Amuti was very fast and held Qin Shu steadily when she fell down the steep hillside.
Qin Shu was so frightened that her face turned pale. She was not only afraid of falling down the mountain, but also afraid that she would give up halfway and miss the chance to see Xie Lanzhi.
Her hands were shaking constantly, and she tried to push Amuti weakly.
"Thank you, I'm fine—"
Qin Shu's slight strength was not enough to push Amuti away, and she almost fell into Amuti's arms.
Amuti straightened the person, bent down, picked up Qin Shu, and put her on the steps to sit down.
"Sister-in-law, your foot is injured, let me take a look--"
Amuti knelt on one knee on the steps, and in the bright moonlight, he looked back and forth at Qin Shu's ankles.
"hiss--!"
Qin Shu exerted a little force with her left foot, and a piercing pain came over her.
Amuti noticed it and reached out to take off Qin Shu's shoes.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Qin Shu quickly dodged to the side regardless of the injury on her foot.
She said slowly, "I can do it myself. Don't touch me. Brother Lan will be angry if he knows."
Amuti's hand paused, as if he realized something, and suddenly withdrew his hand.
Qin Shu endured the piercing pain and felt her injured ankle with her hand.
She knew clearly how strong Xie Lanzhi's possessiveness was.
Although Xie Lanzhi didn't show it much over the years, Qin Shu still noticed it carefully.
Whenever other men looked at her for a second longer, or accidentally touched her intimately.
Xie Lanzhi would torture her severely several times at night and force her to say some obscene words that were difficult to say.
Qin Shu had complained about this in the past. She refused to acknowledge Xie Lan's death, and in order to make her shut up, she would often accidentally fire her gun and torment her in broad daylight.
With a click!
Qin Shu restored the dislocated ankle bone.
The pain at that moment made her raise her head involuntarily, and the tears from the corners of her eyes slid down her temples.
She inexplicably thought that if Xie Lanzhi were here, he would definitely hug her with heartache and whisper comforting words in her ears.
Xie Lanzhi's voice is very nice. In his youth, it was like the sound of water hitting rocks, clear and pleasant to the ear, and like a spring breeze blowing on the face, warming the heart.
As he has grown older over the years, his voice has become deeper, richer, more magnetic, more fascinating, and gives people a sense of security.
Qin Shu had no resistance to Xie Lanzhi's voice and was seduced again and again.
But at this time, the injured Qin Shu was not accompanied by the man who loved her deeply.
Qin Shu felt a pang of bitterness and sadness in her heart, and her longing for Xie Lanzhi reached its peak.
She sniffed, refusing to rest for a moment, stood up with her hands on the steps, and continued to climb up the mountain.
Amuti fell silent, staring at Qin Shu's back with his ink-black eyes, and followed her silently.
Within ten minutes, Qin Shu could no longer climb.
Her slender legs kept shaking and her breathing was disordered.
Qin Shu held onto a tree nearby and asked breathlessly, "How many steps did I climb?"
Amuti said very quickly: "Thirty-one thousand two hundred and eighty-six steps."
Qin Shu said disappointedly: "Not even half of it."
She closed her eyes, pulled out the dragon-patterned compass from her neck, and poured out a dark red pill from it.
Amuti walked up and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?"
Qin Shu put the pill into her mouth and swallowed it. "This is a pill that will allow me to reach peak physical strength within two hours."
Amuti's eyes darkened and he stared at her with complicated eyes.
Qin Shu stood there and rested for a few minutes. After feeling the strength she had consumed in her body return, she continued climbing without stopping.
In order to avoid wasting the medicine, she walked very hurriedly on the rest of the way.
Two hours later.
"Bang——"
Qin Shu missed a step and lost her balance, falling onto the stairs.
There are less than 30,000 steps to the Tianyuan Taoist Temple on the top of the mountain.
Qin Shu felt that her legs were useless. Even when she was lying on the steps, her legs were shaking violently.
Amuti walked to the front and knelt on the steps with his back to Qin Shu.
"Sister-in-law, I'll carry you for the rest of the journey."
Qin Shu raised her head with difficulty, looking at the man's muscular back, which gave her a sense of security.
She stretched out her trembling hand, brushed it against the hem of Amuti's clothes, pressed it on the cold stone steps, and climbed up with her weak legs.
Qin Shu concentrated all her strength on her hands. She had to open her slender hands, hook her nails on the stone steps, and slowly move her body.
Amuti watched Qin Shu pass by him, his pupils trembling violently.
This scene is so familiar.
It was so familiar that it made Amuti's heart ache.
His eyes instantly turned red, and his voice became hoarse and he said, "Sister-in-law—"
The sound was barely audible, but Qin Shu could hear it clearly in the quiet night.
In order to conserve her strength, she dared not speak a word and just silently climbed up the stairs one after another, her heart and eyes filled with the desire to see Xie Lanzhi.
The cold and hazy moonlight slanted, following Qin Shu's embarrassed moving figure, recording her miserable state.
Qin Shu crawled forward slowly, her ten fingers were rubbed by the cold and hard steps, her nails turned outward, and blood was dripping, staining the stone steps under her palms red.
Her clothes were stained with blood, and the shoes on her feet had fallen down the cliff half an hour ago.
Qin Shu's jade-like toes hit the stone steps, but she didn't feel any pain.
Except for the pain that stretched from her fingers to her heart, her whole body became numb and she crawled mechanically with firm belief.
Unfortunately, the weather was not good.
“Boom——!”
“Crack! Boom!!”
The night sky, which was just full of moonlight, was now covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder.
The rain poured down, and the big raindrops hit Qin Shu's thin body.
Amuti took off his coat and held it out to block Qin Shu's body.
"Sister-in-law, it's raining, let's go back."
Qin Shu paused for only a moment and continued to climb up. This time, she gripped the steps with more force.
No matter how careful she was, the steps washed by rain were still very slippery.
Qin Shu almost lost her grip and slid toward the cliff on the left.
Amuti blocked her with his body, his throat choked with sobs, and he said in a trembling voice: "Sister-in-law, you will die if you do this!"
The heavy rain washed over the steps, slowing down Qin Shu's climbing movements and speed.
She looked towards the top of the mountain and suddenly broke down: "Ahhhh——"
The hoarse and extremely unpleasant roar was so sorrowful that it made people feel her despair.
Why!
Why does God have to go against her!
It couldn’t rain at any other time, but it had to rain when she saw success!
After Qin Shu roared, she felt like going crazy and defying the will of heaven. She stared at a tree on the right, supported by her weak body, and crawled over, holding the trunk tightly with both hands.
She just stood there in the rain, slowly waiting for the heavy rain to stop.
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