"Why don't you leave me here?" Zhang Mi lay in the sleeping bag and looked at Childe Shen with a red nose.
Childe Shen was heating up a can of fish and cooking some noodles. Hearing Zhang Mi's words, he didn't even look at her. "We don't know if there are wolves here at night. Are you sure you want to stay here?"
"Uh..." Zhang Mi twisted in the sleeping bag. She had just sweated and her body was wet, but at least her fever had subsided. "Then you should wait for me. I'll be fine soon."
Childe Shen pursed his lips. "Can you sit up? Eat something. "
Zhang Mi got up and sat there obediently, waiting for him to pass the bowl to her.
"We've been delayed for half a day, but your men still haven't shown up. Are they lost?"
"Impossible. They have a map." Young Master Shen took out the satellite phone again and looked at it. He found that there was still no signal. It seemed that all the radar and satellite signals had disappeared when they were approaching the mountain top of their destination.
Zhang Mi slurped the noodles and nodded. "Fortunately, you drew the map on paper. If it was electronic, we wouldn't even be able to find our way."
"If we can't find the main group or the village tomorrow, we won't have anything to eat." Childe Shen knocked on his backpack. Most of the food was with his men. He didn't expect them to get separated.
Zhang Mi heard him and immediately handed the bowl over. "Another bowl!"
"Eat. If you're full, you'll feed the wolves," Childe Shen said angrily, but still filled her bowl. After Zhang Mi finished eating, she felt that she had regained her strength. The two of them decided to continue moving forward. This way, they still had hope of reaching the location marked on the map before dark. Along the way, Zhang Mi stopped chattering and quietly followed behind Childe Shen. Childe Shen felt that it was very strange. He turned around several times to secretly look at her, worried that she had fainted without him knowing.
"Didn't you say there were wolves?" Zhang Mi saw that he kept looking at her. She thought for a moment and said, "I was afraid that if I made too much noise, it would attract the wolves."
The corners of Childe Shen's mouth twitched as he silently continued forward. Finally, when the sky above them turned pitch-black, they arrived at their destination. Childe Shen didn't dare to walk any further. It was too dark, and he couldn't see his surroundings clearly. Therefore, the two of them found a large rock and set up their tents against the wind. Childe Shen heated up the last bit of food. After eating, they each got into a corner of their sleeping bag, gave each other a look, and closed their eyes.
Without the main force, Childe Shen even placed a kind of alarm near the tent. As long as there was a life form near the tent, the alarm would sound. Fortunately, the night passed smoothly. When Childe Shen woke up, the sky was already bright. He woke Zhang Mi up.
"Pack up. Let's find the entrance to the village quickly. Otherwise, we'll starve to death!"
The two of them walked around the vicinity, but found nothing. There was only a cliff not far to the north. There were trees at the bottom, and they couldn't tell the height of the cliff.
"I think it might be like in the novels. If we want to jump off the cliff, there will be either peerless martial arts or treasures at the bottom of the cliff!" After Zhang Mi finished speaking, she saw Childe Shen looking at her with a strange expression. She stuck out her tongue and said, "I'm talking nonsense. Just ignore me!"
Young Master Shen grabbed her by the shoulder and smacked her in the face. "Slap!"
Zhang Mi pushed him away and said, "What are you doing?" She glared at him.
"I'm happy. You're absolutely right!" Childe Shen pulled her toward the cliff. "If you didn't remind me, I would've forgotten."
It turned out that the bounty hunter had told Childe Shen that he had fallen nearby and fell into a very deep tree hole. When he woke up, he was already in the village. Chen Ming and Li Xiaoru, on the other hand, were caught in a landslide. The two of them were buried in a cave. At that time, Chen Ming's legs were broken, and his head was smashed. When Li Xiaoru woke up, she found them in the village. However, Chen Ming had been in a coma until last month when the village chief cured him.
The bounty hunter that Childe Shen had sent to look for him had also arrived at the village around that time. As Chen Ming was still very weak, he couldn't walk out of the forest immediately. So, the bounty hunter went back to report to the village first.
"Are we really going to jump?" Zhang Mi stood on the cliff. Below them were all green plants. She couldn't even see the bottom. Childe Shen picked up a stone and threw it down. Soon, they heard a muffled thud.
"It won't be very deep. Let's tie the rope to this tree and hang down."
Zhang Mi nodded. The two of them tied the rope in a flurry and then slowly climbed down. Childe Shen on her right kept reminding her where to step. As Zhang Mi climbed, she felt that it wasn't that scary anymore. She began to look around at the colorful plants around her. Then, she found a particularly bright flower. It looked like a five-pointed star and was very beautiful.
"This flower is so beautiful!" She reached out to pluck it. Childe Shen heard her and looked in the direction of her hand. Then, his face changed and he shouted, "Don't pluck it!"
Zhang Mi's hand had already grabbed the flower's stem. At the same time, Zhang Mi felt something hit her waist hard. The rope behind her loosened, and she lost her balance and fell.
