Chapter 74 Exploring the Lost City 1
After entering the maze city, there were several intersections. Everyone decided to merge into two groups according to their previous methods and take one intersection.
Xie Yu hurried to catch up with Yun Xiang, as their two teams would be perfectly matched. Lin Ziyu, however, deliberately passed Xie Yu and teamed up with Zeng Li.
"Sister Lin? Sister Lin? Youyou and I haven't seen each other for several days. How could you have the heart to separate us at this time?"
"Tsk, you're useless." Lin Ziyu cursed with a smile, and took the lead in choosing an intersection with her group.
Xie Yu grabbed Yun Xiang's hand and followed with a swagger. Anyone could see that he was in a very good mood.
"It seems that you have a good relationship with the president." After meeting several times, Lin Ziyu was very tolerant of Xie Yu, and Yun Xiang couldn't help but feel curious.
"Youyou, the president and I are definitely siblings!"
"...Can't I see? I'm just curious about how you two met. The president is so nice to you."
"Look, it's still the same meaning!" Xie Yu said with an expression that said, "You don't have to beat around the bush to test me. Just ask me directly. I promise to tell you everything I know."
“…Points deducted!”
"I shut up!" Xie Yu blinked and looked at Yun Xiang innocently.
Cloud wanted a death stare.
"Ahem, I happened to run into Bai Mingyang and Sister Lin. I happened to be in a good mood at the time, so I played the hero. Sister Lin was generous, and I was also very good at it, so we became a brother-sister relationship."
"I think the president regrets it!"
"Why?"
"Because you're so annoying!" Yun wanted to run and jump to catch up with Lin Ziyu and the others. It was quite interesting to be so teasing. "Youyou——"
"Bang!" Wow, Yun Xiang patted his chest and looked at the concrete block at his feet. It was a close call, he was almost hit.
The wall, long in disrepair and weathered by the years, was already crumbling. She just jumped slightly, and a section of it collapsed. She quickly reminded everyone to be careful and try not to walk close to the wall.
"Bang!"
"Ouch!" Lin Ziyu crawled out from the pile of dirt, shook off the mud on her body, made two "Pooh" sounds, and continued to move forward.
"Are you really okay?" How many times had he been hit by a wall? Yun Xiang asked worriedly. She had already experienced the president's bad luck over the past three days, and she hadn't expected it to be even worse in the maze city.
"Don't worry!" Huang Shanshan patted her shoulder. "Don't worry, we've seen worse cases than this. Once when we went to the dense forest, she kept tripping over the roots of a mutant tree. Every time she fell, she happened to hit the thorn grass, which was more severe than acupuncture."
"Ah——" Yun Xiang shrank his shoulders and touched his arms, which were covered with goose bumps.
Just as I was about to sigh, "Thank goodness I didn't get hit in the face," I heard Huang Shanshan say, "There were several times when I fell face down. When I got out of the jungle, my face was covered with thorns. We had to help remove them. I bled a lot."
"Thank goodness it's not poisonous, otherwise—"
"The thorn ball is poisonous, and my face is swollen beyond recognition."
"Big sister, can you finish in one breath?" Jin Jiaren, who was eavesdropping on the side, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to wait for the next words. However, Huang Shanshan had already turned around to help Lin Ziyu clear the way.
"Fortunately, he didn't get disfigured!" Yun Xiang and Jin Jiamin completed the sentence in tacit understanding.
Xie Yu, who was a bit of a downer and didn't understand the situation, interrupted, "If she were disfigured, you would be seeing Sister Lin with a clown face, stupid!"
Hey, doesn't she know? She just thinks it's fun. Yun Xiang patted Xie Yu and went to help Lin Ziyu.
"Brother, why are you asking for trouble?" Chu Xu bumped into Xie Yu.
"I'm just bored!" Xie Yu kicked a piece of concrete under his feet. How could he admit that he was jealous of her and Ajin's tacit understanding? So he kept it to himself!
Xie Yu suddenly kicked the concrete block under his feet, and it hit the place where Lin Ziyu fell.
"Whoosh!" A tail dived into the pile of dirt.
Xie Yu stepped forward and kicked the pile of dirt away, but he was nowhere to be seen. Chu Xu saw this and immediately decided that Xie Yu was really bored, so he pulled A Jin away first.
Xie Yu kicked the pile of dirt apart and found a torn piece of cloth. He looked at it closely, lost in thought. ...
"There's no way forward again!" Lin Ziyu hammered her aching legs. "Why do I feel like we're always circling on the edge?"
"Sister Lin's intuition is really accurate." Xie Yu laughed at her without any hesitation.
"You little bastard, since you knew it, why didn't you remind me?"
"I want to see you fall a few more times." Xie Yu followed slowly.
Can you still speak properly? "Yun Xiang——"
"President, something's wrong with you!" Yun Xiang glared at the dishonest Xie Yu. He had obviously discovered something, but he refused to tell the truth and deliberately made people misunderstand. It was really... I didn't know what to say to him.
"What's wrong? I don't feel anything!" Besides the pain all over her body, everyone saw that she was hit.
Yun Xiang tugged at Xie Yu's sleeve and said, "Ayu, don't let people misunderstand you all the time. You must leave your name behind when you do good things."
"Okay! I'll ask them to give me a good guy card later." Youyou still cares about him.
"This is yours, right?" Xie Yu handed the piece of cloth he found on the pile of dirt to Lin Ziyu.
"Mine?" Lin Ziyu took the strip of cloth and examined it carefully. "The material is the same, but the color is obviously faded!"
"Let me see!" Qi Lian took it and tried it on Lin Ziyu. He soon found a big hole at the corner of the clothes. After comparing,
"President, this is yours. The shape and color are the same."
"Nonsense, my color is clearly—" Lin Ziyu took off her coat and patted the dirt off it. "Hey, why is the corner of my coat faded?"
They usually wore combat uniforms, but yesterday's fight was so intense that all their uniforms were torn apart, so they changed into ordinary hunting gear. Hunting gear had no defense, and they encountered many sneak attacks from mutant plants along the way, which is why they were so embarrassed when they arrived at the gathering place. Xie Yu teased them that they had been robbed. But they didn't expect to choose such an outfit, which would make even the most unpretentious people feel embarrassed. Lin Ziyu hurriedly put her coat into the space device.
"This is caused by the medicine." The cloth strip was passed to Yun Xiang. "Drunken Gastrodia elata?" Yun Xiang was a little uncertain and looked at Xie Yu, who nodded.
"Drunken Gastrodia elata?" Lin Ziyu frowned. How could she have been contaminated by this thing?
"Drunken Gastrodia elata grows in humid, rainy areas. Its seeds, ground into powder, can be made into Drunken Gastrodia elata powder. The powder is white and odorless, which only affects humans. In fact, when the temperature rises to a certain level, the powder will emit a pungent odor that only mutant beasts can smell. They will become manic and restless, and their attack power will increase several times.
Of course, the biggest drawback of Drunken Gastrodia is that it can discolor clothing. So, while this stuff may seem dangerous, it's actually pretty useless and rarely used. So, it seems someone brought this Drunken Gastrodia to the desert specifically to target you. Their intention must be to cause an accident and have you die at the hands of a mutant beast." Yun Xiang looked at Lin Ziyu with certainty.
Lin Ziyu immediately concluded that it was Bai Mingyang's siblings. Her reason was pure and irrefutable: "She wants the Bai family dead, so naturally, the Bai family wants her dead too."
"The Bai Mingyang siblings are indeed suspicious. The only people who know about your unlucky constitution are the members of our Talisman Making Society, some close relatives, and your enemies who grew up with you."
(End of this chapter)
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