Chapter Forty-Nine p2
The cave was dark, and Bo Chi was standing by the table, pointing at the dark thing on it and exclaiming: “The saying in storybooks that those who don’t die from falling off a cliff will definitely find a divine skill is actually true! Look, we just got a secret manual!“
Yu Zhao glanced at the thing she was pointing at, her eyebrows twitched slightly, as if she had a headache, she rubbed her temples and sighed: “That’s a bowl.”
Bo Chi was stunned, stared at the dark thing for two seconds, touched it, and immediately cursed: “Fuck, it really is a big bowl?!“
Yu Zhao walked to the table, picked up the book on the stone stool, handed it to her, and said meaningfully: “This is the secret manual you’re talking about.”
Bo Chi didn’t understand, breathed a sigh of relief and refused: “Since you found it, it’s yours.“
Yu Zhao lowered her eyes, flipped through two pages of the manual, and found that it really contained a set of extraordinary martial arts secrets. Her eyes flickered slightly, and she looked at Bo Chi steadily: “Why are you giving this secret manual to me?“
From the girl’s performance, she could easily see that the other party had long known about the existence of this secret manual, but she didn’t understand why the other party was so good to her.
They clearly didn’t know each other, and she even jumped off the cliff with her, willing to die…
“Huh?” Bo Chi blinked innocently, pretending to be stupid: “Didn’t you find this secret manual? Then it definitely belongs to you. Okay, no more nonsense, let’s start a fire quickly, it’s chilly in the cave at night, there won’t be ghosts, right?“
The girl muttered and changed the subject. Yu Zhao stared at the top of her head for a while, put the secret manual in her arms, and obediently started a fire.
The cave had been abandoned for many years, and there was nothing else besides the table, chairs, and stone bed. When Yu Zhao lit the fire, Bo Chi went outside and brought in a pile of vines, twisted them together randomly, and used them as a giant feather duster to clean everywhere.
After cleaning up the dust, Bo Chi was also exhausted. After washing up by the cold pool, she yawned and climbed onto the bed. She was tired and sleepy, and also disliked the stone bed being too hard and having no pillow. Seeing Yu Zhao sitting at the table reading the secret manual, she said coquettishly: “It’s not good for your eyes to read at night, come and sleep.“
Yu Zhao’s hand flipping the book suddenly stopped, and she hesitated: “We’re sleeping in the same bed?“
“Of course.” Bo Chi said as a matter of course: “There’s only one bed, how else can we sleep?“
Yu Zhao turned her head to look at her, and seeing her clear and soft almond eyes, without any lust, she couldn’t help but doubt her guess.
Could it be that the other party giving her the secret manual and wanting to hug her was just simply wanting to be close to her, and not… that kind of thought?
For the first time, Yu Zhao met someone she couldn’t understand.
Her heart was in a mess, like a ball of yarn that couldn’t be untangled, but the culprit was completely unaware. She turned over on the bed, propped up her head with her hand, patted the empty space beside her, and said eagerly: “Come on!“
Yu Zhao sat stiffly for a while, and finally couldn’t resist the girl’s coquettish call, came to the bedside with stiff limbs, and lay down stiffly.
Bo Chi didn’t notice her complicated mood. Seeing her lie down, she skillfully snuggled into her arms, rubbed her little head against her neck, and said contentedly: “Good night!“
Yu Zhao’s hand hovered in the air, and after some hesitation, she gently placed it on her shoulder, and whispered: “Good night.“
This night passed quickly and was long.
For Bo Chi, it was just closing her eyes and opening them, and it was already dawn.
For Yu Zhao, it was the girl’s long and shallow breathing, her body emitting a faint scent of herbs. It wasn’t strong, but it was like a carefully woven net, silently enveloping its prey.
A premonition told Yu Zhao to stay away. The sweet girl and she were people from two different worlds, but the night wind tonight was too gentle, and she couldn’t help but fall deeply into it, tightly hugging the girl’s slender waist, and rarely had a good dream.
