they said. There was no way the pure and kind Ning Bi would do something like that.

“It’s the truth, even if it doesn’t make sense. We’re running out of time.” Tian Ya said.

If it wasn’t for Juntian’s presence, Tian Ya would have lost his patience and made a move ages ago. Why would he stand there for so long without doing anything otherwise?

At this point, Juntian was also out of patience. They were running out of time, and they didn’t know what would happen come nightfall. Would the god of death come for Feng Wu tonight? They had to kill Ning Bi now.

The siblings immediately told the guards to surround Juntian and Tian Ya upon seeing the two were about to make a move. While the guards did that, they escaped with Ning Bi.

As the guards swarmed them, Juntian asked Tian Ya to deal with the guards. He got out and ran in the direction the trio ran off in.

The Wan siblings had wanted to take Ning Bi to their house, but instead of saying anything, Ning Bi ran towards the unpopulated rural area with rough terrain. They offered to take her back to her house, but she refused.

They had no choice but to accompany her into the woods and just hope they could lose their pursuers there.

Wan Cheng had never fought against them before, but he could tell they were strong from their aura. If only one came at them, he might be able to win. But two of them together? Wan Cheng wasn’t sure he could.

Ning Bi made it difficult for the siblings because she wouldn’t go to either the Wan estate or the Ning estate. They couldn’t do anything other than follow her.

Unlike the siblings, who were just following behind her, Ning Bi knew exactly what she was doing. Her best option was to delay capture as long as possible until Shui and Feng Wu died. Once they died, her beloved would return to life.

Ning Bi didn’t care if she had to betray the whole world. As long as he lived, nothing else mattered. She didn’t need friends.

Ning Bi’s mind was very simple; she just never thought how unfair it was to other people, or how harmful it was to the friends who loved her.

She just didn’t care. She had always been the kind of girl where true love was everything. If she lost her true love, then she may as well die.

She had been heartbroken and had intended on killing herself, but ended up finding the death stone instead.

That day, she had gone to the cave to commit suicide. There were too many people at home watching her, so it wasn’t easy to think about dying, but outside it was much easier. She had been in the cave and about to commit suicide when the stone caught her attention and changed her fate.

She didn’t know why, but she felt an inexplicable urge to pick it up when she saw it. The moment she did, a huge amount of information flowed into her head, including what the stone was and how to make the sacrifice array.

She gave up on suicide upon learning she could bring her lover back and made her wish right then and there. Even though she loved her fiancé to the point of madness, she never once thought about using her family for the seven sacrifices.

She had set her sights on Feng Wu and the other girls from the very beginning. The seven of them were friends who cared about her the most after the incident. It was only natural to use such ready-made sacrifices.

Ning Bi had planned everything and got everyone to go to the mountain. Then she led them to the trap she arranged.

She had done so much, and it was obvious the plan would succeed soon. The only two girls left were Shui and Feng Wu, her two close friends from childhood. In fact, she had wanted to secretly send them off to complete the friendship between them. But she didn’t know what went wrong. Her plans were discovered and people began looking for her. She couldn’t let herself be found, otherwise it would be over and her beloved would never come back to life.

The Wan siblings didn’t know what was going on in Ning Bi’s mind. Their only intention was to help Ning Bi escape from Juntian and Tian Ya. They didn’t know their precious friendship was just a tool Ning Bi used to revive her beloved.

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They traveled as fast as they could through the forest; at one point, Wan Wan even used a teleportation scroll. They didn’t relax until reached an unfamiliar place.

“Ning Bi, sit down and rest.”

The two siblings supported Ning Bi as she sat down on a big rock.

Ning Bi sat down and recovered a lot of her physical stamina after drinking a recovery potion.

“Brother, stay with Ning. I’ll go and look around and see where we are.” Wan Wan wiped the sweat from her brow. She was tired but she was more worried about Ning Bi.

“OK, you go. I’ll take care of Ning Bi.” Wan Cheng didn’t even bother to look at his sister. His entire focus was on Ning Bi.

Wan Wan felt a little sour about that, but she didn’t say anything. Her brother treated Ning Bi better than he treated her. But just because she wasn’t jealous didn’t mean she wasn’t disappointed.

The senior she liked loved Ning Bi the most; her own beloved brother loved Ning Bi the most. With a sigh, Wan Wan explored around the path. She found a small village after walking for a while.

Once she entered and started asking the locals some questions, she realized she wasn’t that far from the capital, and that the place was a small village just outside the capital.

