That’s right, explosive beads!
How could she have forgotten about those?
Huang Xiaoxiao immediately ran back.
“Lin Ruiyang! Lin Hai! I’m here to help!” she shouted.
“Move aside!”
“Wait, didn’t you run away? Why did you come back?” Lin Ruiyang was anxious. Her coming back would only create more trouble.
“I came back to share hardships with you.”
Huang Xiaoxiao put on a heroic expression.
Lin Hai: “…”
Thank you, but no thanks.
Lin Ruiyang: “…”
That really isn’t necessary.
“Don’t worry, I’m here.”
Seeing that the two of them were so moved they couldn’t even speak, Huang Xiaoxiao felt extremely proud.
Go to hell!
Huang Xiaoxiao threw a Version 4.0 explosive bead into the hole with all her strength.
Boom!
A loud explosion erupted underwater.
The river surface shook as shockwaves spread outward.
At the opening in the ice, the force pushed the water upward.
Splash!
A curtain of water blasted into the air before crashing back down.
“Ah!”
Seeing this, Huang Xiaoxiao hurriedly ran away.
Lin Ruiyang and Lin Hai didn’t react in time and were completely drenched.
Cold to the bone.
Lin Hai shivered violently.
“Ah, sorry.”
When Huang Xiaoxiao turned around and saw their miserable condition, she quickly apologized.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to.”
“You—”
Lin Hai glared at her and was about to say something.
“Lin Hai, look!” Lin Ruiyang pointed at the ice beneath their feet excitedly.
“Look at wha—”
When he saw what was below the ice, Lin Hai’s eyes widened.
“They’re… all dead!”
Beneath the entire layer of ice, fish floated everywhere, turning the once-white ice dark gray.
“Let me see!”
Huang Xiaoxiao squeezed over to take a look.
“The effect is pretty good!”
They had all been blown to death.
The commotion attracted a lot of attention.
When everyone saw what had happened, they couldn’t stay calm.
Fish.
So many fish.
“Lin Ruiyang, hurry! Hurry and collect the fish!” Huang Xiaoxiao shouted.
Lin Ruiyang snapped back to reality. Seeing the situation, he ignored everything else and immediately called Lin Hai to work.
“Xu Jingtian! Zhuo Wenxuan!”
Huang Xiaoxiao shouted toward the people in the distance.
“Come quickly! They’re stealing our fish! Hurry!”
Xu Jingtian and Zhuo Wenxuan had already noticed the commotion.
When they heard Huang Xiaoxiao’s shout, they panicked.
“Brother Jingtian, hurry! Let’s go!”
The group rushed toward Huang Xiaoxiao’s location.
Lin Ruiyang and Lin Hai stood firmly in front of the ice hole.
While preventing others from stealing their catch, they also scooped up fish.
At this point, Huang Xiaoxiao didn’t care how freezing the water was.
She plunged her hand into it.
With a thought, fish continuously poured into her spatial storage.
When Lin Ruiyang and Lin Hai saw this, they exchanged a glance.
Instead of collecting fish themselves, they moved to protect Huang Xiaoxiao.
Xu Jingtian and the others finally arrived.
Unfortunately, there were too many people surrounding the area, and they couldn’t squeeze through.
They could only watch anxiously.
Zhuo Wenxuan’s eyes even turned red with worry.
“Huang Xiaoxiao! Huang Xiaoxiao!”
She shouted from outside the crowd.
“You better hold that spot! If someone else takes it, I’ll make you pay for it!”
Huang Xiaoxiao was shivering uncontrollably from the cold, but she had no intention of letting go.
Seeing her like this, Lin Ruiyang felt a little distressed.
“Maybe we should just forget it.”
Forget it?
No way.
Absolutely not.
Everything here belongs to me.
Huang Xiaoxiao silently repeated those words in her heart.
Perhaps her determination actually had an effect.
Lin Ruiyang felt as though the fish at the bottom of the river were moving faster.
Nobody knew how much time had passed.
When Huang Xiaoxiao finally felt there weren’t many fish left, she tremblingly pulled her hand out of the water.
