Amnesiac Yandere Ex-Wife Always Wants to Remarry - Chapter 20
Chapter 20
Qiao Guan answered a bit more quickly: “Deputy Xia’s ‘bl00d exchange’ treatment has been very effective. Her ability is consistently kept at a very low level, which prevents your ability disorder symptoms.”
Xia Pingwu acknowledged this, her tone steady: “Then have any new functions been discovered?”
Qiao Guan froze.
Then Xia Pingwu continued: “For example, is it helpful for strange beasts?”
Qiao Guan remained silent.
A moment later, Qiao Guan replied: “Is this about the gym incident? I heard a little about it too. You know, strange beasts have no sanity. Those words were likely coaxed out of her by someone, just to disrupt our…”
“And disrupt you, too?” Xia Pingwu’s tone suddenly deepened a little. “Making you attack me with fragments and take my bl00d?”
Qiao Guan’s arms abruptly tightened, but she only held Xia Pingwu steadily, continuing: “Deputy Xia, I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Xia Pingwu countered: “You think I’m overthinking it?”
“No, it’s a very reasonable deduction.” Qiao Guan’s voice was extremely stable. “After all, I was behind you, and I also took your bl00d.”
Xia Pingwu softened her tone, returning to the gentle and unperturbed voice from before: “Qiao Guan, I wonder if you know, I have a certain talent I can see unusual things even without a detection platform?”
Qiao Guan was silent.
Xia Pingwu continued: “I want to survive. I haven’t found Ji Jie yet, and Chunshan is fighting alone.”
She stretched out her arm. At some point, she had already pulled up her sleeve, revealing her pale arm.
And on it, at this moment, was a fierce teeth mark, with fresh bl00d welling up.
Xia Pingwu extended it toward Qiao Guan: “If you want it, I’m willing to give it to you, and we can survive together.”
Qiao Guan trembled all over. She hugged Xia Pingwu’s thigh tightly, trying her best to keep her securely on her back, preventing her from falling due to her large movements.
Her voice shaky, she said: “Deputy Xia, I want to live.”
Xia Pingwu used her other hand, which was hooked around Qiao Guan’s neck, to lightly pat her chest: “Then we are allies.
“You let me live, and I’ll let you live; you tell me everything you know, and I can let you live for a very long time.”
Qiao Guan didn’t speak. She immediately opened her mouth and firmly enclosed Xia Pingwu’s forearm within it.
She sucked Xia Pingwu’s bl00d greedily, as if she hadn’t eaten for a long time. Xia Pingwu could feel the skin on her forearm being pulled tightly.
But this feeling only lasted a few seconds. Qiao Guan immediately let go and said haltingly: “Hide the bl00d mark… Deputy Xia, trust me, this much can last you this month.”
Xia Pingwu tilted her head to look at Qiao Guan’s face, pulled her arm back, and then securely wrapped the fabric around it.
Immediately after, Qiao Guan slowly began to speak:
“Vice-Captain Xia, your bl00d can purify.”
Qiao Guan paused, then continued: “It can purify… contaminated lifeforms.”
Xia Pingwu repeated: “Lifeforms?”
“Strange beasts, Ability Users, and… civilians.”
Civilians exposed to heavy fog for too long could also become contaminated; Xia Pingwu knew this.
But she wanted to know more: “Does Chu Yu know about this?”
Qiao Guan nodded.
Xia Pingwu was puzzled: “What is she trying to do?”
“She’s having the lab conduct research, hoping to develop something exactly the same.” Qiao Guan paused, emphasizing, “Deputy Xia, your bl00d has been indispensable in the development of the current inhibitor.”
Xia Pingwu responded casually, continuing: “Only the inhibitor?”
As she spoke, she muttered to herself: “However, it’s really hard to imagine someone who cares so much about the distinction between Ability Users and strange beasts would use my bl00d to save people.”
When she said this, Qiao Guan did not immediately reply.
Xia Pingwu assumed it was because her grumbling about Chu Yu had been overheard, so she looked away and said: “Thank you for telling me this.”
“The other things, this is not the time to talk about them.” Qiao Guan hesitated, then suddenly stopped her steps. “Deputy Xia, look there… is that Ji Jie?”
