Chapter 284
After dealing with all the pursuers, Xiao Jin transformed into his human form, bent down under the tree, picked up Shen Tang, and continued to walk forward with her.
Who knows how long they walked.
A long string of footprints trailed across the snow, spanning most of the forest, even the blizzard couldn’t catch up.
Xiao Jin arrived at a secluded hilltop, where the environment was quiet and undisturbed.
He laid Shen Tang down at the edge and transformed into his beast form again, digging a deep pit on the spot, large enough to accommodate two people.
He hesitated for a moment, let out a sorrowful, crying-like low growl, then turned his head, gently held the female with his mouth, and jumped into the pit.
The Black Panther lay at the bottom, serving as a cushion, allowing the female to rest on him.
He extended his tongue, carefully licking the female’s pale cheeks, cleaning off the filthy blood and fallen snow that had splattered on her body.
After completing all this, Xiao Jin closed his eyes, holding the female in his arms, motionless.
The snow fell steadily, quickly burying the undulations of the ground, making the two figures invisible.
In a daze, Shen Tang felt an indescribable stuffiness, but quickly, that stuffiness transformed into a bone-deep coldness, cold enough to kill!
In the torment of the two extremes of ice and fire, she slowly regained consciousness, her body too recovering its temperature and strength.
She barely opened a crack in her eyes, but saw only darkness, where was this? Underground? So cold p>
Heaps of broken snow buried her, the air was thin, she was nearly unable to breathe, her body instinctually began to struggle.
In his drowsy consciousness, Xiao Jin felt the person in his arms move. At first, he thought it was his near-death hallucination, but as the movements increased, the familiar warmth pressed against his body, waking him with a start.
Xiao Jin’s nearly frozen body quickly regained strength, rising up to break through the snow and return to the surface.
“Hiss p>
Pulled by inertia, he rolled twice on the ground, hearing a faint cry of pain from beneath him.
Xiao Jin quickly propped himself up, his bent legs pressed on the person below him, looking down dumbstuck at the awakening Shen Tang.
His large hand trembled up to her cheek, thinking he was dreaming, Tangtang? You, you’re still alive p>
Finally breathing air, Shen Tang gasped, a thin red appearing on her cheeks. When her vision cleared, she also saw the living Xiao Jin, her eyes momentarily blank.
Xiao Jin’s condition was not good, his body covered in injuries, his handsome face gaunt and weary, his eyes bloodshot, even his voice hoarse as if his vocal cords were scraped by sand and stone.
Xiao Jin held Shen Tang’s hand, pressing it onto his chiseled handsome face, carefully feeling the warmth in her palm.
“Tangtang, it really is you, right? You didn’t scare me, you, you’re still alive, I’m not dreaming… all of this is real The man’s broad and slender hand pressed firmly yet tremblingly, completely losing his usual easy-going demeanor, hoarsely repeating her name as if to confirm her existence.
Shen Tang blankly looked at him for a few seconds, suddenly raising her hand to hook around his neck, sinking down, and pressing her lips to his.
Tears fell from her eyes.
Xiao Jin held his breath, then closed his eyes, held Shen Tang’s waist, sinking with her into the snow, in this moment of warmth.
The man’s kiss was hot and lingering, quickly taking the lead.
But this time, he was not as reckless as before, exceptionally cautious, gentle and precious, fearing to accidentally scare her away, disappearing once more.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host, Xiao Jin’s affinity has broken through to deep love p>
[Reward: Forgetfulness Water×1, when any character uses Forgetfulness Water, they can forget a deep emotion, permanently unrecoverable, please use with caution p>
[Reward: Truth Revealed deduction opportunity×1, which can be used for truth deduction, gather evidence, and expose the mastermind publicly p>
[Reward to host: Disguise Tool: Thousand Faces. Please note, this tool cannot be used for a long time, or it will damage the face, and the tool cannot get wet, otherwise it loses effect, please remember p>
A series of system surprise prompts suddenly sounded in her mind, if it were any other time, Shen Tang would have been overjoyed, but right now she wasn’t too much in the mood to pay attention to those rewards.
After the kiss ended, Shen Tang gently caressed the wounds on Xiao Jin’s face, and his red eyes, softly asking, “What happened, why do you look so wretched again p>
Unexpectedly, when she spoke, it seemed to instantly hit the man’s tear switch, he held her tightly, burying his head in her neck, crying uncontrollably.
She only remembered herself falling asleep uncontrollably while waiting for Xiao Jin to wake up, and when she awoke, it was now.
The system explained, [Host, due to the side effects of the Frenzy Potion, your body entered a false death state after exhaustion, which lasted a whole 24 hours, during which Xiao Jin, upon waking, seeing you not breathing, thought you really died, and after dealing with the pursuers, dug a pit intending to die with you p>
Shen Tang was filled with shock; she originally thought the side effects of the Frenzy Potion at most would leave her weak and unconscious, never expecting to enter a false death state.
She had only been unconscious for a day, and she almost got buried alive by Xiao Jin p>
Fortunately, the false death state only lasted for 24 hours; if it lasted any longer, she truly wouldn’t have survived.
Thinking of this, Shen Tang laughed through her tears, burying her head in his shoulder, muffled, “Stupid panther, I went through so much trouble to save you, and you almost buried me alive, wait until we get back, I’ll settle the score with you p>
Saying that, she gave a light pinch on his waist, feeling both angry and amused.
This act of venting yet filled with affection made Xiao Jin more certain of her existence.
Xiao Jin let go of Shen Tang, staring intently at her moist eyes, and her lips reddened by kissing, his throat bobbing, softly speaking, “I thought you were really gone p>
He was happy yet aggrieved, “What exactly happened? At the time, you didn’t even have breath, your body cold and stiff, not a hint of survival sign, so I was thinking of finding a place to bury you, I didn’t expect you were still alive p>
Shen Tang hugged the man’s broad and solid waist, gently nuzzling her nose against his chest, explaining, “Don’t worry, I’m still fine, it’s the after-effects of taking the Frenzy Potion p>
Xiao Jin, having once fought against the City Lord, understood somewhat upon hearing the mention of the Frenzy Potion.
Shen Tang continued explaining, “At the time… the situation was extremely urgent, you were seriously injured, unconscious, near death, I had no other way, so I took that bottle of Frenzy Potion from the space, temporarily increasing strength, to get us out, but I didn’t expect the newly developed Frenzy Potion’s side effect to be false death p>
“Sorry to make you worry for so long p>
Shen Tang dared not recount the full truth of that time, skimming over it quickly, in the end using her Healing Ability to save him.
Anyway, aside from Zaxxis, all other witnesses of that experience were dead, Xiao Jin would never know.
She didn’t want the proud Xiao Jin to know he had been so humiliated.
Additionally, the Life Reviving Pill couldn’t be explained, so she simply skipped over it.