"Grandma, grandma, grandma!"
Yunzhu was dizzy and was shaken awake. She opened her eyes, and her dazed expression instantly became clear: "Did Xiaowei wake up?"
The first beauty said: "Little Zhuoma didn't wake up, I saw that you didn't sleep well, so I asked you to get up and eat something."
Yunzhu pressed her sticky neck: "Why did I fall asleep?"
"You're sweating, are you having a nightmare?" The first beauty took out a dry handkerchief very filially, and wiped the sweat off Yunzhu's neck.
She did it in style, and it would be even more flawless if she didn't look at her swollen neck.
Yunzhu's neck was burning with pain.
The first beauty finished wiping, smiled at her and said, "I roasted some mutton, and I'll cut a plate for you."
Hai Shisan, who was (forced) to sit in the cold wind and grilled meat silently: "..."
Who the hell roasted the meat? Who baked it? !
Yunzhu shook her head: "No need, I'm not hungry."
The first beauty asked, "What did you dream about just now?"
Yunzhu was awakened by shaking this time, and she unexpectedly remembered something from her dream when she woke up. She said, "I seem to have dreamed of a blood demon."
The first beauty asked suspiciously: "What did you dream about him?"
Yunzhu said thoughtfully, "I seem to have known him a long time ago."
Yunsu's courtyard, a secluded room, with oil lamps like beans.
"You mean... Yunzhu has seen the blood demon a long time ago?" Yuehua looked at her mother-in-law in disbelief.
King Yin and the new Great Saint Master also looked at her. Although they learned from her earlier that the Holy Cult suppressed a monster, they didn't know anything about the origin of the monster. Now they finally heard her talking about the monster. That monster, who would have expected it to be related to Yunzhu.
The Gorefiend almost kidnapped Yunzhu today, could it be that there is something else hidden
Everyone couldn't help being curious.
King Yin said coldly: "You'd better not have any more concealment, otherwise I will not spare you for what you have caused today!"
The mother-in-law looked at King Yin, and said sadly: "Young master, did I really cause today's disaster? You didn't provoke the blood demon on your own initiative, how could it turn around and attack us?"
King Yin clenched his fists tightly, his eyes were like torches and he said: "It is an inhuman thing! Women are killed, children are also killed, what are you doing with it?!"
Yuehua took a sip of tea slowly.
The new great sage master took a look at Yuehua, coughed lightly, and smoothed things over and said, "Guardian Lian, Young Master, please stop arguing, let's...let's talk about the serious stuff first."
King Yin snorted coldly and sat down.
The mother-in-law sighed softly, looking at the dancing candlelight, her eyes gradually became far-reaching: "That's... It happened when I was a child. I entered the Holy Church at the age of seven, and began to serve the lady at the age of eight. Is it the age of nine or ten? In 2010, the leader took the young lady to hunt. Everyone went hunting. The young lady and I sat in the cabin and waited for them to come back. Someone hunted a rabbit for the young lady. I didn’t want it, but the young lady refused to listen to my advice. , Fei accepted the rabbit, but was bitten by the rabbit in a short while, and the rabbit ran away, and the lady went to chase it, and that was the time, the lady was captured by the blood demon."
Thinking of the brutal temperament of the Gorefiend, they all broke into a cold sweat for Yunzhu.
King Yin frowned, and asked inexplicably: "Yunzhu was just a child at that time, and was captured by the blood demon, how did he not be killed by the blood demon?"
Yun Zhu had just fought the Gorefiend today. She was not the Gorefiend's opponent, not now, and it was even more impossible when she was a child. Since the Gorefiend had captured her, she shouldn't let her go easily.
Yuehua and the new Great Sage Master looked at her mother-in-law at the same time, as if they also had a little doubt about this matter.
The mother-in-law sighed and said: "You don't know, the blood demon was not so powerful at the beginning. We were children at that time, and it was not big. When the senior brothers came, they scared it away... Don't let it go that time... Miss, even I almost died in his hands."
"What happened next?" Yuehua asked.
The mother-in-law said: "Later, the leader found out about this and dispatched several powerful guardians to surround and kill it."
Yuehua asked suspiciously: "Several senior brothers can scare it away. Its skill should not be high. Didn't it kill it even after dispatching the guardians?"
