Gu Jingyi and his group soon arrived at the place where they had found Zhao Chen yesterday. By this time, the sky was already bright. They followed the tracks on the hillside downwards and found where Ji Xingmi and the others had stopped. There were still some bloodstains, scattered medicinal powder, and two blood-stained bullets.
"It seems Xing'er treated her wounds here! This is Xing'er's hemostatic powder!"
"I wonder who was injured?"
Gu Jingyi looked around. There were basically no other traces in this area.
"Logically speaking, if one person was injured, and two people walked through, they would leave some traces. How could there be no trace at all!" Gu Jingyi also noticed this problem. Who could it be that was injured, and was able to conceal their tracks after being wounded?
"Captain, there are bloodstains on the leaves over here." A voice came from not far away.
Everyone looked in that direction. Uncle Gu said, "Could this be used to mislead the enemy?"
Gu Jingyi thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be. Let's go and take a look first!"
They walked in that direction. There were dense bushes everywhere, making it truly difficult to find any tracks. Just as they were wondering whether to retreat and search for clues again or continue forward, a gunshot sounded in the distance.
"This way!" Someone quickly made a judgment! A few steps after they walked in that direction, they heard another shot.
"It's this way. Xing'er took the gun with the mushroom when she left," Gu Jingyi said happily.
At this moment, everyone gained confidence and began to move in that direction. "Boss, it looks like someone fell down here!" They must have found the place where Ji Xingmi had slid down. They went down from here and then climbed up, and soon they saw the cave where Ji Xingmi and the others were.
Ji Xingmi also saw the movement below from the tree, but she couldn't be sure if the people arriving were their own or Zhao Rui, so she didn't dare to speak and tried her best to hide herself with branches. Soon, Gu Jingyi and the others climbed to a place relatively close to the cave entrance. At this point, Ji Xingmi saw who it was. Just as she was about to greet them, she almost fell from the tree in her excitement. She had to quickly grab the trunk to steady herself.
"Phew~ I almost fell!"
"Who's up there?" Gu Zhongli asked, shielding Gu Jingyi behind him.
"Gu Jingyi, save me! I can't get down!" Ji Xingmi saw Gu Jingyi and let go of the leaves blocking her, shouting down at them.
"Xing'er~" Gu Jingyi saw the person in the tree and finally relaxed his perpetually furrowed brow, then walked towards her.
"I can't get down, what do we do now?" Ji Xingmi said, looking at the person below the tree. Uncle Gu was still chuckling nearby. Not only was he chuckling, but he had also sent everyone else away. Ji Xingmi saw it all clearly from above.
"Uncle Gu, there's still someone in the cave, be careful. He's injured. Also, don't remove the needles from him. He's a bit strange, and it's not good if he's awake."
Gu Jingyi glanced towards the cave, then quickly refocused and said to Ji Xingmi in the tree, "Why don't you jump down, and I'll catch you!"
"Huh? Are you sure you can catch me if I jump down?" Ji Xingmi looked at the height of the tree and hesitated a little.
"I'm sure, come down!" Gu Jingyi stretched out his hands, ready to catch her. Ji Xingmi thought there was no other way to get down, so she closed her eyes and leaped towards him. Gu Jingyi kept his word and caught her perfectly.
"You scared me to death! By the way, where is Zhao Chen? Did you encounter him?" Ji Xingmi said in Gu Jingyi's arms.
"Heh heh! Alright! I've caught you! It's okay now! Are you injured? You must have been scared these past few days!"
"It's alright, it's alright! The process was a bit bumpy. I'll tell you, I never expected that Zhao Chen was actually a split personality. Zhao Sheng created him as a personality to satisfy his family's needs. The key is that he also has a rather violent personality called Zhao Rui, who almost scared me to death. By the way, you still haven't told me how he is?" Ji Xingmi said, then remembered this matter and asked again.
"He was bitten by a snake. When we arrived, he was already..." Gu Jingyi didn't finish his sentence, but Ji Xingmi understood what happened next. He was bitten by a snake, and she remembered she had also shot him.
"I think I also shot him... he..."
Gu Jingyi hugged her and comforted her, "It was a venomous snake that bit him. It has nothing to do with you. Even if you hadn't shot him then, he would still have died. It's okay, it's all okay now!"
Ji Xingmi hugged him back. In fact, the venomous snake was also somewhat her doing, so strictly speaking, it was all her fault that he died. Given her passive skills, if they hadn't found him earlier, Zhao Chen probably wouldn't have even left a corpse. However, since he felt the need for comfort, she didn't need to be too clear about things.
"Alright, you two! We're preparing to leave!" Uncle Gu had already brought people out carrying Feng Changze.
Gu Jingyi's expression remained unchanged when he saw the person, as he had previously expected him to appear here, but his eyes still flickered involuntarily.
"Can you walk? Do you want me to carry you?"