Chapter 195

"Brother Xiaoyuan." Lin Shu ran quickly to the terrace. "Brother Bin said that the coordinate representing Zhao Yi on the map just now had a very abrupt change."

"Hmm, he should have escaped."

Regarding this, Li Zhuiyuan didn't feel surprised.

That Zhao Yi was someone he himself wanted to get rid of at his convenience; how could he die so easily?

"Brother Xiaoyuan, will Zhao Yi be heading toward us right now?"

"It should be."

"Will that one from the Yu family..."

"I don't know. I can't deduce her behavioral logic, just like now."

Li Zhuiyuan raised his head. In the distant sky, a bird with a broken wing was circling.

It was flying very arduously. One could see the miserable state of Zhao Yi and the others from it.

After a cry, the bird began to descend.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't manipulate the formation to block it.

Lin Shu raised his arm and let the bird land on his arm.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, should I send a message to warn Zhao Yi?"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Hmm."

"Okay." Lin Shu reached out and touched the bird's beak. "Little bird, go back and tell Zhao..."

Before Lin Shu could finish his sentence, a hand reached over and grabbed the bird's neck.

"Snap!"

The bird's neck was twisted, and the corpse fell to the ground.

Lin Shu turned his head and looked at the youth in front of him who was gently clapping his hands, removing the feathers from his fingertips.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, so that's how it is. It's my understanding that wasn't deep enough."

Killing this bird and not letting it go back—wasn't that the most direct warning?

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the bird corpse at his feet, while his mouth repeated the previous sentence:

"Sigh, I really can't understand her."

A-Yuan carried a box of soda and walked out of the village grocery store, hunching his waist.

The old lady at the grocery store behind him shouted at his back at the top of her lungs:

"Remember to bring the empty bottles back for the deposit after you finish drinking!"

A-Yuan waved his hand.

The old lady didn't understand for a moment whether the other party was indicating that he knew or that he didn't want the deposit at all.

Yu Miaomiao sat on the stone slab by the water channel. This position was a bit far from the guesthouse, but it could still be seen.

"A-Yuan, I really don't like that guy. He's clearly the same age as me, but when we sat opposite each other, I couldn't see through him, yet he seemed to see through me."

A-Yuan shook his head, indicating that it was impossible for the young lady to be seen through.

Because he had followed the young lady for so long, and even now, he hadn't been able to see through his own young lady.

"You say, is he cautious, or is he just too lazy to play with those small fish and shrimp? It's been this long, and he really hasn't stepped out of that guesthouse even once."

A-Yuan made two "ah-ah" sounds, indicating he agreed with the second type.

After all, the other party could suppress that broken porcelain shard for so long, and also set up such an exquisite formation with his bare hands. Thinking about it, he should be unwilling to do more useless fussing and only thinking about entering the banquet.

Yu Miaomiao reached out and patted her head, sighing:

"They all say eating your brain can supplement the brain. If I had known when I was young that my parents wanted to pry open your skull and stew what was inside for me to eat as a supplement, I shouldn't have run up to hug you and protect you. It made me always feel that my brain isn't good enough to use now."

A-Yuan raised his hand, aimed at his forehead, and prepared to perform a craniotomy on himself.

"But looking at it now, it's good I didn't eat your brain. You are so stupid; if I had eaten it, I might have become even stupider."

A-Yuan put his hand down, took a bottle of soda from the box, flicked the cap open with his fingertip, inserted a straw inside, and handed it to the young lady.

Yu Miaomiao took the soda, bit the straw, took a sip, and then suspiciously moved it away, smacking her lips:

"It seems that drinking with a straw and drinking straight from the mouth really tastes a bit different."

A-Yuan also opened a bottle for himself, inserted a straw, and began to drink along with her.

"But I feel that when he sat in front of me drinking this, there was a kind of tone I can't describe."

Yu Miaomiao placed the soda bottle on her lap first, then picked it up, took a sip, and immediately frowned:

"I can't imitate this feeling. Forget it, I'll find an opportunity next time to catch him and kill him, then I won't have this kind of trouble."

A-Yuan nodded, thinking it was very true.

But very quickly, A-Yuan's head tilted, and immediately after, he shook it vigorously.

Yu Miaomiao's voice became low: "That bird you controlled, did it die?"

A-Yuan nodded.

"Sigh, I was thinking of letting you control that bird to pass fake news to make fishing convenient. I didn't expect it to actually help him pass a piece of true news.

This won't do, my brain really isn't working, hahaha, I've even made myself stupidly laugh."

Yu Miaomiao stood up.

A-Yuan stretched out his arms, hugged the young girl, and let her land on his back.