The mother-in-law said: "I thought it was killed, and the body was thrown into the water. How do I know it is still alive? It is probably because of this incident that the Holy Church offended it, and it has hated the Holy Church since then. There will be revenge later."
King Yin frowned.
Yuehua asked: "You mean that it killed so many disciples of the Holy Cult because the Ghost Emperor sent Dharma protectors to besiege and kill him?"
The mother-in-law was silent.
Yuehua's heart was itching to be seduced, and she persuaded patiently: "It's been said so far, so don't hide it anymore."
…
"Miss, where are you going?"
In the elegant and chic wing room, when the maid opened the door, she bumped into the girl in night clothes.
The girl hid the burden behind her back, rolled her eyes, and said without changing her face: "I'm going to find Yiqing!"
The maid pretended not to see the burden she hid behind her back, cast a glance at her and said, "Is it necessary to dress like this when I go to see Senior Brother Yiqing?"
The girl said: "I don't want people to find out."
The maid asked: "Do you have any secrets with Senior Brother Yiqing?"
The girl choked.
The maid hid her face and snickered, put down her hand, and pushed her into the room: "Okay, miss, you are going to be engaged, don't keep running down the mountain, let the leader know, it's time to punish you again."
The girl pursed her lips: "What is the decision? He is my senior brother."
The maid smiled: "What's the matter, senior brother? Can't senior brother marry you? Senior brother Yiqing is so good, don't you still think of him?"
The girl threw the burden under the table without a trace, rested her chin on one hand, and sighed helplessly: "Oh, you don't understand."
At night, the maid served the girl to sleep. The girl slept on a spacious and soft bed, and the maid slept on a simple couch on one side.
After an unknown amount of time, the girl turned over and called softly, "Sister Lian."
The maid didn't respond.
The girl called out again: "Sister Lian, I'm thirsty, please pour me some water."
The maid still didn't respond.
The girl gently lifted the quilt, put on her clothes and shoes, quietly fished out the bundle hidden under the table, and walked out the door lightly.
The moment the door was closed from the outside, the maid on the couch opened her eyes.
Boom boom boom.
There was a light knock on the door: "Junior Sister Lian, it's me, Yiqing."
The maid lifted the quilt and sat up, trimmed her hair, put on her shoes, and opened the door calmly: "Senior Brother Yiqing, it's so late, what's the matter?"
Yun Qing hesitated for a moment, then said: "Junior Sister Yun... has she gone out again?"
The maid lowered her eyes and nodded embarrassingly.
A trace of loneliness flashed in Yun Qing's eyes, he nodded to her, turned and left.
The maid pursed her lips and stopped him and said, "If you are worried about Miss, you can follow her to have a look."
Yun Qing turned around and looked at her gently: "Is this okay? Will Junior Sister Yun get angry?"
The maid tucked her sideburn hair behind her ears and said in a low voice, "I'm worried that something will happen to Miss if she goes out so late."
Yun Qing nodded: "That's true."
…
"Lian protector, lotus protector, lotus protector!"
Yuehua patted her mother-in-law on the shoulder, and her mother-in-law was like waking up from a dream, and straightened her clothes with lowered eyes.
Yuehua looked at her strangely and said: "Young Master just talked to you, what are you thinking?"
"Ah, it's nothing." The mother-in-law wiped the sweat from her chin, looked at King Yin and said, "Yes, it was because of that incident that the blood demon wanted to kill the Holy Cult."
All three looked at her in surprise.
The mother-in-law's eyelashes trembled: "What's wrong?"
The new great sage master cleared his throat, and reminded embarrassingly: "Young Master didn't ask this just now, but Young Master asked, did Master Yun Qing know about the acquaintance between the Blood Demon and Yunzhu?"
A look of memory flashed across the mother-in-law's face.
…
"Here, these are winter coats. I bought them according to your size. There are several sets. You can change them. I'll buy you new ones when you're done!"
The girl opened the bag and took out four sets of beautiful cotton-padded clothes, two sets of dark blue and two sets of navy blue, he doesn't like colors that are too eye-catching.
The girl picked out a navy blue set for him: "You put it on, and I'll take you to the city to eat."
The man took the clothes and went to the back of the cave to change.
When he came over, the girl had already taken off her night clothes. Seeing that his buttons were still crooked, the girl chuckled and said, "Come here."
