Chapter 977: Aiyo Little Shit, You Didn’t Die
Elvis clenched his fists tightly for a long ti before finally yielding to Gu ngng’s tears.
He embraced her and took a deep breath. “I want to protect your smile, but always end up making you cry... I am still too weak.”
Snake’s last words to him were like a hamr hovering over his heart. Every ti Gu ngng endured any suffering, it would strike down upon him viciously.
Gu ngng shook her head. “You are already doing very well... really very well...”
“But you are still crying.” Elvis held Gu ngng’s little face tenderly. He kissed away her tears and looked into her reddened eyes. He said in a voice laced with both warmth and exasperation, “You know I am helpless against your tears, yet you are crying to force to give in.”
Wabei walked over and snorted. “Have you all finished your dilly dallying? Are we still going to retrieve the Soul of the Forest?”
Gu ngng turned her tear-streaked face towards Wabei. “Aiyo little shit, you didn’t die...”
Wabei gritted his teeth. “I said before that the only person who can kill was destroyed by you. So of course I didn’t die.”
Gu ngng nodded. “Yes, people say that baddies can live up to a thousand years... so you have at least another 200 years to go.”
Wabei discovered that he had no advantage at all when faced with Gu ngng.
He could not win her in either a physical fight or a verbal exchange. In the end, he just rolled his eyes in irritation and kept quiet.
But Gu ngng had stopped crying after Wabei’s jibing.
Sniffling, she observed her surroundings to discover that they were no longer amongst the blood vines. “Have you all been on the road while I was unconscious?”
Elvis shook his head. “We dare not move you unnecessarily while you were unconscious, in case anything happened. So we stayed put at our original location.”
Stayed put at their original location?
Suspicion rose in Gu ngng.
A crystal-clear scenery surrounded them, so pristine that one dared not even touch anything for fear of tainting that purity.
Where had that malevolent forest of blood vines gone?
If the area overtaken by the vines was akin to a blood-drenched webbed cave, then this place was like a palace upon the Jade Lakes in the ninth heavens.
If one looked closely, it was not hard to see that these crystal-like vegetation looked very much like those blood vines...
“This...” Gu ngng stared in a daze for so ti, before recalling that right before she fainted, streaks of bright red liquid had gathered in her palm.
She opened her hands to find that the wounds had been completely healed. Not even the tiniest scar was left behind.
Gu ngng mumbled woodenly, “So it wasn’t just a hallucination from being injured. I really absorbed all the blood in those vines into my own body? I... when did I beco so hardy?”
Elvis didn’t see the entire process, but he did witness her absorbing the last three vine chrysalis. He couldn’t help feeling worried as he noticed her staring dumbly at her own hands. “Are you feeling any discomfort?”
Gu ngng shook her head. “At that ti, I just felt as if an imnse power was entering my body. That feeling has gone.”
Elvis heaved a sigh of relief. “Everything here is so bizarre. We shouldn’t linger on. We must quickly accomplish our task and head ho after retrieving the Soul of the Forest.”
Gu ngng nodded in assent. Elvis carried Gu ngng and stood up, intending to continue on the pathway. But those crystal-like vines were full of brambles and thorns, effectively blocking up the way. It was as if they were purposely impeding their progress.
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