<span><span><span><span><span>However, before leaving, she raised her head and let out amanding, piercing scream which instantly rippled through the whole battleground. "ng... "


    <span><span><span><span><span>On hearing the piercing scream, all magic beasts on the battlefield, both injured ones and unharmed ones, quickly retreated into the forest like a tide.


    <span><span><span><span><span>Before long, not a single magic beast could seen on the battlefield, except for those dead ones on the ground.


    <span><span><span><span><span>Yun Wu looked in the direction of the phoenix''s receding figure. When she withdrew her gaze, a relieved look appeared on her face.


    <span><span><span><span><span>How could she not feel relieved when that little thing that kept calling her mom was no longer around?


    <span><span><span><span><span>She leisurely turned around and nned to return to Luo City.


    <span><span><span><span><span>But the moment she turned around, she saw hundreds of thousands of troops in front of her, eyes of every one of whom were fixed on her.


    <span><span><span><span><span>In those eyes gleamed surprise, curiosity and puzzlement. They were all sizing her up...


    <span><span><span><span><span>Being watched by so many people, Yun Wu furrowed her eyebrows.


    <span><span><span><span><span>At this moment, an officer followed by a couple of soldiers walked up to her.


    <span><span><span><span><span>"May I ask you something, Lady?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>Yun Wu flicked a glimpse at the man who was barely in his thirties, crossed her arms across her chest and said in anguid, nd voice, "What is it?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>"Who are you? Was it you who stole the egg of the phoenix?" the officer queried in amanding voice, sizing her up with piercing eyes.


    <span><span><span><span><span>It sounded more like an interrogation than a query.


    <span><span><span><span><span>Yun Wu peered at the clothing that officer was wearing and believed that he was probably a deputy general.


    <span><span><span><span><span>She curved her lips in a half smile. "Deputy general, why am I having this feeling that you''re not ''asking'' me but ''interrogating'' me? What''s going on here? You want to interrogate me on this battlefield? Did I kill anybody or burn anybody''s house? Or did I rob your family members?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>On hearing this, that deputy general frowned and his face slightly darkened.


    <span><span><span><span><span>"Lady, in a circ.u.mstance like this, you''re still in the mood for joking? Do you have any idea how many residents and our soldiers got killed because of what you did?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>After hearing this, Yun Wu lifted her eyebrows, but a sh of apathy crossed the bottom of her eyes.


    <span><span><span><span><span>Because of what she did?


    <span><span><span><span><span>Had she done anything? Even if she had, given her manner and style, it was not a deputy general''s ce to interrogate her like interrogating a prisoner, not to mention that she hadn''t done anything.


    <span><span><span><span><span>Besides, she didn''t know about these things at all.


    <span><span><span><span><span>"So deputy general is telling me that I should have a sad look on my face because of all those people who got killed, aren''t you? It is just that there''s one thing that I don''t quite understand. Did those people''s deaths have anything to do with me?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>"Did their deaths have anything to do with you? Do you know that the very reason why they were killed was because you stole the phoenix egg?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>Yun Wu pretended that light had suddenly dawned on her. She raise her eyes and looked at that deputy general. "Oh! Now I understand. So deputy general is saying it is those who stole the phoenix egg that deserve death penalty!"


    <span><span><span><span><span>"But I want to ask deputy general <span><span><span>–<span><span> how can you be so sure that I was the one who stole the phoenix egg? I mean, even you and these hundreds of thousands of troops couldn''t steal the egg from the phoenix. You actually think that a little girl like me, whose arms and legs are so thin, somehow managed to steal the egg from that divine beast?"


    <span><span><span><span><span>"Does deputy general by any chance think that all these troops of yours are just a bunch of good-for-nothing fatheads who can''t evenpare with a little girl? Or does deputy general think that I''m a reincarnation of some G.o.d who is more powerful than all these troopsbined? If thetter is the case, that will be a hugepliment I don''t deserve, and I will feel ttered and honored."