Indeed, a blurred figure finally appeared in the shadow.
Qiao Guan set Xia Pingwu down, checked Ji Jie’s condition, gave an “OK” gesture, and stood up: “Deputy Xia, you take her out, and I will go look for Captain Ming.”
Xia Pingwu had obtained the information she wanted and no longer pretended to be unable to walk. She stretched her ankles a few times, skillfully lifted Ji Jie onto her back, and raised her chin: “There’s probably no danger here for me. You.”
She looked Qiao Guan up and down but didn’t ask anything further, only saying: “Be careful. I’ll be there soon.”
When she stepped out of the passage, Xia Pingwu couldn’t help but pull up her collar.
The Ice Cave was still so cold.
Mao Xiqing immediately took the unconscious Ji Jie from her shoulder. The emergency medical kit was activated. Xia Pingwu watched from the side, reaching in to take out a few fever reducers.
Then she reached out her hand to the person behind her:
“Give me enough bullets, and give me a tranquilizer bow.”
Ji Jie didn’t seem seriously injured, her eyelashes were already fluttering under the emergency treatment. Xia Pingwu ignored her, equipping herself before turning back toward the other passage:
“I’m going to get your Captain Ming. You continue to look for the exit. Remember, it’s best not to use abilities.”
Just as Xia Pingwu was about to enter the cave, she vaguely heard Ji Jie talking to Mao Xiqing.
The sound was too low. She could only hear Ji Jie asking:
“Deputy Xia brought me back? Then, who was the person fighting the strange beast?”
That’s right, the strange beast.
She had unilaterally closed the shared sensation with Ming Chunshan in order to deal with Qiao Guan.
However, according to the information conveyed by the shared sensation from Chunshan, she hadn’t encountered the strange beast yet.
But, they should be meeting soon.
As Xia Pingwu’s body completely plunged into darkness, she touched her brow and gently warned:
“Chunshan, I feel it. She’s in front of you and to the right.”
She could hear Ming Chunshan’s action of instinctively gripping the long gun, her increasingly slow footsteps, and…
“Now!”
A continuous sound of gunshots rang out. With the silencer, the gunshots weren’t noisy. Xia Pingwu held her breath, carefully sensing every little detail from that side.
No movement.
No heavy object falling to the ground, no strange beast roaring.
All she heard was Ming Chunshan’s suppressed breathing.
Xia Pingwu quickened her steps.
Why was it different from what she expected?
She was very confident in her own abilities, but in the boundless darkness and silence, she started to worry.
Did she sense wrongly?
Or… Qiao Guan? Was Qiao Guan actually bought off by the enemy a long time ago? Did she agree to come just to launch a pincer attack?
As her mind was in turmoil, two voices suddenly overlapped.
She heard Ming Chunshan finally speak over there, her tone filled with disbelief:
“How could it be… you? Why are you still alive?”
At the same time, a burst of bright light filled Xia Pingwu’s sight.
Ming Chunshan’s portable flashlight rolled onto the ground, casting pools of light.
Ming Chunshan was kneeling on one knee where the light and shadow met, covered in bl00d.
“Chunshan, are you alright? Where’s that guy?”
Xia Pingwu knelt down in front of Ming Chunshan. Before she could clearly check the situation, her ear suddenly detected movement.
The flashlight, untouched by wind, moved on its own. When Xia Pingwu turned her head, she saw the cave wall suddenly surging as if it were alive.
Layer after layer, as if covered with slime, something crawled out from inside.
First, an inexplicably familiar faceless countenance.
Then, suddenly, it gained four limbs and a body.
Xia Pingwu felt that this creature looked somewhat familiar.
Ming Chunshan behind her seemed to suddenly snap back to awareness, reaching out to push her: “Elder Sister, run.”
Her tone was urgent: “This guy… is the one that was supposed to have died before…”
Xia Pingwu understood immediately.
This was not a new one, nor was it the one she saw at the gym last time. It was…
The one that was likely related to her amnesia, the one that caused Chunshan to rush to see her covered in bl00d.
“Xia… Ping… Wu…?”
The strange beast looked over. Its two eyes seemed to have just grown out, rotating with some difficulty. It seemed to hesitate as it looked Xia Pingwu up and down, its voice very muffled,
“How could there be another Xia Pingwu?”
