A couple of miles North of the village that Luc currently is residing in, a forest could be seen. This forest was not a typical forest that was filled with a sea of trees but filled with bamboos. On the other side of the bamboo forest was a village, a village that was currently covered in flames and the sound of human cries could be heard throughout the village. The scent of blood was strongly present in the village since dead corpse was everywhere. Not only the bodies of adults could be found, even the bodies of dismembered childrens were present. Not even the childrens were spared, one can tell whoever had done this sort of deed was evil to the bottom of their hearts. People like these can’t even be considered as humans anymore, but as Demons that live off human flesh.

Standing in the center of such horrific sight, there were two figures that could be seen. Both of these figures were drenched in blood. The unusual thing about theses two figures was that they didn’t exactly have the same figures as a normal human. Although the body was like humans, the distinct features were that one of them had a male-like body, razor-sharp claws that were two-feet long, protruding out between their knuckles on both hands. The other figure had deadly attractive female features, extremely sharp nails that were six-inches longer than normal nail lengths, and harder than steel itself. Not only did these abnormalities look intimidating, but there was a dark, sinister aura permeating from them as they were drenched in fresh blood.

Meanwhile, the male-figure with razor-sharp claws protruding from his knuckles was munching on a child’s limb, the female-feature was looking towards the bamboo forest with an extremely cold glint of annoyance, “ There are some survivors left. Why must you not kill them at the same time? This only makes it more annoying for me,” said the female-figure in a tone of disdain.

“Hehehe, it is always boring to have the prey within your grasp but there is always more joy when you hunt down the running prey,” said the male-figure. As he smiled, there could be multiple rows of sharp teeth that could be seen.

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Supposedly, the bamboo forest was usually extremely quiet to the point where one can hear the sound of a needle hitting the floor. Not because the bamboo forest lacked living creatures, only because none dared to make noise. Yet, at this moment, there were six figures that could be seen running through the bamboo forest hands in hands. Each of the figures had cuts and bloody wounds all over their bodies, except for two little girls that only had scratches all over their body.

While running little girl’s voice could be heard and accompanied with her voice was fear as she breathed heavily for air, “Elder sister Mei Hua I’m tired, I can't run anymore,”. The exhausted little girl was not even at the age of 9 years old and yet she looked extremely pitiful in her current condition. Tattered clothes that were covered in dirt, a scar that ran across her innocent, lovable face which made her look like a miserable beggar.

“Listen to me, little Ling’er, I am tired as well but we have to keep running or else bad people will catch up and capture us. So we can’t stop here, please hang on for a bit longer.” replied back another girl that was wearing the same tattered clothes that were covered up in the dirt like Little Ling’er. One can tell the both of them had struggled to get to this point, however, the only clear distinction between the two was that Mei Hua’s face did not have any scars on it but scratches only and a body size that had clearly grown-up more than Little Ling’er. With Mei Hua’s body size, she seems to be around the age of 12 years old, she was holding onto Little Ling’er hand’s tightly as they ran along with the four other figures.

While running, another voice could be heard coming from one of the members of the group of six, “Little Ling’er, we cannot stop now. Although, both of your parents had stayed behind in the village to hold back those two evildoers. We have a duty to protect you two since both of your parents have entrusted us the safety of you two in our care. Our lives were also saved by them so this is the least we can do to pay back their kindness, and also as seniors, we will never let anything harm the both of you,” said a brawny man, the brawny aged man was clearly leading the group as they were running away from their village but were entering deeper into the bamboo forest.

“But Uncle Fang, if father and mother stayed behind then how come we aren’t helping them out as well?” Little Ling’er said with confusion, because if her parents were going to be fighting against bad people then shouldn’t they help out as well?

Hearing what Little Ling’er had said, the brawny aged man called Uncle Fang was lost for words as to how he should explain why they couldn’t help out her parents. “Little Ling’er, the situation at hand is too dangerous for us to handle. This is why your father and mother had taken the responsibility to stay behind because they could handle the two evildoers, meanwhile, I am to take you both far away from there.” Uncle Fang said, along with a sour expression.

“Un,” Little Ling’er had simply nodded to what her Uncle Fang had said because she fully believed in her uncle. Her uncle would not lie to her since he said that her father and mother could handle the two evildoers then they can handle the situation. Little Ling’er would have no further complaints and would listen to her Uncle Fang.

While the group of six was still running through the bamboo forest Little Ling’er was looking around as they ran. Suddenly, Little Ling’er had bumped into her elder sister Mei Hua. Rubbing her head, she was about to voice out as to why did they stop; however, before she could, a hand had already covered her mouth. The hand that sealed her mouth came from one of the other adults within the group, to be exact, it was the only female adult within the group while the rest were men.

Looking upwards, the female that was now holding tightly onto Little Ling’er and Mei Hua had let out a smile to the innocent Little Ling’er. As Little Ling’er had returned a beautiful smile to the female adult, but behind the female adult smile was fear, fear that had filled up her heart to the brim as to what was to happen to their group. The female adult had returned her gaze to the front of the group, looking at the leader of the group, Uncle Fang. Little Ling’er had followed the female adult’s gaze and had taken notice that there were two figures that were only ten-meters in front of them.