I Was Contracted By The Empress As An S Rank Familiar Novel - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Sleeping While Walking

Shirley was astonished when she saw the blazing phoenix disappearing soon. “Ah, what’s wrong with this blazing phoenix? Did you hit it?”

Then, Shirley turned her gaze to Pan Liang. She did not believe that he was the one who hit the phoenix.

Pan Liang collapsed on the ground and said, “Do you think I can hit the blazing phoenix with my strength?”

Shirley shook her head and said, “I don’t think so. Since you’re already awake, let’s continue to explore. This time, you have to leave on your own.”

Pan Liang slightly regretted waking up. It would have been better if he continued to pretend to sleep. He could not resist Shirley’s sausage-like mouth.

“Shirley, how does your mouth feel?”

Shirley looked at her mouth through the mirror she was holding.. She even poked it off and on.

“You terrible guy. There must be something wrong with the food you gave me. Why didn’t you tell me in advance?

“Believe me. I’m going to beat you to death?”

Shirley raised her magic staff in an attempt to hit Pan Liang.

Pan Liang dodged her attack. “What’s the big deal? Look at your mouth that swelled up like a sausage. It’s so sexy. Pfft, hahahaha…”

Shirley chased after him. “I’m going to beat you to death. Since I’m sexy, why are you laughing? If you continue to laugh, I’ll turn against you.”

After chasing for a while, Pan Liang grabbed her staff and said, “Don’t worry. It won’t last long. You’ll be fine in a while. Pfft, hahahaha…”

Shirley was speechless. “Stop laughing.”

Pan Liang covered his mouth and tried hard to suppress his laughter. “Okay, okay. I won’t laugh anymore. Let’s continue moving forward. Maybe we can find treasures inside.”

At the mention of treasures, Shirley nodded and said, “Alright. If you find any treasures this time, they’ll all belong to me. Otherwise, I’ll beat you to death.”

“Alright, alright. They’ll all belong to you. I don’t want anything.”

With that, she nodded her head in satisfaction.

After walking forward for a short while, Shirley heard someone crying.

The shrill cry made one’s hair stand on end. She turned her eyes to Pan Liang.

“The voice is so scary. Is there anything bad?”

Pan Liang nodded and said, “Of course, there are bad things. Otherwise, how can the secret realm be protected?

“Don’t worry about the voice. Just walk straight in. Do you know what your mission is?”

Shirley nodded. “The mission is to find the inheritance that belonged to the owner of the secret realm and bring it back to the mercenary union.”

Pan Liang chuckled. “The mercenary union has such a good plan. What will you get in return?”

“The mercenary union will pay 100,000 gold coins, but they said that the inheritance of the secret realm needs a particular bloodline. Those who give out missions have this bloodline.

“The mercenary union won’t stop us from trying to accept the inheritance, but what happens after we accept it has nothing to do with them.”

Hearing this, Pan Liang understood why no one wanted to simply seize the inheritance and run away. It turned out that the inheritance needed a special bloodline.

Pan Liang pointed ahead and said, “There’s only one road ahead for the time being. Let’s just go straight. This place feels like a cave.”

Shirley rolled her eyes at him. This was clearly a cave. Why would he think that it felt like a cave?

After walking for a distance, Shirley was faced with another difficult choice as she encountered another fork in the road.

Given that Pan Liang was awake at this moment, she thought she did not need to make a decision on her own.

She looked at Pan Liang, but he turned his head and looked elsewhere.

It was useless to look at him now. His perception was not that strong, so he would not know what was in the cave.

However, there were some footprints on the ground, which seemed to be left by the group of people who had rushed in at the beginning.

Shirley looked at the footprints and said, “Let’s choose this road that fewer people have traveled on. If we choose the road that has been traveled a lot, I’m afraid that we won’t be able to keep any treasures even if we find them.”

Pan Liang nodded. “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”

Just as the two of them walked into the passage, a person appeared behind them. This person was Third Brother Wolf, who teased Shirley at the entrance.

At this time, Third Brother Wolf was not as reckless as he was outside earlier. His eyes revealed a sense of shrewdness.

Third Brother Wolf touched his chin and said, “Since you just came in, there shouldn’t be any danger. If you go any further, it’ll be dangerous. Hehehe. When both of you are dead, I can take your corpses back to claim credit. I can also get an advanced magic staff. What a way to kill two birds with one stone.”

In fact, it was other princesses who sent Third Brother Wolf here, and he was not the only one who was sent here.

Originally, those princesses and princes were evenly matched in the competition. Although some of them had a greater advantage, it was not impossible to defeat one another.

The princesses and princes could not accept Shirley’s sudden appearance. If they let Shirley grow up, they might as well quit the game straight away.

Shirley continued to walk in the front while Pan Liang kept dozing behind her as he only had a short sleep last night. When they almost arrived at the secret realm, Pan Liang stayed alert as he began to come across a lot of people.

At this moment, he could not stand his sleepiness. Even in this gloomy place, he felt like sleeping.

In the past, he would not have been able to fall asleep in such a situation. It might be because of the system that he could fall asleep no matter where he was.

Pan Liang pulled Shirley and said, “Shirley, I feel so sleepy. Can I sleep for a while?”

Shirley blushed and said, “I don’t think that’s okay. You’re my familiar. We shouldn’t do this.”

Pan Liang was confused. “What are you talking about? I’m saying that I’m sleepy and I want to sleep. At this age, your mind is already full of nonsense.”

He then looked at Shirley and thought, ‘You have a flat chest, yet you want to sleep with me, huh? Dream on.’

Looking embarrassed, Shirley said, “Go ahead and sleep. All you do is sleep. Can’t you see what we’re doing now?”

“Fine. I’m not sleeping. I’ll go with you.”

Pan Liang then staggered forward with Shirley. Not long after, Shirley noticed that something was wrong with him.

Why was he not saying anything? Why was his body swaying all the time?

Shirley took a closer look, only to find that he had actually fallen asleep. What a fantastic guy! He was actually sleeping while walking. This was not something an ordinary person could do. She was ready to call him the god of sleep.

She shook Pan Liang, but Pan Liang did not respond at all.

“Could this be sleepwalking? I heard that one can’t wake the person who’s sleepwalking. Sleepwalkers can only wake up on their own.”