The man walked over like an ape.
The girl said: "You go well."
The man straightened up uncomfortably, and walked up to the girl. The girl stretched out her slender fingertips, and fastened the wrong places one by one, then took out the belt and tied it on him.
"Okay." The girl smiled slightly, her bright eyes narrowed into two crescent moons, and the eyes seemed to gather a galaxy of light, illuminating the entire cave.
The man stared blankly.
"Oh, that's right." The girl thought of something, and took out a few night pearls from her bag, "It's too dark here, and you're afraid of fire, use this!"
The man accepted it in a daze.
The girl smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to eat!"
The two left the cave.
The man bent down unconsciously, as if he wanted to crawl on the ground.
The girl Jiaohe: "Let's go!"
The man shivered and straightened his back until the steel pipe was straight.
After the two gradually walked away, Yun Qing and the maid slowly came out of a small forest opposite the cave.
When the man entered the cave, he was still wearing black clothes, but he changed into a brand new one when he turned around, and the girl's night clothes were gone. Anyone who saw it would wonder, what did they do in the cave
Yun Qing clenched her fists: "How could Junior Sister Yun know a wild man?"
The maid stared blankly at the somewhat familiar cave, then lowered her head: "I have known each other since I was a child."
The girl and the man entered the city. The man's appearance was a bit strange, with pointed ears and long arms, but his body was not tall, and the long arms seemed a little out of place on him.
However, he was dressed very luxuriously, and it was said that the Fengyun brocade was specially made for the leader and daughter of the Holy Cult.
There was a young girl standing beside him.
The girl wears a veil, revealing only a pair of bright and beautiful eyes.
Many people cast strange eyes.
There was a vigilant look in the man's eyes, and a child was scared to cry by him.
The child's mother hurried away with the child in her arms.
The girl said: "Don't be afraid, everyone has no malicious intentions."
The man was like a frost-beaten eggplant again, with his head drooping.
The girl took him to sit down at a mutton stall on the side of the road. This stall is a time-honored brand. Although there is no shop, its mutton is the most authentic in the entire Cloud City.
The girl ordered a hand bone, a pot of mutton scorpion, a few large pancakes, a plate of small milk skin, a bowl of kumiss and a bowl of butter milk tea: "Actually, there are many delicious foods in the city, so don't drink beasts in the future." Blood, you are a martial arts practitioner, if you absorb too much of that thing, you will go crazy."
Meals were presented.
The girl handed him butter milk tea: "Try it."
He hesitated and took a sip.
"Is it good?" the girl asked.
His throat slipped, and he nodded against his will.
The girl gave him another hand bone.
He reached out to take it.
The girl pressed his hand: "This is a hand, a claw, and a bone."
He: "Ah, ah, ah."
The girl patiently enunciated each word clearly: "Hand, grasp, bone."
He: "Ah (ǎ), ah (ā), ah (ǎ)."
The girl held her forehead and handed him the grasping bone.
He ate slowly.
When the girl returned to the Holy Church, it was late at night, she tiptoed to the outside of her courtyard wall, looked around, and after making sure that there was no one there, she climbed the tree and climbed over the wall.
She jumped off the ground, clapped her hands proudly, and when she turned around, she saw Yun Qing standing in front of her with a serious expression. She was shocked: "Yi, Yiqing? Why are you? Why are you in my yard? ?”
The maid was standing at the door, the door opened a small crack, and she pulled the veil tightly at a loss.
Yun Qing cut to the chase and said, "Who is that person?"
"What is that person?" The girl turned her face away.
Yun Qing said: "Stop pretending, I've seen it all."
The girl frowned: "Are you following me?"
Yun Qing said solemnly: "Wearing night clothes and escaping from the Holy Church in the middle of the night, shouldn't I follow you?"
"I..." The girl was choked and unable to argue.
Yun Qing paused, and then said: "If you don't tell me who he is, I'll go and catch him myself."
The girl asked angrily, "Why did you arrest him? Did he offend you?"
A hint of complexity flashed across Yun Qing's eyes: "Junior Sister, his purpose is not pure, I'm afraid you don't remember what happened when you were a child."
The girl snorted, "What did you do when you were a child? I only met him recently."
