As Gu Bai slowly woke up the next day, he felt something soft beneath his head.
It was, without a doubt, Gu Xiao Shan’s thigh, but for some reason, he hadn’t reacted at all, even though it had become extremely bright out there. Was he in that deep of a sleep? That was too incautious of him.
He opened his eyes and as expected, he saw the other’s handsome face.
Qi Guan Rui opened his mouth almost instantly, “Gege, you awake?”
Gu Bai was a bit embarrassed, “Why didn’t you wake me last night?”
Qi Guan Rui spoke softly, “Seeing how deeply Gege was sleeping, I couldn’t bear to.”
The root of Gu Bai’s ears reddened.
Ahhhh you little brat, you’re playing ambiguous again, be careful or I might hit you!
But as an otaku who only loved the 2D world, no matter how much he screamed gay from his mouth, he clearly knew that the world he’d written himself was definitely a straight as a ruler, stallion world.
So, he spat on the rest of his existing ethics silently, then straightened himself up.
It seemed like his clothes had gotten a bit wrinkled after one night.
Gu Bai sighed internally, no matter how much preparation they did for the trip to this mountain, a tent and beast skin was never as comfortable as the bed back at home.
But he didn’t overthink it either, after stretching for a bit, his whole body felt very pleased.
Qi Guan Rui let Gu Bai get up while he massaged his own leg for a bit.
Gu Bai saw and spoke, “…How about I massage it for you?”
As an elder brother who depended on their younger brother to guard the whole night, it truly was a bit disgraceful.
The Gu Bai who felt guilty decided that he needed to at least comfort the other.
It wasn’t the first time this kind of scenario had occurred, but Qi Guan Rui always refused during those times.
But today, Qi Guan Rui’s eyes sparkled as he replied, “Sure.”
Gu Bai instantly felt even guiltier.
It was probably because he was too tired and numbed to the point where he couldn’t even stand, or else, for someone like Gu Xiao Shan who did so much for him, he wouldn’t have stayed there for so long and not gotten up.
Just as he thought of that, he walked over and sat down next to Qi Guan Rui, lifting his calf up, he straightened out his long leg.
Speaking of that, this leg sure was both long and straight, he wondered how good the guy’s skill was…stop!
Gu Bai lowered his head in embarrassment once realizing that he was losing ethics again, he held himself back from looking towards the unspeakable part, instead, he started massaging the other’s leg with full focus.
As Qi Guan Rui looked at Gu Bai’s lowered head, feeling the pleasurable numbing sensation from his calf, he had to suppress the moan that wanted to leak out of his throat.
It wasn’t only very pleasurable psychology…but also physically.
Since he’d ascertained his blasphemous thoughts toward Zi Ju Shu Bai last night, he started restraining himself more.
Which lead him to start on trying to control his sexual desires.
Every inch of Zi Ju Shu Bai’s skin, his every sound and word, and his every movement were seducing him. Making the volatile desire within his heart boil, he wanted to pull the other onto a bed immediately.
Almost no matter what Zi Ju Shu Bai did, even if he merely stood there and said nothing, he could make him react immediately.
This kind of desire was way too fierce, and couldn’t even stand a little provocation.
Qi Guan Rui couldn’t let Zi Ju Shu Bai find out, so he needed to be able to control himself.
Last night had definitely been a good opportunity after Zi Ju Shu Bai fell asleep, he had taste-tested him just a little before stopping.
He slowly suppressed it, slowly limited it. Finally, after a few hours, he was able to not lose himself as easily.
Just like now, with how strong Qi Guan Rui’s body was, how could he be numb after a single night?
He just wanted the one who he thirsted for to massage him with his own two hands, that was all.
As he felt the soft sensation on his leg…the other hadn’t even worn gloves, his mind continued to imagine an obedient Gu Bai…plus how he was gonna trap the other in bed in the future, how he was gonna tumble in the bed with him, how he was gonna make him cry, scream, moan…and how he was gonna be locked in his embrace, only in his embrace.
Qi Guan Rui’s control over his desire had already reached a frightening point.
No matter how wild his thoughts were, the item that was the most easily affected was still lying down peacefully, with no changes at all.
Gu Bai naturally didn’t realize anything strange either.
