Chapter 322: Chapter 322: Yao Ye Extra (44)
“Yaoye, have you seen the meat I just roasted?”
Shen Jingyun came over with some fruits.
“I didn’t see it,” Shen Yaoye said, feeling guilty and not daring to look at Shen Jingyun. “Maybe something snatched it away.”
“I see…” Shen Jingyun smiled. “Then you’ll just have to put up with some fruit.”
Shen Jingyun placed the fruits beside him.
“Who wants your fruit.”
Shen Jingyun suddenly bent down, catching Shen Yaoye’s muttering perfectly.
He leaned in so close so suddenly, Shen Yaoye was startled and stared wide-eyed at Shen Jingyun.
Shen Jingyun lifted his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, then patted his head and went back to the other side.
Shen Yaoye: “…”
Shen Yaoye touched the corner of his mouth, finding it greasy, he fiercely wiped it with his sleeve, his face turning bright red with embarrassment and annoyance.
After nightfall.
Shen Yaoye leaned against a tree, his thoughts in disarray when something cold slid across the back of his hand. He focused his gaze and found himself frozen in place.
“Shen Jingyun!” Shen Yaoye yelled out.
When Shen Jingyun arrived, he saw a small green snake with half of its body resting on Shen Yaoye’s hand.
Shen Yaoye was stiff, his face pallid and unsightly; on closer look, he was even trembling.
“Yaoye, it’s just a small snake,” Shen Jingyun said softly. “Just flick it off.”
“Shen Jingyun!” The tremor was evident in Shen Yaoye’s voice.
He had been afraid of snakes since he was a child.
He knew it well.
Faced with a snake, never mind using Xuan Qi, even moving was difficult.
Everyone has something they fear; Shen Yaoye didn’t think it was anything to be ashamed of, but in front of Shen Jingyun, he felt humiliated.
Shen Jingyun stepped forward and flicked the snake away: “It’s okay now.”
Shen Yaoye immediately jumped up, staying far away, watching the spot where the snake had been, still heart-pounding.
“You want to come over?” Shen Jingyun asked him.
“No.” Shen Yaoye rubbed the place the snake had crawled on, still feeling a chill all over.
Shen Jingyun showed a helpless expression and returned alone to the fire.
Shen Yaoye looked around into the darkness, constantly hearing hissing and rustling sounds by his ears, goosebumps covering his arms.
After hesitating for a long time, Shen Yaoye looked in Shen Jingyun’s direction, clenched his teeth, and cautiously made his way over.
When he got to Shen Jingyun’s side, seeing him with his eyes closed, he felt justified in sitting down.
Sometimes, Shen Yaoye felt that their closest moment was during their time in that secret realm.
But his best memories were there, and so were his worst.
They had encountered a Xuan beast there, and the Xuan beast was powerful.
To allow him to escape first, Shen Jingyun had stayed behind to face the Xuan beast alone.
Shen Yaoye had run a distance before finally turning back.
Both Shen Jingyun and the Xuan beast were lying on the ground; the beast was dead, and Shen Jingyun was at death’s door.
Sometimes, Shen Yaoye wished Shen Jingyun were dead, so that Father Shen would stop bringing up Shen Jingyun all the time, telling him to learn from Shen Jingyun.
However, when he actually saw Shen Jingyun on the brink of death, deep down he found he didn’t want him to die.
Shen Jingyun had been poisoned, without a cure.
The poison wouldn’t affect Shen Jingyun’s strength; he seemed nearly normal on the surface, but every now and then, the poison would flare up, the pain unimaginable.
Each attack would consume a bit of his life force.
Even if his strength remained, his body would weaken day by day.
Father Shen, unusually, didn’t punish him or even scold him but remained calm as if nothing had happened.
Shen Yaoye would rather Father Shen scold him as he used to.
But Father Shen remained silent, as if disappointed to the extreme, unwilling to even speak.
Shen Yaoye stayed by Shen Jingyun’s side for half a month; after half a month, he left the Shen family to seek a cure for Shen Jingyun far and wide.
He wouldn’t return to the Shen family for a year and a half, only sending back anything he thought useful through others.
Later, having traveled all over Dongyuan, he hadn’t found a useful cure so he went to the Lower Realm.
There will always be a way…