Douluo Continent: The Holy Son of the Spirit Hall, who intercepted the immortal herb

Chapter 51 Night Chase: Both Women Got into His Car

By the time the light carriage left the city, night had completely fallen.

The wheels rolled over the bluestone road with a rapid, muffled thud. The firelight at the city gate was quickly left behind, and gusts of wind blew in through the cracks in the carriage windows, carrying the unique chill of the night.

Xu Tinglan sat in the front, holding the reins firmly in her hands.

She knew every road outside Soto.

That's why her complexion is getting worse and worse.

"wrong."

She spoke in a low voice.

"This is not the right way to the desolate ravine."

Inside the carriage, Xiao Wu, who had been rubbing her aching calves, sat up straight instantly upon hearing this.

"What do you mean?"

Su Chen looked up at the swaying carriage curtain ahead, his voice calm.

Explain yourself.

Xu Tinglan didn't turn around, but lowered her voice and spoke much faster than before.

"If that wagon really was carrying children through the ravine, they wouldn't have taken this gravel side road. The road here is narrow, full of loose rocks, and the vehicle can't pick up speed. Any driver with a little experience wouldn't choose it."

"unless----"

Xiao Wu frowned.

"Unless what?"

"Unless they're not trying to escape."

Xu Tinglan tightened his grip on the reins, his knuckles turning white.

"They wanted to lure the pursuers to a desolate ravine."

The carriage fell silent for a moment.

The next second, Xiao Wu's expression changed.

"A diversionary tactic?"

"more than."

Su Chen's eyes darkened.

"It's a broken tail."

"We raided the branch hall tonight, and Han Su's line of work is already in disarray. A normal person at this point would only want to send the child away, but if there's something even bigger behind it, their first reaction wouldn't be to protect the car, but to protect that deeper line of work."

Xu Tinglan nodded.

"right."

"They released the car that's most likely to get you carried away, just to force us to chase it."

Xiao Wu clenched her teeth.

"Those bastards."

She hates people who use children as pawns to manipulate things.

The more I listened, the more I couldn't contain my anger.

"So what do we do now? Keep chasing, or turn back?"

The light carriage sped forward several dozen feet on the night road.

Su Chen suddenly spoke.

"parking."

Xu Tinglan reined in the horse almost without hesitation.

With a neigh, the horse reared up, and the light carriage came to a sudden stop at an angle beside a rocky slope.

Xiao Wu lunged forward due to inertia.

The carriage wasn't very wide to begin with, and when she lunged, she almost crashed directly into Su Chen's arms.

She instinctively tried to support herself, but instead pressed her hand against Su Chen's firm chest.

Warm, hard, with distinct, fluctuating breaths.

Xiao Wu froze.

Su Chen reached out and firmly supported her waist, then looked down at her.

"What's the rush?"

Xiao Wu's face flushed instantly, and she immediately wanted to back away.

"He can't even stand up straight, yet he's still being stubborn."

Su Chen's words effectively shut down the rest of her conversation.

Xiao Wu's ears were burning, but she really couldn't refute it at that moment.

Her legs were sore and weak, and the constant walking and tense nerves made her genuinely uncomfortable.

Outside the carriage curtain, Xu Tinglan had already jumped out of the carriage.

Just as she was about to lift the curtain, the posture of the two people inside came into her view.

Su Chen sat firmly, while Xiao Wu half-cussed herself in his arms, one hand still resting on his chest; the atmosphere was a little too close.

Xu Tinglan paused for a moment.

But she quickly looked away, as if she hadn't seen anything.

"Let's come down and take a look."

The sweltering air in the carriage was finally dispelled by a single sentence.

Xiao Wu immediately jumped down.

As soon as I landed, my calf twitched again, and my body swayed.

Su Chen then got out of the car and helped her up.

Xiao Wu bit her lip and lowered her voice.

"You're not allowed to tell."

"What did I say?"

"you"

Su Chen's lips twitched slightly, and he stopped teasing her, his gaze already fixed on the ground.

There were two obvious new ruts on the gravel road.

One deep, one shallow.

The deeper tire mark was wider and had a heavier indentation, clearly indicating that something was inside.

The shallower one is much lighter, like an empty car, or a car with only one person sitting in it.

Xu Tinglan squatted down and wiped the ground with her fingertips.

A little dark red mud got on my fingertip.

Her expression immediately turned even colder.

"It's not mud."

Xiao Wu leaned closer to take a look, and her expression changed instantly.

"Blood?"

"Um."

Xu Tinglan stood up and looked at the darker woods on the right side of the fork in the road.

"They changed cars."

"That low-slung wagon in front was just bait; the real vehicles carrying people were taken here."

Xiao Wu suddenly turned her head.

"Then what are we waiting for!"

She had barely finished speaking when she rushed out.

Before Su Chen could stop them, his brow furrowed, and he followed.

Xu Tinglan gritted her teeth, abandoned the car, and gave chase.

The woods weren't dense, but they were quite messy.

Tree roots were upside down, pebbles were scattered everywhere, and dead branches broken off by car wheels were scattered all over the ground.

The smell of blood in front became increasingly strong.

Xiao Wu ran the fastest.

She was burning with anger, and the more she ran, the more frantic she became, like a small animal that had been completely enraged.

