Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 432 Survival from desperate situation

"Well, it's all my fault anyway." I should have known that it's always the man's fault in front of a woman. Liuguang didn't want to continue arguing with Yanniang. "You wait here for me. Do you have anything else to say to me?"

Yan Niang said, "No matter what method you use, I hope you can take Zhao Ji out of the palace."

"Zhao Ji?" Liu Guang smiled and shook his head, saying helplessly, "She and Yun Zhen are now wanted targets."

"No wonder there were so many guards in the woods today, as if they were searching for something. I didn't expect it was them..." Yan Niang pondered.

"You are no longer a princess, why should I listen to you?" Liuguang is not the kind of enthusiastic person who would help others for nothing.

Yan Niang slowly stood up, shook off the long hair on her body and said, "You forgot, I am a demon."

As he spoke, his eyes were cold and his body leaned back slightly, as if he was about to launch an attack.

Liuguang calmly drew the long sword from his waist, subconsciously took two steps back, and said, "You don't know, I'm never afraid of monsters."

Having grown up with Yun Zhen, a man with psychic abilities, he had seen all kinds of monsters, and ordinary monsters could not scare him. However, facing Yan Niang, who had powerful monster powers, Liu Guang still felt guilty, and a thin layer of cold sweat oozed from his palms that tightly grasped the hilt of the sword.

"Don't worry, I won't kill innocent people. Your life is of no use to me. But if you want to provoke me, I can't guarantee that I can remain calm." He bared his teeth and glared at Liuguang fiercely.

The man and the demon faced each other, fighting with their eyes.

After a long while, Liuguang turned his wrist, put the long sword hanging in the air back into the sheath, and asked, "Is it enough to just take Zhao Ji out of the palace?" It seems that he has taken the initiative to admit defeat and compromised with Yan Niang.

Yan Niang nodded, "Yes, as long as Zhao Ji is taken out of the palace, and it is best to separate her from Yun Zhen."

The reason why Yan Niang couldn't enter the palace and take Zhao Ji with her was because she didn't want to have a face-to-face conflict with Yun Zhen, otherwise both sides would end up suffering losses.

"What about Prince Ming?" Liuguang asked another question.

"If you have a way, it would be best to take Prince Ming out of the palace as well. Otherwise, I'm afraid Prince Ming will also stimulate Xue Lan's awakening."

"Okay, but after this is done, I want you to disappear completely, take Zhao Ji and Prince Ming away from the imperial city, and never appear in my sight again." Only by completely eliminating the fox demon from the palace can the peace of the past be restored.

"Okay, I promise you." After saying this, Yan Niang wagged her tail, turned around and left.

On the other hand, in the road of life and death in the palace, Yun Zhen and Ji Anni were still moving forward in the darkness.

Ji Anni, who turned into a fox, was held in Yun Zhen's arms. She didn't have to walk by herself, so she wasn't tired at all, but she was very worried about Yun Zhen. A rough estimate showed that they had been walking in the tunnel for half an hour, but they didn't find the exit. I wonder if Yun Zhen was tired. Fortunately, they didn't encounter any traps. I don't know if they were lucky or Yun Zhen cleverly avoided them.

"Yunzhen, have we taken the wrong road?" Although she believed in Yunzhen, Ji Anni was still a little worried.

Yun Zhen did not answer, perhaps because he was not very sure.

In order to lighten Yun Zhen's burden, Ji Anni wanted to jump out of Yun Zhen's arms and walk on her own. But as soon as she moved her body, Yun Zhen immediately discovered her intention.

"Annie, you'd better stay here quietly." Yun Zhen hugged Ji Annie tighter, not giving her a chance to escape.

"But... am I very heavy? Are you tired holding me?" Ji Anni curled up into a ball, as if she thought that as long as her size decreased, her weight would also decrease.

Yun Zhen smiled but did not answer.

Ji Anni became even more nervous, thinking that Yun Zhen agreed, and she hung her head and sobbed sadly.

"Okay." Yun Zhen touched Ji Anni's soft, furry little head and said, "You are the only one who still cares about your weight in this situation..."

"That's because Yunzhen, you are not a girl." Ji Anni muttered softly.

After being picked up by their beloved men, the first thing that all girls consider is their weight! She only realized her weight problem half an hour after Yun Zhen left, which was already very slow to realize.

At this moment, there was a "hiss" sound, and Yun Zhen's sleeve was suddenly torn.

Ji Anni looked towards Yun Zhen's crack and found that Yun Zhen's sleeve was hooked by something at the corner of the tunnel.

Yun Zhen pulled at his sleeve that was hooked and found an iron nail nailed to the wall.

The iron nails had long been rusted, and the surface was covered with a thin layer of moss of the same color as the tunnel walls, making them look very old.

"That's strange. Why are there nails in the tunnel? Could they have been left behind when the Road of Life and Death was built a hundred years ago?"

Out of animal instinct, Ji Anni leaned forward and put her nose to the iron nail and sniffed it carefully for a while. Perhaps because she didn't have much experience as a wild animal, she didn't smell any clues after sniffing for a long time.

