Chapter 176

Countless spores rushed up in an instant. I held my breath, kicked Jiang Zi Suan away, and climbed up the tree again. I hadn’t climbed more than two steps before he grabbed me by the waist and shoved me to the ground again.

Fortunately, the fungi under this tree weren’t very dense—probably because of the strong sunshine near the cliff—but Jiang Zi Suan wrapped his arm around my neck, grabbed a handful of them, and moved to stuff them into my mouth.

I was evenly covered in mud, so everything was fine except for the burning pain in my lungs and eyes. Upon seeing him getting ready to stuff the fungi into my mouth, I turned my head with all of my strength and swallowed a mouthful of mud. The slap caught me on my ear instead. I turned my head and spat the mouthful of mud right into his face like a fountain.

He immediately blocked it with his hand, so I quickly grabbed him by the balls and pinched and twisted with all my strength. Jiang Zi Suan screamed and rolled away, constantly rubbing his mud-covered eyes.

I picked up another handful of mud from the ground and threw it directly into his face again. My mouth felt like it was burning, which meant that the spores were probably on the mud’s surface and were starting to burn my oral mucosa.

“Water!” I yelled at Baishe. He threw me the canteen and I immediately rinsed my mouth out. Kang Jian was in the tree and sent a slingshot full of mud balls straight at Jiang Zi Suan. I thought Jiang Zi Suan would be hit for sure—Kan Jian’s slingshot could crack his skull at this distance—but I didn’t expect Jiang Zi Suan to directly catch the mud balls with his hands and rush to the edge of the cliff.

“Hit his legs!” I cried out. The air under the tree felt like it had been soaked in chili peppers, and my lungs burned with every breath I took. I held my breath and watched Kan Jian shoot three mud balls in a row, but Jiang Zi Suan dodged them all. This guy was still wiping his eyes, but there were no obstacles to block his sprint through the forest and he soon climbed a tree.

I stretched my hand out and Baishe helped pull me up the tree. Kan Jian had already snagged the crossbow and put a bolt on it, but I stopped him.

“It’ll probably take his eyes a while to recover. He still has Bai Haotian, so it’ll be problematic if he’s killed here.” As I was speaking, that Jiang Zi Suan soon ran away and disappeared. I looked at Liu Sang, “Are you all right?”

Liu Sang looked at his hand, grimaced in pain, and then said stiffly, “You’ll have to pay more for fucking injuries. Wounds from this kind of work are bound to leave scars. You fucking owe me your life now. I’ll definitely publicize it when I get out of here.”

I owe my life to a lot of people, I said to myself. I washed the mud off of my hands with the water in the canteen, took out the boiled mud from my Hundred Treasures Bag, and reapplied it to my body as Baishe got ready to dress Liu Sang’s wound.

Liu Sang sneered at me, “You bastard, there are even people ambushing you in this kind of place. Do you think it’s good for people to be with you?”

I took the bandage from Baishe’s hand, grabbed Liu Sang’s hand, and squeezed it hard. His wound immediately started bleeding heavily. I washed it with the canteen water, but still didn’t bandage it. “You’re hiding something from me,” I said to him. “Hurry up and say it.”

Liu Sang screamed in pain and tried to slap my hand away, “You fucking ingrate! I saved you!”

“You and this Jiang Zi Suan seem to have an unusual relationship,” I said coldly. “He couldn’t see when he was running just now, but he could still hear. This guy’s ears are as good as your ears, right? It definitely isn’t a coincidence.”

Liu Sang twisted his hand, grabbed the bandage from my hand, and dressed the wound himself. I gave Kan Jian a look, and he pulled his slingshot out.

“We’ve come to this point. What can’t be said?” I asked. “You didn’t just save me earlier. You also led this man here. You don’t want me to die, but what exactly do you have planned?” As I spoke, I looked at Liu Sang’s pocket. His hand was often in his pocket, so I suspected that there was a sound-making device or something in it that always kept Jiang Zi Suan informed of our position.

I had realized that something was wrong with Liu Sang’s actions just now. Based on the distance between the crossbow and bolt, there was no way to prevent it at all. Not to mention there was no way to know that the bolt was aimed at my heart, but there wouldn’t be enough time to raise your hand to block it.

Liu Sang knew what the other party was going to do in an instant, which showed that he knew the other’s habits.

In addition, Liu Sang’s ears were so good that he must’ve known Jiang Zi Suan was there before he drew his bow. But when he warned us, Jiang Zi Suan was already too close.

Liu Sang hurriedly wrapped his wound and looked up at me. “Maybe I thought you’re not as hateful as before. You’re still alive, so you’ve clearly won me over. But you’re right. I have a relationship with this person, but the relationship has nothing to do with you.”

Kan Jian went up and wanted to hit Liu Sang, but I suddenly heard Jiang Zi Suan shouting in the distance, “Wu Xie, come out and have a look!”

I immediately searched for the sound and saw Jiang Zi Suan carrying Bai Haotian to the cliff in the distance.

“Where the fuck are you?!” I immediately replied while gesturing to Kan Jian behind me. Kan Jian instantly went down the tree, making his way over secretly without an ounce of hesitation.

Jiang Zi Suan scolded, “You blinded me, Wu Xie. I didn’t want to do this, but you have to learn a lesson.” With that said, he instantly threw Bai Haotian off of the cliff.

Bai Haotian shouted, “Little Master Three!”

As she fell straight down into the valley, my mind buzzed and all the blood rushed up to my head.

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I swear to God I’m not doing this on purpose lol. I left you at one cliffhanger Thursday, only to leave you at an even bigger one today. I’ll see if I can get another one out tomorrow. Today’s no good since we’re going to fish and shoot guns. Happy Saturday!