Chapter 23: The Pursuit
suffered from the flesh and skin, and had to get up early to serve Yan Xi the next day, Chen Lan's face was already wrinkled.
She didn't know that after Mu Huo left at night, she didn't go back to her mansion, but went directly to see the Witch Emperor.
"How?" The Witch Emperor was sitting on a golden chair, with Li Hong behind him, rubbing his shoulders and massaging him.
Mu Huo was also stunned when he saw Lihong, he was rarely wearing a black robe, with a red silk tied around his waist, and his hair was braided into a slightly loose long braid like a man in the Western Regions and hung down on one shoulder.
But his gaze didn't dare to stay for too long, and after being slightly stunned, he immediately spoke: "That little girl, there is still Shougong Sand on her arm." β
"So we've all been deceived. You see, this little girl is not smart? The Witch Emperor pulled down one of Lihong's arms and shook it firmly on his palm.
Li Hongban leaned down and echoed with a light smile: "The elder brother takes a fancy to him, naturally it will not be an ordinary person. β
Mu Huo stood at the bottom, still with a wooden face, and he couldn't see any emotion.
After he retreated, the Witch Emperor still held Lihong's hand.
He suddenly rolled up his wet sleeves and asked with a stiff face, "You would have been injured by the Celestial Clan to such an extent?" This Nexus ......"
Lihong's upper arm was wrapped with purple vines, shaped like interlaced meridians, and the skin under it was blurred with flesh and blood, a piece of scarlet, and there was no hint of healing.
"After all, I don't have all the mana right now," he said, straightening his sleeves and not caring for him, "The other party happens to be that person......
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to the Witch Emperor again: "You haven't given me the antidote for this month." β
The Witch Emperor stared at him for a long time, and then took out a small wooden box from his bosom and placed it in his palm.
After a busy day, Chen Lan began to wait anxiously as soon as she returned to the house. But until late at night, the fire did not arrive. She waited impatiently, lay down in her clothes, and as soon as she fell asleep, she was woken up.
Chen Lan opened her eyes, her face full of shyness.
Mu Huo had a cold face, and suddenly asked her in a low voice, "Are you willing to go with me?" β
"Where are you going?" Chen Lan was puzzled.
"Leave the Yan Country and follow me to the Yu Country!" Mu Huo grabbed her arm fiercely.
"You're crazy......" Chen Lan grinned in pain.
"I'm not crazy!" Mu Huo lowered his roar, stared straight at her with a pair of eyes, and said in a deep voice, "You are taken by Liuyan!" If you don't want to become his plaything, just follow me, and I'll arrange a way back for you! β
Chen Lan looked at him and quickly calmed down the fear in his eyes. She also had a solemn face, and said resolutely: "I can't go." β
She laughed miserably: "To get to this point today, do you know how much I have paid and how much I have given up?" β
Mu Huo looked at her coldly, and no longer persecuted, only sighed: "Okay." β
He stretched out his hand, his fingertips were strong, and with a "whew" of luck extinguished all the lights and candles.
Chen Lan was pressed to the bed by him, and then she felt a cold lower body, and her clothes were ripped off by him.
She was too shocked to say a word.
"Mu, Muhuo......" she screamed, her voice like a wounded young beast, weak but piercing his heart with severe pain.
"You might as well give it to me!" Mu Huo still stopped, didn't enter her, gritted his teeth in her ear and said, "Why don't you understand, Ye Binglan?" β
"But I don't want to kill you!" Hearing the title that had not been seen for many years, Chen Lan finally burst into tears.
Mu Huo hugged her tightly, stiff as iron stone, motionless.
No one knew that outside the window with a slight crack, an imperceptible black shadow floated through.
Li Hong hung a stubborn smile, the black robe merged with the dark night, appeared in the demon suppression tower like a ghost, and walked into a dark and dull hall.
After a while, a fierce roar was heard in the hall.
"Ye Binglan ......" Li Hong smiled playfully, "Lushi, tell me that she is really the reincarnation of the Imperial Sister of Ni Shang?" β
"Evil thing! You don't want to get out of here! Lu Shi scolded angrily and drove him away.
