The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#529 - Perfect cooperation

Lu Jing rubbed his knees, finally understanding what his opponents had been feeling before.

His body was like he had equipped a Qilin Armor against anyone he fought.

Fortunately, he had Feng Erniang by his side. Lu Jing needed to focus on holding the enemy back, leaving the DPS work to his teammate.

So, seeing that the strong man was about to regain his footing, Lu Jing rushed up again without hesitation.

When the strong man looked up and saw Lu Jing, he didn't panic. Instead, a hint of joy appeared on his face. In their brief exchange, he had taken a knee strike from Lu Jing, but in his view, it was just a moment of carelessness, a despicable sneak attack.

If it happened again, he would definitely be able to chop off the skinny guy's head.

However, just as he raised the scimitar in his hand, preparing to meet the attack, Feng Erniang's second arrow arrived.

This time, the strong man's attention was mainly focused on Lu Jing, so his reaction was a little slower, and he was hit in the left arm by the arrow.

He wasn't wearing any armor because he was in the middle of something, so the arrow hit him solidly. The arrowhead not only pierced through his flesh but also hit his bone, causing him to roar in anger!

Before he could make any move, Lu Jing, like a persistent ghost, came at him again.

The strong man swung his knife, aiming for Lu Jing's chest, but Lu Jing only feinted, then used his other hand to grab the arrow stuck in his arm and pulled it out with force.

The strong man felt pain again, and he almost lost his grip on the knife in his hand.

However, this completely aroused his ferocity. At this moment, only Lu Jing remained as his enemy. He actually threw away the scimitar in his hand and pounced like a tiger, pinning Lu Jing, who didn't have time to retreat, to the ground.

Then, he grabbed Lu Jing's neck with both hands and squeezed hard.

At that moment, Lu Jing even heard the cracking sound of his throat bones. Not only could he not breathe, but even his blood seemed to stagnate.

Just when Lu Jing felt that his neck was about to be crushed, Feng Erniang's third arrow finally came. This time, she didn't miss again. The arrow accurately pierced into the strong man's right eye.

This could be considered as finally completing the dreamlike collaboration that she failed to achieve before. After being shot again, the strength in the strong man's hands loosened, and Lu Jing found that he could breathe again.

However, the strong man's body swayed, but he didn't fall down immediately. Instead, he reached out and grabbed the arrow, seemingly wanting to pull it out of his eye socket.

However, Feng Erniang was not impressed by his tough-guy demeanor. She had already nocked the fourth arrow and shot it into his left eye.

This time, the strong man finally stopped struggling and fell straight forward.

Feng Erniang also breathed a sigh of relief and put down the longbow in her hand.

She was still recalling the danger of the battle just now when she heard Lu Jing's voice from under the strong man's body, "Could you lend me a hand?"

Feng Erniang then reacted and hurried over to work with Lu Jing to push away the strong man's corpse that was pressing on the latter.

Lu Jing sat up from the ground, rubbed his still-aching throat, making sure it could still be used, and then looked at the crying woman beside him.

Before Lu Jing could say anything, he saw the latter suddenly rushing towards the strong man's body, picking up the scimitar he had dropped, and hacking at the corpse.

So Lu Jing tactfully closed his mouth until the woman had vented enough and slumped in the pool of blood. Then he spoke again, "The past is in the past. Please, miss, restrain your grief. I…"

"I recognize you," the woman suddenly said. "You like Miss Third."

Lu Jing was stunned. Another acquaintance? Could this be what they call dramatic? But wouldn't this expose him?

After all, he had just called this woman "miss," acting as if he didn't know her.

Just as Lu Jing was thinking about how to smooth things over, he heard the woman continue, "Don't be surprised. I'm a maid by the Old Madam's side. I noticed you a long time ago. I was the one who told the Old Madam about you and Miss Third, and I even added fuel to the fire and said a lot of bad things about you."

The maid didn't show any emotion or happiness when she heard this, but she still answered Lu Jing's question, "Miss Third was taken away by General Cheng's second son, who said there was a secret passage out of the city."

Lu Jing was stunned. "Then why didn't you go with them?"

"Because General Cheng's second son said that they couldn't take too many people, or they would all be caught by those spies and no one would survive. So, besides Miss Third, only the young master of the Liang family went with him."

Lu Jing had a headache. Could it be that he had returned to the city for nothing? Liang Susu didn't need him to save her at all.

However, he had seen this second son of the general in the previous text. He was obviously a villainous character who had been coveting Liang Susu's beauty.

Liang Susu was with him, and the danger factor was no lower than being caught by the spies.

But the problem now was, how to find them?

Lu Jing was still troubled by this when he heard Feng Erniang exclaim in surprise. When he turned back, he saw that the maid had picked up the scimitar again.

And this time, her target was herself, holding the scimitar to her neck.

Before Lu Jing and Feng Erniang could stop her, she directly committed suicide.

Lu Jing sighed, "Let's look around again to see if there are any other living people in the house."

Feng Erniang nodded, but after looking around, she only saw corpses everywhere, especially in a room in the east wing, where basically all the members of the Liang family were gathered.

Perhaps the only comforting thing was that most of the female family members had died by poison, at least they hadn't been violated while alive.

Seeing this, Lu Jing didn't have any good ideas. He could only leave with Feng Erniang and the human-flesh navigation girl first.

Because they still had to wait for the falcon and Da Hu to meet up, the three didn't leave too far.

Feng Erniang followed Lu Jing as he tied the human-flesh navigation girl back onto the horse, and then hesitated, "Why do you trust me so much?"

"What?"

"I saw it clearly. You deliberately let that guy pin you down, right? It was to make it easier for me to aim."

"Oh, because your archery is very good," Lu Jing said. "Before, you could hit people from such a long distance in the woods. Now that we're so close, how could you possibly miss? So, the only thing I needed to do was to create the best opportunity for you to strike."