Chapter 757: Did you miss Qi gege? (2/2)
What...did he mean by that?
“Do you know why this young gentleman waited until now to make my move?” Gu Qishao asked next.
For some reason, goosebumps rose on Qi Yaotian’s flesh. But he brushed it off to laugh. “Showing off your courage? Hero rescuing the beauty? You’re overestimating your skills and seeking death!”
Gu Qishao played with his pretty, slender fingers as he continued to speak. “It’s because this young gentleman finds Long Feiye extremely annoying. If I didn’t seize this chance to suppress his arrogance a bit, I’d feel uncomfortable all over.”
Even Han Yunxi was mystified by his words. What is Gu Qishao doing? He was here long ago but only waited until now to act. How is he supposed to face off against all these people by himself?
Last time, he’d gotten seriously injured from the Chu Clan archers. This time, they had to deal with an entire Carefree City! Han Yunxi almost wanted to run over and knock him upside the head to tell him to Please, don’t play pretentious now!
“Heheh, then you tell us. How are you going to quell Long Feiye’s arrogance? What, fight us one on ten?” Qi Zonglin chuckled. “How about you fight with this city lord? If you win, my Carefree City will scatter. If you lose, surrender the antidote while I take Han Yunxi. How is it?”
Gu Qishao arched his brow at him in a graceful curve. Even men could be distracted by his looks, to say nothing of women. Qi Zonglin rather admired his pleasing appearance and airs. But abruptly, Gu Qishao’s mood shifted as he spat crudely. Flecks of spittle scattered on Qi Zonglin’s face.
“Your uncle! You think I’m an idiot? Fighting one against ten? Wouldn’t this old fellow just lose miserably? Lemme tell you now, I can’t even fight you one on one! I’ve brought men too! I’m going to fight ten with a hundred!”
Besides Han Yunxi, everyone was startled by Gu Qishao’s sudden shift of personality. But what happened next shocked them even more.
“All of you, come out!”
As soon as Gu Qishao spoke, groups of ashen-faced humans walked out of the woods. All of them were as expressionless as suicide soldiers. Despite not carrying any weapons nor showing any skills in martial arts, the aura of death and aura clinging to their forms was enough to send chills down one’s back. There were enough of them to completely surround the Carefree City mercenaries. Beneath their calm expressions laid panic.
Qi Zonglin’s expression was ghastly as he spoke. “Suicide soldiers…”
Gu Qishao straightened his somewhat disheveled hair before he replied. “No, they’re only Poison Corpses.”
Qi Zonglin almost spat up blood at that comment, while all of the other assassins had paled at the words.
They’re actually Poison Corpses! No wonder they look scarier than suicide soldiers! Jun Yixie raised Poison Corpses too and they were bad enough, but he only had 10 at most. Who knew that Gu Qishao had such a huge contingent of his own! Even if Carefree City could defeat suicide soldiers, they didn’t stand a chance against so many Poison Corpses! Not only were they immune to most poisons, they could poison in turn both soundlessly and formlessly.
Qi Zonglin broke out into cold sweat, completely forgetting about his hand. “Gu Qishao, you, you--”
“How is it? My men are much stronger than Long Feiye’s shadow guards, right!” Gu Qishao asked very seriously. “Qi Zonglin, do you think Long Feiye will admit his loss to me once my Poison Corpses kill your entire city?”
How was Qi Zonglin supposed to answer?
He only felt that the dazzling, demonically beautiful man before him was nothing short of insane! Casting all thoughts of Han Yunxi and the antidote aside, he shouted, “Everyone, withdraw!”
He was the first to take to the skies and flee, with the rest of the Carefree City hurrying suit. All of them escaped to the skies to leave the surrounding Corpses and run for their lives. Gu Qishao didn’t order his men to follow, meaning to let them go on purpose. News of all of Carefree City coming out to attack would spread very soon. He couldn’t very well have his Poison Corpses kill these men when it’d only let more people curse Han Yunxi as a scourge. Poison Corpses were a type of poison gu universally feared by everyone.
Qi Zonglin had been poisoned. If he couldn’t cure himself in time, he would have to chop off his hand. This could count as his revenge for Poison lass’s sake. He was rather indifferent about the bodies of shadow guards littering the ground. He was only gloomy over the fact that he’d come one step too late to prevent Poison lass from having a scare. Now he walked towards Han Yunxi. With each step, the vines surrounding her withered until it shriveled back onto the ground. He stood in front of her and gave her a brilliant smile.
“Poison loss, it’s been ages since we’ve met. Did you miss Qi gege?”
Han Yunxi was so moved that she didn’t know what to say. All she did was stare and stare…
“Is Qi gege that attractive?” Gu Qishao chuckled.
For Han Yunxi, it was the first time she had truly looked at his face, his smile. Although she always knew he was a very pretty many, she never realized he possessed such beauty. Gu Qishao’s devastating looks lasted only but a instance. Before Han Yunxi, he was always just a normal man. He was neither cold and arrogant nor devilishly charming, but simply someone who doted on the person he loved and worried about the most common things like her wellbeing and hunger. Before her, he preferred to fuss over details as simple as rice or oil, salt or vinegar, timber and tea.
Now he quickly took out a canteen from his sleeve and handed it to Han Yunxi. “Drink this. Hurry, it’s neither hot nor warm, but a perfect warm temperature. But don’t drink too much, because I’ve brought you food, too.”
He went to get a three-layer lunchbox from his carriage in the woods. Opening the lid revealed fresh, steaming food. “Poison lass, you’ve traveled so long that you must have missed out on hot meals for days, right? Drink some soup to warm your stomach.”
As soon as he got wind of Han Yunxi’s directions this morning, he’d personally prepared her food and brought it here.