Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 1400 – Cut and Run

Elder Yu had a 50% chance of beating them. The calculation included how severe his injury would be and how much teamwork could both the mystic class masters pull off, but Elder Yu wasn’t brave enough to gamble on this!

The items were for House Yu, and his life was the only thing that belongs to him! It was not worth it to risk his life just like that. He had no guarantee of winning them at all, so he didn’t want to fight anymore.

On the other hand, Lin Yi had already started gathering his qi forming a qi bomb. He stared at Elder Yu, full of alertness.

“Okay, nice! Concealing your true strength…. No wonder you aren’t afraid of me, the reason being you have two mystics protecting you. Tss tss, couple thief, good strength, good strategy, good scheming!” Elder Yu said the word good three times, no one knew if he was being sarcastic or really complimenting them.

“A simple tomb raiding group, with such strength. This is really an eye-opening moment for me. Your group is still the top-notch existence I’ve ever witnessed here!”

“You’re being too nice, Elder Yu, let’s cut the crap and start the war!” Lin Yi said.

“Hmph, you and I are destined to have this fight, but…..” Elder Yu’s tone changed suddenly. “But not now! Male thief, I’ll remember you, and we will surely meet again….”

Elder Yu had already fled before completing his sentence; his speed shocked Lin Yi greatly! Lin Yi still thought that he wanted to fight, but who knew that Elder Yu had already run for his life when his tone changed. He ran faster than a rabbit; this made Lin Yi went completely speechless!

“Did he just escape?” Lin Yi looked at the energy bomb in his finger, he didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. He wasted gathering the qi for so long. He couldn’t use it at all.

Song Lingshan and Chen Yutian looked at each other. “For real? Isn’t he too much of a coward?”

“He has always been a coward from the beginning. Even my courage is bigger than him!” You Xiaoke had long woken up already. She didn’t dare to comment when Lin Yi and Elder Yu were on a fight, but when Elder Yu cut and ran, You Xiaoke finally opened her mouth to speak.

“That’s right.This old thing is really afraid of death.” Lin Yi nodded. “Whatever, let him be.”

Lin Yi wasn’t confident at making Elder Yu stay, either so he wouldn’t go chase after him now. There was only one mission in Lin Yi’s mind right now, it was to find a way to save Feng Xiaoxiao, naturally, he would avoid getting himself into trouble.

Song Lingshan and Chen Yutian, on the other hand, were disappointed. They were just leveled up and were excited to test their new strength, but their prey had fled away, leaving a pile of dust behind.

“He won’t return, will he?” Song Lingshan looked at the empty space as she asked, “I’m afraid he’ll return when we aren’t prepared.”

“Unless his brain was stabbed.” Lin Yi shook his head. “He won’t come back anymore.”

Lin Yi knew Elder Yu’s personality- he was the type that would bully the weak when he was stronger and cut and run when he couldn’t win the fight! During the whole journey, Lin Yi’d been observing him all this time- Elder Yu was as cowardly as a mouse; he believed he wouldn’t be seeing him after a few months.

Song Lingshan nodded when he heard Lin Yi, what Lin Yi said must be true and Elder Yu would probably never return to look troubles.

“Okay, you guys can continue resting now; I’ll stay on guard.” Lin Yi sat cross-legged and started reading the medical notes. It was still a good ending anyway; all the notes belonged to Lin Yi alone now; he could slowly read the content inside memorizing them without caring Elder Yu’s attack anymore.

The whole night passed away peacefully; Lin Yi waited for You Xiaoke and Old Hei to wake up before continuing their escape. Elder Yu couldn’t be seen from sight; it was obvious that he wouldn’t come back any more- this made Lin Yi let out a breath of relief. Although Elder Yu was afraid of Lin Yi, Lin Yi was afraid of Elder Yu too.

Lin Yi was just more fearless, and while Elder Yu was more afraid of death, that was what made Elder Yu defeated in battle. There was a saying, “The soft is afraid of the hard, and the hard is afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal is afraid of the one who is not afraid of death!” Elder Yu was the horizontal one in this situation, and while Lin Yi was the one who wasn’t afraid of death, comparing them together, it was obvious who was the winner.

After eating some biscuit, Lin Yi led the group and continue walking towards the exit. During the whole journey, they didn’t see Elder Yu. Lin Yi and his gang would never catch up to his speed even using their full strength.

The group had walked more than two days, it was the same during the night everyone went to sleep while Lin Yi staying awake guarding them. Until the third day, Lin Yi finally stopped his steps.

Lin Yi’s sudden movement gave the people behind a great shock.

“What’s wrong. Is there danger ahead of us?” Old Hei was finally able to calm himself down after leaving the tomb, but Lin Yi stopping all of a sudden almost gave him a heart attack again.

“I can smell blood from here, and it’s still fresh?” Lin Yi took a deep breath.

“Blood?” Song Lingshan and Chen Yutian were taken aback and started sniffing. Both of them were sensitive to blood smell as well so when Lin Yi mentioned it; they could tell the difference. “It really does smell like blood… not far from here…”

“From Elder Yu?” Old Hei asked after a second.

“Not sure, but it’s possible.” Lin Yi replied and walked forward. Although he could smell blood from this distance, the jade on his chest wasn’t giving him any signals. In other words, there was no danger ahead of them!

The crowd followed him at the back but after walking for a short distance, Lin Yi stopped his steps again.

“What is it?” Song Lingshan asked.

“Look at the ground!” Lin Yi pointed at the ground in front of him.

The crowd looked at the far distance and noticed the razor-sharp arrows on the ground. Furthermore, some of the arrows had blood stained on it, and at the corner of the path, blood could be seen as well.

“He—” Lin Yi chuckled. “The designer of this tomb was really one of a kind, putting the last trap here. This trap might be simple, but anyone without awareness would surely fall for it, and the consequences are pretty heavy too.”

“Indeed, this trap was triggered by a very thin string, when the string breaks, it activates the trap shooting arrows in this direction. It seems like Elder Yu wasn’t paying attention when he escaped, but it was totally normal to fall into this trap under this dark environment! You Xiaoke bent down his body to find a broken thin string on the ground.

“Luckily, Elder Yu left before us. Otherwise, we would’ve become the victims of this trap!” Old Hei was glad.