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"…Excuse me, have you seen 52?"

Qiu Puryue stared at the people in front of her, her fingers slightly clenched, blood dripping from her fingertips.

44 looked back and found that the Corpse Binder was covered in blood, staring at him, with blood even dripping from his palms.

Qiu Puryue's terrifying image immediately sounded the alarm in several people's hearts.

"...You, what are you going to do?" 50's throat was dry and he looked at her nervously.

44 said nothing.

Qiu Puryue glanced at them. 47 immediately shrank back behind 44 instinctively.

44 glanced at him and looked away calmly.

"I'm asking, have you seen 52?" Qiu Puryue asked again, frowning slightly, which looked particularly gloomy with her appearance.

"No...no." 47 looked into Qiu Puryue's bloodshot pupils and couldn't finish his words.

Qiu Puryue glanced at the obvious traces of an explosion on the ground, looked around, gave them another cold look, and turned to leave.

"Wait a minute." 44 suddenly called her.

Qiu Puryue paused and turned to look at him.

The 50 people behind him were very nervous and didn't understand why 44 wanted to stop such a scary guy.

"Can I join you?" 44 asked her with a smile.

Qiu Puryue:?

Qiu Puryue was not as happy as she had imagined, nor did she have any other emotions such as surprise. She just stared at him steadily: "Why?"

"Because I have some small disagreements with them." 44 smiled and pointed at 50 and the others. "So it is very likely that I will be alone, but I don't feel safe, so I hope someone can accompany me. Is that okay?"

Qiu Purue could tell from his expression that he was not lying, so she paused and wanted to say something.

"Pu Yue?"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind a tree not far away. Qiu Puyue turned around and saw Yin Xihui tentatively sticking his head out and blinking.

"You're really here." Yin Xihui smiled, and immediately walked out from behind the tree, jogging all the way to Qiu Puryue's back, "I was scared to death, I thought I was going to be separated from you, I almost died."

As he spoke, he patted his chest with a look of fear, as if he was frightened.

Qiu Puryue was stunned. She looked at the smoking corpse not far away, then looked at Yin Xihui in front of her who seemed to be quite frightened, and blinked in confusion.

Yin Xihui suddenly turned his head, as if he had just noticed someone over there, and smiled in surprise: "I remember you are also from this class, right? This is unexpected..."

44 met Yin Xihui’s gaze and paused.

"You guys...what's going on?" Yin Xihui looked at them with a puzzled smile.

"No! Nothing..." 32 suddenly hugged 44 and said with a smile, "We don't have anything—"

"I want to go with 72. Do you want to come with me?" 44 asked with a smile, but did not agree with him.

“You——” 32 was shocked and angry, staring at 44.

44 still kept his smile.

"Let's go together..." Yin Xihui looked thoughtful and turned to look at Qiu Puryue, "Do you agree?"

Qiu Puyue was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "Not yet."

"Really? In that case, the two of us should be enough." Yin Xihui smiled, "After all, she hasn't agreed yet, right?"

"This forest is really dangerous..." 44 smiled, "The more people there are, the safer it is, right?"

"...What you said makes sense." Yin Xihui sneered suddenly, his voice was so soft that only Qiu Puryue beside him could hear it. "If that's the case, 32, you guys should come too. It'll be safer."

32’s face froze, and he looked at Qiu Puryue with some fear.

Qiu Puryue just turned her eyes away. 32 immediately laughed dryly: "No, no, we are fine. 44, let's talk more..."

Having said that, he pulled 44 and was about to leave.

44 seemed to struggle, but was dragged away by 50 and 47 next to him.

44: ...

44 glanced at Yin Xihui before being dragged away.

Yin Xi smiled back.

After watching them leave, Yin Xihui turned around and looked at Qiu Puyue: "How did you get here so quickly? Are you not injured?"

As he spoke, he pulled aside her hair that was soaked in blood and stuck together, then grabbed her arm to examine it.

"...No, nothing." Qiu Puryue struggled slightly, and Yin Xihui let go of her hand.

Yin Xihui looked at the blood stains on her body, remembered a stream they passed by when they were escaping, and took her there.

Qiu Puyue went straight to the river to take a bath, and rubbed the blood stains off her clothes in the river while taking a bath.

Yin Xihui turned his back and looked down at the grass under his feet: "When did you find me?"

"About a day ago." Qiu Puyue spread the washed clothes on the rocks by the river and let them dry in the sun.

Yin Xihui saw two white arms from the corner of his eye. The arms that should have been as thin as lotus roots were covered with scars, crisscrossing and looking particularly awkward. A scratch extended from the base of the little finger to the base of the thumb, and it had not yet healed and was bleeding.

Yin Xihui's eyes darkened and he continued to look at the grass on the ground.

