Yun Zhi looked surprised to see Huo Yanqing there, a cryptic smile in his eyes.
When Lin Qixia heard Yun Zhi's sudden words, she was stunned for a second, and then she turned around and looked at Huo Yanqing.
A sense of loss inexplicably arose in my heart.
She thought that she hadn't seen him recently because he was just in the habit of hiding.
Didn't I expect that he left here without telling me?
Although she didn't say he couldn't leave, his quiet disappearance for a while without telling her still made Lin Qixia feel a little uncomfortable.
"What does this have to do with you?" Huo Yanqing retorted coldly to Yun Zhi's words.
Then he glanced at Lin Qixia discreetly, seemingly worried.
Yun Zhi was retorted by him, but just smiled and didn't say anything more.
"Then we'll be going now." Lin Qixia and Yun Zhi exchanged a few more words.
Afterwards, she and Huo Yanqing left the camp and returned to the mountain stronghold together.
The two remained very quiet throughout the journey, and Lin Qixia couldn't find any reason to ask him anything.
Moreover, the other party didn't seem willing to talk.
So she simply stopped asking. In any case, Huo Yanqing's level of corruption was quite stable and didn't change much, so he posed no threat to her for the time being.
She just needs to focus on her own plans.
Now that Chu Lan and her group have joined, her team has become even stronger.
I believe everything will develop faster than she planned.
After returning to the mountain stronghold, Lin Qixia had lunch at the canteen, and then, as usual, went to Lin Xiao's place to treat him.
Lin Xiao's condition improved day by day, and he gradually recovered to the point where he could walk and even participate in some simple daily patrol tasks.
Even if Lin Qixia tried to stop him, she couldn't.
However, under these circumstances, Lin Xiao recovered much faster than she had expected.
More than half a month later, he was almost like a normal person.
When Lin Xiao officially returned and appeared in the council hall, many people were surprised.
"What's wrong?" Lin Xiao asked, puzzled.
Zhang Chushan laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "I didn't expect you to learn it so quickly, bro!"
"Miss Lin's medical skills are truly amazing."
"Indeed, is there anything Miss Lin can't do?"
The council hall was filled with lively and cheerful voices, and many people gathered around Lin Xiao, looking him up and down as if he were some kind of miracle.
Lin Xiao frankly said, "Yes, it's all thanks to my second sister's medical skills that I was able to recover so quickly."
He was being praised by everyone, and he was all smiles.
Therefore, they didn't notice that someone in the corner wasn't very happy about Lin Xiao's quick recovery.
The man was sitting in a chair drinking tea when, for some reason, he swallowed some tea leaves and spat on the ground with an unhappy expression.
However, Lin Xiao's return was a done deal, and he quickly threw himself back into his work in the village.
Lin Qixia also managed to find some free time.
It was late that day. After explaining the final training arrangements to Lin Xiao, she lay down on the recliner in front of Lin Jiudong's door for a short rest.
At this moment, He Zhilan and Lin Yi were with their eldest brother Lin Xiao, and Lin Jiudong was on patrol, so only she was free.
The house where Lin Jiudong lives is in a very good location, near a lake.
With a gentle breeze blowing, Lin Qixia didn't feel very hot, and she was quite comfortable lying here.
Soon, footsteps approached, and she was suddenly awakened from her near-sleep.
"It's you back." She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Lin Jiudong.
However, when the other person emerged from the nearby darkness and appeared before her.
Lin Qixia then noticed a bloody hole in her abdomen and injuries on her face. As she struggled to walk up to her, the woman suddenly grabbed Lin Qixia's arm.
"Who—who hurt you?" Lin Qixia asked, her voice trembling with shock.
Lin Jiudong, on the verge of death, screamed at her with wide eyes, "Run—!"
As soon as she finished speaking, her head drooped and she fell into Lin Qixia's arms.
"Dong'er!" A rare hint of anxiety and pain appeared in Lin Qixia's voice.
Her hands were trembling so badly, but she still went to feel the other person's pulse.
It's gone. There's no breathing, no pulse.
She—is she dead?
Lin Qixia's mind was buzzing. Holding Lin Jiudong's body, she was somewhat bewildered and couldn't accept this reality for a moment.
"What are you still standing there for? The rebels are attacking!" Yun Zhi's voice came from not far away.
He shouted as he grabbed Lin Qixia's hand and tried to run away.
Lin Qixia was passively led by him, but her other hand was tightly gripping Lin Jiudong's corpse, so Yun Zhi had no way to drag her away.
"Rebels?" she asked, puzzled.
Yun Zhi frowned and replied, "Yes, the rebels, the Huo family's army. Huo Yanqing lured them here."
"Let her go, your sister is dead!"
Lin Qixia seems to have lost her hearing, or perhaps there's something wrong with her comprehension.
Otherwise, how could she not understand Yun Zhi's words?
Even if Huo's army wasn't completely wiped out, how could they return here from the far north?
Could it really have been Huo Yanqing who did it? He had long realized that he was lying to him, so after reuniting with the Huo family army, he devised a plan to return here and work from the inside to annihilate everything he had built with his own hands.
After going through all this trouble, was it all just to get revenge on me for lying to him?
Lin Qixia suddenly realized something, and a surge of anger rose in her heart.
"Let her go!" Lin Qixia snapped out of her daze and saw Yun Zhi tearing her dead sister's hand away, yelling at him.
Yun Zhi refused to compromise, "They've already stormed the village. If we don't leave now, we won't have time!"
"I know, give me a little more time," Lin Qixia said stubbornly.
She bent down and helped Lin Jiudong's body up, a movement that was extremely difficult.
Yun Zhi was puzzled by what she saw, but still went forward to help her.
Lin Qixia did not refuse. Together with the other person, she carried Lin Jiudong's body to the bed in her room, bent down and stroked her face, and murmured: "Sleep well, I will avenge you."
After saying that, Lin Qixia stood up again and said to Yun Zhi, "Let's go."
As she spoke, she walked towards the door.
Yun Zhi walked beside her, saying as they went, "Let's go to the council hall. There's a secret escape route there. You should remember it, right?"
"Okay," Lin Qixia replied.
At the same time, he was distracted and asked the system in the space: "Has Huo Yanqing's corruption value not changed? This is completely wrong!"
Either the system is malfunctioning, or there's something wrong with the process itself.
This time, however, her mind was completely silent; no one responded to her.
Lin Qixia was agitated, but she forced herself to calm down. Since the system was unreliable, she could only rely on herself.
She should have been prepared; this day was bound to come sooner or later.
When the system finds that it is not acting exactly as it has planned, it will cut off its resource support to her.
She just didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
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