Care Guide to Raising a Max Level Leaf in Apocalypse - 69
A little kiss
Jiang Yi couldn’t help but look up; it had been a full two hours.
Nothing was happening.
If the other party didn’t come looking for the boss as imagined but instead escaped directly, they might have already left the underground to the “Wasteland.”
Capturing Ji Jiu was not an easy task. The Awakener rumored to be prophesied as the strongest among humans watched him closely. If it weren’t for the internal turmoil in that base, they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to seize him.
If he managed to escape back, it was nearly impossible to capture him again. There was another possibility: he might accidentally die outside.
Jiang Yi began to feel uneasy; he wanted to speak up but was afraid of angering Weixian.
Fortunately, he didn’t have to struggle with it for too long. After another ten minutes, Weixian finally darkened his expression. He angrily crushed a skull at hand and stood up to walk out. After taking two steps, he stopped, glanced back coldly, and said, “Are you coming to find the person or not?”
Jiang Yi, unjustly bearing the brunt of his anger, reluctantly followed, saying, “Yes.”
So much time had passed; the person should have already escaped. Jiang Yi wondered why Weixian attached such importance to that person.
As he thought about this, he lazily lifted his foot.
Unexpectedly, just after turning a corner, a slap in the face came so quickly.
In his imagination, the person should have escaped by now and turned into a mutant’s feast. However, not only did that person not leave, but he also appeared brazenly less than ten meters away from them, standing there, staring at a giant mutated bee nest above, seemingly lost in thought.
Even when he saw them, he calmly turned his head back, looking as if he was casually strolling through his own backyard, showing no signs of being kidnapped by the infamous Blood Sect.
Weixian’s originally gloomy expression vanished when he saw the person, and he walked up joyfully. “What are you looking at?”
His attitude was very familiar, as if it wasn’t their second meeting.
Ji Jiu pointed at the bee nest without treating himself as an outsider.
Weixian raised his head to look, and with an elegant demeanor, began to explain, “These are Poison Needle Bees. Anyone stung by them will die within half an hour, and they are highly aggressive. However, the honey they produce has high nutritional value.”
Tedious explanations. If he were with his owner, the honey would already be in his stomach.
Ji Jiu, with a very disdainful look, released a wisp of black mist, intending to help himself.
Seeing this, Jiang Yi couldn’t help but ask, “What are you planning to do?”
Weixian raised his hand to stop him from approaching, his expression showing indulgence. “Just eating a bit, harmless.”
Mutants were everywhere in the Sect; missing one bee nest wouldn’t make a difference.
Between their conversation, Ji Jiu had already devoured those Poison Needle Bees with the black mist, leaving only a lonely bee nest falling from the sky.
The basketball-sized bee nest – Ji Jiu didn’t hesitate to take a bite.
Sticky honey flowed onto his hands, carrying the luster of golden richness.
Weixian watched him eat the entire time, a hint of indulgence overflowing from his smoky gray pupils. His voice became slightly husky, “Look at you, your hands are dirty.”
He pulled a handkerchief from the pocket above his suit, lifting Ji Jiu’s hand with extreme seriousness, as if dealing with a precious treasure, wiping it clean.
Ji Jiu ruthlessly withdrew his hand, and the black mist enveloped his ten slender fingers, devouring the remaining honey completely.
Weixian neatly folded the handkerchief and placed it back in his pocket, showing no irritation at Ji Jiu’s obvious gesture of disdain.
Watching this, Jiang Yi couldn’t help but gasp in amazement. He hadn’t expected the boss, who was capricious and quick to kill, to have such a side. Could this Ji Jiu be his beloved lover?
He recalled seeing Si Yin Yuan and him together when he infiltrated the base, suddenly feeling like he had discovered a major secret.
No wonder the boss asked him to discreetly capture people. It turned out that he loved someone he couldn’t have, as he had already found a new love.
Weixian was still unaware of what his subordinates had imagined. He was attentively watching the black mist released by Ji Jiu. The hand that naturally hung by his side began to uncontrollably tremble once again.
