The sun sets in the west, and the sky is filled with red clouds.
The fiery rays of light fell on the people who were hurrying along the road, and everyone looked tired and lonely.
When Lu Cai woke up, she saw this scene. She raised her hand to cover her eyes and heard Zhao Yan ask, "Are you awake?"
At this moment, she was lying on Zhao Yan's back, her whole body as soft as if her tendons and bones had been pulled out.
She raised her head slightly and saw a group of people walking together. Someone was helping to push the old woman's cart, and walking slowly on the side was the ragged little princess.
"Where are we?" Lu Cai frowned.
Zhao Yan explained: "You were in a coma for two days and one night. If you had continued to sleep, you would probably have woken up in Stonewall Town."
Lu Cai supported Zhao Yan's shoulders and tried to get down. Zhao Yan stopped, half-knelt down, and put her down.
Standing on the muddy ground, Lu Cai felt a little dizzy for a while before his vision became clear again.
"Do you want some water?" The little princess on the side came forward awkwardly and handed Lu Cai a water bag, which was given to her by the aunt who was traveling with her.
Lu Cai tilted his head to look at her, then nodded and took the water bag: "Thank you."
Showa felt a little awkward. She had been traveling with everyone for the past two days and had several blisters on her feet. She was smelly and couldn't take a shower. Her complicated and beautiful skirt seemed particularly cumbersome when she walked in the mountains and forests.
She wanted to complain, but everyone in the team was in such a miserable state that she swallowed the words back. After all, Lu Cai had been seriously injured and unconscious in order to leave the city. Her little suffering was nothing compared to that...
Seeing Lu Cai and Zhao Yan's magic, Zhaohe was not surprised at all. After all, she had seen a giant scorpion wearing human skin, so what else could scare her?
Zhaohe secretly glanced at Lu Cai who was drinking water. Although the red cloak blocked Lu Cai's face, she knew that Lu Cai was not very old.
But Lu Cai knew how to proceed.
What about her?
Without the title of princess, Showa didn't know what to do.
Lu Cai swallowed the sweet water and breathed a sigh of relief. She handed the water bag back to Zhaohe and then tentatively circulated her energy. It flowed freely, without any sense of stagnation or exhaustion.
It was getting dark, and it was no longer suitable to continue traveling. Zhao Yan asked everyone to stop, and a group of people sat down in the open space. Arm-thick climbing roses rose from the ground, forming a wall of vines to encircle the crowd, ready for defense and resistance.
Lu Cai looked at the tightly wrapped rattan walls around him and sighed, "Zhao Yan, your ability has become stronger again—"
Zhao Yan also laughed: "Maybe the more you use it, the more flexible it becomes..." He suddenly became serious, "By the way, you've been unconscious for so long, your supernatural powers must have been exhausted. Now you've made it through, so be careful next time. This is a big gamble. If you win, you'll successfully break through the cocoon and advance, but if you lose, you'll lose your life!"
He wasn't exaggerating. Even with awakened powers, players still needed to learn to use them within their capabilities. Every so often, there were posts on the community forum analyzing player death statistics. While these were unofficial statistics, they were still of some value.
Among them, many players who awakened their superpowers died due to the exhaustion of their superpowers.
When the adult insect emerges from the cocoon, it is just a trial. If it succeeds, it is reborn in Nirvana. If it fails, it can only wait to die in a dark corner of mud.
Lu Cai lowered her head. She was too embarrassed to say that she had done this more than once, desperately trying to make a fight and then fainting.
Judging from Zhao Yan's reaction, this situation seems very dangerous?
She found a corner to sit down, then removed the bandage on her right wrist. The battery was restored to one level and did not advance.
Lu Cai didn't feel too disappointed. He was thankful that he could recover his superpowers.
Because she vaguely felt that the system she copied was somewhat active, she took advantage of her free time to quickly study the system. After flipping through it for a while, Lu Cai discovered that there was an extra card slot!
She'd been busy researching the points wallet and chat signal issues lately, and hadn't bothered with the card slot in ages. She didn't have a lot of stuff anyway, so eight was more than enough. Who knew there'd suddenly be an extra slot today?
But she had nothing good to put in her hands now, and was about to leave when Lu Cai saw the phone that had been put into the card slot and never taken out again.
After a moment's thought, Lu Cai pulled out his phone. It was an ordinary phone, not too small, but not too big to be a brick. A bright yellow case protected its edges and corners, keeping the black screen dust-free.
Unfortunately, the phone still didn't work. No matter how many times she pressed the power button, there was no response.
After studying it for a while, she put the phone back into the card slot.
"Girl, are you hungry?" The old woman who had been pushing a cart came over and handed Lu Cai a cake. "This was given to me by that young man." She pointed to a sturdy man in coarse cloth in the crowd.
Lu Cai recognized him. When she woke up just now, she saw this man pushing the old woman's cart.
She took the cake, thanked her, stood up and helped the old woman sit down.
"I was really shocked when I saw you faint that day." The old woman also broke off a piece of cake and her eyes fell on Zhao Yan. "You and that Mr. Zhao are obviously not ordinary people, but you are willing to protect a group of helpless people. You really have the heart of a bodhisattva."
Cai Lu paused for a moment while biting the cake, then tore off a piece and started chewing.