Yun Qingyu said earnestly: "Let's just say you don't remember. If you don't believe me, you can ask the leader if you were captured by a savage when you were five years old and almost killed by him?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" the girl frowned.
Yun Qing looked at her fixedly and said: "It was in that cave at that time, and the Holy Cult sent people to surround and kill him, but they didn't kill him. Now he came back to look for you, but he wanted to repay the one-shot that happened back then. Qiu, you must not be deceived by him."
The girl's expression turned cold: "Who told you this? Sister Lian?"
The maid's heart trembled.
Yun Qing said: "It doesn't matter who told me, the important thing is that you never see this person again."
The girl glared at him and said, "Whoever I like to see, you don't care!"
Yun Qingyu said earnestly: "Junior Sister, he practices evil skills, he drinks blood like a hair, you are a dignified daughter of the holy religion, how can you associate with this kind of person?"
The girl retorted: "What happened to him drinking blood? I didn't save you. Didn't you also drink blood in the mountains?"
Yun Qing's throat was blocked.
The girl snorted coldly, pushed him away, and went back to her room.
…
The mother-in-law withdrew her thoughts, picked up the teacup on the table, and silently took a sip of the cold tea: "Master Yunqing doesn't know about the acquaintance of the young lady and the blood demon."
King Yin looked suspiciously at Protector Lian: "Didn't you send out the protectors to kill the blood demon? How could Master Yunqing not even know about this?"
The mother-in-law took another sip of tea and said, "When the blood demon was killed, he hadn't come to the Holy Church yet."
King Yin asked suspiciously: "No one told him after that?"
The mother-in-law said: "No."
The new high priest took a weak breath, and muttered: "Is the blood demon stupid? He obviously can't beat the ghost emperor, but he broke into the Holy Cult and started killing alone. Is he looking for death?"
King Yin was silent. The blood demon has been imprisoned for so many years, and he has already been imprisoned into a lunatic, but even if only the instinct of a beast is left, he still knows how to seek good luck and avoid evil. After being wounded by the priest's sword today, he just ran away. Yet
It can be seen that he is a life-saving man. What was wrong with him back then, so he had to recklessly kill the Holy Cult
King Yin always felt that there was something in it that everyone didn't know.
Also, since he wasn't so powerful in the beginning, how did he refine himself into a blood demon step by step
…
"Here, these are all the top-level exercises of our Holy Cult. Your set of exercises is too evil, so don't practice them in the future." The girl spread the bamboo slips in the bundle on the soft tiger skin, "I am alone!" Let me tell you, which one do you want to practice, tell me, I will teach you. The first one is Qinglian Jue... "
The man let out an ah, opened his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice, "Yun, Zhu."
The girl was taken aback: "What did you just say? Say it again!"
The man said: "Cloud, bead."
The girl smiled in surprise: "You can say my name!"
In an instant, the girl put aside the matter of choosing exercises, pulled out her hairpin, and said, "Hair, hairpin."
Man: "Cloud, bead."
The corner of the girl's mouth twitched, and she took out another handkerchief: "Silk, handkerchief."
Man: "Clouds, beads."
The girl stared at the sky speechlessly, and took out a bag of jelly beans: "Sugar, beans."
Man: "Clouds, beads."
The girl took out a knife.
Man: "Clouds, beads."
The girl took out a book.
Man: "Clouds, beads."
The girl rolled her eyes and landed on the tiger skin.
The man poked her shoulder.
The girl pretended to be dead.
The man poked again.
The girl said sullenly: "Why?"
The man walked along the entrance of the cave and pointed to the full moon in the sky.
The girl took a look and asked him puzzledly: "What's the matter? Do you want to see the moon? Today's moon is not very round. Tomorrow night is 15, and the moon will be the roundest on the 15th day, but you are not there every time it is 15th." .”
The man is silent.
After hesitating for a while, he made a sound and made a gesture of falling to the ground.
The girl scratched her head: "You, what do you want to say?"
The man pointed to the moon, drew a big disc, and fell to the ground.
The girl said tentatively, "You mean when the moon is full, will you get sick?"
The man nodded: "Yun, Zhu."
The girl suddenly realized: "No wonder every time I come to you on the fifteenth day, you are not there. Why didn't you tell me before?"
The man lowered his head in shame: "Ah."