No wonder she had never been to there before. Wan Wan asked for directions and began heading back to her brother and Ning Bi to tell them the news about the village. As she did so, she overheard two villagers talking.

Their conversation had nothing to do with her, but when she heard the Ning family name, she pricked her ears a bit to listen better.

The Ning family they were talking about were Ning Bi’s family. What if something happened to them? Because she was concerned, she stayed and listened.

“Have you heard? All the members of Ning house have been detained. If the young miss of the main branch doesn’t show up before sunset, the members of the Ning family will be beheaded under the tower!”

“The Ning family?! But the Ning family is so powerful. No one could possibly kill them?!”

“You’re wrong. The Qui family are after them.”

“The Qui family?! But why would they want to harm the Ning family?! Did the Ning family offend them?”

The two men stood not too far from the village entrance talking animatedly. Their chatter attracted more people.

“You don’t know this but the young miss of the Ning family killed the young misses of several houses. She nearly killed the young lady of the Qui family too. Now that her actions have been revealed, the Qui family and the other families are suppressing the Ning family.

In order to kill Ning Bi, the young master of the Qui house detained Ning Bi’s parents and the relatives on her father’s side. If she doesn’t show up by sunset, those relatives of hers are all going to die. . . ”

“Is that so?! Why would the miss of the Ning family kill all those girls? It couldn’t be over a man could it?”

“Who knows. It seems the reasons for the murders are a bit involved. Except for the children of some big families, no one really knows.”

“So mysterious!”

This was the most remote village outside the imperial city. There weren’t many people and news spread slowly. If it weren’t for someone returning after selling goods in the city, they wouldn’t have known such a big thing happened.

Who didn’t like gossip? Originally there were only two people standing by the front chatting, but in just a short time three more people gathered around.

Wan Wan listened to them for while before leaving with a solemn expression on her face.

She wanted to go back to where Ning Bi was resting and relay the news, but she ended up running into someone from the Wan family after only taking a couple of steps.

“Third Miss! You’re back.” A medium build man jogged over to her. His shrewd eyes had lit up upon seeing her.

Wan Wan knew who he was. He worked with her father and was the chief steward for her family. He usually followed her father around and her father appreciated him a great deal.

“Chief Gan, why are you here?” Wan Wan was surprised to meet Gan Jui there.

“It’s time to collect rent. Ah Fei is usually responsible for doing it, but he was hit by a beast and broke his leg. The owners were worried so they asked me to come and collect in person.” Gan Jui said with a smile. There was a trace of respect in his eyes.

Gan Jui had grown up with Wan Wan’s father. He was outstanding and loyal to the Wan family and had always been the right hand man of the family head. None of the unfavored family members dare presumptuous in front of him.

Wan Wan was the daughter of the family concubine and had been favored since she was little. Gan Jui never put airs in front of her despite his position.

“I see. Mr. Gan should go ahead then. My brother and I still have things to do. We will return home once we’re done.”

Wan Wan had wanted to ask about Ning Bi, but after hearing everything about all the families suppressing Ning house, Wan Wan felt it would be a bad idea to tell Gan Jui about how she had run into Ning Bi. She felt Ning Bi would be in danger.

Wan Wan carefully checked her surroundings after dismissing Gan Jui to make sure no one was following her, then she ran back to where Ning Bi was.

Wan Wan was careful to avoid crowds, but she didn’t realize her every move had already roused Gan Jui’s suspicions. Gan Jui only paused for a moment before following her.

Wan Cheng was giving Ning Bi some food when Wan Wan came back.

Ning Bi immediately stood up to meet her.

“Xiao Wan, did you find out anything? Where are we? How far is the imperial city? They won’t find us right?” What Ning Bi feared most was being found. Her fiancé hadn’t been resurrected yet. No matter what, she could not die. Determination flashed across her face.

“Ning Bi, something is wrong. Uncle, Auntie and your relatives have been detained. The people from the Qui family took them and they say if you don’t show up by sunset, they will all be killed!” The news had concerned Wan Wan so she immediately shared it with Ning Bi.

“My parents!” Ning Bi exclaimed before her eyes rolled back into her head and she fainted. Fortunately, Wan Cheng caught her before she hit the ground.

Wan Cheng glared at his sister fiercely. “What are you doing?! How can you tell her this kind of news?! Can’t you see how exhausted she is?!”

After scolding Wan Wan, Wan Cheng fed Ning Bi a potion. He shook her shoulders gently as he whispered her name. Distress and tenderness filled his eyes.