Chapter 356: Unexpected
In this case, they will not only be wasting time, but may be killing themselves.
Bai Wutong was silent for a long time, after all, it would be a long process for him to go from believing in one thing to believing in another.
The first to compromise was Zhang Xun! "With that said, I agree to move on."
Zhang Xun's rapid transformation surprised Bai Wutong: "Haven't you always sworn allegiance to your prince?" ”
"Yes." Zhang Xun quickly replied, his face still had an unwavering look, no different from before.
"Then why are you ......?" Bai Wutong was puzzled by this.
"It is precisely because I am loyal to the prince that I should leave here with Miss Jiang, and you ......" Zhang Xun paused and continued, "Since the prince has taken Princess Wanwan away, he must hope that I can leave with everyone." ”
"When you say that, I don't understand it even more. Yan Wushuang took the princess away, what does it have to do with you or not? Could it be that he confessed? Bai Wutong took two steps towards Zhang Xun and stared at him.
Zhang Xun looked left and right, his gaze dodging. But this undoubtedly aroused more suspicion, Bai Wutong and Qingcheng stood on either side of him respectively, making his gaze unavoidable and retreating.
After hesitating for a while, Zhang Xun finally chose to tell the truth: "The prince only asked me to leave the forest with Miss Jiang, and didn't say anything else. ”
"How can Lord Yan know that you can leave the forest?" Wuyan noticed his voiceover and immediately asked.
Bai Wutong and Qingcheng also stared at Zhang Xun in the center at the same time.
Zhang Xun could feel the gaze from three places, shocked and deeply questioned.
And this kind of doubt not only comes from him, but also from the prince who has been separated from them, but in their eyes has a deep suspicion.
They suspected that the accident was deliberately created by the prince.
"All I can say is that things are not what you think." After a long silence, Zhang Xun finally spoke.
But his reluctance to explain made it even more difficult for everyone who were already skeptical.
"Do you think we should believe it?" Bai Wutong laughed coldly, if he was so perfunctory, he wanted to send them away.
"Originally, I didn't expect you to believe it, and I didn't want to explain it in the first place." Zhang Xun raised his head, a face that was too calm to care.
"Do you think you can stop talking about it now?" Bai Wutong said and stepped forward with a cold face. Since the princess's life is at stake, then no matter what, he has to get the truth out of this person's mouth.
It's just that he only took two steps forward, and he was blocked by Qingcheng, who acted one step earlier.
"Don't be impulsive." Qingcheng lowered his voice and said, then turned his head to look at Zhang Xun, whose face remained unchanged, "Guard Zhang, no matter what considerations you have, but now that we are in the same boat, please tell us the truth." ”
He could see that Zhang Xun was a hard bone, he ate soft and not hard, if he was given hard food, even if he was hung up and beaten, he might not be able to hear the truth they wanted.
"I'm telling the truth, you don't believe it, and I can't help it." Zhang Xun still refused to bow his head.
"It's not that we don't believe it, it's that we don't understand your truth." Wuyan followed and persuaded him, "I hope you can make it clearer, did you really instruct Prince Yan to take us out of the forest?" ”
"You guys?" After hearing this, Zhang Xun couldn't help laughing, "The prince only ordered me to leave with Miss Jiang, but he never said that he would take you on the road together, if it weren't for Princess Wanwan's face, how could I be with you?" ”
After hearing this, the faces of the three of them were all difficult to look at.
"So, you thought about how to leave the forest from the beginning, and never thought about going to find Yan Wushuang and the princess?" That being the case, then he also said so many loyal words that he wanted to find the prince, all in order to say it to mislead them? Then he's really good at pretending.
"Who says I haven't thought about it? That's what I've always thought. Feeling the sneering gaze cast by Bai Wutong, Zhang Xun became a little angry.
"Then why did you suddenly change your mind again?" Qingcheng then asked. His unruly words were indeed infuriating, but he could only follow his words and ask them, otherwise it would be impossible to know anything.
"It's not because of what you said." Zhang Xun paused when he said this, and then reluctantly said under the questioning gaze of the three people, "You just said that with the wisdom of my prince, you will definitely be able to leave the forest with Princess Wanwan, and I just remembered that when we parted, the prince asked me to ride a horse away, because the prince knew that this horse could take me and Miss Jiang away." ”
"Can this horse take you away?"
The three of them were surprised in their eyes, and they had to say that such an answer was too unexpected and unbelievable.
