Chapter 624: Mountain Chicken

Upon hearing the knocking, Di Shu sharply turned his head, revealing a puzzled expression.

"Di Zhu and Di Gou leaders, you two stop fighting," Di Shu said softly. "Something seems wrong."

He quickly thought it over. Even though a team had been stirring up various Shengxiao to rebel yesterday, today they had launched the Tian Ma Shi Ke starting from 11 a.m., which ended at 1 p.m. Afterward, no one could possibly participate in any more games or recruit new Shengxiao.

Who could be knocking…?

Was it someone overlooked from yesterday?

Everyone fell silent and turned toward the door.

"Knock knock knock knock knock."

The persistent yet faint knocking continued, making everyone frown.

Only Di Hu’s expression changed completely. He had to admit, Yang Ge was truly something else—no one else could have anticipated this.

"Open the door. Our team’s eighth member is here," Di Hu said with a smile.

Hei Yang glanced at him skeptically, then slowly walked to the door and pulled it open.

It was a female Di Ji.

She had a slender build, and her intricate patterns made her look somewhat like a partridge, despite being called Di Ji.

"Good evening, everyone," Di Ji said with a sweet smile, though a vein bulged on her forehead.

Di Yang looked at her in confusion, then glanced back at the others in the room. "Is she a friend of anyone’s?"

"Move aside," Di Ji said, smiling as she pushed him out of the way and stepped further into the room.

No one recognized her, and they all felt a bit baffled, while Di Hu examined her closely.

She looked vaguely familiar—he knew she lived in the room to his left—but they had no interaction over the years.

He had been living there ever since signing the Shengxiao Feisheng Duidu Hetong, but there was no real need to build relationships with neighbors.

"Um…" Di Hu asked politely, "Miss, is there something you need?"

"'Miss'? Oh, sure, sure."

Di Ji kept smiling as she walked to the center of the room.

Under everyone’s gaze, she took a deep breath and shouted at the top of her lungs:

"Are you all insane, staying up this late and making noise?!"

The volume was so loud that it felt like an explosion in the room, leaving everyone’s ears ringing as if they were about to go deaf.

Hei Yang quickly shut the door to prevent any trouble.

"How many times have I told you?! I mean, how many times?!" Di Ji yelled fiercely. "Our rooms are just separated by a wooden wall!! Do you see that?! It’s wood!! Not some KTV soundproof wall!!"

Everyone looked embarrassed, but no one dared to respond.

"Every night, a bunch of you gather here!! Either drinking or fighting!!" Di Ji scanned the room, her smile long gone. "Don’t you realize you’re disturbing the peace?! Huh?!"

"It’s not… Miss… calm down…" Di Hu stammered, caught off guard. "We’re… we’re just chatting here… I…"

"Chatting?!" Di Ji stepped right up to Di Hu, staring into his eyes, her pointed beak almost touching his face. "Are you deaf?! Huh?! That ‘thump’ just now—didn’t you hear it?! Your ears gone soft?!"

"They… they… were just messing around…"

Di Hu forced an awkward smile, realizing this "eighth member" was nothing like he had imagined.

In just a minute of her appearance, she had everyone in the room speechless, with only him managing to say a few words back.

"Messing around? Ha! Messing around?!" Di Ji looked furious, crossing her feathered arms and veins pulsing on her forehead. "I thought there was a car accident from that noise, and you’re saying messing around? What, racing in the middle of the night?"

"N-no… hear me out…" Di Hu gave an awkward laugh. "Why don’t you sit down first?"

Di Shu snapped back to his senses and quickly stepped forward. "Leader, leader, please don’t get angry. You already look a bit like a quail, and when you’re mad, you look even more like a hen…"

"Get lost!!!! What’s wrong with you?!"

Di Shu was so startled by the shout that he nearly lost his wits and quickly shut his mouth.

"You damn rat, keep quiet!" Di Hu shoved Di Shu aside and turned back to Di Ji. "Miss, miss… please sit down. We didn’t mean any harm, don’t get so worked up."

Di Ji plopped down on a chair she grabbed, crossing her legs. "I won’t say anything else. I just want to know if you can keep it down from now on? It’s the middle of the night! Do you have that much energy?! I put up with it the first and second times, but this is the third night in a row. Are you planning to keep me up forever?!"

"Look how upset you are… oh dear…" Di Hu felt a bit sorry and waved at Di Zhu and Di Gou. "Little Zhu, Gou, don’t just stand there! Come apologize to the quail!"

"Who’s the quail?!"

Di Ji’s anger flared up again in an instant. "Di Hu! Are you doing this on purpose?!"

"Ah! No, really not!" Di Hu waved his hands frantically. "Damn that rat for saying quail—I just said it by mistake… Please don’t get mad, hen miss…"

"Aaahhh!" Di Ji seemed to be on the verge of breaking down, scratching at the feathers on her head. "I’m so fed up with you all! Are you all out of your minds?!"

Everyone was completely at a loss. A group of burly men, faced with this situation, were utterly baffled.

And thinking about it, they were indeed in the wrong—three nights in a row of yelling and fighting in the room, with the fights between Di Ji-level beings sounding like car crashes, affecting her next door.

Di Gou slowly stood up and took a couple of steps forward. "We were wrong, and we apologize. We’re truly sorry."

His tone was sincere, and Di Ji’s expression softened a bit.

"I’m not just causing a scene, right?" Di Ji said. "I just want to know what you’re up to. Is this going to happen every day?"

"No, no… Di Ji leader, don’t worry," Di Shu said, smiling broadly as he approached. "This will all be over soon, and you’ll get good sleep from now on."

"Really…?" Di Ji asked uncertainly.

"Really…" Di Shu stared into Di Ji’s eyes for a long moment, then suddenly changed tack. "Di Ji leader, do you know Qi Xia?"

As soon as he spoke, everyone turned to look at him.

Di Ji pondered for a few seconds and said, "That person seems to have died in my game. What about it?"