Chapter 39: Secret Rescue

“There’s one book spirit out in the open. Its rank is second-tier, three-star. Its race is goblin—very weak. I can crush it with one hand.

There’s another book spirit that hasn’t appeared. It might be hidden. Those ordinary people aren’t a problem.”

Mo Xiao briefly analyzed the enemy’s combat strength. They were all just small fry.

She didn’t know what kind of mindset those people had used to write a goblin book spirit. Too strange.

“But what do we do after saving them? Just let them out and that’s it?”

Bai Yuan had a lot to consider. This wasn’t an ordinary rescue.

They didn’t even know what faction those people belonged to. If that faction found out, it would be bad.

The kidnapped people might also be interrogated. She didn’t want to put herself in danger.

“Don’t worry, Master. They won’t be able to see me, much less know who saved them.”

Mo Xiao patted her slightly puffed little chest, her small face full of confidence.

Unless it was a god, no one would be able to know it was her who acted.

The power of time wasn’t something people in this world could write. The same went for spatial power.

The settings spirit authors in this world could write all fell within the domain of the Creation God’s power. But the authority of time wasn’t in the Creation God’s hands.

Neither was the authority of space. The authority of fate, however, was. That was why there were quite a few prophets in this world.

Her little face suddenly twitched slightly. She already knew why she’d been exposed.

It must have been the Creation God seeing that the world’s fate trajectory had become disordered, then tracing it back.

In her previous life, she hadn’t understood divine power, so she’d forgotten to prepare a means to shield against fate power in her backup plans…

“What’s wrong? Mo Xiao, your expression doesn’t look very good. Maybe we should forget it?”

Bai Yuan saw Mo Xiao’s little face darken and thought it might not work.

She immediately prepared to give up. Without great power, she didn’t want to take too much risk to save these strangers.

“No… I’ll be right back.”

Mo Xiao knew the matter couldn’t be undone and stopped regretting it. She’d face whatever came. At least for now, the two gods hadn’t made a move themselves.

A clock pattern flickered in her golden vertical pupils. The clock’s hands stopped at twelve o’clock.

A ring of invisible force spread out. Mo Xiao’s petite figure transformed into a ball of ink light and shot out.

A pitch-black longsword suddenly appeared in her small hand. At the same time, a dozen identical ink swords floated up behind her, slicing through the air and cutting across the guards’ necks.

The thick armor was completely unable to block the longswords. The longswords returned with a whistle, not a drop of blood on them.

At the same time, Mo Xiao traced a dragon shadow through the air that swept across the goblin’s body.

The longsword in her hand flew out several sword lights that pierced through the two spirit authors behind the convoy, slicing apart the prison carts along with them.

After doing all this, she stepped on the ground. Her petite body walked with dragon steps and instantly returned to Bai Yuan’s side.

Exactly two seconds had passed. Bai Yuan blinked and looked in confusion at Mo Xiao, who stood before her without having moved.

Hadn’t she said she’d be right back? Wasn’t this completely without movement?

“What are you looking at, lousy master? Even if I’m very cute, don’t stare at me all the time, okay?”

Mo Xiao gave Bai Yuan a roll of her eyes. Her master really was quite adorably clueless. Just looking at her made you want to bully her.

“Pfft~ So shameless. Who says they’re cute themselves? You’re so full of yourself.”

Bai Yuan pursed her little mouth and turned her little head away with a slightly red face.

Even if Mo Xiao really was very cute, she wouldn’t praise her for it.

This little thing was too shameless. Once praised, there was no telling how arrogant she’d become.

“I was looking at why you hadn’t set off…”

“Urgh! Aah!!”

Splat! Splat!

Before Bai Yuan could finish, she suddenly heard screams and cries of terror from afar, mixed with the sound of vomiting blood.

Her heart jolted. She couldn’t be bothered to finish her sentence and hurried to the hole to look.

She saw that the previously intact convoy now had many people fallen, and the spurting lines of blood were extremely striking.

“What happened? How did that goblin explode? Mo Xiao, was that you!?”

Bai Yuan was so shocked she nearly lost her voice. But Mo Xiao had been by her side the whole time just now. When had she acted?

“Of course it was this dragon who acted. How about it? Do you know how impressive this dragon is now? Hurry up and worship me, lousy master, haha!”

Mo Xiao loved seeing her master’s shocked expression. Very cute and adorably clueless.

“In your dreams. No matter how impressive you are, you’re still my book spirit. You want me to worship you? Too much!”

Bai Yuan took a long while to come back to her senses. Hearing Mo Xiao’s voice, she still found her extremely punchable.

She reached out and pinched this little loli who stood with hands on her hips, looking so smug. Impressive she might be, but her personality was terrible.

“Hmph! Stupid master covets my beauty and wants to pinch my face. No pinching. Let go!”

“I… I’ll spank you, you’re so arrogant!”

Bai Yuan’s little face was red with anger. Her other hand came down on Mo Xiao’s little butt.

Smack~

“Hmph! Perverted master. I’m ignoring you.”

Mo Xiao felt deeply humiliated and thrilled. She didn’t talk back anymore and went to the hole herself to check on the convoy.

She should have finished killing them all just now. Why weren’t the bound people escaping yet?

Over at the convoy, the bound people finally reacted. They stayed frozen for a long time before daring to push open the cages and walk out.

“What’s going on? Were we saved?”

“Seems like we were saved, but we don’t know who saved us. What do we do now?”

“We can’t go back to Will City. Those guys definitely know our faces. Going back might bring trouble down on us. Let’s go to the nearest Leixar City!”

“Dad, are we not going back?”

“We’re not going back. Will City right now is hell. Not much better than the front lines. Little Bao, let’s follow them. If we go back, we might even implicate our savior.”

“I don’t know who saved us. Too powerful. I didn’t even see a shadow, and those guards just suddenly died.”

“Keep your voice down. It’s not safe here either. There are bandits raised by the city lord. Let’s hurry…”

The bound people whispered among themselves for a while, then silently disappeared from Mo Xiao’s sight. Their words had all been heard clearly by Mo Xiao.

Bandits raised by the city lord? The Polk family was this brazen?

“How is it?”

Bai Yuan had heard faint murmuring from over there, but not completely clearly. She didn’t dare poke her head out to observe either, so she could only wait for Mo Xiao to finish looking.

Mo Xiao left the hole and slapped her small hand hard above it, making the dirt above fall and cover the hole.

“No problem. Those people aren’t too stupid. They didn’t go back to Will City. They were probably kidnapped by those Wild Dog Gang people. The purpose is unknown, but it might be s*ave trading.”

Mo Xiao shrugged her petite shoulders. Although she didn’t know the full picture, she could guess some of it.

Those Polk family people really wanted money more than their lives. They raised a bunch of thugs in the city to go after commoners, treating the city’s people as their own goods.

At the same time, they’d raised a bunch of bandits outside the city. That was probably the truth behind the devouring spirit rumors.

Used to intimidate city people and keep them from easily leaving Will City, and also to scare off spirit authors, further monopolizing the spirit ink business.

And to cover up their s*ave trading, making it convenient to transport slaves. Truly a good scheme.

“That’s good then. Let’s not get involved. Take a detour and enter the forest from another direction?”

Bai Yuan let out a sigh of relief. Mo Xiao had acted without anyone knowing. No one knew it was her who’d done it, so she shouldn’t be targeted.

“Yeah, let’s take a detour.”

Mo Xiao nodded in agreement with her master’s suggestion. At least her master was still quite cautious. Cherishing your own life was the only way to live longer in this cruel world.