Su Qingli’s face turned ashen. When she turned around, she saw that the man was still calmly playing the qin, and she couldn’t help admiring him.
“Big Brother, don’t you want to take a break? We’re about to die. Could you stop providing background music for us?”
The man ignored Su Qingli’s nonsense. His fingers plucked the strings, and the qin’s melody suddenly rose sharply.
In an instant, a series of piercing wolf howls suddenly rang out, one after another.
“Wolves! There are so many wolves!”
“Oh my God! Is the Mountain God angry?”
Su Qingli looked through the crack in the door and was shocked as well.
It wasn’t just wolves. There were also black bears, leopards, and all kinds of other wild beasts. A huge mass of animals charged down the mountain walkway toward the bandits.
Heavens!
What was going on?
“What are you panicking about? They’re just beasts!”
Zhao Ye shouted angrily and decisively ordered,
“Fire the arrows!”
The bandits quickly reacted and hurriedly took out their bows and arrows.
At first, they did manage to shoot and kill several wild animals.
But even more beasts had already crossed the walkway and pounced fiercely on the bandits.
For a moment, the bandits screamed repeatedly and scattered in terror.
“Mountain God, please spare me! Don’t eat me! I promise I’ll never do anything bad again! Ahhh—!”
Unfortunately, the wild animals couldn’t understand their pleas for mercy. They only knew to attack, bite, and fight according to their instincts.
In less than fifteen minutes, even the screams had mostly died down. The ground was covered with severed limbs and body parts.
A bloody gash had been ripped open across Zhao Ye’s abdomen, and blood was pouring out.
Seeing that everything was lost, his eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. He picked up a torch and viciously threw it at the corner of the wall that had been soaked with strong liquor.
“Damn Xia dogs! Go to hell!”
The wooden woodshed immediately caught fire.
With the liquor feeding the flames, the fire quickly soared into the sky.
Thick, poisonous smoke seeped through the cracks beneath the door and around the windows, making Su Qingli cough violently.
“Cough, cough, cough! Big Brother, please stop showing off your powers! We need to get out of here! Otherwise, even if we don’t burn to death, we’ll suffocate!”
Su Qingli heard no response.
When she turned around—
Oh my God!
At some point, the man had started bleeding from all seven orifices and had already passed out!
Su Qingli hurried over and slapped his face repeatedly.
“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t die yet! If you die, those wild animals outside might lose control and tear me apart alive!”
There was no response.
She immediately checked his pulse and instantly sucked in a sharp breath.
He had originally been barely alive.
Now, he was barely breathing as though he were already dead.
This is bad! This is really bad!
She needed medicine.
She needed emergency medical equipment.
She needed—
Buzz—
It suddenly felt as though ten thousand bees were flapping their wings inside her head at the same time.
Su Qingli’s vision went black, then brightened again.
When she opened her eyes once more, she was standing in a sea of white light.
Fluorescent lights.
Stainless-steel operating tables.
Reagent racks.
Microscopes…
This was—
Her laboratory?
Had she transmigrated back?
Or had everything in ancient times simply been a dream?
Su Qingli hurriedly opened the laboratory door.
Outside, everything was an endless expanse of white.
It seemed that her laboratory was an independent parallel space that existed on its own.
Her body should still be in the ancient world. Only her consciousness had entered this space.
Could this be the golden finger that came with her transmigration?
Su Qingli’s eyes lit up.
She tried taking several pills and a syringe of adrenaline in her hand and silently thought,
Exit.
With a flash, her consciousness returned to her ancient body.
The medicine and syringe were still in her hand.
It worked!
The things in the laboratory really could be brought out!
Su Qingli’s face lit up with joy.
She stuffed the antibiotics into the man’s mouth and then injected him with a shot.
Smoke filled the woodshed, and the structure could collapse at any moment.
She didn’t dare waste any time.
She moved the firewood blocking the doorway aside to create a path.
Then, relying on her immense strength, she kicked the burning wooden door away with one foot.
Outside, the wild animals had already left.
Other than the bodies scattered across the ground, there was nothing else.
Su Qingli took several deep breaths of fresh air.
Then she turned around, hooked her arms underneath the man’s armpits, and dragged him out into the open space.
“Brother, you saved me once, and I saved you once. We’re even now.”
After muttering that, Su Qingli’s body suddenly went limp, and she collapsed onto the ground.
Just before she passed out, she vaguely saw a huge, furry head move closer and sniff her breath.
Wow, what a huge floofy kitty…
That was the last thought that crossed her mind before everything went black, and she completely passed out.
The large feline creature that had been called a “floofy kitty” tilted its head.
“?”
…
When Su Qingli woke up again, it was already light outside.
The sky was gray and hazy, and dawn had just passed.
Su Qingli propped herself up with her arms and sat up, her head buzzing.
The area around her was a complete mess.
Bodies—both human and animal—were scattered everywhere.
The masked man was gone.
There was a trail where something had been dragged across the ground, leading toward the mountain walkway.
He had probably been rescued.
Su Qingli didn’t think much about it. She stood up and dusted herself off.
Between going home and investigating clues, she chose to collect supplies first.
Knives.
Swords.
Bows.
Arrows.
In ancient times, these were all valuable things.
But there were too many of them, and it wouldn’t be easy for her to carry everything alone.
She crouched down and reached for a knife.
She silently thought,
Store.
The knife disappeared.
