aircannonsinc Chapter 1291 The Pleasant Silky Smile
Chapter 1291 The Pleasant Silky Smile
The "fake" Gan Yu has left, but how she left from the clouds remains a mystery.
Shao Yun withdrew his gaze, no longer dwelling on the whereabouts of the "fake" Gan Yu, and instead turned his attention to Daines Reeb, who was not far away.
At this moment, Daines Reeb was standing next to the Apocalypse Horse "Famine," his gaze still fixed on the direction where "Pseudo" Sweet Rain had left.
Seeing Shao Yun walking towards him, he wisely refrained from asking about the strange woman's identity.
So Daines Reeb went straight to Shao Yun and took the initiative to steer the conversation to the most crucial matter.
"The Extreme Evil Knight... completely eliminated? No hidden dangers left behind, right?"
Upon hearing this, Shao Yun nodded affirmatively, then raised his hand to touch his neck, teasingly saying:
"It's over, they're definitely dead this time. But you, when you shouted 'Kill the Evil Rider!' your voice was so loud it almost lifted the roof off the sky. Is your throat alright now?"
Upon hearing this, Daines Reeb's originally serious face instantly flushed with an involuntary embarrassment.
When Shao Yun starts cursing, it's really... amazing...
He coughed lightly and said somewhat awkwardly, "Go ahead and make sarcastic remarks, you've suffered quite a bit of losses anyway."
"Consider it...consider it compensation for slapping you before."
Shao Yun then remembered that Dai had slapped him hard to bring him to his senses. He had been so busy dealing with the Evil Riders that he had forgotten about it.
However, he didn't really take it to heart. After all, compared to the excruciating pain of losing an arm, a slap was nothing.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore." Shao Yun waved his hand, his joking expression fading, and his tone became more relaxed.
"Now that we've finished our business, let's go back to the ranch. Ying and the children are probably still worried."
Just as Shao Yun was about to leave with Daines Reeb, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his forehead, and looked annoyed.
"Oh, right, let's go find Skirk first. That arrow from the Evil Knight just now... I feel like that girl is in grave danger..."
……
Shao Yun flipped himself onto the Apocalypse Horse "Famine," and once settled, he reached out to Daines Reeb.
"Come up."
Daines Reb grasped Shao Yun's hand and used the leverage to mount the horse.
"Hold on tight." Shao Yun patted "Famine's" neck and gave the order in a low voice. "Let's go!"
The Tianqi horse "Famine" neighed, pushed off with its four hooves, and swooped down.
The wind howled past high above, giving a feeling of freefall.
During this rapid descent on the return journey, the increasingly weakened "system" suddenly popped up a dialog box.
Can you see it now?
Shao Yun was taken aback at first, then rolled his eyes inwardly and couldn't help but complain:
"You finally came out? This victory over the Evil Riders was all thanks to you. You kept your mouth shut the whole time and didn't cause any trouble."
"Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to resolve all of this so smoothly."
The system detected the sarcastic tone in Shao Yun's words, and the displayed text was intermittent, as if the signal was unstable.
I can't... You know... I... Never mind, I don't want to dwell on the past.
Looking at the fragmented text, Shao Yun suddenly swallowed back the complaints that were on his mind.
Since things have come to this point, there's no point in pursuing it any further... You can't really find an "uninstall button" in your mind and delete it completely.
Just think of it as someone responding to me when I'm talking to myself.
"Never mind, it's all in the past." Shao Yun sighed softly to himself, his tone softening.
"Let's put that aside for now. Since you can pop up a dialog box, the map function must still work, right?"
"Do something useful and find out where that little girl, Skykirk, instead of making us search aimlessly."
The system did not provide any further response.
A few seconds later, a clear map projection suddenly appeared in front of Shao Yun's eyes, with parts of Teyvat (Nata region) marked on the map.
On the south side of Longju Hill, a red dot is slowly flashing, accompanied by a short line of text.
[Skirk is located on the south side of Longju Slope...]
……
On the south side of Nata's Longju Slope, Skirk lies on a relatively flat piece of land.
