Chapter 19 - A Third-party Profit (1/2)
Proofread by Liang Yaping
After walking in the cave for about an hour Yun Chuan turns a corner again, and suddenly a heat wave blows on his face. Together with it comes a refreshing fragrance, and a mere breath of which makes his pores relaxed and opened all over the body.
In front of him grows a red plant in the crevices of the stone, and on it there are only a few leaves with some gnawed traces left by the Bloody Ape. But fortunately, a red fist-sized fruit on the top remains perfectly intact.
“Wonderful…It seems that this is the so-called Fruit of Blood and Fire!”
Yun Chuan’s face lights up. He walks to the red plant and takes the crimson fruit down. As soon as he gets it in his hand a sense of burning comes from it, which makes him wonder.
“Nephew, leave after you get it! The Bloody Ape is coming back!”
Suddenly there comes a roar of rage in the distance, together with the worried voice of Zhao Jiu mixed with his roar. The loud sound of the tumbling trees comes from afar and approaches nearer and nearer towards Yun Chuan.
A sudden panic strikes Yun Chuan, and the moment he gets the Fruit of Blood and Fire, he immediately rushes out of the cave without any delay. On the way out he is twice as fast as before because he has been familiar with the route. Before Zhao Jiu and the beast come back, he leaves the cave and hides himself behind the big rocks in the distance.
After just a few seconds, there comes a smelly and pungent wind. It seems that the Bloody Ape has been aware of the theft of the Fruit, so it comes back regardless of Zhao Jiu’s attack behind. Its bright red nose moves, and the smell on his body becomes more and more violent.
“Nephew!”
At the moment when Zhao Jiu sees Zhao Yang’s dead body outside the cave, his eyes turn red. He thought that it was because Zhao Yang had stolen the Fruit of Blood and Fire, so that the Bloody Ape would ignore his attack and come back; but he didn’t expect that Zhao Yang had been killed, and the Fruit disappeared as well.