Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!-Chapter 102: Mission, Ambush 19

Host, you’re hilarious!

Dongfang Xu, snapping back to reality, looked at the girl with the lively, blinking eyes and recalled the first time he had grabbed her by the collar, and her bewildered expression when she was thrown to the ground. It was both amusing and a bit embarrassing!

He must have been out of his mind back then, to have been so rude. The hand that had done it should be beaten. Does Xiaoxiao hold grudges? Should he explain himself?

"Snap out of it, big brother! Hurry up!"

"Lives are on the line! What are you stalling for?"

A line from Cheng Xiaoxiao brought Dongfang Xu back to his senses, "What did you just call me?"

Xiaoxiao actually called him big brother. When did he agree to be her big brother?

Cheng Xiaoxiao was speechless; communicating with an ancient person was so troublesome, and was ’big brother’ really the key point here? She was talking about saving lives, saving lives!

She pressed down her flaring temper.

Taking a deep breath, she shifted to a sweet smile and said gently, "Brother Xu, you’re so amazing, could you help me save someone?"

System: "Host, if I had goosebumps, they’d be all over the floor!"

"Scram!"

It took her a while to build up this emotion; she couldn’t let it be ruined, even though she was getting goosebumps herself...

As soon as she finished speaking, Dongfang Xu immediately replied, "Alright!"

Cheng Xiaoxiao swallowed the words she was about to use to persuade further and could only urge, "Let’s go, over there?"

By the time Cheng Xiaoxiao arrived, Qing Yi was almost at death’s door, and seeing Ba Daokui covered in blood but only lightly injured, she pointed angrily at Ba Daokui and said to Dongfang Xu, "Kill him!"

Ba Daokui was even more vicious and bloodthirsty than the system had described, cruel and ruthless, clearly a man who’d killed many, and he’d wounded Qing Yi like this, it was simply unforgivable.

Dongfang Xu felt the person beside him was so angry that her eyes were almost spitting fire, making him annoyed as well. To make his lady so angry, he did deserve to die.

In a flash, he appeared less than a meter in front of Ba Daokui, his long sword set against Ba Daokui’s chest, being forcefully blocked by a large saber. The Qi Force between the two clashed, their clothes fluttering wildly, growing stronger and stirring the air currents around them.

Dongfang Xu’s bloodthirsty severity in his eyes was no less than Ba Daokui’s. This young man, so ruthless and decisive at such a young age, was indeed no simple character.

Ba Daokui braced himself with every sense on alert, noting that this person might be even harder to deal with than the one before.

Dongfang Xu took the chance to attack Ba Daokui’s lower body, but he sensed it and dodged, counterattacking swiftly. Their legs and feet clashed instantly, moving so fast that only their afterimages could be seen.

Cheng Xiaoxiao quickly moved to Qing Yi’s side, looking at the person covered in blood, at a loss, his arm twisted at an incredible angle. This...this was too cruel. How was she supposed to treat him?

He opened his eyes slightly, seeing Miss Cheng almost in tears from anxiety. Qing Yi mustered his strength and said with difficulty, "I... I’m... okay." Then he spat a large mouthful of blood.

Cough, cough, cough!

Cough, cough, cough!

"Don’t speak, I’ll help bandage you right away."

Looking at the person who was just fine this morning, but now...

Cheng Xiaoxiao wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve. She could do this. She said as she took off her full belt, which contained the medicine she had gotten from the warehouse in case anyone got wounded, not expecting it to be this severe.

Qing Shi, having completed his escort duty, immediately sought out Cheng Xiaoxiao because his main task was to protect her. As soon as he spotted her, he saw her being taken away by that veiled man, so he followed quickly and arrived just then.

Seeing that his big brother was so heavily injured, Qing Shi’s eyes turned red, "Big brother, how are you?"

Cheng Xiaoxiao lifted her head, "Qing Yi is your big brother?"

Qing Shi nodded, then shook his head, "In our pavilion, we only have numbers. Big brother Qing Yi had the best martial arts among us, so we all call him big brother." Qing Shiyi explained as he checked Qing Yi’s condition.

Cheng Xiaoxiao nodded, "How is Qing Yi?"

She figured she was okay with bandaging and stopping the bleeding, but she wasn’t sure about internal bleeding or whether he could be moved. If they worsened his injuries, he might lose his life.

"His right leg is broken, it can be set, but this hand..."

Looking at the crushed bones in his shoulder and arm, there was no way his right hand could be saved, meaning Qing Yi could no longer be a squad leader, unable to be their big brother.

Qing Shi secretly wiped the tears from his eyes, not wanting to be seen.

Qing Yi, though weak, noticed these actions. With a faint voice, he said, "Qing Shi...cut it off!"

Qing Shi and Cheng Xiaoxiao simultaneously turned to Qing Yi, whose weak smile made Cheng Xiaoxiao’s heart ache.

"77, does our store have any mechanical prosthetics?"

"Host, yes, but they might be a bit expensive. We don’t have enough Level or System Coin right now."

No problem, one day she would be able to afford it.

Cheng Xiaoxiao composed herself, "Qing Shi, do as Qing Yi says! He needs immediate treatment; otherwise, if he loses too much blood, he’ll have no chance."

The two mournful people spent over half an hour amputating Qing Yi’s arm, setting bones, stopping blood, and bandaging.

Qing Yi fainted from the pain several times, nearly not making it through.

Fortunately, Qing Shi gave Qing Yi a life-saving internal injury pill developed by Elder Qi. These pills were difficult to make, their ingredients hard to find, and only someone of the Leng rank or above could carry them on missions or individuals of great merit would receive one as a reward.

The Pavilion Master made an exception this time, granting 5 pills in advance. Qing Shi, tasked with protecting Cheng Xiaoxiao, received one from Leng Er before departing, just in case.

The life-saving internal injury pill, along with Cheng Xiaoxiao’s immediate Hemostatic Medicine, finally secured Qing Yi’s life.

Cheng Xiaoxiao wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and lifted her dazed head only to see the countdown in front of her.

Task countdown 05:44:39

Task countdown 05:44:38

Time wasn’t on her side; she hadn’t completed a single task yet, it was truly dismal!

Looking again at the gray sky, under which two figures battled back and forth on the roof.

Damn it!

Was Ba Daokui made of iron?

After battling for several hours now, he still had the strength, and even Dongfang Xu hadn’t managed to take him down quickly—it was really something.

Not long after, Qing Qi and Qing Ba, also wounded, arrived and upon seeing their heavily injured big brother, wished they could tear Ba Daokui to pieces. Unfortunately, looking at the battle scene, it wasn’t something they could join; vengeance was out of reach, how frustrating!

Cheng Xiaoxiao bandaged their wounds, and Qing Shi dismantled a door panel to carry Qing Yi back to camp.

The system discovered a big secret.

"Host, there’s actually a group of monks locked below the secret room, including Master Jing Yuan."

"That Ba Daokui is truly twisted, not even sparing the monks."

Following the system’s instructions, Cheng Xiaoxiao had Qing Shi open the thick Stone Gate of the secret room, revealing a narrow passage inside, pitch-black and impossible to see anything.

"Be careful, my lady, I’ll go ahead to scout."

He then lit a torch and, wrapping some cloth around a stick, lit it to make a torch and led the way inside.