LWGP - Chapter 24
Chapter 24: Murdered
So many goblins had been killed on the plane earlier. Green blood had flown everywhere, and quite a few people had been splattered!
Everyone began checking themselves for bloodstains, while Wang Jiu asked Xiao Li, "Besides your thigh, is there pain anywhere else? Did it start from the thigh?"
Xiao Li was very certain. "Yes, it started itching and hurting there first. I thought it was because the wound had split open, but then I started feeling a bit drowsy… It still hurts there now, but the area is starting to expand, spreading up and down."
As he spoke, he paused, then subconsciously glanced between his legs, his heart tightening. What depressed him most was that the crowd of people around him also looked on with regret… Regret?
Damn it! This young master isn't useless yet!
Although Xiao Li was angry, he knew what was good for him. Just as he was about to beg Wang Jiu to save him, Wang Jiu pressed several spots on him with her fingers to check his reaction. Then, she placed the Rookie's Dagger against the side of his wound and said gently, "The toxin entered through the wound. Because the epidermis has a protective function, at least the others aren't showing any reaction for now. With limited equipment, we can only try to remove the toxin using an ancient physical method. Is that okay?"
Xiao Li: "What physical method are you talking about?"
Wang Jiu: "Cutting out the flesh."
Oh, a very ancient physical method indeed.
Miss, you really are a ruthless person of few words.
Xiao Li also knew the toxin had likely already entered his body through the exposed flesh. A surface wash would be useless; the blood vessels under the wound had already turned green. The longer that piece of toxin-infused flesh remained on his body, the greater the damage would be.
"Okay, you do it!" This time, Xiao Li was exceptionally decisive. Wang Jiu then had Wang Peng fetch a bottle of water from a nearby service counter and used it to clean the Rookie's Dagger.
This was a professional habit. Fortunately, it didn't take much time.
In just a moment, Xiao Li watched as Wang Jiu leaned over slightly. Her features were picturesque, as if touched by misty light, but her eyes were exceptionally calm, showing no signs of nervousness. She was as serene and natural as a chef chopping meat before cooking.
Am I a dish to be served?
Hmm, probably not even that.
He felt an inexplicable panic. He was about to ask Wang Peng to hold down his leg, lest a reflexive twitch from the pain cause her to cut off too much flesh—he knew this woman was capable of such a ruthless act!
But before he could speak, he saw Wang Jiu grip the dagger in her right hand and press her left hand onto his thigh.
Many people looked away in fear. Even Xiao Li himself averted his gaze, looking up. He suddenly saw something, and his dizziness inexplicably intensified, and then…
"Enjoying the view?"
"What? Ah—"
Xiao Li screamed even louder than Wang Peng had before. His thigh did indeed twitch reflexively, but with his Strength attribute of 1, how could he hope to resist Wang Jiu's Strength of 4?
A full four times!
No matter how his upper body convulsed in agony, his thigh remained perfectly still. A sizable piece of flesh from the wound… was swiftly carved out by the dagger.
It was really no different from a butcher selling pork at the market.
"A pound of pork belly?"
"Coming right up!"
The scene was utterly gruesome and horrifying, yet the cut was also precise and clean. In the blink of an eye, she casually tossed the piece of flesh onto his abdomen. It slid down and came to rest between his legs.
Such a fresh piece of meat.
Wang Peng's mouth twitched, and his throat felt a little dry.
But for a highly skilled chief of surgery, this was truly nothing.
A more responsible person might have taken the opportunity to check the wound for vital reactions, and then see if the "two taels of flesh" between his legs was still responsive.
Wang Jiu had no such idle curiosity, so she skipped that step.
Xiao Li was seeing stars from the pain, but he still remembered to grit his teeth and defend himself, "I wasn't peeking!"
"Oh, so you really did see something?"
"You!! Your button was undone! I'm not blind!"
