148 Skeleton
◎Slowly raised his head◎
"No." As soon as Qi Qiuxue finished speaking, Li Yiqing immediately retorted, "I don't agree with you going out alone, Xue."
"You're just injured and weak. There are dangers everywhere out there, monsters, masked men. You can't handle these on your own."
"I know you have your own ideas, Xue." Li Yiqing met her gaze, his voice soft but firm, "But no matter what, I hope you can put your own safety first."
"Let me go with you," she said. "This time, I will definitely protect you."
“…”
Ten o'clock in the morning.
Through the gap in the glass window nailed shut with wooden boards, Qi Qiuxue saw that the thick fog in the forest seemed to have thinned a little.
Last night, Li Yiqing was determined and insisted on going out with her. Qi Qiuxue finally did not refuse and nodded in agreement.
She took out her weapon from under her pillow and left the room with Li Yiqing. Before going to bed last night, they had applied to their mother for permission to go out and had received her approval. Compared with the previous two days, her mother's condition still looked very grim.
Qi Qiuxue inexplicably smelled a faint fishy smell mixed with a hint of rottenness. While talking to her mother, she quietly looked for the source of the smell and finally determined that the unpleasant smell was coming from her mother.
How could a normal person have such a smell?
"Axue?" Perhaps sensing something, her mother raised her lips to meet her gaze. "What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing." Qi Qiuxue shook her head and said casually, "Did Mom take the medicine tonight?"
"Yes."
"How is the wound healing? Is it still painful?"
"Much better." The mother still smiled gently, her dark eyes wandering over Qi Qiuxue's body, finally stopping at her abdomen. "But you, my poor child, how are you?"
"It's nothing serious." Qi Qiuxue said truthfully, "It doesn't hurt anymore."
"That's good." Mom nodded slightly and fell into a brief silence after saying this.
So Qi Qiuxue also fell silent with her. The room was very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard. Qi Qiuxue looked quietly at the person in front of her, and the unreasonable tension and fear she had felt in the past resurfaced in her heart.
I don't know how much time has passed——
After a long silence, my mother suddenly spoke: "I want to have a good rest tomorrow. Ah Xue, please tell everyone not to disturb me tomorrow, okay?"
Qi Qiuxue nodded in response: "Okay, then we still need to deliver breakfast..."
"No need." Her mother interrupted her, her voice slow and low. "Didn't I tell you not to bother me?"
"My dear children, you must listen to your mother, right? Also, be careful when you go out tomorrow. Protect yourselves and don't go too far."
"It's too dangerous out there, there are hateful monsters everywhere." She smiled gently again, raised her hand and gently stroked Qi Qiuxue's face, saying softly, "Axue, no matter when or where, no matter what happens, you must always remember-"
"The safest place is with my mother."
“…”
The memories ended, and when passing by her mother's room, Qi Qiuxue deliberately stopped in front of the door for a moment.
The strange smell from yesterday smelled even stronger. Qi Qiuxue didn't know what her mother had done. She raised her hand to touch the door in front of her, and inexplicably felt a transparent, strange-touch mucus on the door.
When you put it under your nose and sniff it, you can smell a very fishy smell, with a hint of rot.
Qi Qiuxue slowly moved her hand down and gently grasped the door handle which was also stained with mucus. She had an intuition telling her that there must be some secret hidden behind the door. As long as she pushed open the door, she would definitely see something unexpected, or perhaps get clues unexpectedly and solve some doubts that had always troubled her mind.
But at the same time, there was another more powerful voice in her mind telling her not to do this.
——If you open the door in front of you, you will definitely pay a heavy price and regret it.
“…”
After a brief silence, Qi Qiuxue withdrew her hand, called Li Yiqing who was talking with Liu Ge and others, and turned to go downstairs together.
After leaving the facility, they quickly entered the forest ahead.
After learning from the last lesson, Li Yiqing stayed close to Qi Qiuxue this time, fearing that any unexpected situation would occur again.
Fortunately, the monster did not appear today.
They carefully collected mushrooms, wild fruits, and vegetables, and hunted some small animals. The fog around them made everything difficult. After several efforts, the two of them collected almost enough for two days.
The fog had thickened again since I didn't know when.
Qi Qiuxue looked up at the endless fog. If she was the masked person, perhaps now was the best time to take action.
It was as if I could read her thoughts——
Qi Qiuxue heard footsteps approaching from the forest behind her right.
Qi Qiuxue quickly put down everything in her hands, quickly pulled out the bone knife placed on her waist, turned around to resist the sudden attack of the masked man. Everything happened very quickly, and in a flash, the two had fought back and forth several times.
Seeing this, Li Yiqing decisively raised her crossbow, aimed at the masked man in front of her, and fired several arrows at him, but the other party seemed to have a premonition and dodged her attacks again and again with a light figure.
She seemed to not take Li Yiqing seriously at all, and only fought with Qi Qiuxue. With the experience of fighting with him yesterday and analyzing and summarizing other people's tactics and body movements, Qi Qiuxue grew a lot almost overnight.
There were many times when she resisted the attacks of the masked man, and there were also many times when she was even able to predict the other party's next move.
The masked man didn't seem surprised by this.
No one knows why it attacks people again and again, and no one can guess what its purpose is, including today's fight.
Qi Qiuxue vaguely felt that it seemed to be coordinating and controlling. Even though it was two against one, it still had the upper hand. Many, many times, it used the usual attack and avoidance methods of Liu Ge and others, as if it could read minds, confirming Qi Qiuxue's guess yesterday over and over again.
Until finally, it seemed tired of playing.
The masked man held Liu Ge's chain blade tightly in his left hand, and swung the chain forward gently. Like a flexible snake, the chain wrapped around Li Yiqing's body layer by layer, tightened her neck, and hung her in the air.
As the chains tightened, Li Yiqing felt her throat tighten and her breathing became increasingly difficult. She gritted her teeth in the intense feeling of suffocation and tried her best to aim the crossbow at the masked man on the other end of the chain again.
But obviously, the masked man's reaction was faster than hers. In just a moment, the bone knife in his right hand disappeared, and was replaced by Wu Shanyue's weapon - a gun.
It aimed the muzzle of the gun at the crossbow in Li Yiqing's hand. Several bullets hit her weapon, and several bullets grazed her wrist. In an instant, blood spurted out and fell along with the black crossbow.
The masked man did not give Qi Qiuxue a chance to rescue his companions.
In the next second, it raised its gun and pointed it at Qi Qiuxue in front of it, firing bullets without mercy, and this time, the bullets were aimed at her heart.
The time is very short, perhaps only a few milliseconds or even a few microseconds.
Li Yiqing, who was in mid-air, looked at Qi Qiuxue who was about to be shot. His pupils turned blood red in an instant. A huge skeleton seemed to appear out of thin air and blocked Qi Qiuxue at the moment when the bullet was about to hit her.
The bullet hit the white bones of the skull, like an egg hitting a hard stone, and shattered in an instant.
“…”
The huge skeleton locked its gaze on the masked man in front of it and slowly raised its head.
【Author’s words】
The memory has not been restored yet qwq
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