There are only three opportunities for the mission, and each opportunity is extremely important. Fortunately, Zhanyue already had enough information during the first mission. Those bandits could not pose a fatal threat to Yu Dayou at all. The real murderous intention was the eunuch with ridiculously high martial arts skills.
"What to do?" Zhan Yue thought hard about the countermeasures and let Yu Dayou escape in advance? I'm afraid he won't do it. Or go and kill the eunuch yourself in advance? But I'm afraid I don't have that strength.
"No matter, in the last mission, the thieves were killed not long after dawn, which means that they were already on the road at this time. I hope it's too late." Zhan Yue still wanted to go to explore the enemy's situation first, "Before Yu Dayou told me not to go north. It seems that bandits come from the north. Let's go to the north and have a look."
Zhan Yue knew that time was tight and did not dare to delay. He used unparalleled light skills and headed towards the mountain road to the north.
The sky was getting dark, and even without Zhan Yue, everything was moving forward. Yu Dayou will still die, and the masked man in black will still appear. Maybe the small box is not on Dayou, but Yu Dayou will tell him where the things are before he dies. As for whether the masked man could escape the eunuch's pursuit, Zhan Yue didn't know.
After walking for a long time, Zhan Yue saw firelight on the cliff opposite. In the light of the fire, it was a figure of a person.
"It's so late. Is there anyone else on the cliff? Could it be the spies from the bandits? That's not right. This direction is not heading to Yunmo Village." Zhan Yue was a little confused and decided to go take a look.
Not far away from the opposite side of the cliff, Zhan Yue could see more clearly. This man was crawling around on the cliff, as if he was collecting something. "A medicine gatherer in the mountains? But what kind of medicine do you want to collect? You have to come in the middle of the night."
Just when Zhan Yue was about to turn around and leave, he heard an exclamation. The vine hanging the herb collector suddenly broke, and the herb collector fell from the air.
Zhan Yue frowned, and with a little effort, he would not die without help. I saw that he was like a white crane, walking in the air, catching the fallen herb gatherer, feeling that the person in his arms was as light as a boneless person, and then he stepped on the cliff and took advantage of this reaction force to fly straight away. Went back. This is an operation that ordinary people can't even imagine, but this is the true strength of the world's number one Qing Gong.
Putting the man down, Zhan Yue realized that the herb collector was actually a girl. However, when he saw the other person's face clearly, he was stunned.
"Why is it you?" The two of them exclaimed at the same time.
Zhan Yue never expected that the person he saved would be Huang Xueqing! She was the one who was prompted earlier!
"You came here to collect herbs in the middle of the night? If I hadn't passed by, wouldn't you have fallen to death?" Zhan Yue asked, but he didn't ask too much.
Huang Xueqing left Zhan Yue's arms, her face a little red, and explained: "Starlight grass only produces grass seeds at night. If we went there during the day, they would have been blown away by the wind. I also had to come at night to collect it. Unfortunately, this thing only grows in the crevices of cliffs."
She was dressed very simply at the moment, and her coarse cloth was no different from the peasant women Zhan Yue had seen, but it could not hide her stunning appearance.
"I have a backup plan. There is a small river under the cliff. I am very good at water. Even if I fall, I will most likely not die." Huang Xueqing explained.
"So hard work." Zhan Yue was speechless.
The two found a flat stone to sit down and started chatting.
"My identity token is the Thief Saint, what about you?" Zhan Yue asked tentatively, he was already candid enough.
Seeing that he was not hiding anything, Huang Xueqing said, "My identity token is that of a miracle doctor. After my cultivation was sealed, my current abilities are the world's best medical skills and the world's best poison skills."
"Um." Zhan Yue didn't expect that this girl was more honest than him, and didn't regard him as an outsider at all. "Medical skills and poison skills? I'm light kung fu and stealing skills."
"Qinggong? I can see it." Huang Xueqing smiled, "Then...can you tell me your mission?"
"This..." Zhan Yue thought for a while. This kind of secret should not be revealed casually. If the tasks of the two parties conflict, then instead of being partners, they will be competitors.
"My mission is to protect one person." Zhan Yue said, speaking clearly.
"You are really cautious." Huang Xueqing was a little dissatisfied after hearing this answer, "My task is to collect all the medicinal materials for a prescription. Now I have basically found them all, except for the most important medicine, but... No clue at all."
"What medicine?" Zhan Yue asked curiously.
"Then tell me, who do you want to protect?" Huang Xueqing asked again, not wanting to suffer any loss.
