Luo Yaqin adjusted her slightly disheveled clothes, gave me a charming glance, and walked in with captivating allure.
I stood at the doorway, not rushing to enter, but watching the setting sun, a sense of melancholy washing over me.
Qu Xiangyun's devotion, Shangguan Yao's burgeoning affection, and then there's this little temptress, Luo Yaqin.
Unknowingly, the women connected to me have grown so numerous; it's a tangled web that's hard to unravel.
But this is hardly the time for romance. Every day is a precarious existence, and I never know what tomorrow will bring upon waking.
In this difficult environment, I can only take things one step at a time.
After a while, Guan Hai'er prepared a fragrant stewed chicken, and we all sat around the campfire, eating with joy.
The night was beautiful. We had escaped the constant threat of wild men and found ourselves here. With the power of good food, we temporarily forgot all our troubles.
In a blink, the night passed.
The next day, I took my nearly depleted handgun and alloy knife, preparing to go back and see if I had a chance to end Liu Bowen's wretched life.
This Liu Bowen has always been a major concern for me. I always felt that as long as he lived, he would eventually harm us.
My progress is faster when I'm alone than when I have a whole entourage. By noon, I had returned to the vicinity of the cave where I had been staying.
As soon as I entered the forest, I saw many disordered footprints. Without a doubt, they must have been left by those wild men.
Could they have found the cave we were staying in?
I cautiously approached the cave, and as expected, the vines I had used to conceal the entrance were gone. Two wild men were standing at the cave mouth, gesturing at each other, talking about something I couldn't understand.
I felt incredibly fortunate that I had made a decisive and correct decision back then.
Otherwise, if we had been trapped in the cave by these wild men, even if some of us survived, we would have become their slaves, living a life worse than death.
I hid amongst the trees, my nerves on high alert, observing the movements of the wild men.
The two wild men seemed to be arguing, then repeatedly pointing towards the cave.
With the intelligence of these wild men, they can even argue?
As I watched, a moment later, the wild man who appeared to be the leader walked over, followed by several other wild men and many survivors, including Liu Bowen.
The leader seemed displeased. After saying a few words to his subordinates, he took out a whip from his waist and lashed it fiercely at Liu Bowen.
Liu Bowen, under the rough lash, was knocked to the ground, his mind reeling, but he received no mercy from the leader.
I secretly rejoiced in my heart. This is exactly what Liu Bowen deserves!
After watching for a while, I had a sudden realization.
Hiss—Could it be that after Liu Bowen was captured by the wild men, he betrayed the location of my cave, which is why this group came searching?
Now that they discovered we had escaped, the leader must have vented his anger on Liu Bowen.
As expected, from ancient times to the present, collaborators have never met a good end.
The leader whipped Liu Bowen for a while, seemingly tiring, and then put down the whip, pointing at him and chattering incomprehensibly.
I wonder if Liu Bowen is inherently spineless. Even after being whipped by the wild man and covered in wounds, he immediately put on a fawning smile and bowed repeatedly as soon as the wild man spoke to him, showing no dignity as a human being.
Perhaps in this person's mind, dignity and humanity are worthless. To survive, he has abandoned his basic principles as a human.
I watched Liu Bowen with utter contempt, my resolve to kill him today firm!
If such a despicable person, who stops at nothing, were allowed to live, who knows if he might rise among the wild men one day and seek revenge on me.
I raised my handgun, aiming at Liu Bowen's chest.
Liu Bowen, you beast!
When you go to hell, give Li Degui a message.
May you never be reincarnated!
With a bang, a bloom of blood erupted on Liu Bowen's chest.
His expression changed from fawning to panic, finally freezing in disbelief as he fell, his face still turned in the direction where I was hiding.
He probably knew it was me who shot him before he died, hahaha, what goes around comes around!
Those wild men, hearing the gunshot and seeing Liu Bowen fall, seemed flustered and chattered incomprehensibly.
However, the leader seemed to recognize the handgun. He shouted a command, calming the wild men.
Then, with a whistle, the tall wild men beside him, like unleashed dogs, charged towards the bushes where I was hidden.
Some of them even pulled out bows and arrows and shot towards me.
Damn it, these people reacted so quickly!
I quickly retreated backwards, no longer caring if I revealed myself.
A single strike, then flee a thousand miles.
This is the profound wisdom passed down by our ancestors.