Such a charming treasure should be cherished.
Weixian’s desires in his eyes accelerated, but in the next second, he was forced to stop. The heavy leather boots made a thudding sound as they continuously approached from another corner, sounding very urgent.
The newcomer was a bold-looking Caucasian woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, tall and slender. Upon seeing Weixian, she screamed loudly, “Boss! Something’s wrong!”
Her somewhat coarse Chinese, with a hint of irritation, immediately wrinkled Jiang Yi’s brows. “What are you yelling about?”
As the woman approached, Ji Jiu only then noticed that she didn’t have hands. Instead, two snake-like arms entwined around her waist and neck, continually spitting out snake tongues.
Ignoring Ji Jiu and Jiang Yi as if they were air, she addressed Weixian, “All the mutants are gone!”
Weixian’s eyebrows darkened, “How is that possible?”
Ji Jiu, who had devoured all the nearby mutants within two hours, burped quietly.
All eyes shifted to him.
The moment ago, Weixian, who casually said, “Treasure,”…
Under the complex gaze of everyone, Ji Jiu, feeling not the slightest guilt, raised his chin, “I want to go back.”
Jiang Yi was furious, “Do you know what you’ve done!?”
Weixian took a deep breath and glanced at Jiang Yi, “Who told you to scold him?”
Jiang Yi instantly deflated like a balloon, silent and speechless.
The blonde woman frowned as she looked at Ji Jiu, finally realizing that this unfamiliar face seemed quite special to the boss. Envy flickered in her eyes.
Why should this person, who looked like he hadn’t even grown proper hair, receive the favor of Weixian?
She really wanted to devour him.
The twin snakes hissed unfriendly sounds towards Ji Jiu, as if contemplating the best place to strike.
Ji Jiu paid no attention to these three scheming individuals. He repeated, “I want to go back.”
Weixian nodded politely, “Of course, anything you desire, I can fulfill. Jiang Yi, escort him back to his room.”
He deliberately misconstrued Ji Jiu’s intention to return to the base.
Apologizing sincerely, Weixian bowed, “I’m very sorry I can’t escort you personally. There’s something I need to attend to now, I have to go pick someone up.”
After waiting for Ji Jiu to inquire for a while, Weixian awkwardly added, “It’s someone you know. I thought of bringing him here to accompany you.”
His tone made Ji Jiu extremely uncomfortable. This person had been overly attentive from the moment they met, treating him like something important yet handling him like a pet.
Once assured this person wouldn’t easily let him go, Ji Jiu turned and left, uninterested.
While he could easily kill these people and escape, he would never find out what the damned “Aster flower” was if he did so.
His intuition told him that thing had an intricate connection with the Blood Sect.
Assigned to escort, Jiang Yi hurriedly caught up.
Though he didn’t understand Weixian’s intentions, he dutifully escorted Ji Jiu back to the original underground prison and opened the door, saying, “Get in.”
Ji Jiu pondered, “Do you have blood?”
“Blood? What blood?” Jiang Yi’s heart sank with a bad premonition. Just as he thought of escaping, Ji Jiu’s black mist enveloped him from behind.
The thick black fog instantly transformed into a sharp blade of Qi, cutting his exposed skin, causing blood to flow.
Jiang Yi’s eyes turned cold. He covered the wound and stepped back. Without waiting for him to speak, Ji Jiu lightly wiped his face with the finger stained with Jiang Yi’s blood.
The face began to change, and the features started transforming.
To break free from the old disguise technique, one had to apply fresh blood to their face.
Ji Jiu was more accustomed to his original face. The fresh blood left a crimson mark, enhancing the elegance of his features. Jiang Yi’s eyes showed amazement. As a hidden connoisseur of appearances, accustomed to the peculiar looks of his teammates in the main camp, Ji Jiu’s sudden beauty was refreshing.
The anger from being injured with borrowed blood was suppressed at this moment. Against his usual behavior, Jiang Yi fell silent. Threatening words were hard to articulate in front of such an innocent beauty. In the end, he could only leave after locking the door, leaving a bland warning.
