Chapter 40 - Arc 1.6 The Chief's Daughter

The little rabbit and Yi Lei Fang have been playing cat and mouse for twelve minutes now.

Yi Lei Fang was way beyond pissed. She was about to throw a fireball at the little furball but Xiao Bao kept screaming in her head, "OOC! Marital world! Mission will fail! Mission will fail!"

Yi Lei Fang gritted her teeth. She is already exhausted and hungry. She wanted to stop and rest but she can't stop now! She decided to make the little fur ball her food!

Then straight ahead, a bright light blinded her vision. After adjusting her eyes, Yi Lei Fang came to a halt. She observed her surroundings trying to find any clue where the little rabbit was hiding.

The place is a decent open area, enough to set up a camp. It's surrounded by several big trees and a few bushes. In front of her stood a big tree with moss and mushrooms growing on the tree trunk. The green grass contain spots of yellow, blue, and purple Sisyrinchium growing.

When Yi Lei Fang heard movement from the bushes next to the big wide tree, she took out a dagger and slowly approached the sound. Yi Lei Fang was five feet away from the bushes and was about to continue moving towards the noise until she felt someone intensely staring at her back.

Her eyes immediately hardened and her expression turned scary for a moment. Who was it?

Yi Lei Fang whipped her head around trying to find the source of the prying eyes. She moved her gaze up at a certain tree where she felt the intense stare coming from... but she did not see anyone.

Yi Lei Fang released her mental power and still did not see any shadow behind the tree. She furrowed her brow in deep thought, wondering if it is just her mind playing tricks due to exhaustion.

I could've sworn there was someone else there, She had a difficult time thinking that it was nothing.

While Yi Lei Fang was focusing somewhere else, a little grey rabbit popped its head out from the same bush. It turns its head to Yi Lei Fang direction and once the creature that she was not paying attention, it gently hopped out of the bushes.

The little rabbit hopped silently while crossing to the other side, slowly passing in front of the big tree.

With a quick swishing sound, a dagger blocked the little rabbit. If the little rabbit had taken another hop, who knows what might have happened!

The little rabbit shivered and quickly headed back into the bushes behind him but before he could even jump to its only hope to safety, another dagger flashed by and blocked its path again!

This time the dagger was one centimeter close to the front of its hind legs! This woman is crazy!

The little rabbit turned to the side to face the crazy woman with an evil smile on her face. The little rabbit's hind legs started to shake and would take each step backwards toward the tree whenever Yi Lei Fang stalked forward.

The little rabbit's pitch black eyes kept staring at the third dagger in Yi Lei Fang's hand! Her eyes were on the rabbit while her hand was busy playing with the dagger!

The creature kept backing away from Yi Lei Fang until its back touched the big wide tree. Each foreleg spread out making the rabbit stand up like a "T" against the lower tree trunk.

While Yi Lei Fang walked towards the rabbit, she could see its hyperventilating and their pitch black eyes were showing fear.

Yi Lei Fang telepathically spoke to Xiao Bao, "Xiao Bao, do you think this rabbit is odd? It does not act like a normal rabbit."

"Goddess, I think you are seeing things."

*Thud* 

The little furball kneeled on its hindlegs and used its forelegs to pray for mercy.

"Goddess, you are not seeing things. Repeat, you are not seeing things!"

Yi Lei Fang rolled her eyes. Of course she is not seeing things! The little furball is right in front of her, begging for mercy!

She rubbed the bridge of her nose, feeling frustrated whether to kill and cook the little rabbit or set it free? Suddenly, she didn't have to think anymore when her stomach grumbled.

The woman shrugged.

"Okay, I'm killing it." She told Xiao Bao.

"Yay, food!"

When Yi Lei Fang heard Xiao Bao's exciting statement, she almost tripped over but thank goodness she caught her balance before making a fool out of herself in front of her soon-to-be food.

However, it was too late as the little rabbit already saw it and almost laughed at Yi Lei Fang but knowing that if it made a wrong move, she would probably torture it first before killing it. So the animal kept its mouth shut and pretended nothing happened. Still, that did not change the fact that the Death Reaper is making her way over!

The only last resort is to use its special technique. With full determination to live on, the little rabbit looked up at Yi Lei Fang and gave her its biggest technique that can defeat the whole world—the puppy eyes.

Yi Lei Fang almost choked on her saliva. She was flabbergasted at the little fur ball's tactics.

Ah… she was still hungry even after witnessing its sad look.

She crossed her arms and used one hand to pinch the space between her brows. She looked down at the little fur ball staring back at her with those big, round puppy eyes and its cute twitching heart shaped nose.

Yi Lei Fang inwardly sighed. She looked up at the sky, slightly shaking her head in disbelief, "Why do I have a soft spot to cute things?" She then switched her vision back to the little rabbit. "Hey you, the little fur ball. Can you understand me?"

When the little rabbit heard himself being called "little furball", it really wanted to stomp its feet and point at her in protest but seeing that she have the upper hand, the little rabbit can only inwardly curse at her family's 18-generations for thousands of times over!

Still he did not want to anger the big buddha in front of him. Therefore, he reluctantly responded to Yi Lei Fang's question with a nod.

"Good, let's make a deal. Since I used up most of my energy chasing after you; therefore, you are responsible to find food for me as well as herbs. Here are the herbs I need."

She took out a piece of paper from a pouch tied on her waist and handed it to the little rabbit, who quickly held the paper to read it.

Yi Lei Fang was quite surprised. She is now convinced that the little rabbit has human intelligence.

"Deal? If you disagree then the one who will be in my stomach is you."

The threat sent shivers down the little rabbit's spine. It quickly nod its head like a pecking chicken.

"Okay little furball, lead the way."

The little rabbit couldn't take the name calling anymore so it lifted up its head to look at Yi Lei Fang and started twitching its nose.

"Um… Asura, Xiao Bao, do any of you guys knows what the little furball is saying?" She absolutely had no clue. It wasn't like the woman was gifted with talking to animals.

"Sorry Goddess, I don't speak rabbit, I only eat them."

Yi Lei Fang: "..."

Asura rolled his eyes at the stupid dragon and began translating to Yi Lei Fang. "My lady, the rabbit is saying its name is Li Wei."

"So the little fur ball is a male." She looked down at the rabbit who had a proud face on. "Little furball, would you rather become rabbit stew or lead the way?"

The little rabbit, Li Wei, felt his pride has been trampled on by the crazy woman. He inwardly cried due to the unfair treatment and the horrible nickname that is unjustly bestowed upon him.

After Yi Lei Fang and Li Wei left, a figure appeared behind the tree, the same tree that Yi Lei Fang was staring at!

"How interesting." Said the mysterious black figure. His penetrating eyes followed the female in a white hanfu until every inch of her disappeared from his sight before he vanished from the spot.