It was a realistically nauseating black skull, as if it had just been pulled from hell, covered in bits of flesh and blood!
Its eye sockets were no longer filled with burning flames, but with two bottomless holes that constantly dripped thick black blood!
[Skull.gif]!
This emoji, representing the ultimate threat of death, appeared above Xiao Che's head in an unprecedented, ferocious, and cruel form at this moment!
Lin Wanwan's breath was completely taken away in that instant!
A chilling fear, as cold as ice, gripped her heart like the claws of countless demons, causing her blood to run backwards in an instant!
She knew that death had come.
However, Xiao Che, the person directly involved who was shrouded in the shadow of death, was completely unaware of this.
His entire attention seemed to be drawn to the sacred and beautiful "auspicious creature" ahead. In his eyes, it was prey that signified destiny, the best proof to answer all doubts and fears.
He slowly, with an almost reverent focus, drew a golden-feathered arrow from the quiver on his horse.
He nocked the arrow to the bowstring with steady, powerful movements, showing no sign of his lingering internal injuries. He slowly raised the longbow in his hand, his muscles tensing, drawing the bowstring into a full, round shape.
Through the bowstring, his gaze, like that of a hawk, precisely locked onto the vital point of the white deer ahead.
He was so engrossed that the whole world seemed to consist only of him and his prey, completely unaware that in the depths of the dense forest not far to his side, true death had already bared its deadly fangs.
Lin Wanwan's heart was about to jump out of her chest!
She dared not look at the eerie white deer any longer. She stared intently at the terrifying skull dripping blood above Xiao Che's head, her brain working at its limit at that moment!
Where is the danger?!
Where is the killer?!
Her gaze was like a frantically scanning radar, frantically scanning the surrounding environment in the direction the skull vaguely pointed!
Finally, her gaze settled on an unusually dense thicket to Xiao Che's left!
That thicket grew more lush than anywhere else around it, its dark green leaves layered upon each other, forming a natural, perfect screen of shade. In such a dim forest, it was the perfect hiding place!
That's it!
Alarm bells rang in Lin Wanwan's mind, and she almost instinctively wanted to shout to warn Xiao Che.
However, just as she was about to open her mouth, she saw that Xiao Che's fingers, which had been fully drawn back on the bowstring, began to slowly loosen!
He's about to fire the arrow!
A hunter will never make a sound when his prey is about to be startled!
The assassin has been waiting for this moment!
Just as Xiao Che was about to release the bowstring—
A jet-black, unreflective arrow, like the tongue of a venomous snake reaching out from the deepest hell, shot out silently from the dense bushes!
There was no sound of wind breaking, no vibration of the bowstring, and not even the slightest fluctuation in the air!
That arrow, like a phantom of death appearing out of nowhere, was faster than the limits of human reaction, aiming straight for Xiao Che's unsuspecting heart at a tricky and deadly angle!
It’s over!
It's too late!
The moment Lin Wanwan saw the arrow, her mind went completely blank.
All thoughts, all schemes, all fears were replaced at this moment by a more primal, purer instinct!
Her body reacted before her mind could.
"careful--!"
A piercing scream, almost tearing her throat apart, burst from her mouth!
At the same time, she used all her strength, even her life's strength, to suddenly leap off her horse and pounce fiercely towards Xiao Che beside her!
Like a cannonball, she slammed her delicate body into Xiao Che!
"Bang!"
The immense impact caused the unsuspecting Xiao Che to instantly lose his balance. The bow and arrow flew from his hand, and Lin Wanwan's reckless force carried him off the horse in a sorry state!
In the dizzying moment, Xiao Che was unharmed despite being tackled. But before he could even react to this sudden turn of events, he was astonished to see—
The poisoned arrow that was meant to be aimed at his heart, because of his change in position, "thud" and deeply, deeply pierced Lin Wanwan's left shoulder!
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
Xiao Che's pupils suddenly contracted to the most dangerous pinpoints!
The two tumbled off their horses and landed awkwardly on the thick layer of fallen leaves.
Xiao Che instinctively protected her head, but what he felt was a scalding, viscous liquid that instantly gushed out and soaked his palm.
It's blood.
It was her blood.
He stared in astonishment at the woman in his arms. The black, poisoned arrow was deeply embedded in her left shoulder, its fletching trembling from the force of the blow. The blood that gushed forth, like a blooming flower of death, quickly stained her magnificent riding attire, like a strange and tragically beautiful spider lily blooming before his eyes.
"Well……"
Lin Wanwan looked at him, at his eyes filled with shock and disbelief, and suddenly vomited a mouthful of bloody foam mixed with fragments of internal organs.
Her vision began to blur, and her strength drained away like a receding tide. A cold, numbing sensation was rapidly spreading from the wound throughout her body.
She knew the arrow was poisoned.
With her last ounce of strength, she grabbed his collar, her lips moving as she spoke haltingly:
"Run...faster..."
After uttering those two words, the last glimmer of light in her eyes went out completely. The world was plunged into endless darkness.
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