Chapter 287 Finishing Blow and Escape

Lin Changning could clearly feel a warm sensation slowly seeping through his clothes from his shoulder.

As blood was lost, waves of weakness slowly crept up on Lin Changning. His vision blurred and he felt dizzy, causing him to stagger.

He barely managed to stay upright by kneeling on the ground and using his sword for support, thus avoiding fainting.

Li Mingshu and Yue'er, who were behind the rock, quickly peeked out when they heard the sounds outside suddenly disappear. After seeing Lin Changning kneeling on the ground, panting heavily, Li Mingshu settled Yue'er behind the rock.

"Don't come out, be good, Moon."

After saying that, Li Mingshu peeked out from behind the rock, picked up an arrow from the ground, looked around, and walked outside.

Upon seeing the several corpses lying outside, he felt a pang of anxiety and quickly ran towards Lin Changning with his arrows in hand.

"Xiao Liu? Xiao Liu? How are you? Xiao Liu?"

Lin Changning shook his head, panting heavily, and for a moment he didn't even have the strength to speak.

Li Mingshu hurriedly helped Lin Changning up. Feeling the warmth beside him, Lin Changning finally relaxed and fell towards Li Mingshu.

As he felt his consciousness fading, Lin Changning pointed to the corpse on the ground and whispered, "Go check on the person..."

Is he dead...?

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Changning's head slumped and he collapsed onto Ming Shu.

Li Mingshu gently shook Lin Changning, her eyes filled with a hint of tension. She checked Lin Changning's breathing and only breathed a sigh of relief after finding that he had simply fainted.

After carrying the person, they slowly moved towards the back of the cave. They saw Yue'er, who was sitting obediently behind a rock, panting heavily. They put Lin Changning down and leaned against the rock. They vaguely remembered that Lin Changning had said he wanted to see what was wrong with the person when he came over.

"Moon, please look after Uncle Lin. Mother is going out for a bit."

After saying that, Li Mingshu walked out of the cave, picked up Lin Changning's sword that had fallen to the ground, held the sword in both hands, and slowly walked towards the people lying on the ground.

Without thinking twice, after a flurry of hacking and slashing, she moved on to the next person. After taking care of several people in a row, Li Mingshu gently wiped the blood from the side of her face.

With trembling hands, he gripped the knife hilt and slowly walked back into the cave.

At this moment, she dared not let Yue'er wander around alone. She made Yue'er cover her face, turned her back, and directly pulled open Lin Changning's clothes.

Lin Changning's scabbed wound started bleeding again, the blood soaking into the cloth strips binding his chest and the wound he had bandaged with his clothes, turning them all a dark red.

A few tears welled up in Li Mingshu's eyes as she tore at her clothes, trying to stop Lin Changning's bleeding.

However, the bleeding, which had just stopped yesterday, has worsened today after the wound reopened.

Tears streamed down Li Mingshu's face. If Changning hadn't been protecting them, how could she have suffered like this?

A sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart. Changning was two years younger than her, and now she had been injured and unconscious repeatedly for the sake of her and her daughter. She didn't know how to repay this kindness.

Moreover, in the middle of the night, let alone herbs, even medicine is hard to find.

"Why can't I stop the bleeding...?"

Li Mingshu pressed hard on the wound, trying to stop the blood from gushing out.

Hearing her mother's voice gradually turning to tears, Yue'er turned her head and pursed her lips, reminding her, "Mother, those bad people should have medicine on them, right?"

Li Mingshu paused in her act of covering Lin Changning's wound, turned to look at her daughter, and suddenly realized what was happening.

He hurriedly got up and went outside. After seeing several corpses outside, he started tearing at the bodies without thinking. He searched through the sleeves and chests of the bodies and finally found a few bottles and jars.

Overjoyed, Li Mingshu wiped away her tears with her sleeve and quickly carried the small porcelain bottle toward the cave.

After opening the several small porcelain bottles, Li Mingshu smelled them and found that they did indeed have a medicinal smell, but she was not sure what they were for.

After taking a tinderbox from Lin Changning, he blew on it and a faint light appeared. By the light, he examined the labels on the bottles one by one. Fortunately, the second bottle contained medicine for treating external injuries.

Li Mingshu tore off another piece of her own dress, poured half a small bottle of medicine onto the strips of cloth torn from the dress, tore open the strips of cloth on Lin Changning's body, applied the medicine directly to the wound, and then tightly wrapped it with the cloth strips.

Blood soaked the medicine directly and seeped through the new strips of cloth. Li Mingshu was sweating more and more, and her clothes were almost torn down to her calves. Without thinking, he tore his clothes open again.

After tearing several strips of cloth, they pressed them against Lin Changning's wounds. After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the rate of blood seepage gradually slowed down, and after another half cup of tea, the bleeding from Lin Changning's wounds finally stopped.

Li Mingshu breathed a sigh of relief, bandaged up Lin Changning's wounds, gathered his clothes, and turned to look at her daughter: "Yue'er, we can't stay here any longer. I'll carry your Uncle Lin on my back, so stay close to me."

Yue'er scrambled to her feet, nodded, and asked with some concern, "Mother? How is Uncle Lin?"

Li Mingshu tied Lin Changning's hands with a strip of cloth and hung it around her neck. With all her might, she carried Lin Changning on her back. Looking at her daughter, she shook her head: "I just stopped the bleeding. Yue'er, stay close to your mother!"

Yue'er nodded, stretched out her little hand and tugged at Li Mingshu's clothes, following closely behind with her short legs.

Li Mingshu was already covered in sweat after carrying Lin Changning for less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

As dawn broke, the mountains were shrouded in post-rain mist, which dampened the clothes of Li Mingshu and Yue'er.

The mountain forest was extremely slippery after the rain. Li Mingshu carried Lin Changning on her back and walked with difficulty through the mud in the forest. Several times, she and Yue'er almost fell.

Neither of them went out often, and by the time it was fully light, they were exhausted. The ground was covered in slippery mud, and there was probably someone chasing after them.

The two dared not stop, and could only walk and rest intermittently. Li Mingshu carried Lin Changning's slowly sliding body back up on her back, and occasionally looked at her daughter following behind her.

Sweat trickled down his forehead and face, slowly seeping into his clothes, and tiny dewdrops had already formed on his eyelashes and eyebrows.

"Moon, don't stop. We'll rest for a while once we find a dry spot."

The two women who weren't injured are fine, but Lin Changning's wounds are likely to reopen after being jostled around with them all this way.

The only thing the mother and daughter can rely on now is Changning; they just hope that Changning can wake up soon.

Yue'er's little face was flushed, and she was panting heavily. Her little hands tightly gripped her mother's clothes. After catching her breath for a while, Yue'er tilted her head back and stammered:

"Ah, Mother, Yue'er really... can't walk anymore..."