Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor - Chapter 4889: Avoiding a Fight

Chapter 4889: Avoiding a Fight

Upon hearing this, Yue’er’s small hand holding the chicken leg froze. Someone wanted to take her back? Back where? To the Xiao family?

If she went to the Xiao family, wouldn’t her secret be exposed?

She continued munching on the chicken leg while her eyes darted around restlessly.

Xiao Junyan watched the little girl devour the chicken leg with both hands. Before long, only a bare bone remained in her grasp. With her face glistening with grease, she looked up at him and reached out again.

Seeing this, he tore off another chicken leg for her before tearing off a wing for himself.

After they finished the roast chicken, Xiao Junyan carried her to a spring to wash their faces and hands. Just then, rustling sounds came from the woods. Xiao Junyan looked up to see a massive, fierce beast emerging from the forest, flattening the undergrowth wherever it passed.

“Roooaaaar!”

The fierce beast spotted the pair by the spring, let out a thunderous roar, and lunged fiercely toward them.

“Watch out!”

Xiao Junyan exclaimed, scooping Yue’er into his arms. With a tap of his toes, he leapt off the ground, carrying her out of the beast’s reach.

“Snap!”

A tree thick enough for one person to wrap their arms around snapped clean in two, crashing to the ground with a loud crack. The fierce beast lunged at empty air, whirling around to charge at the pair again, its speed a blur like a streak of light.

Xiao Junyan, holding Yue’er, didn’t confront it head-on. Instead, he swept through the forest with her in his arms to evade.

Yue’er, clinging tightly as she was carried, feared he might lose his grip and drop her. Her little hands gripped his robe fiercely, her chubby legs clamped tightly around his waist.

Xiao Junyan’s expression darkened—not because he was being pursued by that peak-level Sacred Beast’s fierce beast, but because the chubby child clinging to him like an octopus slowed his swift movement.

“Rooooaaaar!”

The beast’s roar reverberated through the forest, accompanied by the thunderous thudding when it ran. The air thickened with the oppressive pressure radiating from its mighty cry.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Xiao Junyan sensed the sounds of other beasts running and darting through the surrounding area, some near, some far, after the beast’s roar faded.

Yue’er, nestled in his embrace, glanced around. Her beautiful eyes flashed as she said, “Many fierce beasts are gathering around us. That beast behind us called them.”

Yue’er spoke, freeing one small hand to pat his shoulder. Curiously, she asked, “Why didn’t you kill that beast? Why did you turn and run when you saw it? Couldn’t you defeat it?”

“Because you were here,” Xiao Junyan replied coldly.

If he hadn’t been protecting this little one, why would he have turned and fled? If a fight broke out, he naturally couldn’t spare a thought for this child. No matter how much of a nuisance she was, he couldn’t possibly abandon such a young member of the Xiao family, could he?

Yue’er blinked in surprise, then piped up brightly, “Just put me down. I can take care of myself.” The moment the words left her mouth, the swift-moving figure abruptly halted. The sudden stop nearly flung her forward, but she clutched his robe tightly and avoided being thrown off.

“Even if you don’t want to get down now, you have no choice,” Xiao Junyan declared. His gaze swept the area as he gathered momentum and swept her up, carrying her to the nearest tallest and largest tree.

“Sit tight. Be careful not to fall,” Xiao Junyan instructed, setting her down on a triangular fork in the tree’s branches before descending once more.

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