Chapter 49: Murderous Intent

“Do you want to view the Corpse Puppet’s memories?”

“Do you want to view the Corpse Puppet’s memories?”

Two messages appeared in Li Si’s mind. He immediately chose not to view them, as he had no interest in these two people’s past.

What concerned him now was his protective charm and the tiger spirit at the bottom of the cliff.

Li Si took out the cloth bag from his bosom and opened it. As expected, the protective charm had turned to ashes.

This wasn’t beyond Li Si’s expectations. With the tiger spirit suffering such injuries, the protective charm must have been greatly consumed.

However, the sudden disappearance of the protective charm left him feeling empty inside.

He had bought this protective charm on his first day in this world, even exchanging his lifespan for it. The charm had lived up to its promise, protecting Li Si from the fox spirit, the Dismembering Ghost, and various monsters and ghosts.

Even the Hanging Ghost didn’t kill Li Si because of this protective charm.

Now, this last line of defense was gone.

Li Si felt somewhat afraid. Previously, he had been fearless because of the protective charm. Now that it was gone, he felt like he was standing unarmed before monsters.

At this moment, he looked at the system store and found that the update time was only a little over a day away.

Li Si immediately suppressed his anxious feelings. After all, the protective charm was bound to disappear eventually. It just happened earlier than he had expected, which caught him off guard.

But this was also a test for him. In this world, unimaginable dangers could occur at any time.

He was just a person trying to survive in this world, not some protagonist.

This incident served as a wake-up call for him.

Li Si didn’t dwell on this now. He looked down the cliff and saw the tiger spirit lying on the ground, its two paws shattered to dust.

There was a deep, torn wound around its neck, caused by Xiao Duan’s tongue.

Judging by the rate the tiger spirit was bleeding, it seemed it wouldn’t be long before it died.

“You shameless scoundrel!!!” The tiger spirit glared at Li Si with angry eyes, its mouth emitting a woman’s cursing voice.

“I’m not as shameless as you. You’re just not very smart, trying to play mind games with me,” Li Si sat at the edge of the cliff, sneering at the tiger spirit below.

“Roar!!!” The tiger spirit roared angrily, bleeding even more.

“You thought I wasn’t wary of humans?” Li Si shook his head and smiled, “I’ve actually been cautious of them all along. I just didn’t expect that the soup I wouldn’t dare drink carelessly would be drunk by you.”

“So let me ask you now, how did that soup taste?” Looking at the tiger below, Li Si couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

This time, Li Si was genuinely laughing. After all, these three people were supposed to be the tiger’s subordinates, but unexpectedly, the poison they had prepared for him was consumed by the tiger spirit instead.

Hearing Li Si say this, the tiger spirit became even more furious, letting out an ear-splitting roar. It harbored extreme hatred for those three people. If they hadn’t poisoned the soup, it wouldn’t have become so weak, and wouldn’t be mocked by Li Si like this.

“You’re a tiger, why didn’t you just use force to solve problems instead of trying to scheme against me? Even using gold to tempt me,” Li Si shook his head and smiled, “But do you know, gold and silver are of no use to me now.”

As he spoke, he picked up a gold nugget the size of an egg from nearby and threw it at the tiger spirit.

The gold nugget landed right in front of the tiger spirit. This infuriated the tiger spirit even more. It possessed many human memories.

The way this person threw gold at it was like an idle man throwing stones at a dog.

Thinking of this, it roared again, its eyes bloodshot as it stared at Li Si.

However, its front paws were already useless, and its body was extremely large. So although it tried to dodge, Li Si’s gold nuggets still occasionally hit its body.

The tiger spirit was shaking with anger, especially when it remembered that it had carried these gold nuggets up itself. It became even angrier. This person had clearly discovered its true identity early on, yet made it climb up and down more than ten times. He had treated it like a fool, toying with it.

The tiger spirit’s roars intensified. On the cliff, Li Si felt his ears were about to go deaf. He felt somewhat helpless. As expected of a monster creature, even after being angered to the point of blood surging and losing so much blood, its roars were still so vigorous.

Indeed, he had deliberately provoked the tiger spirit. After all, he wasn’t so bored as to do useless things, but now it seemed the effect wasn’t very significant.

At this moment, he also noticed a corpse hanging on a nearby tree. The corpse’s attire was that of Cao Qing.

The reason he hadn’t seen this corpse earlier was probably due to the Corpse Puppet’s ability to deceive the naked eye. Even the tiger spirit’s mountain climbing movements were likely concealed by the Corpse Puppet.

Li Si didn’t want to bother with the tiger spirit anymore. Its front paws were already broken, so it couldn’t cause much trouble.

He walked to the tree and used his amateur tree-climbing skills to climb up.

Fortunately, his physical strength had improved recently, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to climb this tree at all.

After climbing the tree, Li Si positioned himself in a relatively stable state, then freed his hands and took out his dagger to cut the vines binding Cao Qing.

Luckily, the vines weren’t very thick, so Li Si quickly cut through them. Then he slowly pulled on the vines, gradually releasing them until the corpse fell to the ground.

After the corpse landed, Li Si let go of the vines, letting them fall to the ground, and climbed down from the tree.

At this point, he realized how tragically Cao Qing had died. His clothes were severely damaged, and his face was unrecognizable, with bones exposed. Half of his scalp was gone, revealing the white skull. The rotting flesh on his body emitted a stench like that of dead rats.

Li Si suddenly felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. It wasn’t because he was afraid of corpses, but because someone he had been able to chat and joke with had become a corpse like this. The contrast made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

He found some of his own clothes from the book box and covered the corpse.

This made him feel a bit better.

At this time, the tiger below was still roaring incessantly, making Li Si even more irritated. Actually, he hadn’t wanted to interfere too much in the grudge between the tiger and Cao Qing before. After all, whether it was Cao Qing killing the tiger’s cub or the tiger devouring Cao Qing’s parents and wife, it was their own feud.

It had nothing to do with Li Si, but now he had to make sure this tiger spirit died.

After all, this tiger spirit had tried to kill him several times. Did he need to pity it and let the tiger return to the mountain?

He didn’t want to become a second Cao Qing.