bookrandom Chapter 60 Taking the Road
Chapter 60 Taking the Road
But while I'm indulging in wild thoughts, I still have important business to attend to. According to the plot I know, Ruohan was captured and used as a blood bag. So the heartless and despicable family mentioned in the article must be Old Wang's family.
With a sigh, Lu Jinyan led a few people towards the cage where Ruohan was lying: "Are you alright?"
As she approached, Lu Jinyan finally got a clearer look at Ruohan. Ruohan was disheveled and filthy, her features completely unrecognizable. Her clothes were soaked in blood, obscuring their original color.
Even before getting close to him, people could smell a strong fragrance, the aroma of ginseng, not the smell of blood.
Lu Jinyan had Yuan Yi unlock the lock, and then led everyone into the cage where Ruohan was being held.
He lay there on the ground, unable to move his limbs. Lu Jinyan saw that his hands were skin and bones, and his body was covered with wounds, some with congealed blood, others still bleeding.
Aside from being able to speak, the person seemed completely immobile. Just looking at them was painful.
"Who are you? What happened to them? Where is this place? And why are you here?" Chu Chu wasn't scared at all. She squatted down next to Ruo Han, her big round eyes full of curiosity.
With Yan Yan around, Yan Yan wasn't afraid, so naturally she wasn't afraid either! After asking a few questions in a row, she obediently waited for the answers.
"Cough cough cough, I, my name is Ruohan, I was originally a thousand-year-old ginseng that cultivated in this mountain, cough cough cough, she, they were all captured by that family, this place, cough cough cough, this place is underground in the back mountain! This place is full of formations and talismans that suppress cultivation, and they are fed a kind of hallucinogenic drug by those people every day, cough cough cough."
As Ruohan spoke, he coughed, and a trickle of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth with each cough, but because his hair covered his face, no one noticed.
Lu Jinyan frowned as she looked at Ruohan and sighed inwardly. This time, she had indeed been given a human body, but this person didn't seem much better than Mo Xuan back then, and could even be said to be worse.
Lu Jinyan mentally complained about the system, "Can't you give me a healthy target to pursue?"
Despite her complaints, Lu Jinyan silently exchanged a life-saving pill for one from the system: "Don't talk anymore, come on, take this, it will make you feel better!"
As Lu Jinyan spoke, she asked Yuan Yi to help the person up. Then she took out a water pouch from her spatial storage and fed the medicine to Ruohan.
After Qionghua and the others tied them up, they took all the storage bags from their bodies. Liu Xu, Liu Qing, and Yuan Yi were all quite surprised to see that Lu Jinyan could still take out water pouches and medicine.
Only Chu Chu seemed not to have seen anything, showing no reaction whatsoever, as if everything happening to Lu Jinyan was normal. Lu Jinyan's attention was currently focused on Ruohan, so she didn't notice Liu Xu and the others' gazes.
"Miss, there's no need to waste your energy. I know my body is failing me. I'm about to die. You should leave here quickly!" Ruohan's voice was very weak.
As if he might kick the bucket at any moment, Lu Jinyan listened with trepidation, fearing that he might really die suddenly. She had just taken over the mission and hadn't even had time to conquer him yet. "Don't die!"
After Lu Jinyan fed him the medicine, she breathed a sigh of relief: "It's alright, I'm here to save you. Don't worry, I won't let you die!"
If you die, my mission will fail. It's fine if you die, but don't drag me down with you!
Thankfully, there are the system's life-saving pills. I don't know what they're made of, but the system says that as long as you have a breath left, taking one will save your life!
Lu Jinyan thought she should exchange a few more pills later, one for each of Liu Xu and the others, just in case.
Although it's a bit pricey, it's nothing compared to my life! Back then, Mo Xuan was also on the verge of death, and he ate this stuff.
"Ding! Ruohan's favorability +1, current favorability 1!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully raising Ruohan's favorability to one percent. Rewards: 1000 points, 100 Mandarin Duck Stones, 20 Cultivation Pills, 2 Low-grade Ice Soul Swords, 2 Low-grade Shadow Riding Bracelets, 2 Xihe Spirit Pearls, 2 Crimson Flame Spirit Pearls, 5 Fire Fox Fur, 2 Exquisite Bracelets, 2 Seven-Colored Feather Robes, and 2 Flowing Cloud Robes!"
"We hope the host will continue his efforts!"
Yo ho!
This kid is smart!
That's spot on!
Compared to that bastard Mo Xuan, he's so much better!
At least it's not a negative number!
I just gave him one pill, and he already gained a little bit of favorability towards me. That's really great!
"You're saying that all these people were kidnapped by that family? Why are they kidnapping so many people?"
Even though she already knew his identity, she still had to put on an act! Besides, he had already actively increased her favorability, so why not strike while the iron was hot?
"Ahem, thank you, young lady. But this is not the place to talk. You should leave quickly!" Ruohan glanced at the young lady in front of her with some concern.
But he had lost too much blood and his body was already at its limit. He could only vaguely see a silhouette and know that she was a girl, but he couldn't see anything else.
"We were also captured here, so we should know why, right? Besides, as you know, this place is full of array runes, and we can't get out!"
Lu Jinyan wasn't in a hurry at all. Now that she was inside, she naturally wanted to find out the truth before she was satisfied.
She had secretly placed something on that family, which would buy them some time, so they were still relatively safe.
“These people were captured by them and are going to be sold. Girl, I have already answered your question. You should find a way to leave quickly!” Ruohan’s voice was somewhat urgent.
"Sold? Trafficking in people? So this family are human traffickers! And you? I see that none of those people were injured, just a little mentally challenged, but why are you so badly injured?" Lu Jinyan dutifully played her role, pretending to know nothing.
“I was originally a ginseng that cultivated in this mountain. I have never come down the mountain, nor have I ever harmed anyone. I only thought about living my own life in the mountain. But one day when I went out to pick wild fruits, I was discovered by this family. They then plotted to capture me, saying that their son had a strange disease and needed my blood to cure him. So they locked me up here.”
I don't remember how long I've been locked up. They come every day to take a small bowl of blood and leave. These people are either tricked or captured by them. Every now and then, they bring back one or two people. When there are too many, someone will come and take them away. Ruohan coughed a few more times. Calculating the days, someone should come to collect the goods in the next couple of days.