"I'm not on either side," Ji Yueyao said with a smile. "I just want to live a comfortable life, and besides, I find you particularly pleasing to the eye."
Chongyuan didn't speak, he just looked at Ji Yueyao and then suddenly chuckled.
"Ji Yueyao...you really are a strange fellow." Chong Yuan chuckled. "I wonder what it is about me that you find pleasing?"
Ji Yueyao looked at Chong Yuan's slightly roguish eyes and shrugged. "Hmm... if you hadn't given me the badge just now, I might have disliked you."
Chongyuan tapped the table twice with his fingers, then shrugged and said, "Okay, I agree to the cooperation you just mentioned. In return, I will do my best to protect you as my partner."
“Very good. I have one more thing to say: we must not let outsiders know about our cooperation.” Ji Yueyao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Chong Yuan agreed. To be honest, this was her first time negotiating face-to-face with someone, and her legs were shaking when she first walked in.
Don't be fooled by her smiling face just now; it's because if she didn't smile, her face would be so stiff that she couldn't make any expression.
“No problem.” Chongyuan blinked and chuckled as he looked at Ji Yueyao. “Little girl, but I guess outsiders already know that you came here this time. You know, I have quite a few spies planted here.”
Ji Yueyao glanced at him, very calmly, "When I came, I already had Bai... um, my partner take care of it. I've had your assistant avoid anyone here who is a suspect."
Chongyuan was speechless. He turned to look at Wang Zhilong, who nodded and then covered his face helplessly. "Ji Yueyao, how old are you this year?"
Wang Zhilong scratched his head as he looked at Ji Yueyao's calm expression. He thought that Ji Yueyao's subordinate had been staring at him threateningly and turning left and right just now, so it was to hide their whereabouts?
"At most, they might guess who came and what you talked about, but they would never guess it was me." Ji Yueyao spread her hands, gesturing for the termites that had been standing at the door to come in.
"Why didn't you come in earlier?" Chongyuan was startled when he saw the termites walking in from outside the door. He then glared at Wang Zhilong and said, "Why didn't you explain yourself clearly?"
Wang Zhilong felt wronged, because he had never had a chance to say it.
"The captain told me to wait." The white ant was even calmer than his captain, leaving Chongyuan speechless.
"Give him the thing," Ji Yueyao said, looking up at the termites.
The termite obediently took out a contract from its bag and handed it over. Chongyuan raised an eyebrow as he looked at the contract; it seemed they had been prepared all along.
“Although a contract doesn’t have any deterrent effect right now, it can still be considered a kind of proof.” Ji Yueyao said to Chong Yuan in her clear voice, “You probably won’t be able to find me for a while. I’ve already arranged the cooperation. If you have anything else to discuss, just talk to Lin Xuan.”
Ji Yueyao yawned. She hadn't slept all night to get these things done, and today was another day filled with both big and small problems.
However, now that she had finally sorted things out, she had to head to the Forbidden Forest, a dangerous place where one wrong move could mean certain death... Ji Yueyao suddenly smiled, her slightly curved eyes turning a strange, dark color, and waved to Chong Yuan, "Bye-bye."
"Bye-bye." Chongyuan nodded, staring blankly at Ji Yueyao's back, then revealed a wicked smile.
"My lord?" Wang Zhilong asked cautiously, sighing as he looked at Chong Yuan's cunning and treacherous smile. What terrible idea has my lord come up with this time?
"Anyway, the South Xiao Base is also a place where the strong are respected~" Chong Yuan muttered to himself, then cheerfully hummed a song.
...
In the dark forest, where a suffocating smell permeates the air, every blade of grass and every tree secretly harbors deadly danger.
The leaves rustled all around, but not a single ray of light could get in.
The faint sound of breathing clearly reached Mu Yanxuan's mind in this eerie environment. He leaned against a tree and used the bandages he always carried with him to treat his wounds.
Covered in mud, he looked quite disheveled, and his wounds were clearly showing signs of infection.
Since becoming a superhuman, his wound healing rate had been extremely high, but this injury was indeed too severe. Even if he recovered, it would probably take four or five days. Moreover, having lost too much blood, he was now parched. He quietly tried to move his left arm, which aggravated the wound on his right shoulder. A sharp pain struck him like lightning. He groaned, then gritted his teeth and continued to tightly bandage the wound.
He was really careless this time. He never expected that Yu Huo and Parrot, who had been on missions with him for four or five years, would actually be Qin Lichang's men.
You should know that in the past four or five years, they have done a lot of things in secret, and at the same time, they have had many opportunities to kill him by surprise. However, Yu Huo and Parrot neither passed on the confidential information to Qin Lichang nor made a move against him... It turns out that they were looking for an opportunity to absolutely get rid of him.
Mu Yanxuan closed his eyes wearily. Having not eaten or drunk anything for two days, he didn't even want to make a sound. He had originally intended to finish off Yu Huo in an instant, but suddenly his foot was tripped by something, and after being attacked by Yu Huo, he was sucked directly into the flowing mud beneath his feet in the darkness.
Looking at the dense forest around him, Mu Yanxuan breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected that there was another forest beneath the Forbidden Forest. What an unpleasant place.
"I'm so tired..." Mu Yanxuan casually plucked some of the rustling plants that were trying to entangle him and impatiently threw them far away.
The quiet world suddenly reminded him of the hatred and madness in his father's eyes before he died.
Tsk.
Mu Yanxuan suddenly opened her eyes and stood up, leaning against a tree. Her cold heart grew even more lifeless in this dark and despairing forbidden forest. Mu Yanxuan unconsciously touched her chest, paused, and then took out a small photograph from her pocket.
"Ji Yueyao." Mu Yanxuan stared intently at the happy Ji Yueyao in the photo, the loneliness in his heart gradually turning into a deep longing and love.
"I miss you." Mu Yanxuan wrapped his arms around himself and leaned against the tree behind him. He vividly recalled her voice, her soft hair, her every smile and gesture.
"I'm so cold." A familiar chill gradually welled up in her heart, enveloping all her softness. Mu Yanxuan gently touched Ji Yueyao's smiling face in the photo, leaving behind the only soft spot in her heart.
I miss the warmth she gave me.
...
Ji Yueyao set off for the Forbidden Forest that very night. If he left at night, he could enter the outer part of the Forbidden Forest early the next morning.
"Kachi, give me the water." Ji Yueyao looked at the rising sun on the horizon, then glanced back at the Forbidden Forest before her, which gave off a heavy and oppressive feeling. So this was the Forbidden Forest. (To be continued.)
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