Hearing this, Takemoto turned his head sharply and glared at Li Yuan with hatred.

Li Yuan stretched out his hands with a nonchalant look.

Zhu Ben was angry, and just wanted to open his mouth to scold Li Yuan, but was interrupted by Xin Zi.

"Takemoto, I know you're worried about my safety. But it's too risky for you two to go in with me now. With a bright smile, he took out the jade whistle from the purse on his waist, and said: "This forest seems to be unfathomable, but in fact it is just because the old trees in it are intertwined, leaving people with the illusion that it is just two sticks of incense to cross the past at an ordinary travel speed." Therefore, if I really encounter any accidents, I will definitely use this jade whistle as the first time to inform you to rush to save me. How is it? ”

Takemoto was speechless, but still hesitant.

If there is really an enemy who has the intention to hurt Xin Zi, I am afraid that she and Li Yuan will rush over when they hear the whistle, and everything will be too late.

Just thinking about it, he felt his shoulders sink, Takemoto turned his head, and saw Li Yuan looking at him with an eyebrow raised, and a hand on her shoulder.

Originally, he was resentful of Li Yuan's timid retreat, but at this moment, seeing his appearance, Takemoto was even more like a fish in his throat, seeing that the hand he put on his shoulder almost subconsciously lowered his shoulder, and moved his body to the side, Li Yuan's arm slid down, his body was no support, and he staggered forward.

Li Yuan turned around, not annoyed, and said with a smile: "The sun is about to set, if you can't make up your mind after thinking about it here again, the sky will be dark." At that time, even if Xin Zi encounters any trouble, let's not talk about saving her, we are afraid that it will be difficult to find her. ”

Takemoto looked up at the scarlet sunset in the distance with the river mussel forest, although he was extremely reluctant, he had to admit that Li Yuan's words had his truth, so he had to clench his fists, grit his teeth and nodded.

Xin Ziru was pardoned, smiled and summoned Yuchen, and without waiting for Takemoto to have a chance to regret it, he jumped on the white tiger and disappeared from the sight of the two.

Takemoto stood in place in a daze, always looking at the direction Xin Zi left, holding the sword at his waist tightly with one hand, ready to rush in to relieve Xin Zi.

Li Yuan looked helpless and shook his head, and from time to time he told some interesting rumors about witches that he knew to ease the embarrassing atmosphere between the two, but he didn't expect that he spent half a day and talked dryly, but Takemoto turned a deaf ear and just treated him as air. Rao is Li Yuan, who is used to doing cheeky things, met Takemoto's cold attitude at the moment, and his enthusiasm was also extinguished little by little, and finally he had to sit on the ground on the side, with one elbow propped on his knee, and looked at Takemoto standing there motionless like a statue, unable to guess what she was thinking.

There was a howl in the same place.

At first glance, it sounds like a wolf's howl, but it is far deeper and more penetrating than the wolf's voice, as if it came from thousands of miles away.

Li Yuan frowned when he heard this.

Could there be any beasts around here that are controlled by witches? Like an orc entrenched in the Dragonspine Mountains?

If there is, then they should have prepared in advance.

It is said that the orcs are mostly active at night, especially on the night of the full moon. Maybe they're afraid of daylight? Maybe it would be safer to light a campfire around here?

Thinking like this, Li Yuan sat up straight and began to look left and right to look for materials that could be used to make tinder.

Takemoto ******** worried about Xin Zi's safety, and had already left Li Yuan on the side behind. It wasn't until the last ray of daylight on the horizon disappeared from the horizon and the darkness enveloped her that Takemoto was suddenly alarmed, and the time agreed between Xin Zi and the two had arrived.

"Miss Xin must be in trouble, we have to go in......"

Takemoto turned his head suddenly, and was suddenly stunned in the middle of his words.

Li Yuan...... Where did it go?

Obviously, not long ago, I saw him sitting leisurely not far away staring at himself, why did he suddenly disappear at this moment?

Takemoto put his hands on his waist and looked around vigilantly, but his breathing became a little rapid.

If the enemy took advantage of the fact that his attention was all focused on the river clam forest just now, then this person's kung fu must be quite unfamiliar, and it is even very likely that he is above himself and Li Yuan.

But when I looked around, there was only a vast empty meadow in front of me, and a blue canopy of sky that met the vast horizon hung down.

For a while, Takemoto was in a dilemma.

Leave here and search for Li Yuan's traces? In this way, if Xin Zi can't find himself and Li Yuan when he comes back, will he misunderstand that the two of them entered the river mussel forest, causing a lot of unnecessary trouble?

Can you continue to stay here and wait for Xin Zi to come back? If Li Yuan was really arrested by someone, he was afraid that if he delayed a little longer, he would be in more danger.

Resentment, anger, scolding, and more of a worry piled up in her chest. But these can only be kept in my heart, brewing more and more grievances.

The enemy is in the dark, she is in the light, she doesn't even have the courage to shout Li Yuan's name at the moment, for fear of startling the snake, and she will never see the young man with a hippie smile again.

His thoughts were chaotic, and his steps were messy, and Takemoto looked straight ahead, but his feet unconsciously retreated backwards.

I don't know when there was a slight sound of wind behind her ears, her heart instantly lifted, turned around suddenly, and the soft sword at her waist was instantly unsheathed, and it slashed backwards in the night.

A red leaf is split into two petals by the blade of the sword, like two butterflies fluttering, and finally lands at Takemoto's feet.

The appearance of the autumn leaves falling is so familiar......

Takemoto stared down at the two red leaves at his feet, and the two straight borders left by the split leaves were vivid......

Her thoughts flew back to twelve years ago, when she had just turned six years old, standing in her yard, for the first time she secretly saw her father practicing swords, and with a sword split, the leaves of the hexagonal maple planted in the yard flew all over the sky, and finally fell one after another, paving the ground, she squatted down, picked up one of them and looked at it carefully, the traces of the leaf being cut were the same as at this moment.

"Xiao Zhen, are you peeking at Daddy's sword practice again? Beware of being seen by your mother, and you have to eat bamboo planks! ”

Daddy's familiar words faintly came from the front, the seemingly annoyed but actually full of doting reprimands.

As soon as Takemoto's eyes heated, tears welled up from the corners of his eyes, gently slid down his cheeks, and dripped on the red leaves at his feet.

"Daddy......"

She called softly, looking up, the scarlet woods in front of her beginning to distort and deform in her eyes.

At that moment, her heart was attracted by the red leaves spread in the forest, and the red leaves everywhere overlapped little by little with the scene of her father's sword practice on the ground in the backyard of her childhood home.

Takemoto walked forward desperately and stepped into the mussel forest. (To be continued.) )