Quick Transmigration: My System is a Big Liar

This was the first time they had ever seen such a useful sleeping potion. If they could buy more, their efficiency in carrying out missions would be much higher. But now was not the time to talk about that.

Turning around, I noticed that the man in black who had just been lying on the ground had somehow gotten up. I quickly shouted loudly,

"Madam Wu, watch your back."

No sooner had the guards finished speaking than a thick stick flew out of the woods, grazing Du Yuejiao's ear and striking the man in black squarely on the head, knocking him unconscious once more.

This time, the guard didn't hesitate and directly slit the man in black's throat.

The next moment, a tall and muscular figure appeared in their line of sight.

It was already slightly light, and many hardworking families in the village had already gotten up. The men went to the fields to do farm work, while the women stayed at home cooking, washing clothes, and doing housework.

As she got closer, Du Yuejiao realized that it was actually Shi Xiao who had come to her aid.

Did he just come back from the slaughterhouse?

What a coincidence!

They had dinner together last night, so the two guards knew each other. They nodded to each other as a greeting, and then went to deal with the body of the man in black.

Although getting on the road is the priority, the body cannot be left lying around on the road like this. This road is the only road connecting the nearby villages to the town, and it would be bad if it frightened the people.

"Are you injured? Where are you injured? How serious is it?" Shi Xiao felt a little panicked when he saw that Du Yuejiao's body and face were covered in blood. His tone was full of anxiety and worry, but he didn't realize it at the moment.

Du Yuejiao sensed the worry in his words but didn't take it to heart. She smiled and thanked him, "Brother Shi Xiao, thank you for saving me just now. I'm fine. It's all someone else's blood."

"Really?" Shi Xiao frowned. His tone wasn't very friendly this time because he noticed that Du Yuejiao's arm was clearly injured, but she smiled and told him it was nothing.

Du Yuejiao followed his gaze and saw a large, deep wound on his left arm. The wound was still bleeding, and blood was dripping down his arm and onto the ground.

Du Yuejiao pursed her lips, unable to think of an excuse for a moment. She decided to bandage her wound first to avoid bleeding to death later.

My attention was focused on the man in black, so I didn't feel much pain. It would have been better if I hadn't mentioned it, but now I only feel a burning pain in the wound on my arm.

He took out a bottle of wound medicine from his bundle with his right hand.

"I'll do it." Shi Xiao didn't give her a chance to refuse. He took the wound medicine from her hand, sprinkled it gently on the wound, and then tied it with her clean handkerchief.

The remaining wound medicine was stuffed back into her hand. Looking at Shi Xiao, who was silently helping the guards dispose of the corpse, Du Yuejiao was a little confused and felt that Shi Xiao was acting strangely today.

His temper is strange, and his actions are strange too, making him a bit of a mystery to people.

She doesn't seem to have offended Shi Xiao!

Do men also have those few days every month?

So, are you feeling irritable?

With Shi Xiao's help, the bodies were soon all thrown off a sheer cliff several miles away.

It is said that this cliff is bottomless and wild beasts roam below, so villagers usually don't come here to cut firewood or hunt.

After the two guards finished applying the medicine to each other, they looked at each other and one of them clasped his hands and said to Shi Xiao, "Thank you for your help, Young Master Shi. We have important business to attend to and need to get to the city as soon as possible. We'll take our leave now."

They encountered an assassination attempt as soon as they left the village. The road back to the prefectural city is likely to be fraught with danger. In any case, the two brothers will make sure to get Madam Wu safely to the prefectural city.

Shi Xiao said, "You are all injured, and I'm afraid you'll be in trouble on the road... Well then, I happen to have something to do in the prefectural city, so I'll travel with you and we can look after each other on the way."

The guards had already witnessed Shi Xiao's skills. With Shi Xiao by their side, things would be easier for them. Of course, they wouldn't refuse, but they still needed to make things clear.

“We are happy to welcome Young Master Shi if he is willing to come along, but we are afraid that our journey will not be peaceful. We were surrounded as soon as we left the village, and the road ahead will be even more dangerous. If you come with us, you may be implicated.”

Shi Xiao waved his hand, "I happen to have some skills, and I might be able to help."

Since he grew up, his emotions have always been very stable. Even when faced with his younger brother and sister-in-law's endless demands and physical attacks, he was able to calmly deal with them.

But today, facing the injured Du Yuejiao, he felt anger, self-blame, panic, worry, and many other unfamiliar emotions.

He was eager to find out why all of this was happening.

"Good, good, good," the guard said three times.

We set off again, and it was already broad daylight.

Du Yuejiao sat on Shi Xiao's chest, her body stiff. As the horse ran, her body fell backward uncontrollably, and even though she tried her best to control it, she felt it was all in vain.

Her back bumped into Shi Xiao's chest, making her wince in pain, and she silently moved forward a little.

"Don't move."

The man's rough, deep voice rang in her ears, and his warm breath brushed against her ear, startling her so much that she dared not move. She lay on the horse's back and whispered, "How about I buy another horse when we get to town?"

"It's too late, hold on tight!" The horse sped up again and galloped toward the side path.

Du Yuejiao also noticed something strange in the forest; it was unusually quiet, and even the usual bird calls and cicada chirps were nowhere to be heard.

The horse galloped wildly, with the people in hot pursuit. Before long, they were once again surrounded by men in black who seemed to descend from the sky.

One, two, three... This time there were more than twice as many people as before, a full twenty, to deal with the four of them.

One of them was a girl who was completely helpless.

Startled, the horse took off running. Shi Xiao pulled her down from the horse and stood in their encirclement.

"Up"

At the command of the leader in black, the men in black charged forward with weapons.

The leader in black was clearly after the bag on her back, and without saying a word, he attacked her directly.

Shi Xiao met the attack with his bare hands, throwing punches straight at his opponent. His fists were accompanied by a whooshing sound, each punch more ferocious than the last, relentlessly attacking his opponent's vital points.

The leader in black initially paid no attention to the countryman. In his view, even if the man had some skill, it was no match for the weapon in his hand.

Unfortunately, he misjudged the situation and lost his life.

Punches, each as heavy as a thousand pounds, rained down on him. He could no longer defend himself and had to retreat until his body flew backward and crashed into dozens of trees behind him before finally stopping. A large knife, as if it had eyes, landed straight on him.

With their leader dead, and Shi Xiao's Thousand Gold Fist striking one after another with ghostly speed, the men in black were all wiped out without a single survivor.