At first, Wang Peng didn't know what Xiao Li was talking about, but now he understood. He subconsciously looked over and noticed that the top button of the young lady's shirt was undone. Normally, this was fine, but just now when she leaned over to look at the wound and cut the flesh, her collar had dipped down. Even now, you could see her fair, delicate skin and the exquisite, pale halves of her collarbones on either side. So before… cleavage?
The young lady has cleavage?
She was 1.7 meters tall, but she weighed less than fifty kilograms.
Perhaps Wang Peng's gaze and expression were too obvious. As Wang Jiu finished up, she shot him a faint glance. Wang Peng shivered and immediately rebuked Xiao Li, "Ah Li, how can you be so shameless! How can I be brothers with you in the future!"
Xiao Li: "???"
What the hell, backstabbing me on the spot?
He really didn't do it on purpose!
Wang Jiu took the first-aid kit brought by the airport staff, opened it, took out a bandage, and began to simply dress Xiao Li's wound. She was still leaning over, her button still undone, but her eyes were lowered, and a strand of hair fell gently beside her ear, swaying slightly with her movements.
Delicate, ticklish, making one want to reach out and gently tuck it behind her ear.
But no one dared to.
Xiao Li's thoughts drifted again. His mind wandered, and he felt the sharp pain in his leg wasn't so bad anymore. But then he suddenly heard her speak a sentence without even looking up.
"I don't like little boys."
Xiao Li's heart pounded. He wanted to deny it, but he also felt like something inside him had just been riddled with bullets from a sniper rifle.
He was suddenly wide awake.
She was too far from him. Not in distance, but in stature.
That made sense. Many social elites actually looked down on second-generation rich kids like him, though most would feign flattery for the sake of personal gain.
He could understand.
"I get it. Director Wang, you have a real knack for crushing hopes before they even start. No wonder few men at the hospital can get past the front desk's line of defense. But I'm not a little boy. I'm 24."
Xiao Li said with a resigned sigh, his emotions now stable.
He knew that if a woman was willing to give a man a chance, even if the front desk were a fortress of bronze and iron, a man could find a ladder to climb over it.
But if she wasn't, he could only be stopped by the perfunctory replies at the front desk.
Wang Jiu chuckled lightly and wrapped the last layer of the bandage around his leg, but then she heard someone approaching from behind.
"Excuse me, thank you, please make way."
Xiao Li, Wang Peng, and the others saw a respectable-looking young man in a sharp suit making his way through the gap in the crowd, his demeanor polite yet urgent. Upon seeing Wang Jiu, his eyes lit up, and he quickened his pace toward her.
Huh? The young lady has a lapdog?
He looked like an elite from the financial world; he was dressed the part.
So nervous, with tears in his eyes? Are their feelings that deep?
"Boss!"
As it turned out, after the young man reached Wang Jiu's side, she looked up, frowned, and asked, "What is it?"
He was indeed very nervous, and growing more so, seemingly struggling with whether to speak. Wang Jiu had already turned her face away and said, "If you can keep it to yourself for the rest of your life, then don't say it."
Only then did Qi Jun grit his teeth, crouch down beside her, and say in a hoarse voice, "The Old Lady has met with disaster."
Wang Jiu's movements paused, and she turned to stare at him.
Qi Jun kept his head down, avoiding her gaze, but his eyes were brimming with hot tears. "The dungeon in that classroom is over. But only two people survived. Everyone else died. Because the dungeon was special, they didn't get a second chance."
"This is all from the two survivors. They also said the Old Lady was among them… and she's not coming back."
Not coming back.
He didn't care how much game knowledge this information would reveal to the ignorant, or how much shock it would bring to those already familiar with the game.
There were supposed to be three chances, so how could someone die permanently on the first try?
Qi Jun didn't dare to look up from beginning to end. Wang Jiu, however, turned her face away and continued bandaging Xiao Li, whose expression was now complicated. Wang Peng and the others looked like they wanted to speak but ultimately remained silent.
Wang Jiu quickly finished treating the wound, then stood up. She walked a few steps to the side, then walked back and asked Qi Jun, "Do you have a cigarette?"
"I only have men's cigarettes."
"It doesn't matter."