Gu Bai massaged Qi Guan Rui nicely for a full half an hour, before slowly stopping, “Xiao Shan, see how it feels now.”
Qi Guan Rui was a bit unwilling to stop, but he also knew he couldn’t make the other cautious so he moved his legs while smiling, “I’m good now, Gege.”
He stood up with only the support of his legs after he finished speaking, then reached out his hand, wanting to pull Gu Bai up as well.
Gu Bai internally released a sigh of relief at the fact that the brat still had a heart, so he couldn’t just ignore the other’s good intentions. He allowed the other to pull him up however he wanted, and only retracted his hand when he got a firm footing.
Qi Guan Rui fixed the two’s clothes before saying, “Gege, you go out and wait first, I will clean up.”
Gu Bai nodded, he decided to go out and build a fire to roast some meat.
The two brothers spent a very joyful morning together after Gu Bai wiped his mouth clean, he’d returned to the specific figure of the elegant and cold City Governor of Tian Du Cheng, “Let’s go now.”
Qi Guan Rui smiled, “Okay, Gege, whatever you wish.”
A matured Ancient Witch Bull was a Wu Jun level beast, it was around three meters high. Its whole body had a bluish-black appearance along with meaty paws like those of a feline. The single horn on their head was very sharp, the strength of their bites and paw slams were all very shocking. With the force of their sprint, they could break through a little hill, and no normal weapon could pierce through their hard, tough skin.
There weren’t many of these beasts in such high mountains, there was only one here, which also allowed it to become the king of this mountain.
At that moment, an Ancient Witch Bull was fighting against a young male.
The young male wore a white robe, entirely untainted from top to bottom. His aura was extremely elegant and noble, the silver gloves on his palms seemed both light and soft, but as the young male attacked, along with the elegance and beauty, an icy cold, sharp light also shone through.
The Ancient Witch Bull whipped its long tail and suddenly lifted its front hooves, swinging left to right, smacking towards the young male!
It didn’t seem to be bleeding, but if one looked closely, one would be able to see several depressions in its body. They were caused by hefty hits and almost made the beast collapse.
Such damage definitely brought sharp pains, they turned its eyes crimson, as if it had gone mad.
The young male’s body immediately moved, his whole body was close to the ground as he leaped forward, he nimbly snuck under the Ancient Witch Bull’s abdomen…the weakest part of the bull. Once the young male was under there, no matter if it was the Ancient Witch Bull’s four paws, ferocious fangs, or horn, none of them could come in contact with him.
It was a blind spot.
The young male’s movements were dexterous, he didn’t waste any time as his fingers curled to act as claws, they aimed towards the red mark on its abdomen and pierced through it harshly…
In the next moment, the animal’s skin was ripped apart, while the young male’s five fingers were still embedded deep inside it!
What followed was the long howl of the Ancient Witch Bull, its body swung around and fell onto the ground.
The young male’s body flew back, standing right outside the range of the ancient beast’s falling area.
…Not even a single speck of the dust that flew around could stain his body at all.
Someone who always tried to act like a cool-ass to the extreme, who could it be aside from Gu Bai?
Even if it was deep within the mountains, he still wore his high crown[1] and brocade robe, as if he was afraid that no one could tell how rich he was. Not only was it the honorable kind of rich, but also the expensive kind of rich.[2]
Qi Guan Rui stood on the side, eyes filled with infatuation.
He waited until Gu Bai had beaten the Ancient Witch Bull before walking out from behind the tree, as well as covering up the greedy look on his face completely.
Then, as he’d done many times before, he squatted down in front of the ferocious beast’s corpse and pulled out a sharp knife to take care of it.
The first step was to obviously cut off its head……that stuff was the proof for training students to show that they’d beaten an ancient beast of the same level as them. Then he started to pick out the freshest and tender spots of the beast’s body, as for other parts like its horn, paws, heart, skin, and such, they could either be used to refine weapons or could give humans physical strength, he collected them all into the Space Bracelet.
As for Gu Bai, as expected, he stood on the side far away, without a single drop of blood on him.
The two had already been in the mountain for three days.
In those three days, not only hadn’t they met any students from the academy hunting, even the beasts they wanted to hunt were so rarely seen that they had to trek long distances in order to find one.
