Scourge Messenger

Chapter 209 Heartbreak
Why would a pharmacist appear at this time?
She's so badly injured, why is she at the Thieves' House instead of getting proper treatment?
Could it be that Master Dongshou has really gone back to cause her trouble, disregarding his reputation? We need to find a way to get Bunny Girl to tell Pharmacist Yue so that Auntie can give Master Dongshou a good spanking.

Or was she too devastated to hide in the thieves' house and cry alone? Should we ask Bunny Girl to ask Auntie to write a letter to comfort her?
But when his eyes met Yaoshi Yuan's and he saw undisguised disgust in the eyes of the black wolf mask, Yan Qing came to his senses... He was in reality now, not playing a game, and he had no right to care about Yaoshi Yuan.

The person who is willing to live and die with the pharmacist, sleep in his arms, and be as close as sisters is the bunny girl, and has absolutely nothing to do with him.

Yan Qing wasn't unaware of the difference between games and reality. He wasn't the kind of weirdo who would worry about being able to seduce all the girls in his class just by talking in a visual novel. It was just that he had just put down his game console, and his mind was still stuck on the ending where the bunny girl and the pharmacist parted ways. He couldn't immediately pull himself out of his melancholy.

Half an hour ago, Yan Qing was willing to pay any price to protect her. Now that the pharmacist has suddenly appeared, how could Yan Qing possibly be wary of her?

"Yellow dog!"

The pharmacist's voice was tinged with blood, like the low growl of a wounded beast. She glanced at Yan Qing and Shang Xinlei, then suddenly leaped over the stone table in the hall and rushed over.

Just as Shang Xinlei was about to turn her head, Yan Qing immediately grabbed her head and covered her face, saying, "Don't move!"

Snapped!
Yan Qing pulled Shang Xinlei directly into the room. Startled by Yan Qing's sudden action, Shang Xinlei lost her balance and dropped the plate of stuffed fried peppers with a clatter. Although Yan Qing didn't know what Yao Shiyuan was up to, she clearly came with a menacing air. He had no interest in talking to her at this moment. However, Yao Shiyuan conjured a fine steel spear and thrust it into the crack of the door, preventing Yan Qing from closing it. The door slammed against the spear shaft with a loud thud!
"Black Wolf, what are you doing?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" The pharmacist stood by the door, her voice barely concealing her anger. If Yan Qing were in front of her, she would definitely grab her and interrogate her: "Do you know what happened to your sister? Do you know what danger she just encountered? Do you know what situation she's in right now?!"

She didn't care at all about revealing her true identity. From the moment she chose to come to the Thieves' House, she was prepared for her identity to be exposed. And judging from Yellow Dog's calm demeanor, it meant that she had already been exposed long ago... After all, she hadn't hidden anything from Bunny Girl at all, and had even taken out her life-saving pill.

"I know."

"You know? Yes, of course you know." The Pharmacist laughed angrily: "Otherwise, how could you have taken back her Bingzi Pepper Forest and the Hand of Melting a Hundred Aspects? You must have some way of contacting her, otherwise why would she hand over her harvest to you?"

Bingzi Jiaolin, the Hand that Forges a Hundred Aspects, Sister? Shang Xinlei was taken aback upon hearing this, suppressing her desire to participate in the conversation, and remained still in Yan Qing's arms.

"But do you know that your sister, in order to help you obtain the Foundation Establishment inheritance, first nearly died in the Corpse Forest Secret Realm, and after coming out, she fought with all her might to kill two monsters who were fake Foundation Establishment holders. She was almost shot to death by an arrow on Mount Shu, and finally barely escaped with her life, only to be captured and imprisoned by a Foundation Establishment True Person... Do you know any of this?" As the Pharmacist spoke, his voice became sorrowful, and his black wolf mask was filled with self-blame.

“I know,” Yan Qing said calmly.

"Then how can you still stay in this safe place and comfortably play around with women!?"

The pharmacist leaned her leg against the crack in the door, staring intently at Yan Qing's face through the gap. Her eyes seemed to be filled with boiling lava: "She went to Shudao Mountain on your orders! She activated the Foundation Establishment inheritance for you! She valued you so much, everything she did was for you, and she didn't complain even when you took away her token in the end. How could you... how could you... forget her so quickly?"

Yan Qing wanted to kick her out; his room held secrets that no one could see. But then he noticed the bandage on Yao Shiyuan's wrist, which was stained with blood.

Yes, the Pharmacist was first nearly killed by Prajna's torrential attack, and after barely recovering a little, she was thrown to the ground like a doll by Master Suolong. Her injuries were far from fully healed, yet she still came to find Yan Qing. Her persistence in maintaining her battered body was not out of hatred, but out of love.

Yan Qing is not the Yan Qing in the game, but Yao Shi Yuan is indeed the Yao Shi Yuan in the game.

He hugged Shang Xinlei tighter, stepped forward and blocked the door crack, blocking Yaoshi Yuan's view.

"It's over for her." Yan Qing's voice was low and indifferent, as if describing the ending of a novel: "There's no need to waste any more time on her."

The pharmacist seemed to activate a secret technique, his body freezing in that instant. "Waste?"

"She will be imprisoned in a place where there is no light of day, no longer able to conquer secret realms, no longer able to wield weapons. She has disappeared from this world, ceased to exist," Yan Qing said. "Damaged tools can only be discarded, and messengers that produce nothing are worthless. You come from a military town, you should understand this better than anyone else. Disease, injury, disaster, whatever the reason, once a messenger loses its ability, it loses everything, no matter how much value it once created."

