I found a hidden natural ditch, surrounded by dense leaves and weeds, and slid down with Fang Yian. After putting him down, I climbed up again and pulled branches and leaves to cover the traces left by humans.

When I returned to my hiding place, Fang Yian, who had been unconscious, opened his eyes, but looked at me with a strange look, as if he didn't recognize me anymore.

Could it be that he was captured and tortured or given drugs until he became stupid?

I tried to reach out to him and wipe the dirt off his cheek, but he turned his face away and avoided my action.

"You...you don't remember who I am?" I took a deep breath. He was acting so strangely, it couldn't be that he had lost his memory, it couldn't be so ridiculous!

He didn't say anything, and I don't know if he was too weak to speak.

I took out a life-saving pill, which is very effective in treating external injuries and replenishing blood and qi. I simply pinched his chin and forced a pill into his mouth.

He finally showed some reaction, but it was a violent resistance. It seemed like he was very dissatisfied with the way I fed him the medicine so roughly and wanted to spit it out.

Just kidding, these medicines were given to me by him in the beginning. He said they were priceless and difficult to make, and that they were only used to save his life.

I covered his mouth with my hand and stroked his throat with my hand, forcing him to swallow.

After I got closer, I noticed that he couldn't move freely. I didn't know if he was injured or had some other problem. Just as I was wondering whether to go and find out the route nearby, I heard the sound of arrows.

I immediately climbed to a high place and saw a red smoke signal in the southwest sky. No matter whether it was Ya Nu or Tian He, there would be hope if I could meet up with any one of them.

But I don’t have enough physical strength to carry Fang Yian and follow them. Although he has indeed lost a lot of weight now, running with the weight just now was already my limit.

After thinking it over, I sprinkled some insect repellent around him and then found some leaves and weeds to cover his body.

"Don't move. I'll go get some help and be right back. Don't move!"

As I said that, I found a bigger leaf and covered his face with it. Then I used a dagger to mark a nearby tree trunk and quickly headed towards the direction of the signal.

The signal they send out will definitely not stay in the same place for too long. I can see it, and the people in Youzhou can see it too.

Not long after, I reunited with my people and led them back to look for Fang Yian.

It would naturally be faster for the three of us to act together, but when we returned to the place where I had hidden the person, the leaves and grass that we had used to hide him had all fallen apart, and the person was gone. Only some fresh bloodstains remained to prove that he had indeed been lying here for a while.

"How could this happen? When I left, he couldn't move at all. Could he have been captured by those people again?" I began to regret leaving alone.

Tianhe carefully checked the traces around and shook his head at me. "No, it looks like he crawled out by himself. The bloodstains stopped here. There are two sets of footprints. One set looks like a woman's, and the other is an adult man's. The footprints are deeper, as if he left with a heavy load. Judging from the distance, it's not a martial artist, but more like a local."

After listening to his analysis, I became even more worried. "The people living in the village we found earlier weren't ordinary people, right? How can you be sure that the people who took him away were ordinary people?"

"Just because the people in that village are not ordinary people doesn't mean that the people living nearby are not ordinary people." Tianhe was extremely confident in his judgment.

I was out of ideas, so I took out the firefly insect and tried to exorcise it. But when I opened the box, I found that the insect's body had become transparent and lay there motionless. The mute slave took a look and said, "It's dead."

"This...is this disposable? Didn't Wujiu say that this thing has a long lifespan? How come it died so soon?" I was a little overwhelmed.

Tianhe snorted contemptuously and walked in one direction, "Follow me!"

"Ah? You know where they went? But the footprints are gone, aren't they?"

He walked ahead at a brisk pace, unwilling to explain further, and the mute slave nodded at me, "He is very experienced in field reconnaissance, trust him."

We were heading further away from Youzhou City, and it only took us half a day to find the people who took Fang Yian away.

An ordinary family, a middle-aged couple and a teenage daughter.

After the negotiation, they were honest and said that the male owner and his daughter went into the mountains to collect mountain products and found the injured Fang Yian, so they kindly brought him back to treat him. Their family lived in such a remote place and had some medical knowledge, so they had already applied some herbs to Fang Yian's bleeding wound.

Seeing that we were looking for someone, the other party led us into the house without any suspicion.

After the mute slave examined Fang Yian, he looked at me and explained in a low voice, "He must have been given the pulse-stagnating powder for a long time, which caused the qi in his meridians to be stagnant and his internal energy to be completely lost. In addition, the tendons in his hands and feet were all cut, so he can't move."

"Is there an antidote?"

The mute slave nodded, as if he remembered something, but stopped talking and gave the antidote to Fang Yian first.

Strangely enough, his attitude was much more normal in front of other people, and he was not as resistant to me as before.

After Fang Yian took the antidote, he needed an internal martial arts master to help him regulate his breath, and this task was given to Tianhe.

I went to the yard with the mute slave, and he told me that even if the antidote took effect, Fang Yian would not be able to recover to his previous state. His body was visibly scarred, and he also had a lot of internal injuries. To put it nicely, he might need to rest for a very long time before he could barely take care of himself. To put it bluntly, he had become a useless person.

After hearing this, I couldn't calm down for a long time.

Even if there really was a rebellious force in Youzhou City, Jiang Huan could have eliminated it no matter what he did. He had to send the leader of the Imperial Dragon Guard to personally complete the secret order. He just wanted to use the mission to get rid of Fang Yian. The dog is cooked after the rabbit dies. Even I understand this principle, so Fang Yian should understand it too.

Maybe in this state, it would be better for him to die directly. So he couldn't face me, and when he saw me, he wanted to avoid me and didn't want to be touched by me.

Suddenly there was some noise in the house, something was broken, then a heavy object fell to the ground, and there was a woman's scream, but the sharp sound stopped abruptly as if it was blocked by someone as soon as it came out.

I was shocked and hurried back to the house. I saw blood all over the floor. The couple had fallen in a pool of blood, and their daughter was being strangled by Tianhe. I just shouted to stop when I heard a crack of bones. The little girl's head tilted to the side at a strange angle, her eyes wide open, tears silently falling from the corners of her eyes.

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