Chapter 24 Li Xiao's Independent Side Story - Obsession (Nine)
Feeling the unexpected heat, Li Xiao withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
"Hey, Taoist priest, wake up! You stinky Taoist, are you alright?"
Li Xiao called out several times and finally saw the long, drooping eyelashes twitch slightly, revealing a pair of watery eyes with unfocused black pupils that swayed slightly.
"you--"
Before Li Xiao could even breathe a sigh of relief, the Taoist's eyes closed silently again, his brows furrowing as he looked half-dead and miserable.
This is……
"He must be sick. According to what you said, the young sect leader caught a chill before. This cold and wind entered his body, and with excessive drinking, he accidentally developed a fever. Taking some medicine and sweating it out will make him better."
Lin An stood by the bed with a distressed expression, looking at the unconscious Taoist priest, feeling utterly miserable.
He was originally a little wild rabbit in the mountains. After finally achieving enlightenment, he fell into the clutches of a demon hunter while just going down the mountain to buy soy sauce.
I thought I was going to die on the spot, but unexpectedly, there was always a way out.
The demon hunter who had originally trapped Lin An suddenly got into a fight with a teenager halfway through the journey.
The young man was incredibly powerful; the remaining force of his whip blade was just enough to cleave through the magical artifact that was trapping Lin An.
Lin An, having barely escaped, was about to take advantage of the chaos to run away and make a quick getaway when he was grabbed by the ear and lifted up.
The bright red rabbit's eyes suddenly met a pair of deep, emerald-green pupils.
Almost instantly, Lin An froze, as if the blood in his body had been frozen. This was... the instinctive reaction of an animal when facing a predator.
"Those rude guys made me lose a rabbit, so I had to make do with you."
The boy smiled, his crimson lips curving upwards, but the words he uttered chilled Rabbit's heart.
—Ahhhh, if I had known that even just casually going out to buy soy sauce would attract the attention of a demon, I would have rather just smashed my head against a tree and died.
Lin An really wanted to argue that he had absolutely no connection with those people and was just an ordinary victimized rabbit... Besides, isn't it said that the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
—Waaaaah, it turns out that everything in the storybooks was just a lie to the bunny.
Along the way, Lin An wanted countless times to share his final words with his fellow sufferers.
Unfortunately, the other party was clearly not yet sentient and could not understand what he was saying, let alone comprehend the complex and turbulent inner journey of a young demon.
Finally, Lin An and his fellow rabbits were swayed and led to a simple, unadorned courtyard.
Sitting in the courtyard was a Taoist priest, who turned out to be the young sect leader that the group that had captured him were looking for!
—Oh my god. Since he's the leader of those guys, he must be a really bad guy.
Lin Ansheng thought with despair.
Unexpectedly, the Taoist priest did not pull out a butcher's knife. Instead, he skillfully set his bones and gently fed him and his fellow sufferers the vegetable leaves that the great demon had bought.
To be honest, as a rabbit that has transcended base desires, Lin An would not easily accept food from a human...
Ahem, as for why I'm opening my mouth now, it's only to repay the Taoist's kindness in correcting my bones, not because I can't resist the temptation of delicious food.
Crunch, crunch, crunch—ah, I must say, it really smells good.
Not only were the vegetable leaves delicious, but the places where the other person touched with their palm also felt incredibly comfortable.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, being a pet rabbit doesn't seem so hard to accept—if you get fresh vegetables and an amazing full-body massage every day.
but……
Soon, the conversation between the Taoist priest and the demon shattered Lin An's unrealistic and beautiful fantasy.
Oh, God!
It turns out that this Taoist priest not only wanted to eat him, but also wanted to devour him in various ways. He not only wanted to desecrate his body after death, but also to deceive his feelings while he was alive...
Haha, although I feel wronged, I'm about to become a mouse.
Fortunately, at the last minute, the two men disagreed on the tools used in the crime and parted on bad terms.
The demon seemed to have temporarily shelved his plan to make braised rabbit. With a 50% chance of survival, Lin An became the lucky rabbit who temporarily saved his life.
Although, just seeing that rabbit's miserable death gave him nightmares all night.
Don't ask him how he fell asleep. As a young rabbit who just narrowly escaped death, isn't it perfectly normal for him to fall asleep from exhaustion? It's not that he's careless.
Half-asleep, Lin An almost collapsed when he opened his eyes and saw the demon.
So you're eating meat first thing in the morning? Just how delicious is this rabbit meat?!
Haha, he almost wanted to cut off a piece and try it himself...
The devil's next words brought Lin An back to his senses.
"Go and see how that Taoist priest is doing?"
Look—look at the Taoist priest? What? Oh, so he didn't want to eat me after all.
Lin An breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Then I felt a deep sense of confusion—why should I make him go see it?
"Aren't you all in cahoots?" the demon asked impatiently, frowning.
No... of course not.
Lin An instinctively wanted to deny it, but his survival instinct told him that nodding was the right thing to do at this point. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have a chance to regret it later.
Lin An had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to the Taoist's bedside. It was thanks to his years of experience in the human world, where he had been to many places, both the soy sauce shop and other places, that he was able to figure things out.
He explained his judgment in detail, but the demon remained silent for a long time.
The room was eerily quiet. Lin An didn't even dare to swallow, his heart pounding like a drum.
You're saying he's sick?
After a long silence, the demon finally uttered a sentence.
Lin An hurriedly nodded in agreement, his attitude extremely sincere: "Really, really, I would never, ever dare to lie to you!"
"Okay, go out and buy the medicine."
"ah?"
Lin An thought he had misheard.
Realizing he hadn't misunderstood, he quickly turned his back and carefully retreated. But halfway there, a sharp pain shot through his chest.
"You know what happens if you run away."
The demon's voice came from behind.
To be honest, Lin An didn't really want to know, but he still obediently kept his mouth shut, tucked his tail between his legs, and ran out in a flash.
With him gone, only the two of them remained in the room.
Li Xiao lowered his eyes to look at the unconscious Taoist priest, and a genuine look of confusion suddenly appeared on his originally cold face.
He then murmured, "How could you possibly be sick?"
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