"How long did it take you to deal with them?"

Qiu Puryue shook her pants, trying to let them dry quickly.

"It doesn't take long." Qiu Puryue replied and started scrubbing her hair again.

Qiu Purue looked at Yin Xihui who seemed absent-minded, and thought of what those people had said before.

"He doesn't really care about you, but he ran so fast."

"That's what I said. It's really lame."

"So hand over the ring and tell us how to get out, or die."

"The man ran away anyway, what's the point of struggling?"

"He must have said he would protect you before, right? But he ran away instead, hahahaha..."

Unfortunately, they all guessed wrong.

Yin Xihui never said he would protect her or that he cared about her.

Qiu Puryue lowered her eyes and watched the fish swimming by her feet. She suddenly bent down and grabbed a fish as long as her arm in the blink of an eye and threw it onto the shore.

"Can you do it?" Qiu Puryue asked.

Yin Xihui looked at the fish that kept bouncing, took out a dagger and stabbed it at the junction of its head and body: "Okay."

Qiu Puryue shook her hair. The knot was untied.

However, after seeing her use the Corpse Binder's method, those people's tone changed again.

From contempt and ridicule, it turned into fear and disgust.

"No wonder that man ran away... If it were me, I would have run away a long time ago!"

"Damn, it's actually the Corpse Binder... How disgusting."

"It's really unlucky. That guy might be easier to deal with."

"It seems that the man has been preparing to escape for a long time. No wonder, he is a Corpse Binder..."

Qiu Purue's eyes darkened, she wrung out the water from her hair, went ashore, and squatted beside Yin Xihui to watch.

Yin Xihui separated the fish head from the body and noticed someone approaching. He knew it was Qiu Puryue. Just as he was about to turn around and say something, he jumped up in fright.

"What are you doing?!!"

Yin Xihui closed his eyes, as if he wanted to push her away, but he didn't know where to start.

Qiu Puyue was still confused: "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Yin Xihui was unusually excited. "Why aren't you wearing any clothes?"

"The clothes are not dry yet..." Qiu Puryue looked at the few pieces of clothing still hanging on the stones, none of them were dry.

Yin Xihui paused for a moment, took off his coat and threw it on her head: "You wear this first."

Qiu Puyue didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so she just put it on. She found that it was still a little big and covered her thighs.

"Why are your clothes bigger than mine?" Qiu Puryue didn't understand. "Mine only reaches my crotch."

Yin Xihui opened his eyes after seeing her put it on: "It's probably because of your body shape. It's a little too big for me."

Qiu Puyue nodded, not quite understanding.

"Don't wash them all next time. Keep at least one piece to wear." Yin Xihui hadn't noticed she had this habit before. "When you came in, you were given a long-sleeved jacket, a short-sleeved shirt, and long pants. If you wash them all, won't you have nothing to wear?"

"When I washed it before, it dried overnight." Qiu Puryue was puzzled, "It's the same now, it will be dry in a short while, but now I just finished washing--"

"It's almost autumn now, and the weather is going to get cold, so it won't dry as fast." Yin Xihui had a headache, "In winter, I'll avoid washing it if I can, to avoid catching a cold."

Qiu Puryue didn't take it to heart, but nodded anyway.

Yin Xihui knew it at the first sight, but he could only continue to catch fish helplessly.

After a while, they lit a fire and started grilling the fish.

Yin Xihui used a branch to support the fish from its broken mouth and placed it horizontally over the flames.

Qiu Puryue sat beside him, staring at the flickering flames: "Why don't you let 44 come with you?"

She had some understanding of what Yin Xihui had done before, and could vaguely see some of his thoughts.

"He's in some trouble." Yin Xihui said, "and he also wants the treasure."

"Really?" Qiu Purue turned her head to look at him, "Does he know any clues about the treasure?"

"I don't know about that." Yin Xihui looked at the fiery red sunset in the sky and decided to rest here.

"But I heard from them that one of them had already died, so the others were a little scared." Yin Xihui told Qiu Puryue what he heard, "...Actually, to me, there was nothing wrong with what he did, it's just that his companions couldn't accept it."

Qiu Puryue nodded and sighed softly: "It is indeed a bit cruel when you think about it."

Yin Xihui smiled and said nothing.

……

Qin Xiao glanced expressionlessly at the decapitated body on the ground and stepped over.

Ji Meng said he was going to visit his old friend and left. Mang Ling was sleeping. Mo Hanyu was also missing.

He is alone now.

Maybe it's because he's alone, he always encounters traps and enemies these days.

Qin Xiao couldn't count how many times he had been ambushed.

Are there so many people?

Qin Xiao thought about it and kicked the corpses off the cliff one by one. He looked at the sky and saw that it was almost night, so he had no plan to go down the mountain and just sat down on the top of the mountain.

