I Received Messages From Future Self!
Chapter 397 - Chapter 397 Chapter 393 Escape at the Limit

Chapter 397: Chapter 393: Escape at the Limit Chapter 397: Chapter 393: Escape at the Limit Facing the sharp knife Wen Shi was stabbing, Fang Xiaocao suddenly calmed down.

The blade was very cold, less than three meters from Fang Xiaocao’s brow, causing an instinctive stress response in her body, with hairs standing on end and goosebumps all over.

But at this moment, Fang Xiaocao was the calmest, she stopped struggling and even took the opportunity to observe the abnormality in Wen Shi.

Wen Shi’s state was clearly very wrong.

His eyes were wide open, but his pupils were not focused.

They looked hollow and lifeless.

Even more terrifying than the eyes of a dead person.

His limbs were extremely uncoordinated, the action of wielding the knife was somewhat jerky, stiff like a marionette.

“Hehe…”

“I understand now!”

With a cold laugh, Fang Xiaocao lifted her leg and, using her buttocks as the pivot, fiercely swept towards Wen Shi when the sharp knife was less than two meters away.

Already uncoordinated and stiff, Wen Shi was taken by surprise by Fang Xiaocao’s modified Sweeping Leg Technique, instantly losing balance, stumbling to a fall to the ground, and his sharp knife flew out of his hand due to inertia.

Fang Xiaocao took this opportunity to pull herself out of the sleeping bag, swiftly turned over, jumping up, she overturned Wen Shi, who was trying to get up, and pinned him to the ground, straddling his abdomen.

Wen Shi kicked his legs and reached out with his hands, grabbing at the air, desperately struggling.

Fang Xiaocao pulled out the Blood Jade Ring from her pocket, controlled Wen Shi with one hand, and pressed the Blood Jade Ring against Wen Shi’s forehead.

“Wake up!”

Fang Xiaocao called out in a low voice.

The Blood Jade Ring emitted a barely perceptible red glow.

The originally struggling Wen Shi instantly stopped, his stiff limbs instantly went limp.

Wen Shi’s pupils started to focus, shifting from the dead-eyed stare of a zombie back to the confused look when he was hypnotized by Fang Xiaocao.

The recovered Wen Shi, pinned under Fang Xiaocao, seemed somewhat panicked, looking at Fang Xiaocao with fear like a little girl, her big eyes quickly filling with tears.

“Phew…”

Seeing this, Fang Xiaocao let out a breath of relief and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

“That was so close…”

Fang Xiaocao muttered with lingering fear.

If it weren’t for Taotie going mad and making noise, waking her up just in time to see Wen Shi’s strange behavior, today she might have been out of luck.

Reflecting on what just happened, Wen Shi’s state was obviously unusual, looking like sleepwalking but also as if controlled mentally by someone.

But the mental seed she had left in Wen Shi’s mind showed no sign of abnormal reaction, it was as eerie as if someone was possessed, leaving Fang Xiaocao completely puzzled.

After staring at Wen Shi for a while, making sure he had returned to normal, Fang Xiaocao finally let go of him and stood up.

Fang Xiaocao pulled her backpack over and sifted through it to find a bundle of climbing rope, without a word, dragged Wen Shi up from the ground, and tightly bound him before stuffing him in the sleeping bag.

“This method is really bizarre, one can hardly guard against it. I have to see who you really are.”

Fang Xiaocao muttered to herself.

After the recent scare, sleep had fled from Fang Xiaocao, and she felt much more alert.

“Right?”

“What was Taotie yelling about just now?”

Having dealt with Wen Shi, Fang Xiaocao suddenly remembered her life-saving alarm clock, Taotie.

“Wait?”

“Is there fighting outside the tent?”

Only after tearing her attention away from the startling recollection did Fang Xiaocao belatedly perceive the faint sounds of a skirmish outside her tent.

And it seemed to be quite an intense fight.

Associating it with Wen Shi’s odd behavior just before, Fang Xiaocao suddenly realized, wide awake, that her camp had been attacked. That damned enemy had not only controlled Wen Shi to try to kill her in her sleep but had also sent assailants to attack the camp.

At that thought, Fang Xiaocao felt both anger and amusement. Shaking her head with a smirk, she revealed a mocking smile, “Success and failure both hinge on Xiang Yu, the ancients indeed did not deceive me.”

“If that person hidden in the dark hadn’t been so clever, trying to attack from both ends simultaneously to swallow the whole camp whole, and hadn’t alerted Taotie with his loud voice, Wen Shi would have succeeded.”

Thinking this, Fang Xiaocao couldn’t wait to see what sort of a mess the enemy outside was, and if that person knew that his cleverness and greed had instead saved her life, what a spectacular expression he would wear.

Fang Xiaocao put on her gear properly, pulled the tent’s zipper, and bent down to crawl out, “Let me take a look at what troublemaker has disturbed my beau-…”

Before she could finish the word “dream,” Fang Xiaocao saw a three-legged scorpion boastfully waving its twin pincers and a tail with a hooked stinger, tangled in a fight with Taotie, Unhappy, and Brainless.

Caught off guard, her word “dream” turned into a scream, “Oh my, what is that thing?”

Taotie, being chased by the Giant Scorpion, rolled away like a lazy donkey to avoid the scorpion’s tail and shouted to Fang Xiaocao, “Princess Your Highness, don’t come over, this scorpion loves to eat people!”

Before he could finish his sentence, the scorpion’s tail struck again, and Taotie skillfully rolled once more to dodge the tail’s hooked attack.

Taotie rolled along the ground, while the Giant Scorpion’s tail stabbed at him, his smooth tumbling technique looked heartbreakingly proficient.

“You big blockhead, the scorpion has a hard shell all over, but its belly is soft. Roll under it and stab its underbelly with your dagger.”

A bystander can see the situation more clearly; Fang Xiaocao quickly analyzed the current situation and figured out how to beat the Giant Scorpion, calling out instructions to Taotie.

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s advice, Taotie’s eyes lit up, “Ah, I really have a pig brain.”

Berating himself, Taotie rolled again to avoid the scorpion’s tail and quickly aimed for the scorpion’s belly as he rolled under it.

“Brainless, Unhappy, work with Taotie to draw the scorpion’s attention.”

Fang Xiaocao shouted commands to Brainless and Unhappy, instructing them to assist Taotie in hunting down this formidable desert Giant Scorpion.

Mostly acting on hunting instincts and without any strategy during the fight, Brainless and Unhappy were not accustomed to working with Taotie. But with Fang Xiaocao’s direction, the two of them suddenly seemed to have their governor and conception vessels unblocked, displaying impressive strength.

Brainless and Unhappy diverted the Giant Scorpion from the left and right sides, distracting the simple-minded creature so that it quickly abandoned chasing Taotie and instinctively swung its pincers and tails towards the two of them.

Yet Brainless and Unhappy were faster than Taotie and even more agile.

The pair worked in tandem, toying with the Giant Scorpion as one might tease a dog, managing to evade every single strike from the frustrated creature without it touching a hair on them.

Taotie, finding a chance to breathe, smoothly rolled under the belly of the scorpion.

Lying underneath the Giant Scorpion, Taotie breathed a sigh of relief, “Heh heh, Old Nose, let me perform a caesarean section on you…”