There is no exhaust in this cave and the air flow is not particularly good. The cave is long and the oxygen level is not high, so it is OK if people pass through it, but it is not practical if they want to stay for a long time. I feel that the cave was originally designed to prevent people from staying inside, probably because they were afraid that someone would discover the place and ambush them.
Hell, what kind of person would be that vigilant?
But after waiting for an hour, I didn’t see anyone, there was no way I could stay in here for an hour, there wasn’t enough oxygen.
“Oooh …… that hurts.” Yui Wu woke up rubbing her head and I was busy running back through the cave entrance.
“How are you? Is everything okay, does your throat hurt? The medicine hasn’t kicked in yet, it’ll be fine after a while.”
Still dazed, Wu Yi Yi rubbed the back of her head, “No, my throat doesn’t hurt, it’s my head that hurts.”
I sat down and felt the back of his head, there was a sizeable bloody bump, I asked, “Where did you hit it?”
“I didn’t hit it, someone hit me from behind and knocked me out with a smothering blow, piss me off, don’t let my lady catch who it was!”
“You were knocked unconscious?” I asked in surprise.
“Yes, or else why would I have suddenly fainted.”
The place where Yiyi Wu had fainted was not far from me, and the middle-aged woman in the cave should not be mistaken; it looked like she had told me that Yiyi Wu had fainted on her own, but in fact she had knocked her unconscious.
Wu Yi Yi said, “But my throat doesn’t hurt, I took a few breaths in the fire just now and it hurt like hell.”
I said, “Someone gave me a pill, just take it and you’ll be fine.”
Wu Yi Yi asked curiously, “Who? Was it senior brother?”
I cried and laughed, “The same person who knocked you out.”
“Huh?” Wu Yi Yi was dumbfounded, her expression awkward, one moment extra angry, but the next full of gratitude.
After sitting there by herself and squirming for half a day, Wu Yi Yi asked, “Who is that person.”
“I don’t know, I didn’t get a good look at her, but she opened the door for us.”
“Why was she …… so strange to save us?”
“I don’t know. But it certainly wasn’t her who barricaded us in there.” I let out a long sigh, “Your master is hiding a secret that no one is telling.”
Wu Yi Yi’s face was grave, she rarely looked so serious, she was usually cheeky, but now her pretty face was stained with ash and she looked serious, like she had grown up overnight, it hurt to look at my heart.
I sat beside her, hugging my knees, and said softly, “What, are you scared out of your wits?”
“Nonsense.” She let out a long sigh, “I just suddenly feel that our Thousand Clans are carrying so many things that I didn’t know about, but in the past few days it seems that all the secrets that had been hidden for decades have been torn open at once. For the first time I knew that our Thousand Clans had been poisoned and had so many enemies in the jianghu, and also, this person hidden in the bas*ment, she, she shouldn’t be a bad person, but why was she hidden. It must be because Master wanted to protect her.”
I said, “You’ve hit the nail on the head, this is the one person your master, no, I should say the elders of your Thousand Clans collectively want to protect.”
This would never be something that just Hu Xingren knew about, digging a fortification as big as a tunnel would definitely not be hidden from the eyes of several other elders.
“But is this one a fugitive? This is a journeyman, definitely not a fugitive.”
“She must be a journeyman.”
“I don’t believe he’s a fugitive either, and I don’t believe she’s a bad person, even though she hit me.”
I didn’t expect Wu Yi Yi to be unreasonable this time, which gave me the wrong impression that it was strange.
I laughed, “I thought you were going to say that she had beaten you and was a tenth of an evil person and that you were going to get your father to arrest her.”
“Hey, am I that bad?” Wu Yi Yi said sadly, “Is the only way to protect someone from the jungle is to hide her. This jianghu is so bad.”
Looking up at the stars, I collapsed on the grass and let out a long sigh.
“That’s right, this jianghu is bad.”
Unconsciously, Yiyi Wu lay down, probably too cold, and she leaned into my arms.
Neither of us said anything, listening to each other’s breathing. In fact, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn’t bear to push her away, just for a bell or two, let’s rest a bit.
Wu Yi Yi’s breathing became calm and she should have fallen asleep. I helped her to carefully wipe the stains off her face.
After about half an hour, she woke up from the cold and Moon Man Bow called again, asking where we were, if we were in danger, and if we should come and pick us up.
I said, “No, your sister fell asleep just now, I waited for her for a while, she was too tired and my legs were too sore to carry her.”
Yue Man Gong froze for a moment on the other end of the phone, then asked in a low voice, “Let me ask you, did you and Chu Xiao Xiao break up?”
“You’re cursing me in the middle of the New Year?” I blurted out.
Yue Man Gong said, “I know something went wrong between you and Chu Xiaoxiao, but Zhang Chao, remember your reaction now, since the woman you can’t let go of in your heart is Chu Xiaoxiao, don’t plague my senior sister, she’s too young to understand anything.”
I especially wanted to curse, who wrecked her, the one who wrecked her the most was you Yue Man Gong, but looking at Wu Yi Yi who looked bewildered next to me, I couldn’t say it out loud.
I said awkwardly, “Got it, I’m not that kind of person. We’ll be right back.”
When I hung up the phone, Wu Yi Yi asked me, “What’s wrong? What did my senior brother say to you? Your face suddenly stinks like this.”
“Nothing, hurry up and go back.”
“Oh, okay.”
Wu Yi Yi scratched her arm as she walked, “Why are there mosquitoes in this damn place even in winter, they’re biting me to death.”
I laughed and said, “There are hot springs everywhere here, the surface temperature is higher than other places, so it’s normal to have mosquitoes.”
Wu Yi Yi had been complaining, but at this time, she suddenly stopped talking. I thought she had encountered something and turned around nervously, but I saw her eyes were red.
“What’s wrong again, a few mosquito bites and you’re crying?”
“Bah, I’m not.” Her voice choked with sobs.
I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her, but she was a little girl, so I let her be.
“It’s okay, just keep going, my eyes might be smoky.”
I guessed she was crying because she was uncomfortable thinking about her unenlightened wooden brother, but there was nothing I could do to comfort her, so I just kept my head down and kept walking.
Wu Yi Yi and I were walking side by side, and after a while she said, “Did you know just now that the fire would burn over once you opened the door?”
I said, “Yes, because there is not much oxygen left in the house, fire is something that will burrow into the place where there is oxygen, you see some houses on fire, the fire is burrowed into the window opening. Because fires need oxygen to burn ……”
