Let's just drift through life together in this quick transmigration story.

Chapter 861 The Substitute Bride (23)

Cailing was still sleeping when she suddenly felt a tightness in her chest and abruptly opened her eyes.

Xiong Bufan let go of her hand. She knew that covering someone's nose was the fastest way to wake them up.

By the dim candlelight in the room, Cailing could see Xiong Bufan's face clearly. She didn't feel scared at the moment, but only felt warm and familiar. "Xile, you're back."

Xiong Bufan looked at Cailing and said calmly, "Don't look for me anymore. Just pretend Wang Xile is dead."

Cailing hugged Xiong Bufan, "No, you are my child."

I finally found you, and I won't let you leave me again.

Xiong Bufan reached out and pushed her, but she didn't budge. "I'll come see you."

Cai Ling ignored Xiong Bufan and just kept hugging him, leaving Xiong Bufan at a loss.

Kongkong felt that Xiong Bufan was someone who responded to gentle persuasion but not to force, because those who had tried to fight Xiong Bufan before had basically all met with bad ends.

Inside the house, there was a warm and cozy scene, a rare moment when Xiong Bufan didn't take action.

The big cat slept for a while, then heard the sound of horses' hooves again. Reluctantly, it opened its eyes, left the room, and went to the lookout. There it was, a group of riders rushing toward it at high speed.

Thinking of the bandits' ferocity yesterday, Big Cat scrambled towards Xiong Bufan's room, banging on the door incessantly, "Boss, something bad has happened! Something bad has happened! There's an enemy attack!"

I knocked on the door for ages, but there was no response from inside.

The big cat was both anxious and nervous, and kept knocking on the door, while the sound of horses neighing grew closer and closer.

The situation had reached an extremely tense point. Big Cat now knew that Xiong Bufan was unreliable, so he started calling out to the beggars in the courtyard.

Some of them went with the big cat, while others continued to knock on Xiong Bufan's door, trying to get him to come out and help them, just like yesterday, to wipe them all out.

Big Cat: "Stop knocking, hurry up and hide."

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground, he deduced that the bandits had reached the door. Big Cat, carrying his small bundle, had already hidden in the cellar used for storing grain in winter, hoping to escape unscathed.

Some of the bolder beggars, knowing they couldn't escape, took the large knife they had received the day before and guarded their homes.

But only a few were brave enough to stand up. In the end, only two out of seven or eight people stood up, holding knives and threatening the bandits, "Don't come any closer, or our boss won't let you get away with this."

The bandit leader was a one-eyed man, his other eye covered by a black cloth. "You killed my brother, so you should have expected this outcome," he said, before slashing at the beggar with his knife.

The beggar pulled out a knife to defend himself, but was killed on the second blow.

They are skilled at extortion and robbery, as well as hand-to-hand combat, but they have no advantage in real fights with knives and guns.

The two beggars who were blocking the bandits were quickly defeated, the fence of the courtyard was kicked down, and the bandits entered the small courtyard that Xiong Bufan and the beggars had painstakingly built.

Hearing footsteps outside, the big cat dared not let go of the hand covering its mouth, afraid that it would make a sound.

The others in the cave did the same thing; they didn't want to die.

The bandits paced back and forth in the courtyard, and whenever they saw a place where people could hide, they would immediately stab them in with their knives, and they would not even spare a pile of straw.

He even took a knife and kept sweeping under the bed when he saw it.

Xiong Bufan sat in Cailing's room, feeling somewhat uneasy, but he simply assumed it was because he was hungry and had raided Wang Shilang's kitchen again to find something to eat and fill his stomach.

The footsteps outside kept coming, so the big cat didn't dare to go out.

The cave seemed to be getting more and more uncomfortable, and it was getting harder to breathe, but the big cat didn't take it seriously and continued to cover its mouth.

A faint heat emanated from the ground, and the beggars hiding in the cave dared not come out; they truly did not want to die.

Hiding in the cave gives us a chance to wait for the boss to return, but if we rush out now, we'll really die.

For the first time, Big Cat missed Xiong Bufan terribly and hoped she would come back soon to save him.

Xiong Bufan stole food from the kitchen, but the more he stole, the more uneasy he became. In the end, he decided to take the remaining food from the kitchen back to his house outside the city.

On the way back, the stars in the sky were disappearing, and it seemed to be the darkest hour before dawn.

Xiong Bufan hurried back, and after flying over the city wall, he saw a place with flames shooting into the sky, which seemed to be the location of temporary accommodations.

Thinking that there were still people alive inside the house, Xiong Bufan ran even faster.

It was indeed his own house that was on fire, but Xiong Bufan wasn't stupid, so he didn't rush into the fire directly. Instead, he grabbed a bucket and searched for water, poured the water on himself, and then rushed into the fire to see if there were any survivors.

Revenge can wait, but saving lives is of utmost urgency.

The big cat was hiding in its burrow, already unconscious.

The entrance to the burrow began to collapse, revealing the firelight outside. The big cat was completely unaware of what was happening outside.

Even if he knew, he couldn't make a sound; he could only quietly wait to die.

Xiong Bufan's house was almost burned to the ground, but he still couldn't find anyone in the fire. He could only call out to people around the house, "Big Cat, Er Gouzi, Peipei, where are you?"

If you're inside, just say something. Is anyone else here?

After shouting for a long time, Xiong Bufan's voice became hoarse, but he still didn't hear anyone answer him.

A house can be rebuilt after it burns down, but it's a pity about the things inside.

Xiong Bufan now regrets not having the ability to bring rain, because if she could, she wouldn't need to carry buckets of water over to put out the fire; she could simply cast a spell and rain would fall from the sky.

It was already morning when the fire was extinguished. Xiong Bufan didn't dare to sit down and rest. She picked through the ruins with a small stick, because the last thing she wanted to see was human corpses.

Two charred corpses were found in the house. Based on the smell, Xiong Bufan determined that they were two people who were on lookout duty.

When Xiong Bufan learned that a beggar had died, she was completely devastated and kept scratching her head. No matter how much time passed, she could not accept the fact that her partner had died under abnormal circumstances.

People in this world don't have souls after they die, so even if Xiong Bufan wanted to find their souls, there's nowhere to look for them.

The only thing we can do now is to look for anyone who has been burned.

Xiong Bufan hoped that as few people as possible would die, but that was simply impossible.

As they ventured deeper into the house, Xiong Bufan found two more charred corpses, but neither of them belonged to Big Cat. A sliver of secret hope remained in Xiong Bufan's heart.