Moonlit Calamity: The Dragon Girl's Life of Idleness is Broken

Chapter 231 Abnormal Situations

Long Chuqing coiled her phoenix feather whip, glanced at the man, and said, "Can I leave now?"

The man reached out and stopped her: "Not now. Although the thief we're looking for is a man, it's really suspicious that a young woman like you would be alone in this desolate, desolate burial ground so early in the morning."

"They might be accomplices of the thief, hiding here to wait for us and try to hold us back, which could allow the thief to escape."

"Heh...you're quite good at reasoning. Which eye of yours saw that I was in cahoots with that thief?" Long Chu looked displeased after listening: "It was clearly you who attacked me without distinguishing right from wrong. I only acted in self-defense."

"Hmph..." Long Chuqing curled her lips and snorted coldly: "If it were an ordinary civilian who couldn't even kill a chicken, wouldn't you be killing innocent people indiscriminately?"

The man frowned. "In that case, aren't you even more suspicious? A girl with such high martial arts skills."

"Dressed like this," he said, his eyes scanning Long Chuqing from head to toe, "and still sneaking around in the suburbs like this, you have to come back with us for an investigation. If the investigation proves you are innocent, we will let you go."

“This matter has nothing to do with me. I have other things to do and don’t have time to deal with you.”

Long Chuqing intended to walk around the man and down the hillside, but the man and his two men immediately drew their swords and pointed them at Long Chuqing.

The man's eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice, "I just said... you can't leave yet. You're now involved in a series of thefts. Before the truth is found, please cooperate with our investigation, otherwise... don't blame us for being impolite."

"Tsk tsk tsk... You're not being polite." Long Chuqing raised an eyebrow, her face showing disdain: "It's as if you can stop me from leaving."

"Speaking nonsense!" The man roared angrily at her arrogant tone. "I see you're not planning to cooperate."

"It has nothing to do with me, why should I cooperate with you!" Long Chuqing advised kindly, "I advise you to hurry up and chase after that thief, lest you end up wasting your time..."

Upon hearing this, the man frowned slightly and quickly looked towards the hillside.

Recently, the wealthy families in the city have been frequently burglarized, and today we finally found the thief's trail.

It is indeed not advisable to continue entangled with this woman here. If we miss this opportunity to make the arrest, the thief will be more vigilant next time.

But she was highly suspicious, especially since she happened to appear on the thief's escape route. He wouldn't easily believe such a coincidence could happen.

The man gripped the hilt of his sword tightly in his right hand, pointing it directly at Long Chuqing, and said sternly, "Either come with me to capture that thief and confront him to prove your innocence, or I will consider you an accomplice to that thief and arrest you both, sending you to the imperial prison."

Long Chu listened with disbelief and glared at him fiercely.

She retorted irritably, "You've got a really clever plan! You want me to be your free labor? You're dreaming!"

Then, Long Chuqing raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said with a hint of sarcasm, "Besides, if you ask me to go with you to catch that thief, aren't you afraid that I might actually be in cahoots with that thief and then take the opportunity to stab you in the back?"

Just as the two were pulling at each other, suddenly, a commotion came from the hillside, including the sound of weapons clashing and screams of agony.

Because of the distance, the sound wasn't loud, but everyone present could hear it clearly.

The man's expression instantly turned serious, and he sensed something was wrong: "Oh no, something's happened."

"Lord Lu, what should we do now?" one of the men dressed as a guard asked.

The man frowned and glanced at Long Chuqing, secretly considering that the few moves he had just exchanged with her showed that her martial arts were unfathomable.

If he left now, neither of the remaining two men would be a match for this woman, but he had to go up and see what had happened.

"What are you looking at!" Long Chuqing glared at him and crossed her arms in front of her chest.

"What are you hesitating for? Are you going to wait until they're all dead before you go to help? Even if you stay here, you can't beat me. It's just a waste of time. I don't care. I have plenty of time."

After a moment of contemplation and weighing the pros and cons, the man glared at Long Chuqing again.

"Don't let me run into you again, or I'll arrest you. Let's go."

"Wow... and you've been arrested?" Feng Yu said casually, "You must have grown up eating garlic! You're not that old, but you've got quite the big mouth."

Fei Feng clicked her tongue lightly: "Tsk... Young people, you know! I understand, that's what makes them so energetic and vibrant!"

"By the way, Qingqing, are you leaving?"

"Wait a minute..." Long Chuqing took two steps forward, bent down and picked up the hidden weapon that the masked man had thrown earlier.

"This hidden weapon is exquisitely crafted and small, shaped like a burning sun, and sharp on all four sides."

But why would the thief, knowing he was being pursued, still try to escape up the more difficult hillside?

Could it be that a trap has been set ahead?

Seeing that Long Chuqing was staring straight ahead, Feifeng asked, "Qingqing, do you want to go up and take a look?"

Feng Yu said, "Okay, let's go see what happened."

The sounds of clashing weapons and shouts from ahead had not subsided. Long Chuqing felt something was amiss; if there was only one thief, it would be impossible for him to cause such a commotion.

So she put away the hidden weapon and decided to follow them to see what was going on.

Continuing past the mass grave, after crossing a small ridge, a strong stench of blood and decay hit us again, mixed with a strange, sweet aroma.

Upon closer inspection, it was yet another mass grave, piled high with bones and rotting corpses. The air in the valley was thick with miasma, much worse than the previous one.

Looking in the direction of the sound, one could see that the guards were fighting each other like madmen, wielding swords and knives.

“They have completely lost consciousness.” Fei Feng said in a solemn tone, “In my opinion, they have most likely inhaled the poisonous miasma that permeates this place, which has caused them to fall into a hallucination.”

“Look over there…” Feng Yu said, “It’s that man from earlier.”

Looking in the direction Feng Yu pointed, the man in official robes from earlier was standing not far away.

He looked anxious as he tried to stop the guards from killing each other.

However, how could he possibly withstand those unconscious guards on his own? They would attack him indiscriminately.

The man had to fend off attacks from his subordinates while carefully executing his own moves to avoid actually harming them.