Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1267 - 653: Successful Capture (Part 2)

”I... I...” Lou Fei’Er looked flustered, gazing at the middle‑aged man with a pleading expression. ”Can we not do this? He’s already very suspicious of me. If we keep this up, he’ll definitely... I don’t want him to hate me...”

Lou Fei’Er’s voice grew smaller and smaller, but the man still heard every word loud and clear.

The middle‑aged man was slightly stunned, then felt it somewhat funny. ”What do you mean? You actually like that Xu Xin? Do you realize your final mission is to kill him?”

”So what!” Lou Fei’Er immediately became righteous and confident. ”I love him, and I want to kill him—does that conflict? As long as he treats me well all the way until he dies, I’ll be perfectly satisfied.”

”This...” The middle‑aged man was left speechless.

Why did that sound so twisted?

You want to kill someone, yet you still want them to treat you well until the moment they die?

Is he just too old now and can’t keep up with the times?

But weren’t these people all from a thousand years ago? Weren’t they from the same era as him?

”Anyway, contact Xu Xin, now!” The middle‑aged man stopped thinking about this nonsense, his face turning cold. ”Right now!”

At the moment, his mind was occupied only by his son.

Even though Lou Fei’Er was very pretty, and now her eyes were misty with tears, looking pitiful and delicate, it still couldn’t make him hesitate in the slightest.

Although he could easily control this woman, he didn’t have any thoughts in that particular direction at all, because the reproductive ability of survivors from a thousand years ago had been tampered with; they basically had no desire in that regard.

So in his eyes, a woman’s pitiful look was no different from a man’s pitiful look, or from a pig’s pitiful look.

It even made him a bit nauseated.

The only thing he could possibly feel attached to was the son he had finally managed to get.

”You... let go, it hurts!”

Lou Fei’Er’s eyes welled with tears as she used her other hand to grab the hand that was gripping her arm. ”I’ll call him, okay? I’ll do it just like you want, just let go first!”

Seeing Lou Fei’Er agree, the middle‑aged man immediately relaxed a little.

Just as his hand was about to loosen, he suddenly felt a needle‑like sting on the back of his hand!

At this moment, Lou Fei’Er’s other hand was gripping his hand, as if trying to pry his fingers open.

”Wh—”

The middle‑aged man’s vision went black and the world spun.

Then, without giving him any time to think, he lost the last shred of consciousness.

With a ”thud,” he collapsed to the ground, completely out cold.

Lou Fei’Er’s previously pitiful expression instantly turned cold.

She quickly rotated her bracelet and stored the unconscious man inside it.

”Hiss—”

She rubbed her arm, which had been gripped to the point of bruising, and drew in a sharp breath.

Looking at the bracelet, she gritted her teeth. ”That bastard’s strength is ridiculous! It hurts like hell! When I get back, Xu Xin has to properly reward me!”

At this point, her entire arm had gone numb from poor blood circulation and was on the verge of losing all feeling.

”Good thing this guy could be knocked out. If even this drug couldn’t bring him down, I’d be in big trouble.” Lou Fei’Er muttered to herself, then started walking back while rubbing her arm.

She had been waiting for this chance to knock the middle‑aged man out.

Specifically, for when this man tried to force her to do something—this was the best timing.

Of course, at such close range, and with the man not really suspecting her, she had plenty of chances to attack him.

The reason she picked this particular moment was to leave herself a way out.

After all, the guy had lived for over a thousand years—an old monster like that. It wasn’t impossible that the sedative might not work on him.

And if he was trying to force her to do something, her resisting would be normal, right? Her wanting to jab him with a paralytic in that situation would be understandable, right?

So in this scenario, even if he wasn’t paralyzed, Lou Fei’Er would still have grounds to explain herself and at least wouldn’t be killed by him on the spot.

But it seemed she had overthought it.

Qi Xuefei’s anesthetic was still pretty damn strong!

Time to head back.

...

”So that’s how it went.”

Lou Fei’Er handed the bracelet to Xu Xin, then continued rubbing her bruised arm, pain etched between her brows.

She gave a heavily embellished account of what happened, in short really hammering home how much she had suffered for this mission.

”Alright, alright, I got it,” Xu Xin said helplessly. ”Hurry up and take a pill to heal your injuries.”

She’d held off on taking medicine and endured the pain all the way back—probably just so she could use these injuries to complain to him.

Lou Fei’Er unhurriedly took out a pill and swallowed it. The bruises on her arm faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

”Anyway, I paid a huge price this time. You have to compensate me!”

Lou Fei’Er scooted closer to Xu Xin, hugged his arm, and tilted her head up to look at him.

With Li Wenxi not around, her behavior became a lot more unrestrained.

”Uh... fine, fine, I get it. Consider me owing you one. When this is all over, I’ll grant you one request.”

”Yay!”

Lou Fei’Er left, satisfied.

Because Xu Xin had told her she didn’t need to handle the rest.

She still had a pile of things to deal with. After all, she was mainly responsible for managing the order among the people living in the World Tree. There were over ten thousand people surviving here now.

Xu Xin also left immediately, activating a coordinate and teleporting to the monsters’ dwelling place.

The sound of the Teleportation Array condensing was very loud, and Xu Xin’s arrival was instantly noticed by the people living here.