Chapter 30030 Why do you treat me coldly?
Zhuang Rong'er knelt on the ground, while Ah Huai half-knelt in front of her.
The white and slender hands held another pair of bloody hands, but she only dared to hook her fingers with his and did not dare to touch his palms.
Ah Huai froze in place. After a while, he struggled slightly, but Zhuang Rong'er retracted her strength and clenched her fists instead.
"I...I'll bandage you," she said.
Ah Huai once said this to her when she cut her arm in Liusha City and ordered him to lick her blood clean as a punishment. That's when he gave her this answer.
The emotion I felt at that time will still leave a mark in my heart when I think about it again. Or rather, the mark has never disappeared, but I only notice it when I think about it.
Ah Huai said nothing and didn't even look up at her.
Zhuang Rong'er reached into the Qiankun bag with her other hand to take out the Linji ointment. When she touched the mechanical bird that was also stored there, she curled her fingers and quickly pulled them out.
She applied the yellowish-brown ointment on Ah Huai's hand, and it was like a layer of cold mucous membrane attached to it.
The pain was diluted a little, and other feelings began to ferment.
Ah Huai remained silent the entire time. He didn't look cooperative, but he didn't resist either.
Zhuang Rong'er stopped talking. After applying the medicine, she still didn't let go. Instead, she held Ah Huai's hands with both hands, her eyelashes drooping, and no one knew what she was thinking.
The next time she looked up was because she felt the touch of her lips.
Ah Huai gently rubbed the bloodstain at the corner of her mouth with his fingers. This action might have been out of instinct, because he was stunned for a moment after he did it, and then his depressed mood seemed to intensify, and he even wanted to pull out the hand that was being held by Zhuang Rong'er.
The nameless sword leaning against his knees fell to the ground, and neither of them tried to pick it up.
Zhuang Rong'er's heart moved, and she couldn't help wanting to talk to him and listen to him talk to her.
So she asked, "Do you blame me? Why do you treat me so coldly?"
This was a really excessive question. She hurt someone with a sword and then blamed the other person for no longer smiling at her.
How could she not know it in her own heart?
But she...but she didn't understand. She didn't want to go through a lot of preparation before speaking. Maybe she was just willful, or she felt that Ah Huai should always please her. Even though she felt a special uneasiness that she had never felt when facing Jing Huai, she seemed to be deliberately unwilling to deal with it properly.
“…”
"Well then... cut it back with your sword."
Zhuang Rong'er grabbed the nameless magic weapon on the ground and was about to hand it to Ah Huai.
Ah Huai put his hands behind his back and didn't take it.
"You won't talk to me?"
Zhuang Rong'er's question finally made him speak, but there was no sound for a long time.
Zhuang Rong'er put her ear close to him, and his lips almost kissed her earlobe.
Ah Huai stepped back, and for a moment he remembered the breathing he had to endure when he was underground.
At that time, I had no intention of thinking about anything else. Zhuang Rong'er's lips were very soft, as soft as that evening in the restaurant. Even without the fruit wine, they still had some sweetness, but because of the injury, there was a faint smell of blood.
His eyes flickered slightly, and he forcefully stopped recalling the past in his mind, as if compromising. He seemed to sigh and wrote the word "no" in Zhuang Rong'er's palm.
It doesn't hurt.
Don't blame you.
No need to come back hurt.
He didn't mean to be cold to her.
He couldn't express what was on his mind.
Speak, and they will not be heard.
——And this is the weak.
"Master...what exactly happened?"
The little snake hurried over with the white-haired woman on its back. Nian You's condition was slightly better than when he had a quick glance at her, but she still couldn't walk on her own.
The shock wave caused by the collapse of the abyss made them instinctively stay away from the danger zone, but they hurried back after feeling Zhuang Ronger's blood.
"How did you get injured so badly?" The little snake was horrified and turned around to scold Ah Huai. It must be that the master was trying to protect him, the burden, so he was in such a miserable state, right?
But turning around, he noticed that Ah Huai seemed to be badly injured as well, and these were only external injuries. The bloodstains on his clothes looked even more exaggerated than Zhuang Rong'er's. He struggled to stop scolding her and asked, "So what's going on down there? Is there some monster hiding there that's more powerful than the World-Swallowing Whale?"
“…No, it’s a divine weapon.”
The person who answered was not Zhuang Rong'er, but the goddess Nian You on the back of the little snake.
After leaving the area covered by the barrier and replacing the water-repellent beads, her condition improved slightly under the care of the little snake, and she had the spiritual power to support her in speaking clearly.
She motioned for the snake to put her down.
"Valley Master, thank you for the rescue."
Nianyou bowed lightly to Zhuang Rong'er.
Her face was still pale, her eyes were bloodshot, and her white hair was disheveled. She was very different from the goddess in Zhuang Rong'er's memory who rode in the gorgeous sedan chair of Yingyue Palace.
"Why are you here?" Zhuang Rong'er put away all the emotions from her previous "confrontation" with Ah Huai and asked calmly.
Nian You closed her eyes in pain, her lips trembling slightly as if she was trying to calm herself down. After opening her eyes, she said in a sorrowful tone, "...I fell into a trap."
She said that seven days ago, she, who possessed the power of prophecy, suddenly saw a tsunami in the Xingluo Sea and torrential rain submerged the Zhaixing Town. It turned out that the Zhenhai Dzi Bead under the sea was covered with some kind of black mud and had cracks on it.
The Zhenhai Dzi Bead was planted by several righteous masters after the Earth Dragon Disaster a hundred years ago. It can protect the peace of the border areas around Zhaixing Town.
