Chapter 388: Chapter 386: Follow Her Closely

“Injured?” Jiang Yan’s brows knitted together, “Just him?”

“Yes, Mom, only him. Ah, no, there was also a mutated cobra, but it’s dead!” Hua Bao finished speaking, leaned in to take a look at Ye Qing and the cobra, then quickly withdrew her head.

Ye Qing’s left arm was poisoned by the cobra’s venom.

He sat on a small rock, unraveling a rope tied around his waist with one hand, then cut it into two pieces with a dagger, and cautiously rolled up his sleeve.

On the swollen skin were two blood holes as big as little fingers.

Dark blood was gushing out of these holes.

The skin around the wounds had already started turning blue and black.

Using both his right hand and teeth, he tied both ends of the wound with a rope and then took out a mini flamethrower from his backpack to sterilize the dagger.

Hua Bao’s tiny eyes rolled around in wonder about what he was going to do next, only to see Ye Qing put a not-so-big wad of cloth in his mouth to bite on, then slashed at the wound with the sterilized dagger.

The black blood suddenly splattered out.

Hua Bao’s eyes instantly widened, round and big: it turns out Ye Qing was a tough one too…

After releasing the poisoned blood, Ye Qing quickly wrapped a piece of cloth around the wound.

Just as he had tied a tight knot, he heard the faint sound of footsteps in the snow.

Ye Qing’s brows furrowed, and he quickly pulled up his thermal mask and Snow Goggles, shouldered his backpack, drew a handgun swiftly, and stood close to the entrance of the stone house.

Jiang Yan also habitually held a handgun in her hand.

Although she knew there was only Ye Qing inside the stone house and had seen the situation from Hua Bao’s perspective, she still did not let her guard down.

When she got a bit closer, she then spoke,

“Ye Qing.”

The sound was soft, and with the howling cold winds, only Ye Qing, with his excellent hearing, identified it immediately.

“Jiang Yan?!” He stepped out of the stone house, catching sight of Jiang Yan fully armed, walking through the wind and snow.

Scanning Jiang Yan from head to toe and seeing that she was unharmed, the tension in Ye Qing’s face finally eased.

Entering the house and seeing the decapitated mutated cobra in the corner of the stone house, Jiang Yan subconsciously paused in her step.

Ye Qing remembered that she had a great fear of snakes, let alone one that was sizeable and decapitated.

“Wait a moment, I will move it out first.”

“No need.”

Jiang Yan took a breath and sat down on a rock nearby.

Having spent so much time in the corpse workshop of Yunding Tower, her heart had become substantially stronger now.

“You’re injured?” Jiang Yan asked even though she knew the answer.

She certainly couldn’t expose the little secret agent, Hua Bao.

Ye Qing nodded, a flash of embarrassment in his eyes, “Yes, bitten by a snake, but it should be no big deal.”

What he had just done actually hadn’t removed all the snake venom.

However, as an Evolved Person, his body contained certain indescribable substances that could slowly devour these toxic materials.

But the process would be very lengthy.

Especially for the mutated cobra, whose toxicity had also changed along with its genetic evolution.

Jiang Yan took off her backpack, and while her mind was already searching in her Space, she reached into the bag and drew out a vial of snake blood antivenom, handing it over to Ye Qing, “Here.”

She had stored tens of thousands of these antivenom vials before the apocalypse, never expecting that there would come a day when they’d be used.

Jiang Yan pursed her lips, “I’m most afraid of injections. Can you manage this on your own with one hand?”

“This–” Ye Qing was astonished by her treasure trove for a second before taking it, “Thank you.”

Once the antivenom was injected, Ye Qing’s complexion visibly improved a lot.

Jiang Yan glanced outside, “The blizzard is getting stronger, let’s sit for a while before going back.”

Ye Qing knew that Jiang Yan was just making an excuse for him to rest a bit longer, so he nodded, “Okay.”

“By the way, these past few days–”

“How is everything in the AS Zone?”

Both of them spoke at the same time.

Jiang Yan laughed with a snort, “You go first.”

“Okay.” Ye Qing nodded, “Everything in the AS Zone is still fine. After the meteorite fell, the AS Zone sank along the ice fissure…”

He briefly described the situation in the AS Zone to Jiang Yan, but did not mention that he came out alone to look for her.

Nor did he mention that he got lost in the snowstorm.

After all, the outcome made him feel somewhat embarrassed.

It seems that he still needs to grow more in the future.

He had originally tied a rope around his waist, but something happened, and during the second black blizzard, the rope snapped.

Naturally, Ye Qing couldn’t just sit and wait for death. While pushing through the snowstorm, he unfortunately fell into a ravine.

Fortunately, there was a thick layer of powder snow in the ravine, and he was not badly hurt.

Surrounded by many meteorites, he simply collected them to build a temporary shelter for himself.

But unexpectedly, when he was moving the last stone, he was bitten by a hibernating Mutated Cobra hiding underneath it.

Luckily, he had fast hands and killed the cobra with a knife.

Jiang Yan briefly described the situation of Yunding Tower to Ye Qing.

This was all information she would have to share with Song Haitao and the rest sooner or later, so she had already thought of what to say in her mind.

After all, she couldn’t expose Hua Bao nor the fact that she could enter the Space.

After listening, Ye Qing clenched his fists, “This Musen Base is most likely infiltrated by Flame Base.”

“Or rather, it’s also infiltrated by some hostile forces,” Jiang Yan nodded in agreement.

“Jiang Yan, shall we head back?” Ye Qing glanced outside the room, noticing the blizzard had significantly lessened.

In extreme cold conditions, the daylight hours are very short.

If night falls, he is afraid that Jiang Yan might encounter the same situation as he did.

Moreover, Jiang Yan came back from Yunding Tower, and so they had a point of reference.

If they walk straight ahead from here, they should be able to find the AS Zone.

Even if there are deviations, they should not be far off.

“Are you okay?” Jiang Yan glanced at him.

“Yeah, that serum worked really well.” Ye Qing prepared to tie the cobra to a rope to drag it back to the AS Zone.

Even if they got lost on the way back, the meat from this snake would be enough to sustain them for a while.

“Let me do it.” Jiang Yan walked over, extended her finger and the large cobra was collected into her Space.

Despite knowing her remarkable abilities, Ye Qing was still inwardly shocked to see the object disappear into thin air, followed by confusion:

“Jiang Yan, can you enter that place?”

‘That place,’ of course, referred to where he was blindfolded and smelled the faint aroma of Tai Sui.

Obviously, the snake had likely gone there as well.

Jiang Yan understood the meaning in his words and did not hide it, “Yes.”

After saying that, she took out a folding trekking pole from the Space, glanced at his hand that had swollen like a bun and had not subsided, assembled the trekking pole, and handed it to him.

“Thank you.” Ye Qing reached out to take it, “By the way, about that place, can you enter it any time you want?”

“Yes.” Jiang Yan looked at him somewhat puzzled, but then saw him break into a grin, “That’s good.”

As long as she could enter at any time, it meant she could always slip away to hide from danger in the future.

Ye Qing’s inner worries completely dissipated.

Both of them left the stone house.

Jiang Yan took the lead and started walking forward, “Stick close to me.”