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Chapter 149 [Going Home] (6400)

Chapter 144 [Going Home] (6400)

The leader monster's eyes glanced in their direction, but Chen Yan noticed that the creature's head was slightly tilted back, and its nostrils twitched slightly, as if it were sniffing the air...

Chen Yan suddenly understood!

odor!!
This guy has a very keen sense of smell!
He suddenly understood why Du Li, who had used an invisibility talisman, was still detected and hunted down.

The leader had already drawn an arrow and nocked it on his bow...

Chen Yan suddenly reached out and pulled Du Li up from the ground, then used his other hand to tear off his upper fur coat and throw it far away!
He pushed off with his feet, hoisted Du Li onto his back, and dashed into the woods!
call out!
A sharp arrow shot out, piercing through the fur coat Chen Yan had thrown out in mid-air and then pinning it to a tree!
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The leader monster slowly walked to the edge of the forest, coldly looking up at the fur coat that it had shot through with an arrow.

With a cold expression, it tore off its fur coat, pulled out the arrow, and put it back into its quiver.

More and more monsters surrounded the leader monster.

The leader monster's gaze swept across the monster horde before settling on one of them.

Wooden bowl.

Wooden Bowl was the thinnest of the group. Among the monsters chasing after the escaped slaves, it was jostled around by the other monsters and seemed to be losing its balance, yet it still anxiously looked towards the direction of the forest.

"A wooden bowl!"

The leader monster spoke, and all the other monsters immediately fell silent.

The wooden bowl trembled and fearfully slashed at the leader monster.

"Runaway savage, your slaves are here." The monster leader tossed the fur coat onto the ground: "It's yours, isn't it!"

The wooden bowl lowered its head, its body trembling slightly: "He helped me cut down so many trees, so many!"

“From now on, that is no longer your private property! Runaway slaves must be executed; that is the rule.”

Mu Wan raised his head, gritting his teeth: "I...I'll go after them too."

"...Suit yourself." The leader monster ignored the wooden bowl and instead slashed at his tribesmen: "Bring two of the hunted beasts here! Follow the scent! One of those two savages was wounded by my arrow, he can't have gone far."

·
Chen Yan ran frantically, running with all his might!
He didn't hold back, but ran at full speed without reservation!
If you can't escape at this point, you're doomed, so conserving your strength is pointless.

Chen Yan carried Du Li and ran for an unknown distance through the forest—but based on Chen Yan's assessment of his current physical abilities, his running speed was definitely not slow!

So, after running for a few minutes, Chen Yan confirmed that no one was chasing him from behind, and he felt a little more at ease and safer.

However, another matter weighed heavily on Chen Yan's mind.

He carried Du Li on his back as they ran wildly, but he could feel that his back was slippery—that was Du Li's blood!

Du Li, who was severely injured, bled more and more, and after Chen Yan threw off his fur coat, all the blood stuck to the skin on his back.

Du Li's life or death might not be that important to Chen Yan...

But the smell of blood is indeed a fatal problem!

After leaping forcefully over a pit in the woods, Chen Yan felt as if his chest and lungs were about to explode.

A rough calculation shows that I've been sprinting for almost ten minutes—meaning I'm currently superhuman; an ordinary person would have already collapsed from exhaustion.

Chen Yan stopped, put Du Li on the ground, then took out a piece of ice from his pocket and chewed it with a crunching sound.

Du Li was barely breathing.

Chen Yan looked at Du Li, while Du Li lay on the ground, staring at Chen Yan with wide eyes.

The invisibility spell's effect has worn off.

“You’re dying, I can’t save you.” Chen Yan didn’t waste any words, chewing the ice fiercely: “You can tell me the intelligence you’ve discovered, and I’ll bring it back for you… if I manage to get back alive.”

Chen Yan's words came from the bottom of his heart—he had no intention of deceiving Du Li at this moment.

This human, lurking among the monsters, was deceived by himself, which led to his escape and this tragic outcome...

Regardless, he was fighting for the humans of the realm, against these alien races.

Chen Yan felt responsible for Du Li's death—he also felt he should help Du Li bring the intelligence back!
Can……

Du Li's lips trembled, and his eyes suddenly turned strange.

"I'm dying...?" Du Li's eyes were already somewhat unfocused.

“…Yes, I’m sorry, but I can’t save you in this situation.” Chen Yan shook his head.

"..." After a two-second silence, Du Li suddenly looked at Chen Yan with a strange expression.

He whispered, "...I'm sorry."

Ok?
Chen Yan was stunned.

"I lied to you." Tears streamed down Du Li's face. "I...I lied to you..."

"……What's the meaning?"

Du Li's breath grew weaker and weaker: "There's no information... the information about the Divine Tree... it's all fake. I didn't find anything, I didn't find anything..."

