Chapter 36: Suspicion
"Yes, Your Highness."
"The princess can be killed if she stays by the king's side, but do you think the king can rest assured that he can leave his beloved wife on the unpredictable halfway?" Da Ji Zhong Yuan suddenly raised his voice,
"Since this king has decided to take the princess to the tomb, it means that this king is ready to take all these risks. This king and the princess are husband and wife, how can they regret it halfway? If this king doesn't even have the ability to protect his wife today, how can he protect the descendants of the Daji clan in the future, and how can he protect the people of the netherworld? This suggestion of yours is not only humiliating the princess, but also humiliating the king! β
"Your Highness!" Ah Zhong still wanted to insist, but Zhifeng and the others saw that Da Ji Zhongyuan was already angry, so it was not good to watch from the wall again, so they hurriedly pulled Ah Zhong back secretly, hoping that he would say less.
From beginning to end, Gu Gesang watched this scene like an outsider.
Ah Zhong's loyalty is not adulterated, but Zhu Yi ...... She used to have a very respectful attitude towards Da Ji Zhongming, but this time she talked back to Ah Zhong for her?
The feeling that something was wrong in her heart was even stronger.
"Needless to say, keep going." Da Ji Zhong Yuan said coldly.
Zhifeng, Zhiyan and Ah Zhong continue to be at the forefront, each showing their magical powers.
Gu Gesang shouted softly that she was hungry, and Zhu Yi hurriedly brought her food. Gu Gesang came out of Da Ji Zhongyuan's arms and motioned for him to go first, while he slowed down and followed Zhu Yi.
She held Ah Chai in one hand and Zhu Yi who peeled the biscuit bag for her in the other, making an intimate appearance, but the expression on her face revealed a little displeasure.
Seeing this, Zhu Yi smiled slowly and said softly, "Niangniang, don't take Lord Zhongming's words to heart. β
Gu Gesang flattened his mouth, "He's right, I'm just a burden...... You don't have to eat, I just want to eat...... Don't peel it too loudly, he should complain about me being lazy when he hears it for a while......"
"Lord Zhongming is as his name suggests, he is dedicated to the interests of the whole Ji clan, sometimes he will inevitably act and speak too straightforwardly, his mind is always good, Lord Zhongming is not disrespectful to the princess." Zhu Yi stroked Gu Gesang's shoulder, and he looked very comforting.
Gu Gesang was still not very happy, "I'm married, aren't I also a member of the Da Ji clan?" But I think his attitude towards me is far less than half as good as that of Da Ji Zhongyuan! You're different, I think you're always in my shoes! β
"The mother is overrated, the slave just did her duty-"
Gu Gesang interrupted Zhu Yi anxiously, "Don't call yourself a slave in front of me in the future, I am a modern person, and I am really not used to this set of feudal etiquette...... You call yourself me, and you get used to it after a few more words. If the steward dares to criticize you, just tell him that it is my request. β
ββ¦β¦ Niangniang, Zhu Yi doesn't want to see you and Lord Zhongming arguing over me......" Zhu Yi looked embarrassed.
Gu Gesang had the momentum of having made up his mind, and took a bite of the compressed biscuit, "How dare he argue with me?" I'm a princessβahem, ahem, ahem......"
Gu Gesang, who was choked on a piece of biscuit dregs, coughed again and again, and accidentally coughed out the meridian leaf in his mouth, Zhu Yi was busy opening the box and getting a new one, but it seemed that he couldn't find the box.
At this moment, there was the sound of a snake spitting out a letter in the cave!
"Everyone, be careful!" As soon as Zhifeng finished shouting, a huge snake head fell from the sky and approached Gu Gesang, as if he had smelled food, and the eyes of the scarlet snake with a copper bell were full of greedy light.
Zhixue waved her hand in the air, and a sharp blade appeared in her palm, and she boldly stabbed the triangular head of the giant snake with her sword, but she didn't expect another identical snake head to appear in the dark!
"It's a three-headed basilisk!" Zhilei was the first to recognize the enemy, "Don't look them in the eye!" β
Zhi Yan turned over and restrained the second snake head, and after the wind pad, the golden-backed broadsword slashed fiercely at the third snake head.
However, the basilisk's skin was very thick, and the three ghost guards had been wrestling with it for a long time, but they could not form fatal injuries.
Gu Gesang turned his head to look at Da Ji Zhongyuan, "Why don't you go and help?" β
"The three-headed basilisk is very ambitious, and has the attribute of being strong when it is strong. If this king were to deal with it, it would be several times more lethal than it is now. Da Ji Zhongyuan explained.
Gu Gesang then nodded, "Then according to this logic, if I deal with it, I can minimize its lethality, and then you can easily get rid of this roadblock with a sneak attack?" β
Da Ji Zhong Yuan looked at her deeply.
That's true, but ......
"You're really impressing. The little girl who was scared to shrink into a group when she saw a ghost before, and in the blink of an eye, she was already going to cooperate with the king's ghost guards to outwit the three-headed basilisk? β
"Don't praise me...... Look at them, it's so dangerous......" Gu Gesang couldn't cry or laugh.
Da Ji Zhongyuan still didn't move, he turned his head to look at Zhu Yi, and asked in a slightly cold voice: "Meridian leaf hasn't been found yet?" β
"Ah...... Found it. Zhu Yi hurriedly presented the wooden box containing the meridian leaves.
