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After the four women entered the cave, Lu Yunshi came to Long Lingling's side, picked her up and walked behind a big tree. Seeing Long Lingling's slightly trembling eyelashes, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Look at you, all silly-looking, but you're quite good at pretending to be asleep."

As soon as she finished speaking, Long Lingling, who had just been seriously injured and unconscious, opened her eyes, got off Lu Yunshi, and looked unhappy. "Big brother is a bad guy, I told you I'm not stupid."

"I know, saying you're silly is a compliment on how cute you are." Lu Yunshi nodded emphatically, giving his explanation. Long Lingling listened thoughtfully, seemingly understanding Lu Yunshi's praise, but also feeling that something was off.

Before the other party could react, Lu Yunshi looked towards the cave entrance. "So, are you satisfied with the result?"

Upon hearing this, Long Lingling fell silent instantly, lowering her head and not saying a word.

"It seems they're not satisfied." Lu Yunshi sighed upon seeing this. "But then again, seeing you lying on the ground seriously injured, they didn't even ask about your condition or offer you a single medicine. They only focused on their own concerns. This isn't how someone who wants to be your friend would act. In the end, after your reminder, they still chose to go in. In the end, whatever problems arise, it's not our fault."

It would have been better if he hadn't said anything, but the more Lu Yunshi talked, the more aggrieved Long Lingling felt, and tears instantly streamed down her face. "I was sincere, so why did they only want to use me? I don't understand, I really don't understand."

As she choked up, Long Lingling cleverly raised her head, seemingly trying to stop the tears from actually coming out. However, Lu Yunshi was at a loss for words as he looked at her eyes, which seemed to be overflowing with tears.

"Alright! Alright! There aren't that many good people in this world. You've lived for hundreds of years, and you've only met one person like me. So it's normal that you'd meet so many bad people." Lu Yunshi patted Long Lingling's back, offering words of comfort tinged with his own agenda.

Suddenly, the ground shook, and there seemed to be some noise coming from inside the cave.

Feeling the vibrations coming from inside the cave, Long Lingling sniffed and then looked at Lu Yun.

What if they start fighting with the monsters inside?

"What should we do?" Lu Yunshi's eyes darted around. "There's not much we can do. You're afraid to fight monsters, and I don't have the skills. We can only leave it to fate. Maybe when they're about to lose, we can go in and pick up... help them. Yes, go in and help them."

"But..." Long Lingling pouted, thought for a moment, and still asked, "What if something really happens to them?"

"Nothing will happen. If something really goes wrong, they'll definitely run away. In a battle between Body Tempering Realm cultivators, if they can't win, running away is easy, isn't it?"

“Oh.” Long Lingling nodded; Lu Yunshi’s earnest and firm tone quickly convinced her.

"By the way, what were those talismans you put on me after you let me into the cave, big brother? And what about this one on me?" Long Lingling asked, tearing a talisman from her sleeve.

"This is a concealment talisman, used to hide your aura. It will prevent the monsters in the cave from smelling your scent and make them believe that you are seriously injured. The other two are silence talismans, used for soundproofing. After you put them on, the sound within a certain range will be blocked."

"So after my older brother told me to play the image from the recording stone, the monsters inside acted as if they hadn't heard anything." Long Lingling suddenly realized, her eyes filled with surprise and admiration as she looked at Lu Yunshi.

"Big brother is so amazing, I never thought of these things."

"Haha, it's nothing special." Lu Yunshi waved his hand. A few talismans that were not very useful, a recording stone that recorded some fragments of battles with demonic beasts, and a small piece of incense and candles were the things that Lu Yunshi used to deceive Lanlan and the other three girls.

The talisman and the recording stone were of course not enough to convince the four women; in fact, they were full of flaws. They weren't stupid, and they could naturally tell the difference between the real and the fake.

Therefore, the role of incense and candles is very important. Taking advantage of people's inattention, the incense and candles, which randomly judge their minds, have long since cast a halo of lowering their intelligence on the four women, and they naturally lose all doubt about everything in front of them.

Of course, part of this is because they subconsciously want to see these things happen.

Ultimately, this only applies to body-tempering cultivators. In this mountain where most of the inhabitants are wild beasts, the danger is minimal, so they don't have much of a sense of caution.

At this moment, Long Lingling's expression suddenly changed. She raised her head and cautiously met Lu Yunshi's gaze.

"Big brother, if they were two demonic beasts, they wouldn't be in any danger, would they?"

"Two?" Lu Yunshi pretended to think for a moment. "If it were two demonic beasts, they would probably die."

"what?"

Long Lingling trembled all over, her face pale as she looked towards the cave entrance.

The next second, accompanied by two fierce roars, Lanlan and her three companions ran out of the cave. At this moment, they were in a terrible state. Lanlan was covered in blood, and the short girl stumbled and fell to the ground, her life hanging in the balance. The remaining two girls clutched their bleeding abdomens, looking like they were about to die.

"Damn it! The monsters inside weren't injured at all, and there were two of them! That bitch lied to us, she must have done it on purpose." The red-haired woman's face was full of anger as she looked at the two rock-armored tigers that slowly walked out of the cave, but the fear in her heart immediately overshadowed her anger.

"Damn it, why are there two? There was only one last time I came!" The woman wearing the bracelet was pale and kept moving backward.

Although one of the two demonic beasts was in the mid-stage of Body Tempering and the other in the late-stage, their combined strength was no match for the four of them. They were almost wiped out shortly after entering the cave, even worse than last time, and their chance of escaping was extremely slim.

Lanlan looked at the two rock tigers with their mouths open towards her. Her fear was no less than that of the other two, but she was still a little calmer than her two companions.

"Okay, I'll distract them first, and you two take her and go ahead."

Although her voice trembled, Sister Lanlan gripped the iron sword tightly in her hand, her eyes fixed on the movements of the two rock tigers.

"Why are you staying here? What nonsense are you spouting?" The red-haired woman immediately objected upon hearing Lanlan's words.

“I didn’t say anything stupid. She’s still alive, but if we don’t get her to a safe place soon, she’ll really die. Now I’m the only one who can stay here.”

As she spoke, Sister Lanlan gave a bitter smile. "Back then, we were fighting for food in a garbage dump. When we finally found a chance to enter the academy, we dragged you all along with us. We thought we could live a better life, but who knew that we would die after only a few years? It's really ridiculous."

"Bullshit! What do you mean 'die'?" The red-haired woman couldn't help but curse, but when she looked at the girl lying on the ground, her life hanging in the balance, she couldn't help but say, "You're just going to die if you stay here alone. If I stay with you, we'll have a better chance of escaping. Honghong, you take her with you."

“But…” The woman with the bracelet, Honghong, hesitated as she looked at the two of them.

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm older than you, listen to me." The red-haired woman stared at the other person with an unquestionable gaze. Seeing this, Honghong quickly made a decision, picked up the short girl on the ground, and quickly moved away.