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Chapter 511 - 502: Confession

Chapter 511: Chapter 502: Confession

Jiang Lingxi opened her eyes and knew that she had slept for quite some time without even checking the time.

The light inside the tent had dimmed, twilight had arrived.

As she unzipped her sleeping bag, the noise made the person in the neighboring sleeping bag shift, and the breathing rhythm beside her changed slightly.

"Did I wake you?"

"No, I was just about to wake up."

Jiang Lingxi lay on her side and scooted over on the foam mat until she was next to Shen Yunqing’s sleeping bag.

Propping her head with one hand, she quietly admired the way he slowly awoke with slightly bleary eyes.

When Shen Yunqing’s vision cleared, it met a pair of smiling eyes, causing him to catch his breath.

He instinctively spoke, "Your Majesty..."

Hearing this address, Jiang Lingxi withdrew her smile and sat cross-legged. "Does Prime Minister Shen have something to say to me?"

Shen Yunqing’s heart skipped a beat, and he took a deep breath before silently sitting up.

The two of them sat cross-legged facing each other for almost a minute.

"Wu Jue and Wu Hua were originally Brother and Sister in the same sect, studying the way of the Mage. But later, Wu Hua strayed down the wrong path, harming the sect in pursuit of immortality. Wu Jue, due to feelings for his fellow disciple, inadvertently abetted in evil, and thus converted to Buddhism to seek redemption. I met him after he became a monk and considered him a confidant. Through him, I learned a lot about the wonders of mages and cultivation."

"After the New Emperor ascended the throne and the court stabilized, I sought him out to give it a try. Initially, I was flatly refused, but after several visits, perhaps out of annoyance, or pity for me, he reluctantly agreed. Fortunately, it was successful in the end."

Jiang Lingxi saw the person in front of her speak lightly, but she herself felt her heart sink heavily with an aching pain. "And the price? I had the Astronomical Bureau calculate it. You should have died of natural causes by now. Does it require your future lifespan, adding to your current frail health, or are there other costs I haven’t thought of?"

The distance between them was less than thirty centimeters.

At this distance, she did not believe Shen Yunqing would dare to lie!

"Actually, things are much better now. Wu Jue even gave me a solution, doing more good deeds can alleviate a lot of it."

Jiang Lingxi reached out to grasp his wrist, which was only slightly thicker than her own. "If this is much better, how bad was it before?"

Shen Yunqing: "..."

Fortunately, someone relieved him from the awkwardness, as Changning’s voice came from outside the tent, "Sister Xi, Sir, are you awake? Dinner is ready."

Jiang Lingxi turned her head and replied, "Coming," took a deep breath, and stood up. "Let’s go eat first."

She had to find a way to feed him well; at this little weight, she even felt guilty for wanting to tease him a bit.

As they went out, they saw the sun had already set below the horizon, and the moon was rising on the other side.

A bonfire rose in the middle of the camp, and even the plain boiled noodles smelled so good that it made people salivate and woke everyone from their sleep.

Jiang Lingxi took a full bowl of freshly cooked noodles, thanked Xu Zhao, and picked up her chopsticks to eat.

This nap had taken almost the entire day, everyone’s stomachs had long been growling, and for a while, no one spoke, as the sound of slurping noodles circled around the bonfire.

Once their hunger was satisfied, they started discussing their next steps one by one.

Xu Zhao glanced at Jiang Lingxi and spoke first, "I just took inventory of our remaining supplies. With food and water for over twenty people, we can last three days. And as the weather gets colder, our consumption to ward off the cold will increase. I suggest we set off back early tomorrow morning."

Wu Jue spoke after he finished, "You can count me out."

Seeing Jiang Lingxi look over at him, he explained further, "I will stay a bit longer to deal with the aftermath."

"You are staying alone?"

Wu Jue nodded, "I can handle it myself, others wouldn’t be of much help."

Jiang Lingxi didn’t say more.

Although she and Shen Yunqing hadn’t discussed how Wu Jue and Wu Hua—the pair of fellow disciples turned against each other—had survived all these years while in the tent earlier, given that they had made it this far, their basic survival abilities were not in doubt.

Yun Yi raised a hand that was wrapped again like a pig’s trotter, "Sister Xi, can I still go with you?"

Jiang Lingxi glanced at his hand; during their last rock climbing segment, this kid had suffered quite a bit due to his injured hand.

"When we get back to the city, you can take a plane overseas to see your mom."

"Sister Xi, aren’t you going to the International Fashion Festival too? I want to go with you."

"Alright, if you want."

Yun Yi beamed, his smile showing all teeth but no eyes.

"Also, the two in the tent..." Xu Zhao paused, glancing at Yun Yi.

He already knew from Yun Yi what those two had done before.

If they had ended up like this, it could be said they were reaping what they had sown.

But since they had brought them out, they couldn’t just abandon them.

"I had the medic in my team give them a simple check-up; their health conditions are not good, you might even say they’re very bad. Li Yan, barring any surprises, seems to be deafened, likely from having his eardrums ruptured by some high-decibel sound, and his ears are still bleeding intermittently. As for Lian Lian, while my team lacks expertise in gynecology, her current condition is very abnormal."

"It’s the call of the mutated Jiangshi; at close range, it can be used as an attack," Wu Jue said with a sigh. "Lian Lian has been made to drink the water from the Black Pond, where the monster resides. The water has been contaminated with part of its body tissue. Her unborn child likely cannot be saved; as for her own life, that depends on luck."

Yun Yi pursed his lips hard, "Then let’s get them to a hospital for a check-up first. We can’t let them die here, no matter how things turn out. They harmed me, so I’ll still report to the police."

Xu Zhao nodded; he thought the same.

While everyone outside was discussing how to handle Lian Lian and Li Yan, inside a dimly lit tent, the two just struggled to finish the broth that had been brought to them.

As for solid food, there was none!

Li Yan leaned against something, enduring the extreme pain in his ears. Suddenly he opened his eyes, catching Lian Lian hitting her own belly with her fists.

"What are you doing?"

Lian Lian flailed Li Yan’s grasping hands away and continued, her expression vacant, muttering, "It’s a monster, a monster, a monster..."

Li Yan couldn’t hear but he saw Lian Lian’s mouth moving, constantly repeating, slowly piecing together what she was saying.

Monster.

He looked at Lian Lian’s belly, which seemed three to four months pregnant already, though it had been flat before, and in no time, it had grown so much. It was indeed a monster!

He backed away a bit, too lazy to stop her. It was a monster, surely not his child.

With their hunger sated, people grouped in threes and twos, either returning to continue resting or beginning to patrol for the night. Before long, only Jiang Lingxi, Shen Yunqing, and Wu Jue remained by the bonfire.

Wu Jue was about to stand up when Jiang Lingxi stopped him.

"I’m a bit curious, how did you and your junior sister survive from a thousand years ago until now? And do you think she is really dead?"

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