Chapter 188 You Can’t Have It All
It is easier to find what you really need to find if you are not lost in illusions.
An Yan, Li Rongsen, and Yan Qingqiu searched the empty streets, but couldn't find Zhou Qianqian. Only Li Rongsen occasionally saw a few people, but when he focused his attention, he found that they had disappeared.
Suddenly, a woman's voice came: "Everyone come and see, it's cheap, clearance sale, two yuan each."
Li Rongsen thought it was his own hallucination, but when he heard An Yan say, "Let's go and take a look."
"Could it be her shouting there?" Yan Qingqiu also followed.
But at this time, An Yan also discovered that several black shadows flew past, and their speed was so fast that she could feel a gust of "wind" blowing past.
"What should we do now? Should we deal with these black shadows first, or go over and see the situation first?" Yan Qingqiu asked.
"Go find Zhou Qianqian. I'm more worried about her." An Yan said as she strode forward.
At this time, Zhou Qianqian walked out of a store, shouting at the top of her voice: "Come and see, everything is cheap, it's a clearance sale, everything is two yuan a piece, come and buy it." She was chewing on a stick, as if she was eating something delicious.
Yan Qingqiu frowned and said, "Perhaps, she mistook the stick for bread."
No matter what she thought, An Yan thought she couldn't eat anymore. She rushed forward to grab the stick from Zhou Qianqian's hand, but she dodged it and said, "Why are you stealing my food?"
After she finished speaking, she stuffed the entire branch into her mouth, which would burst her throat and made An Yan a little anxious, but she didn't want to hurt her.
Yan Qingqiu, who was standing by, had already kicked the stick in her hand, knocking it to the ground. He then said, "This is the only way."
An Yan didn't say anything. She said, "Qianqian, do you still recognize me?"
"Who are you?" Zhou Qianqian looked at them as if they were strangers, and said, "You want to buy something? If not, just leave quickly. I'm busy, and I have to collect money when people come in and out." As she spoke, she acted as if she was collecting money.
As soon as Li Rongsen's mind was distracted, he could see many people rushing into the store, grabbing things like they were running around without paying, and everyone lined up to give their money to Zhou Qianqian.
Zhou Qianqian was also enjoying receiving them.
An Yan took out the golden needle and grabbed Zhou Qianqian's hand. When she was about to give her the acupuncture, she was thrown away by her. She said, "You are such a vicious woman. It's not enough that you harmed my mother, and now you want to harm me too. It really makes me sick!"
"Qianqian, come here, I won't hurt you." An Yan gently gestured for her to come over.
"You guys go away." Zhou Qianqian refused and went to the store to sit at the table and start eating.
There were several basins on the table, filled with dirty water and rotten leaves.
Yan Qingqiu stepped forward and kicked over everything on the table, saying, "An Yan, knock her out and take her away."
"Then be gentle." An Yan reminded him.
Yan Qingqiu was about to make a move when he saw Zhou Qianqian banging her head against the wall, shouting, "Let me out! I don't want to stay here! Let me out!"
"I feel like she's completely crazy." Li Rongsen frowned and went over to hold her, but her forehead was broken and bleeding.
"Zhou Ziyi deserves to die. He is truly inhuman." An Yan walked forward and gave Zhou Qianqian an injection in the temple when she saw that she had no strength to struggle.
Zhou Qianqian finally quieted down at this moment. Her eyes began to focus as she looked at An Yan and said, "An Yan, you are in my dream. I am so tired."
"Qianqian, don't be afraid, come with me, everything will be fine."
"No, I can't leave. There are so many people here who want to catch me. I have to hide quickly." Zhou Qianqian said as she was about to find a hiding place.
An Yan took her arm and said, "Don't be afraid as long as I'm here. I will drive them away."
"Mom, I miss you so much. You're back again?" Zhou Qianqian started crying again.
Li Rongsen and Yan Qingqiu looked at each other and both felt deeply helpless.
"Come on, follow mom." In order to make her listen to her, An Yan could only temporarily play the role of her mother.
Sure enough, Zhou Qianqian stood up obediently and walked out next to An Yan.
Yan Qingqiu led the way in front, and Li Rongsen followed behind. He originally wanted to protect An Yan, but his control over his consciousness became worse and worse, and he always saw someone passing between him and An Yan.
Even so, he still saw a hand holding an awl behind Zhou Qianqian.
An Yan was determined to protect Zhou Qianqian. She was completely defenseless against her, so how could she have thought that Zhou Qianqian wanted to harm her?
"An Yan, be careful!" Li Rongsen said as he went up to pull Zhou Qianqian away. He held her hand that was about to stab him, but he was troubled by hallucinations and saw someone passing in front of him again, so he loosened his hand a little, which gave Zhou Qianqian an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Zhou Qianqian's eyes turned blood red in an instant, and she stabbed the awl into Li Rongsen's body with her backhand.
An Yan then realized that it was Zhou Qianqian who was trying to harm her. She immediately slapped her to the ground, then looked at Li Rongsen, supported him, and said, "How are you?"
Li Rongsen was speechless, as if all his strength had been drained away. He gradually lost consciousness and closed his eyes.
"An Yan, pull out the awl quickly, otherwise it will dissolve into your body." Yan Qingqiu told her in a raised voice, and then subdued Zhou Qianqian, asking her to squat on the ground and not move.
"Let me go, you bunch of trash, you evil people who deserve a bad death!" Zhou Qianqian shouted heartbreakingly.
Yan Qingqiu had a terrible headache. After slapping the back of her head with a palm, she finally felt relieved.
An Yan didn't have time to look at Zhou Qianqian. She looked at the awl that had pierced Li Rongsen's body and found that the handle of the awl was indeed sinking into his body little by little. She held it with one hand and then pulled it out, splashing blood all over her body. Then she took out medicine from her bag and applied it on the wound, and took his pulse.
"This is a cursed killing. One of the person holding the spike and the person hit by the spike must die." An Yan suddenly felt sad. She didn't want to make a choice, especially this kind of life and death choice.
Yan Qingqiu had no feelings for Zhou Qianqian. He only said, "An Yan, don't hesitate. Save Li Rongsen quickly, otherwise it will be too late."
"No, no, Qianqian can't die either." An Yan took out a golden needle and pierced it directly into Zhou Qianqian's heart chakra, and then pierced another one into Li Rongsen's heart chakra.
"Everyone has to make choices. Having the best of both worlds is like the carrot placed in front of the donkey, a carrot that it can never eat." Yan Qingqiu noticed that An Yan was struggling and added, "If this continues, both of them will die. No one will survive."
An Yan ignored this and began to wrap Li Rongsen's wound with cotton yarn. Fortunately, her bag had everything she needed. She took out a pill and stuffed it into his mouth.
At this time, three dark shadows came over and circled around them.
"Stop turning around, aren't you feeling dizzy?" Yan Qingqiu shouted.
There were three people standing in front of them, each holding three black snakes in their hands, spitting out their tongues, as if they wanted to tear Yan Qingqiu and An Yan into pieces.
"I know you are from Huashe Mountain. I have never had any grudges against you. Why do you want to pick on me and obey Zhou Ziyi's orders?" An Yan asked them.
One of them answered irrelevantly: "They both won't live long. Either they will both die, or one will live and the other will die. It's impossible for both of them to live."
An Yan naturally knew this truth, but she felt a little annoyed when she heard it with her own ears.
(End of this chapter)
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