The Evil Knight's arrow, imbued with abyssal energy, pierced her spine with pinpoint accuracy.
At this moment, she had no feeling in her lower body and could only maintain a supine position, without even the strength to lift her hand.
She turned her eyes slightly and looked up at the azure sky.
The drifting clouds that used to be most common in Nata now serve as a backdrop to the cracks in the sky.
The hole that the Evil Knight pierced through Teyvat's "eggshell" after its explosion resembled a giant black pupil, hovering high in the sky visible to all seven kingdoms, even more striking than Sky Isle.
Despite being severely injured and having her consciousness occasionally blurred, Skykirk's eyes remained unusually clear.
She could see countless wisps of dark energy slowly surging within that darkness, like venomous snakes lurking in the grass, intently watching Teyvat, their "prey," waiting for their chance to strike.
“Teyvat… how much longer…” Skykirk’s lips moved slightly as she murmured in a weak voice.
Just then, a head suddenly entered her field of vision, blocking the blinding gaping hole in the sky.
Silky's pupils contracted slightly as she strained to focus her gaze before she could make out that the person who had come was Shao Yun.
When Shao Yun found the place using the system navigation, he saw Silky lying motionless on the ground, staring blankly at the sky.
That lifeless, dejected look... could he be dead?
He reached out and snapped his fingers lightly in front of Skykirk.
"Skirk, are you still alive? Can you hear me?"
Silky blinked, her long eyelashes fluttering, proving she was still conscious.
She didn't answer Shao Yun's question, because of her spinal injury, she could only manage to say with difficulty, "Is my master... dead?"
His very first question was about the fate of the extremely vicious rider.
This persistence conceals both hatred for the extremely vicious rider and the complex emotions remaining from years of mentor-student relationship.
Perhaps she herself didn't realize that this "both respect and hatred" had already been etched into her bones.
Seeing the forced light in her eyes, Shao Yun breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't rush to answer the question about the fate of the extremely vicious rider. Instead, he first reached out to check her breathing and then felt her carotid artery. After confirming that her vital signs were stable, he said softly:
"It seems you're still alive. That's good."
Seeing that Shao Yun was relieved to be alive, and with his cold face still showing no emotion, Silky said, "I'm no different from being dead now."
She paused, her Adam's apple bobbing slightly, and her voice trembled as she spoke of the arrow shot by the extremely wicked rider.
"That arrow from the Evil Knight pierced my spine. I know that using the power of the abyss might be able to reshape my spine, but I don't know what the consequences would be. It might turn me into an abyssal monster..."
"Although my tolerance for the power of the abyss is much higher than that of a normal person..."
Skirk's eyes darkened, and he said warily, "But the spine is connected to the brain. Once the abyss energy invades the brain, the consequences will be unimaginable... I dare not gamble."
As Shao Yun listened to the technical terms that came out of her mouth, her mind went blank and the words just kept going in one ear and out the other.
He rolled his eyes and retorted, "To be honest, all that professional knowledge you're talking about..."
"Should I call you Professor Skykirk and ask you to give me a mini-lesson on 'The Abyss and Human Anatomy'?"
Upon hearing this, Skirk's eyes remained unmoved, and she persistently pressed for more information about the Extreme Evil Knight.
"You still haven't answered me, is the Evil Knight really dead?"
She was terrified. She was afraid that the Evil Rider would fake his death like before, and that the shadow that had shrouded her for so many years would resurface from some corner and drag her back into the abyss.
Seeing her repeatedly confirm, Shao Yun nodded again, answering with absolute certainty:
“He’s dead, completely dead. When he died, even Teyvat’s ‘eggshell’ was pierced by his dying power. Even if he had extraordinary abilities, he couldn’t possibly come back to life.”
"Really... dead?" Skykirk repeated in a low voice, her pupils widening slightly, as if she still couldn't believe it.
Only after seeing Shao Yun repeatedly confirm did her tense body suddenly relax, and a very faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
It was an indescribable feeling of exhilaration; the dark clouds that had been pressing down on us were finally blown away by the wind, revealing the long-awaited sunshine.
