Qiqi glanced at the fruit and nodded, "It's edible, isn't it..."
Upon hearing that it was edible, Huo Yuwei rolled up his sleeves and climbed the tree.
The second half of Qiqi's sentence got stuck in her throat, rolled around, and then she swallowed it back down.
Oh well, it's just a minor aftereffect, nothing serious.
Soon, Huo Yuwei returned with a bag full of bright red fruit and handed it to Qiqi, saying, "Eat up."
Qiqi: "Thank you, but no thanks. I don't want to eat fruit right now."
Huo Yuwei found it quite novel to hear the little girl say she didn't want to eat for the first time.
But considering she had just eaten a lot, it's understandable that she couldn't eat now.
He picked one up, wiped it on his clothes, and threw it directly into his mouth. "If you want to eat it later, ask your big brother for some."
"Okay!" Qiqi nodded obediently.
No need to wait, she'll never want to eat this fruit in her life.
There's no other reason, it's mainly because I don't want to lose face!
The fruit was small, but surprisingly juicy, with a sweet and sour taste, and quite delicious.
Huo Yuwei ate them one after another, chewing them twice before swallowing.
Before long, he had eaten a small bag.
As he walked, Huo Yuwei sensed something was wrong.
"Wait, something's wrong here!" Huo Yuwei's expression tightened. He quickly cocked his submachine gun, fired a burst of bullets at a tree not far away, and shouted sharply to Qiqi, "Qiqi, run! This tree is full of snakes!"
Qiqi: ……
She looked at the willow branches hanging from the tree, swaying in the wind, and sighed softly in her heart.
Big brother's alcohol tolerance... seems a bit low!
He only ate a little fruit and he's already so drunk he can't even tell the difference between a willow branch and a snake?
Back then, my fourth junior brother ate the fruit of an entire tree before he went mad and kicked over her alchemy furnace. He was then hung up and beaten, and it took him a month to recover.
"Qiqi, why aren't you... wait, why are there two Qiqi? No, wait, why are there three?"
Huo Yuwei raised his gun and pointed it at Qiqi's location. "Tell me, which one of you is the real one?"
Qiqi: ……
Looks like I won't be able to leave today.
"Big brother, you should take a nap first!" After saying that, he took out a sleeping talisman and threw it out.
Da da da!
As a result, Huo Yuwei fired a burst of bullets, turning Qiqi's talismans into sieves.
If she hadn't been fast enough to dodge, she probably would have been riddled with bullets.
Oh my god, Brother Huo is so scary when he's drunk!
As Qiqi dodged, she threw out talismans, but Huo Yuwei, as expected of a highly skilled special forces soldier, used his superior sense of danger and reaction ability to shoot all her talismans off with bullets.
Qiqi: ……
There was no other way. She didn't want to use violence, but Brother Huo forced her to.
She didn't want to waste her talisman paper anymore; drawing talismans was too much trouble.
With her agile and elusive figure, Qiqi dodged bullets and arrived in front of Huo Yuwei with her superb movement skills.
Huo Yuwei's pupils contracted when he saw that the bullets missed her. "What kind of monster are you?"
He threw a punch at her.
Qiqi grabbed his fist with her small hand. Her hand was too small to hold it completely, so she only managed to grab a tiny bit, but she easily blocked his attack.
"I'll tell you if you beat me!" Qiqi threw his fist away, then jumped up and punched him in the face with her little fist.
Click!
There was a crisp sound of a nose breaking. Huo Yuwei covered his nose and took two steps back. Qiqi's little fists took the opportunity to land a series of slaps on him.
Huo Yuwei discovered that this little girl was terrifyingly strong.
Such a tiny little thing, yet its fists are like iron fists, even stronger than those of professional boxers.
Huo Yuwei was completely overwhelmed and unable to defend himself.
She yelled, "What kind of monster are you? Where is my Qiqi? Where did you take her?"
Seeing that he was so drunk but still cared about her, Qiqi felt a little guilty, but she still ruthlessly attacked him.
The sound of fists landing solidly sent chills down one's spine.
"Big brother, fall down!"
Finally, Qiqi rushed forward with a push, jumped up by touching the ground with her toes, and used the back of his kicking leg for leverage.
Bang!
A chop to the neck landed on Huo Yuwei.
Huo Yuwei rolled his eyes and fainted.
The tall, muscular body crashed to the ground, and Qiqi quickly threw several paper figures away.
The paper figures landed, rushed over and hurriedly caught him, carefully placing him on the ground.
Just then, Tiger Eagle returned after his outburst. Seeing Huo Yuwei lying on the ground with a bruised and swollen face, it was impossible to tell whether she was dead or alive. He immediately let out a strange cry, "Damn, little girl, what grudge did you hold against her for being so ruthless?"
He glanced again at the mess left by Huo Yuwei's submachine gun and sighed.
"Isn't he your brother? What deep-seated hatred could possibly warrant such a deadly attack?"
"If we don't knock the big brother out, he'll destroy the whole place."
"No, what exactly happened..." At this point, the Tiger Eagle Regiment suddenly noticed the bright red fruit in Huo Yuwei's bag, their eyes widening in surprise, "He ate the Forget-Me-Not Fruit?"
"Mmm!" Qiqi nodded, gesturing with her hand, "And she ate so much!"
"No, why didn't you stop me?" Tiger Eagle suddenly took three steps back, creating distance. "Don't you know that eating the Forget-Me-Not Fruit will produce extreme hallucinations, the kind that people fear most? In that extreme hallucination, people will lose their minds, act only on instinct, and fight to the death!"
"I don't know what this is, how would I know it's really powerful?" Qiqi pretended to be clueless. "I'm just a three-year-old child, I don't understand these things at all."
Tiger Eagle: ...
Do you really think he's blind?
If she really doesn't understand, he'll twist his head off and let her kick it like a ball!
However, Huo Yuwei had already been knocked unconscious and posed no threat, so Hu Ying didn't bother to find out whether she genuinely didn't know or was pretending not to.
He was more curious about something else.
"How come I remember that the Forget-Me-Not Tree in this illusion was uprooted by that little girl a thousand years ago? How come there's another one now? Am I remembering wrong?"
When he said that, Qiqi remembered it too.
Upon entering the secret realm, she discovered a Worry-Free Tree. Because she loathed it so much, she immediately drew her sword and chopped it down. Not satisfied with that, she even uprooted the tree and burned it with Samadhi Fire. Logically, there should have been no reason for it to survive.
So where did this Ashoka tree come from?
Qiqi looked around and quietly released her divine sense to investigate.
They found nothing; the entire secret realm was very quiet, with no unusual aura whatsoever.
But cleanliness is sometimes the biggest problem.
It seems this secret realm holds some secrets she doesn't know about!
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