50 Ancient City (V)
◎Danger, go quickly◎
"Baby, wake up..."
In the chaos, a slightly hurried voice came into his ears, and he suddenly felt a chill on his cheeks. Li Jintang's eyelids moved, and he opened his eyes slightly, and what came into his eyes was the fortune book jumping in front of him.
"Where am I?" she murmured.
Feeling a slight headache, she closed her eyes for a moment, then tried to prop herself up with one hand. Unexpectedly, the surroundings shook violently, and she fell heavily onto the carriage.
"The child is finally awake," the life book bounced and flipped through the pages hastily, trying to pull her up. Finally, he said dejectedly, "I can't pull you up."
"I can do it myself." Li Jintang got up. She roughly understood that she was in a carriage, but she didn't know where it was going.
The carriage shook again, and she grabbed the armrest to steady it. After the carriage regained its stability, she slowly moved to the window, trying not to make too much noise so as not to alarm the coachman.
Li Jintang no longer had time to figure out what was going on. The most important thing right now was to get out of here. She slowly stretched out two fingers, pinched a corner of the curtain, and lifted it, tilting her head to look outside.
The carriage rolled over a rock and suddenly stopped in front. Li Jintang immediately lowered the curtain and lay back down. With her eyes closed, she heard footsteps beside her. Her eyelids twitched, and her fingers curled up.
A man's voice rang out in my ears: "Why are you so nervous? I told you they won't wake up for a while."
Then another, more powerful voice countered, "If something goes wrong with the people we're delivering to the city lord, will you be held responsible?"
They? Li Jintang keenly caught the word in the conversation - what did "they" mean? Could it be that Brother Qu and the others were also imprisoned here?
Just as she was lost in thought about how to escape, someone suddenly touched the front of her clothes and she shivered involuntarily.
It’s over…
She wanted to continue pretending to be unconscious, but she heard someone roar in a low voice: "She's awake, where's her stuff?"
What? Since she couldn't fit any more, Li Jintang simply rolled on the ground and rolled out of the carriage. The stick that was about to hit her head deflected a few inches and smashed a hole in the floor when it fell.
She took the time to look up and saw three carriages parked nearby. The drivers jumped off their horses and chased after her with sticks in their hands.
There was a bloody mark on his ankle from a branch, but Li Jintang ignored the pain, staggered to his feet and ran into the woods. With the cover of the trees, the chaotic shouting and footsteps were left behind.
She can’t win in a fight and doesn’t know how to curse much, but she can run. She will run away when she encounters danger.
There were several branches scattered on the ground, some of which had thorns, which pricked her calves and made her calves bleed.
Li Jintang suddenly stopped, looked at the dust rising behind her, and pressed her hand to the dagger at her waist - fortunately, the only weapon she had on her had not been taken away.
"Why did you stop?" Mingshu shouted anxiously, "If you don't run now, you will be caught up."
"Brother Qu and the others are still over there," Li Jintang said, trying to keep his voice steady. "If I really ran away, who knows where those people would take them."
She looked around and there seemed to be nothing else that could be used except some messy branches and vines.
"That girl is right in front, go and catch her!"
"If she still wants to run away, just kill her. Anyone who dares to harm the city lord deserves death."
“…”
Several strong men holding wooden sticks stopped cursing when they saw the girl sitting on the ground. They looked at each other, not knowing whether they should go forward.
Li Jintang sat on the ground with his legs curled up and his back against the tree trunk, rubbing his ankles repeatedly with his hands. When he heard footsteps beside him, he slowly raised his head and looked at them with tears in his eyes.
"My foot is injured, and I can't walk." She looked at them, blinked, and said, "But you can't kill me, otherwise your city lord will never know what happened."
"You little bitch, you're still trying to cheat?" The sturdy man standing in the front hefted the stick onto his shoulder and chuckled, "Tell me what's going on."
Li Jintang thought for a moment, then asked, "Did you arrest us because of that statue?"
Without waiting for their response, she continued, "I sensed something was amiss the moment I arrived, but the others likely stumbled upon it by accident. Why don't you take me to see your city lord? I'll speak to him if I have anything to say."
"Since you wanted to see our city lord, why did you run away just now?" The burly man obviously didn't believe it.
"Didn't you guys want to fight just now?" Li Jintang frowned deliberately, dissatisfied, "If I don't run, am I just waiting to be beaten?"
While she was talking nonsense, she prayed silently in her heart. She had been dealing with these people for so long, and she didn't know if Brother Qu and the others had woken up.
"What's more, how can I, a girl, beat you?" Li Jintang spread her hands and said helplessly.
The strong men looked at each other and felt that what she said made sense. After a moment, one of them walked towards her.
