The woman was seriously injured, and Ziyang did not dare to leave her alone in the room. Therefore, as noon approached, he did not leave the room even half a step.
In order to make her not hate him so much, Zi Yang sat on the wooden chair, looked at the woman lying on the bed, and asked with a smile: "Hey, my name is Zi Yang, what is your name?"
After a long time, there was no reply, and Zi Yang didn't pay much attention. After all, it wasn't just once or twice that the woman didn't want to talk to him.
"By the way, are you hungry? Let me go and make you something to eat?" As he said that, without waiting for the woman to reply, he stood up and walked out the door.
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Xuan Yi and Jia Juesheng were walking on the streets of the small town. In the past few days, they had basically done nothing else except wandering around.
The two came outside the small town. Xuan Yi took a look at the large, bare locust tree. There were only a few children playing under the tree, but Zi Yang was not found. He frowned slightly and said, "Jia Juesheng, that's not right."
Jia Juesheng has been feeling a little irritable recently because of Zi Yang's incident. He glanced at Xuan Yi and said casually: "Oh, isn't this all quite normal? What's wrong?"
Xuan Yi said carefully: "In the past, Ziyang had already come to town to drink at this time. The two of us walked in and out here several times today, but we didn't see Ziyang at all. Don't you think it's a bit Is it weird?"
Jia Juesheng paused and didn't take it seriously. He said, "What's weird about this? Ziyang may have found a place to bask in the sun. You don't have to worry about him. What can happen?"
Even so, Xuan Yi felt a little uneasy when he didn't see Zi Yang.
Recently, there have been a lot of strange people in the small town, and they seem to be looking for something in groups, which makes Xuan Yi feel a little uneasy.
Xuan Yi reminded: "Jia Juesheng, don't forget, the group of bald heads we met last night don't look like kind people."
Jia Juesheng said domineeringly: "What's wrong with those bald heads? If they dare to provoke us, I will kill them."
With Xuan Yi by his side, he had all the time to arrange the formation, and he was not afraid even if the opponent was in the realm of reincarnation.
Xuan Yi said with a hint of helplessness: "You misunderstood. I'm not worried that those bald heads will come to trouble us. I'm worried that they will come to Ziyang to cause trouble."
When Jia Juesheng heard this, he frowned for a moment and said in confusion: "Troublesome with Ziyang? Are you kidding? They don't know Ziyang, why are they bothering him?"
Xuan Yiyi said: "Anyway, we'd better be cautious. I'm a little worried about Ziyang living alone on the mountain."
Jia Juesheng frowned and stared at him, saying: "A few days ago, we went to see him and he scolded us. You won't forget it so quickly, right?"
Xuan Yi smiled and said: "It depends on the situation. Those days were relatively peaceful and there were not so many strange people appearing."
"Besides, Ziyang didn't go down to get a drink. I'm sure something must have happened to him."
"For the sake of Ziyang's safety, let's go take a look. As long as I can see that he is safe and sound, even if I get scolded by him again, I will feel at ease."
Jia Juesheng stared at his eyes for a while, then lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, saying, "Oh! I really can't do anything about you. It's so good, but you are just worried."
"Okay, okay, since we've been here several times, I'll accompany you to meet Ziyang."
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"Okay, okay." Zi Yang came in with the freshly roasted animal meat in his hand. He sat on the edge of the bed, handed the bamboo pole covered with animal meat to the woman, and said with a smile: "Here, eat."
The woman smelled the aroma of meat and wanted to raise her hand to take the bamboo pole from Zi Yang's hand. After a few breaths, she held back and replied coldly: "I'm not hungry."
Zi Yang asked casually: "How could it be? You haven't eaten for several days, right?"
After thinking for a while, he said with a smile: "I baked this specially for you, just eat some."
The woman glared at him and said coldly: "I told you I'm not hungry!"
Zi Yang turned the bamboo pole in his hand, looked at the shiny animal meat on it, and threatened: "If you don't eat it, I will take off your clothes."
When the woman heard this, she gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice: "How dare you?!"
"What am I afraid of!" As he said that, he stood up and put the animal meat in his hand on the table, and then came to the bed again.
When he sat by the bed, a trace of panic clearly flashed in the woman's eyes. Although it was only for a short moment, Zi Yang still caught it.
Zi Yang asked with a rather proud smile: "I'll give you one last chance. If you eat the meat I roasted, I'll let you go. How about that?"
At this point, the woman had no choice. She said expressionlessly: "Okay, I promise you."
After seeing her compromise, Zi Yang hurriedly took the animal meat from the table, handed it to her hand, and said with a smile: "Eat it quickly."
The woman leaned against the log wall, her eyes staring at the animal meat in front of her, but she didn't take a bite, as if there was some difficulty.