Her hand was bright red and swollen from the cold.
“Let’s go, let’s go! We need to get back!”
Lin Ruiyang’s eyes flickered, as if he had figured something out.
He called to Lin Hai.
“Let’s leave.”
Lin Hai looked beneath the ice with reluctance.
There were still quite a few fish left.
“Come on.”
Lin Ruiyang pulled him.
The group squeezed their way out of the crowd.
“Why did you come out?”
Seeing the three of them, Zhuo Wenxuan frowned.
“Huang Xiaoxiao, was it you?”
As she spoke, she moved toward Huang Xiaoxiao as if to start trouble, just as she had threatened earlier.
“Yes, yes, it was me.”
Huang Xiaoxiao didn’t want to argue with her.
Right now, she only wanted to get home as quickly as possible.
“Ha! I knew it!”
Zhuo Wenxuan glared and opened her mouth to start scolding.
“Wenxuan, enough.”
Lin Ruiyang stepped forward and pulled her back.
“Sister-in-law’s hand is frostbitten. We need to take her back for treatment. If my second brother finds out, he’ll definitely be angry.”
As he spoke, he urged everyone to leave.
“Let go! Let go of me!”
Zhuo Wenxuan struggled while continuing to complain loudly.
“So, what if her hand got frostbitten? It’s not like I told her to do it. She’s good for nothing and only causes trouble!”
“Zhuo Wenxuan, are you part crow or something?”
Huang Xiaoxiao finally couldn’t hold back anymore.
How could this kid be so talented at insulting people?
If she weren’t young and also Zhuo Yi’s sister, Huang Xiaoxiao would have slapped her long ago.
“Huang Xiaoxiao! How dare you insult me!”
Zhuo Wenxuan was so angry she practically jumped into the air.
“Who do you think you are? How dare you insult me? Do you believe I—”
“Shut up!”
Huang Xiaoxiao snapped.
Her hand was already throbbing with pain, and Zhuo Wenxuan’s nonstop noise was driving her crazy.
Surprisingly, that single shout frightened Zhuo Wenxuan.
For a moment, it felt as though she was facing Zhuo Yi himself.
Whenever Zhuo Yi got angry, she never dared to make a scene.
After returning home,
Huang Xiaoxiao asked for a larger space.
Lin Ruiyang brought her to a warehouse.
“No, this warehouse is too small. Is there somewhere bigger?”
Huang Xiaoxiao shook her head.
“Bigger?”
Lin Ruiyang froze for a moment and looked at her.
Huang Xiaoxiao looked back with complete seriousness.
“Yes.”
Lin Ruiyang quickly nodded.
He led her to another, slightly larger warehouse.
This should be enough, right?
“It’ll do.”
Actually, she wanted an even bigger space.
But after thinking about it, she decided to forget it.
She had been busy all day and was too tired to keep running around.
When Zhuo Yi heard they had returned, he immediately set aside his work.
He came to the warehouse.
“You’re back.”
The moment he arrived, his gaze landed on Huang Xiaoxiao.
He carefully looked her over from head to toe.
When he saw she wasn’t injured, he quietly relaxed.
“Mm, you’re here.”
Huang Xiaoxiao nodded at him.
Then she raised her hand.
As soon as her hand came into view, Zhuo Yi noticed how red and swollen it was.
His eyes narrowed.
A chilling aura spread around him.
Lin Ruiyang immediately sensed the coldness radiating from Zhuo Yi.
His heart skipped a beat.
He knew this would happen.
Quietly, he moved a few steps farther away from Zhuo Yi.
Just then—
The ground began to shake violently.
Everyone looked up.
Countless fish started pouring out from Huang Xiaoxiao’s storage space.
At first, they were only small fish.
Then larger and larger fish appeared.
And finally—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Massive impacts echoed through the warehouse.
Everyone’s eyes widened like copper bells.
Th-this…
This wasn’t a dream, was it?
Lin Hai, Xu Jingtian, and the others stared in horror.
Even Zhuo Wenxuan was so shocked that she couldn’t speak.