25.Chapter V
When Li Shuang woke up from her coma, she found herself half of her body sunk into the muddy ground.
She moved her leg slightly, but felt that the harder she worked, the deeper she sank into the mud. Li Shuang immediately calmed down and didn't dare to move again. It was pitch black all around, and only a faint light shone in a dozen or so feet away. Through this faint light, she vaguely saw a person lying next to her, that person was lying flat on the mud floor, only his feet in heavy boots fell into the swamp, Li Shuang called him softly: "His Royal Highness the Prince? ”
The man snorted softly, and was awakened by her. He moved slightly, and Li Shuang saw his body sink for a moment: "Don't move!" She immediately took a drink.
Sima Yang had already reacted to the situation they were in in an instant: "Swamp? ”
"Well, it doesn't look like it's natural, it's like a trap set on purpose."
Li Shuang looked up at the top and saw a big black hole above his head, which they probably fell from above, and at this time, at the mouth of the hole, there were four or five thick wooden stakes to seal the hole. This must be a man-made trap.
"I finally know where the felled trees are being used."
It turned out that it was all used here to make traps, and it was not burned, built, or transported, and it was directly used in situ. But who is it, and why do you do such a thing?
Think about it a moment ago.
She and Sima Yang led their respective guards to the forest to visit, Li Shuang originally wanted to go around the forest, after all, Sima Yang was here, he couldn't really let the prince into the woods, in case of a business trip, no one could afford it.
Unexpectedly, when they reached the edge of the forest, there was a faint cry for help from the forest. Li Shuang never believed in ghosts and gods, she asked her guards to protect Sima Yang, and wanted to go into the forest to visit, but Sima Yang refused to let her. At his request, the two men led their guards into the woods together.
Felled trees were everywhere, leaving behind devastated stakes, and the atmosphere in the desolate dead wood forest was a little weirder than before.
Looking for the cry for help, the deeper and deeper, the more Li Shuang felt that it was not good, and the distance she found was closer to the place where the "corpse" old woman was found. Li Shuang was about to make everyone stop, but a white shadow came next to him.
Li Shuang drew his sword out of the sheath, and before he could face the battle, the man moved unexpectedly fast, and in an instant, he grabbed Sima Yang and pulled him forward, Li Shuang and a group of guards hurriedly chased after him, stepped up two or three steps, but his feet fell down sharply, and everyone fell into the underground stone chamber.
In the stone room, the ground is full of white bones, the disgusting stench has dissipated, Li Shuang's eyes followed closely to the white shadow, seeing that the sneak attacker dragged Sima Yang and broke into a dilapidated cave behind the stone room, Li Shuang chased after him, and unexpectedly, the cave here is like a labyrinth, not far away, there are several roads ahead, Li Shuang ordered everyone to look separately, she was on her side A personal guard is about to go to the right cave to look for. The white shadow suddenly appeared.
In a flash on her side, the guards were overturned to the ground, Li Shuang's eyes froze, and he raised his sword to block it, seeing that it blocked the sneak attack of the white shadow, and forced the sneak attacker's movements to stop.
Li Shuang looked at it, and what touched the eight-sided heavy sword in her hand turned out to be a stainless steel folding fan, and the person holding this folding fan was ...... That "spy"?
The man in the fancy costume who escaped from the dungeon of Lucheng before?
It's him!
"Yo, General Li is really powerful." He chuckled softly. It's like saying hello when you meet on the road.
Li Shuang screamed: "Who are you!" Where is Your Highness? ”
The man smiled, his smile as harmless as if it were human-animal harmless: "I'll take you to him." As soon as the words fell, two long whips suddenly shot out of the cave behind the man, Li Shuang straightened out, withdrew his sword and avoided one of them, while the other one was blocked by Qin Lan, who heard the sound and chased back.
Qin Lan stretched out his hand to grab Li Shuang behind him, the folding fan in the man's hand moved, only to see the folding fan fly out of the air, slashing Qin Lan's arm, and when he flew back, the folding fan bone hit Li Shuang's back of the head, this hit the vital point, Li Shuang only felt a flower in front of him, and he was a little untenable for a while. In a trance, she felt that her arms were tightened, and the scene around her was ......
She wanted to resist, but she gritted her teeth and endured the dizziness, standing on the ground, and when she raised her sword to stab, her shoulder was pushed violently, and her body fell backwards uncontrollably, and then the feeling of weightlessness came, and the dizziness in her brain swept all her senses again.
When she woke up, she was already like this.
She didn't understand why the man had left her and Sima Yang alone here, but what about the others? What will he do with the guards who come with him? And the man ...... Although Li Shuang was not sure, judging from his speed and some techniques, his martial arts were somewhat similar to that of the mysterious black-armored man.
Is there a connection between them as well? Studying under the same school?
But obviously, there is no time for Li Shuang to think about these now, the armor on her body is extremely heavy, dragging her body slowly sinking into the mud, just now the wet mud only reached her waist and abdomen, but now it is almost to her chest.