"Not bad! Do you think it's just a normal horse? Zhang Xun said and then turned his gaze to the horse that had brought them here, his eyes flashing with some light, "The two horses that the prince brought into the forest were carefully selected, and these two horses have undergone various trainings before, in order to prevent them from getting lost on the way. ”
"So you can find the exit, so why spend so much time wandering around the forest?" Wuyan frowned slightly after hearing this, still puzzled by this.
"Probably because Yan Wushuang is aiming at the Tianshan Ice Silkworm." Qingcheng made a conjecture.
"That's nature." Zhang Xun didn't deny it, and there was nothing to deny, "This is the purpose of the prince's visit, if you don't find the ice silkworm, what's the point of getting out of this forest?" ”
"That's why it's a matter of sacrificing so many close guards." Those who have always done great things are informal, Qingcheng knows this very well in his heart, but he still sighs in his heart when he thinks of Yan Wushuang's behavior.
"You can't blame the prince for that incident at all, if those guards are willing to do what the prince says, they won't be unable to come back at all. In their hearts, they didn't believe in the prince, so they acted privately, so that they couldn't come back. And the betrayers in the back were even more self-inflicted, and it was not a pity to die. Zhang Xun snorted coldly, seemingly disdainful of talking about those people again.
"If either you or the prince were willing to say it to them, it wouldn't be like that." Wuyan shook his head and said. The reason why those guards would betray was because they couldn't see hope, and if they knew that Yan Wang Ye had reserved a hand, they wouldn't be so flustered.
"The prince does not need to explain to anyone, as a subordinate, in addition to obeying orders, the most important thing to do is to fully trust his master. And those people, what can they really do? Zhang Xun said disapprehantly, but his eyes were obviously a little angry.
Wuyan didn't say anything more, and later Qingcheng told her that in fact, in terms of the situation at that time, neither Zhang Xun nor Yan Wushuang might have thought of the importance of those two horses. Because they were really lost at that time, it can be seen from Yan Wushuang's flustered look that they were not pretending.
Since they don't know it themselves, they can't use it to convince the guards who have shaken their faith.
"So when did they start realizing the importance of horses?" After listening to Qingcheng's answer, another question quickly rose in Wuyan's heart.
"I guess it's on the way! Anyone who drives a car can notice the abnormality of the horse! Qingcheng thought about it and replied.
According to what Zhang Xun said, Yan Wushuang was able to leave the forest with Gu Wanwan, so thinking about it, everyone would be able to put down a little more on the way out of the forest.
However, along the way, Bai Wutong had a calm face, did not say a word, and looked preoccupied.
The five of them walked for about two days, and at dusk, they finally walked out of the misty forest. The scene in front of me suddenly opened up, and everything was so clear without the fog.
The afterglow of the setting sun is a long-lost warmth, and I don't know how many times, almost everyone is afraid that they will die in that forest, and they will no longer see the mountains and rivers outside the forest, and they will no longer feel the warmth or scorching sun.
But now that he has come out, something that even he doesn't want to believe has happened. And they can see normal things as before, feel the sunrise and sunset normally, no longer through the thick fog, no longer so unreal and unreal, which only brings people a sense of fear, and everything is real, clear and clear, but they don't laugh.
Everyone looked back at the misty forest they had just walked out of, stared at it for a long time, and lost their words.
No one could laugh, Wuyan even had the urge to cry, Gu Wanwan was still in the misty forest, could Yan Wushuang really take her out?
In the misty forest, where there is no clock and the sun cannot tell the time by the position of the sun, what can be felt is that as the day passes, the huge black curtain above the head descends little by little, and when the sun rises, the sky above the sky brightens up little by little, and becomes brighter along with the fog that has lasted for years.
Two days later, they are still in this forest, marching towards the unknown.
Because of the horses beside her, they don't have to worry about not being able to find a water source, and the dry food next to them is enough, even if she eats eight meals a day, it is enough to eat for a month.
Yan Wushuang told her this, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but widen her pupils: "That means that I eat three meals a day, and these dry foods are nearly enough for me to eat for three months?" ”
"It's not bad at all, so you don't have to worry about running out of dry food, so you don't have to save me." Sitting behind her, he could feel the emaciation on her back through his clothes.
His tone seemed doting, as if he was treating her like a child, but Gu Wanwan ignored him, but said reproachfully, "How can you take so much food?" You know it's just the two of us, why don't you leave a little for the others? ”
In addition to the two of them, there were five other people, how could he take so much food at once?