At this point, Ali could hardly believe her own eyes. She had never expected Lan Ling to come and rescue her.
If not for what had happened with her daughter, she would have been very happy living in the Flame Demon Tribe. Even though she had to work alongside everyone else, sewing clothes and doing other chores, it was still far better than idly wasting her days in the Chimera Tribe.
In her relationship with Lan Ling, she had always placed herself in an extremely humble position, hardly daring to hope for anything.
So, after being betrayed by her own daughter and falling into Gou Li’s hands once again, she had already given up inside. She was not even particularly afraid, because the greatest sorrow comes when the heart has already died. Her own daughter had pushed her into despair.
She had never imagined that Lan Ling would really come to save her.
In an instant, whether it was overwhelming joy or excitement, every emotion flooded into her heart, and Ali fainted on the spot.
Lan Ling walked over to the maid and roughly stripped off her clothes.
The Rakshasa maid stood there in a daze, trembling all over. As her clothes were torn away, she fainted, whether from fear or shock, even she did not know.
Ignoring everyone else, Lan Ling carefully lowered Ali from where she was suspended and wrapped her scar covered body in the clothes.
Only then did Gou Li recover from her complete shock.
“How did you know about this place? Apart from the Chief and me, no one knows it exists.”
Lan Ling sneered.
“That’s only what you think. In front of enough gold coins, everyone opens their mouth.”
Gou Li immediately drew her sword and said coldly,
“So what if you found this place? You’re only throwing your life away.”
Lan Ling stepped back as Suo Mo walked in, while Duo Duo and Duo Long stood guard outside.
When Gou Li saw Suo Mo, she cried out,
“Lan Ling, have you gone mad? You’re sending everyone here just for one lowly woman?”
It was rather strange that this was what she focused on.
Then she said coldly,
“Suo Mo, are you really going to help Lan Ling commit evil? Don’t forget, I used to be your mistress.”
Suo Mo replied,
“Sometimes, doing something evil is done for the sake of justice. Of course, that’s not my reason. My reason is that Lan Ling is my Chief, and I must obey his orders.”
Then Suo Mo drew his sword and charged at Gou Li.
Three moves.
After only three exchanges, Gou Li’s sword was knocked from her hand.
Previously, Duo Duo and Duo Long had fought Gou Li together and still needed more than ten moves.
Now she had only managed to endure three.
Certainly, Suo Mo was extremely powerful, but more importantly, Gou Li’s fighting spirit had already collapsed.
“Ah…”
Gou Li cried out repeatedly as Suo Mo used brute force to dislocate the tendons in all four of her limbs. She immediately collapsed to the ground, completely unable to fight.
The suffering she had endured over the past few days had made her lose some weight.
Even so, her figure remained astonishingly voluptuous. Compared to before, her curves seemed even more pronounced.
Suo Mo sighed helplessly before walking out.
He knew he was helping someone do wrong.
Whatever Lan Ling intended to do to Constantine’s woman could hardly be called justice.
But at a time like this, who could still separate right from wrong?
…
After Suo Mo left, only four people remained inside the cave, the unconscious maid, the unconscious Ali, Lan Ling, and Gou Li.
The cave had been decorated luxuriously, with animal skin carpets even covering the floor.
Lan Ling slowly walked towards Gou Li, looking down at her curvaceous figure.
“What are you doing? Don’t come any closer. Don’t come any closer…”
Gou Li screamed.
Yet, for some unknown reason, the look in her eyes burned brighter and brighter like flames.
Lan Ling stopped before her and looked down from above.
“The thing I dislike most is your tail. Better get rid of it.”
With that, Lan Ling swung his sword.
“Ah…”
Gou Li let out a miserable scream.
The tail, the symbol of the Rakshasa people, was cut off cleanly at the base. While in Rakshasa City, Lan Ling had discovered that many noble Rakshasa women had already removed their tails in order to look more like humans.
It was truly absurd.
The entire Rakshasa territory looked down upon the Near Human Race, treating them like two legged livestock.
Yet these noble Rakshasa women willingly removed their tails just to resemble beautiful human women.
This reminded Lan Ling of the period after the Qing Dynasty conquered the Central Plains, when everyone was forced to shave their heads and wear queues.
It was not the relatively acceptable braided hairstyle often shown on television, but the ugly money tail queue, with the entire scalp shaved except for one tiny braid no thicker than a rat’s tail.
The purpose was to make everyone forget their former Han identity and traditional clothing.
Ironically, even the Qing emperors themselves thought the money tail hairstyle looked ugly. They wore much thicker queues and no longer shaved the tops of their heads completely.
It was a perfect example of saying one thing while doing another.
Once a demon’s tail was cut off, it did not bleed.
Without it, her waist and hips looked even more graceful.
Lan Ling then lifted Gou Li’s body, pressed her onto the table, and once again…
…
Gou Li’s cries echoed from inside the cave.
Outside, Duo Duo and Duo Long exchanged glances, while Suo Mo had already walked far away.
Duo Long said,
“Constantine is probably going to lose his mind.”
Duo Duo nodded.
“He definitely will. He’ll be absolutely furious.”
Duo Long asked,
“If we win, is our Wild Horse Tribe really going to completely submit to the Flame Demon Tribe? Accept… someone like him as Chief?”
Duo Duo sighed.
“What choice do we have?”
After a while, Duo Long said,
“Brother, that woman’s voice doesn’t sound right. Is she screaming in pain, or…?”
Wild Horse Tribe Chief Duo Duo sighed.
“Good looking men really do have all the luck. Constantine has truly been humiliated this time.”
An hour later, the four of them rode away on griffins.
They rescued Ali, took Constantine’s wife away tied up, and also carried off the unconscious maid.