When the sky turned slightly white, Bo Chi woke up in a daze, hugged Yu Zhao’s neck, and kissed her face.
This action was purely out of habit. In the previous world, she had been asked for kisses by the clingy Yu Zhao for more than ten years, so she didn’t even remember that she had come to a new world, and subconsciously leaned in for a peck.
It wasn’t until after the kiss that she slowly woke up, her body stiffening in guilt, and she slowly raised her head to look at Yu Zhao’s face.
Yu Zhao was sleeping quietly, her eyes closed and her expression calm, as if she hadn’t woken up yet.
Bo Chi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and tiptoed out of her arms to wash up outside.
When her footsteps faded away, Yu Zhao on the bed trembled her eyelashes, slightly pursed her lips, and an undeniable blush appeared on the tips of her ears.
There wasn’t much fresh food under the cliff, and they still ate fish for breakfast.
After eating, Yu Zhao walked around and tried to use her internal force to climb up the cliff.
Unfortunately, her injuries hadn’t fully healed, and the cliff was too steep. After climbing a short distance, she had to give up.
After coming down, Yu Zhao frowned, and said to Bo Chi in a slightly deep voice: “This cliff is too high. Even if I recover to my peak state, I’m afraid I won’t be able to climb it. The only way out now is probably this cold pool. If we can follow the pool water to find its source, we might be able to leave from under the cliff!”
Bo Chi shook her head: “No, we don’t know how deep this pool is. If we run out of oxygen and still haven’t found the source, wouldn’t that be a dead end? In my opinion, you should learn the secret manual and practice martial arts first, and I’ll find a way out according to the Medicine Valley’s methods. If there’s no progress on my side, you can practice for ten or eight years, and we can still get out.“
In the plot, the original owner fell to her death directly, and Yu Zhao was just a killer. Seeing that there was no way up and it was too risky to go down into the water, she could only start studying the secret manual with her head down, practicing diligently for ten years.
Now that Bo Chi had survived, she flipped through the original owner’s memories and found many ways to break the situation that she could try: “Whale Attracting Pills, Beast Luring Incense, and if that doesn’t work, there’s also the Flying Bird Pill. Anyway, let’s try every method, what if we get lucky and get out? What do you think?“
Yu Zhao nodded beside her. She didn’t know much about the Medicine Valley, but she also knew its weight in the martial arts world. After learning that Bo Chi was a medical immortal from the Medicine Valley, she naturally wouldn’t have any objections to Bo Chi’s ideas.
Seeing Bo Chi start muttering about prescriptions and looking for herbs everywhere, she silently took out the secret manual from her arms and began to practice with a focused expression.
The days under the cliff were boring and uninteresting. If one were to stay here alone, they would probably go crazy within half a year.
Yu Zhao considered herself to be good at enduring, but if it were her, she wouldn’t be able to bear this prison-like loneliness either.
Under such circumstances, Bo Chi’s presence became particularly important.
The girl searched for strange herbs every day, chattering about interesting things that she could never finish talking about. She was clearly an innocent person dragged to death by her, but she didn’t have any resentment towards her, and even… even secretly kissed her in the early morning, making her can’t help but think about this and that… and reluctant to get up early.
The more they interacted, the more Yu Zhao fell into it, unable to extricate herself.
Occasionally, she would even think that if Bo Chi was there, then staying under the cliff for the rest of her life seemed… not impossible.
Whenever such thoughts arose, Yu Zhao would quickly extinguish them.
Because she was a killer, a killer who couldn’t be controlled by emotions.
A qualified killer should devote all her energy to endless assassinations!
Yu Zhao’s thoughts were clear, her eyes sharp, and the killing intent that had been worn away by the peace of these past few months surged again. The long sword in her hand suddenly stabbed towards the prey, splashing scarlet blood everywhere.