I can't take it anymore... Being there is too much torture, I... I just want to leave, I want to go back...

So... I, I... I...

I lied to you... I... I didn't find anything...

I lied to you, I lied to you about running away with me... I even lied to you about giving up your mission..."

Du Li was barely breathing, and his words were barely audible.

Chen Yan suddenly froze.

Tears welled up in Du Li's eyes, and this time his gaze was genuine.

“I am a coward…I have abandoned the honor of the Du family…I, I am a weak…coward…”

Chen Yan silently watched Du Li, watching as more blood flowed from the wound on the man's chest, his face growing paler and paler...

"You, go..." Du Li looked towards the sky, though he couldn't actually see anything there, just a fog.

He died, and there was no more breath.

Chen Yan didn't know what to feel. He squatted down next to Du Li and looked at the guy's corpse.

This result struck Chen Yan as rather ironic.

"Actually, I lied to you too. I'm not one of your people at all." Chen Yan sighed, then smiled bitterly, "But it's fine this way. Since you lied to me too, it makes my guilt a little less."

Looking at Du Li's corpse, Chen Yan suddenly realized something.

This Du Li might not have good intentions towards me either!
He pretended to be an undercover agent like himself, and then tricked himself into evacuating and escaping together!

He actually gained nothing, but he deceived himself, thinking he only wanted to have one more helper on his escape route.

But... what if the two of them actually manage to escape?
Du Li will kill himself!!

Because he lied, he didn't gather any intelligence. He chose to lie and run away simply because he was afraid of death and cowardly! He even tricked another undercover agent into abandoning the mission!
But if he successfully returns, his actions will be exposed and he will be punished.

So... he'll definitely kill himself (the other undercover agent) to silence him before he goes back!

The last trace of guilt in Chen Yan's heart finally dissipated.

He straightened Du Li's body—this was the only thing he could do for the man.

There was no way to dig a hole and bury him during the escape.

After doing all this, Chen Yan gave Du Li a deep look before turning and walking away.

He walked faster and faster through the woods, and finally started running again.

·
Chen Yan felt that his luck had finally turned around!
After running for about ten minutes, he found a muddy pond.

This strange forest is very eerie. Even though the temperature is definitely below zero, the forest just doesn't freeze.

The mudflats were moist and contained a small amount of liquid water.

Chen Yan didn't care about cleanliness or not, he scooped up the muddy water and frantically scrubbed his body!
Scrub them thoroughly from head to toe!
One reason was to wash away the bloodstains of Du Li that had stained his body.

In addition, it also fills one's body with the smell of earth.

The leader monster had the ability to recognize scents—Chen Yan wasn't sure if all monsters had this ability.

But perhaps the other party is raising some kind of animal similar to a hunting dog?

Smell is one's biggest weakness!

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After washing away the blood with mud and water and rubbing his entire body with mud, Chen Yan looked like a donkey that had rolled in mud.

He finally climbed out of the mud pit, and covered in mud, continued walking into the woods.

What Chen Yan didn't know was that his actions actually saved his life!
Because just over ten minutes after he left the mud pit, several monsters arrived, leading a wild beast covered in barbs like a porcupine.

But the porcupine sniffed for a long time, only to circle around listlessly a few times.

The smell is unrecognizable here.

·
Chen Yan roughly estimated that he had been walking for several hours.

During this time, in order to avoid going in the wrong direction, he climbed to the top of the tree three times to find his way.

Two mountain ridges in the distance could serve as reference points... but the fog was too thick, and the outlines of the ridges were not clear.

So... in reality, the vast majority of the time it's still a matter of luck.

Perhaps I was heading towards the mountain ridge, or perhaps I had already strayed from my course.

Without a watch or any reference point, time estimation becomes increasingly inaccurate.

In the end, Chen Yan himself was unsure how long he had been walking.

However, as he climbed a hillside, he felt a surge of excitement—he thought he had finally reached the ridge.

But his excitement quickly faded.

This is neither of the two mountain ridges on the map.

It was just a small hillside.

There must be quite a few hillsides like this in the forest.

Chen Yan felt the temperature getting lower and lower, and he judged that it must be late at night—at this time every day, he should have returned to the wooden house to rest.

So if you calculate it that way... I've actually been out here for almost a day?

My hands and feet were already numb, and my legs were getting weaker and weaker, making it harder and harder to exert any strength.

Finally, after crossing the hillside, Chen Yan found a cave.

It might be a wild animal's den, but there wasn't a strong fishy or foul smell inside; it just felt a bit damp.

But he couldn't worry about that anymore; Chen Yan had no choice.

He was exhausted and needed to rest—he knew very well that if he continued walking in the chilly forest, he would either die of exhaustion or freeze to death!

Fortunately, the practice of taking a mud bath had a special effect.

After the mud dried, a hardened mud shell formed on his body. Surprisingly, this shell also provided some insulation.

