“Yingxue, are you hurt?”
When Wu Yingxue took the bowl.
Xu Xi noticed that the girl’s movements were a bit uncoordinated.
“Yeah, during the battle today, I was accidentally bitten by a demon lurking underground.”
The girl answered honestly.
She reached out and pulled aside the corner of her robe, revealing a wound on her left ankle.
The wound had stopped bleeding, but the scab was forming slowly, and even a slight touch would cause itching and discomfort in her leg.
This was why Wu Yingxue’s movements seemed so uncoordinated.
“It’s fine, sir.”
“Just a minor injury, it’ll heal by tomorrow.”
Wu Yingxue smiled, telling Xu Xi not to worry.
But Xu Xi shook his head.
He found a relatively clean piece of white cloth and helped the girl wrap it around her wound to prevent it from being exposed.
When he finished and stood up, he met Wu Yingxue’s somewhat absent-minded gaze.
“Yingxue?”
“Ah… ah, sorry, sorry.”
Wu Yingxue suddenly snapped out of it and quickly apologized to Xu Xi, explaining her distraction: “I just suddenly remembered, the first time I met you, sir, you helped me like this too.”
When did he and the girl first meet?
Xu Xi roughly recalled.
Only then did he realize that they had known each other for ten years.
Ten years is a long, long time.
A mortal’s lifespan is a hundred years, but how many mortals truly live to a hundred?
For many, ten years is already a long enough time.
Usually, it’s not something one pays attention to.
But when you look back, the flow of time feels like it’s rushing past your ears, leaving traces of the years.
“In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed.”
Xu Xi sighed with emotion.
As time slowly and steadily passed, the last orange sunset gradually faded from the sky.
Xu Xi and Wu Yingxue sat side by side on the cold, rough stone, watching the sky change as the sun completely set, casting its last bit of warmth.
They talked a lot.
About the past in Qingniu Town, the struggles of studying the Fool’s Technique together.
About the warmth of spending New Year’s in Pingshui County, that plump chicken leg from back then.
About the hardships of planning to break through the Ten Thousand Mountains after uncovering the truth of the Great Qian Dynasty.
Those past events.
Those years.
Together, they formed unforgettable memories.
As they chatted, the topic turned to the world beyond the Ten Thousand Mountains.
“Sir, after we leave the Ten Thousand Mountains, what do you plan to do?” Under the darkening sky, the girl propped herself up on the large stone beneath her, curiously asking Xu Xi.
“About that, I haven’t really thought about it,” Xu Xi smiled slightly.
After all.
He had long prepared to die in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
A dying man doesn’t think about the future.
Looking up at the gloomy sky, feeling the terrifying aura drawing closer, Xu Xi felt it was time to say something to the girl.
“Yingxue.”
Xu Xi paused, then continued: “Take everyone and leave. The sooner you go, the sooner you’ll be out of danger.”
“What about you, sir?”
The girl’s intuition was sharp, immediately catching the flaw in Xu Xi’s words.
She looked at Xu Xi, her clear eyes reflecting his figure: “Sir, aren’t you planning to come with us?”
“I… I’ll catch up later.”
The setting sun seemed to take all life with it.
The world became quiet.
The deep night mixed with the rustling of leaves, creating a pure and flawless tranquility.
Xu Xi comforted Wu Yingxue: “The demons ahead, you can handle them too, but someone needs to stay behind to prevent them from chasing us.”
“Don’t worry, after I block the demons, I’ll return soon.”
For the first time in a long while.
Xu Xi told a kind lie.
He knew that with Yingxue’s impulsive nature, if she knew his plan, she would never agree to him staying behind alone.
“But, but!”
“Sir, let me stay behind!”
The girl’s reaction was unexpectedly intense.
She reached out with both hands, tightly gripping Xu Xi, as if holding onto something about to disappear.
“It’s fine, Yingxue.”
“I’m just staying behind, nothing will go wrong…”
“Stop lying to me, sir!”
The girl gripped even tighter, making Xu Xi’s arm ache. Xu Xi saw the pleading in the girl’s crystal-clear eyes.
“I know, I’ve always known.”
“Sir, from the very beginning, you never planned to come out with us.”
“I will never accept this!”
“Sir, let me stay behind, just this once, I beg you…”
The girl gripped Xu Xi’s hand.
The pleading in her eyes gradually turned into begging.
Her once lively voice turned into a mournful cry Xu Xi had never heard before.
After a long silence, Xu Xi reached out and, for the first time, patted Wu Yingxue’s head: “I’m sorry, Yingxue, I can’t agree to you this time.”
The patting hand suddenly turned into a chop.
Gently striking the girl’s neck.
Knocking her out.
“Sleep well,” Xu Xi whispered, handing the unconscious girl to the people of the Army of Survival, telling them to escape with her.
The people didn’t want to leave, silently picking up their weapons, wanting to face the enemy with Xu Xi.
“Really…”
Xu Xi felt both touched and amused.
Under his influence, everyone had become the same kind of fool, unwilling to abandon each other. So Xu Xi mobilized his energy, leaving at a speed the people couldn’t possibly match.
He was grateful.
Wu Yingxue was still so pure.
Everything she wanted to do was written on her face. If she had chosen a different method today, or left secretly like A Niu.
Then Xu Xi would really be in trouble.
“One death to save everyone, that’s the best outcome.”
Xu Xi murmured.
His death wasn’t the end.
Him staying behind was the true best course of action.
However, just as Xu Xi had gone some distance, he felt a dizzying sensation, his body falling from the air and crashing to the ground.
“Strange, what’s happening to me…”
Xu Xi was confused.
Sleepiness overwhelmed him.
In the last moment before sleep, he saw Wu Yingxue, who should have been unconscious. The overwhelming drowsiness made Wu Yingxue appear as multiple blurry images.
“Big silly sir, rest well.”
“You’re so silly, silly enough not to notice the problem with that bowl of soup.”
“Silly beyond belief.”
“Always thinking of protecting others, but never thinking of protecting yourself.”
Wu Yingxue emerged from the darkness, gently picking up the unconscious Xu Xi and handing him over to the people who had caught up.
Wu Yingxue had a lot she wanted to say to Xu Xi.
Like how she had grown up.
She was a twenty-something adult now.
No longer the little girl who fell into Xu Xi’s house and could only cry silently.
And like how she wasn’t weak, she could protect Xu Xi too.
“Sorry, sir, this time it’s my turn to play the hero.”
“I hope you won’t blame me…”
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