The girl looked at him and said, "Are you afraid that I will hurt you?"
The man's head dropped even lower.
The girl patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. What's wrong with you? Is it serious? Do you need me to call you a doctor? My elder sister Lian's medical skills are very good, but she seems If I don't like you, I still won't bring her here... Let me pick a snow lotus for you!"
Man: "Clouds, beads."
Girl: "Make another bowl of decoction to replenish vitality."
The man stuck out his tongue in disgust.
Girl: "Good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease. Forget it, you don't want to drink soup, what about the pills?"
The man continued to stick his tongue out.
Girl: "Where's the butter milk tea?"
The man stopped sticking out his tongue: "Yun, Zhu."
The girl smiled: "Then it's settled, I'm leaving."
The man's depressed face: "Ah."
The girl smiled and said, "I'll come over early tomorrow."
Man: "Clouds, beads."
The girl put on her night clothes and left.
Behind the big tree that shaded the sun, Yun Qing watched the girl's small figure gradually disappearing into the night, her eyes dimmed a little bit.
The maid at the side sighed: "Miss' temper is still too simple, I don't know that people are using her at all, I persuaded her several times, but she refused to listen to me, I really don't know what to do, this The man wanted to kill Miss back then, so what good intentions could he have now? Miss Pian fell into it headlong, and eight horses couldn’t pull her back. It was him who made Miss blind. If it weren’t for him, I believe Miss would have agreed Yi asked senior brother to propose marriage."
The next night, the girl quietly sneaked into the medicine pond and picked the biggest snow lotus.
Yun Qing stood quietly in the cabin, watching her take away the snow lotus and perform lightness kung fu to leave the Holy Church.
The girl took the snow lotus to the cave.
The man's condition was really not good, his face was as pale as wax, his body was hot and cold, and his whole body was drenched in sweat.
The girl handed the snow lotus to him: "My father feels uncomfortable every time he practices, and he will be cured by eating a snow lotus, and you will be fine if you eat it."
The man ate the snow lotus petal by petal.
The girl looked at him expectantly: "How do you feel?"
The man's body shook, and he spit out a mouthful of black blood!
The girl looked at the black blood on the ground in disbelief, which was clearly a sign of poisoning: "How could this be?"
She said, picked up the lotus heart on the ground, smelled it, found nothing unusual, and planned to taste it again.
The man knocked off Lianxin.
The man rolled on the ground in pain.
The girl's eyes were red with anxiety: "Why is this happening? I never heard that snow lotus can poison people..."
"Junior Sister, you are doing very well."
Accompanied by a voice that was neither humble nor overbearing, a clear and handsome figure gradually came to the cave.
The girl turned her head to look: "Yiqing?"
The man looked at Yun Qing with a fierce look on his face. He grabbed the girl's hand and dragged her behind him.
Yun Qing snorted disdainfully, and slapped the man hard, sending the man flying against the wall.
The girl's face turned pale: "Yiqing! What are you doing?!"
Yun Qing walked up to the girl and looked at the girl tenderly: "Junior Sister has a way. Knowing that he is the weakest today, if you use snow lotus to cast a little poison on him, he will be powerless to fight back."
The girl asked coldly: "What are you talking about?"
The man's resentful eyes fell on the girl.
Yun Qing embraced the girl's slender waist, retracted her big arms, and the girl stuck to him tightly: "Junior Sister, Master has already agreed to our marriage, after killing this thief, the two of us will be married."
The girl said: "Who wants to be with you..."
With a touch of Yun Qing's fingertips, a wave of internal force rushed into the girl's body, sealing her acupuncture points.
The girl became dumb and her body froze. He stared at Yun Qing coldly.
But Yun Qing smiled softly, hugged the girl horizontally, and walked out of the cave haughtily under the man's resentful and jealous eyes.
Outside the cave, several disciples were waiting in formation.
Yun Qing said: "Kill him."
Behind him came the sound of weapons clashing, as well as the man's painful and angry roar.
The girl was furious, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
Yun Qing carried the girl into the jungle and placed her under a big tree: "I'm sorry, Junior Sister."
After finishing speaking, she touched her sleeping point, the girl tilted her head and fell into a deep sleep.
The maid came out slowly from behind the big tree, hesitated, and handed a small medicine bottle to Yun Qing.