Yun Zhen said: "It shouldn't be something from a hundred years ago, it should be no more than three or four years old."

But it was still strange. The Road of Life and Death had been abandoned a hundred years ago. Who would risk their lives to sneak in and leave behind iron nails? Moreover, the Road of Life and Death was built with stone, not wood, so there was no place for nails.

"Maybe..." Yun Zhen stared at the iron nail without blinking, his eyes like a deep pool became even more unfathomable.

"Maybe it is used to determine the direction!" Ji Anni suddenly realized and said what Yun Zhen wanted to say but didn't have time to say.

"If that's the case, if we follow the clues, we might find a way out..." Yun Zhen's speech speed gradually increased. Although he was always calm, he couldn't help but get excited when he suddenly found hope in the predicament.

"That's great, Yunzhen, God will not abandon me!" Ji Anni happily rubbed Yunzhen's chest.

"Yeah." Yun Zhen responded in a deep voice, turned at the place where the iron nails were nailed, and quickened his pace to move forward.

From then on, every time they turned a corner, they would find an iron nail.

This must be a mark left by someone - this is no longer just a guess, but a certain fact.

Ji Anni was no longer depressed. She raised her head high in Yun Zhen's arms and looked forward, hoping to see the exit. But unfortunately, they did not find the exit successfully, but walked into a dead end.

Looking ahead at the dead end, Ji Anni was discouraged again, "Alas, if I had known it wouldn't be so easy to find the exit..."

She had long been accustomed to enduring all kinds of tests from God, but fortunately Yun Zhen was with her this time.

"It seems we have to go back the same way..." Yun Zhen sighed softly, unable to hide his disappointment.

"Let's take a rest here first." Ji Anni was worried that Yun Zhen was overworked. They hadn't eaten anything since yesterday. She was already starving without any exercise, let alone Yun Zhen who was always walking.

"There is not much time left. Try to move forward while you can. Stopping will only waste your energy." Yun Zhen knew his physical condition. If he could not get out of the road of life and death within three days, he would have to starve to death here with Ji Annie.

"Wait a minute!" Ji Anni suddenly pricked up her ears. After she turned back to her original form, her sense of smell and hearing were much more sensitive than when she was a human. Just now, she seemed to hear a strange sound coming from the other side of the stone wall. It seemed to be... footsteps? !

"What's wrong?" Yun Zhen didn't hear anything unusual.

Ji Anni kicked her hind legs, jumped out of Yun Zhen's arms, rushed to the stone wall, pressed her ears tightly against the stone wall, and listened intently to the movements on the other side. Although she had turned into a fox, her movements of sticking to the stone wall to eavesdrop were exactly the same as those of a human, which looked very interesting.

Yun Zhen's mouth curled up slightly, and he quietly walked behind Ji Anni, imitating her, and put his ear to the stone wall to listen carefully. As he listened, his spirits suddenly perked up. Ji Anni was right, there was indeed a voice on the other side of the wall!

"That's great, Yunzhen, we can finally get out." Ji Anni's two claws kept scratching the wall, as if she thought she could dig a hole in it.

"Shh, don't move." Yun Zhen grabbed Ji Anni's two little fox paws, lifted her back into his arms and hugged her tightly.

As soon as Ji Anni returned to Yun Zhen's arms, she became as obedient as a rabbit, curled up silently, and occasionally secretly glanced at Yun Zhen.

"We don't know who is on the other side yet, so we can't expose our whereabouts." Yun Zhen still had his ear pressed against the stone wall, continuing to eavesdrop on the movements on the other side, but his hand subconsciously stroked Ji Anni's head gently, comforting her not to be impulsive.

Ji Anni then remembered the scene of Long Mohan vomiting blood and falling to the ground, and remembered that she and Yun Zhen were now a pair of wanted criminals, and the entire palace was an enemy who wanted to capture them. If their whereabouts were exposed, the result would definitely be a disaster.

Thinking of this, she finally calmed down.

I pricked up my ears and listened carefully for a long time, but I could hear nothing except the sound of footsteps.

The owner of the footsteps walked from left to right, and from right to left, back and forth several times outside. I don't know what he was trying to do.

Ji Anni guessed: "Listening to the footsteps... seems to be a man?"

The palace maids and concubines walked very lightly and would not make such heavy footsteps - could they be the guards searching this place?

"After he leaves, we'll get out of here." Yun Zhen whispered in Ji Anni's ear.

Ji Anni nodded heavily.

"There must be a mechanism hidden on this stone wall. As long as we open the mechanism, we can get out of the Road of Life and Death." The iron nails that guided them to this place along the way and the footsteps coming from the back at the end, all these can prove that the stone wall is an exit of the tunnel.

"Okay, I'll follow your instructions on everything." Ji Anni gave Yun Zhen full authority to make the decision on important matters.

After about ten minutes, the footsteps finally left the stone wall and went farther and farther away.

Ji Anni and Yun Zhen waited for more than ten minutes, and after making sure that there was no one on the other side of the stone wall, they began to look around for the mechanism to open the stone wall.