Zard said, "Could you please let go of Xiaoyu? He is still a child. There's no need to twist and turn him like this. It will have a psychological impact on the child."
The Lian clansman sneered, "Why all this nonsense? You think you can leave comfortably after becoming a prisoner?"
However, at this moment, Lianxin suddenly said calmly, "Let that young man go. Forget it, let them all go and let them leave on their own."
The Lian tribespeople were immediately startled, but seeing their chieftain's expression, they ultimately obeyed...
The group walked from morning until afternoon at a very fast pace, and soon they had entered the tropical rainforest of Xiuzhuzhou.
Zhuzhou is like a maze, and according to satellite images, it covers an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers.
Normally, this place is shrouded in miasma and teeming with poisonous insects and snakes, making it impossible for ordinary people to enter.
But none of this mattered to the Lian tribe. They gave the three prisoners small yellow pills to immunize them against the miasma.
As they drew closer to the village, Chen Jiazhang seized an opportunity to say to Zard, "Later, I'll find a chance, give the order, and we'll all flee eastward. There's a small path there I recognize. When we get there, you use the earthen wall to block them..."
Zard raised his hand: "Report! He's trying to escape!"
Chen Jiazhang was startled: "You old bastard!"
He instinctively wanted to run away alone, but the seven golden corpses forced him back...
Ten minutes later, Zard and Xiaoyu walked happily through the woods, curiously looking at everything around them, while Chen Jiazhang was being dragged along by two golden corpses, his arms twisted: "Zard, just wait until I'm free, I'll beat you to death."
Zard acted as if he hadn't heard at all, and kept asking Lianxin, "What's the name of that bird?"
Lianxin would always impatiently scold him for talking too much nonsense, and then explain, "That's a cloud pigeon. Its feathers turn white on sunny days, turn gray if it's about to rain, and bristle when it's about to snow. We usually keep them in the village to predict the weather."
Zard exclaimed, "Wow, you guys are amazing!"
After being praised by Zard, Lianxin felt a little uncomfortable for a moment: "It's alright."
Twenty-eight-year-old Lianxin was influenced by her mother. When she was a child, she saw her mother crying all day long, and she felt that there was no good man in the world.
Therefore, starting from Lianxin and her mother Lianpeng's generation, the village became less friendly to men who had not consumed the Crimson Heart Gu.
She was a little girl with two buns on top of her head back then, and now she has grown into a graceful and charming young woman.
Lianxin's height was neither tall nor short, around 165 cm. Her skin was exceptionally fair, especially when accentuated by the silver ornaments she wore, making her look like a girl who had just emerged from behind a clear spring waterfall.
Yet she also possesses a unique femininity bestowed upon her by age.
With bright eyes, white teeth, red lips, and jade-like skin, she must be the most beautiful woman in the entire Lian tribe.
Lianxin had participated in a walking marriage ceremony, but even though she was so beautiful, no man dared to choose her because she was too aloof at the bonfire banquet.
Now that Zard has suddenly taken the Crimson Heart Gu, something feels off.
If Zard wasn't in her sight for a while, she would want to turn around and see what he was doing and what silly thing he was doing.
She used to think Zard was stupid, but now she finds his innocent charm rather endearing, quite different from other men...
Suddenly, Zard ran frantically into the woods.
The Lian clan members were immediately startled and chased after the golden corpse. Chen Jiazhang cursed loudly, "You bastard, you actually abandoned us and ran away!"
Lianxin's expression turned cold. She looked in the direction Zard had left and thought to herself that all men are the same.
However, before she could make up her mind to kill Zard, she saw him come running back after going around in a big circle, holding a bouquet of flowers.
Zard handed it to Lianxin: "Here you go."
Lianxin was stunned: "You ran out just to pick a bouquet of flowers for me?"
"Yeah, yeah, they look great. You all look great," Zard said with a cheerful laugh.
Lianxin turned her face away and said coldly, "Sweet talk."
But as she spoke, she still took the flower: "Don't pick this kind of flower next time, its leaves are poisonous... Hey, how come you're okay?"
Zard chuckled and said, "I am an earth element awakener. I am not afraid of external injuries or poison, but I am afraid of fire."
Lianxin asked him, "Aren't you afraid I'll put you on the hot seat by telling me your weaknesses like this?"
Zard said, "You won't."
After saying that, he took Xiaoyu to play on the side.
It wasn't until now that the golden corpse of the Lian clan finally caught up after going around in a big circle, almost getting lost!
A member of the Lian clan whispered to Lian Xin, "He runs incredibly fast; even the Golden Corpse couldn't catch him. He's a master. But why did he come back?"
This incident served as a reminder to Lianxin: if Zard is so fierce, it means that if Zard is truly determined to run away, he can definitely do so.
The other party wasn't chased back; they genuinely wanted to come back.
Lianxin said, "It's okay, he's just an idiot, he's just running around for fun, don't worry about him."
"Hey, Chieftain, why are you holding the Bone-Eating Flower? Your hands have turned purple!" a tribesman exclaimed.
But Lianxin calmly took out herbs from her small handbag and applied them to the spot where she had been stung by the leaves, without any intention of throwing the flowers away: "Keep going."
At this moment, Zard leaned closer again: "By the way, after consuming the Crimson Heart Gu, does that mean I'm already a member of the Lian Clan?"
Lianxin hesitated for a moment, holding the Corrosive Flower: "Fine."
“Then should I change my surname too?” Zard said. “If my surname is Lian, how about Lian Ou, or Lian Hua Qing Wen Capsules?”
Lianxin: "...You'd better not change it."
“Okay, whatever you say,” Zard chuckled. “How much longer until we get to your village?”
