Chapter 6: Xia Ya and Poor Bug

  This time, Xia Yali helped him open the animal trap. The poor guy had no strength to cry out in pain and was trembling with his hands tightly clutching his boots.

  "Hey, let go, I'll take a look at the wound." Xia Yali shouted, but the guy didn't respond. He simply used force to pry open the other's hand and then forcibly removed his two boots.

  There were two small legs with sharp teeth biting, a circle of wounds, already blurred with blood and flesh, fresh blood flowing. Fortunately, Xia Yalai pinched his calf, the bone was not broken.

  "Alas, you're lucky." Xia Yare sighed and took out the prepared blowpipe, inserting several pine needles into the wound on his opponent's calf.

  "Ah!!" The guy let out a miserable cry and shouted in a trembling voice: "You, what are you doing?!"

  "Don't move, I'm helping you stop the pain." Xia Yali's heart ached for her loose needles - alas, mud frogs weren't easy to find this season. These poisonous needles were originally prepared for the lion beast, but now they were being used to save someone instead.

  The paralysis venom of the mud frog took effect extremely quickly, and in less than a moment, that guy's groaning gradually stopped. This poor bug felt his calf gradually becoming numb, and the pain was greatly reduced. He raised his head to stare at Xia Yareng in horror: "You, you did something to my leg!!"

  Before Xia Yaleng could speak, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Xia Yaleng with a trembling finger, shouting: "Ah! I know! You! You want to cut off my leg!! No, no!!!!!"

  As he spoke, his hands desperately waved and struggled, his fingers almost scratching Xia Yareng's face.

  Xia Yali was somewhat impatient and angrily said: "What are you yelling about! What sawed off your leg, is there something wrong with your brain?!"

  The poor worm suddenly burst into tears and said in a desperate tone: "You don't have to lie to me anymore! Such a serious injury... I've heard that when you need surgery, they always use anesthesia first, but you..."

  "Idiot!" Xia Yali lazily didn't bother to waste words on him, looked around for a moment, got up and took a few steps, picked up a handful of serrated green leaves from the ground, stuffed one into his mouth and chewed vigorously for a few times, turned it into a pulp and spat it out, then applied it to the guy's injured calf.

  At this moment, the bleeding from the wound slowed down.

  "Be honest and don't move! If you don't want your legs to be sawn off, then don't shout!" Xia Yali threatened the opponent with a crisp tone, then quickly pulled out two ropes, looked at the robe on the opponent's body, and without asking, stretched out her two big hands, ripped off two corners of the robe with a few snorts.

  That guy was probably scared silly, his mouth agape, staring blankly at Xia Yalai, until his clothes were torn apart, and he suddenly let out a sharp cry of "Ahhh!!!"

  This time the cry was even louder than when he stepped on the animal trap earlier! The tone was sharp and mournful, this kind of sound, just like a wild cat whose tail had been stepped on.

  Wow!

  Xia Yalai stuffed the remaining medicine into the other's open mouth, then quickly wrapped his two legs with a piece of leather and tied them up with a rope. He stood up, looking at the guy disdainfully: "Alright! Stop yelling! You won't die!"

  This person stared at Xia Yareng with a pair of eyes full of horror, probably the whole person had already gone completely stupid. After a long while, he suddenly started coughing violently and desperately spat out the medicine paste in his mouth.

  "Ptooey! How disgusting!! You, how could you do this to me?! You, the things you've eaten, putting them in my mouth..."

  "Smelly?" Xia Yali rubbed his head: "It's the smell of medicine, I don't have bad breath." He smiled, revealing a row of white teeth.

  As he spoke, he casually applied the medicine paste again to the wound on the man's forehead and then smiled: "Hey, I saved you, so even if you don't say a word of thanks, at least don't scold people."

  "Th...thank you." The guy shook his head, looking a bit timid, and finally calmed down. After hesitating for a moment, he said in a low voice: "......Thank you."

  "It's fine." Xia Yareng waved his hand generously and turned to leave. Just two steps away, the guy behind him shouted: "Hey! Wait a minute!"

  "Is there anything else?" Xia Yali frowned, his mind still on the matter of the demon beast.

  "This person seemed to be afraid of Xia Yaleng's rough behavior, but he said in a low voice: "You... you just left like that? What should I do?" He plucked up the courage to stare into Xia Yaleng's eyes: "I mean, my leg is injured and can't walk, this place is also desolate wilderness, even if I don't starve to death, what if a wolf comes, I'm afraid..."

  Xia Yali frowned impatiently, hesitated for a moment, and finally let out a sigh. She stomped her foot and said, "Fine! I'm afraid of you! No matter what, it's just one life. Let's save people to the end! First, promise me that you won't shout randomly anymore! This place is very dangerous, if you shout randomly, who knows what kind of ferocious magical beast might appear!"

  As he spoke, he reached out his hand and lifted the guy up.

  With Xia Yalai's intimidation, this guy was clearly in pain and had cold sweat on his forehead, but he bit his lip tightly and refused to make a sound. However, when he stood up, what surprised Xia Yalai was that this guy was actually quite tall!