Good thing both of them had high stamina, so it didn’t waste much of their energy.
But as time kept passing, Gu Bai became quite irritated.
Fuck! I haven’t bathed in three days!
If his clean freak level was only at 5 when he was a shut-in otaku before, then it had gone up at least tenfold, basically breaking through the charts.
……Though honestly, this had a lot to do with how much the loyal dogs of Tian Du Cheng and Qi Guan Rui had indulged him.
To be a clean freak, that at least took energy, right? Before, Gu Bai wanted to slack off at times, but now he didn’t even need to slack off and someone helped him do it, so the habit naturally became stronger and stronger.
So as time passed, he was raised up to this stage.
Qi Guan Rui understood Gu Bai’s thoughts very well, he quickly dealt with the beast corpse, wiped his fingers completely clean before walking over.
Gu Bai backed off a step.
Qi Guan Rui sighed, he stretched his hand over, “Gege, there’s no stench anymore.”
Gu Bai felt a bit embarrassed, “Mn.”
Qi Guan Rui spoke helplessly, “Gege, no need to be agitated, if we walk a few more hundred steps ahead, then we should be able to see a source of water.”
Gu Bai’s eyes shone, he asked stoically, “…How do you know?”
Qi Guan Rui froze a bit.
Could he say that because of how he’d seen how wholeheartedly Zi Ju Shu Bai had been wanting to bathe these past few days, so he’d had the idea of releasing a snake gu to go out and search for him?
Though he still trusted Zi Ju Shu Bai a lot at this stage, something like the snake gu was too demonic, he knew that any normal person would be frightened by it.
……Even if Zi Ju Shu Bai wouldn’t be afraid, his instinct told him that he needed to hide it.
As if once exposed, it would cause some kind of consequence.
He didn’t dare to do things rashly.
But with Qi Guan Rui’s skill, he was able to make up lies on the spot, “Did Gege forget? There was a mountain by the town I used to live in when I was young, there were some quite nice springs in that mountain too. I usually trained on that mountain, so I have a basic grasp of knowing what kind of landscape could be capable of a water source…”
The Gu Bai who was horrible at geography immediately believed him, he almost couldn’t wait then, “Take me there quick.”
Qi Guan Rui smiled kindly, “Okay.”
The information brought back by the snake gu was very clear, that was the exact path that Qi Guan Rui led Gu Bai to walk on as well.
As he expected, bringing out a gift at this time instantly made Gu Bai happy.
After walking another hundred something steps, a very rugged rock stood in front of them, it looked like a gate crafted by nature.
Very softly, the sound of water came from the other side of the gate.
Gu Bai sped up his steps, he was starting to get a bit impatient.
But as he walked up to the front of the rock, he suddenly stopped.
“Xiao Shan, you go in and see first.” He spoke without any expression.
Qi Guan Rui didn’t really understand, “Gege’s meaning is…”
Gu Bai replied, “Go see if there’s anyone in the water already.
One couldn’t blame Gu Bai for being cautious, his luck just wasn’t the best.
The first time he went on a walk by the water, he’d met the psycho protagonist’s fiancée; just going on a journey in a horse carriage, he’d been able to meet the psycho protagonist’s man-eating flower chick; just trying to live in an inn, he had been able to meet the psycho protagonist’s harem member; even just staying in his own dorm and not going out, the psycho protagonist’s brutal chick would still come over!
He didn’t know why, but no matter what he did, he always fucking met the psycho protagonist’s chick.
He didn’t want to sleep with those chicks either, so what was the point of meeting them?!
Gu Bai just felt that if he went to take a bath, something unexpected could also happen.
The protagonists on TV always ended up seeing a chick’s naked body when they were bathing/drinking water by the lake/accidentally coming by the pond/getting water/washing their faces. Even in wuxia/fantasy/magical novels, the protagonist always saw the chick’s naked body for many reasons by many bodies of water.
Even in this stallion novel that Gu Bai wrote himself, the psycho protagonist also often saw different chick’s naked bodies by bodies of water, then they immediately went at it.
But Gu Bai himself didn’t want any of that at all.
A forced affair was also very head-hurting, okay?!