Chapter 1263 - 1266: A Casual Rescue (Part 1)
Chapter 1263: Chapter 1266: A Casual Rescue (Part 1)
"What’s wrong?" Princess Consort Le asked in confusion.
Lin Xi froze for a second. Looking at Princess Consort Le, she clearly hadn’t heard anything.
Fair enough.
He’d only barely caught it himself; with Princess Consort Le being much weaker than him, it was perfectly normal she didn’t hear it.
It’s just, how could there be someone calling for help in a place this wild?
He and Princess Consort Le had walked a long way to get here.
The path and everything had disappeared long ago.
And in this kind of scenic area, there were still some aggressive wild animals around.
So basically nobody would leave the main trail and come into a place like this.
Let alone do what the two of them did—force their way through and open up a path no one used.
"Sounds like someone’s calling for help over there. Let’s go take a look," he said.
Princess Consort Le nodded and glanced in the direction Lin Xi pointed.
As for why she didn’t hear it but Lin Xi did, she didn’t dwell on it.
After all, in her mind Lin Xi was already a mysterious expert.
The two of them picked their way along, quickly heading in the direction of the sound.
The paths in this kind of forest were actually very hard to walk.
Every now and then there were thorns, vines and so on.
But for people with their level of strength, it was basically like walking on flat ground.
Before long, they found the source of the sound.
And they also saw a giant wild boar weighing around three hundred jin.
The boar’s bristles looked much longer and harder than a domestic pig’s, like steel needles growing all over its body.
Its pig face was vicious, especially the tusks at its mouth.
Just looking at it sent a chill down your spine.
In front of the wild boar stood an old man who looked about sixty or seventy.
His outfit was obviously a hiking style.
Not the backpacker kind, but the pure "climb the mountain for exercise" type.
Fortunately there were a lot of ancient trees here, otherwise he’d probably have been rammed into serious injury by the boar already.
But judging from the bruises and reds all over his face, and his clothes torn to shreds, he clearly wasn’t having an easy time as it was.
"I’ll go save him!" Lin Xi said, and directly leaped forward.
Princess Consort Le stayed put, her gaze instinctively sweeping around.
Seeing no other danger, she relaxed quite a bit.
Or maybe she was worried this was some setup by that mysterious man from the Leqing Sect.
After all, in a place this wild, an old man suddenly shows up.
And it just so happens to be right after they came out of the Secret Realm—isn’t that a bit too coincidental?
But since she didn’t find anything off, she dropped the suspicion.
As for Lin Xi going to save someone, she wasn’t worried at all.
It was just a wild boar.
Even if it was a Boar King, it wouldn’t be Lin Xi’s match.
Honestly, even a basic special forces soldier could handle a Boar King.
Let alone an Innate.
Just Lin Xi’s aura alone could scare it into pissing itself.
Seeing a stranger approach, the boar bared its tusks at Lin Xi, looking like it was about to charge and ram.
The old man’s face lit up when he saw a young man arrive.
But then his expression changed again and he shouted, "Kid, be careful!"
"This wild boar is scary as hell!"
Lin Xi nodded slightly at the old man, then looked again at the boar that was issuing a warning before attacking, and let out a soft, cold snort.
The vicious, murderous wild boar immediately shuddered.
It almost plopped its butt right down on the ground.
When it looked at Lin Xi again, its eyes were like it had just met a natural enemy.
"Still not rolling?" he said.
The boar kept backing away, then spun around and bolted.
And as it ran, it even tripped and fell a few times.
It wasn’t that it could literally understand Lin Xi’s words, but it got the general idea.
The old man hiding behind a tree was completely dumbfounded.
It was like you could see a face full of question marks on him.
Only after a while, when Princess Consort Le walked over, did the old man ask a bit nervously, "You two are... people, right?"
Lin Xi: "..."
Do I not look like a person?
Princess Consort Le couldn’t help but burst out laughing. "Uncle, of course we’re people!"
"Or do we not look like it?"
The old man subconsciously nodded, but immediately shook his head again, still looking shaken. "That’s not what I meant."
"I was just too shocked just now!"
Princess Consort Le held back her laughter and walked up to him, glancing over his injuries. It was just some scrapes, nothing serious.
It was just that his ankle seemed a bit sprained, so walking was somewhat inconvenient.
After that, Lin Xi helped the old man up, and the group headed toward the main road.
On the way, Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le figured things out.
The old man was a local. He’d wanted to go into the mountain to pick some mushrooms, but ended up running into a wild boar—and a Boar King at that.
As soon as the Boar King saw him, it went berserk and charged him.
Later he figured it out: the Boar King probably thought he’d barged into its territory, so it attacked.
Normally, wild boars don’t actively attack people unless you really piss them off.
Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le didn’t say much about that.
The old man reflected on it himself.
In the future he shouldn’t leave the main road or go deep in alone.
No matter how you put it, life is precious; it’s not something a few mushrooms can compare to.
By the time they’d helped him down the mountain, the old man’s ankle was pretty much fine.
He had Lin Xi to thank for that.
Not long after Lin Xi started helping him walk, he’d given the old man a restorative massage.
Besides, the old man’s ankle injury hadn’t been very serious to begin with.
So it made sense that it was okay now.
"So Uncle’s actually loaded!" Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le exchanged a look, then turned to stare again at the brand-new Land Rover in front of them.
This Land Rover had to be at least over a million.
The old man opened the door and got in.
When Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le were about to leave, the old man refused to let them.
He insisted on dragging the two of them to his home as guests.
To him, even a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring, let alone a life-saving grace.
There was another reason too: the old man felt these two young people were anything but ordinary.
Princess Consort Le actually wasn’t that young, but on the outside she still looked like she was only in her twenties.
On the way, the old man had also asked what their relationship was.
Princess Consort Le had answered that they were siblings.
The old man didn’t say anything out loud, but his face showed a bit of doubt.
After all, Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le didn’t look alike at all.
But then again, siblings who don’t look much alike are everywhere.
The old man was also a sensible person.
He didn’t ask how the two of them had heard his cries for help, or why they happened to be nearby.
Of course, with his years of experience, he could tell they weren’t bad people.
If they weren’t bad, then there was no problem!
So he immediately invited them over to his home as guests.
If they’d been bad, he would’ve given them some money afterward as thanks.
As for other things, like inviting them to his home, that simply wouldn’t have happened.
The old man was a very steady driver, and quite fast too. It took them about an hour from the scenic area to arrive in front of a standalone villa.
Lin Xi just gave it a glance and knew right away this was definitely a luxury home!
In terms of scenery and environment, the villa he and Bai Bing had bought couldn’t compare at all.
It’s just, why would someone this rich still go alone into a deserted part of a scenic area to look for mushrooms?
That didn’t quite add up.
After all, getting someone to go out and buy some wild mushrooms would be easy.
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