Suddenly, a very soft sob came from ahead.

It came out intermittently, as if something was blocking it, forcing it out.

Xiao Wu's eyes immediately reddened.

"in front of!"

She suddenly accelerated and leaped over a steep slope.

As soon as I landed, a cold glint suddenly flashed from my side.

There was a person buried in the woods.

A short knife slashed out obliquely along the shadow of the tree, at a terribly sinister angle, heading straight for her neck.

Xiao Wu reacted quickly enough, but she was still forced to lean back suddenly, and the blade grazed her chin, leaving a shallow bloodstain.

"Xiao Wu!"

Xu Tinglan's voice changed.

But Su Chen was faster.

Almost at the same moment the dagger grazed the bloodline, the Holy Sword of Judgment was already in action.

It wasn't killing anyone.

It's about cutting down trees.

With a flash of golden light, the old tree where the man was hiding snapped in two, crashing to one side and crushing the man in black with the knife beneath it.

The other person didn't even have time to finish screaming before their bones were crushed.

Xiao Wu raised her hand and touched her chin, her fingertips stained with blood, and her eyes instantly turned terrifyingly fierce.

"You all deserve to die."

She lunged forward, kicked the tree trunk open, and pulled a whistling arrow from the man's arms.

The arrow is already cocked.

If it had been half a breath slower, the arrow would have been fired to deliver the message.

Su Chen glanced at it, his voice turning cold.

"It wasn't a last-minute ambush."

"We knew all along that someone would follow us here."

Xu Tinglan took a breath, her face a little pale.

There are still people in the branch hall.

"And their status is not low."

She had barely finished speaking when the suppressed sobs from before started again.

This time it's clearer.

The three exchanged a glance and charged forward.

After passing through a wooded slope, a smaller black van suddenly appeared ahead, stuck at the edge of a shallow ditch.

A driver lay dead beside the cart, his neck twisted to the side.

They didn't kill them.

He was silenced.

When Xiao Wu saw the car, her heart leaped into her throat, and she practically lunged forward to lift the curtain.

There were indeed two children in the car.

It was a man and a woman.

They are even younger than the two from before.

The little girl's face was covered in tears, and her mouth was stuffed with a rag, so she couldn't cry. When she saw the light outside the car, she trembled even more violently.

Xiao Wu quickly carried her out, frantically tearing at the wad of cloth and untying the ropes.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm here, it's alright, it's alright."

She has a fiery temper, but she becomes incredibly gentle when coaxing children.

As soon as the little girl was untied, she clung tightly to her neck, crying so hard she almost passed out.

Su Chen then reached out and picked up the little boy.

The boy's eyes were unfocused; he had clearly been drugged.

Xu Tinglan lifted the small box behind the car, rummaged through it a couple of times, and her face immediately darkened.

"No identity documents."

There were no handover marks either.

Xiao Wu held the child and looked up.

"What do you mean?"

"It means—"

Xu Tinglan's voice was strained.

"This car is not the finish line."

"It's just a transit point."

As soon as she finished speaking, a small fire suddenly lit up in the distance outside the woods.

Very small.

It flickered briefly in the night.

Su Chen's eyes instantly turned cold.

"Someone is there to meet you."

"It's just ahead!"

Xiao Wu gritted her teeth, holding the child in her arms, the fire in her eyes barely concealed.

"I'll go after them!"

"How can you chase after someone while holding a child?"

Su Chen stopped her with a single sentence.

Xiao Wu was extremely anxious.

"What should we do then? Just let them get away?"

"They can't escape."

Su Chen handed the boy to Xu Tinglan.

"You and she put the child back in the car, turn back, and don't go any further."

Xu Tinglan was taken aback.

"You're chasing after him alone?"

"Otherwise what?"

Su Chen raised his hand, and the sword's edge reflected a cold golden line in the night.

"Now that they've caught up with us, we have to get to the bottom of this."

Xiao Wu held the child, staring intently at him.

"I'll go with you."

"If you go there now, you're just dragging me down with you."

Xiao Wu was choked.

She hates being talked about like that.

But she also knew that she was holding a child in her arms and her legs were still weak. If she chased after him, it would only distract Su Chen.

She gritted her teeth, and her eyes reddened slightly.

"Then come back quickly."

Su Chen looked at her and paused.

"Afraid I'll die?"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Xiao Wu's voice immediately rose, but her eyes were indeed a little hot.

"If anything happens to you, I—"

'

She stopped mid-sentence.

Su Chen looked at her, his gaze suddenly softening a little.

"understood."

"I will not die."

After saying that, he didn't stop and disappeared into the night.

It moved as fast as a golden thread swallowed by darkness.

Xu Tinglan held the unconscious little boy, stood there for a moment, and couldn't suppress the complex emotions in her eyes.

She has met many geniuses.

Of all the people she'd ever met who dared to follow this trail alone, she'd only ever seen Su Chen.

Xiao Wu held the little girl, staring intently in the direction where Su Chen had disappeared.

After a while, she suddenly lowered her head and gently patted the little girl in her arms who was crying and trembling.

"Don't cry."

He will bring the bad guys back.

"7

The night wind blew out from the woods, carrying a chill as sharp as a knife.

And in the deeper darkness, the layer that truly needs to be lifted is finally about to emerge.