Chapter 1424 — A Confession of Love — Wait! The Jade Pendant? Wei Zhao Suddenly Remembered That the Jade Pendant Had Indeed Given a Warning — When Yu Xiaoke Went to Stroke Tianlei Zhu!
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Thinking of this, Wei Zhao hastily seized Yu Xiaoke's hand!
Yu Xiaoke had never expected Wei Zhao to grab her hand so suddenly. She thought it was because she was dizzy and he meant to comfort her, and her face flushed at once. After this tomb-robbing expedition, the relationship between the two of them had turned somewhat ambiguous; Yu Xiaoke could never help her heart beating faster, and this time was no exception.
But after Wei Zhao took her hand, he did nothing else — he bent to examine the wound where Tianlei Zhu had pricked her.
"So that's how it is!" Seeing the wound red and swollen, Wei Zhao nodded in sudden understanding. "The bristles on this Tianlei Zhu are poisonous!"
"What? Poisonous?" At his words, Yu Xiaoke felt it too — the wound on her hand did indeed itch a little.
"You dead pig, hand over the antidote!" Wei Zhao said, giving Tianlei Zhu a kick.
"Squeak squeak..." Tianlei Zhu looked aggrieved at once, as though protesting its innocence — it had not meant any harm, only defended itself on instinct when a stranger like Yu Xiaoke came near. Wei Zhao certainly could not understand what the pig said, but General Weiwu could.
"Woof woof!" General Weiwu pointed at Yu Xiaoke, waved a paw, and then struck a sleeping pose.
"Oh... it means the poison is nothing serious. You're just dizzy — sleep it off and you'll be fine," Wei Zhao explained to Yu Xiaoke.
"Is that so!" Yu Xiaoke breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is there some way to neutralize it?" Wei Zhao asked again.
"Squeak squeak —" At his words Tianlei Zhu grew reluctant, but after glancing at Wei Zhao and thinking it over, it still waddled over to Yu Xiaoke, plucked a bristle from its own body with a front paw, and jabbed her hand with the follicle end.
"Ah!" Yu Xiaoke cried out at the sting.
But Wei Zhao did not stop it. He knew the pig was drawing out the poison for her; if it dared to harm Yu Xiaoke again right in front of him, then this Tianlei Zhu really would have no place left among them.
"Squeak squeak —" Tianlei Zhu tossed the bristle away and shook its body, meaning to tell Wei Zhao that the poison was gone.
"Eh? How wonderful — the wound doesn't itch anymore, and my head isn't spinning either!" Yu Xiaoke exclaimed in surprise. "This little creature is really something!"
"From now on, tell friend from foe before you go stabbing people, or I'll kick you out the door," Wei Zhao told Tianlei Zhu.
"Squeak squeak —" Tianlei Zhu nodded to show it understood.
Leaving the ancient tomb through the Gate of Life, Wei Zhao took Yu Xiaoke, Tianlei Zhu, and General Weiwu, and sprang up onto the cliff wall nearby.
Wei Zhao walked as though flying, and Yu Xiaoke's lightness skill was excellent as well; the two people and two beasts soon arrived at a nearby town.
"Heroine Yan, let us part ways here — you can catch a carriage from this place." Wei Zhao pointed toward the station. "Until we meet again!"
"Ah — so we're going to part..." Yu Xiaoke looked at Wei Zhao, reluctant to let him go...
From childhood on, apart from her master, the one who had cared for her most tenderly was Male Robber. This tomb-robbing journey she would remember all her life, and she would never forget how Male Robber had saved her from danger again and again.
"Heh, go home and live well, and don't come out robbing tombs anymore. As for me, I won't rob tombs again either — I won't be able to look after you anymore," Wei Zhao said.
"Oh..." Yu Xiaoke nodded, a little forlorn. Male Robber had said before that he was searching for a spirit medicine for his girlfriend, so it was only natural that he should wash his hands of the trade. "Then... will we meet again?"
Yu Xiaoke knew her question was a little foolish. Male Robber would rob no more, and she would take part in no more such missions; the chance that the two of them would ever cross paths again was essentially zero. Perhaps they would never meet again in this life.