Chapter 14: Reunion (2)

  Once the mechanism was discovered, it would be extremely easy to crack. After carefully crossing the thin line, Xiaoyan Fei let Xia Zezhao go and see how Fang Ying was doing, while he himself began to cautiously untie the thin line tied to the crossbow trigger.

  That bow and arrow were also special, the arrow on top had already been activated and was firmly locked in place. Xia Yu Fei's plan to simply pull out the arrow and cut off the thin thread was clearly not going to work at all.

  She could only solve it while reminding Xia Zezhao to move the side that should be careful to the side, Ao Yuan, who was lying on her forearm, had already walked to her shoulder and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "What's wrong with you?"

  "What's wrong with me? I just feel cold." Xia Yu Fei forced herself to speak, suppressing the chill that was spreading from her bones. She had to be grateful that she had used her spiritual contract to forcefully control her pain, otherwise the wound on her leg would have made it impossible for her to move and she would have become a burden.

  Xia Yifei said that although she must fear death - the terror of death can only be known when you have walked between life and death - even if it means doing whatever it takes to survive. However, if she had to become a burden in order to live on, she would rather take the blade herself and plunge it into her own heart.

  In a moment of distraction, coupled with Xia Yifei's hand being numb due to the cold, the arrow shot out instantly. Fortunately, Xia Yifei had the foresight to let Xia Zezhao dodge, otherwise Xia Zezhao would have already died at her hands.

  The arrow shot deep into the tomb passage opposite, Xia Yu flew over and tried to pull it out twice but couldn't, so she patted her hands and gave up.

  Taking advantage of the fact that her back was facing Xia Zezhao, she reached out to check the temperature on her forehead. As expected, she had indeed developed a high fever, and the chill and numbness spreading from her bones had already given her this feeling.

  But she couldn't stop.

  Once she stops, she will absolutely never see sunlight again.

  Xia Yifei patted her own cheek to force herself to be more spirited, and after responding to Ao Yuan's repeated question of what was wrong with her, she squatted down and asked Fang Ying, who had slowly come to: "How are you feeling now?"

  "I'm hungry and thirsty, but not sleepy. It seems that the relief from dizziness has some effect after all." After saying this with a hint of joking, Fang took the water bottle from Xia Ze's hand and slowly drank a few mouthfuls. "Nothing serious, I just fainted after hearing your response and relaxing my energy."

  She carefully looked at Fang Yifan from head to toe and confirmed that he was indeed the same as what she had said, and it was because of exhaustion that he fainted. After a while, Xia Yu also finally revealed a brief smile: "Thanks to Fang Chenye for finding this place for you, there's still some air circulation, otherwise I think you would have suffocated to death inside."

  Just as Fang Ying was about to blurt out that seeing her unharmed made him willing to die, his rationality, which had traveled from the North Pole with great difficulty, crossing the Great Wall and traversing mountains and ridges, slapped him hard, bringing him back to his senses. Xia Yu Fei was someone he had been friends with for many years, and Fang Ying had long known that this girl was completely different from ordinary girls, so he had locked up his feelings in a safe in his heart, only because he was afraid that if he spoke out, they wouldn't even be able to remain friends.

  Fang Yong had thought that as time passed, this feeling would slowly disappear and turn back into a simple friendship. However, after so many years, he has kept this feeling in his emotional safe, from small to large, and finally realized that perhaps for the rest of his life, he will fall for Xia Qianfei.

  But Xiaoyanfei has never cared about emotional things, she wants too much and sees too broad a landscape, and hasn't yet reached the point where she's willing to fold her wings for emotions and settle down in one nest.

  Fang Ying was not afraid of waiting, he waited for the day when Xia Yu would be exhausted from her busy schedule and wanted to find a shoulder to lean on, and it would be natural for him to reveal his feelings to her.

  It's clearly not the time now.

  He told himself in his heart for the nth time.

  "What did Fang Chenye do to you two?" Xia Yunfei looked at Fang Ying, who couldn't recover his strength for the time being, and directly sat in front of him. He took a sip of water handed over by Xia Zezhao to relieve the pain in his throat before asking.

  When Fang heard her voice was much hoarser than usual, he looked at her with a puzzled expression. However, seeing Xiaoyan's normal face in the dim light and no major issues with her tone, he eventually attributed it to dehydration: "Fang Chenhao... He has changed too much since I last saw him, I feel something is off."

  Xia Zezhao raised his arm high like he was asking for a show of hands: "Who is Fang Chenye?"

  After rubbing her temples, Xiaoyan suddenly raised her hand and slapped him on the back of his head: "I think so too. Fang Chenye is also someone I've inquired about before. They all say he's a very steady person, and that he's quite pleasing to your family's old master?"

  "You also know that my dad didn't want me to do this line of work, and I was just following you guys down to play around and lend a hand. Saying this, Fang Yu smiled wryly, "I reckon after this time, I might not want to come down again. Okay, I know I'm off topic, but basically all the family business is now managed by Fang Chenyu, and during Chinese New Year this year, the old man's intention was to let him take over as the head of the household. I just can't understand why he..."

  Xia Yifei was frowning in thought, considering Fang's words, when he heard Ao Yuan's soft voice behind him: "As you said not long ago, I'm afraid he has been affected by the Yin-Yang Dragon Jade."

  "It's impossible."/"What the fuck?!"

  Without explaining to Fang Ying, who was speaking at the same time, Xia Yu Fei transferred Ao Yuan from her shoulder to her hand and held it with a frown: "The yin-yang dragon jade has always been on me, how could he be because..."

  She seemed to have thought of something but didn't finish what she was saying, Ao Yuan appeared to know what she was thinking and continued: "You've also thought of it? The Yin Yang Dragon Jade can amplify a person's desires, if he really came here, then under the influence of this plus Gui Jun's... Heh."

  The seal that Gui Jun had was resting, and Ao Yuan carefully told her that if someone came here, the seal would amplify the desires and negative emotions in a person's heart along with the yin-yang dragon jade. Because the yin-yang dragon jades had been separated for too long, the yin jade could even affect this person to find the yang jade and bring it here.

  Fang Ying asked again, and Xia Yu Fei finally came back to her senses from her thoughts. Considering that the few of them still had to leave together from here, she simply explained Ao Yuan's background once, but hid the fact that she only had three years left to live.

  Afterwards, Ao Yuan asked her why she didn't tell Fang Ying about it at the time. Xia Yunfei told him lightly that first, she didn't want to drag Fang Ying down again, and secondly, this matter actually had nothing to do with Fang Ying.

  Poor Fang Ying, he didn't expect that in Xia Yu Fei's heart, he was just a slightly more important friend.

  After resting enough, the three of them packed up their things and were about to continue on their way. Fang Ying said that when he was thrown here, Lan Ruoxue was still in Fang Chenhao's hands. Fang Chenhao seemed to have some use for Lan Ruoxue, so he shouldn't be locking her up just anywhere.

  "Let's go find that older pseudo-Lolita." Xia Yu Fei stood up with one hand on the ground, "I suddenly thought of where Fang Chen Ye would lock her up now."

  "Awu yuan, this time it's probably going to be troublesome for you to lead the way."