Chapter 19: Toxin Attack
The next morning, she tried walking in the forest and found that the formation had indeed been broken. However, as the saying goes, fortune and misfortune are interdependent, a bad thing happened to her: she met an old friend.
Yes, she met Xu Zhiruo and the others again.
Looking at Zhou Xisuo, who was weak but holding the dagger tightly, and Xu Zhiruo who was protecting him behind him, her head began to hurt. God have mercy on her, she really didn't want to have anything to do with Minglan Sect.
After Xu Zhiruo assessed the strength of both sides, he spoke first: "Miss Xiaoqi, it seems that you have recovered well."
She glanced at Zhou Xisuo and replied politely, "No, no, Mr. Zhou is better."
Zhou Xisuo gritted his teeth secretly and looked at her with even more anger.
Xu Zhiruo, however, acted as if nothing had happened and said, "Miss Xiaoqi, I believe our grudges have been resolved. How about we part ways now?"
Yue Qiran raised her eyebrows, somewhat unconvinced. After all, he was from the Punishment Hall. Even if he had grown a lot of crooked, he shouldn't have swallowed such a huge loss so lightly.
She chuckled and jokingly said, "Is the Minglan Sect's Punishment Hall so cowardly?"
Zhou Xisuo immediately flew into a rage: "Don't go too far!"
Xu Zhiruo stopped his companion who was about to attack: "Miss Xiaoqi, our companions are coming, you should leave quickly."
"So kind?"
He said, "I don't believe in the family rules you're talking about. You've been so reluctant to take off your cloak, I think you have a grudge against the Minglan Sect. But since you let us go yesterday, we'll let you go today too. We're even."
Yue Qiran was quite surprised, but didn't want to continue to argue, so she turned around and was about to leave.
"Miss, wait a moment." Xu Zhiruo stopped her at this moment and handed the storage bag to her with a smile, "We come from a wealthy family and are not short of storage bags. Why don't we do a good deed and give it to you."
She didn't reach out to take it, but instead said "Hmm?"
"The girl has such ability at such a young age, why don't I make a good connection with her?"
The smile on his face was quite sincere, without a trace of falsehood. Yue Qiran almost believed it, but unfortunately she knew the secret of the storage bag - the tracking talisman.
Seeing that she didn't take it, Xu Zhiruo sighed and said, "Miss, after all, we've had dinner together. Why are you so wary of me? It makes me so sad."
At this moment, he looked a bit shameless as before. Yue Qiran spoke to him hypocritically and took the storage bag.
With her action, the anger in Zhou Xisuo's eyes subsided a little, and he looked much calmer - a professional at holding his companions back.
Yue Qiran pretended to be blind and didn't notice anything wrong, then turned and left.
Soon after, she found a herd of wild boars.
Half an hour later, a dozen men in black looked at the storage bag under the wild boar's buttocks, and then looked at the scattered clothes around that seemed to be torn.
Zhou Xisuo was shocked and murmured, "How could it be?"
Xu Zhiruo frowned. He just wanted to clarify things and didn't want her life. It was just a pity, fate had it that way. But it was also good this way, as it saved a lot of trouble.
The next second, the wild boars seemed to smell their scent, and with a long howl, they rushed towards them - not long ago, a human had stolen their piglets, and the only things left were clothes and storage bags. These people smelled of the storage bags.
The faces of the men in black changed, and the leader ordered, "Don't confront them head-on. Leave immediately!"
The spiritual energy here is too thin. Killing a few wild boars is okay, but killing nearly a hundred of them would probably cost you your life.
Everyone fled in all directions, one of the men in black seemed particularly calm and the fastest. He looked back at the wild boar chasing him and sneered secretly, but the laugh was directed at Xu Zhiruo and the others - there was no blood here, and the woman was clearly not dead. They were really a bunch of idiots, and yet he had to work with them.
While they were escaping, the situation on Yue Qiran's side was not going well either.
She staggered down the mountain, her face pale, but she did not slow down - before the poison took effect completely, she had to leave the forest and find a place where humans lived.
Yes, today is the fifteenth, and the toxins in my body are acting up again.
She hadn't had time to set up the wild boar scene, much less erase the footprints. Now she could only pray that the men sent by the Punishment Hall were a bunch of inexperienced teenagers, and that they would either die in the wild boar herd - perhaps too low, or fail to notice something was wrong, or else they would really fall into the gutter today.
At this moment, she even regretted not killing them just now, causing all this trouble.
Soon after, she rushed out of the forest, and the pain began to erode her mind. She forced her eyes open and walked towards the nearest town based on her memory.
When she was halfway there, she felt dizzy and half-knelt on the ground, sweat dripping from her forehead.
The pain was like ants, wreaking havoc on her body.
She took out a dagger and stabbed her hand. The external pain temporarily made her sober up, and she continued to stand up and move forward.
One cut after another, leaving long red marks on the road.
"Oh!"
She looked up in a daze when she heard a scream. It was an ordinary old woman. Is she reliable? I don't know, but I can only rely on her.
"Grandma, I encountered a herd of wild boars."
The old woman heard these extremely weak words, looked at the blood on her body, and hurriedly shouted: "Old man, come here quickly!"
She blacked out completely, her last memory being that it was watching her from a distance.
The dream came again.
[“Senior sister, where have you been?”
She looked expressionlessly at her junior sister who was looking at her accusingly.
"Do you know that what you did before will damage the reputation of the sect?"
She said tiredly, "Xiao Si, stop messing around. I'm very tired."
"I'm even more exhausted!" Xiao Si said bitterly, "You actually humbled yourself to those people from the Sword Sect just for a broken sword. You're really embarrassing us!"
She smiled helplessly: "That's not a broken sword, that's..."
"That's enough. It's just a broken sword in my eyes!"
She became impatient with her unreasonable behavior and said in a cold voice, "He Qianyi!"
Xiao Si looked at his angry senior sister, his body stiffened, he moved his lips, but didn't dare to speak.
Her tone softened. "That sword suits you perfectly. If you miss it, it will be hard for you to find another suitable weapon. And surviving the trial three years from now will be even harder."
Xiao Si didn't dare to say anything else. He lowered his head and replied "yes" in a low voice.
Seeing that she had behaved well, she said nothing more and went straight to her residence.
Inside the room, she took out the ointment from her storage bag, took off her clothes, looked at the bloody marks on her body caused by the Sword Sect, and closed her eyes - it hurt even more just looking at it.
Thinking of my junior sister again, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. After all, she is still too young and too concerned about her reputation. She will be sensible when she grows up.
Over the years, whenever she encountered these things, she would tell herself this.
What else could he do? That was the sister he had brought back, and Master had told him to treat her well. He couldn't let Master look at her with disappointment after he came out of seclusion.
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