He began to run. His speed was very fast, and during the run, light and shadow folded on his body. Gradually, one only felt the wind but didn't see the person.

Sun Yan revealed sadness, her arms hanging down, biting her dry, bleeding lips:

"Xiaobao is dead."

"Slap."

Zhao Yi slapped Sun Yan in the face.

"What are you dazing for? Even if dead, don't run!"

Zhao Yi immediately turned around and didn't go to the guesthouse anymore.

Sun Yan was slapped awake and followed Zhao Yi and Xu Ming to escape.

Actually, Zhao Yi knew that this subordinate of his wouldn't be this emotional and fragile, but this period of extreme escape had worn her mental will very thin. People in this state easily gave birth to the impulse of "breaking the jar because it's already broken."

However, even if they changed direction to escape at this time, where could they escape to?

The Mountain Woman had already been used by him to trade for the opportunity to jump out of the encirclement. Now the jade fragment in his hand was emitting corpse Qi again, and the subsequent encirclement would soon follow.

Originally counting on going to the guesthouse to avoid danger, he had a tacit understanding in his heart that that kid surnamed Li should open the formation to accept him.

But since the other party had already made a warning, telling him that there was danger waiting for him at the guesthouse, it could be considered as having done his best.

He knew that that guy absolutely couldn't take his subordinates to actively come out and risk taking him in. This was also one of the tacit understandings.

He didn't hate, nor was he dissatisfied. Changing positions to think, he would also make the same choice.

Zhao Yi quickly pinched and sensed the location of another mass of corpse Qi. Go there and rendezvous with the holder of the first jade fragment!

During the escape some time ago, he had actively approached the location of the first jade fragment many times. The other party also felt it in their heart, and after discovering this situation, they would also actively move toward him.

Everyone hoped to create more chaos for the pursuers through this intersection of positions, making them fall into a short-lived, happy "choose one of two" entanglement, thereby creating more opportunities for themselves to escape.

It was just that such coordination had been done several times, and the holder of the first jade fragment had also changed several groups of people.

Successfully intersecting again, there was no great surprise. This time, the holder of the first jade fragment was again an unfamiliar aura.

Zhao Yi really wanted to take a loudspeaker and shout to that group of people who wouldn't let him go: Are you blind? Go snatch that one, that one is easier to snatch!

Of course, this could only be thought about in his heart; it was impossible to really stop and do such a stupid thing.

After the two sides tacitly approached and then crossed, the distance between them was very close, yet they didn't really meet, just seizing the time to continue running.

However, the longer the time since the corpse Qi of the first jade fragment erupted, the more white-hot the competition for the jade fragment became.

Those pursuers were no longer as wary and guarded against each other as before.

Because the longer the time passed, looking at it from another angle, it meant that time might already be running out.

This also caused Zhao Yi's intersection this time to not achieve the expected effect, failing to delay them for too long. The pursuers of the two jade fragments didn't even hesitate much, continuing to stare dead at their targets.

Zhao Yi felt like a wolf dog exhausted to the limit, in a boundless desert, closing his eyes and panting, running wildly unconsciously.

He didn't know where he should go, only knowing he couldn't stop.

Just at this moment, on the pitch-black village road ahead, a minibus drove past with its headlights on.

On the car body were travel agency banners and posters, as well as slogans welcoming people to Lijiang for tourism.

Zhao Yi recognized the driver; it was Fatty Fat Jin Ge.

Was he going back to the guesthouse?

This meant that this round of competition was really about to enter the end!

Some ordinary people just live ordinary lives, but in the eyes of some special groups, they have extremely special labels on them.

Moreover, anyone with a little experience would pay extra attention to this kind of ordinary person, even to the point of calling it cherishing.

"Change of plan!"

Zhao Yi immediately signaled to stop, took out a dagger, and without hesitation, cut hard toward the center of his brow.

The life-and-death gate seam, which had already healed into a faint scar, was cut open again by his own hand.

Once, because of it, he was called a genius in the family, but it had also gradually turned into his shackles.

In order to travel along the river, in front of that kid surnamed Li, he had personally gouged it out. Now, in order to save his life, he had to reopen it.

In an instant, Zhao Yi only felt his whole body become immensely weak, and that familiar physical state like mud returned.

At that time, he couldn't even walk normally, and he had to rely on Old Tian to carry him when going out. It was a pity that Old Tian couldn't carry him anymore in the future.

Zhao Yi forcibly condensed his mind and pressed the pitch-black jade fragment in his hand against his brow.

The corpse Qi was forcibly absorbed by him, and hideous and terrifying black patterns appeared on his skin.

