Chapter Thirty-Five: Awakening

"It's so bitter!"

Gu Zuozuo stared bitterly at the empty bottle of medicine in her hand, her tongue lolling out from the bitterness.

The system shrugged. Didn't it say that the only unacceptable thing about this potion was its bitterness? It was said to be so bitter that people would never want to look at it again for the rest of their lives?

Gu Zuozuo sat cross-legged on a tree branch hidden by dense foliage. The internal energy within her body circulated continuously, traveling through her eight extraordinary meridians. The superpower awakening potion she had just drunk was also beginning to exert its effects throughout her body.

Unlike the gentle warmth of internal energy, the awakening potion had a great impact, directly disrupting her orderly meridians and causing them to become disordered.

Frowning, Gu Zuozuo endured the excruciating pain within her body, striving to maintain a clear mind, and patiently began circulating her internal energy again and again.

[Host! Hang in there!]

Xie Jinyu wiped the blood off her hands, looked at the men in black lying on the ground, and glanced coldly at the only survivor.

"Take them back and interrogate them thoroughly. Find out where their secret laboratory is located!"

"Boss! You should go back. If you don't show your face for too long, people will notice!"

His boss is no longer the ruthless and merciless regimental commander in the army. Now he is a lowly intellectual who has been demoted and has not shown his face for a long time. It would be strange if people who are watching him did not suspect anything.

Xie Jinyu clicked her tongue, waved her hand impatiently, and was about to turn around and leave when a commotion suddenly broke out in the dense forest not far from them.

The armed men instinctively shielded Xie Jinyu in the middle and began to look around defensively.

Countless rabbits, pheasants, wild sheep, wild donkeys, and deer rushed out of the dense forest as if fleeing for their lives, while countless startled birds flew across the sky.

Is an earthquake about to occur?

Xie Jinyu frowned, looking at the cloudless sky. It didn't look like an earthquake was about to happen.

Looking again at the animals running around him, he became uncertain again.

"You all stay here, I'll go check..."

"Boss!"

Waving his hand to stop the others from disagreeing, Xie Jinyu walked step by step towards the woods.

As soon as she got close, a dark shadow attacked her. Xie Jinyu raised her hand to block it, and then a piercing pain shot through her arm.

Xie Jinyu was stunned when he realized what had attacked him.

vine?

What was flying wildly in front of him were vines that twisted and turned on the ground and in the air like pythons.

Xie Jinyu gasped, and for some reason, she remembered the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio that she had heard when she was a child. Wasn't this the appearance of the Black Mountain Granny?

Could it be...?!

"Boss! Watch out!"

Not wanting to leave, Wang Ming pulled his boss, who was still standing there, away and looked at him with a puzzled expression...

"Boss, where's your alertness? Your... Holy crap!"

Unaware that someone was outside the forest, Gu Zuozuo slowly opened her eyes. The leaking energy was withdrawn, and the vines that were flying everywhere withered instantly.

[Host, run! Someone's coming!]

Upon hearing this, Gu Zuozuo didn't delay. In a flash, she disappeared from the spot.

"Boss, nothing found!"

They searched the entire strange forest but found nothing amiss. Apart from the absence of animals, everything seemed normal.

Xie Jinyu stared at the faint, small footprints on the tree, remained silent for a long time, then turned and walked back.