Seeing Gu Gesang re-swallow a meridian leaf, Da Ji Zhongyuan turned into a ghost form, leaping into the air, and suddenly drilled into a snake's mouth in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this, Ah Zhong knew that Daji Zhongyuan had made arrangements, so he hurriedly called Shangzhilei to cover Gu Gesang and retreated.
"Withdraw?!" Gu Gesang felt incredulous, "Zhong Yuan, he-"
"The basilisk is about to explode, quick! Evacuate! Ah Zhong didn't care about saying honorifics anymore.
Gu Gesang was finally pushed behind a stone wall by them, and before he could stand on his feet, he suddenly heard a loud muffled sound, followed by the sound of countless stones hitting the mountain wall.
The air was filled with the smell of fishy snake blood, but the two academic schools, Ah Zhong and Zhi Lei, didn't seem to be disgusted with the blood of the basilisk, so they hurriedly took out the Qiankun bag on their bodies and collected the Yin medicine that was so precious as the blood of the three-headed snake into their own white crystal bottles.
Confirming that there was no danger outside, Gu Gesang hurriedly broke away from Zhu Yi's hand and ran to find Daji Zhongyuan's figure.
Ah Chai's small black cat lamp slowly floated in front of Gu Gesang's line of sight, illuminating the way forward for his master.
In a pile of snake corpse fragments, Gu Gesang saw Da Ji Zhongyuan.
Compared to her, who stepped on her shoes full of blood, Da Ji Zhongyuan was like a person who had just parachuted into this cave, her whole body was clean and refreshing, and there was no trace of drilling into the snake's belly.
Obviously, he could have thought that Da Ji Zhongyuan would be fine earlier, but seeing that he was safe and sound at this moment, Gu Gesang was still very excited, trotted in front of him, and hugged his neck tightly.
Da Ji Zhongyuan liked Gu Gesang's clingy little appearance quite a lot, kissed her on the cheek, and hugged her for a while before going to check on other people's injuries.
Except for the snow that consumes more aura, everyone else is also full of energy.
Gu Gesang generously gave away two meridian leaves to replenish Zhixue's physical strength, Ah Zhong was originally distressed, but seeing that Daji Zhongyuan had no objections, he couldn't help what he wanted to say.
"In terms of time, we have been at the grave for a day and a night. Niang Niang is tired too, right? There's a hive cave ahead, and I've been here through the Wheel Maze. We can go there and take a break. Zhi Lei scratched his head, "The terrain of this catacomb is complicated, and I need to stop and study the next direction." β
Everyone came to the beehive cave where Zhilei had surveyed the terrain, and saw that this place was indeed as he had temporarily named, and it was full of small holes and patches of stone walls.
Da Ji Zhong Yuan used a dead leaf in the cave to conjure a big blanket for Gu Gesang, Zhu Yi spread it on the ground, and asked Gu Gesang to go over and sleep.
Gu Gesang ate again, and looked at Da Ji Zhongyuan and a group of them in a daze as they practiced moon worship to the west, and slowly fell asleep.
After falling asleep, Gu Gesang had a dream, in which she and Zhu Yi slept in the same bed, but I don't know why Gu Gesang suddenly felt very scared. She looked at Zhu Yi's calm sleeping face in surprise, and always felt that something bad would happen in the next second.
And this thought flashed through Gu Gesang's mind, and Zhu Yi opened his eyes suddenly. Her eyes were empty, there were no eyeballs!
"Zhu Yi!" Gu Gesang woke up screaming in his dream.
When she woke up, her head was resting on Da Ji Zhongyuan's lap, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that handsome and peerless face, and her heart frightened by the nightmare suddenly fell back to its original place.
However, Da Ji Zhong Yuan didn't look very happy.
"Oh, now after sleeping and having nightmares, my first reaction is to call Zhu Yi instead of my husband?" He pursed his lips like a child who had lost his sugar.
Gu Gesang didn't know where to explain, she looked around, only to see Zhilei and Zhixue resting cross-legged in the east and west directions, and asked in a low voice, "What about Zhuyi?" β
"If you ask her again, the king will-"
"Husband, I think Zhu Yi ...... Very suspicious. Gu Gesang hugged Da Ji Zhongyuan's arm affectionately, his expression was extremely serious, "Although there is no evidence to prove my intuition so far, ...... I just don't feel at ease. β
Having said that, Gu Gesang was still very worried that Daji Zhongyuan didn't believe in him.
Unexpectedly, Da Ji Zhongyuan bowed his head and kissed, "Then after leaving the tomb, this king will send her back to the netherworld and another person will come to serve you." β
"Don't worry......" Gu Gesang whispered in Daji Zhongyuan's ear.
After resting, everyone set off again.
They first found a strange forest underground, and later found that the drooping hair on the tree was all human hair, which frightened Gu Gesang and stroked his chest again and again.
Later, the way was blocked by a river of blood, and floating corpses appeared in the river from time to time, with terrifying shapes, and piranhas with long legs came ashore to attack.
But the people who survived these hardships finally entered a peaceful flat land. If it weren't for the stone wall above their heads, Gu Gesang would have thought that they had walked out of the ground.
"We're already at the grave." Da Ji Zhong Yuan stared at the cyan fog not far away and said.