Lianxin calmly replied, "It will take another three days."
Zard thought for a moment and said, "I'll be going back to the surface world in a few hours. I'll bring you some good food next time I come. Is there anything your village needs? I'll bring it to you too."
Lianxin asked in confusion, "What delicious food?"
"There's a lot: twisted dough sticks, honey-glazed fried dough twists, braised pork hock, spicy rabbit heads, tiger-skin chicken feet... quite a lot. Can you handle spicy food? If so, I'll bring a batch of hot pot base!"
Chapter 774, You Must Have What Others Have
“We Lian people especially love spicy food, but what are those honey-glazed three-cut snacks and hot pot base you’re talking about?” Lian Xin asked hesitantly.
"Anyway, it's all delicious," Zard chuckled. "Every time I come to the Otherworld, I'll bring you snacks from there. I can hold a lot in my body."
Lianxin was about to agree, but then changed her mind: "I don't like eating snacks, but if you want to bring them, then bring them. Nobody can stop you."
At this moment.
"I'm thirsty, give me some water!" Chen Jiazhang shouted. "Xiao Bao, tell the Golden Corpse to let me go! Anyway, I'm an old man, I can't run away even if I wanted to!"
"Don't call me Xiaobao!" Lianxin stopped in the group and looked at Chen Jiazhang thoughtfully: "You really don't have the same style as before. Since you ran away, since you said you were going to pursue your dreams, why did you ruin yourself like this? Since you chose to abandon my mother, you should have a better life. Otherwise, all the sacrifices my mother made will have been in vain."
When the matter was brought up, Chen Jiazhang remained silent.
He could also sense that Lianxin's tone contained not only resentment at being abandoned, but also a trace of concern for him.
They are father and daughter after all, so how could they completely sever their feelings for each other?
He understood Lianxin's resentment, but didn't know how to respond.
Zard chimed in, "He was betrayed by his best friend, ending his knightly journey. He then spent his days drinking heavily and became depressed. But a few days ago, my boss helped him pull himself together, and his spirits are slowly returning."
Lianxin was stunned for a moment: "Who did this?"
“Chen Chuanzhi, the previous demigod of the Chen family,” Zard laughed, “but he’s dead. He was severely injured by my boss’s master and died after a few years of prolonging his life. Just a few days ago, my boss was leading us to fight the demigod Chen Yu.”
"You have a boss?" Lianxin asked疑惑地, "Who is your boss?"
Zard thought for a moment: "The next leader of the Knights, the independent director and future Grand Tutor of the Li Group, the destroyer of Base A02, the dean of Whale Island War Academy, the Lord of Daylight, the Lord of the Parents' Association, the Lord of the Freemasons, the Lord of the Shadow Forces, the Lord of the Secret Service, the Joker who instills fear in Western powers..."
Lianxin was taken aback: "Why do you have so many bosses? Are they all ganging up on Chen Yu? Isn't that a bit unfair?"
Chen Jiazhang said irritably, "That's the same person... His boss is called Qing Chen. You've all left Xiuzhuzhou, so you should have heard of him."
Lianxin: "..."
Lianxin had indeed heard of the name Qingchen from Yangyang.
Yangyang is in charge of the wilderness settlement. Qingling and Li Cheng's intelligence agents and the Freemasons also obey her. The Lian tribe cannot deal with the settlement without Yangyang.
Nowadays, Lianxin and Yangyang are good friends, and the name Qingchen appears frequently.
But it wasn't just Yangyang who mentioned it; it seemed like everyone would discuss it occasionally.
Lianxin looked at Zard, hesitated for two seconds, and said, "If you become the clan leader of the Lian clan, you won't have to be a subordinate to anyone else."
“That won’t do,” Zard said with a smile. “His business is huge, and I have to help him.”
Lianxin's voice gradually turned cold: "You've eaten the Crimson Heart Gu, you can't leave."
The Lian people began to set up camp. They sprinkled white dry powder near the campfire. It was powder made from ground garlic, used to keep snakes, insects, and rodents away.
After everything was finished, the Lian people took out wooden boxes from their bosoms. They cut their fingertips and fed their Red Heart Gu with their blood.
The Crimson Heart Gu, which had been motionless, finally came to life after smelling its master's blood.
Lianxin sat by the campfire, staring blankly. Just yesterday, she and her tribesmen had been feeding the Crimson Heart Gu with their own blood and sweat, but today, the Crimson Heart Gu was gone...
Thinking of this, she rolled her eyes at Zard.
Seeing her expression, Zard assumed that Lianxin was envious of the other clansmen who all had the Crimson Heart Gu, while she was the only one without it.
Thinking of this, Zard suddenly reached into his heart and pulled out a small ladybug, the Crimson Heart Gu.
He smiled憨厚ly and said, "What others have, you should have too."
Lianxin was stunned.
What the hell? Everyone else has it, so I have it too! This is the Crimson Heart Gu! How could you just pull it out like that?! And it's completely intact!
Everyone was stunned. The Lian tribe members' expressions changed drastically. The act of taking out a heart was already incomprehensible to them, but what they found even more incomprehensible was that the Crimson Heart Gu was still intact.
Lianxin's expression changed: "What's going on? How come it's still here?"
Zard scratched his head and said, "It's so cute that I can't bear to chew it. My body has been in an elemental state recently, and it kept wriggling around inside me but couldn't find a way out, so it finally stopped in my chest and started to sleep."
Everyone gaped, completely unprepared for this unexpected turn of events.
Chen Jiazhang was also inexplicably shocked: So, it's useless for an elemental body to swallow the Crimson Heart Gu?
What caused Lianxin's change in attitude towards Zard?