Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 503 - 262: The Child Will Be Very Happy_2

Chapter 503: Chapter 262: The Child Will Be Very Happy_2

Jiang Shouzhong nodded, no longer asking questions, and continued to move forward along the white bone passage.

Before long, a fork in the path appeared ahead.

"What should we do? Split up?"

Li Nanshuang turned to ask Jiang Shouzhong.

Jiang Shouzhong hesitated for a moment, but considering Ran Qingchen was in critical condition, he felt they had to take the risk, "Then let’s split up to search, I’ll go to the left, you take the right. Remember, if you encounter that creature you mentioned, don’t act rashly."

"Right, you too."

Li Nanshuang wished to stay by Jiang Shouzhong’s side to protect him, but she understood the uniqueness of the situation and reluctantly parted ways.

Watching Li Nanshuang enter the right passage, Jiang Shouzhong stepped into the left.

The interior of the tunnel was still piled with bones, and the dancing white specks painted the profound passage a somber pale white.

After a while, Jiang Shouzhong finally emerged from the gloomy bone passage.

What met his eyes was an enormous ancient tree.

The ancient tree had skeletons hanging from it, and on its trunk, there was a blood-colored hole exuding black qi.

"What is this thing?"

Jiang Shouzhong, puzzled, cautiously approached.

He reached his hand into the tree hole without feeling any abnormalities, just a slight coolness against his skin.

Seeing no other entrances around, Jiang Shouzhong no longer hesitated and bent down to enter the dark tree hole.

Crawling slowly forward, his flying sword continuously swirled around him, ready to prevent any crisis.

Upon crawling out of the tree hole, Jiang Shouzhong found himself in a forest, and turning back, the entrance of the tree hole had vanished into thin air, with the tree trunk solid to the touch.

Suddenly, a growling roar came from not far away.

Jiang Shouzhong’s heart skipped a beat, and he gripped the Seven Kills Blade tightly, following the sound.

Within a few steps, the sound of crashing arose.

Jiang Shouzhong quickened his pace, and as the crashing grew louder, he finally saw the creature Li Nanshuang had spoken of.

A huge, vicious ball of slime.

Countless arms seemed to be glued onto the swollen sphere.

Jiang Shouzhong was shocked at the sight.

Was this a demon?

But there had never been such a demon before.

Forcing himself to focus, he saw the creature crashing into a wooden hut.

The hut resembled a tree hollow, with towering ancient trees on either side whose intertwined branches and gnarled joints pressed tightly against each other, their bark aged and cracked.

Gazing at the hut, a wave of excitement surged in Jiang Shouzhong’s heart, wondering if Ran Qingchen might be hiding inside.

However, before he could act, the creature, as if sensing his presence, suddenly turned around.

The head nested among the dense mass of arms stared straight at Jiang Shouzhong with penetrating eyes.

"This face..."

Jiang Shouzhong’s pupils constricted, and his mouth slightly opened.

Despite the face being distorted by mutation and almost entirely devoid of hair, with veins bulging on the cheeks, Jiang Shouzhong still recognized the person.

Su Family Master.

Once renowned as the second fastest sword in Jianghu, Su Shanke!

His impression was so deep because, when Jiang Shouzhong was looking for the entrance to the underground palace, he had sneaked into this man’s room and watched him eat the butler while hiding in a wardrobe.

And the man, in a frenzy, charged at him.

As a result, Jiang Shouzhong inadvertently stumbled upon the underground palace from the wardrobe.

After coming out of the underground palace, he learned of Su Shanke’s disappearance, and that the Su Family subsequently appointed Su Junwen, that illegitimate child, as the new family master.

He never expected to find Su Shanke hiding in Asura City.

And in such a ghostly state too.

Jiang Shouzhong suppressed the astonishment and suspicions in his heart, prepared to draw his sword for combat.

However, to his surprise, Su Shanke didn’t attack him but, as if stimulated by something, ran quickly into the woods and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Shouzhong was bewildered.

Thinking it might be a ruse, he waited a while.

But Su Shanke didn’t reappear.

Jiang Shouzhong couldn’t worry about that, and he quickly approached the wooden hut, knocking twice and calling softly, "Qingchen?"

There was no response from inside.

Just as Jiang Shouzhong continued knocking, a rope suddenly dropped from above.

"Come up."

A pale but beautiful face peered out from the top of the hut.

Although Jiang Shouzhong had always believed that Ran Qingchen wouldn’t be killed by the monster, seeing the woman safe and sound at that moment stirred overwhelming joy and elation in his heart, too intense to contain.

The long-taut strings of his heart finally found relief at this moment.

Jiang Shouzhong grabbed the rope and leaped up to see Ran Qingchen hiding in a nest-like tree cavity.

The woman’s body was half-drenched in blood, weakly leaning against the wall, her beautiful face pale with pain and exhaustion.

Compared with before, a new wound had been added on her right shoulder, with beads of blood slowly sliding down her delicate skin, like a tragic flower blooming in a pool of blood.

Seeing the woman, Jiang Shouzhong instinctively stretched out his arms to embrace her but then pulled back, restraining his emotions and asked with concern, "How are you?"

"Not too bad, at least I’m still alive."

Ran Qingchen, with her beautiful eyes fixed on the man she’d never expected to see, inadvertently curled her bitten lips, her eyes brimming with joy and emotion, "How did you get here?"

She thought she would die here.

She was not content with that.

But the desperation of her situation left no room for hope of leaving alive, all she could do was miss.

Miss her family, miss the person she liked.

She regretted not being more proactive about her feelings, regretted not taking her grandmother’s advice to take the wedding seriously, regretted not listening to her sworn sister...

She even thought about how to write her will.