Thinking about the dreadful consequences drinking coffee could have, Sofie made a silent promise to never drink something as dreadful as coffee.
"What are you doing?" Seemingly confused by suddenly seeing Sofie stand still gazing into the empty air in front of her with face full of dread. Xiao Yao stopped in her tracks and waved her hand in front of Sofie's eyes, attempting to wake her up from whatever she was going through at the moment.
Yang Meng also noticed something was wrong and turned around and looked towards the frozen Sofie, quietly wondering what weird things were going through her mind this time around.
"Coffee… H-how scary… to take away people's ability to sleep!"
Muttering something to herself, Sofie finally returned to the real world and quickly walked in front of Yang Meng and Xiao Yao.
""…""
Yang Meng and Xiao Yao had no idea what was going on and looked quietly at each other before making their way in the direction Sofie disappeared in earlier.
…
The railing of the flower viewing platform surround most of the platform itself, with a few openings connecting with the staircase leading up to the flower viewing platform.
At this moment, Sofie was quietly leaning against the railing of the platform, while gazing into the endless ocean of flowers in front of her stretching far into the horizon.
Behind her an exhausted Yang Meng and lively Xiao Yao showed up.
"Why… Hah… Why do you walk so quickly…?"
Breathing out heavily, Yang Meng started to wonder how big the flower viewing platform was… He could swear that he had walked for more than 20 miles already! At least it felt like it…
"…"
Sofie quietly turned around and looked at the exhausted Yang Meng, with a slightly awkward smile on her lips.
Walking quickly? I just walked a little faster than normal… and it hasn't even been 5 minutes since we left the coffee shop. How come you are so exhausted already…? Back on the moonlight mountain, I could definitely tell you were doing way better compared to now!
Not understanding the way Yang Meng's body worked, Sofie decided to throw the question to the back of her mind and instead turned her head to look at Xiao Yao.
Sadly, to her disappointment. The person in question did not seem to notice the pair of eyes locked tightly onto her and she was instead staring in another direction. Seemingly having spotted something interesting happening a little further away from them.
Sofie glared intensively at Xiao Yao for a short period of time, before losing patience and looking in the same direction Xiao Yao was looking in.
…
A little away from Sofie, Xiao Yao and Yang Meng a big commotion was taking place as a few of the senior disciples had come to the place to help calm down the commotion that had occurred and hopefully find out what caused so many disciples to run around so panicked.
One of the senior disciples by the name of Chi Ken made his way through the panicking crowd of relatively younger disciple and together with a few other senior disciples, soon managed to calm down the panicked crowd.
"What is happening here? Why did everyone suddenly start panicking all of a sudden?"
Asking one of the younger junior sisters who were panicking earlier, Chi Ken tried to be as calming as he could, while asking the junior sister in front of him.
The girl in question looked like she had been traumatized by something and even though Chi Ken had managed to calm her down, she was still shaking constantly.
"T-th-there was s-something in the g-girl's bathroom at t-the coffee shop…!"
Stuttering to even get words out, the junior sister in front of Chi Ken seemed to remember something horrifying all of a sudden and started shaking violently.
"It's okay, you are safe now! We will find out what it was that happened in the girl's bathroom, just stay here and calm down for now…"
Seeing the little junior sister shaking so violently in front of him, Chi Ken felt anger burning deep inside of him as he swore to make whoever was responsible pay the price for what they had done.
"I will go in and check the situation Sunny and Side, follow me."
"" Yes, senior Chi Ken!""
Standing up, Chi Ken called out to two of his friends as he slowly made his way towards the direction of the coffee shops bathrooms. Not in his wildest dream imagining what kind of horror was in wait for him.
…
Dark. That was the first thing that came to Chi Ken's mind when he entered the girl's bathroom.
The magic tools which normally gave off light seemed to have malfunctioned and there was something blocking the few windows present, so like any other experienced disciple, Chi Ken cast a quick illumination qi spell to light up the surroundings. The illumination qi spell was simple and something most of the disciples from the scorching sun sect learned at some point in time, Chi Ken as a senior disciple, was of course skilled when it came to such a simple qi spell.
""Hiiii!""
With the place now being illuminated by the qi spell, Sunny and Side let out a yelp as they quickly turned around and ran out of the bathroom in sheer fear of the thing in front of them.
Even Chi Ken, an experienced senior disciple felt his legs go soft from the sight in front of him… But he could not run! The fearful look from the junior sister he had helped calm down earlier quickly popped up in his head and filled him with courage.
Channelling the qi from his cultivation base, which was solidly laying at the peak of the qi condensation realm, Chi Ken brought out a magic weapon and slashed down at the foul creature in front of him with all his power.
The creature itself reacted quickly and dodged out of the way before using its own qi, which looked like dark murky water glowing ever so slightly in the dark bathroom, to launch an attack at him.
Chi Ken quickly dodged out of the way, not daring to be hit by the foul waters the creature threw at him, but this was all a part of the foul creature's plan as it quickly made its escape before Chi Ken managed to recover and launch another attack to block its escape path.
"What in the world was that thing…"
Chi Ken lamented as he looked back towards what he assumed was the nest of the creature, a slight feeling of fear growing the more he looked, but the bright future of his sect and juniors weighted more on his mind than the fear of the foul creature, he must find and defeat the foul creature for his sect and juniors…!
…
Sofie, Xiao Yao and Yang Meng was a little speechless when they arrived at the scene. Apparently, some foul creature had built a nest out of some female disciples' underwear in the girl's bathroom at the coffee shop and at some point, had even tried to "assault" some of the junior sisters when they entered its nesting ground. Luckily, the junior sisters had managed to run away in time before anything happened.
"W-what happened to Yu- the foul creature then…?"
Xiao Yao asked the senior who went in after the foul creature emotionlessly.
"I found the foul creature in its nesting ground and immediately tried to defeat it, but it reacted quickly and dodged my attack while throwing some kind of foul waters at me, using the time I spent dodging the nasty stuff to escape…"
"… Thanks, senior Chi Ken… I hope you successfully find the creature in the future…"
Seeing the many emotions going through the senior brothers face, while he was talking to Xiao Yao, Sofie turned her attention in another direction.
"Chicken…?"
It had been too long since she had last gotten something to eat…