Chapter Thirty A Flicker of Movement

  Xia Ya's face scrunched up, her eyes, nose and mouth twisted together as she quickly pressed down on the wound with force. She shuddered violently for a while before finally catching her breath. No longer caring about the matter of her first kiss, she glared at him and shouted: "Do you want to kill me?!"

  The poor worm was furious and thought that the turtle had taken advantage of him, and even dared to scold him like this. He angrily said: "You bastard, just now..."

  "Shut up!" Xia Ya's face changed drastically, gritting his teeth: "Nothing happened just now! You'd better forget it quickly! You, you're not allowed to say a word, otherwise I'll never be human again!"

  As he spoke, he glanced around and saw the timid Goblin Queen sitting in a corner, her face revealing murderous intent: "And you! You're not allowed to say it out loud either!"

  The Queen of the Earth Spirit King hastily nodded in fear.

  The poor worm almost fainted!

  I've been taken advantage of by this bumpkin, it's already too unreasonable! But this bastard is acting as if he's the one who's been greatly wronged?!

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  With this interlude, both of them turned their heads away and ignored each other.

  Xia Ya tore off a piece of cloth and barely wrapped his wound, then sat there holding his head in worry.

  Xia Ya's grandfather is worried about what?

  Nonsense, can't you be worried?

  He has now calmed down and is bitterly aware of a fact that... Xia Ya's grandfather has once again become penniless.

  Just now, Xia Ya's grandfather had lost all the family property he had just accumulated! The big bundle that contained all his family property didn't even have time to be brought along!

  Damn it! There were dozens of gold coins in there!!

  Also destroyed his own battle-axe and shield.

  Not even the wolf skin of the bloodthirsty mad wolf was left behind!!

  Xia Ya has now recovered to the state when he just left Ye Huo Town, no, it's even worse than that. At least at that time, he still had a rotten axe in his hand, but now, only a fire fork is left.

  Huh......huh?!!

  Fireworks!!

  He picked up the poor worm that had been thrown under his feet and held it in his hand to examine it carefully.

  This rusty pitchfork is covered with a thick layer of black charcoal that has been smoked for many years, and it's so thick that it can't be scraped clean. It's dull and lacks any luster.

  This thing has been used since I was a kid, and I don't know where it came from. It's probably something the old man threw into the furnace before. Xia Ya had never discovered its magical properties either, and usually just used it to pick up coal balls or flip over charcoal.

  As for its sharpness... would you have nothing better to do than take the pitchfork from your home and use it to chop a kitchen knife as an experiment?

  After being busy for a while, Xia Ya's anger dissipated a bit. She looked at the poor worm and suddenly remembered some doubts in her mind. She coughed: "Hey, you... I have something to ask you."

  The poor insect turned around with a shocked expression: "What!"

  Xia Ya let out a sigh, his expression somewhat profound: "Hey... if I'm not mistaken, these guys who are trying to kill us seem to have something to do with you, right? That guy on horseback earlier asked me if I had met any other humans, and... I noticed that when you see them, it's like you've seen a ghost!"

  The poor insect's expression changed, she knew that hiding was no use, and just now when she escaped, the other party had already seen her, so it was inevitable that they would not give up. She nodded solemnly: "That's right... They are indeed here to find me. These people should all be sent by my uncle."

  "Your uncle?" Xia Ya frowned, staring at the poor worm: "Are these people here to rescue you?" But then he shook his head himself: "Unlikely! You seem to be afraid of being found by them."

  The poor worm pursed his lips and finally said in a low voice: "You don't have to guess, they... should be here to kill me!!"

  Xia Ya stared at him with wide eyes, sizing him up for a while. The poor worm felt uneasy under his gaze and secretly sighed, hesitating about whether to tell the truth if this country bumpkin asked again. Now it seemed that he had no choice but to rely on his protection...

  Her expression was somewhat sorrowful: "This matter was originally a secret, a scandal within my family..."

  Before she could continue, Xia Ya suddenly burst out laughing and cut her off, patting the poor bug's shoulder so hard that it almost dislocated: "Haha! So to say, I've saved you again?! Hey, Poor Bug, looks like your family is really rich, they can actually afford to hire such a formidable assassin! If you make it back alive, you'd better pay me a hefty protection fee!"

  The poor worm opened his mouth, staring at Xia Ya in surprise, and finally couldn't help but say in a low voice: "You...you don't want to ask me..."

  "There's no need to ask." Xia Ya waved his hand, his face calm and serene, saying lightly: "What's the use of knowing? Does it improve our current predicament? Let's focus on staying alive for now!"

  His expression calmed down for less than a moment, then suddenly reacted to his hand still on the poor bug's shoulder, feeling chilled in his heart, and quickly withdrew his hand, with his whole body trembling slightly.

  I don't dare to look at the poor worm again, afraid of triggering my own memories of the "tragedy" just now. Xia Ya looked around: "Let's think of a way to leave here first, those guys don't seem like they'll give up easily, huh, we..."

  "Up to now, do you still want to go find that dragon?" Ke Lian Chong furrowed his brow, looking somewhat worried: "Even if you found the dragon's treasure, with these people keeping an eye on us, how would you be able to bring the treasure back?"

  Xia Ya let out a deep breath and hummed: "No choice. Those guys are in the south, now if we turn back it's only throwing ourselves into their net, we can only head north."

