195: Puppet

Qian Xue threw herself into Han Yi's arms, hugging him tightly.

"Alright, alright, don't cry, don't cry!"

At this moment, seeing Qian Xue crying her eyes out, Han Yi immediately cast aside his blame and became flustered.

"It's alright, Qian Xue, don't cry, it's all resolved."

Han Yi patted Qian Xue's back, comforting her softly.

"After I woke up, I found myself in the house, with Grandpa Bai lying beside me. At the time, I thought I had been captured by the enemy..."

"Then, I couldn't find you, and it was dark, and I heard some movement outside, so I set up a small trap..."

"Wuwuwu... Oh, Yi Gege, Grandpa Bai, quick, he's dying!"

In Han Yi's embrace, Qian Xue seemed to have found support, sobbing and sniffling as she recounted her experience.

"What?"

Han Yi was greatly alarmed. When he had left the courtyard earlier, he had clearly used Evil Breaking Force to remove all the Yin Qi from Bai Sanren's body. How could this be...?

"Let's go! Take me to see him!"

He didn't even bother to comfort Qian Xue further, urging her in a hurried voice.

"Okay..."

Qian Xue choked back her tears, quickly wiping them away, and hurried into the inner room with Han Yi.

Inside the room, Bai Sanren was lying on the bed, his face completely drained of color. Many parts of his body were wrapped in layers of gauze. Although the bandaging method was not skilled, it was clear that the person who bandaged him was very careful, with layer upon layer of clean white gauze, not missing even the smallest wound.

"Just now, no matter how I called Grandpa Bai, he wouldn't wake up, and he was bleeding, so I bandaged him up."

Qian Xue said, covering the wound on her right shoulder. Perhaps due to the intense emotional fluctuation just now, which affected the injured area, it was starting to hurt a little.

'This little girl has matured a lot, huh...'

Han Yi's gaze towards Qian Xue was filled with tenderness. She herself was injured, yet she was able to endure it without crying out. If it were the old Qian Xue, she would have long since shouted out...

But is this really the Sanren Bai I know???

Han Yi hadn't initially paid much attention to Bai Sanren's injuries, only thinking he was unconscious from excessive blood loss.

But one glance, and he was a bit stunned. In his vision, Bai Sanren's values had dropped from the '77~92' of Late Blood Refinement Stage Peak to a low level of '7~10'!

The current Bai Sanren probably couldn't even deal with an ordinary person holding a weapon!

"This..."

Han Yi was a bit puzzled. Logically, Bai Sanren and Qian Xue didn't eat much of the meat pie, so not much Yin Qi had invaded their bodies...

Like Qian Xue, after her Yin Qi was removed by his Evil Breaking Force, she woke up.

And Qian Xue, she was only at the Late Stage of Refining Bone, while Bai Sanren was at the Late Blood Refinement Stage, a significant difference in Strength, with much stronger vitality and recovery ability.

Why hadn't he woken up yet...?

Han Yi then carefully observed Bai Sanren's condition again.

"Hm?"

After such a careful examination, he finally found some clues.

On Bai Sanren's chest, several layers of white gauze were tightly wrapped, possibly causing this area to appear particularly swollen.

But beneath the swelling, there was a strange undulation. This was not the undulation of normal breathing, but rather like a strange foreign object... wriggling, causing movement!

"Yi Gege, just now I saw blood seeping from his chest, so I wrapped several more layers... It wouldn't be that I wrapped it too tightly, which is why Grandpa Bai has been unconscious, would it..."

Qian Xue said weakly.

"That's not it, you should stand back a bit..."

Han Yi said with a solemn expression, feeling that the ultimate reason for Bai Sanren's unconsciousness might lie here.

Rip!

A Sharp Weapon tore open several layers of gauze, leaving only the last layer...

Drip, drip...

Black blood slowly dripped down.

Han Yi's expression grew colder. He knew this was an abnormality caused by a large amount of Yin Qi entering the body, leading to the absorption of the essence in the blood!

He carefully extended the tip of his sword towards the last layer of gauze...

Whoosh—!

Amidst the scattering black blood, several clumps of black qi suddenly shot out, moving extremely fast. Han Yi didn't even see what they were before they flew to his chest in the blink of an eye.

"Be careful..."

Qian Xue cried out in alarm.

Rip!

Without hesitation, Han Yi quickly jabbed with both hands, grabbing these clumps of black qi. The moment the black qi touched the Evil Breaking Force, it was instantly dispelled by the Yin Qi-restraining Evil Breaking Force.

Feeling that he had consumed a large amount of Evil Breaking Force, and the black qi in his hand, which had felt like a living creature, stopped moving, Han Yi slowly opened his hands.

"What, what in the world is this?"

Qian Xue, who had leaned her head closer, her cherry lips slightly parted, uttered a rare curse word. She even lowered her left hand, which had been covering her right shoulder, and looked at the object in Han Yi's hand with surprise.

In Han Yi's palm, three small, puppet-like objects came into view.

They had eyes, noses, and mouths, yellowish-brown bodies, and movable limbs, much like a child's toy.

But in this setting, in this situation, there was an indescribable sense of eeriness.

'Perhaps, this is the hidden hand prepared by that Old Peach Tree, a skill that allows for Rebirth or something similar?'

Han Yi, having memories from two worlds, had a broad perspective. He recalled the mythical tales from his previous life, about powerful beings who could undergo Rebirth from a drop of blood, transform their hair into a thousand beings, or be immortal and indestructible.

If that Old Peach Tree had secretly implanted seeds with its own imprint into people, spreading them out... and then used the opportunity to revive...

This possibility was not out of the question. After all, that Old Peach Tree was inherently a devious creature, either using drugs to create illusions or launching sneak attacks!

'Isn't that long wooden tendril on its head the staff-like tentacle on the back of that giant wooden monster?'

The more Han Yi thought about it, the more likely this possibility seemed. In fact, the more he looked at the small wooden figures in his hand, the more they resembled the Old Peach Tree he had slain.

Crack!

Han Yi used his Strength to crush the wooden puppets in his hand into wood powder. For now, he needed to save Bai Sanren. When he left, he might need to thoroughly cleanse the area!

Nip it in the bud, leave no future troubles!

Especially for these strange and bizarre things, there was no need to be soft-hearted; the entire family must lie down neatly, not a single one allowed to escape!

"Ugh..."

Perhaps because the source of Yin Qi that had been circling in his chest, absorbing blood essence, had been removed, the unconscious Bai Sanren let out a low groan, but he still didn't wake up.

Han Yi adjusted Bai Sanren to a comfortable position and pulled open his blood-soaked clothes, his pupils slightly contracting.

He saw that half of Bai Sanren's chest had been eroded, forming a huge gash that could be seen from front to back. Not only that, but his heart and lungs showed aRich an abnormally dark black color, with large amounts of black blood gushing out with each beat!

No wonder Bai Sanren had remained unconscious!