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Chapter 390 - Chapter 390 Chapter 386 Taoties Fallacious Reasoning

Chapter 390: Chapter 386: Taotie’s Fallacious Reasoning Chapter 390: Chapter 386: Taotie’s Fallacious Reasoning Taotie’s bravery was in no way inferior to that of the once infamous Lu Bu, known for stabbing his own foster father. The old Wild Man’s aged arms and legs were naturally no match for Taotie.

“Get down for me!”

With a roar from Taotie and a quick succession of punches and kicks, the Old Wild Man obediently flopped to the ground.

Taotie let out a smug smile, plopped his butt down on the back of the Old Wild Man, and roughly grabbed his hair, yanking the old man’s head up.

“Come on, let me take a good look at you, you old helper veggies. What kind of dog’s appearance is that? And you still dared to sneak attack the old…”

Taotie hadn’t even finished his sentence before he froze in place, staring blankly at the dirt-ridden face of the Old Wild Man with a look of utter bewilderment.

Taotie’s strange behavior caught Fang Xiaocao’s attention, who immediately hurried over with Brainless and Unhappy.

“Dad?”

Taotie exclaimed in surprise.

“Ah ha?”

Now it was Xiaocao’s turn to be puzzled.

“Dad?”

“Taotie’s dad?”

“No…”

“Isn’t Taotie an orphan?”

“Even if his dad were alive, shouldn’t he be in the Eastern Three Provinces? How did he end up in New Province?”

The shock on Xiaocao’s face was no less than that of Taotie.

It even felt somewhat surreal.

“Taotie, he’s your dad?”

Xiaocao asked dubiously, pointing at the Old Wild Man.

Taotie nodded his head: “Yes…”

And then shook it again: “No…”

Watching Taotie nod and then shake his head, Xiaocao was even more confused.

“Is he or isn’t he?”

Xiaocao asked helplessly.

“He is and he isn’t…”

Taotie muttered sheepishly.

“Do you not know whether he’s your father, you simpleton, running around calling random people dad?”

Annoyed, Xiaocao gave Taotie a smack on the head and then winced in pain, gritting her teeth.

Taotie’s skull was just too hard.

“Theoretically speaking, he’s considered my dad.”

“But until I address him differently, he could also be my big brother.”

Taotie uttered two sentences, each word of which Xiaocao understood, but when put together they seemed like a string of nonsensical gibberish that didn’t seem like coherent human speech.

Xiaocao rolled her eyes, utterly speechless, and said sternly, “Speak plainly!”

Taotie blinked and then said, “He’s Xinyan’s dad, which makes him my father-in-law. Doesn’t that also make him kind of like my dad?”

“But since Xinyan and I haven’t registered our marriage or had a wedding yet, calling him ‘big brother’ isn’t wrong, is it?”

Pfft–

Taotie’s bizarre logic had Xiaocao laughing out loud.

Xiaocao pointed at Taotie, and for a long while, she couldn’t utter a single word.

Xiaocao felt like she had been dragged into a ditch by Taotie’s strange logic.

She had just heard Taotie’s twisted reasoning, and for a moment, she hadn’t come back to her senses, still contemplating whether his reasoning was correct.

“You fool, if Xinyan heard what you just said, she would tear your mouth apart.”

Xiaocao glared at Taotie with exasperation and kicked him off Xinyan’s dad.

Xinyan’s dad seemed quite old, and with Taotie’s big frame sitting on him, he could break the old man’s back.

With Taotie no longer restraining him, Xinyan’s dad shot up from the ground, about to run away, but Xiaocao grabbed him just in time.

Xinyan’s dad turned to bite Xiaocao, who was prepared; the Blood Jade Ring slapped right onto the old man’s face.

Under the dual suppression of Xiaocao’s hypnotism and the Blood Jade Ring, Xinyan’s dad immediately became docile, squatting on the ground and blinking at Xiaocao.

“Taotie, take good care of your dad.”

“If anything happens to him, Xinyan won’t let you off the hook when we get back.”

