Imperial Treasure
Chapter 130 - 102 A Piece of Meat on the Bone

Chapter 130: Chapter 102 A Piece of Meat on the Bone

As the night deepened, the only light left in the world was the scattering of stars across the sky. The place was so eerily unsettling, filled with dangers that were impossible to predict. After running for over ten minutes, Sui Yi, just about to leave the dense forest behind, turned back.

Half an hour later, she found a spot beneath a cliff next to the forest. In front of the cliff flowed a small stream, a branch of an oasis, shimmering in the light. She sat down leaning against the rock wall and spat out a mouthful of blood.

She knew that the Clan Leader had shown her mercy once, probably because she had held back twice before. If that was the case, when he returned, he would at least not treat Gong Jiu and the others too harshly. But letting him mock the sacrificial ritual was absolutely impossible.

"If that man came at me with a bow and arrow, I’d stand no chance against him... At least he’s straightforward by nature and doesn’t fuss over these things, which is the only upside," she murmured.

Sui Yi glanced around and then took off her clothes. In the hazy night, aided by the light reflecting off the water, she examined the ghastly knife wound on her arm.

The flesh had burst open, and blood soaked her clothes...

"What a nuisance, this blood smells too strong and will attract a lot of danger..." Sui Yi washed her clothes in the stream to remove most of the bloodstains, then carefully used a cleaner part on the inside to wipe the blood from her arm...

After wiping off the blood and washing her clothes several times, wringing them out wet, she naturally couldn’t wear them on her body, so she used Magnetic Sensation to stop the bleeding and heal her wounds.

In the night, there sat a young woman, half-naked and only in her underwear, beneath the cliff. Nearby, a tree branch was stuck in the ground with her clothes fluttering in the breeze...

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The next day, early in the morning, Sui Yi opened her eyes to blinding light, although she was sure it was only the early hours before dawn. Still, the temperature was high, as if it were midday, similar to conditions in the desert.

She checked her clothes, which were dry.

Having put on her clothes, the wound on Sui Yi’s arm had completely healed, leaving only a scar.

She didn’t care whether the scar would remain or not as she got up and took the only item she had on her—the Xiezhi Dagger...

She remembered that the old man mentioned that the sacrificial day was today!

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Even earlier, before the temperature had risen that morning, just as the first light appeared in the sky, Gong Jiu and her group woke up.

To be precise, Gong Jiu was the first to wake up.

To be even more precise, she was woken up by hunger.

"I’m so hungry..." Looking at the tribe members passing by enjoying their delicious meat soup for breakfast, her stomach nearly protested.

"Hey, hey, hey, I say, if you’re really going to starve us to death—apart from feeding us a bowl of drugged soup last night, you haven’t given us any food... if it continues like this, just give us another bowl of that drugged soup and let me sleep through this!"

Her shouting woke the others.

The young Clan Leader happened to come out of a hut and heard her. He glanced at her with a cold gaze, "As you wish, one bowl for each person, how about that?"

Upon hearing this, the others almost wished they could faint again.

Gong Jiu was embarrassed, damn it, this bastard was really impervious! Torturing prisoners like this would be condemned by the international community!

Suddenly, the young man came over again, walking up to Gong Jiu with an intense gaze...

Gong Jiu tensed inside.

Could it be that he’s taken a fancy to me? I am somewhat more decent than Flower Demon, so it’s not impossible for this man to forcefully take what he wants.

Should I resist?

"What’s the name of the woman from last night?"

"Which one?" Gong Jiu hadn’t caught on yet.

"The one a bit prettier than you."

"...Definitely no one here fits that description!" Gong Jiu asserted with conviction, though her gaze flicked to the now empty post nearby.

A surge of joy filled her heart—aha, Sui Yi had escaped!

Yet upon hearing Gong Jiu, the young man furrowed his brows and his eyes darkened, only to hear...

"My name is Hua Meimei. May I know what the Clan Leader wants from me?" Flower Demon interjected, and Gong Jiu rolled her eyes.

Hua Meimei, shameless!

The young man didn’t spare Flower Demon a glance, still fixating on Gong Jiu. After a long, cool pause, he said, "If you tell me her name, I might consider giving you a bone with some meat on it..."

Damn it! Am I a dog?

And just a bone with meat!

Cursing inwardly countless times, Gong Jiu coldly spat out, "In your dreams!"

The young man’s eyes narrowed and he turned away, "Then starve... Before the sacrifice begins, we can still cut some of your flesh and let some blood; you’ll wake up all the same..."

That’s barbaric!

"Why do you want her name... Anyway, she’s already escaped~~" Gong Jiu shouted.

"That’s none of your business..." the young man said indifferently, while directing his people to prepare for the ritual. Looking back at Gong Jiu and the others, he smiled with amusement, "If you won’t tell me, why bother asking?"