After admiring his monstrous anger, Li Hong walked away satisfied, and came to a secret room deeper underground.
A pool has been carved out of the room, and the bright red mollusks in the pool are constantly wriggling and spitting out bubbles, biting and devouring each other.
He looked at them in distraction, and suddenly tore off his sleeves, took control of a blood-red monster, and pressed it directly to the wound on his arm.
The erosive wound sizzled, and the wisteria grew in entanglement, absorbing the red blood from the monster's body, and when the monster turned into a puddle of pus, it shrank back to its original size.
His wounds did not heal at all.
Nangong Yi was waiting for him outside the secret room.
"Master, Feiqiong failed to assassinate the four princes and was arrested, and Miss Qiao'er secretly came out of the dead camp......" He glanced at Lihong's bare arm, and hurriedly lowered his head to report, not daring to take another look.
Li Hong didn't say a word and didn't react, as if he hadn't heard it at all, and walked up the steps alone with the palace lamp.
Deeper and heavier, Ding Ruoyu shrank behind the rockery on the Yanci Mansion of the Four Princes, staring at the patrolling groups of officers and soldiers.
The four princes controlled the military power and led troops to garrison the northern defense line all the year round to resist the sudden attack of the Snow Country. Recently, he returned to the imperial capital Agni City, Yan Qi was afraid that he would have the intention to seize the throne, so he secretly assigned Yu Feiqiong to sneak into his mansion to assassinate him.
Who expected that Yan Ci had already taken precautions, and the masters in the mansion were like clouds, so that people couldn't get in, and even Ding Ruoyu began to doubt that he could come in, because it was a flaw specially sold by the masters of the Four Princes' Mansion, so that he could catch turtles in an urn.
moved before midnight, and at this time, the news of her escape for no reason was probably reported to the witch cult, Ding Ruoyu knew that she would not have a good life after going back, but she didn't care about it at all. She was so anxious at the time that she just wanted to rescue Yu Feiqiong as soon as possible.
But not long after, she heard from the people passing by that Feiqiong was taken away by Lihong.
That's not easy to mess with, not to mention that the two of them have a grudge. Ding Ruoyu immediately wanted to leave, but found that the palace was heavily guarded, and it became more and more difficult to act.
Just as she waited until her legs began to ache, someone touched her arm.
She panicked and couldn't scream. The faint moonlight shone down, and she saw Li Hong standing next to her, lowered her head and said softly, "I'll take you out." β
After that, he draped the red cloak on his arm over her and led her out of the Four Princes' Mansion in a grand manner.
Li Hong also wore a red cloak and walked quickly. Ding Ruoyu hurriedly tightened him, trotting to keep up.
The exit was very smooth, but after getting out, they were followed by a large group of pursuers.
"Brother!" Ding Ruoyu exclaimed in disbelief.
"I'll ask later." Lihong took her through the streets, stole a horse from someone else's stable, and drove the two of them through the long empty street.
The pursuers also got horses out of nowhere and gave them hot pursuit.
Li Hong waved the whip vigorously, and suddenly "hissed".
Ding Ruoyu looked back at him, but saw that he was still expressionless, and he didn't see any pain, as if he had misheard it just now.
The people behind him began to release arrows, and the arrows were smeared with phosphorus fire, which looked extremely strange. Lihong took Ding Ruoyu to dodge as hard as he could, and was hit by an arrow in the leg. He didn't realize it, and he was still whipping it as hard as he could.
Finally he took the rest of the people up a long mountain range.
Li Hong pulled out the arrow on his leg, the arrow barb, and tore off a large piece of flesh, staining his snow-white knee pants red and sticky, which made people frightened.
Ding Ruoyu grabbed his arm and held him to prevent him from falling.
On the opposite side, the leader rode a white horse and took two small steps forward, then stopped and said with a smile: "Great Master, let's meet again so soon." β
The moonlight was cold, reflecting the man's handsome face, and his voice was as clear as a spring, which was extremely pleasant, and Ding Ruoyu remembered it after hearing it once.