The next second, the girl’s angry voice sounded behind her: “Yu Zhao! You splashed pig blood on my skirt again!“
Yu Zhao instinctively looked down and found that she had really stained her skirt. Her whole momentum immediately deflated, like a pitiful person who had made a mistake, she honestly put down her sword and apologized: “I was wrong.“
Bo Chi glared at her angrily: “You’re always distracted when killing pigs. When the Beast Luring Incense runs out and we have no more pork to eat, I’ll see if you’re still distracted!“
Yu Zhao opened her mouth and said dryly: “It’s my fault…“
Bo Chi was annoyed: “You always say these same words every time you apologize. Forget it, take off your clothes, I’ll take them to the pool to wash.“
Yu Zhao obediently gave her the dirty clothes.
After Bo Chi left with a puffed-up face, Yu Zhao picked up the sword again, looked at the pig that died with its eyes open, and said in a low voice: “I am a killer without emotions… A killer’s skills cannot be lost!“
The cold blade danced, and pieces of pork were neatly piled up.
Today’s cold-blooded killer.
Was also seriously preparing lunch for her little healer.
When Bo Chi came back after hanging the clothes, she saw that Yu Zhao was already making a fire and cooking.
They had been at the bottom of the cliff for almost half a year. Although they hadn’t found a way out yet, through various experiments, using Beast Luring Incense and other items, they could attract prey to fall off the cliff every now and then. For example, the current wild boar was one of the dead souls.
The pork was fragrant and delicious no matter how it was cooked. Bo Chi wasn’t picky either, took the bowl handed over by Yu Zhao, and drank the broth in small sips.
After finishing a bowl, she said in slight surprise: “Your swordsmanship has become more and more powerful recently, this pork is cut as if it came out of an assembly line.“
Yu Zhao curled her lips reservedly, and nodded: “A qualified killer naturally cannot neglect the skills of killing.“
Bo Chi gave her a thumbs-up, and casually asked: “How is your Treading Snow Lightness Skill cultivation going?“
Treading Snow Lightness Skill was part of that nameless secret manual. Besides lightness skills, it also included mental cultivation, swordsmanship, defense, and a whole set of other content.
Yu Zhao was extremely talented, and cultivating these skills was like adding wings to a tiger. Now, after only half a year, she had achieved some success.
But she knew that what Bo Chi really wanted to ask was not this, so she hesitated: “It’s definitely no problem to fight with people, but if I want to tread on the cliff and go up, I’m afraid…“
Bo Chi understood, and shook her head: “It’s okay, I’ve already prepared to stay with you for ten or eight years. I’m just asking casually, don’t put too much pressure on yourself, just focus on cultivating.“
Yu Zhao lowered her eyes, bitterness rising in her heart.
How could she not be anxious, and how could she be at peace?
Ten years… How many ten years can a woman have?
She had originally jumped off the cliff herself after failing to assassinate, which was her own fault. Bo Chi was innocently dragged down by her. She already felt sorry for the other party, how could she let the other party wait with her under this desolate cliff for ten years?
No matter what, she had to find a way to let Bo Chi return to the human world as soon as possible!
Bo Chi didn’t know what Yu Zhao was thinking under her expressionless face, only that in the following days, the other party practiced martial arts and killed pigs even more diligently.
Just as she was wondering if the reason why the other party was working so hard was because her period was coming soon, and whether she needed to buy some personal items from the system, Yu Zhao suddenly put away her sword one afternoon, looked at her with burning eyes, and said: “I’m going down to the cold pool.“
Bo Chi exclaimed, and looked at the sky: “Taking a bath in broad daylight, isn’t that a bit inappropriate?“
Yu Zhao: “…It’s not for bathing. My internal strength has just improved, and I can hold my breath underwater for a long time. I want to go into the water again to explore the depth of the pool and see if I can find the source of the cold pool.“
Bo Chi was a little worried: “Can you do it? Actually, I’m not in a hurry to go out, let’s take it slow?“
Yu Zhao grabbed her hand, her eyes no longer as cold and chilling as when they first met, but gentle and smiling: “But I’m in a hurry to go out.“
Bo Chi felt uneasy, and couldn’t help but ask: “You’re all alone, what are you in a hurry to go out for?“
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