  Xia Ya grasped the fire fork, gazed at the precipice in front of her, squeezed the fire fork and made a few gestures, took a step back, then leaped forward.

  His strength was really frightening, this one step jumped out, and actually had a height of several meters, pounced on the cliff wall, a low roar, the fire fork fiercely inserted into the cliff! This fire fork cut like stone, but actually like cutting tofu!

  With the fire fork as a foothold, Xia Ya stretched out one hand and threw over a coil of rope wrapped around his waist belt: Hold onto the rope, I'll pull you up.

  This guy's physique is simply like a monster, having been injured in several places and still having such energy.

  After pulling up the poor insect and earth spirit with a rope, tie the rope tightly around his waist, free his hands, pull out the fire fork stuck in the cliff wall, cut back and forth several times, cut out a gap, insert his hand to hold it firmly, then pull out the fire fork, make an effort to push upwards, and stab into the position above his head.

  Using this method to pull back several times, they finally pulled the poor worm and the earth spirit princess up onto a steep cliff dozens of meters high.

  Xia Ya collapsed onto the ground, panting, and the wound on her shoulder began to bleed again, staining her clothes red.

  "Poor worm, I couldn't bear it: 'Your wound is bleeding...'"

  Xia Ya groaned twice and said irritably: "Nonsense, you'll bleed if you get hit. It's just that we can't find any medicine here, damn it..."

  As soon as medicine was mentioned, the poor worm's eyes lit up, and she immediately sat down, quickly taking off her boots to reveal her feet.

  The wound on her foot and the new medicine she had put on this morning, under the current limited conditions, couldn't care about so many things anymore, reached out to scrape off some residual medicine from her own wound.

  "Hey! You've used that stinky foot of yours and now you're putting it on my wound?"

  The poor worm was so angry that it almost shed tears, but bit its lip and said: "You love to use or not, don't use it to death, you're done!"

  Xia Ya was ultimately accustomed to surviving in the wild and knew that if this injury wasn't treated immediately, the bleeding alone could be fatal. Although she had a robust physique, she couldn't afford to worry about that now with danger lurking everywhere.

  Next, continue on the road, but Xia Ya was injured and couldn't carry the poor worm anymore. As a result... Ao Xiu fell into great misfortune.

  It was forced to carry a poor worm that was much taller than itself on its back and followed Xia Ya's behind with difficulty.

  A group of people didn't dare walk along the riverbank, instead they walked east for half a day until late afternoon when they turned north.

  Knowing that the pursuing soldiers would find themselves at any time, they naturally did not dare to camp and instead rushed overnight.

  The three of them had no food, were tired and hungry, and feared that they would be exposed at night, so they didn't dare to start a fire. They walked for half the night, except for Xia Ya who could still hold on, both Ke Liang Chong and Ao Xiu couldn't bear it anymore.

  Especially poor bug, yesterday soaked in water for a while, at this time it was winter again, last night the cold wind blew, and early this morning I saw her face turn pale, huddled on Ox's back with chattering teeth.

  Xia Ya saw it with her own eyes and was also worried in her heart. When the sky brightened, everyone finally sat down to rest, and the small delicate legs of the Earth Spirit Princess had already given out, and after falling down with a thud, she couldn't get up again.

  Xia Ya barely lifted her spirits, searched around for a while, flipped over a stone, cheered, pulled out the fire fork and started digging vigorously into the ground.

  A moment later, Xia Ya ran back, holding a large handful of fine, bright red things that looked like fish roe.

  The poor worm was already frozen and somewhat dizzy, but saw Xia Ya's hand stretched out in front of him. He lowered his head to take a look at what Xia Ya had in her hand: "What?"

  "Swallow it!" Xia Ya said without hesitation, directly pinching the poor worm's chin, forcing her to open her mouth and shoving a lump of something inside.

  That thing was tender and crispy, with a slightly sour taste. It wasn't bad at all. The poor worm ate two mouthfuls, and suddenly felt invigorated as its belly was filled with food. It looked up at the toad with gratitude in its eyes: "What is this thing?"

  Xia Ya licked her tongue and looked at her hand - that thing was just a small ball, the poor worm ate it all by herself.

  "The eggs of red ants." Xia Ya said lightly: "This thing is very good, eating it can fill the hunger, and the red ant has a dry nature, the egg can dispel cold. You will sweat all over your body in a while, and you will feel comfortable."

  The poor worm wanted to say something, but suddenly saw Xia Ya's throat move slightly, as if swallowing water. At a glance, he saw that the turtle's hand was empty, and his heart immediately seemed to understand. Originally, people were weak when they were weak, and now they were even softer in their hearts. The warmth brought by the red ant eggs in their belly didn't know how it happened, but somehow it also warmed up their heart. They stared blankly at the turtle, unable to say a word.

  They rested until the sun came out, and then they continued on their way. Poor Bug had indeed sweated a lot after that, and his spirits recovered somewhat. However, he didn't know why, but he fell silent, no longer speaking to Xia Ya. It was as if he had lost interest in even arguing with this turtle, occasionally glancing around, yet always unable to resist looking at the turtle.

  This toad walks at the forefront with its head held high and chest out, in the cool morning breeze, Xia Ya's breath visible in the air as he exhales. The poor insect looks at Xia Ya's broad and majestic back, and can't help but become infatuated...

  Dividing line

  Oho! Our poor bug's maiden heart is also stirring~

  Come on and smash the vote!

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