Volume IV Chapter 17 Tracking and Surrounding
When the officials and soldiers saw the crowd withdrawing, they gradually retreated, and continued to hide behind the hall somewhere.
At this moment, except for the dozen or so soldiers on duty in front of the hall, none of the others disappeared. The door of the temple has not been opened since it was closed when the official came out, and even when there was a lot of commotion outside, it seemed unusually quiet, and I wondered if there was anyone inside.
It's twilight, and it's obviously safer to take advantage of the cover of the night, but on the other hand, because it's night, the surroundings have become extremely quiet, and the slightest wind and grass is very likely to be discovered, Ji Fa knows that he can't stay here longer, but he still feels unwilling to pass on a message without trying to pass on a message, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly thought of an idea.
He took out the slingshot he had always carried with him, and in the same way as he had done in the middle of the night when he knocked on the attic window, he grabbed a bead and fired it at the silk cloth window of the temple.
Boom, the projectile entered through the window after a light sound, and heard the bullet somewhere, Ji Fazhi was stunned and listened carefully to the movement in the hall.
After a few moments, a very low exclamation could be heard from inside the hall.
It's a female voice, and it can even be confirmed that it's Daji's voice, Ji Fa couldn't help but feel excited, but although he was desperate to see each other immediately, it was obviously not the right time at the moment, and it was time to go back and think of a better way.
Ji Fa quietly slid down the tree, sneaked through the forest to get farther and farther away from the temple, and finally made sure that he would not be discovered by the soldiers on duty and hiding, Ji Fa quickly quickened his pace under his feet, ready to leave.
It's just that in my mind, I wonder if Daji will know that he has arrived at Chaoge City through the beads, and if so, what kind of thoughts will he have in the future? Surprise or disappointment or something else?
The bead had been given to him by Daji, and Daji would have been able to recognize it if nothing else.
When he was about a hundred or ten steps away from the bottom of the mountain, for some reason, a picture suddenly flashed in Ji Fa's mind, so he turned back to Fang Ge, where Nuwa Palace was located, and glanced back, probably subconsciously wanting to look back to see if a woman's figure would suddenly appear in Nuwa Palace.
Dancing slowly in the moonlight, in front of everyone......
At the same time, there seemed to be another sentence engraved in my ears: "No, my greatest wish in this life is to dance a dance of my own creation for the person I love." ”
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"I jumped to show you, what gift would you give me?"
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"I'll give you this, and as long as you see it, please think of my ......," Ji Fa once said to Daji as he handed over the slingshot he was holding.
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"Then I'll give you this too, remember to think about me every day......," Daji smiled at the bracelet made of pearls that had fallen off her wrist.
All of a sudden, those words and things that had been said and done kept playing back in Ji Fa's mind like a movie, and the feeling of warmth and longing quietly spread more and more in his heart, and the gaze that looked back at Nuwa Palace was suddenly filled with a certain taste of nostalgia.
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"Huh?"
As far as the eye could see, he suddenly found that a branch shook slightly, at first Ji Fa didn't care, but felt a little strange, and then walked a few steps down the mountain, Ji Fa's inexplicable heart suddenly flashed a trace of extreme uneasiness.
There was no wind on the mountain tonight, and I didn't come from there, so how could the branches move for no reason?
Could it be that some wild beast is also following him?
Ji Fa couldn't help but feel a slight awe in his heart, so he immediately held his breath and deliberately controlled the force under his feet, and his pace became lighter, and at the same time, the speed of going down the mountain did not decrease but increased, "Whoosh" moved quickly down the mountain with a slight wind sound, and while moving forward, Ji Fa turned his head sideways and watched the movement behind him in the afterglow.
Sure enough, the leaves of the trees began to rise and fall in a regular manner along a certain line, and the movement was extremely slight, and it was absolutely impossible to notice it if you were not careful, but it did keep moving.
And judging from the very regular fluctuations of those branches that rise and fall, this is definitely not a beast!
Suddenly thinking of a possibility, Ji Fa's face couldn't help but change drastically: "It's not good, is someone following me?" ”
The subsequent scene verified this guess in Ji Fa's heart, pretending not to notice any movement behind him at all, after changing the direction several times in succession, the traces of action behind him have clearly told Ji Fa that someone is indeed following him, and he has kept a fixed distance from each other.
"It's bad, have you been being targeted for your actions in the past few days?" , Ji Fa's heart sank slightly, and he muttered quietly, and then he no longer cared that his actions would be exposed, and rushed down the mountain with all his strength, hoping to get rid of the tracking behind him.
Ji Fa's sudden speed increase made the stalker behind him unable to react for a while, but then the branches of multiple trees in several directions behind him trembled and fanned forward, apparently the stalker also noticed that Ji Fa had noticed them.
It has also changed the previous silent strategy, from tracking to encirclement.
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In a side hall of Nuwa Palace, Di Xin was holding a bowl of tea to drink, and Fei Zhong was carelessly accompanying him.
Suddenly, a guard flashed in at the door, fell to the ground with a plop, and hurriedly said loudly to Di Xin: "Report to the king, the person who followed Ji Fa just now sent an urgent report, saying that Ji Fa discovered their whereabouts, and Ji found that he suddenly accelerated his pace, and it seemed that he was preparing to escape!" ”
Di Xin threw the teacup on the table and said angrily, "What? A bunch of idiots, you can't do this little thing."
After speaking, he stood up suddenly, and roared with a gloomy face: "Quick, since he has been discovered, this kid is definitely going to slip away, hurry up and send more people to arrest him back!" ”
"Yes," the guard replied, and then rushed out of the hall.
As if a beloved toy had been broken, something that had been quite lively and interesting went wrong, and Di Xin was very angry, and after issuing the order, he paced in the hall.
Fei Zhong next to him looked at Di Xin tremblingly, and said cautiously: "The king is angry, this is Chaoge, forgive him Ji Fa can't escape the king's palm."
Di Xin frowned, snorted coldly and said: "I'm not worried about this, this idiot is just a small fish, the most important thing is to find the right people to catch them and catch them all, but since the secret tracking is discovered, how can this matter be talked about?"
Fei Zhong opened his mouth, wanting to say something but couldn't find anything to say for a while, so he heard Di Xin suddenly sneer: "Okay, I can't use him to blackmail Ji Chang, but someone can, catch him first and then talk about it", after speaking, Di Xin stopped.
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Soon after Di Xin's order was given, Ji Fa, who would go down the mountain, found himself surrounded by a siege.