Chapter 294: Chapter 294: Lin Yi is Ambushed Midway (Part 5)_1 Chapter 294: Chapter 294: Lin Yi is Ambushed Midway (Part 5)_1 Although she had rarely seen such a strange set of skills, she had to admit that they were indeed useful, especially against several petty thieves who had tried to take advantage of her.
While Yi was deep in thought, Lin Yuan had called out to him several times.
Seeing that he finally snapped out of it, Lin Yuan repeated, “Hey, what are you thinking about?
Stand up quickly, stop kneeling to me; it’s making me feel uncomfortable all over.”
Seeing him stand up, Lin Yuan then thought of the bodies all around them, killed by his hand.
Despite feeling a chill, she asked calmly, “What should we do with these people?
We killed them; will the Government Office come after us to avenge their deaths?”
Yi was somewhat surprised by Lin Yuan’s use of “we” and could not help but admire the girl’s sense of loyalty.
He replied, “I killed them; it has nothing to do with the Young Lady.”
“How can it have nothing to do with me?
Would you have killed anyone if it weren’t for me?” Lin Yuan suddenly remembered Liuzi, hurried over to check his breathing, and discovered that he was still alive, just temporarily unconscious.
Relieved, she turned back and said, “These people were all targeting me.
Forget it, you kill, and I’ll bury.
Let’s hide them before anyone else shows up.”
With that, Lin Yuan hurriedly found a relatively clean long knife and began digging a hole on the side of the road to bury the bodies, all the while muttering, “What a pity we didn’t leave any survivors.
Otherwise, we could have found out exactly who was trying to harm me.”
Yi snatched the long knife from Lin Yuan’s hands and tossed it aside, still speaking in a cold and unwavering tone, “Even if we had left a survivor, it would have been pointless.
If the second master knew they had attempted to bully you, their fate would be worse than death.”
As he spoke, Yi took out a small piece of paper from his pocket, swiftly wrote a few words on it, and whistled into the sky.
A green little bird fluttered over.
This bird was not as pretty as Lin Yuan’s, but it also had a small cylinder tied to its leg.
Yi stuffed the note into the cylinder, and the bird flapped its wings briskly, flying in the direction of Zhuma Town.
“The Young Lady can rest assured, I’ve already sent a message to Li Chang.
Within a quarter of an hour, officials from the Government Office will come to collect the bodies.
These masked men were bandits from the nearby mountains; they had it coming.
The fact that the Government Office hasn’t arrested them yet is an oversight on their part.
They almost caused the Young Lady to be abducted, which is a dereliction of duty.
Li Chang will surely make haste to take care of this.”
Lin Yuan believed him.
Last time, in the search for Xiao Linshuang, Xia Zheng broke into someone’s house and even interrupted the homeowner’s moment with his Little Concubine, yet Li Chang did not complain.
Instead, he was flattering and bowing.
So he would certainly handle this incident properly too.
Fortunately, it was not yet time for the villagers to return, and there weren’t many pedestrians on the road either.
It would not be a problem to wait a little while.
With her heart settling back down, Lin Yuan started to feel the fear of seeing the bodies on the ground—it was the first time she had seen dead people, even though she had killed chickens and slaughtered ducks countless times before.
Her legs trembling, Lin Yuan stepped back a couple of steps, eager to leave this place as soon as possible.
Yi seemed to notice her discomfort, and in a few strides, reached Liuzi and probed around his stomach and ribs, making sure there were no broken bones or torn muscles, then squeezed his philtrum forcefully.
Damn it, you scoundrel!
I’ll fight you to the death!”
Liuzi, just coming to, was still immersed in the chaos from earlier and paid no heed to who was in front of him; he reached out to clutch at Yi’s throat.
Yi frowned, gave him a disdainful look, and avoided him.
Bitting her lip in embarrassment, Lin Yuan quickly pulled at Liuzi’s sleeve and explained to him that Yi was their savior.