"What’s my relationship with her? We’re close sisters, sworn to sisterhood, willing to share the same underwear for life. You think you can buy me over like this? Just a bone with meat... ha ha ha!" Gong Jiu scoffed.

The young man frowned, "Two bones."

"Ten, and they better have a lot of meat on them," replied Gong Jiu coldly.

At those words, all the mercenaries rolled their eyes, Shen Di spat contemptuously, and Flower Demon smiled.

Very good, Gong Jiu, your character is indeed the same as it was when you were a child...

You can’t change a dog’s nature!

And in the end...

Once the young man learned the name was Sui Yi, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

In the end, Gong Jiu got only one bare bone, and the others... each got a bowl of meat soup.

The explanation was that the people of their tribe despised such spineless behavior!

Gong Jiu: "..."

Flower Demon’s chilly laugh echoed throughout the tribe, along with the deliberately loud gulp, gulp sounds...

It was certainly not elegant.

But that was precisely the intended effect!

Gong Jiu was truly spitting blood.

Sui Yi, oh Sui Yi, where are you...

At this moment, standing in the shadow of a large tree two hundred meters away, Sui Yi shook his head as he witnessed the scene and spat out a word.

--Damn!

Because he bore a grudge against this young man, Gong Jiu had been paying attention to his every move and had even heard the old clan leader calling out his name.

--Ah Guna

An hour later, the sacrificial ceremony seemed ready, but their group was pulled down one by one from the pillars, tied to thinner sticks, and then two tribesmen, carrying each end of the stick, proceeded to transport them like this, each person suspended in the air like a hanging pig, being carried away...

The sight was just like that time in Gao Laozhuang when Sun Wukong carried Zhu Bajie back...

Gong Jiu and his people had never experienced such humiliation in their lives.

Were they crying their eyes out or what!

Any one of them, if set loose, would be a ferocious and diabolical mercenary, damn!

Flower Demon fumed with rage, thinking that if she could escape, she would definitely procure an atomic bomb and blow this place up!

Meanwhile, after a group of people left the tribe in a single file, Sui Yi silently counted the opposing side’s combat power and numbers...

"Sixty-eight people... Relying on myself alone..."

Sui Yi frowned, watching the group head towards the direction outside the oasis, and beyond that was...

The Palace!

Thinking it over, Sui Yi leaped down from the tree and headed in the opposite direction!

Direction--Yellow Sand Area!

She needed to leave some information behind for the people following, in case Brother Ma had already rescued Feng Sha and the others, then by now, they should be coming out of the jungle!

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At this time, outside the dense, primitive jungle, a group of people emerged.

Sunlight fell on their hands and around their waists, firearms and ammunition all in ready supply...

Who were they?

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Without venturing too deep into the Yellow Sand Area, Sui Yi, after studying Brother Ma’s habits, carved words at the bottom left corner of a sand wall, but only on three sides.

One reason being that there wasn’t enough time, and another being that matters left to fate often defy the odds.

Pocketing the Xiezhi Dagger, Sui Yi gently held her forehead, gazing deeply into the distance...

"I hope my luck won’t be like Gong Jiu’s..."

However, just as she was about to leave, she paused.

What was this?

Her footsteps shifted, walking a few steps on the ground, changing her position several times to view these sand walls, then suddenly furrowing her brow.

"The arrangement of these sand walls are regular?"

Sui Yi immediately began to draw on the sand on the ground, tracing the positions of the sand walls she observed, stroke by stroke, more and more lines forming...

Finally...

Her gaze settled on one spot.

"This place seems to be the core that these sand walls are encircling..." As a sensitive person, Sui Yi immediately made a connection to a giant sand wall at the palace site.

Was this a coincidence?

After contemplating it, Sui Yi didn’t disturb the marks on the ground but allowed them to remain. If Feng Sha and the others could also see this, it would really mean that they were favored by the heavens.

And as for her, it was time to act as the vanguard and take a gamble!

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Gambling with one’s life was something she had done a long, long time ago.

And now, she had survived.

Now, to gamble once more.

Perhaps she could help more people survive.

Sui Yi gripped the Xiezhi Dagger, her form swift as a fox, darting towards her destination!

A quarter of an hour later, she stood beneath a much thicker wall of sand, silent for a moment, then resolutely took a step forward.

Her foot, effortlessly, stepped onto a patch of sand, and then...

Whoosh!

She sank into a mire, rapidly disappearing from sight.

Vanishing without a trace, while the sand slowly resurfaced where she had been, returning to its original state as if nothing had ever occurred.

And just at that moment...

The massive wall suddenly split open, a secret door flickered open, and a person stepped out.

A cold gaze directly fixed on the patch of sand...

After a moment, a strange and ominous voice uttered from his mouth, and then... within the oasis.

One after another, green figures made their way up from underneath the water...

Swish, swash.

Each one of them emerged from the water’s surface.

Heading towards the sand patch.

And in a far, faraway place.

Someone with binoculars witnessed this scene, eyes widening with shock. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes or monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)

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