"Life and death on the line, seal!"

Accompanied by Zhao Yi's low shout, the corpse Qi on the jade fragment was temporarily suppressed, and that black pillar immediately disappeared.

But even if he paid such a huge price, he could only seal it for a short period of time, which was not even a fraction of that guy holding a jade fragment and peacefully suppressing it day by day until now.

That kid, he feared he had even grown fat living in the guesthouse these days!

"Ugh..."

Zhao Yi bent down and vomited a pool of black liquid on the ground.

His heart was already unable to bear the burden, and now it was poisoned by corpse poison again. This body had already been played by himself to the verge of shattering.

But he didn't care. As long as he could live, as long as he could protect this piece of jade, enter the banquet, and pass this wave, he would not only be able to survive but also have a chance to recover.

The weak Zhao Yi fell toward Sun Yan, and Sun Yan hurriedly hugged him.

Zhao Yi flipped his palm, handed an emerald jade fragment to Sun Yan, and whispered to her.

"I am sealing it with my own life. Hurry up, be fast!"

A purple sable dropped from Sun Yan, took the jade fragment, and immediately, with a "whoosh," disappeared into this pitch-black night.

"Xu Ming, you come and carry me."

"Yes, Young Master."

Xu Ming carried Zhao Yi. Although he had lost an arm and was very tired now, he could still continue to squeeze out endurance by constantly taking pills that stimulated the body's potential.

"Young Master, where are we now..."

Zhao Yi pointed in a direction with no strength.

"Still... return to the guesthouse!"

Two black corpse Qi pillars suddenly became only one.

Regarding this, the pursuers didn't feel too strange or shocked, because such things could be said to happen often.

Cats have cat paths, mice have mouse paths. Whenever a jade fragment changes hands, there will always be people who use special methods to suppress and cover up the emitted corpse Qi, but this duration is often extremely short, and the corpse Qi will soon reappear.

This move at most buys the holder a moment of breathing time and does not affect the encirclement in the general direction.

Only that third jade fragment, which had never appeared, had disappeared into thin air from beginning to end, as if the river water had never delivered it to this killing field.

A gust of wind suddenly blew.

Zhao Yi, who was almost in a semi-comatose state, immediately opened his eyes:

"Careful."

Xu Ming immediately threw Zhao Yi into the field behind him, holding his single arm in front of his chest to block this gust of wind.

From this wind, a tall figure suddenly rushed out. He landed in front of Xu Ming and smashed a palm down on him.

"Bang!"

Xu Ming only felt his single arm go numb, and his whole person was like being hit by a heavy hammer. The other party's strength was truly too outrageous.

He vaguely had a realization: let alone his current injured and tired state, even if he were in his peak state, facing such an opponent, he wouldn't be able to occupy any advantage in terms of the physique he was proud of.

This thin, tall man was truly too terrifying.

With just one palm, he broke Xu Ming's defense, and immediately after, A-Yuan raised his foot and kicked toward Xu Ming's body.

"Boom!"

Xu Ming was like a cannonball, kicked flying backward. After landing, he kept bouncing, and by the time the potential energy completely dissipated, he was lying on the ground, eyes open, blood spilling from his mouth, trying hard to struggle again, but he didn't even have the strength to stand up again.

He was already inferior to the other party, and his current state was so poor. He didn't even have the qualifications to circle and block.

Seeing Xu Ming suddenly sent flying by a single blow, Sun Yan's eyes immediately shimmered with a ghostly light.

At this time, A-Yuan turned his head to look at her and grinned.

A chameleon, which should have perfectly hidden its figure in the moonlight to launch an attack, suddenly turned back when leaving Sun Yan's side, opened its mouth, and bit Sun Yan's neck.

"Ah!!!"

Sun Yan knelt on the ground, letting out a howl, but that chameleon, which she had raised and was incomparably close to her on weekdays, kept its scarlet eyes open and bit down without letting go.

Zhao Yi sat on the ground. His life-and-death gate seam was still open. At this moment, his body was like mud, and he could only sit there, watching all this happen.

His team not only suffered the loss of the Mountain Woman but was also in an incomparably low state. The other party was also extremely strong, attacking suddenly while resting, and the situation was completely one-sided.

When Xu Ming was kicked flying in two rounds, Zhao Yi only felt shocked.

But when the chameleon raised by Sun Yan directly bit its master, horror flowed directly from Zhao Yi's eyes. He opened his mouth and said:

"Long Long Wang Yu!"

Only the Luoyang Yu family, who were skilled in raising beasts and nurturing demons, could make Sun Yan, who was under his command, directly become a joke.