He feared staying longer would make him change his opinion of Ji Jiu.
Beauty can be deceiving!
Ji Jiu didn’t care about the strange thoughts in the human’s mind. He noticed the original iron-barred door had been replaced with a heavy, impenetrable pure iron door.
But such a door couldn’t contain him.
Weixian could even sense his true self; there couldn’t be such a flaw.
With a bit of thought, Ji Jiu understood what he was paying attention to. Although he couldn’t read the maps he glanced at, he memorized them in his mind. There was no exit in them.
The internal structure of this Blood Sect facility was a massive closed loop.
For those inside to get out, they must use other methods. And from the outside…
While pondering, the ground suddenly shook violently.
Ji Jiu paused, turning around. A bright light erupted in his eyes.
It was the aura of the owner! The owner had come to pick him up!
Ignoring the deafening alarms, Ji Jiu used his black mist to swallow the entire iron door and ran out, following the aura to find his feeder.
The group of prisoners in the cage, barely clinging to life, raised their heads. In their eyes, a subtle change occurred, breaking the dullness of despair.
This is an alert indicating an invasion by external enemies. The Blood Sect has never experienced such a major disturbance, perhaps suggesting that they might be saved. Finally, someone has come to deal with these demons.
Jiang Yi never expected that the person he had locked up barely ten minutes ago would effortlessly escape.
Even if he knew, there was nothing he could do. He was currently busy shouting at everyone, “You bunch of useless fools! Boss just went out to meet someone, and you can’t even guard the house!?”
The woman released the double pythons replacing her arms. The terrifying and grim snake heads hissed. Indifferently, she said, “Shut up. Quickly draw the formation and change positions. I’ll go meet those invaders and catch a few to whet my little darlings’ appetites.”
The snake mouths opened in response.
Si Yin Yuan’s forced explosion made the blood vessels on the corridor twist in pain. Some vessels were damaged, causing a large amount of red liquid to flow, making the passage sticky. He walked through this crimson path with an expressionless face, resembling Satan emerging from hell.
A blade tip formed by golden light descended to the ground, igniting a thick golden flame wherever it passed.
He walked through a brilliant starlight path amid the golden light.
This was the scene witnessed by Ji Jiu.
“Owner! Uh…!”
He had just opened his mouth to shout a word when the man, carrying a cold aura, immediately surrounded him in an embrace. The strength was so great that it seemed he wanted to embed him into his flesh and never part.
The ferocity in Si Yin Yuan’s eyes turned into an extremely intense emotion the moment he saw Ji Jiu safe and sound. This usually steady person showed a rare loss of control.
At the moment Ji Jiu was lost, Si Yin Yuan almost went crazy but had to maintain his composure. He couldn’t imagine what innocent and vulnerable young man would endure if he were delayed for even a second. Now, in this moment of recovery, he finally understood the long-restrained emotion in his heart.
“Sorry, sorry…” Muttering softly, his voice rang out.
Ji Jiu raised his head and patted him. “I’m fine.”
The captured person turned to comfort the rescuer. He obediently let himself be held tightly, causing pain. Si Yin Yuan watched the smiling young man in his arms, and the tumultuous heartbeat that had been clamoring inside him escalated again. The inner voice that had been persistently urging him grew louder. Unable to control himself any longer, he lowered his head and offered his lips and tongue.
Initially, it was just a reassurance for regaining the precious treasure. Later, the simple touch of lips against lips was no longer enough. Si Yin Yuan’s actions became urgent, invading the territory. His red eyes fixed intensely on Ji Jiu.
It was like an evil dragon hovering over its recovered treasure, unwilling to leave. The blazing golden flames around them quickly subsided in an instant.
Ji Jiu had never experienced anything like this before and was frightened. His hands, powerless, grasped the owner’s clothes, wrinkling them. Unable to escape, he could only endure and be forced to bear it. Tears welled up at the corners of his eyes.
Vaguely, he thought, it turns out that the owner not only smells like strong liquor…