Fang Xiaocao commanded Taotie.

“Hehe, okay.”

Taotie laughed and answered, then yanked the old man up from the ground.

“What’s Xinyan’s dad’s name?”

Fang Xiaocao asked.

“Jiang Ziyao!”

Taotie replied offhandedly.

Pfft–

Fang Xiaocao burst out laughing.

“What’s his name?”

“Say it again?”

Fang Xiaocao asked with wide eyes.

“Jiang Ziyao!”

Taotie blinked and answered.

Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s ghost-seeing expression, Taotie realized the misunderstanding and, waving his hand and laughing, said, “Princess Your Highness is mistaken; it’s not that Jiang Ziya from the Investiture of the Gods. He’s Mu Xinza, cliff as in the side of a mountain!”

After hearing Taotie’s explanation, Fang Xiaocao’s mouth twitched violently, “Great name; your grandfather truly was a naming genius!”

Fang Xiaocao gave Taotie a thumbs up.

“Princess Your Highness, why are you cursing? What’s the relevance of my father-in-law’s name to my grandpa?”

Taotie grumbled while holding onto Jiang Ziyao’s hair, ensuring the old man didn’t run off and risk having to kneel on durians as punishment from his wife.

“Isn’t your father-in-law’s dad your grandfather?”

“That seems to be true…”

Fang Xiaocao, unwilling to deal with Taotie, turned and walked away: “Once we get out, don’t forget to bury the bodies of Little Luban and Drilling Mouse.”

Taotie found a rope and tied himself to his father-in-law, fearing he might lose the old man and face his wife’s punishment at home.

After burying the heads of Little Luban and Drilling Mouse, Taotie led his father-in-law, speeding up to catch Fang Xiaocao and the others. Disdainful of his father-in-law’s slow pace, Taotie hoisted him up and ran.

Just like carrying half a pig.

Three hours later!

Fang Xiaocao and the others crawled out of the tunnel.

Looking at the blood that had long since dried on the ground, along with Drilling Mouse’s shovels that were used as weapons, Fang Xiaocao felt rather sad. She picked up the shovels, giving one to Unhappy and the other to Strength Without Brains.

“Taotie, do you know the way back to camp?”

Fang Xiaocao asked Taotie.

Without the camels, and with no Drilling Mouse to lead the way, Fang Xiaocao and her companions could only walk back to camp.

“Don’t worry, Princess Your Highness, Taotie has plenty of tricks,” Taotie reassured, pulling on the rope tied to his father-in-law.

Leading the old man in front, guiding the way.

Fang Xiaocao really wanted to capture this moment with her phone, to show Jiang Xinyan back home how Taotie was treating her dad like a dog.

After Fang Xiaocao and the others departed, a shadow shot out from the tunnel, staring at their receding figures and murmuring, “Fang Xiaocao’s luck is so good, to get both the Phoenix Gall and the Blood Jade Ring…”

“One may have the luck to snatch them, but whether one can keep them is another story. The Phoenix Gall and Blood Jade Ring will sooner or later belong to the Helan family!”

It was Helan Xiaoyue, who had disappeared!

Helan Xiaoyue had set her sights on the Phoenix Gall and Blood Jade Ring in Fang Xiaocao’s possession.

—

Yu Tianqi, dragging his exhausted body, ran back to his own camp.

“Brother?”

“What happened to you?”

Yu Linger was shocked at the sight of Yu Tianqi’s miserable state, and hurriedly ran over: “Brother, where are you hurt?”

Hearing the commotion, Ye Lingchen also rushed over. Seeing that only Yu Tianqi had returned, he paused for a moment, then seemed to grasp the situation, showing a sad expression: “Tianqi brother…”

“Did everyone else die?”

Ye Lingchen asked cautiously.

Yu Tianqi nodded: “They all died. Helan Xiaoyue might be alive. In her escape, she pushed me toward the enemy and never appeared again after that. Let’s leave cleanly; this place is too dangerous. And if Helan Xiaoyue isn’t dead, she might come back to silence us!”