"Shhhh I pulled Peony behind a large tree and reminded her in a suppressed voice.

"What's wrong?" Peony Red didn't know what to do, but she still cooperated and lowered her voice.

"Shh I stopped her with my eyes, then turned and crept out of the tree, revealing half of my head.

Seeing this, Shaohong stopped talking, and looked out with my appearance, and at this look, she was so frightened that she almost exclaimed.

Not far from them, a giant beast appeared, its head was like a tiger, but its body was like a lion, its eyes were as big as copper bells, and the teeth in its bloody mouth were extremely sharp, and the saliva in the beast's mouth touched the grass on the ground, and the grass blades withered in an instant, wisps of black smoke came out of the leaves, and the flowers and trees around it lost their lives in an instant.

"It's poisonous." Peony was amazed.

"This is the Tiger Lion Beast, a beast that should have been extinct a long time ago." I whispered to her, "I've only read about them in ancient books for a few years, but I didn't expect them to exist in this world." ”

"It's not going to attack us, is it? Tiger lion beast is a cannibal? With a hint of luck, Shaohong looked sideways at me.

I shrugged, "God knows, the ancient books only say that it is cruel and tyrannical, and it likes blood, but as for whether it eats people or not, I don't know." ”

Shaohong really wanted to roll her eyes and show the person in front of her, but when she thought that it would damage her external image, she still endured it.

"If we leave quietly, it won't find out, right?" Peony asked me.

"Probably so." I thought about it for a moment and nodded, "It is said in ancient books that although the tiger and lion beast is powerful, its sense of smell and hearing is not very sensitive. ”

Peony Red breathed a sigh of relief when she heard me.

"Then let's go now."

I stuck out my head again to look at the tiger lion, and when it didn't seem to notice us, I answered and quietly left with Shaohong.

'Click! ”

"Click!"

"Click!"

Shaohong glared at me viciously, but she didn't dare to speak loudly, so she could only grit her teeth and whisper, "If you move bigger, we won't be able to leave!" ”

"I'm sorry." I smiled awkwardly at her, "There are too many dead branches and rotten leaves in the dense forest, and it is impossible to prevent it." ”

"You nonsense, can a mere dead leaf be difficult to bring you down?" Peony didn't believe my nonsense at all: "I think you just want to lure the beast over." ”

Hearing her suspicious of me like this, I cried out, "I'm not crazy, why do you want to fill my stomach with that thing!" ”

"Humph!" Peony turned around and continued to walk forward, not bothering to sweep me out of the corner of her eye.

This woman's heart is really a needle under the sea, obviously she has a bewitching and colorful appearance, but once she changes her face, she is just like a tiger and lion beast, and she really can't be provoked.

I shook my head and stepped forward, and the result was ......

"Click!"

"Shen Qingzhi!" Shao Hong was so angry that he turned around and roared, and this roar caused us to hear the earth-shattering roar behind us, and in just a moment, the tiger and lion beast, which had been out of sight, appeared in front of us with its huge mouth open.

"What should I do?" Peony Red realized that she was in trouble and hurriedly asked me what to do.

"There's no hurry." I smiled at her, "Someone will take care of it for us." ”

"What?" Shaohong thought that she had misheard, "In this dense forest, who else is there, it's just us." ”

"Shh I put up an eclipse to silence her, and when I saw the tiger and lion approaching us little by little, I suddenly moved when several birds fluttered from the forest and flew into the sky.

I ran light work, flew up the tree, grabbed the tree with both hands, dozens of leaves were caught by me into my hands, I sank slightly, looked at the direction, and then the leaves in my hands came out, and flew to the forest opposite us with a few sounds, and then quickly went down the tree, pulling the peony red and hiding in the tree.

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground kept coming from the opposite forest, and the slightest smell of blood also permeated with the sound, and the tiger lion circled around the big tree where we were hiding, and finally couldn't help but roar and rushed into the opposite forest.

"It'......" Peony was a little stunned, "and just left?" ”

"Or else?" I jumped off the tree and clapped my hands.

"I thought ......" Peony fell from the tree, and stopped talking.

"Think we're going to be in the middle of a fight?" I looked at her with a smile, "The girl is a girl, and she is really a little bolder." ”

"Humph!" Peony was so excited by me that she was so angry that she stopped talking.

The sound of roaring and roaring suddenly came from the opposite forest, accompanied by the sound of human beings shouting in pain, I looked at the other side, frowned and said to Shaohong, "We should go, time cannot be delayed." ”

Although Shaohong was angry in her heart, she could clearly distinguish the situation in front of her, so she didn't say a word at the moment, and quickly left there with me.

The light in the dense forest was not strong, coupled with the misty fog and lush vegetation, almost the slightest mistake would be disoriented, and Peony and I kept walking forward for a while, until the sun set at dusk, and then found a place to stop and rest,

"How did you know that someone was following us?" Through the beating firelight, Peony asked me out loud.

