C37 (1/2)

In the dilapidated temple, Zhu Yingqiong's face was green and purple as she fainted on the ground, her mouth was constantly speaking nonsense in English, I could not understand it at all, but her body was trembling. She must have thought of something terrifying, and this situation was something that could not be seen by the tough Zhu Yingqiong.

Sure enough, no matter how strong a woman was, she was still a woman. There was still a soft spot in her heart!

I sat down beside her and gave her a few mouthfuls of water. Seeing her spitting out a few mouthfuls of black blood while her complexion gradually recovered, my heart, which had been hanging in the air all this time, finally relaxed.

Outside the door, the miasma was still overwhelming, it was unknown when it would dissipate. If not for finding this rundown temple in time, Zhu Yingqiong and I would probably have died outside.

But what about the sea and the Fourth Uncle?

Initially, the sea and the monks were always ahead of me. I thought that they had also entered the run-down temple, but now it seemed that they were still in the miasma and didn't even know where they had gone. I was very worried.

Zhu Yingqiong was unconscious. What could I do alone?

Being here alone in this Wild Mountain is a very terrifying thing. My heart started to feel a little anxious, but after thinking carefully for a while, I gradually calmed down.

Damn it, the old man even dared to live in the Wild Mountain for a year. As a descendant of the Chen Family, what am I afraid of? At most, he would just die.

After realizing the fact that I was going to die, I didn't have any worries. I calmed my heart down and gathered the abandoned firewood within the temple to start a bonfire. Following the light of the fire, I carefully looked at the temple before me.

It was very narrow, and its surroundings were about the width of a kitchen. There were a lot of weeds on the ground, and in the middle was a deity statue that had collapsed, falling in pieces. It was hard to tell what it was offering, but in front of the deity statue was a stone table.

I tore open the can and put it beside the fire to warm it up, then fed Zhu Yingqiong a little. After feeding it to the point of being confused, I finally had time to look outside and realized that it was already dark, but when I shone my light on it, I could still see the thick miasma. When the door opened, it would immediately rush in.

I hastily closed the door, not knowing when the miasma would disperse. No wonder Wang Yu's army failed in their attack on Wild Mountain. With this miasma as a natural barrier, it was impossible to break in.

I took out my hunting rifle and fired a shot outside the door. The sound of the gunshot was very ear-piercing in the dead forest and I believe that the Fourth Uncle who was lost outside would hear it and come here to find me. I wanted to go out to look for them, but the miasma outside was thick.

Zhu Yingqiong's condition gradually improved. She woke up around eleven in the evening, but her body was still weak. After drinking some water, she fell asleep.

It was only on the second day that I discovered that the miasma was gradually dispersing. This made me very excited, as long as the miasma dispersed, I would be able to set off to find the Fourth Uncle and the others. However, the only situation was that Zhu Yingqiong had not improved.

In the morning, she woke up with a dazed look in her eyes, unable to speak, and would vomit blood the moment she opened her mouth. She couldn't eat at all, so she could only drink water, not to mention travelling, so I could only stay in the broken temple to guard her. By the afternoon, the fucking miasma once again filled the entire forest, which made me extremely terrified, because basically, in this area, only half a day was safe every day, while the rest was filled with miasma.

It was no wonder that even after all these years, the Primordial Forest was still undeveloped. Most likely, other than the problems with the borders of a few nations, one would still need this life-threatening miasma.

On this day, just like last night, I would shoot every two hours, but I did not receive any response from the Fourth Uncle. This made me worried, even if you could not find me, you can still shoot me with a gun to send a message.

I was glad that the temple was safe, because I couldn't hear anything outside, including the beastmen. When Zhu Yingqiong was in a coma, I would cover my mouth and nose to look around, to pick up some firewood, but I didn't dare to go too far, so I rushed back as soon as I felt that something was amiss.

It was a pity that the miasma was too thick for him to see his surroundings clearly.

At night, Zhu Yingqiong woke up, and her face looked much better. Although she was still pale, she had clearly recovered a lot, and after eating a little and thanking me, she sat down beside the bonfire in a daze.

I feel a little awkward. Actually, I'm not very close with Zhu Yingqiong, and it could even be considered to be an enemy relationship, because the old man's disappearance was caused by Charles, and she is also Charles's woman. Under this kind of environment where they get along together, staying silent was indeed very awkward.

I cleared my throat and asked, ”Why are you here?”

Zhu Yingqiong obviously didn't react, and after a long while, she turned her head to look at me, but didn't say anything.

I continued, ”This place isn't a place where women come from at all!”

Zhu Yingqiong immediately retorted: ”Are you trying to say that women are inferior to men?”

I hurriedly shook my head. ”That's not what I meant, but I wanted to say that Wild Mountain has nothing to do with you. You are just a woman, why would you come to this kind of place to suffer?

Zhu Yingqiong looked at me with shining eyes, and suddenly said coldly. ”Are you pitying me?”

I felt that this woman's temper was really hard to fathom and could only change to another meaning: ”I mean, you don't need to work so hard for Charles. Look at the Wild Mountain this time, he did not appear at all to control you from the back, and if you die, he would think of a way to immediately change groups.

Zhu Yingqiong suddenly laughed, causing me to be a little stunned. It was because Zhu Yingqiong was a very beautiful woman, but because she had a cold and detached personality, she had a poker face that was impermeable to water and fire, making it hard for people to get close to her. Suddenly, she laughed, and it felt like thousands of trees and pear blossoms were blooming.

As if she had sensed that I was looking at her, she immediately stopped smiling, and then changed into an ice-cold tone of voice. ”I did not come here for anyone, it was for myself, and had nothing to do with Charles.”