When Nian You saw this scene, she was horrified and reported the matter to the Palace Master of Yingyue Palace, her uncle.
This matter is of great importance and concerns the safety of the people. The Palace Master is deeply worried and orders her to take a few personal guards into the Xingluo Sea to find out what is going on.
The goddess was not supposed to be involved, but the palace master said that no one else knew the exact location of the Zhenhai Dzi Pearl, and only she knew it from the predicted picture, so she had to be the one to lead the way.
However, the Royal Guards refused to follow her lead. Instead, they half coaxed and half forced her to approach the "abyss" where the magic weapon was, and finally pushed her in.
She could foresee the future calamities of all living beings, but she could not foresee her own danger. It was not until she fell that she realized that something had gone wrong within Yingyue Palace, and she had no idea what role her uncle played in it...
"Valley Master, can you help me this time?" Nian You pleaded almost in tears.
"What help do I need you to get? Do you want the master to send you back to Yingyue Palace and take you for revenge?!" The little snake couldn't help but speak, with a look of disapproval and surprise in his eyes.
"No, no..." Nian You bit her lip and shook her head. "I'd like to ask the Valley Master to accompany me to see the Zhenhai Dzi Pearl... If it has been contaminated as I foresee, then the people and even the cultivators will face a catastrophe no less devastating than the destruction experienced by Xingluo Nation a hundred years ago..."
"What will happen if you go and see it? Do you know how to crack and repair it?" Zhuang Rong'er asked.
Nianyou nodded hesitantly, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.
"Hurry up and speak!" urged the little snake.
"...I guess the Valley Master knows about the Samsara Fish Eye?" Nian You said slowly.
Her words made Zhuang Rong'er's eyes narrow slightly.
But she didn't answer yes or no, just stared at Nianyou, motioning her to continue.
"That's the eye of the demonic World-Devouring Whale. People say it can bring wisdom and reincarnation. As far as I know, it's the only material that can repair the Sea-Suppressing Dzi Bead..."
“…”
"The World-Swallowing Whale, only one appears every few decades..."
Before she could finish her words, Zhuang Rong'er felt someone else coming. The moment she glanced sideways, Nian You also cautiously kept silent and looked over.
"Why are you in such a mess?"
——Wu Heng followed the smell of blood and came over. When he saw them and the nameless magic weapon on the ground, his brows furrowed.
His gaze shifted from their faces to the divine weapons, remaining fixed for a few seconds, but he ultimately did not ask any further questions.
"Have you ever met my nephew?"
"No." Zhuang Rong'er paused for a moment, "But... I saw Qinghai Tower."
Wu Heng visibly shook, his face turning pale in an instant, but then he heard Zhuang Rong'er say, "It was just a shadow of his."
"...Is there anyone else with him?"
He wanted to confirm that Shu Qianhe or You Xueqi were not with him...
Zhuang Rong'er nodded.
Wu Heng let out a breath and wanted to say something else, but she raised her hand to stop him.
She looked behind Wu Heng and was shocked to find that the light ants seemed to be dying in large numbers, and darkness was advancing at a rapid speed.
Moreover, as if sensing her gaze, the speed increased significantly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already at her feet——
No, that's not right!
It's not that the light ants are dying, but that they are blocked by a monster with a back as huge as the sky!
Zhuang Rong'er's eyebrows jumped, and she shouted loudly, "World-Swallowing Whale!"
However, this World-Devouring Whale seemed to be much more powerful than the one she had dealt with decades ago. Before the others noticed, it had already quietly lurked beside them!
Its entire body was pitch black, and its scales had a dead look to them, without any luster. It only had one huge fish eye with overlapping halos, which would make people dizzy when looking into it. The most terrifying thing was its huge mouth, which could almost swallow a hill when opened!
Wu Heng turned his head in panic, and the next second he saw a bloody mouth reaching out towards him. Huge waves rose in the sea. The little snake threw Nian You behind it and turned into a snake. He wanted to rely on his own flexibility to dodge quickly, but the World-Swallowing Whale didn't give him this chance at all.
The huge mouth closed quickly, and then, as if it had eaten its fill and was about to leave, it turned back and left.
Wuheng and the little snake were swallowed by it!
When Zhuang Rong'er had previously fought against the World-Devouring Whale, she had intentionally avoided being swallowed by it, and she had no idea how dangerous it was inside. She couldn't just sit back and watch.
But the strange thing is that this world-devouring whale wants to run away. It doesn't want to swallow everyone. This is completely inconsistent with its habits.
Zhuang Rong'er jumped up without thinking and caught up with it, heading towards its huge mouth. She tore open the catfish-like mouth that was twenty or thirty meters long and crawled in!
Nian You, who was thrown away by the little snake, came back to his senses in a panic and shouted, but saw that the other man was also chasing after him.
The sword in his hand gleamed, becoming the only light in the sea after the light ants disappeared. Perhaps the World-Swallowing Whale was afraid of that thing!
Nian You hurriedly said from behind, "No! This World-Swallowing Whale has been demonized by the filth from the Abyss... The illusion of the world within its belly will become increasingly dangerous. It's difficult to resolve it from the inside alone. We need to break it from the outside and get the person swallowed out as soon as possible... cough cough..."
A huge wave thrown by the fish's tail shattered her words, and the person was washed away to an unknown place.
Ah Huai's body stiffened and stopped. He clenched the sword in his hand and stared at the giant in front of him.
The weak cannot speak and cannot protect the people they want to protect.
——He doesn’t want to be a weakling anymore.
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