"It seems that our tasks do not conflict at the moment. In that case, why don't we be honest and honest? Maybe we can help each other?" Seeing that Zhan Yue didn't speak, Huang Xueqing said, "I won't stab you in the back."
"You know." Zhan Yue murmured in a low voice, "Everyone knows that you are a scheming person."
"What are you talking about!" Huang Xueqing's expression changed, and she pinched Zhan Yue's waist hard, "You are the son of a god, you don't have the courage to do so. I possess the best poison skills in the world, so close If I really wanted to kill you, you would have died long ago.”
"The best poison technique in the world?" Hearing this, Zhan Yue suddenly felt enlightened. He placed his hands on Huang Xueqing's shoulders, his eyes gleaming with light. "Do you have any particularly powerful poison in your body? It's the kind of poison that will kill you if you drink it, no matter how deep your inner strength is!"
"You...let me go first. You're hurting me." Huang Xueqing was speechless. Why was Zhan Yue so excited all of a sudden? "Aren't you trying to protect someone? Why are you asking me for poison? Or are you not telling the truth?"
Zhan Yue smiled awkwardly and explained: "I'm not lying to you. I really want to protect someone, but that person is targeted by an extremely powerful enemy. With my strength, I am no match for him. Now that I have met you, I think it might work if we use poison?"
"So that's it. Okay, I can give you the poison, but at the same time, you have to help me find the medicinal materials." Huang Xueqing said, since Zhan Yue is the best in the world in Qinggong, it will be much more convenient for her to have his help.
"Okay!" Zhan Yue agreed.
Huang Xueqing pricked herself with a silver needle, then took out a small medicine bottle and put a drop of blood into it. "Take it, this blood will not coagulate or disappear. Diluting it with water will not reduce the toxicity much."
"The poison you are talking about is your blood?" Zhan Yue was shocked.
"Well, even if my cultivation is sealed, the toxicity in my body has not disappeared. However, no matter what, this is my biggest way to save my life. No matter who wants to harm me, I can find a way to kill them." Huang Xue Qing said.
Zhan Yue looked at her delicate face and swallowed. If someone really wanted to take advantage of her, she would definitely not be easy to mess with despite her lack of cultivation.
"Thank you, wait for me here, I'll be right back." Zhan Yue said after taking the medicine, and then took some water and dropped it into it. But he disappeared in a flash.
Looking at his disappearing back, Huang Xueqing had mixed emotions, "I hope you can succeed. Hey, even if our tasks don't conflict this time, what about next time? I'm afraid the tasks in this world are not that simple. If they are matched in the future, What should you do?" Huang Xueqing's blood was highly poisonous. This was the thing she was most afraid of before. She still remembered that she accidentally broke her knee when she was a child, and her pet dog ran over and sniffed it. If it comes into direct contact with blood, it will be poisoned to death. Since then, she has been diligently practicing various defensive methods to prevent herself from being injured at all. Her own blood may hurt the people around her, so she cannot be injured anyway, unless she takes the initiative like this time. However, in this trial world, her poison is the most perverted power in the world, and everyone who touches it will die.
But Zhan Yue searched all the way and found the bandits as expected. A team of about a hundred people was currently camping on a flat ground. "Everyone, take a good rest for two hours and eat something. No wine is allowed, everyone." Recover your strength and get to Yunmo Village tomorrow morning."
But they saw the team forming small groups, setting up pots and starting to cook meat.
Inside a huge tent, it was very bright. There was the fair-skinned man sitting on the seat. He was asking in a masculine voice: "How long will it take?"
"Reporting to your lord, we can arrive at Yunmo Village by tomorrow morning at most. Brothers have been traveling for two days. It's time to rest and prepare for the battle." The bandit leader said in a low voice.
"Huh, what a bunch of losers. It's tiring to travel such a short distance. If the Ai family didn't want to let go of every plant and tree in Yunmo Village, why would they take you with them?" the man said. He can naturally deal with Yu Dayou, but there will inevitably be fish caught in the trap. Isn't it more comfortable to lead these hundreds of people to deal with the aftermath than to take action himself?
"Yes, yes, we are no match for you, sir. Maybe you haven't eaten for a long time, so it's time to eat some. I'll let my servants prepare it." The bandit leader said.
"Well, you do have a good eye. You don't need too much meat, but you have prepared some good wine for me," the man said.
The bandit leader nodded quickly and said yes, but he was unhappy in his heart. The best wine he had stored was drunk by this man, but how could he dare to say no? However, thinking that this gentleman promised to recruit them and give him an official position after the matter was completed, he could bear it.