As soon as he sat down, he felt something and his eyes became sharp.

"Can...can you give me something to eat?"

Before Qin Xiao inserted the knife into his chest, the man spoke.

Qin Xiao did not speak. This man was much older than him and looked to be in his 30s, but he was thin and had a yellow-brown skin, and it was obvious that he had been hungry for a long time.

Qin Xiao did not relax his vigilance because of his weakness. He looked at the man sitting on the ground with his knees bent in front of him. He was silent for a moment, and without any warning, he stabbed the man's feet with his knife - he inserted the knife into the ground and nailed his feet to the mountain together with the knife.

The man let out a scream and stared at Qin Xiao in disbelief.

Qin Xiao didn't say anything. He pulled a vine from the tree next to him and tied the man's arms, wrists, and even fingers together tightly, leaving him no room to flex or stretch.

"Who are you?" Qin Xiao stopped and asked after he was sure that the man had temporarily lost his ability to attack.

"...Are you a devil?" The man looked painful, the pain from his feet irritated his nerves.

"When I was killing these people just now, you were watching from the side." Qin Xiao was unmoved. "You didn't move until I sat down just now. Why?"

The man was shocked and froze for a moment.

Qin Xiao picked up another knife and put it on the man's neck: "Speak."

“I… I just wanted to ask for some food…” The man raised his chin, as if he was terrified. “I saw you kill those people, and I got scared, so—Ah!!”

The man let out another tragic scream and looked at Qin Xiao in disbelief as he pulled out the knife that was stuck in his foot.

Qin Xiao picked up the knife and looked at him coldly: "You are lying."

As he said this, he flicked the blood off the knife and pointed it at his ankle: “If you lie again, I’ll chop off your foot.”

"I'm not lying, really!" the man said in a panic, "I've been living a miserable life here. I haven't fought with them. I just wanted to get out, but I couldn't find a way out. I—"

The man's voice suddenly stopped, and he stared tremblingly at the tip of the knife pointing at his throat.

Qin Xiao had lost his patience. He was not very curious about why this man followed him, nor was he interested in his tragic experiences. Since this man did not want to tell the truth, there was no need for him to listen any further.

Thinking of this, Qin Xiao raised his arm.

"Wait, wait - I'll tell you, I'll tell you!" The man saw Qin Xiao's murderous intention and said hurriedly, "I know where the treasure is! You want it, right? I know the address, I can take you there, I'm still valuable, don't kill me..."

The man said this, choking up.

When Qin Xiao heard what he said, his eyes darkened, and he thought for a moment before putting down the knife.

"Where?" Qin Xiao asked coldly.

"I know the address. Although I don't know what the mountain is called, I know the way. I can take you there!" The man saw that there was still room for negotiation and said quickly, "I have been here for decades. I know it. I--"

"Since you know where it is, why don't you take it?" Qin Xiao suddenly thought of something and stared at him.

The man's voice hitched: "Well, that's because I can't take it with me! When I found it, I was already old and couldn't leave... So I thought since I couldn't leave, there was no point in keeping it, so..."

"What is the treasure?" Qin Xiao asked coldly without any fluctuation.

"Yes..." The man's eyes turned quickly. Qin Xiao knew from his expression that he didn't want to tell the truth.

Qin Xiao took a deep breath and picked up the knife.

“I’ll tell you!” The man saw this and struggled, bending his waist. “Yes, it’s a person!”

people?

Qin Xiao frowned and said nothing.

"No, it's not a human..." The man denied his own words, as if he was struggling, "It's a person who can turn into a beast... No, it, it is..."

Qin Xiao looked at him and his expression began to become confused, as if he had thought of something horrible. His face began to collapse and he gradually lost his mind.

"Forget it." Qin Xiao said coldly, "Where is it?"

"...It's far away from here." The man said, as if afraid that Qin Xiao would suspect him, he struggled to straighten his back, "It's very dangerous there, I can take you there, just don't kill me..."

Qin Xiao glanced coldly at the man's frightened face and said nothing, as if he was thinking.

He is lying.

Qin Xiao knew that he was not as harmless as he appeared. No matter how strong he was, it was impossible for anyone who could survive to this age in this forest to look like the ghost he appeared to be.

Moreover, this man has been following him for a long time, and he doesn't know what he is going to do.

Qin Xiao stroked the hilt of the knife. He did not see any resentment in the man's eyes. Why...

Qin Xiao glanced at his still bleeding feet, remained silent for a moment, and looked at the man: "Okay."

"Ah?" The man who had been nervous for a long time and thought he had failed suddenly heard the answer. He was a little unbelievable. He stared at Qin Xiao blankly and blinked.

Qin Xiao put away the knife: "I said, it's okay."

"I won't kill you, but you take me to that mountain."