"Grandpa Nuo, I'm so sorry! It's all my fault! It's all my fault that this happened! I shouldn't have left home and I shouldn't have let them leave..." The young lady sobbed inconsolably as her tears streamed down her face.
She was filled with nothing but guilt as she blamed herself. She felt that she was the one who had caused this to happen to the old man.
If she hadn't run away from home, she wouldn't have run into these people.
If she had listened to Grandpa Nuo and let him kill these people off, then they wouldn't have come back to take revenge.
She never thought that her first time away from home and into the greater society would end up teaching her such a painful lesson.
"You're just a useless old man. How dare you try to fight an Indian martial artist? You were destined to die,” snorted Reilo coldly as he looked down at the old man's body lying in a puddle of his own blood, then kicked him aside.
His gaze fell back onto the young lady.
"Young lady, are you still going to fight? If you don't want to die, then be good and come along with us. Don't worry, we'll take good care of you," said Reilo with a faint smile. His words sounded rather lecherous.
He had to admit that this young lady was indeed rather pretty. She had such smooth skin and a good figure, so she met their definitions of a beauty.
This trip could get very boring, so if they had a woman with them, then they'd have a lot more fun.
"So many of you bullying one young lady? Don't you guys think you've gone too far?" an unfriendly voice quietly rang out.
Reilo followed the voice to see a Chinese person with black hair and black eyes staring unkindly at him.
It was Lu Yan-Xi.
"Oh my, someone from China? I heard that your entire team perished the last time you guys came to the Amazon rainforest. You guys have short term memory? You're sending yourselves here to die again?" The team from India immediately burst out laughing arrogantly when they saw Lu Yan-Xi.
The two countries were very close geographically, so the martial artists from both sides often came into contact with one another. But that was also why they had a lot of clashes as well.
The last outburst 30 years ago was a result of the accumulated unhappiness between the two countries' martial arts circles.
In the end, the Chinese side lost, with half their team dead in the depths of the forest.
"Humph! 30 years ago, your team was the despicable one who went against the rules and secretly hid a grandmaster among your team mates. If your team hadn't done that, we wouldn't have suffered such severe casualties!”
Lu Yan-Xi had heard about what happened back then.
Now that this man had actually brought it up, Lu Yan-Xi became so angry that she gritted her teeth and clenched her fists.
"Miss, you should watch your words. Our mighty Brahma was very lucky, and managed to breakthrough to grandmaster stage during the fight. How could you say that we went against the rules? If you're formidable enough to break through to grandmaster stage and kill all of us off, we would admit defeat," said Reilo with a disdainful smile.
"Well, whatever, I can't be bothered to talk to you. I'd advise you to stop being a busybody, otherwise, don't blame me for being nasty to a woman!" Reilo's gaze turned icy as his sinister words sounded threatening.
"Why, you..." Lu Yan-Xi's face was red from being so angry.
But just before Lu Yan-Xi could explode in fury, Kong Ming walked over to stand in front of Lu Yan-Xi and looked at Reilo.
"It's fine if you don't want us to be a busybody in your matter, but you've disrupted our peace, ruined our table of food and dirtied our clothes. Surely you owe us an explanation for all this, right?" said Kong Ming in a low voice.
Kong Ming and Lu Yan-Xi had been collateral damage in the fight earlier.
A table of delicious food had been overturned, and blood from the old man had sprayed all over their bodies too.
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