Chapter Forty-Seven: Falling Short
Duanwangfu study.
Duan Wang was full of smiles, drinking tea leisurely, and his fingers were gently patting his thighs, looking very proud.
"Do you say that Mu Xize is dead now? ”
"Last night, I saw with my own eyes that Mu Xize entered the secret room of the cave, and then touched the mechanism and fell into the deep underground cave with the leaf incense. The corners of the pervert's mouth rose slightly, and he looked very evil.
"That deep hole is my nest of poisonous snakes. These poisonous snakes feed on poisonous things all year round, and once they bite a person's body, that person will die in a few moments. The man said with a sinister smile.
"In the final analysis, they are still brothers who are related by blood, and the third child finally ended up trapped underground, poisoned and died, it's a pity, it's a pity!" Duan Wang pretended to be sympathetic, and said while shaking his head.
Just when the two of them were proud, there was an anxious voice from the eunuch in charge outside the study, "Lord Wang, there is a young man in black outside who said that he wants to find you and Mr. Ji, it seems that there is something very important. ”
Both of them knew that this young man in black should be their subordinate, who was in charge of medicine, but at this time, he didn't avoid it, and rushed to the palace to find someone, didn't something happen?
The black-clothed man rushed into the study very anxiously, and then knelt down in front of King Duan, almost crying and said, "Your Highness, it's not good, the alchemy room suddenly caught fire, and all the Gu worms that had been prepared before were burned to death by the fire!"
"What!" Hearing this, King Duan was furious, and threw the teacup in his hand to the ground, shattering it to pieces.
Then Bian and Mr. Ji hurried to the alchemy room.
The appearance of this alchemy house is actually an ordinary dwelling, which is connected to the houses of ordinary people. However, it is unfortunate that the family next door was making breakfast just now and accidentally sprinkled a spark on the firewood stack, and then a fire was ignited, and then the fire became bigger and bigger, and there were many things to support the burning in the alchemy room, and the Gu worms that had been collected for eighty-one days were burned by a fire.
"Lord Wang, the matter has come to this point, and there is no way to remedy it, so you can only wait until you ascend the throne and start over. While comforting King Duan, Mr. Ji pulled out the sword on his body and slashed at the neck of the man in black without warning.
The man clasped his neck with both hands, his eyes widened, and before he died, he heard what Mr. Ji said to himself, "If you make such a big mistake, you can only apologize with death." ”
Unexpectedly, a wave was not settled, and a wave rose again. The Gu worms that King Duan had worked so hard to get were burned clean in an instant, and at this moment, a team of officers and soldiers came outside this alchemy room.
The officers and men knocked politely on the door, as if they had come for a fire. In desperation, King Duan ordered the other two subordinates to change into civilian clothes and pretend to be residents here, and he and Mr. Ji climbed out of the dog hole in humiliation.
Then King Duan was afraid that something would happen, so he deliberately brought his own soldiers, and rode a fast horse with Mr. Ji towards the deep cave where Ye Ningxiang and Mu Xize were trapped, one was to confirm whether Mu Xize was dead, and the other was to take out the Gu worms in Ye Ningxiang's body.
But as soon as the group arrived outside the cave, they were blocked by several people in Taoist robes, and the leader was Ji Beiyuan.
I saw that Mr. Ji's face was shocked, and he made a posture of being ready to fight at any time.
"Ji Beihuan, that day, you secretly practiced forbidden arts, hurt people's lives, and did not repent after being burned at the stake, and now you have done such a hurtful thing. Ji Beiyuan said righteously.
"Ji Beiyuan, I have already been expelled from the sect, you don't discipline the disciples of the Heavenly Sect to discipline me. Ji Beihuan's eyes showed murderous intent, and his originally open hands were now clenched into fists.
Then Ji Beihuan attacked Ji Beiyuan with lightning speed, and the two fought together, and there were bursts of light around them, so that the people around them did not dare to approach.
