"They …" In the dark of the night, although Yi Xin was sitting not far away, her figure was somewhat blurry. At this moment, her voice sounded a little trembling and deep, as if Lu Chen's words had suddenly poked at a certain part of her heart. For a moment, she didn't know what to say.
"Did you encounter a pack of black jackals at the waterfall?"
Yi Xin slowly lowered her head. After a while, she said, "Yes, after you left, not long after, a large group of black jackals suddenly rushed over. There were too many of them, and I couldn't even count them all …"
Her breathing suddenly became a little hurried, as if she was being stabbed by memories. She said in a low voice, "Martial Uncle, Senior Martial Brother, and I fought in a hurry. Although we had our backs against the wall of the mountain, there were too many demonic beasts. After fighting for a long time, we still couldn't hold on. Uncle-Master told us to split up and run. He said that one of us could escape … "
At this point, her voice was choked with sobs. After a pause, she continued, "Senior Brother and I rushed out. In the middle, I turned around and saw Uncle-Master being pounced on by a large group of black jackals … In the blink of an eye, flesh and blood flew everywhere. I was terrified. Senior Brother He pulled me and ran with all his might, but there were black jackals chasing after us. In the end, Senior Brother He and I had no choice but to split up and run for our lives. The last time I saw him, there were more than ten black jackals pouncing on him. Then, they were blocked by the trees. I only heard a series of screams and wild dogs barking. "
In the darkness, Lu Chen was silent for a moment before saying, "What about you? Why were you the only one who escaped in the end?"
Yi Xin said in a daze, "I ran for a while and saw that I was about to be caught again. But at this moment, I suddenly remembered that before I went down the mountain, Master had given me a 'Blinding Talisman'. So I climbed up a tree and used this talisman. The black jackals chased me nearby and couldn't find me. "
At this point, Yi Xin suddenly burst into tears and cried, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault, if I … if I had thought of this earlier, Martial Uncle and Senior Brother might not have died."
Lu Chen was silent and didn't say anything. He let Yi Xin cry for a while. After her sobs calmed down a little, he said indifferently, "This isn't your fault. And even if you used this talisman in advance, when the black jackals were right in front of you, with the keen senses of those demon beasts, you still wouldn't be able to escape. "
Yi Xin's body trembled as she whispered, "Really?"
"Yes." Lu Chen responded, then turned over and said, "It's getting late, hurry up and sleep. We might have to climb mountains and wade rivers for the whole day tomorrow. If you don't sleep, your body won't be able to take it."
Yi Xin's lips moved slightly. After a moment, she still slowly lay down on the grass by the river bank. Her mind was in a mess, and her heart was filled with regret and fear. She thought that she wouldn't be able to fall asleep no matter what, but who knew that as she lay down, she would unknowingly close her eyes and fall asleep.
…
The morning sun fell on the riverbank, shining on the sleeping woman's face. Although her face was still a little pale and the ends of her hair were messy, a strand of beautiful hair still hung down from her temples and slid down to her nose, bringing with it a bit of languid beauty. Her slender and long eyelashes trembled a few times in the golden brilliance, and then Yi Xin slowly opened her eyes …
For a moment, she seemed to still be in the warm home of her memories. Her kind master and close senior and junior sisters were still by her side. Someone was smiling and saying something to her, and when she was full of joy and wanted to sit up and answer, a sudden pain came from her left arm, waking her up from the illusion.
"Hiss …"
Yi Xin sucked in a breath of cold air and bit her lips. This time, the pain was so severe that she almost cried out.
At the same time, a voice came from not far away.
"Be careful, don't make the injured bone crooked, otherwise you'll suffer again."
Yi Xin panted a few times and didn't dare to move her left arm. She sat up straight and looked to the side.
She saw that Lu Chen had already woken up and was walking over from the other side of the forest. He was holding a lot of things in his hands. It looked like some random weeds that Yi Xin didn't recognize, and in the middle, there were some strange dark brown things.
Lu Chen walked to Yi Xin's side and squatted down to put the things in his hands to the side. Then, he grabbed Yi Xin's left arm and examined it. He nodded and said to her, "I'll help you apply some medicine now. It should heal faster, but there will be some pain. Endure it yourself."
When Yi Xin heard the word "pain", her heart skipped a beat. She was a little afraid, but looking at Lu Chen's calm face, she didn't know why she couldn't say no for a moment. Moreover, no matter how she looked at it, this man was doing it for her own good. So, after hesitating for a moment, she still slowly nodded.
Lu Chen gently untied the wooden stick from her arm and then tore her sleeve. On her white wrist, the area around the broken arm was already red and swollen.
Lu Chen frowned and lowered his head to gather the herbs he had picked and mashed them together, including the strange black things.
Yi Xin glanced at his hands. Suddenly, her eyes straightened and she saw that the black things were actually some strange insect eggs that she couldn't name. They were black and fat and looked very disgusting.
Yi Xin was shocked and suddenly felt nauseous. She almost vomited and cried out, "What, what are these things? What do you want to do with them?"
"The larvae of the 'Golden Winged Bee'," Lu Chen glanced at her and said faintly, "Don't talk nonsense. This is good stuff. It can at least speed up the recovery of your broken arm by several times. You're lucky to be able to find it here. "
Yi Xin was stunned and speechless. She wanted to say something, but she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth. It was just that she had never seen these disgusting things before. When she saw that Lu Chen had actually mashed the insect eggs together with the herbs, she suddenly couldn't stand it. She quickly turned her face away and took a few deep breaths before she slowly recovered.
Not long after, Yi Xin suddenly felt a cool sensation on her arm. Then, Lu Chen smeared a layer of sticky stuff on the wound of her broken arm. Yi Xin didn't dare to look at the wound. After a while, she felt that Lu Chen first wrapped it with a cloth and then tied her arm to the wooden stick again.
"It's done." Lu Chen stood up and said to her, "As long as there are no accidents, he should be fine in about seven or eight days. Let's get up and continue our journey. "
Yi Xin gritted her teeth and stood up. She forced herself not to look at her left arm and said, "Where are we going?"
Lu Chen said, "I don't know. Let me see the direction and terrain first."
Yi Xin was taken aback and said, "Aren't you a guide? You should be very familiar with the Black Armor Mountain, right?"
Lu Chen looked at the woman snappily and said, "Of course I'm familiar with the vicinity of the Black Armor Mountain. But even if I'm a guide, I can't jump into the torrent to explore the terrain, right? I've never been to this area. "
Yi Xin was speechless. At the same time, she also felt that she had said something wrong. If it wasn't for saving her, perhaps he actually didn't need to jump into the river last night.
Thinking of this, her cheeks became a little hot. She subconsciously turned her head away and looked elsewhere.
Who knew that as she turned her gaze, Yi Xin suddenly saw a pair of ferocious eyes looking at them from behind a dense thicket of grass in front of them. There was a trace of viciousness in that fierce gaze, almost no different from that of a demon beast, causing Yi Xin to jump in fright. She suddenly took a step back and pointed in that direction, crying out involuntarily, "There's someone over there!"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