Her chest rose and fell slightly, revealing a relaxed expression for the first time since her serious injury.
She stopped thinking about her spinal injury, and instead looked at the azure sky, gently extending an invitation to Shao Yun.
"Can you lie down with me for a while? Just for a little while, you don't need to say anything."
At this moment, she was no longer the warrior who had put on a brave face when facing the vicious knights, but just a young girl who had just escaped the shadows and wanted to clear her mind for a while.
When Shao Yun heard that Si Keke wanted him to lie down with her for a while, he immediately waved his hand and refused, teasingly saying, "Why? You're not my wife."
Seeing that Shao Yun was unwilling, Silky didn't force him, but just gave him a cold look, as if to say "boring".
Then, she turned her gaze back to the sky, her voice tinged with a joy she herself was unaware of:
"I'm thinking now, how long has it been since I've felt this relaxed... lying on the ground, not thinking about those threats, not being afraid of my master's punishment, just simply looking up at the sky."
Her hometown was destroyed when she was a child, and she was controlled by the fear of the extremely vicious rider when she grew up. She struggled to survive in the abyss. The word "relaxation" seemed to have never existed in her memory.
Now that the Evil Rider was dead, even though she was seriously injured, she felt a long-lost sense of freedom for the first time.
Considering that Silky was a patient, Shao Yun didn't take offense at her eye roll. Instead, he put away his joking expression and comforted her:
"Don't be so pessimistic, it's not like your spine is beyond saving."
As he spoke, he reached into the Eastern Legends backpack at his waist and quickly pulled out a bottle of "miracle tonic".
Shao Yun crouched down and handed the medicine to Siker, unscrewing the cork as he spoke:
"Come on, stop talking such discouraging things. Open your mouth and drink something good. This is my most treasured possession; it'll make you feel better."
Seeing that Shao Yun was about to feed her medicine, Siker opened her mouth without hesitation.
She could smell the herbal scent emanating from the medicine, mixed with an indescribable bitterness, but she did not flinch, letting Shao Yun slowly put the bitter liquid into her mouth.
As the medicine slid down the throat, the bitter taste spread instantly, and most people would probably have frowned or even felt nauseous.
Koskov's expression remained largely unchanged, as if what she had just drunk was not a difficult-to-swallow medicine, but just a glass of ordinary water.
No more than ten seconds after swallowing the medicine, Skirk suddenly opened her eyes slightly.
She could clearly feel a warm sensation coming from the damaged part of her spine.
The warmth flowed slowly down my spine, and wherever it reached, my previously numb nerves gradually regained sensation.
She began to feel sensation in her lower limbs, and she was able to control her body!
The feeling of having something lost and then regained it made her body tremble slightly.
"My spine... is healed?!"
Skirk tried moving her feet and found that she could really control them!
Although she still can't sit up, at least she's no longer a "useless person" with no feeling in her lower body.
Skirk felt the lingering bitterness on her tongue; the taste was strong, but she didn't find it offensive.
She savored it for a moment and could clearly feel the power of the medicine slowly flowing through her body, continuously repairing the damaged spinal nerves.
She looked at Shao Yun and sincerely thanked him, "Thank you. Although it tastes bitter, I can feel the power contained in this medicine."
"My injury is much better; at least I have regained feeling in my lower limbs."
This was the first time she had expressed her gratitude so directly, without any perfunctory gestures; it was a genuine expression of appreciation from the bottom of her heart.
Shao Yun felt a little uncomfortable with Silky's unusual gentleness. He scratched his head and said casually, "Don't mention it. It's just a bottle of potion. I'm glad it can help you."
As he spoke, he looked up and whistled loudly towards the distance.
Upon hearing the call, the nearby Apocalypse Horse "Plague" immediately strode over, its green miasma surrounding it diminishing considerably.
Shao Yun, determined to see this through to the end, patted "Plague's" neck, gesturing for it to approach Silky, and asked Silky:
"Do you need me to have the 'Plague' help you regenerate your missing limbs? Although it looks scary, its effect on repairing limbs is top-notch."