Your feeding methods and talent for affinity with animals were not worth mentioning in front of the other party's foundation.

Yu Miaomiao walked out from the dark night with her hands behind her back.

Just as she was about to speak, she let out a long hiccup.

There was no way; she really drank too much soda, a whole box, and A-Yuan only tasted one bottle, with the rest all entering her belly.

But even so, she still couldn't imitate the tone of that youth.

This also deepened her determination to kill that youth.

Yu Miaomiao smiled at Zhao Yi and said:

"My Yu family has sealed its gates for so long. Logically speaking, few in the younger generation of the rivers and lakes should know about it. The young master of the Jiujiang Zhao family is really well-informed."

Zhao Yi: "Falling into the hands of the Long Wang family is not unjust, it's just..."

Yu Miaomiao didn't wait for him to finish his sentence before taking a purple sable from behind her.

"Young Master Zhao wants to say that the jade fragment has already been sent out by you in advance? This is really not a coincidence. What is the difference between you using it to pass the jade fragment and handing it directly to me?"

The purple sable was very affectionate toward Yu Miaomiao. Even though it was very painful from being held by the tail, it still continued to please her.

Yu Miaomiao held the purple sable high with her right hand and placed her left hand under the purple sable's mouth. The purple sable's abdomen began to squirm, preparing to spit out the jade fragment in its belly.

During this waiting period, Yu Miaomiao also curiously stared at the bloody life-and-death gate seam on Zhao Yi's brow.

"Legend has it that there is a strange person in the younger generation of the Jiujiang Zhao, with an extra eye between the brows, like an extra heart seam, which can observe life and death.

If it weren't for the fact that having this thing makes one lose the strength to truss a chicken, my family would have wanted to go to your Zhao family back then and forcibly take you over for me to study, to see if it could be transplanted."

Zhao Yi smiled freely: "If Long Long Wang Yu wants it, just say so. I'll wash myself clean, tie a red rope, and personally deliver it to the entrance of the Yu family's ancestral home."

"You can also laugh..."

"Glug!"

The purple sable spat out the jade fragment from its belly.

Yu Miaomiao's gaze stalled.

In her palm, it was indeed a jade fragment, but it was only a high-quality imitation!

Zhao Yi said apologetically: "During the escape, I was really bored with nothing to do, so my hands itched and I carved one. Take a look, is it exactly the same?

The raw material is really easy to find. After all, there are jade shops everywhere opened by outsiders specifically to cheat tourists."

"Beep beep beep!"

Fatty Fat Jin Ge drove the car, carrying his parents and his object back.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that the first round of competition seemed to be coming to an end.

Tan Wenbin immediately stepped forward to discuss with Fatty Fat Jin Ge the expenses of everyone for these days. This place was Fatty Fat Jin Ge's shop and also his home. There was quite a bit of food and drink stored in the basement, so they had taken it themselves. Now they had to talk about the money for compensation.

Just at this moment, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly frowned and walked to Fatty Fat Jin Ge's minibus. A wisp of black Qi was overflowing from inside.

The youth opened the car door and discovered a jade fragment on the back seat. The corpse Qi inside seemed to be suppressed by some kind of power, but it was also about to erupt again.

Looking at this jade fragment, Li Zhuiyuan seemed to see Zhao Yi's full desire to survive.

He understood Zhao Yi's meaning.

The first jade fragment was still moving, and now he had two jade fragments in his hands.

This meant that the one from the Yu family had no goods in her hands at all.

Li Zhuiyuan really didn't know where she got the confidence to delay until now. How could her heart be so big?

Right now,

Approaching the end, there wasn't much time left. By then, those who didn't have jade fragments in their hands would lose the qualification to enter the banquet.

Then, will you choose to spend time breaking my formation, or go at all costs to forcefully take back that first jade fragment that you threw out yourself?

Influenced by this wisp of corpse Qi, Tan Wenbin immediately stuffed the money into Fatty Fat Jin Ge's hand, ended the enthusiastic pushing and pulling, and ran over quickly.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, is it that the jade fragment in our hands can no longer be suppressed?"

Tan Wenbin still thought that the seal of their own jade fragment had a problem.

Lin Shu and Yin Meng, one influenced by the vertical pupils and the other by the Gu insect perception, also gathered here.

In the courtyard, Runsheng, who was sitting there eating noodles, revealed an intoxicated face, raised his head, and took a deep breath: So fragrant!

Li Zhuiyuan said: "Tan Wenbin."

"Here!"

"I'll stay here. You take the others and go save people!"

——

This is to make up for yesterday's. There is another one tonight.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 196 =====