Anhe stared at her in astonishment, stammering, "But this is a wasteland, uninhabited. How could we possibly get out in a day..."
Shu Yun lowered her eyelashes and said softly, "Yes, there are only the three of us here..."
Anhe stood there blankly. She didn't know how to exorcise demons, let alone how to exchange hearts, and there was no one else around...
If the person whose heart was taken wasn't her, then who else could it be?
She swallowed hard and quietly moved away from Shu Yun. She and Brother Pei were both people who fought against demons. If they really fought, how could she possibly be a match for Shu Yun?
Shu Yun stood up, but the movement was too fast, and blood couldn't be supplied immediately. She held her head and rested for a while.
Ignoring An He's little tricks, she tore off a piece of her clothes to simply bandage the penetrating wound on her shoulder. After resting for a while, she took advantage of the fact that Pei Ju and her blood had not yet congealed and began to draw talismans using that blood.
While Shu Yun was quietly drawing talismans, An He huddled in a corner, her body trembling uncontrollably. She had imagined many escape scenarios in her mind, but she was injured in the leg and could not walk fast. Moreover, Shu Yun knew demon-catching magic, so her chances of escaping were very low.
Although she liked Brother Pei, she was also afraid of dying, not to mention that having her heart ripped out might make her die slowly and painfully.
She was terrified of pain. She only started living a good life after meeting Brother Pei, and she didn't want to die like this. To put it more selfishly, wouldn't her death be a blessing for Shu Yun and Brother Pei?
She wanted to be the one standing beside Brother Pei in the future.
Anhe secretly glanced at Shuyun, who was busy drawing talismans. She was already injured, and the busy array drawing talismans had consumed a lot of energy. Her face was getting paler and paler, her movements were getting slower and slower, and she was taking more and more frequent breaks.
Her hands, which were wrapped around her knees, trembled slightly as she silently watched Shu Yun's retreating figure.
With the final stroke, the array was too complex; the blood left behind had long since turned dark and congealed into lumps, making it unusable for drawing more runes.
Having no other choice, Shu Yun had to unwrap the bandaged wound to use the blood as a base before she could finish drawing the array talisman.
After finishing the last stroke, she breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and turned to look at Anhe. "That's good enough."
Anhe huddled in the dim light, remained silent for a moment, then got up and walked towards her, her voice low, "Use my heart."
Upon hearing this, Shu Yun looked up and stared at her for a while. Although she had always disliked An He's occasional willfulness, it now seemed that she truly liked Pei Ju.
"No need," Shu Yun shook her head, "I can do it."
When she was young, she encountered danger while catching demons. At the critical moment, she was saved by Pei Ju, who was also seriously injured and took a long time to recover.
She owed him her life, and originally wanted to follow behind him and protect him as much as possible to repay his life-saving grace, but now it seems that's probably not possible.
But this is for the best; a life for a life, so it's even.
Anhe looked at her in surprise, "You came?"
Shu Yun nodded, "I am too weak right now. After I perform the heart dissection, I won't have the strength to put the heart into Pei Ju's chest cavity. I will need to trouble Miss An then."
Anhe was stunned: "No...no problem."
She should have realized that, given Shu Yun's personality, she would never abandon others to save herself; she was always wary of human nature.
Shu Yun approached the bed, grasped the hilt of the knife at her waist with her palm, and slowly pulled the knife out.
The blade pressed against his chest; even through the fabric, he could feel the chill of the cold iron.
She glanced down at Pei Ju's ashen face, her eyelashes drooping down to cover her eyes, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking.
The spider demon's forelegs were dark and covered with inverted barbs. She endured the pain and pulled the barbs out against the direction of the barbs, the barbs scraping against her flesh, causing her extreme pain.
Before she could catch her breath, she dodged the demon's foreleg, which pierced through the air and shattered the rock, barely grazing her waist and tearing her outer garment.
If she had hesitated for even a second because of the pain when removing the barb, she might have been pierced through her internal organs and died.
Shu Yun withdrew her gaze, closed her eyes, and thought, "That's enough. I'm just repaying a favor anyway, so there's no need to dwell on it."
Now that she has saved his life, the score between them is settled.
With a slight exertion of force, the tip of the knife was about to pierce her chest when a thin dagger pierced through her chest first.
Blood trickled from the corner of Shu Yun's mouth, and she coughed up two mouthfuls of bloody foam.
She glanced down at the dagger protruding from her chest, feeling somewhat helpless.
Anhe's hands trembled as she twisted the dagger to extract the heart. She didn't dare look at Shu Yun's gradually unfocused pupils, muttering, "Don't blame me, you also donated your heart willingly..."
Shu Yun suddenly stopped moving, and An He had a bad feeling. She suddenly realized that Shu Yun might lower her guard first, and then make her move when she was off guard.
She had no choice but to strike first.
She held the still-warm heart in her hands, trembling all over, and placed it into Pei Ju's chest cavity.
In a farmhouse in the desolate mountains, the array symbols drawn in blood shone brightly, and the gears of the forbidden technique began to turn.
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