Chapter 190: Cold and ruthless
Faced with Zhou Qian’s doubt, Huiyu appeared quite innocent: “Brother Zhou Qian, I haven’t kept anything from you.”
Zhou Qian tugged at the corner of his mouth: “Remove the word ‘brother,’ and say it again.”
Huiyu hummed and puffed, then finally extended her little pinky to make a small gesture: “Just a little.”
“Everyone has a little secret, right? It’s normal for me to have a bit.”
Zhou Qian sneered: “Yeah, for others, it’s just a little, but for you, it’s a whole lot.”
“I don’t know others’ secrets, but every secret of yours could be deadly.”
“If you’re going to hide something, hide it well. Don’t let anyone else know, except for you.”
“Now that you’ve told half of it, you might as well just tell me the whole thing. That way, I can be prepared for the future.”
Huiyu sweetly smiled: “Brother Zhou Qian, I knew you would be good to me. I wasn’t planning to keep it from you anyway…”
Even though Zhou Qian knew her routine very well, he still couldn’t help but fall for it—well, she was so young. Even if she might have been older before, the person standing in front of him now, both mentally and physically, seemed like a teenage girl. What wrong could she have done?
She had already been so honest with him, he shouldn’t…
“I can enter Sanqing Mountain directly from Rose Corridor. Does that count as a secret?” Huiyu asked sweetly.
Zhou Qian: “…”
For a moment, he felt a tightness in his chest, and his vision blurred. He had no idea how to respond.
Entering Sanqing Mountain directly from Rose Corridor, how casually she said it.
If even one person from Huacheng or the whole country could do it, what would those adventurers, who had to bypass the mountains and enter via the small paths, even mean?
And—
“Have you actually been into the mountain? How far did you go?”
Huiyu thought for a moment: “I don’t think I went very far.”
Zhou Qian relaxed a little: The outskirts of Sanqing Mountain were still alright; they had already cleared it, and most of the plants there had not mutated. It was relatively calm and normal.
There were a few mutated plants, but they had a mild temperament. Since Huiyu had abilities and a good affinity, it should be safe.
“Later, when I met Kuang Biao, I reached a mountain path halfway up the mountain, and nearby, I saw a tall, thin rock sticking up like a finger.”
Huiyu began describing slowly as she recalled.
Zhou Qian’s vision blurred even further!
His mind became a mess of chaotic thoughts, unsure whether to focus on “meeting Kuang Biao” or the “finger-like rock”…
That rock was a famous scenic spot in Sanqing Mountain, called “Immortal’s Finger.” According to Huiyu’s description, she had clearly already entered quite deep!
And apart from the outskirts, neither the Defense Forces nor the Guard Army had managed to enter the core of the mountain yet!
If outsiders had already entered the core area, the entire mountain’s stones and plants would go into a frenzy. The ground would shake, tree roots would bulge, rocks would crack, and vines would entwine…
The danger was no less than that of the core area of the wasteland.
If it were an easy place to enter, Huiyu should have met adventurers by now.
Zhou Qian explained some of the dangers to Huiyu, but she was puzzled: “But the big trees on the mountain told me that they sometimes meet adventurers.”
Zhou Qian asked: “Did they tell you they met them at the foot of other mountains?”
Huiyu: “…Hmm.”
It was true.
Seeing Zhou Qian’s dark expression, she swore: “I know this ability is quite unusual. So far, only you and Lin Xuefeng know about it!”
Zhou Qian felt a sour sensation in his heart.
“You and Lin Xuefeng only spent one night together, didn’t you?”
They had known each other for so long, and Huiyu only started revealing these secrets now.
Huiyu thought for a moment and then seriously answered:
“Probably because of first impressions. When we met, you pointed a gun at me and asked why there was an anomaly in Rose Corridor? At that time, I wasn’t even full, had nowhere to stay, and was sleeping in the tunnel…”
She concluded: “You looked so fierce.”
Although Zhou Qian later had someone send her a sleeping bag, his stern demeanor was just a facade, the upright aura of the Defense Forces still blocked any approach.
Such an obviously unconventional Huiyu wouldn’t dare casually reveal secrets!
Zhou Qian raised an eyebrow: “What about Lin Xuefeng? He was a former Guard Officer.”
“I don’t know him.”
Huiyu said confidently: “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have known who he was. Actually, I didn’t like him at first; I thought he was a bad person. He scared me.”
“But later, he really caught a bad guy, and he even taught me how to kill him…”
Apparently, the act of crushing the criminal’s skull with water pressure was incredibly cool to Huiyu, affecting her in many ways.
If not for that, she wouldn’t have had any suggestions when Chen He was punished by Shen Xing.
As for other small details, like tidying up rooms, creating water shields, weaving bamboo baskets, and chopping firewood—those were things that Zhou Qian, with his straightforward nature, wasn’t used to.
Anyway, the two were completely different.
Zhou Qian’s brows furrowed even more tightly.
“That fire-type mutant criminal, did he kill him in front of you?”
He felt a vague sense of anger.
Because Huiyu seemed so small, even smaller than Zhou Ning when he had his accident. She spoke so sweetly, with naive and persistent thoughts. How could she kill someone so calmly?
Moreover, if he remembered correctly, that criminal had his skull crushed directly, watching his brain matter spill out and dying after enduring a lot of torture.
This…
Zhou Qian took a deep breath: “Did he teach you how to kill in front of you, and you still think he’s a good person? Don’t you think he’s cold and ruthless?”
General Lin, the hero everyone praised, and a man they had all pursued for so long. But now, the once-heroic General Wu had been marked with the label of “bad luck” in his mind. And from how Huiyu described Lin Xuefeng, Zhou Qian’s illusions about him were shattered.
“He’s a good person.”
Huiyu nodded: “Although he’s scary, everything he taught me was useful.”
She thought for a moment and added: “He really is cold and ruthless.”
“Although he spoke gently to me and always smiled, when he killed someone, he really looked cold.”
“Maybe that’s just part of his personality.”
“I thought about it later, if I were the one killing, I probably wouldn’t be smiling.”
As she spoke, Huiyu organized her thoughts and gave herself an affirmative nod: “That’s right! Sometimes I can be cold and ruthless too.”
Zhou Qian remained silent for a moment before wiping his face in frustration:
“Forget it. If you want to keep admiring him, just go ahead.”
After all, Lin Xuefeng, who knew the secrets, was already dead in the wasteland.
As he thought of this, a quiet sadness washed over him.
Because, in the wasteland, more than just Lin Xuefeng had been buried.