It was probably because it took too much mana to contain Mu Xize over the years, and Ji Beiyuan was defeated in a few rounds, and was hit in the chest by Ji Beihuan with a palm, popping out far away, and then spit out a mouthful of blood.
Ji Beihuan proudly walked to Ji Beiyuan's side, looking down at Ji Beiyuan who fell to the ground from top to bottom, "Tut-tut, senior brother, how did you say that you have lived all these years, not to mention that you have aged for dozens of years in appearance, there is not much mana left." You're trying to stop me right now?"
The little Taoist priest brought by Ji Beiyuan saw that their head had been seriously injured, and his face was frightened, and he didn't dare to step forward to compete with their extremely high magic uncle.
Just when they were cornered, Duanwang and his party were suddenly surrounded by a group of well-trained black-clothed masked assassins, who were extremely skilled and ruthless, and had already killed several of Duanwang's personal soldiers in the blink of an eye.
And although Ji Beihuan's spell is strong, although this spell has the effect of resisting people's attacks, it can't hurt people's lives, and he didn't have any advantage for a while.
So, Ji Beihuan found an opportunity and pulled King Duan out of the encirclement in embarrassment, and the soldiers brought by King Duan were no longer alive.
In the deep cave, Ye Ningxiang listened to Mu Xize's story all night, and was a little tired at the moment, lying on Mu Xize's chest and napping.
Mu Xize gently patted Ye Ningxiang's shoulder and said with a smile: "Little Yezi, someone has come to save us." ”
"We are now in a very deep place underground, how can anyone find us?" Ye Ningxiang felt that Mu Xize was talking nonsense, and questioned his words.
"What I heard, there are a lot of people coming out there now, and they are fighting, and they will come to save us after the fight is over. ”
After speaking, Mu Xize moved his body slightly, touched the broken stones scattered on the ground with his hands, and then continued: "There are too many broken stones, if we dig a little bit from the outside to the inside, when we dig here, it is estimated that we will really suffocate to death." ”
"I hope they can have a little more brains and choose an effective way to get us out. Mu Xize hugged Ye Ningxiang tightly again, and buried his head in Ye Ningxiang's neck and said.
This night, Ye Ningxiang was lying in Mu Xize's arms, and suddenly Mu Xize leaned on her, feeling very uncomfortable, and said with some embarrassment: "Can you lift your head a little?"
"You have relied on me all night, and now I will rely on you for a while and you will reject me, hey, it's so cold!" Mu Xize's words were pitiful, which made Ye Ningxiang feel a little guilty.
"Okay, okay, you can rely on it, as long as you want. Ye Ningxiang said reluctantly.
Mu Xize smirked twice, then buried his head deeper, almost his entire body was connected to Ye Ningxiang.
The two of them remained in the deep cavern for more than an hour, and then suddenly there were several loud noises, and then they calmed down again. After a while, there was another loud bang, then a calm. This was repeated several times. The last loud bang shook the gravel even more, and the stones slid down towards Ye Ningxiang due to gravity.
However, because the stones had become more broken, and the stones on them had been cleaned out by the shadow guards brought by Gu Liancheng, Ye Ningxiang actually found a glimmer of light at this time. And Mu Xize still protected her under him, for fear that she would be attacked by gravel.
The Shadow Guard cleaned up the rubble as fast as he could, and then handed over a rope that pulled Ye Ningxiang and Mu Xize out of the deep hole.
Gu Liancheng looked at Mu Xize at this moment with his upper body exposed, and his left shoulder seemed to have been bitten by something, and his pale face was terrible, he was very distressed for a while, knelt on one knee, and said, "Childe, it's too late for your subordinates to make Childe suffer." ”
After speaking, Gu Liancheng glared at Ye Ningxiang fiercely, as if he was blaming Ye Ningxiang for putting Mu Xize in such a dangerous situation.
