Chapter 69 Eagle

The villagers, upon hearing Aunt Lin’s words, were taken aback and quickly explained, “I didn’t mean that, Aunt Lin, you mustn’t say such things randomly. I’m not that heartless.”

Aunt Lin relaxed her expression. “Come, let’s go find the village chief.”

The three of them immediately formed a group, discussing the saw while looking for the village chief.

Meanwhile, Chen Xin, who was rushing along, had no idea that two villagers almost got into a quarrel because of her.

Running on the sun-dappled muddy road, trees on both sides receded rapidly. Chen Xin focused her gaze ahead. Suddenly, a rush of wind came from above. Chen Xin squinted her eyes, calmly commanding, “Chao Feng, veer to the right.”

Chao Feng immediately obeyed the order and changed direction to the right. Chen Xin quickly looked up and saw a dark shadow rapidly descending in the sunlight. It was clear that it was a relatively large bird, and its wings seemed to flutter unwillingly.

“Scream——”

Suddenly, a sharp and mournful eagle cry echoed from the bird. Chen Xin, with experience, immediately knew that it was an injured eagle in despair.

Having seen a lot of information about this place, Chen Xin also understood many local customs. She knew that eagles, such creatures, only roamed around the deserts to the west of the Tuoba Kingdom and rarely left their territory. How could it appear here?

But in just a few breaths, the eagle crashed heavily to the ground not far from Chen Xin. Subsequently, intermittent and reluctant weak cries continued to sound. They stabbed Chen Xin’s ears as she pretended not to hear and ran further away.

Then, she pursed her lips, signaling Chao Feng to stop, and turned back to look at the black eagle on the ground. “Chao Feng, do you want me to save it?”

Chao Feng immediately let out a long neigh, and a glint of hope appeared in its eyes as Chen Xin looked at it. “Why?”

Because you said you can save it, that’s all.

“Okay, I’ll do as you say and save it.” Chen Xin said with a feigned helplessness, but in her heart, countless wild horses were galloping past. Could she retract what she just said?

Chao Feng flicked its tail, and its eyes rolled upward. When did its master become different inside and out? What humans called saying one thing but meaning another, the master often said, proud and aloof?

Returning to where she was just now, Chen Xin dismounted and stood next to the black eagle. She looked down at it and said, “If you want to live, scream three times.”

Chen Xin didn’t understand how she could have such a compassionate moment, or was it just towards animals.

If there truly was reincarnation, then let her accumulate some merits.

Suddenly, Chen Xin laughed. When did she start to believe in these things? Just because she suddenly believed, she believed it when she came here.

She remembered in modern times when someone had predicted her fate in the Shen Suan Sect, just saying the word ‘dead, alive.’ She was young and didn’t understand at the time, but she still remembered her parents’ worried and pained eyes filled with disbelief.

Now thinking about it, it probably meant disappearing in that world but being alive here. Without experiencing it, she couldn’t truly understand the meaning behind it.

Perhaps understanding Chen Xin’s words, the black eagle weakly cried three times. Then, it struggled to lift its head, trying several times unsuccessfully, but it didn’t give up and continued to try. Seeing this, Chen Xin bent down, lifted it up with both hands, and looked into its stubborn eagle eyes. “Persisting without giving up, not bad, you’re a strong eagle.”

Just then, it lowered its head and responded again. Chen Xin smiled, another intelligent one. When it recovered from its injuries, whether it stayed or left, it was up to it.

Holding it in her hands, she mounted Chao Feng. “Chao Feng, slow down.”

Then she carefully examined the eagle body, gently parting its feathers, and found a half-centimeter wound bleeding on its abdomen, while other parts were intact.

This wound wouldn’t be fatal by itself, but because it was a bird and couldn’t bandage itself, it became fatal. Letting it bleed, death was only a matter of time.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin paid attention to the grass bushes by the roadside and quickly found a healing herb. Although its effect was mediocre, it was better than nothing. This also reminded her to bring some medicine for self-defense. It would always come in handy. Originally, she could spend time looking for better medicinal herbs, but she didn’t know what had happened with Xian Xiaoxiao that required her to intervene.

After applying the medicine, she patted its back. “Chao Feng, speed up.”

A cloud of dust flew up…