These words hit Xia Pingwu like a heavy hammer right on her head.
Another.
She immediately understood, and instantly turned to look at Ming Chunshan. Ming Chunshan was still wearing her shirt, which was now stained with bl00d, and new bl00d seemed to be welling up.
Chunshan was wearing her clothes and was mistaken for her by the strange beast.
At the moment of this realization, Xia Pingwu felt a chill run through her entire body.
The residual coldness in her body seemed to seep into her bones. Her unconscious voice seemed to be squeezed out through her teeth.
She was saying: “Chunshan, I’m sorry. This is all my fault.”
Ming Chunshan was injured somewhere. Although there was no trace of it during the shared sensation earlier, she was clearly starting to waver, unable to maintain a kneeling posture.
Xia Pingwu saw that Ming Chunshan seemed to want to lift her hand and say something to pull her back, but the strange beast’s stench behind her was getting closer. She didn’t have time to ask more and immediately turned around.
The strange beast seemed startled by the movement, then paused.
Xia Pingwu stood up, positioning her gun.
The strange beast immediately became excited. It opened its mouth wide, murmuring indistinctly:
“Come on, come on. Do you think you can defeat me this way?”
“I don’t know how you two fought, but I know that Chunshan had a gun, and you still managed to hurt her.
“If that’s the case,”
Xia Pingwu didn’t finish her sentence. A magnificent blue light suddenly burst forth. The woman leaped up, the long gun swung horizontally, and struck the strange beast heavily.
“You definitely haven’t tasted my ability, have you!”
The surging blue light instantly struck the strange beast’s mouth. It let out a cry of pain, and its jaw instantly clenched shut.
At this moment, the long gun had arrived, smashing fiercely onto the strange beast’s upper jaw!
Sharp teeth immediately cracked. But that wasn’t all. The bow was casually thrown away, and the fully drawn tranquilizer needle, carrying immense force, accurately stabbed into the strange beast’s eye!
The anesthetic was instantly injected. The strange beast’s swinging claw immediately paused. After a few seconds, it slumped down softly.
Xia Pingwu staggered upon landing, then immediately unwrapped her clothes to cover Ming Chunshan:
“Don’t be afraid. I’ll take you out right away.”
Ming Chunshan, however, grabbed Xia Pingwu’s wrist in return. Even though her voice was already starting to sound weak, she insisted:
“Elder Sister, run! Get away from me… get far away…”
Xia Pingwu had already lifted her onto her back. Hearing her, she replied casually:
“Don’t worry. I’m just taking you out, just like last time.”
Ming Chunshan seemed to say something else from behind, but unfortunately, Xia Pingwu didn’t hear it.
Because after taking only a few steps with Ming Chunshan on her back, there was more movement behind her.
The dosage of the tranquilizer needle was too small; it would be difficult to completely take that creature down.
She couldn’t gauge the creature’s speed. If it could move through the walls, she might be intercepted before she even had a chance to escape back to the Ice Cave.
Her gun was also broken, and she hadn’t expected that creature to grow four limbs. The tranquilizer bows she brought would definitely not be enough.
Should she call Mao Xiqing to come over now? The passage was too narrow. If they encountered trouble, no one might be able to escape.
Xia Pingwu hesitated, but she also knew that the time left for her to hesitate was limited.
She hadn’t figured out what injuries Ming Chunshan had sustained. If she delayed the optimal treatment time…
A searing heat suddenly radiated from her back.
Ming Chunshan was bleeding.
Xia Pingwu’s eyes narrowed. She called out: “Chunshan?”
No response.
Xia Pingwu’s heart tightened. She instinctively reached for the short blade at her waist.
A familiar voice suddenly rang out in her ear again:
“Xia Pingwu, don’t leave. I finally found you.”
Xia Pingwu lifted the body of the unconscious Ming Chunshan higher up on her back.
The voice was getting closer: “Xia Pingwu, why did you end up like that the last time you came to the Ice Fire Cave? Don’t you want to know?”
In the end, the voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement: “Come with me. I’ll show you. I’ll show you the truth…”
Xia Pingwu drew the short blade and spoke with a cold voice:
“And then what? You’re going to kill both Chunshan and me here?”