"Damn it! Why did you kick me? " Zhang Mi shouted. She covered her face and waited for death. She felt her body sink and sat on the ground. She almost broke her tailbone. She rubbed her butt and stood up.
"Fortunately, it's not high!" She remembered Childe Shen's kick just now, so she shouted fiercely, "You should jump down too. How dare you scare me!"
Just as she finished speaking, she saw a figure fall down heavily. Then, he stopped moving.
"Damn, are you okay?" Zhang Mi squatted down and pushed him. Childe Shen shook twice, but there was no reaction. Zhang Mi was anxious because she saw Childe Shen's face turn gray and his lips turn black.
She pounced on him and began to check. Finally, she found four holes on the back of his left hand. His whole hand was swollen like a steamed bun.
"Is this … a snake?" Zhang Mi shuddered. She recalled the moment when she fell, she seemed to have seen Young Master Shen reach out his hand in front of her to block her fall. So the reason he kicked her was because of the snake...
Zhang Mi's face turned pale. She looked around and found that the backpack they had left behind earlier was not far away. She hurriedly ran over to Childe Shen's backpack and opened it.
"Yes, yes. I remember he said that there was an antidote in the first aid kit." Zhang Mi's hands and feet trembled as she rummaged through the first aid kit. Then, she found a small box with three things that looked like syringes and a manual. Zhang Mi followed the instructions on the manual and gave Childe Shen an injection. Then, she took out a knife and cut a lot of branches and vines. She made a support and carried Childe Shen on it.
She had to find the village quickly. The needle could only slow down the spread of the poison. If it was delayed for too long, Childe Shen would die. Zhang Mi carried both of their backpacks. Then, she pulled the support and moved forward step by step.
"Oh my God … Look at you … You're not fat … Why … Why are you so heavy?" Zhang Mi walked in the direction with the least vegetation because she found that the trees there had been cut down. Zhang Mi didn't know how much time had passed, and she didn't know how far she had walked. When she was hungry and thirsty, and the sky was getting darker and darker, she finally saw a woman in linen clothes.
"Help … me …" Zhang Mi screamed, then fell to the ground headfirst.
Xin Qing read the news on the newspaper and felt her blood run cold.
Tang Shuang's photo took up half the page. She stood next to Ying Qingcang with a smile on her face. The big headline read, [Marrying into a Rich Family to Continue the Family Line for the Ying Family]. Xin Qing read it carefully again and fell onto the sofa.
How could it be? How could it be? Tang Shuang was pregnant …
At the same time, Ying Qingcang's reaction wasn't any better. He was talking to Boss Wan on the phone with a straight face.
"I guarantee that the child is not Xiao Qi's," Boss Wan said. "The reason I asked him to do this is because he was injured a long time ago. There's no way he can impregnate a woman."
Ying Qingcang frowned. "One hundred percent?"
"Absolutely not," Boss Wan said. "Besides, we checked him again before he went. We only sent him after we confirmed that there was nothing wrong with him."
Since Boss Wan had guaranteed it, the child was definitely not Xiao Qi's. Ying Qingcang was silent for a moment. He didn't know what to do. His first reaction was to wonder what Xin Qing would think if she found out.
From the beginning, Ying Qingcang had thought about getting someone to impregnate Tang Shuang and use the child to lure out the mastermind. However, Xin Qing disagreed. She believed that the child was innocent. If they did that, they would be no different from those beasts and scumbags. Now that Tang Shuang was pregnant, Ying Qingcang took a deep breath. Should he ask Ah Chul to go to France …
"Is it possible that the child is someone else's?" Boss Wan suddenly asked. "Go check the hotel's security footage that night. See if there was anyone else besides Xiao Qi who went in."
Ying Qingcang rubbed his forehead. "I've already asked Anam to do it. There's something I need you to do. Help me inform Xin Qing. Tell her that I'm looking into it too."
"If she can't trust you, it can only mean that she doesn't love you enough."
"No." Ying Qingcang sighed. "She trusts me. But sometimes, that girl likes to be stubborn."
As he spoke, Anam pushed the door open and walked in. Ying Qingcang reminded Boss Wan again to inform Xin Qing before hanging up.
"How did it go?"
Anam shook his head. "No one. After Xiao Qi came out, no one else went in. Tang Shuang came out by herself at noon."
"No one …" Ying Qingcang's eyes slowly dimmed. "She couldn't have gotten pregnant on her own. Someone must have gone in that night. Go check it out. Find out who she's been in contact with in the past few months. "
Anam nodded and left. Ying Qingcang picked up the phone and called Childe Shen, but it was still out of service. He poured himself a glass of wine and tried not to think about Tang Shuang's smug face.
Right now, Tang Shuang was indeed smug. She knew her body all too well. She knew that she would definitely get pregnant. She was humming a tune while watching TV! Just then, she saw Ah Hai walking in through the door.
"What's wrong with you?" Tang Shuang noticed that he did not look well.
Ah Hai unfolded the newspaper and asked her, "Is it true? You're pregnant? "
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