Chapter 170 Mermaid
Hua Jue was covered in blood and carrying the unconscious Huo Gannian on his back.
Huo Luyu carried Yun Chen, who was also unconscious and had half of his back burned, on his back.
The two of them ran wildly in the dark night, completely unaware of the way ahead and the direction. They only knew that the torches and horse hooves of the Black Scale Cavalry were chasing them, so they didn't dare to stop at all.
She ran and ran, and the branches caught Huo Luyu's hair and the thorns pricked her feet, leaving them covered with bloody wounds.
An unknown amount of time passed until the sound of the Black Scale Cavalry's hooves grew farther and farther away, the surroundings fell into silence again, the light of dawn rose, and a shallow ford appeared before their eyes. Only then did the two finally dare to stop and rest.
Hua Jue was too tired to stand up. He bent over and knelt on the ground, gasping and coughing, and spitting out the blood in his mouth.
He put Huo Gannian on the ground and checked his injuries. He found that there was blood on Huo Gannian's forehead and the place where he was hit by the fireball was still bleeding.
Huo Luyu also followed Hua Jue's example and checked Yun Chen's injuries. It would have been fine if she hadn't looked, but once she did, she screamed out in shock:
"Huo Chen! Look at Yun Chen! Come and see her!"
Hua Jue quickly ran over and covered Huo Luyu's mouth, listening nervously with his ears tilted.
After listening for a long time and not hearing the sound of the Black Scale Cavalry chasing after him, Hua Jue let go of his hand and hurried to check on Yun Chen, his heart suddenly sinking.
Yun Chen's eyes were closed and his hair was disheveled. It was impossible to see where the wound was. One could only see that his hair had been clotted into a thick mass by the blood.
Half of her back to her neck was burned, and her clothes, flesh, branches and leaves, dirt... were all stuck to her body, making it impossible to lay her flat on the ground.
Seeing this, Hua Jue had no choice but to ask Huo Luyu to sit cross-legged and put Yun Chen's upper body on her legs.
Huo Luyu hugged Yun Chen carefully. Her hand touched the back of Yun Chen's head, which was sticky and covered in blood. There was a piece of unknown thing wrapped under her hair, and it felt movable.
Not daring to take off the "thing" rashly, Huo Luyu gently parted Yun Chen's hair to take a look, and his face immediately turned pale.
It was a thin fragment of skull.
When the fireball stone covered with kerosene flew over, Yun Chen rushed forward and blocked most of the heavy blow for Huo Gannian, but she herself was hit directly on the skull.
Huo Luyu tried hard not to scream, but she was still panicked and at a loss, and kept muttering to herself, "What should I do, what should I do?"
Hua Jue held Huo Luyu's shoulders and comforted him gently:
"Don't be afraid, Achen will be fine. He's suffered more serious injuries before, so this is nothing. Yu Yu, do me a favor. I'm handing Achen over to you until he wakes up. You have to take good care of him, okay?"
Huo Luyu nodded heavily, her expression gradually becoming serious. Something that could not be described as emotion or responsibility quietly rose in her heart.
She tied her hair up hastily, took a deep breath, and began to clean Yun Chen's wound carefully.
Hua Jue tore his coat into strips, bandaged himself simply, then limped towards the shallows, groped for a while, and caught five or six small silver fish as long as fingers.
He cleaned the fish, removed its head, and handed it to Huo Luyu.
"Eat it. Only after eating can you have the strength to go out. Making a fire will easily attract enemies, so you can only eat raw food."
As if to show Huo Luyu how to eat, Hua Jue picked up a silverfish, tilted his head back and swallowed it in one gulp without even chewing it.
This scene gave Huo Luyu goosebumps.
She looked at the fish in her hand with disgust, which smelled fishy, and then looked at Yun Chen's miserable back, and couldn't help retching.
After Huo Luyu finished speaking, Hua Jue deliberately put on a relaxed tone:
"I guess you don't know this kind of fish. This one is called the thumb mermaid."
Huo Luyu glanced at the silver fish and asked with his breath still unsteady:
"She looks ordinary, not like a beauty."
Hua Jue said, "This fish doesn't look like a beauty, but its bones and flesh can be used as medicine to make women's skin smooth and white, and their faces rosy, hence the name. If you eat it, you will be at least several times younger and more beautiful than women of the same age!"
Huo Luyu looked unconvinced, but seeing Hua Jue's solemn look, she felt that the fish in her hand was not so disgusting anymore. She closed her eyes, made up her mind, and swallowed the fish in one gulp.
Hua Jue gave a mischievous grin: "As expected, using 'beauty and skin care' to deceive women is always very effective."
Huo Luyu finally realized he had been tricked and angrily threw a small stone at Hua Jue. But after eating the two small fish, although he was not full, he seemed to have regained some strength.
"Huo Chen, can we get out alive?" Huo Luyu asked in a low voice, looking at the unconscious Yun Chen.
"Of course we can. We've all encountered more terrifying assassinations in the past, and we managed to survive. This is nothing compared to what we're facing now!" Hua Jue's face showed no trace of worry as he continued:
"The young master still has 3,000 infantrymen at his disposal in Guying City. Seeing the forest fire here, they'll definitely come to the rescue. I estimate we'll be out in a day at most. After all, I'm your cousin, how dare you call me by my first name?"
After hearing Hua Jue's words, Huo Luyu was obviously more excited. She rolled her eyes slightly:
"I don't have a crybaby cousin like you. I've been crying since I was a child. I guess I'm still the same now, right?"
Hua Jue laughed and said, "I'm going to pee," then went into the woods.
Huo Luyu frowned, covered his ears, and shouted in dissatisfaction:
"Huo Chen! You've become a rough guard now! You don't look like a young master from a noble family at all!"
Hua Jue had walked to a place where Huo Luyu could not see him. The smile on his face slowly faded. He endured the pain and lifted the bandage on his abdomen, looking at the deepest and most fatal wound.
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