Chapter 9: 1.009 Robbery?

“Zheng!”

The wind whistled past, and Lie Yan felt a sudden chill against her face. She turned her head just as a sleeve arrow went *puchi*, pinning itself firmly into the tree trunk beside her ear.

Lie Yan reached into her bosom and pulled out a firearm. Aiming the barrel at the lunging creature, she narrowed her eyes with a cold sneer and pulled the trigger. *Boom!* The shot startled the owls in the forest, sending them fluttering up toward the canopy of the dense woods.

Her movements were fluid and without hesitation. The thing that had lunged at her slammed heavily into the ground; before it could even let out a single wail, it was stone dead.

The firearm Lie Yan had modified was no joke; its lethality was such that even a charging bull would be forced to drop to its knees!

With a flash of movement, Lie Yan had already reached the donkey cart. She reached out to lift the curtain and pulled the lunging Huo'er into her arms.

Huo'er opened his hazy eyes, looking pitifully as if he hadn't woken up yet. He puffed out his little cheeks and kept clamoring, "Mother, Mother."

"It's alright, it's alright. Just a few little bugs disturbing our sweet dreams."

The opponents clearly hadn't expected her to have such a trick up her sleeve. There were three men and two women; one of the men was already lying on the ground, and from the looks of it, he wasn't going to make it.

"It's you." Lie Yan recognized at a glance that the woman was the same one she had encountered in the small restaurant this afternoon. At that time, she had walked past Lie Yan while leading two children; it turned out she had been plotting something sinister even then.

Lie Yan gave a light snort. "Here to rob us?"

The woman shouted angrily, "So what if we are? Don't think you can escape today! Eldest Uncle, my husband was killed by this poisonous woman, you must seek justice for the two of us!"

The leading, burly man roared with extreme fury, "You stinking wench, you actually dared to kill my second brother! I'll tear you apart today if it's the last thing I do!"

Lie Yan raised her firearm. Realizing its power, the man hurriedly dodged. After dodging, he saw clearly that Lie Yan's thin, cold lips were curled in a slight smile in the night, showing no intention of firing.

She was playing him! The man's hair stood on end with rage. He clenched his fists and roared, "I'll fight you to the death! Third Brother, go!"

Another man charged immediately after him. Both men clenched their fists simultaneously, striking out a gust of powerful wind that swept across the ground. The soil flipped and churned to the sides like an earth dragon rampaging underground, rushing straight toward Lie Yan's feet.

"Bad people, don't bully my mother!"

"Huo'er!" Lie Yan was startled. She failed to catch him, allowing him to rush out. A layer of silver light covered his tiny body.

Huo'er sat cross-legged in mid-air. His two small hands clapped together, and instantly, it was as if he were wearing a pair of small blue silk gloves; a thin layer of light blue ice crystals grew upon his palms and the backs of his hands.

Chanting a string of incantations, Huo'er suddenly barked, "Bad people, take this!"

"Huo'er, Huo'er! Go Huo'er!" Doubao lay on the back of the fat parrot, jumping up and down in excitement, causing Little Fatty to flap his wings and cry out with difficulty, "Don't jump, stop jumping! I can't fly!"

Huo'er's tiny body fell toward the two men like a cannonball. He bounced over six feet high, and his pair of small fists became like beating drums—*dong dong dong dong dong*—as he relentlessly pummeled the two men's faces.

"Good, good, good!" Doubao was extremely excited, clapping her hands and cheering in a milky voice, "Huo'er is so great! Hit them, hit them, hit them! Flatten them! Teach them not to come robbing without eyes! Teach them not to interfere with Doubao's sleep! Hit them, hit them, hit them!"

"Ah!" Seeing their men being beaten, the other two women hurriedly reached out to grab Huo'er.

Seeing this, Lie Yan fired two shots directly from her firearm, knocking them both to the ground.