A kindhearted person? She never thought that one day someone would call her that.
"Auntie, I didn't protect them. They were the ones struggling to survive on their own." Cai Lu swallowed the bread and looked at the people lying down to rest around him.
No one can truly protect another person. All those who survived here did so because they were struggling hard and running from the brink of death to the road of life.
Just like Lu Cai.
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On top of the towering city walls, the soldiers on night watch were concentrating their attention, paying attention to every blade of grass and every tree outside the walls.
Recalling yesterday, a woman who looked like a poisonous scorpion was found in the town, which frightened many people in the city. Every time they thought of the terrible scene yesterday, they were a little terrified.
The scorpion monsters appeared in large numbers, mainly from the distant mountains outside the town. So they all believed that it was a monster from the deep mountains, until a group of people came to the town and said that the scorpion monsters came from the capital.
No one believed it at first, until infected scorpion monsters kept appearing in the town. The group of people defended themselves in an orderly manner, and the young Taoist nun among them cast a spell to subdue the scorpion monsters. The doctor in coarse cloth took an iron rod and almost smashed the head of a scorpion monster with one blow. His movements were quick and without hesitation, and it was obvious that he was a veteran of many battles.
This group of people were exactly the ones who set out from the Princess Mansion in the capital. The situation in Shiqiang Town was unclear, and Dacheng did not tell them that they were from the Princess Mansion. He only told the mayor and the commander of the garrison that they had escaped from the capital.
As they walked along, they encountered an attack by a group of scorpions. Fortunately, their weapons had been processed by Lu Cai, and their power increased dramatically when dealing with the scorpion monsters. Shi Rukui and Yue Xiaoyan were there to help, so they finally escaped danger. Although a few people were injured, at least no one lost their lives.
After they entered the town, Dacheng tried to remind the garrison commander, but unfortunately the other party did not take them, a group of refugees, seriously. It was only after the group dealt with several scorpion monsters that they met General Qi.
Dacheng told General Qi exactly what Lu Cai had told him about the characteristics of the scorpion monster, and combined it with his experience in dealing with the scorpion monster in the past few days. The only thing he didn't mention was the speculation about the origin of the scorpion monster.
After the two of them finished discussing, Dachengcai said that the masters of the family would come in a while, and explained that the masters knew more about the scorpion monster than they, the servants, and pointed out that Shi Rukui and Yue Xiaoyan were the masters' friends.
Lu Cai is the princess's friend, and these two people are Lu Cai's friends, so they are of course the princess's friends.
Shi Rukui was bandaging the injured civilians. He was very skilled and was indeed a doctor. The injured people who passed through his hands calmed down quickly.
After General Qi left, Shi Rukui, who was treating the wounds of the wounded, looked up at the garrison commander who was walking away. After retracting his gaze, he glanced at Dacheng who was approaching.
Dacheng smiled awkwardly: "I'm really sorry for using Mr. Shi as a door-knocking stone."
Shi Rukui didn't bother with him. After all, it was for the safety of their group in the town.
With their own abilities, they got a vacant courtyard in a deep alley, which had three bedrooms, a main hall for receiving guests, and a side room used as a kitchen.
The girls lived in one room, the guards and Shi Rukui lived in one room, and another room was left for the Wang couple. The rest of the men slept on the floor in the kitchen and the main hall.
When it got dark, everyone had dinner and returned to their rooms except for the guards who were on night watch.
When Yue Xiaoyan and the other maids returned to the house, they saw Wang Shu sitting aside, fiddling with a purse. Although Wang Shu didn't like to talk, she was very kind to the people around her. People like her were very good at pleasing those around her.
The maids knew that she was Miss Lu's sister, but they felt that she was much easier to get along with than Miss Lu.
"Miss Wang, what are you doing?" A little girl walked over and greeted her.
Wang Shu looked up, still with a gentle smile on her face, but her gaze slowly fell on Yue Xiaoyan.
After playing with the little girls for a while, she finally sat down next to Yue Xiaoyan and asked, "When will my sister and the others arrive?"
If Lu Cai hadn't told her in advance that Wang Shu and the original owner didn't have a good relationship, Yue Xiaoyan would have believed her innocent expression.
"It should take another day or two." Yue Xiaoyan replied.
Wang Shu seemed relieved: "That's good—" Then she glanced at Yue Xiaoyan, "Master Yue and my sister have a good relationship."
"We've met a few times by chance and we get along very well." She didn't know whether Lu Cai felt they got along well, but Yue Xiaoyan felt they did.
"Really? My sister has always been stubborn and can't get along with anyone. I remember ten years ago, she would rather watch a beggar starve to death than give him a bowl of rice. She said the beggar didn't deserve it..." After she finished speaking, Wang Shu smiled, "My sister has always been willful, but she respects you and Mr. Shi very much."
"She is indeed a very insightful person. Even if she is a Bodhisattva, she will only save those who save themselves." Yue Xiaoyan's expression was calm and she sighed indifferently.
The author has something to say:
Regarding Zhao Yan’s special ability, I first wrote “rose”, but later I got confused and it became “rose”.
Because I thought of "There is a fierce tiger in my heart, but I can still smell the roses", the chapter after this one was named "roses".
I will slowly change what I wrote in the previous article~
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