Then Gu Liancheng continued: "Childe, we have burned down Duanwang's alchemy room, and those harmful insects have been burned to the ground, but the subordinates are incompetent, and we have not found any evidence related to Duanwang. ”
Mu Xize smiled and said, "You are already very powerful, thank you." ”
Because Gu Liancheng was masked, Ye Ningxiang couldn't see the appearance of this person who was very respectful to Mu Xize and glared at him fiercely. However, listening to this person's words and deeds, he seems to respect Mu Xize very much, probably Mu Xize's confidant.
"Childe, the carriage is ready, and I invite Childe to rest on the carriage. Gu Liancheng said respectfully.
Outside the cave, in the woods.
Xiao Qingyu and Gao Fei stood in a place with an excellent view but extremely difficult to be discovered, quietly watching everything that happened at the entrance of the cave.
"This Mu Xize is really not ordinary, in such a situation, he can come out alive with Ning Xiang unscathed. Xiao Qingyu said with a slight smile, but there was a slight chill in this smile.
Ever since Mu Xize came out of the cave, Ye Ningxiang felt that he seemed to be much weaker than before, and every step was very difficult, but he was afraid that Ye Ningxiang would be worried, and he deliberately pretended that everything was fine. On the contrary, Ye Ningxiang was held in Mu Xize's arms all night and cultivated well, and her body was greatly improved at this moment.
The two slowly walked into the carriage, only to find that there was still a person in the carriage.
Ji Beiyuan was lying on the saddle, his face was pale, and there were blood stains on the corners of his mouth, as if he was seriously injured.
Probably smelling the smell of Ji Beiyuan's body, Mu Xize said: "There are still people in this world who can hurt you like this!"
"It's my brother who trapped you here and tried to kill you. Ji Beiyuan said very weakly.
But he failed. Mu Xize sat down near the carriage door and said weakly.
Then Mu Xize and Ji Beiyuan closed their eyes and didn't speak, leaving Ye Ningxiang in an embarrassed daze in the car.
The carriage was moving very fast and jolting very hard, which made Ye Ningxiang feel that her already somewhat drowsy head was even more dazed, but after she opened the window a little slit, this feeling was much better.
At this time, Mu Xize, who had closed his eyes for a long time, suddenly frowned, his eyes immediately opened, and his face was a little hideous, as if he was very uncomfortable.
"What's wrong with you?" Ye Ningxiang saw Mu Xize's strange appearance and asked anxiously.
At this time, Ji Beiyuan also opened his eyes, with a look of concern on his face, as if he was waiting for Mu Xize's answer.
Then, Mu Xize said three words with difficulty, "I want to vomit." ”
Ye Ningxiang thought to herself, no wonder Mu Xize felt like this, his body was so weak, and the carriage was so bumpy, anyone would get motion sickness, but the truth was not what Ye Ningxiang thought.
Gu Liancheng, who was driving outside, heard Mu Xize's voice, and quickly tightened the reins to stop the carriage, but before the car could stop, Mu Xize jumped out of the car, and then fell to the ground and rolled in a circle. Ye Ningxiang also followed Mu Xize out of the car, and asked with concern, "How are you, is there anything wrong?"
Mu Xize didn't answer, just vomited a few times, and then spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth, but that blood was also mixed with a lot of Gu worms that had curled up and seemed to be dead.
Those Gu worms who had tortured her fiercely in Ye Ningxiang's body were all tortured to death by Mu Xize after they arrived in Mu Xize's body, and finally they were spit out by Mu Xize. Ye Ningxiang felt that her eyeballs were about to fall, and she was speechless in surprise.
Mu Xize vomited beside the carriage for a long time, until he vomited all the Gu worms in his body, then wiped his bloodstained mouth, sat on the ground a little weakly, sighed, and said, "It's much more comfortable." ”
In the end, Ye Ningxiang smiled bitterly: "Hehe, your technique is really powerful, using your body as bait to let these little insects die so miserably." ”