Su Qingli’s eyes immediately lit up.
Her space really could store supplies!
In an instant, she no longer felt disgusted by the corpses.
She was incredibly strong, so searching the bodies wasn’t difficult.
She searched them one by one, not even overlooking the copper coins hidden under their boots or inside the folds of their belts.
One bandit had a jade pendant tucked inside his clothes. The quality was decent and it could be sold for money.
Store.
Another bandit had a copper ring on his finger. It wasn’t worth much, but after thinking about it, she pulled it off anyway.
Store.
There were also several knives, two swords, and a crossbow on the ground.
The crossbow was somewhat damaged, but its parts were made of iron. Even if she dismantled it, she could still sell the metal.
Store, store, store.
After searching every corpse, she went to examine the wild animals.
There were three wolves—one large and two smaller ones.
The large one weighed roughly fifty jin, while the two smaller ones weighed around thirty jin each.
There were also two other animals that looked neither quite like wolves nor foxes. They weren’t very large, but their fur was quite thick.
The meat could be eaten, and the fur could be removed and sold.
They were all valuable.
She didn’t mind them at all and threw every single one into her space.
Besides those, she discovered several poisonous snakes.
Su Qingli couldn’t help sighing.
That masked man really did have some tricks up his sleeve.
She just didn’t know whether he was still alive.
As for the qin, that was another valuable item.
Unfortunately, it had already been consumed by the fire.
Su Qingli shook her head regretfully and made a quick inventory.
All the knives and swords had chipped or damaged edges. There were more than twenty of them, large and small.
She would have to find somewhere to sell them when she had the chance.
Unfortunately, these bandits were extremely poor.
After searching them, she had only found ten taels of silver and two hundred copper coins.
Su Qingli sighed and stored the money away.
She looked around and suddenly realized—
The Second Chief’s body wasn’t here.
Her heart suddenly sank.
She remembered that the man named Zhao Ye had had his abdomen torn open the previous night.
With an injury like that, there was a very high chance he wouldn’t have survived.
But his body was gone.
Had the wild animals dragged it away?
Or had he escaped?
Su Qingli shivered and decided not to stay any longer.
She quickly headed toward the mountain walkway.
On the way down the mountain, she remained extremely alert, afraid that Zhao Ye might suddenly emerge from some patch of grass.
Fortunately, she didn’t encounter anyone along the way.
When she reached the foot of the mountain, she could see an unfamiliar village in the distance.
It wasn’t very large. There were only several dozen households, and smoke had just begun rising from their chimneys.
Su Qingli rubbed her stomach.
She found a large tree to hide behind and slipped into her space.
The laboratory was brightly lit and strangely quiet.
A pile of bloodstained knives and swords was stacked on the floor. They were the weapons she had just stored.
She ignored them for now.
She quickly washed up and then casually grabbed a biscuit and stuffed it into her mouth.
After finishing it, she turned around and prepared to take another.
But then she noticed that another identical biscuit had appeared in the exact spot where the previous one had been.
Su Qingli froze.
She stared at the biscuit for two seconds before eating another one.
After a while, another biscuit appeared.
She blinked and then tested it with several pieces of candy and a packet of small cookies.
The result was the same.
However, the antibiotics and syringe she had given the wild man had decreased by one and had not been replenished.
It seemed that only the things she herself used would automatically replenish.
However, the more frequently she used something, the slower it replenished.
Su Qingli now understood how it worked.
She turned around and entered the bathroom.
The bathroom was less than six square meters, but it had a separate wet and dry area.
There were skincare products and facial towels on the sink.
The faucet worked, and the toilet could be used.
She turned on the shower, and warm water began flowing gently.
Su Qingli was so excited that she almost wanted to kneel down and thank Heaven.
Not having a phone to play with in ancient times was already miserable enough.
But the hygiene conditions were what she really couldn’t tolerate.
Not being able to bathe for ten days or half a month was one thing.
The main problem was having to use a primitive latrine.
People would relieve themselves on top while pigs waited underneath.
On top of that, the five members of her family had to share the same collection of toilet chips.
Just a few bamboo strips, taken to a basin, washed quickly, and then reused.
Oh my God.
She couldn’t accept it just by imagining it.
But now everything was fine.
The supplies in the bathroom could automatically replenish themselves.
If she used them sparingly, they would be enough to last her more than ten years.
Su Qingli didn’t enter the village.
Instead, she went around to the back of it.
She saw several animal skins hanging outside a household’s door.
It was probably a hunter’s home.
After thinking about it, she took several wild animals out of her space and placed them on the ground.
Then she went over and knocked on the door.
After some negotiation, she sold all the wild animals she had brought out and received ten taels of silver in exchange.
She could have gotten a higher price by taking them to a restaurant in town, but she thought it would be difficult to explain where she had gotten them when she returned home.
So she decided to sell everything together.
The knives and swords were too conspicuous, so Su Qingli didn’t take them out for the time being.
After asking around and figuring out the direction she needed to go, she continued on her journey.
After making her way over mountains and rough terrain, she finally reached the back mountain of Xiaoshi Village.
It was already close to afternoon.
When she reached the back of her own house, her footsteps suddenly stopped.
There were sounds coming from the courtyard.
They weren’t ordinary voices.
There were curses, crying, and the mooing of cattle all mixed together.
Su Qingli’s heart sank.
A bad feeling suddenly rose in her chest.