Qi Jun took out his cigarette case, pulled one out, and then took out a classic, old-fashioned lighter to light it for her. But she took both the lighter and the cigarette from him.
Her slender fingers brought the cigarette to her thin lips, and she held it there lightly. Click! The lighter sparked, but only a few embers appeared. Was it broken?
Qi Jun grew even more nervous. He wanted to say something, and even more, he wanted to help, but in the end, he didn't move. He just watched as Wang Jiu, expressionless, flicked it again and again. Finally, on the fifth try, it caught—a blue core with a yellow outer flame, flickering and trembling gently.
Her hand was shaking.
She brought the flame to the cigarette and lit it. Then she turned around, her back to the crowd, facing the floor-to-ceiling window and the vast world outside.
She took a deep drag, then moved the cigarette back to her fingers. The smoke swirled faintly. The glass reflected only a partial image of her figure and face, and the crimson in her eyes seemed to have been swallowed by it.
This continued until Qi Dong arrived with some people, apparently looking specifically for her.
However, Qi Jun was surprised to see Qi Dong. "Brother?"
Qi Dong was also taken aback for a moment, but he quickly said, "Ma'am, do you have a moment? We have some questions about a situation and need your help… Also, this is a non-smoking area."
The system was down, so he couldn't check the flight information. He had to ask the airport staff to track her down.
After Qi Dong finished his last sentence, he saw her turn to look at him.
Qi Dong was startled.
"My apologies." Wang Jiu apologized, then stubbed out the cigarette, which was only a third smoked, and put it in a nearby trash can.
"Thank you for your cooperation. Now then…"
"My only family member is dead. Do you think I have a moment?"
"…"
Qi Dong fell silent for a moment, then said, "My apologies."
Wang Jiu gave a slight nod and returned the lighter to Qi Jun. "I'll probably be very busy for the next few days. If you need anything in the future that I can help with, I will certainly cooperate."
Wang Jiu left with Qi Jun. Seeing this, Wang Peng ran a few steps after them, shouting, "Sis, sis, you have a wound on your shoulder, and that goblin blood! You have to be careful, sis!"
Wang Jiu didn't turn around. She simply took off her trench coat, used a clean part of it to wipe the goblin blood from her body, and then casually tossed the coat into a passing trash can.
Even her departing figure carried an air of coldness and restraint.
After Qi Jun started the car, he asked Wang Jiu, who was sitting silently in the back seat with her eyes closed, where she wanted to go.
"The school or the Old Lady's house?"
"Who are the two survivors?"
The car pulled onto the road, and Qi Jun answered.
"Yang Yu and Zhang Dongcheng… Is that the Yang Yu from Jingyang International? What was he doing in the classroom?"
"Yes, Chairman Yang's only son. He was chasing one of the Old Lady's students, a campus belle. He's been pestering her a lot lately and specifically went to sit in on the class."
Jingyang International was one of the school's sponsors, one of the city's top ten enterprises, and one of the nation's top 100. As the sole heir destined to inherit a vast fortune, his arrogance, hedonism, and violent tendencies were well known.
In the past, this young master had always chased after the young women from the art schools. This time, he had suddenly taken a fancy to a medical school's campus belle, making a big fuss about it that many people knew of.
"The Old Lady didn't like him, did she?"
Qi Jun was startled but still replied, "Yes. The Old Lady protected that girl a few times."
"She wasn't afraid of these rich kids. She would have definitely driven him out right then. Why didn't he leave the classroom?"
Her question was very abrupt and sharp.
Anyone else would have been stumped, but Qi Jun was cautious and had already asked. "The incident happened shortly after class started. The Old Lady probably didn't have time."
Besides, that young master wasn't the type to listen to others.
But Qi Jun didn't dare say this. He was afraid it would lead to implications that would cause his boss to take certain actions.
The Yang family was not to be trifled with.
Fortunately, Wang Jiu didn't continue to focus on this Yang Yu. She just asked lightly, "Where does Zhang Dongcheng live?"
Qi Jun's heart skipped a beat.
This was…?
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