Li Jintang tightened her hand on the dagger. In the silence, she could feel her heart beating as fast as raindrops.
"I can't walk anymore," she stretched out a hand, silently pursed her lips, and quickly curled her fingers to wipe away the cold sweat oozing from her palms. "Can you give me a hand?"
I can only take a gamble...
When the two strong men approached and were about to touch her, she suddenly turned her wrist and condensed some spiritual power from her fingertips. While they were not paying attention, the spiritual power climbed up the acupoints.
Let's go for it... Li Jintang clenched his five fingers, and before he could get nervous, he suddenly heard a loud bang, and the two men fell down at the same time.
“……?”
She was stunned for a moment - she didn't expect that these people who looked strong had no spiritual power?
The other strong men were stunned for a moment, then rushed towards her with their sticks in hand. Li Jintang glanced up and was no longer as nervous as before.
If there were no spiritual power, it would be much easier. She didn't want to hurt anyone, so she just knocked them unconscious temporarily, picked up the life book, and hurried back.
"Brother Qu, Sister Qiuyan..."
When she reached the carriage, she braked suddenly and stopped talking halfway through her words.
She saw dozens of people appearing beside the carriage, and the worst thing was that they seemed to have discovered her.
These people looked no different from the coachmen just now, so it was not difficult to deal with them. Li Jintang calmly came out from behind the tree, and a line of green light came out from his fingertips and waved towards them.
However, he did not expect that the spiritual power would take a detour halfway and disappear into the air inexplicably.
Li Jintang was stunned. Could it be that she had underestimated her opponent? Had she used that move poorly? The men were getting closer and closer. Without time to think, she gathered her hands together and released several streams of spiritual energy simultaneously.
But they were all bounced away just like before.
Those people were getting closer and closer, and were about to trap her to death...
Li Jintang was so anxious that sweat broke out on her forehead. In a panic, she caught a glimpse of a light coming through the purse hanging at her side.
Is that... the life-saving thing Xie An gave her?
Her eyes lit up - the things given by the protagonist, rounded up to be equivalent to the protagonist's halo. She opened her purse, and before she could put her hand in, the elixir shining with golden light jumped out by itself.
But, this thing... how should I use it? Just as she was worrying, she saw the elixir float in the air, and then suddenly exploded with a bang. The extremely powerful spiritual power enveloped everyone present except her.
When the dust cleared, dozens of people had fallen to the ground, motionless. Li Jintang knew he couldn't delay any longer, so he quickened his pace and walked towards the carriages.
The people in the carriage were still unconscious.
"Sister Qiuyan, Brother Qu, Fellow Daoist Nangong..."
She nervously reached out her hand to check their breathing, and only then did she feel relieved - but only for a second, because she realized that one person was missing.
Where is Xie An?
By the way, Xie An gave the elixir to her, but what about him? Wouldn’t that be dangerous?
Li Jintang felt her mind was in a mess. After she calmed down, she carefully sent the three people in the carriage into a cave, and then used the elixir she had just used to create a barrier that covered the cave entrance.
"You stay here and watch them," Li Jintang said as she walked out of the cave, her emerald-colored dress fluttering in the wind. She turned back to look at the fortune-telling book that was hopping after her. "I'm going to go find Xie An."
"I don't want to stay here," Mingshu jumped onto her shoulder without saying anything, "Hurry up, hurry up, that boy is so delicate, it's too late..."
Li Jintang reached out and held it down: "Don't say such discouraging words."
When she returned to the area where the carriage had just passed, she glanced at the person lying crookedly on the ground and couldn't help shuddering.
These people look very strange...
Li Jintang took a step closer and found that several of them still had their eyes open, but their eye sockets were unusually white.
This is not a living person, and obviously not someone who has just died.
This is……
"What bad luck, I run into these things again."
Li Jintang was startled and looked up and asked, "What is this?"
"Don't you remember, kid?" The fortune book tucked her hair in, urging her to leave. "This is a puppet. It's very powerful. I guess it's just fallen temporarily. Who knows when it will get up again."
Puppets? She remembered encountering them before, but the puppets back then seemed very different from these ones now.
She walked hurriedly when she heard the Book of Fate, who had been silent for a long time, speak again: "Child, I have a way to deal with them. Just do as I say."
*
Although the sound of the flute to purify the puppet was useful, it consumed a lot of spiritual energy. After playing for less than a quarter of an hour, she was already exhausted.
"Xie An, it really is you."
Li Jintang ran in from the gap, holding the flute in his hand, and it immediately turned back into the appearance of a fortune book - the purification spell consumed too much spiritual power, and it could not bear it and turned back to its original form.
She stopped a few steps away from him, waved at him, and said anxiously, "Xie An, I can't control them. It's very dangerous out there. Please get out quickly."
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