Sure enough, Li Hong also laughed and said, "Lord Priest, don't come unharmed. β
The high priest, dressed in white, waved his hand at this moment, and one of his subordinates dismounted and handed him a staff as clear as emerald.
He took the staff and held it in his hand, riding a white horse, as sacred and dazzling as an immortal in the moonlight, making people unable to open their eyes.
Ding Ruoyu stared at him blankly, unable to believe that there could be such a peerless character in the world.
"This is taking advantage of my illness to kill me......" Li Hong grabbed her by the waist, threw something to the ground, and flew up the mountain with her.
There was a loud "boom", and a large purple mist spread from the place where they had been standing before.
Li Hong's face was pale, and her expression was grim she had never seen before. Without stopping, the two of them meandered up the mountain path, through a large dense forest, to a low gray-green thorn bush.
"Can you jump over it yourself?" Li Hong asked, pointing to a slightly sparsely grown thorn.
Ding Ruoyu responded, didn't say much, flew over, and fell into a large empty space surrounded by it.
Li Hong nodded, took a few steps back, and rushed over.
However, the injury to his leg was not light, and he was not treated in time, and this jump could not fully reach the open space in the middle.
Ding Ruoyu pinched his sweat, hurriedly swept up on the ground, flew up and pulled him.
Li Hong half leaned on her shoulder and sighed.
Ding Ruoyu held him down and forcibly gave him medicine.
"There's no need." Li Hong stopped, tore off the broken strips of cloth on his clothes, hastily tied them, and temporarily stopped the bleeding.
He looked up at the steep barren mountain in front of him, tried the thick rattan hanging from the mountain wall, and said, "Do you have the strength to climb up with me?" β
Ding Ruoyu nodded and bit the corner of his mouth.
The mountain walls are almost vertical, and she doesn't actually have much power. Fortunately, Lihong was not completely unable to walk, and after a lot of effort, he finally reached the top of the mountain, but the freshly bandaged wound on his leg cracked open again and became bloody.
Ding Ruoyu helped him and rested for a while.
"Why did he kill you?" She asked suddenly, and as soon as she asked, she regretted it again. A snow country and a flame country, both in high positions, will do it as soon as they meet, what reason will there be to ask?
Li Hong didn't laugh at her, but said softly: "Maybe he thinks that I killed his fiancΓ©e in the first place, causing him to be relegated to the snowy region." Whatever he wanted, he did it. β
There was no grievance in his eyes, as if he looked down on all this and didn't care about anything.
Ding Ruoyu looked a little sad, and he was no longer as afraid of him as he was at the beginning.
Li Hong was silent for a long time before he got up and said, "Let's go." β
The top of the barren mountain, lush. After a while, they came to a huge hollow. Ding Ruoyu didn't care about the amazing work of nature, and followed Lihong to slide down the bottom of the cave along the rattan on the inner wall of the cave.
The terrain at the bottom of the cave was equally peculiar, and at this time they were blocked by a natural green vine barrier in front of them, and the vines were crawling with small green spiders that shimmered with blue light.
Ding Ruoyu was numb when he saw it, but he saw Lihong replace the bloody strip of cloth on his leg, and then tore off the clothes again and carefully wrapped the wound.
He used the strip of blood cloth to attract the spiders, luring them all aside, and then opened the green vine and let Ding Ruoyu enter first. He then jumped into the barrier as well, but there were a few spiders on his clothes.
Ding Ruoyu guessed that this thing was highly poisonous, and hurriedly dusted it off for him, but saw the last spider burrowing into his sleeve. She insisted on pulling his sleeve, but Li Hong didn't have time to stop him, so she had to let her go.
His arm was horrible in his sleeve, and the spider feasted on the festering flesh.
She didn't care about the poison of the spider, so she picked it with her fingers, dragged it out, threw it on the ground, and crushed it into slag with the sole of her shoe and the small piece of carrion.
"You're a mess too." Li Hong can still laugh.