  Xia Yali was already considered tall at the age of eighteen in Ye Huo Town, but this guy was actually a little taller than himself! He seemed to have slightly narrower shoulders and looked a bit weak.

  "Wow, you've grown so tall and thin... sigh." Xia Yare supported him for a few steps, feeling that his body was quite heavy, and couldn't help but laugh: "Haha, although you're thin, you have muscles inside your bones. You weigh enough!"

  "You... you're the one who's sunk!" The man couldn't help but retort.

  "H-hold on a minute... Am I really that heavy?"

  This weird guy seems not to care about his injuries at all, but is very worried about his weight.

  ……

  …………

  Carrying this poor worm that had smashed its own head, they walked for less than half a day when the sky completely darkened.

  Xia Yalai looked at the sky and then at the surrounding terrain, finally choosing a leeward depression to put down the poor worm.

  "We'll stay here tonight." He clapped his hands and then ran around gathering a pile of dry branches, which he piled into two heaps and lit with flint.

  As night fell, the Wildfire Plains were still very cold. That guy was clearly unable to withstand the chill and couldn't help but move closer to the fire. This action added another evaluation in Xiā Yà Léi's mind: a pampered guy.

  "Hmm, this guy is clearly not some adventurer who came to Wildfire Plains to make a fortune."

  Looking at him, he can't bear hardship, is afraid of pain and cold, and has a very eccentric temper. Moreover, his attire, the leather coat on his body, with Xia Yazi's experienced hunter's eyesight, one glance could tell it was top-grade black goat skin, even those tattered boots were made of top-grade deerskin.

  After wiping away the blood and dust on his face, this guy revealed his true appearance - fair and delicate skin, obviously never suffered. Even those hands, not a single callus.

  Barbarian... And how did he end up with eyes so big? But a mouth so small?

  Xia Yaleng stared at the poor worm for too long, and the other party seemed to be somewhat uncomfortable, shrinking his body and looking back at Xia Yaleng with a vigilant gaze.

  "This is terrible! This guy must have seen my appearance and had bad intentions towards me... Hmm, it's definitely so!! If, if he dares to bully me, I'll fight him!!"

  Someone's heart was secretly on guard, their fists clenched tightly as they glared fiercely at Xia Ya Lei, but that fierce gaze only left Xia Ya somewhat bewildered.

  "I said, why are you staring at me like that? Is there something on my face?" Xia Ya touched her own face.

  "Nothing much."

  The poor worm's eyes dodged open. Just at this moment, a "gulu" sound fell into the ears of the two people.

  Xia Yali was stunned for a moment, and then there were two more "gulugulu" sounds. The poor worm's face suddenly turned red, and his head buried deeply.

  "What's going on? The croaking of the frogs tonight sounds really strange." Xia Yali deliberately looked around.

  "......No, no, it's not a toad, it's my stomach!" The poor worm grasped tightly and said: "Hey, don't you...don't you want to eat dinner?"

  Xia Yali burst out laughing, pulled out a piece of black bread from her bosom, tore off a small piece and threw it over. Her face was smiling magnificently, but in her heart she was actually a bit painful, this bread was originally only enough for herself to eat for two days, now with an extra person, tomorrow she would have to think of ways to find food.

  It seems what the old man said before was right, being a good person comes with a price.

  The poor worm had grasped the black, hard, and dry pancake, pinching it in his hand, looking left and right, but hesitating to take a bite. Xia Yali couldn't bear it anymore: "Hey, don't you know that pancakes are for eating, not for staring at?"

  "You, what did you say?!" The poor worm exclaimed: "This thing, this thing is for people to eat?!!"

  Xia Yali's face turned red with rage: "Nonsense! If it's not for eating, then is it for pulling?!"

  The poor worm was speechless again, his face flushed as he glared at Xia Yareng.

  "Either you eat it or starve to death! Anyway, I only have this thing to eat." Xia Yalai angrily retorted: "Do you know or not, what you're holding in your hand right now is one-tenth of my entire family's possessions! Spit! If you don't eat it, return it to me!"

  As he spoke, he reached out to grab it, but the poor worm suddenly panicked. He had never seen such a black wheat cake before, and seeing Xia Yareng about to snatch his food, he quickly grabbed it with his mouth and took a forceful bite.

  This one bite ruined everything...

  He was really starving, having gone a whole day and night without eating - in his life, he had never suffered such hardship before, so this one bite, he used all his might.

  And at the same time, this black bread was originally rough and hard. In order to facilitate long-term preservation, it was fermented and dry and hard. At this moment, it was winter, and the weather on the wild fire field was icy cold, and this thing had been frozen like a stone.

  Snap!!

  A crisp sound, when the poor insect opened its mouth, the hard biscuit was intact, but a snow-white tooth fell from his mouth to the ground.

  “……”

  It was silent for a while, then a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering wail.

  "Waaaahhh... My teeth!!!!!!"

  ……

  This was Xia Ya's and "Poor Bug"'s first encounter. Unlike the romantic colors of all legendary stories, when "Poor Bug" met Xia Ya for the first time, not only did he break two legs, but also had his head broken by Xia Ya, and more tragically, lost a precious front tooth.