Yun Qing was so nervous that he was sweating all over, and a thick tangled look flashed across his face.
The maid bit her lip and said, "The effect of the medicine wears off soon."
Yun Qing trembled, and took the medicine bottle: "Are you sure it won't hurt her?"
The maid lowered her eyes and said: "I have calculated the weight. It will not damage her mind, but it will only make her forget the past few months. Her acquaintance with that person was a mistake. Senior brother just To set things right, the brother and the young lady are a match made in heaven, and there is nothing for the brother to feel guilty about."
Yun Qing glanced at the maid gratefully: "Junior Sister Lian, thank you very much."
The maid said in a low voice: "Lian Er is willing to do anything for senior brother."
When the girl saw the man again, the man was already a half-gorefiend. He had drained half of the village's blood, and his skill had skyrocketed to an unimaginable level.
Yun Qing was defeated by him.
The girl faced him with a cold expression and raised the Blood Moon Bow.
He looked at the girl angrily.
The girl drew the bowstring and shot an arrow mercilessly.
There was a loud bang.
The mountain behind the girl collapsed in an avalanche.
Large flakes of snow fell towards the girl.
He flew towards the girl like lightning.
He rushed out of the snow with the girl in his arms.
The two rolled all the way to the foot of the mountain. He was knocked dizzy and shook his head, but he still steadfastly protected the person in his arms until a soul-suppressing nail was nailed into his heart.
…
"Grandma, have something to eat." The first beauty brought in the roasted mutton, along with hand bones and kumiss looted from Shengjiao's kitchen.
Yunzhu stared at the hand grasping the bone, dazed in a daze.
The first beauty asked wonderingly: "Grandma doesn't like to eat this?"
"No." Yunzhu picked up a hand bone and ate it bit by bit.
However, after searching the cave, Ji Mingxiu didn't find much, so he decided to leave.
This place is not far from the Holy Church. Yunzhu's name is engraved on the wall of the cave. Maybe Yunzhu played here when he was young. This little golden talisman may also be Yunzhu's property.
Although these clothes are men's, their body shape is similar to Yunzhu's, and the materials used are not what ordinary disciples can afford.
It was already late at night, not far from dawn, he had to find the blood demon as soon as possible, otherwise Xiaowei would be hopeless.
Ji Mingxiu came out of the cave with the priest sword.
Coincidentally, as soon as he reached the door, he ran into the blood demon who was about to enter the cave.
What does it mean to walk through the iron shoes and find nowhere to find it? It takes no effort to get it, that's it.
Ji Mingxiu looked at the Gorefiend, then at the skeletons of those women on the ground, and suddenly understood what these corpses were all about.
They were all female disciples of the Holy Cult, and all of them had their blood sucked dry by the Gorefiend.
The Holy Cult has indeed done a lot of stupid things, but these innocent female disciples are not worthy of death.
And his wife, his children, they were all innocent, but they almost died at his hands.
Ji Mingxiu stuffed the golden peace talisman into his belt, and coldly drew out the priest's sword.
I thought the Gorefiend would run away, but he rushed towards Ji Mingxiu like crazy...
On the altar, everything was silent.
Hai Shisan was grilling meat, leaning against the stone pillar and falling asleep while it was cooking.
He nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice, and woke up with a start.
He opened his eyes, glanced at the sky that was no longer dark, his heart tightened, he rushed out of Qiao Wei's tent, opened the curtain, and looked at the three silent people in the tent.
Qiao Zheng's hair was a few strands gray.
He Lanqing hugged Qiao Wei all night, and she was still inputting internal energy into Qiao Wei, but it was useless to lose again, the place that could be protected had already been protected, and the place that could not be protected was He Lanqing's body. Draining your internal energy doesn't help either.
"Ninny..." He Lanqing hugged her daughter's body which was getting colder and colder, and a tear fell down.
"It's almost dawn, young master..." Hai Shisan wiped his eye sockets with heartache, then turned his head, "Young master... young master... young master? The young master is back!"
Qiao Zheng sat up straight!
Ji Mingxiu entered the tent in a hurry, and he rushed back in a hurry, describing it as a mess, which is really not flattering.
But everyone didn't care about this, they all looked at him nervously and expectantly.
He opened the kit bag in his hand and poured out a dark red blood pill.