Chapter 144: Throwing a Horse One-Handed
The onlookers took a few steps back at the sight, recoiling as though from a snake or scorpion. Not a single person came forward to check on the blue-robed man's injuries, let alone extend a hand to help.
Just then, a slight, small figure squeezed out from among the gathered crowd on the bank, trotted over a few steps, and crouched down in front of the man in blue.
The man in blue, Jin Zhengjie, lay face-down against the stone pillar with a deathly pale face. The wounds on his back combined with the enormous energy expenditure of running his lightness technique back and forth had left him utterly drained, without even the strength to tend to his own injuries.
At the rate things were going, there was a very real chance he would bleed to death.
The small, slight figure crouched down beside him, and Jin Zhengjie struggled to lift his eyelids and look.
It was a little girl of around six or seven, dressed in a pink skirt with two small pigtail buns on her head, her face soft and rosy, with cherry-red lips and pearly teeth. She looked quite endearing.
Jin Zhengjie opened his mouth slightly, trying to speak, but could not produce a single sound.
At that very moment, the little girl seemed to move with quick eyes and quick hands, and in the instant Jin Zhengjie's mouth opened, she reached out and slipped something inside it.
Then, without a word, she turned and ran quickly back in the direction she had come from.