Li Shuang carefully raised her hand, untied the armor and shoulder armor on her chest, and she glanced at Sima Yang next to her.
Sima Yang's situation was better than him, he was lying on the mud ground as a whole person, almost floating on the mud floor, except for the overly heavy combat boots that made his legs sink deep in the mud, the rest of his body could move freely, but he couldn't move, because once he moved, once the force changed, he would slowly sink.
The only solution is to give him a point to focus on, as long as he has a place to step on or kick, he can jump out of the mire safely.
"Your Highness." Li Shuang called him, "Do you still have the strength?" ”
"Hmm."
"My arm is here, you can step on my arm and escape from the mire."
Sima Yang was silent: "I stepped on your arm, once I exert myself, what should you do?" ”
"The minister will have a way to ......"
"What can you do?"
In the face of Sima Yang's questioning, Li Shuang was silent.
She actually has no choice, the two of them are in this game now. , if she is saved, she can only save Sima Yang, if she is not saved, the time will be delayed, and when she falls deeper and deeper, Sima Yang will have no choice but to step on her out, and they will both have to die here.
Abandoning the car to protect the commander was a natural decision made by Li Shuang as a general.
"Your Highness, the ministers should have done their best to protect Your Highness, and Your Highness must not make any mistakes in this north."
"Frost." Sima Yang finally called out her name, just like when she was a childhood sweetheart before, when she was intimate, "Do you want me to kill you in order to save yourself?" ”
Li Shuang was silent for a moment: "This is the only way to save His Highness, in order to protect His Highness, he needs to die here, please ...... Don't mess up the overall situation for the sake of past friendships. ”
The big picture in her mouth, they each understand it. Today's court, the three princes have the support of the prime minister, and they are eyeing the throne, if Sima Yang has an accident here today, the three princes will ascend the throne, the queen, the general's mansion, and the henchmen of the prince in the court will all suffer.
"Your Royal Highness, the minister has lived outside the Saiwai for many years, and occasionally heard the news from the DPRK and China, but I heard that His Royal Highness has now added a noble son, and the affairs of the DPRK and China are becoming more and more ......secure."
"Frost." Sima Yang interrupted her, "Three years ago, you let me read for three years. Now, do you want me to miss you for the rest of your life? ”
Li Shuang's eyes moved slightly, and then he laughed: "The minister is so daring, he wants to save the prince so desperately today, in fact, he wants the prince to make a wish in the future, so as not to protect himself in the future." ”
"Whatever you say to me, no evil will happen to you."
Li Shuang retracted her eyes, struggled to move some distance to the prince's side, curled up her arm that was stuck in the mire, and reached under Sima Yang's combat boots: "Your Highness." ”
Sima Yang didn't say anything for a long time, and he didn't make any moves. Li Shuang was also silent, and finally, Sima Yang exhaled lightly: "Li Shuang, you come out of here later, whatever you wish, I will grant you." ”
"Your Highness."
Sima Yang got up in an instant, his body sank down slightly, but the soles of his feet stepped on Li Shuang's arms, and with a kick, the force was extremely great, Li Shuang only felt that his whole person sank under the mire, but Sima Yang had already jumped into the air, and the armor on his body threw off countless sludge. In the blink of an eye, it fell to the hard stone ground three feet away.
By the time he turned his head, Li Shuang had fallen into the mire and was gone.
The sludge didn't have much shock, but it covered the fluctuations just now, Sima Yang was covered in mud, his fists were clenched, and he stood next to him for a while, and there was nothing on his side that could be used to salvage people. He gritted his teeth, his eyes darkened, and turned to walk towards the shining place beside him.
The sonorous sound of the hard armor hitting the stone grew farther and farther away.
But he didn't see it, and after he left, a bubble slowly bubbled out of the mire.
Immediately, with a "bang", a person smashed through the wood above the black hole above his head, wrapped in a cold wind, and plunged into the muddy quagmire with an almost desperate expression.
After a while, there were bursts of fluctuations in the quagmire, and the mud seemed to be pushed away from the inside by great strength, only to hear the sound of "boom", the whole quagmire exploded in an instant, and the mud splashed out, and the entire cave wall was blown up, and the mud was pasted on the wall, slowly sliding down, flowing to a low place, and at the bottom of the original quagmire, the man with an almost naked upper body held Li Shuang tightly in his arms.
She held her breath, and no mud entered her mouth and nose, but because she had been holding her breath for too long, her whole face was dark and black, and her breathing had almost stopped.
Jin An hugged her and pressed her chest hard: "No, no." ”
His crimson eyes were full of tears, and his voice clicked and smashed on Li Shuang's dark face.
"I won't let you die, you can't die."
The voice was hoarse and desperate.
She can do anything, love others, marry others, belong to others, but she can't die, she is dead, he has no meaning even in pain.