But having persevered this far, Chen Yan feels he could faint at any moment.

He hid in the hole and finally confirmed that it must have been an animal's den, but it had probably been abandoned.

The temperature inside the cave was slightly higher, and Chen Yan found some remaining wild animal fur and withered leaves. Ignoring the dirt, he shoved these things onto his body and buried himself in them.

Finally, he took a small bag from his waist, which he had made from a piece of fabric torn from his own fur coat.

Inside, there were two fist-sized lumps of black dough.

This is what Chen Yan has secretly saved up over the past few days.

The wooden bowl was "good" to him; compared to other slaves, Chen Yan ate an extra lunch every day, so he had more opportunities to save up some food.

Chen Yan was already secretly planning his escape—he would have done it even without Du Li.

That's all the food we've saved up.

Chen Yan didn't hold back and ate half of it—he knew very well that he needed to replenish his strength and get as far away from that tribe as possible in the shortest amount of time.

Yes, that tribe called the "Fierce Beast Tribe".

It was Du Li who told him this name.

As for saving food, let's talk about that after we're out of danger.

Chen Yan buried his body under the rotten leaves. He felt waves of coldness coursing through his body, and his head was spinning more and more.

Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat!
He realized he had a fever!

Sure enough, after walking around in the chilly forest shirtless for a day, my body couldn't take it anymore!
Before he fainted, a thought flashed through Chen Yan's mind.

This must be my seventh day in this realm. It truly is a world brimming with malice...

·
Chen Yan was awakened from his sleep by a voice.

The voice seemed both near and far, carrying a strange tone.

But Chen Yan only heard two sounds in his daze before he suddenly woke up and his body tensed up instantly!
He recognized it as the whistling sound of the ferocious beasts during a chase!
Chen Yan felt weak and sore all over, and he couldn't muster any strength at all. He struggled for a moment, but just as he managed to sit up, his vision almost went black.

Outside the cave, the whistling sound seemed to be coming from several directions nearby, as if they were searching the area!

Chen Yan felt a chill in his heart!
He took a deep breath, his mind slowly calming down. Then, slowly, Chen Yan pulled out a sharpened stick from the strange tree and held it in his hand.

He slowly crawled into the cave near the entrance and leaned against the wall.

Then let's give it our all.

If they find us, then... fight them to the death!
Even if you can't kill a monster, you should still stab it a few times.

Even if you die, you should bite the other person hard before you die!
Chen Yan gripped the stick tightly, but his heart remained calm and indifferent.

Finally, he heard a noise outside, the footsteps getting closer and closer, the sound of footsteps on branches and fallen leaves in the woods.

It's very close, and getting closer and closer.

Finally, a figure stood at the cave entrance, holding a bow in his hand.

The other person was significantly taller than the cave entrance, forcing them to bend down and peer into the cave.

The arrow in its hand had its tip pointed into the cave.

Chen Yan gripped the stick tightly, ready to stab it hard at any moment!
However, the next moment, when their eyes met...

Chen Yan: "..."

Wooden Bowl: "..."

Chen Yan realized he had miscalculated... The wooden bowl was standing in a spot that his stick couldn't reach... and the other person didn't seem to want to come in; they were just standing outside the cave.

But the bow and arrows in her hand were enough to kill her.

The wooden bowl stared at Chen Yan, a hint of surprise in its eyes.

After the initial shock, Chen Yan gradually became indifferent.

Forget it... I'll just die here today.

The two stared at each other for a few seconds.

Those few seconds felt like an eternity.

Finally, under Chen Yan's gaze, Mu Wan slowly lowered the bow in his hand, but his eyes remained fixed on Chen Yan.

Then, under Chen Yan's gaze, Mu Wan suddenly took two steps back, turned his head, whistled loudly twice, and then shouted at the top of his lungs: "There isn't one here!!"

After saying that, Mu Wan ran away.

Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the cave wall. After a while, he suddenly felt sore all over. Just now, his adrenaline had been pumping wildly, and now that the effects had worn off, his whole body ached and his heart was pounding.

The whistling sounds outside faded into the distance; the monsters that were chasing them must have gone far away.

·
Chen Yan couldn't fully understand what kind of emotion led Mu Wan to let him go.

Compassion for the pet? Kindness? Or protection of her private property?
Or perhaps, she planned to secretly take Chen Yan back by herself?
Chen Yan couldn't understand it.

Of course, there were also concerns: what if Mu Wan regretted it later and came back to capture him again, or even bring a few monsters with him?

But... there's no point in thinking about it anymore.

Because Chen Yan was very clear about his current situation: no matter what, he couldn't go anywhere right now.

The fever persisted, and he was so weak that he couldn't even stand up.

Escape is no longer an option.

My only option now is to hide in this cave and see if I can survive until my body recovers a little.