Zi Yang frowned slightly and said in confusion: "Hey, you promised me just now, why don't you eat it now?"
The woman looked up at him and said, "You sit here and watch, I can't eat."
As soon as she said this, Zi Yang was so angry that he stood up suddenly and said displeasedly: "No, am I that ugly?"
At this moment, although his hair was disheveled and he had not taken a shower for several days, and he looked like a beggar, his face was still fair and not stained with too much dust.
The woman explained softly: "It's not your fault, it's just that I don't like people staring at me when I'm eating."
"Oh, so that's it." Zi Yang pushed aside the messy hair covering his face and joked: "Hey, what do you think I look like?"
He originally wanted to ease the relationship between the two, but what he received was a cold and ruthless voice: "It's just a dead person, is beauty and ugliness still important?"
After hearing this, Zi Yang jumped up and said aggrievedly: "Huh? You still want to kill me? No, I take care of you so much, and you still want to kill me? You... you can't let me go. horse?"
"Let you go?" The woman smiled lightly and said, "Do you think it's possible?"
Zi Yang pretended to think for a long time, walking back and forth impatiently. Suddenly, he stopped, stared at the woman, and said seriously: "Maybe!"
The woman raised her eyes and looked at him, and said coldly and firmly: "There is a possibility. You can just kill me now, otherwise, you will definitely die."
"I won't kill you. If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have saved you in the first place." Zi Yang stood up and turned his back to her, looking sideways and said, "To be honest, I admire your stubbornness. But I I won’t die, let alone die in your hands, so I bet you won’t kill me.”
The woman looked into his eyes and said emotionlessly: "Then we'll wait and see."
Zi Yang opened the door and walked out. He scratched his messy hair with both hands and secretly asked, should I kill her? Judging from the way she looked just now, no matter what I did, she would never let me go.
This is my last chance. Before she recovers from her injuries, I will kill her first, and then take Jia Juesheng and Xuan Yi away from here?
no! no! I can't take the lead before she hurts me. By then, if I kill an innocent person by mistake, it would be a big mistake.
Ziyang stood outside the door and walked back and forth. Finally, he raised his head and muttered to himself: "She doesn't look like the kind of person who repays kindness with hatred. Besides, I didn't do anything excessive to her. She should just scare me and scare me." You don’t really want to kill me.”
At this moment, he straightened up his nose and sniffed, then moved his eyes towards the fire that was about to go out. He immediately provided a few handfuls of soil from the ground and quickly covered the fire.
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in the woods
The men in black with long swords hanging on their waists stood together and saw the blood that had dried long ago, as well as the black mask stained with blood.
The leader picked up the mask on the weeds and said to the people behind him: "This mask belongs to her. It seems that she is nearby."
One of them worriedly said: "Boss, that girl Yingluo is not easy to mess with, let alone let her rest for a night. Now it's hard to say whether her injuries have recovered."
Another person echoed: "Yes. Boss, as long as that girl Yingluo regains 10% of her strength, we people will be no different from dead people in her eyes."
The leader glanced at the blood on the ground and said: "She was seriously injured this time, and the watershed is blocked. It will be difficult to recover for a while. If we can take her down, this will be a big deal." Kudos to you."
As soon as he said these words, everyone around them lowered their heads and fell into silence. Obviously, they thought that they had missed the best opportunity to capture Yingluo last night because they did not find her. Even if they had some clues today, they would not be able to capture her. There will definitely be good results.
Seeing their silence, the leader said anxiously: "What are you... afraid of? What are you afraid of?"
"I'm sure that Yingluo was rescued by the kid we saw last night. They must not have been far away. Follow me and search carefully in the mountains."
After saying that, he threw away the mask in his hand and turned to leave.
After he walked dozens of steps, he found that the people following him were standing still. Let alone leaving, they didn't even move.
The leading man had no choice but to walk back and asked, "What happened again?"
One of the men who was born in the Third Realm of Reincarnation looked up at the leader and said in detail: "Boss, let's not talk about the injury of that girl Yingluo. You must know that she also has reinforcements in case she is unfortunately killed by us. If we encounter one, the consequences will be disastrous."
The leader said sternly: "She has reinforcements, are we going to fight alone?"
"I finally understand why we sword cultivators have no status in the alliance. It's because you people are greedy for life and afraid of death and don't dare to compete with others for credit."
"I'm not saying that people like you will never be able to hold your heads up for the rest of your life!"
After hearing his reprimand, everyone bowed their heads and remained silent. After an unknown period of time, someone pointed in the distance and shouted: "Boss, there is smoke rising from the kitchen over there."
After the leader saw the wisp of smoke that was about to disperse, he said with joy: "Let's go, come with me and have a look."
Soon, everyone followed the leader and walked towards the target in the distance. Although they were unwilling in their hearts, they had no choice but to follow.