After eating and drinking, I put my hands behind my head and lay down with my head back, "Every night is my vigil, and I can naturally find that something is wrong. "Bashan Academy

"What about the route?" "Why do you know the route through the jungle?" ”

A hint of coldness appeared on my face, and I mocked, "It turns out that the peony girl who is bent on death will also find that we are walking a road out of the dense forest?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Peony's face sank, and the plain and calm that she had been pretending to have lost her color, "When did I beg to die?" ”

"A lot of the time." I whispered, "From the moment you are willing to leave the prison with me. ”

"You ......" Shaohong's face froze, and then she opened her eyes, "Don't talk nonsense, who wouldn't want to live well?" ”

"Yes, there are countless people in the world who are constantly struggling to live, but this does not include you."

"Eight words!" Peony threw the branch that was stirring the fire in her hand into the fire.

I sneered, "There are no ten flavored mushrooms in this world, right?" ”

Peony didn't expect me to mention this, and was stunned for a moment and didn't speak.

"It's called the color mushroom, it is highly poisonous to eat, boiled in water, it is nothing more than to make the taste fresher, and it can't eliminate its toxicity at all, the reason why we eat it is okay is because you add the color separation herb that can detoxify it, which is what you call the slightly bitter herb that can fill the abdomen." I didn't hear Peony make a sound, so I continued.

"I don't understand what you're saying!" Peony raised her eyes and laughed at me, "As you said, where does the taste of that soup come from?" ”

"From your purse." I said, "You often cook for Jingyang, right?" ”

Peony pursed her lips and did not speak.

"It's the same when you come out of the prison, and you follow me into the dense forest, you expected that Cen Xi would send someone to stop me, so that you could take advantage of the chaos to seek death, and you also expected that we would get lost in the dense forest, so it would be no different from death, but what you didn't expect was that Cen Xi didn't send anyone to stop me along the way, and we didn't get lost, and with me staring day and night, you couldn't find a chance to seek death." I lightly stated what Shaohong had thought along the way, "Peony girl, did I say something wrong?" ”

Peony Red bit her lower lip stubbornly, and her face was pale.

"Actually, there's one thing I don't understand." I asked her, "There are a few holes in the mushroom that have branches through it, and you obviously wanted to persuade me to roast and eat it, why did you suddenly change your mind?" ”

"I didn't try to persuade you to bake it." Peony Hong's voice was a little astringent, she lowered her head and said, "I just wanted to eat it myself, but you came back too quickly, and I didn't have time to do it at all." ”

"What about the lake? If you really don't want to live anymore, why don't you jump in while I'm gone? I said.

Peony curled the corners of her lips and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Because I don't want to hurt you." ”

I was slightly stunned, and then I understood, "Are you afraid that when I come back, I will go to the lake to save you?" ”

I don't know how deep the lake in the jungle is, and if I was not careful, I would have died here.

Peony just laughed silently, a little bit of misery leaking out from the corners of her ruddy mouth, withering and blurry in the cold moonlight.

"Why?" After a long time, I asked her, "Why do you care about my life?" ”

Peony hugged her knees and quietly looked at the burning fire, "There are many reasons. ”

"You can come one by one."

Shaohong took a deep breath and said, "It's because of Prince Qin." ”

"Him?" Now I was really confused.

"That's him." Shaohong said, "Before you came to me in the prison, Prince Qin came to look for me. He said, if I dare to harm you, he will add it to Xiaojing several times, I can't gamble with Xiaojing's life, and ...... I have no grievances with you, and there is a place in Jiangnan that can't stand you, so why do I want you to die. ”

It turned out that Cen Xi ......

I closed my eyes and didn't speak again.

"What about you, why don't you give me the opportunity to do what I want?" Peony looked at me.

"Do you want to hear the truth, or do you want to be false?"

"Whatever you want."

"Then I'll tell you all to guess for yourself which sentence is true and which sentence is false." I smiled and said, "There are two reasons why I don't want you to die, one is that you are still of some use to me if you are alive, and the other is that I promised Jingyang to save you." ”

Shaohong laughed helplessly, "Your two sentences are really embarrassing for me." ”

"Then I'll guess slowly." I said.

Shaohong looked at the young man in the firelight, and suddenly understood why the noble Prince Qin would personally come to the prison to warn her for a subordinate.

"Are we going to get out of the jungle tomorrow?" Peony asked.

"yes." I answered her.

Shaohong sighed, and suddenly asked again, "You haven't told me yet, why did you know the route out of the dense forest?" ”

When I heard her ask, my mind flashed back to the eyes when Cen Xi stuffed the painting tube to me when I was in Jiangnan.

"Because I'm a marionette." I looked at the stars and smiled.