…
They carefully returned to the Flame Demon Tribe through the gaps in Constantine’s army.
Lan Ling found it difficult to look at the wounds covering Ali’s body because he feared the guilt weighing on his conscience.
After waking up, Ali gazed at him with deep affection, her eyes filled with admiration and love, making him feel even more guilty.
When Ali had first been captured, Lan Ling had never intended to rescue her.
It was only because Constantine had held back, and Lan Ling wanted to provoke him into launching his attack as planned, that he had decided to save her.
She had suffered these days entirely because of him.
Looking at her trusting gaze, Lan Ling gently stroked her cheek.
“Don’t worry. I’ll find a medicine that won’t leave a single scar on your body.”
Ali nodded obediently.
Dina then carefully applied medicine to all of Ali’s wounds, cursing under her breath while tears streamed from her eyes.
…
After Lan Ling left the Black Wolf Cave with Ali and Gou Li,
a small dark figure emerged from a nearby mound of earth.
It was both a pet and a person.
A Mo Tribe member, one of the rarest races in the Savage World.
They were less than two feet tall, even shorter than dwarfs, with pointed heads.
They were both one of the strongest races in the Savage World and one of the weakest.
That was because among every ten thousand Mo Tribe members, one peerless genius would appear, becoming an extraordinarily powerful Beast Speaker capable of controlling birds and beasts.
The overwhelming majority, however, were incredibly weak.
Yet it was precisely because of this weakness that they survived.
They could live on berries, leaves, and roots, posed no threat to other creatures, and, most importantly, their meat tasted terrible.
Every Mo Tribe member was born cheerful and simple minded, completely lacking cunning. They were naturally entertaining, so many eventually became pets.
Constantine’s wife, Gou Li, had one such Mo Tribe pet named Jiji.
When danger approached, Jiji quickly hid inside the cave and witnessed everything that happened.
His mistress had once again been taken away by the bad man.
And that culprit was Lan Ling.
Once he was certain it was safe, Jiji hurried through the forest.
He had to tell his master Constantine, even though Constantine never liked him very much.
The journey from Black Wolf Cave to Constantine’s military camp was more than three hundred miles.
Jiji was only about fifty centimetres tall, with extremely short legs. Although he ran as fast as he could, he still travelled very slowly.
The Savage World was also filled with dangerous beasts.
Fortunately, the Mo Tribe possessed their ultimate defensive weapon.
Terrible flatulence.
It worked much like a skunk’s spray, except far more foul. Anyone who smelled it was almost certain to faint.
The journey was so long, and after getting lost several times, it took Jiji seven days and seven nights to cover the three hundred miles.
By the time he finally reached Constantine’s camp, he was immediately captured.
“I’m the Chief’s wife’s pet. I’m Madam Gou Li’s Jiji!”
Jiji struggled desperately.
Unfortunately, his luck was terrible.
He had wandered into Alfonso’s camp.
The Ankara Tribe soldiers had no idea Gou Li owned such a pet.
All they knew was that every Mo Tribe member was valuable and could be sold for more than ten gold coins.
After all, Mo Tribe members were born entertainers and pets.
So they planned to lock Jiji in a cage.
Jiji immediately shouted,
“The Chief’s wife is gone. Lan Ling has taken her away. Hurry and let me see the Chief. We have to rescue my mistress!”
…
At this moment, only one day remained before the barrier surrounding the Ghost Domain disappeared.
Constantine was holding his final strategy meeting.
“We absolutely must not act rashly. Continue the siege. Lan Ling is full of tricks. Do not fall into his trap.”
“So even after the barrier disappears, remain calm and do not attack recklessly.”
“I firmly believe that if we continue surrounding them for another month, two months, or three months, Lan Ling’s so called Flame Demon Tribe will collapse without a fight.”
“Victory will belong to us.”
Since his daughter had become the Little Barbarian King’s concubine, Constantine held the greatest authority, and everyone naturally followed his orders.
Just then, a small black figure rushed into the tent.
Jiji shouted,
“Master Constantine, something terrible has happened. Lan Ling rescued Ali and captured Madam. Hurry and save her!”
…
What is the saddest thing in the world?
Having your wife taken away.
What is even sadder?
Having the same thing happen a second time.
What is the saddest of all?
Being the last person to find out.
By now, the entire camp, all thirty thousand allied soldiers, knew that Constantine’s wife, Gou Li, had once again been taken away by Lan Ling.
Constantine stood frozen as though struck by lightning.
The news hit him so hard that his mind went completely blank.
His ears rang as he struggled to comprehend what had happened.
Only after a long while, seeing the sympathetic looks from everyone in the tent, did he slowly regain his senses.
He finally understood what had happened.
Lan Ling had rescued Ali and taken Gou Li away.
Constantine felt his chest churn violently, almost coughing up blood.
“Lan Ling, I’ll… kill you!”
Using every ounce of his rage and hatred, Chief Constantine roared those words.
Without another word, he rushed out of the tent.
Everywhere he went, he heard the soldiers talking about it.
After flying to the Black Wolf Cave, he found the torn silk clothes left behind.
Only his wife wore silk dresses.
There was no doubt.
She had been taken away.
The humiliation and fury inside Constantine defied description.
The pride he had once felt because his daughter had become the Little Barbarian King’s concubine vanished completely.
Forget remaining calm.
Forget avoiding Lan Ling’s trap.
Forget maintaining the siege.
All of it was thrown completely out of his mind.
After returning to the camp, Constantine hovered in the air atop his griffin and roared,
“At dawn, the moment the Ghost Domain barrier disappears, the entire army will charge in immediately. Kill Lan Ling and every foreign soldier.”
“Attack, attack! Lan Ling, I will tear you to pieces!”