“But she’s not a broken tool.” The pharmacist was surprisingly calm. “She’s just imprisoned. We can save her. Once she’s free, she’ll be the strongest third-tier messenger in the world, unmatched by anyone below the Foundation Establishment stage.” She glanced at Shang Xinlei in Yan Qing’s arms. “You know what I’m talking about.”

"But how can I save her without Foundation Establishment strength?" Yan Qing shrugged. "If I were Foundation Establishment, why would I care about a mere third-tier messenger?" The Pharmacist's arm, gripping the steel spear, trembled. A surge of rage was activating her tired, damaged muscles, and her eyes seemed to hold molten lava. If the door hadn't restricted her movements, she might have tested whether the Thieves' House could withstand internal strife.

"But she could have avoided going to the dangerous places of demonic cultivation and stayed out of these things."

The pharmacist stared intently into Yan Qing's eyes: "She's so talented and outstanding. She should have grown up peacefully and happily in a safe place, instead of losing her freedom in the prime of her life!"

"If you're expecting to see guilt on my face, you're in for a bad time," Yan Qing said calmly. "Don't think I don't care about her; on the contrary, I've helped her as much as I could."

"Bingzi Jiaolin, forging the Hundred Phases Hand, the Returning Order, the Spirit Jade, the Blood-Replenishing Pill, until the moment she collapsed, I was still supporting her from behind. If it weren't for the appearance of the Foundation Establishment True Person, there would have been no way Shudao Mountain could have stopped her."

She couldn't even reach the Foundation Establishment stage. If it weren't for Master Dongshou's initial ban on teleportation and Master Suolong's subsequent restriction of Bunny Girl's movements, she could have escaped using the Return Token if there had been even one flaw.

However, once you reach the Foundation Establishment level, you'll have some control skills, otherwise how would you find opportunities to inflict damage? At most, there's only a difference in strength, and unfortunately, both Winter Hunt Master and Dragon Locking Master seem to be Foundation Establishment cultivators who excel at control.

Yan Qing could indeed feel at ease, as he had done everything he could. However, the fact that a Foundation Establishment cultivator personally intervened was not his fault.

"Is there really no other way?" the Pharmacist asked unwillingly. "You were able to take away her tokens and items even under the control of Master Suolong, which means you must have a way to intervene in her situation. Is there any item or token that can help her escape—"

“I can indeed intervene in her situation,” Yan Qing said slowly. “If she is in mortal danger, I will take immediate action.”

The pharmacist was puzzled: "Why wait until someone's life is in danger before taking action?"

“Because she cannot die at the hands of others,” Yan Qing said. “Once I discover that Suolong Zhenren or anyone else wants to seize the power of the Heavenly Calamity, I will immediately order her to perish and reclaim her power of the Heavenly Calamity.”

The pharmacist was completely stunned and stopped trying to squeeze into the room. Seeing this, Yan Qing also stopped trying to close the door.

She stared intently at Yan Qing for a long while, as if she were meeting him for the first time. "Are you serious?"

"Oh? I didn't know our relationship had reached the point where we could joke around," Yan Qing said. "But as I said, I would only resort to this tactic if she were in danger. Since she's going to die anyway, why let her calamity-inducing power go to waste? If I can't change her fate, at least I can minimize my losses—"

Snapped!
The pharmacist was willing to throw a punch directly at Yan Qing's face, but her circumstances and injuries were not ideal, so the punch was not very powerful, and Yan Qing simply raised her hand to block it.

“No wonder you were taught a lesson by Master Suolong,” Yan Qing pressed down on her fist: “It was indeed very impolite.”

"You don't deserve it," the pharmacist said through gritted teeth. "You don't deserve to be on her lips all the time, you don't deserve to be on her mind all the time, you don't deserve to be her brother!"

"Indeed, I'm not as good as you." For some reason, Yan Qing also became emotional, and said coldly, "After all, you could make her give up her last chance to escape, but I couldn't do that!"

"What?" The pharmacist's eyes widened, her voice trembling slightly. "What are you talking about?"

"Aren't you puzzled? When you woke up, the Taiyin Huagai Formation had already been broken, and you were all bound by the Golden Lock. Moreover, Suolong Zhenren and Dongshou Zhenren are enemies. So there must have been a short escape window between the activation of the Taiyin Huagai Formation and the activation of the Golden Lock, but why did she miss it? Why is she lying next to you, seriously injured and on the verge of death? Have you ever thought about why this is?"

The pharmacist bit her lower lip, staring blankly at her shattered breastplate. She felt as if the only sound in the world was her own heartbeat; all other sounds were deafening except for Yan Qing's slightly mocking voice:
"She rushed forward to save you, taking an arrow from Master Dongshou, which is why she missed the only escape route and was bound by the golden lock as soon as she landed. She had a chance to escape from Shudao Mountain, but she was unwilling to give up the family she had finally gained... She left the harvest to me and her life to you."

Yan Qing reached out and pushed the pharmacist out: "Instead of coming to me, you might as well go and beg your ancestor to spare her life. At least you'll be treated better. She said she would wait for you. All you can do is make sure she doesn't wait in vain."

Looking at the closed door in front of her, the pharmacist staggered back to her room and collapsed onto the bed, lost in thought. Gradually, she curled up into a ball, hugging her pillow and covering her face, like a little girl secretly crying.

(End of this chapter)