Chapter 41: Injured

  "Give me your hand."

  A clear voice rang out, and the person had already taken a step forward, one hand grasping tightly onto the branch beside him, while the other hand reached down to pull Qin Jie Li. His entire body was bent at an unbelievable angle.

  Fortunately, there was no one around, and even Qin Jie Li couldn't see it from her angle, otherwise she would have let out a cry of surprise, because this move was something that even the most skilled international dancers couldn't do, the flexibility of the body and the degree of control over the angle were not something that ordinary people could achieve.

  Qin Jie Li slowly got up with great difficulty, patted the mud off her body, and slightly raised the corners of her mouth, seemingly happy to be able to get up.

  She stretched her hand up as far as she could, but no matter what, she couldn't touch Xiao Fengxue's hand.

  "Xue Er, no, I can't reach it."

  "There's a rock over there, you move it here and step on it, should be fine." Xiao Fengxue scanned around and her eyes stayed on a certain rock, hinting to her.

  "Uh-huh."

  Qin Jie Li spent a lot of time moving over a football-sized stone and stood on the stone, panting heavily.

  "Alright, continue, stretch out your hand to me, I'll pull you up while climbing."

  Xiao Fengxue grabbed her hand and started pulling upwards, but she had apparently overestimated Qin Jieling's abilities.

  She shouldn't have expected a rich girl who grew up in a mansion to accomplish such a laborious task...

  "Xue Er... I can't do it, too high..."

  Qin Jie Li was red in the face from being busy for half a day, she let go of her hands and stood on the stone with her hands on her waist, panting.

  "Otherwise, you go call Class Monitor and Xiao Ze, those two boys, to come over. I'll wait for you here." She suggested after a pause.

  "Never mind."

  She's not the kind of person who would ask others for help with such a small matter.

  She abruptly withdrew her hand and jumped down into a mountain ditch over two meters deep without any warning.

  "Xue Er! What are you doing?!" Qin Jie Li was startled by her actions.

  "Come on, I'll help you up."

  "But I'm going up, what about you... Ah! Xue Er, your foot..."

  Suddenly, she saw that Xiaofeng Xue's calf was covered in blood, the red liquid slowly flowing out, wetting her light blue sports pants and continuing to spread outward, like an all-consuming evil.

  "It's okay, you go first, I can handle myself." Xiao Feng didn't even raise an eyebrow, but when he jumped down, his calf was cut by a stone beside him. Getting injured during training wasn't a rare occurrence for him anyway.

  Compared with what she has been through, it's really nothing.

  "But... are you sure your foot is okay? It's bleeding so much." Qin Jie Li frowned as she looked at her calf, which was stained red with blood.

  "It's okay once you're up there and re-bandaged." She said casually, while sizing up the surroundings and considering which way would be easier to send Qin Jie Li up.

  "Well, well, it's like this then."

  "Come over here." Xiao Fengxue walked to a place where the ground was relatively closer, and the mud on the wall had many intersecting tree roots, which should be climbable.

  "Oh, okay." She obediently walked over and let Xiao Fengxue support her waist, slowly helping her up.

  In less than thirty seconds, Qin Jie Li was still standing on the ground in a daze, not daring to believe that Xiao Feng Xue had actually sent her up.

  After seeing her go up, Xiao Fengxue borrowed the tree roots and stones, and climbed up with a few strokes. She patted the mud in her hands, looked at Qin Jielie who was still stunned on the side, and couldn't help but call out to her.

  "Lily, gone."

  "Oh... Xue Er, how did you manage to climb up a mountain gorge that's over two meters deep? That's amazing..." She muttered to herself as she walked, frowning at the back of Xiao Feng Xue.

  "The more you practice, the better you'll get." She lightly pursed her lips, and her dark eyes flickered slightly.

  "Where did you go?"

  They hadn't even arrived at the campsite when they ran into Emperor Liang Xun, his handsome face still icy and expressionless as he walked towards them.

  "Lily just fell into the valley, I'm going to save her." Xiao Fengxue replied, and immediately looked at him with suspicion, "What are you doing here?"

  "I'm coming..." He suddenly stopped, staring at her small leg stuck with blood, his face turned extremely cold, "Idiot! What have you done?"

  "Huh?"

  She didn't react immediately to what he said, and followed his line of sight downwards, only to see her own injured calf, which had started bleeding again due to the large movement from getting up earlier.

  "When I fell down the valley, I was cut by a stone beside me... Ah! What are you doing?!"

  Xiao Fengxue let out a startled cry, Emperor Liang Xun actually... actually came over without saying a word and scooped her up in his arms, his face expressionless as he walked towards the empty campsite.

  Forget it, that's not the point. The point is why was she princess-carried? She's the ace killer of the M organization, the infamous Manzhu Shaohua, and yet she was princess-carried by someone? How can she show her face again...

  "Put me down, Emperor Ling!" She protested in his arms, twisting her body to try and jump down, but her hands had to cling tightly around his neck to prevent herself from falling.

  "Get lost."

  Di Liang's icy voice was laced with annoyance, her eyebrows furrowed into a tight crease. Can't she just behave for once? The commotion had started to spread again, like blood flowing through her legs.

  "Put me down, I can walk myself, you..."

  "You're hurt."

  She was stunned by his words for half a second.

  "It's just a minor injury, really."

  He simply didn't bother answering her and just carried on walking by himself.

  "Hey! Did you hear me?"

  The figure gradually moved further and further away, occasionally transmitting a few simple dialogues, in the cool morning air and green forest, forming a beautiful landscape.

  Wildflowers in the grass are swaying in the wind, and their silhouettes gradually disappear into the forest in the heavy morning fog.

  Perhaps neither of them had noticed that their silhouettes looked so well-matched, like a pair of heavenly companions.

  The girl who was left behind and thoroughly forgotten by them, gazed at their distant figures, lowered her eyelids, and covered up the complex light in her eyes.

  Her fingernails dug deep into her palm, but she felt nothing...

  Di Liangxun put Xiao Fengxue on a nearby rock, turned around and entered the tent to take out her backpack, rummaging through it under Xiao Fengxue's puzzled gaze.

  He frowned a moment later, because he found that there were only some mosquito repellent and bandages, hemostatic paste inside, except for the hemostatic paste, nothing was useful for the wound.

  Helpless, he could only help her stop the bleeding first. He came to Xiao Fengxue's side and squatted down, rolling up her pant leg. Her white calf had bloodstains on it, as well as a small but congealed wound. His face sank even further.

  "Are you going to help me apply the medicine?" She looked at him suspiciously.

  "There's no medicine, only bandages." He muttered softly, picking up the medical tape in his hand and starting to apply it to her wound.