I followed the smell as fast as I could, when I arrived I saw Xia Xue, already given up, ready to die, as the monster is about to land the final blow.
I quickly ran towards them and used QI sword to cut off the vein of the monster that was going to kill her.
"Idiot!! What were you thinking just standing there doing nothing!?"
Xia Xue was surprised by my appearance.
"What... What are you doing here?" She asked with a weak voice.
The monster attacked me but I managed to barely block it. I grit my teeth and mustered up my strength to push the monster back.
"No time to talk! Go get cover! I'll deal with this!"
Xue was frozen there. Not moving at all. "I can't leave! I can see that you're only at the first stage of foundation establishment realm! You'll just die! I'll try to hold it back, so run away now! I don't need you to come in and rescue me!"
I jumped back and landed right next to her.
"What the hell are you talking about!? Don't you care about your life!? You can't do anything against it with those injuries!"
I picked her up onto my arms, and ran as fast as I could.
The monster followed behind us, as it kept moving, the trees behind us were falling making the ground shake.
After about 10 minutes of continuous running, we entered deeper into the forest, the trees were much thicker than before, and there were no paths, making it harder to move there, there were many stone mountains.
I took Xia Xue into small cave, and laid her down making her lean against the rock wall.
"You damn idiot!" I scolded her
"Are you trying to get yourself killed!? Why did you even try to fight a mutant rank tier 4 monster?!".
She looked at me hesitantly before opening her mouth to speak.
"I was on a mission.. the information on the mission was that it was only a high rank tier 3 monster."
I sighed, I kneeled next to her, ripping apart a piece of my clothes that I had newly bought from the money that I got selling the materials of that high ranked tier 3 monster before.
I started treating her wounds.
I slowly pulled down a part of her top but without revealing much skin.
I blushed as I start treating her arm.
"Sorry..."
She stood quietly until I finished treating her wounds, there was a slight flush on her face that she was trying to hide.
After some moments, she finally spoke.
"Why?" ... There was a small pause.
"Why, what?" I asked her.
She responded "Why did you help me?".
I looked at her and paused thinking of what to ay before speaking. "Because you helped me once too. You saved my life and I'm returning the favour back to you. With this we're even alright?"
She nodded without saying anything.
About 30 minutes had passed after I treated her wounds and she got some of her strength back from resting. She thought to herself as she watched me. 'what happened to him..? Not even a month ago he wasn't like this.. he was getting beaten up when I first saw him.. he was like a helpless child before... But now... He has changed a lot huh... But how did he reach foundation establishment realm? That's way too fast... Even for a genius in a million years.' she had a wary expression. 'should I report him when I go ba- No! I can't think like that.. he saved me... And I was the one who told him that we were friends now the first time we met." She started getting tired of everything that has been happening and let out a long and wearied sigh.
I watched as she sighed "something wrong?"
Suddenly there was a large 'Boom!!' that came from the entrance of the cave we were in.