Perhaps... he might even die of illness here?

Chen Yan buried himself back into the pile of rotten leaves. His mind grew increasingly muddled, and he couldn't muster any consciousness. Then, everything went black.

·
Gudong! !
Chen Yan's body seemed to fall from a great height, crashing heavily onto the hard wooden floor!

The wooden floorboards made Chen Yan's elbows ache, and his head also hit the ground, causing him to groan instinctively.

However, Chen Yan then opened his eyes, and the next second, his eyes widened suddenly!
came back! !

He found himself lying in his own basement training room!
Beneath my body was a hard wooden floor.

There was a futon and a small table beside him, and in the corner there was a pile of white jade plaques with carved runes that he used to practice carving.

You're back?

Chen Yan's eyes widened, but the physical pain quickly stopped him from thinking any further.

His body was still covered in mud and filth, his feet were covered in bloodstains, and his legs and hands were frostbitten!

There was also physical weakness and a foggy mind.

Chen Yan took a deep breath, a breath he forced himself to hold.

Sensing the flow of the world's energy, Chen Yan immediately took something out of the alchemy furnace!
A bottle of White Bone Pills—from the batch gifted by Ouyang.

He quickly pinched out a White Bone Pill and threw it into his mouth. In order to make the medicine spread quickly, he even chewed the pill and swallowed it!
After completing this action, Chen Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The White Bone Pill should be able to save my life—at least it'll be enough to treat external injuries.

He took a deep breath, and the surge of energy brought back his keen senses.

Chen Yan immediately sensed that someone was in his house!
He tried to move, but still couldn't stand up.

Chen Yan glanced around and saw an inkstone on the table next to him—the one he used to practice drawing talismans.

With trembling hands, Chen Yan reached out to grab the inkstone and slammed it against the door.

boom! !

After completing this action, Chen Yan was exhausted, his vision began to darken again, and he fell backward.

Just as Chen Yan was about to completely lose consciousness, he finally saw...

The door to the practice room was pushed open with a thud, and Lu Sisi rushed in with an anxious and excited expression. She then threw herself at her side and hugged her tightly...

"Chen Yan! Chen Yan! What's wrong with you? You've been like this these past few days..."

Chen Yan couldn't hear the rest, but this time, he was in a peaceful coma.

·
Chen Yan didn't know how long he had been unconscious.

He would occasionally regain a sliver of consciousness in his sleep.

He felt someone pick him up and carry him, but they failed.

He felt someone drag him to a place, and then warm water soaked him in...

He felt someone pry open his mouth and feed him something.

Is it water? Or medicine?

·
When Chen Yan woke up, he found himself lying in his own big bed.

She was completely clean and had changed into a soft, light set of pajamas.

She was still covered with a blanket.

I am clean... The mud that used to cover my body and head has been washed away.

Chen Yan let out a soft breath, and a sense of security that was everywhere returned to him.

His eyes darted around and he saw a water glass and a medicine box on the bedside table next to him.

And right beside his bed was Lu Sisi.

Lu Sisi was sitting on the edge of the bed, her hands on the bed, her face buried in her hands, fast asleep.

The curtains in the room were closed, but a sliver of sunlight could be seen through the gaps—it must be daytime now.

Chen Yan took a deep breath and checked his body.

My strength has returned quite a bit. Although I still feel a bit sore and weak, at least my energy has returned somewhat.

He slowly sat up from the bed, a movement that immediately woke Lu Sisi, who was lying on the edge of the bed.

Lu Sisi suddenly raised her head and saw Chen Yan's gaze; the girl's eyes immediately reddened.

"You're awake!" Lu Sisi said with red eyes—not so much out of excitement, but because the girl's eyes were already quite bloodshot.

Chen Yan reached out and touched Lu Sisi's hair, whispering, "...You've worked so hard. Thank you for making you worry for so long, haven't you?"

Lu Sisi bit her lip, but quickly leaned over and touched Chen Yan's forehead: "The fever is gone."

"Hmm, I feel like I've recovered quite a bit."

Chen Yan glanced at the water glass and medicines on the bedside table; there were antibiotics and fever reducers.

Lu Sisi had already stood up, poured herself another glass of water, and took out a few capsules from the medicine box.

Chen Yan didn't refuse, took it and popped it into his mouth, then gulped down a glass of water.

Lu Sisi watched Chen Yan nervously. Only after Chen Yan took the medicine and drank the water did the girl breathe a sigh of relief. She walked over and sat down next to Chen Yan, and even helped him adjust his pillow so that he could lean against the headboard.

"Now, tell me, what exactly happened!"

Looking into Chen Yan's eyes, Lu Sisi quickly added, "Chen Yan, don't lie to me, don't fool me, I'm your girlfriend! I've been worried sick about you for seven days! You should tell me the truth!"

(End of this chapter)