Chapter 616: Chapter 29: Desperate Counterattack (Part 2)
Zhang Yiyi looked at the medicine bottle, her mind whirling with thousands of thoughts.
Her shoulders slumped as if bearing an immense burden, "Alright, it can only be this way. I did not betray Xiao Xian, it was the medicine that made me confused and made me speak."
She roughly guessed that the medicine in the bottle was the kind that compels one to tell the truth.
Xu Lan Ya did not expect Zhang Yiyi to change her mind so quickly, she let someone hold her shoulders, lifted her chin, and placed a pill in her mouth.
Zhang Yiyi swallowed the pill as it moved down her throat.
"Now you should talk," Xu Lan Ya said impatiently, fidgeting with her hair.
"I should talk..." Zhang Yiyi repeated her words, her eyes unfocused.
"Lan Ya, could the dosage be too high? She seems stupefied, and can’t even speak," At the Huake Institute, students in the Basic Class study the basics, while Intermediate Students each have their own strengths. Learning to attack is inevitable for Intermediate Students, and Xu Lan Ya’s spiritual bomb is nothing special. However, the Xu Family, backing her, also masters the use of poisons, allowing them to secure a footing among Intermediate Students.
"Impossible, the medicine is an extract I made from poppy liquid and Poisonous Dragon bile. The dosage is very light, it only makes one’s consciousness unclear and thoughts disordered," Xu Lan Ya tightened her grip on Yiyi’s chin, lifting her face slightly as she prepared to take a closer look.
Several beads of red light flashed by, and Xu Lan Ya cried out "Ah," feeling extreme pain around her eye socket.
The pill that had been forced into her, turned into tiny dust particles, and Zhang Yiyi, seizing the moment, spat them out quickly and fiercely.
Like a lizard capturing its prey, the tongue shoots out like a retractable spring, precise and measured. When it strikes, it hits the target regardless of how small the flying insects are.
Seeing the number of opponents and that Xu Lan Ya was stronger than her, Yiyi pretended to be vulnerable and gullibly swallowed the pill, but pretended to swallow it while secretly pressing it under her tongue. As Xu Lan Ya came closer to inspect, Yiyi spat out the pill with great force.
She guessed that the power of a single pill was insignificant. She crushed the pill and released a multitude of fragments all at once, and indeed, it worked.
The nearby girls were taken aback, their hands slackening. Zhang Yiyi somersaulted up, her limbs flat against the wall, and rapidly climbed upwards.
"Don’t let her escape," Xu Lan Ya, in pain and her vision blurring, perhaps from the pill dust getting in her eyes which were starting to take effect, pulled out an antidote and popped it into her mouth.
Although the three girls had more practical experience than Zhang Yiyi, she clung to the ceiling, and the three below couldn’t reach her. They started throwing things found in the room randomly. In the chaos, Yiyi was hit a few times, but fortunately, her grip was strong enough. Gritting her teeth, she climbed to a window and jumped down from the upper story.
"Stop chasing her," Xu Lan Ya frustratedly dismissed her ineffective helpers, "She can run from the Monk, but not from the temple, Zhu Xiaoxian, Zhang Yiyi, I will make you disappear from North Campus forever."
As Yiyi leaped down from the upper floors, she was frightened only afterward. Looking down, she realized she had jumped from the fourth floor.
Fortunately, the Spiritual Fruit Garden was below; she was lucky not to land directly on the ground but was hooked by a longan tree. She dared not shout for help, fearing to attract the people above, nor had the strength to jump down again. After struggling a few times, the tree branch broke, and Yiyi had a rough fall, exacerbating her earlier injuries.
She lay on the ground for over an hour before she gathered some strength, leaned against the tree trunk to stand up, smeared her face, dirty and wet, full of sticky mucus, not knowing if it was sweat or the healing "gecko mucus."
"Don’t cry, you need to be strong. Surviving a great disaster means there’s fortune to come, but I mustn’t tell Xiao Xian. We’re not strong enough to face them yet, endure it for now, and we’ll pay them back double in the future, oww, but it still hurts," Zhang Yiyi limped from area B back to C.
After she got home, Xiao Xian was not there, probably checking on the growth of the green plants.
Zhang Yiyi changed her clothes, washed her face, and settled on the newly bought second-hand sofa, waiting for Xiao Xian to return.
"Yiyi, big discovery, guess what I found next to the Tamarisk?" Xiao Xian entered with a yellow-white plant that looked like a pinecone and also like a fern.
"What did you find?" Zhang Yiyi buried her face in the sofa, only showing one eye.
"Desert Ginseng - Congrong, I didn’t think planting a few Tamarisks would host Congrongs, but today I found several next to the Tamarisks. Look, it may not look good, but it’s big, we can..." Xiao Xian saw Yiyi curled up on the sofa during the day, and felt something was off.
"What’s wrong?" Xiao Xian approached the sofa, tugging at the blanket; it was so hot during the day, yet she was wrapped up as if in winter.
"Nothing, just tired, lying down a while," Zhang Yiyi changed to a face-down, limbs-down "lying posture," which unfortunately revealed the wounds on her wrists and ankles.
"What happened?" Xiao Xian noticed the injuries on her limbs.
"..." Zhang Yiyi hesitated for a long time and finally managed to mutter a few words: "I’ll tell you, but don’t get mad. And you have to promise not to go fighting them, okay?"
But after Zhang Yiyi finished speaking, Xiao Xian didn’t go to fight, instead, she just stood up and paced back and forth in the dorm.
"You’re not mad?" Yiyi felt slighted, she almost died, and this was Xiao Xian’s reaction? Lack of sibling love.
"What’s the use of being mad? I also feel proud, Yiyi, you’ve grown. Dealing with those people, just the two of us isn’t enough, we need to think of something," Xiao Xian sat down, and shared an idea she had been contemplating.
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