"Miss Xing Yu, this way—"
The guard’s words were very polite. Xing Yu walked in the usual direction, but when she looked back, she saw several guards stealthily making their way toward their carriage.
Yin He quickly pulled Xing Yu by her side, signaling her not to look around and inadvertently alert the enemy.
"What’s wrong?" Xing Yu asked, sowhat unwillingly. How could she know what the others were up to if she didn’t keep an eye on them?
However, Xing Yu also slowly began to trust the young man’s words. Although she was slow to catch on, her intuition was still there. The guards’ gazes were aningful, and their actions had beco much more cautious.
"I feel a bit unwell, help ," Yin He said, covering his stomach with one hand and smoothly grabbing Xing Yu’s arm with the other.
"Oh," Xing Yu withdrew her gaze and obediently followed the young man into the cave.
At that ti, there were not many guards inside the cave; they sat scattered around, so resting, so eating dry food, while guards outside the cave busied themselves in an orderly fashion.
"Miss Xing Yu, here is so roasted rabbit at." The guard who had led them in brought over so roasted rabbit at, two plump and fragrant legs.
"Thank you, big brother," Xing Yu nodded politely. The truth was, these people treated her well, even the food seed to be of the highest quality.
The guard nodded slightly and then went back to his own business.
Xing Yu was about to eat the rabbit leg when the young man suddenly grabbed her wrist. She turned her head, puzzled. Couldn’t she eat? With freshly roasted rabbit legs available, she didn’t want to eat the dry rations.
"The rabbit legs have been tampered with," the young man whispered, nodding toward the cuts on the rabbit legs that were made stealthily. If it weren’t for their suspicions, they naturally wouldn’t have been suspicious, but now it was better to be safe than sorry.
Xing Yu could not simply put it down now, and turned to ask the young man.
"I don’t think we necessarily have to return to Nanzheng—," Xing Yu suddenly spoke up, and the young man looked at her, puzzled, not understanding her aning at first. The next mont, when he did understand, he was even more confused.
"Why not return to Nanzheng?" The young man naturally wouldn’t agree. It was just a matter of ti. As long as he entered the Sword Tree Forest and recovered, he wouldn’t be afraid of Nann Yu at all.
Seeing the young man’s reaction, Xing Yu felt sowhat disappointed but didn’t know what else to say. Although she was sowhat cognizant of the situation, when she looked into the young man’s determined and disdainful eyes, did Yin He like the Empress that much?
But why?
"If you go back to Nanzheng, you’ll be too big of a target," Xing Yu said in a low voice. "If we could survive in the Sword Tree Forest..."
"You wouldn’t want to stay in the Sword Tree Forest," the young man said without hesitation, turning away. He coughed as he stashed the two rabbit legs away, keeping an eye on the surroundings.
As the light of day slowly dimd, the guards repeatedly hinted to their King that it was ti to act and no need to wait until night. Nann Yu was still struggling to make up his mind.
"King, we can’t wait any longer. If we wait, we will leave the forest by tomorrow, and there will be no chance to act," the guard finally found Nann Yu and said anxiously.
Seeing that Nann Yu remained silent, the guard grew even more anxious. Perhaps the new King didn’t understand the importance of this young man to them.
"King, we have been searching for so many years and have never found the missing parts of the Spells. Now that we finally have a clue, we cannot wait any longer."
Nann Yu appeared moved.
"But this young man is very cunning. Are you sure you have a chance of success?" Nann Yu asked. At this mont, he did not fully understand, his knowledge limited to past impressions and a few words from these n. As for the real situation, he had not inquired in depth.
Moreover, these three n had never been his most trusted and reliable people.
These were the reasons for Nann Yu’s hesitation, but he did not imply distrust.
"This subordinate is willing to guarantee it with my life—" The guard imdiately knelt down, and the two accompanying guards also knelt down imdiately.
"This subordinate is also willing to stake my life on it."
Nann Yu watched silently. Originally, all this motivation ca from a promise. Now, the one who had made that promise had left, leaving only his responsibility as a mber of the Nann Royal Family.
Those who had followed him through life and death and struggled up to this point.
So, he needed to take care, no matter what the reason, leaving the Ghoul Ravine people alive would always be a trouble.
"Alright, proceed—"
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