Xiao Li held the wolf cub in his arms and caressed it, feeling extremely cherished.

Next to it was a gray and slightly yellowish thing holding up a hand wrapped like a dumpling, with tears in its eyes, filled with indignation and grief.

"I finally managed to escape. I dug and dug until I finally broke the soil. As soon as I stretched out my hand, it bit me..."

"Do you know how I've been living these past two days? I was terrified and worried. I almost lost my life just now."

As he spoke, his hands were shaking and he was very emotional, and it took a long time for him to calm down. It was obvious that he was really scared.

Well......

Song Junzhan really wanted to comfort this... lump? This creature that looked so much like his good friend Cen An, but he really didn't know where to start.

His head was covered in yellow dirt, his arms were covered in yellow mud, his face was covered in dust, and his body was covered in pieces of unknown dust. When you got closer, you could smell a strange stench, like the smell of decay.

Song Junzhan raised his hand to touch his forehead and said helplessly, "Cen An, why don't we go to the village and wash up first before we talk?"

This is really not comforting at all.

Finally someone paid attention to him. Cen An looked back and saw Song Junzhan with a complicated expression, Zi Yue with a look of disgust on his face, and then looked down at himself.

Tears flowed down her chin, dripped onto the back of her hand and slowly slid down, leaving a very obvious water mark.

.......

Some people appear to be still here, but have actually been gone for quite a while.

The whole house was burned down. No living people were seen, and no corpse puppets appeared. As for the rare insects that Xiao Li was afraid of, they never appeared from beginning to end.

Cen An has been found and the house has been burned down. As for the person behind the scenes, there is no need to rush. There will always be another chance to fight.

In the woods halfway up the mountain across the river, two figures stood side by side. The masked man with white hair and gray clothes stood straight, his body stiff, his chest without any movement, like a sculpture.

On one side, a man in smoky green brocade clothes was casually playing with a jade bone flute, his narrow eyes staring at the evacuating team at the foot of the mountain.

To be precise, it was the woman surrounded by the team.

"Princess Xuanyang, seeing is believing. She is truly an interesting woman..."

The man's voice was casual with a hint of frivolity, dark and playful, and in high spirits.

"It would be too boring if she died so easily."

"It's best to conquer her, play with her, and then... tear her apart completely, hahahaha..."

He smiled, then suddenly turned around and saw the person next to him. His expression suddenly changed, and he looked at her coldly and mockingly: "You useless bastard who can't even handle a woman, you deserve it!"

But then he thought of something and laughed again: "But this is good. If you weren't so incompetent, how could it be my turn to lead this wonderful show?"

He was the only one in the woods, talking to himself, laughing and with a stern face, looking like a madman.

"Bang!"

A loud explosion startled the birds in the forest.

Cen An stopped wiping his face and raised his face, which was more evenly painted. "What's that sound?"

Xiao Li touched the little wolf cub's teeth and saw it stretching out its claws to resist but not daring to bite. The smile on his lips deepened.

She doesn't like little guys who only know how to act cute, but she can't help but like those who are very useful and can act cute.

Hearing Cen An's question, Xiao Li mercifully let the wolf cub go and patted its head as a reward: "Who knows?"

Cen An turned his head to look over. He was very sure that Xiao Li knew. His intuition told him that she must know, but she would never say it.

Xiao Li glanced at his face, his eyes instantly attacked, and he couldn't hold it in any longer, so he burst out laughing.

"Hahaha... Cen An, I really should bring you a mirror, hahaha..."

----

In the forest, the man in green leaned against a tree in a panic, covering his shoulder with one hand, blood oozing from between his fingers.

Just now, I don’t know what kind of hidden weapon it was, but I heard a loud bang and it hit him directly on the shoulder.

What is even more unbelievable is that the hidden weapon came from the opposite mountain forest.

How did you see him hit him from such a long distance???

"Xiao Xuanyang?" His intuition told him that this matter must be related to her.

He licked his bloody lips: "I really can't underestimate you."

Cen An borrowed some water from a farmer's house, washed himself thoroughly, changed his clothes, and came out. He happened to see Yang Jun kneeling in front of Xiao Li with a box in his hand, his face full of guilt.

He looked ahead, then at Rong Qing, who was as tall and strong as a mountain, standing beside him.

"Brother Rong, what happened to him?"

Rong Qing touched his long sword, feeling sad about the scratch on it.

"I apologize for not being able to complete the princess's order."

Cen An: “Oh…”

Then there was no further news. As for what the mission was, he felt he shouldn't ask.

"Get up." Xiao Li raised his hand: "Go back and practice more."

Yang Jun lowered his head and said, "I obey your command."

After saying that, he stood up and left with the box.

Cen An: "What's in that box? It's so mysterious."

Yang Jun is the princess's first guard and he always carries a sword. But today he didn't carry a sword, nor did he wear armor. He was carrying this strange alley. It was really strange.

Not only Cen An was confused, many other people also didn't know what Yang Jun was talking about, but Yang Jun wouldn't say, and no one dared to ask Xiao Li.

Only Lou Yan stared at the box, seeming to be lost in thought.

--

After washing clean, Cen An was finally able to talk about what had happened to him in the past two days.

In fact, he was brought here today. The kidnappers took him out of the city that day, but not to this location, but to a more remote village.

He was not transferred here until this morning, and he never saw the people who kidnapped him.

All he could learn from the two kidnappers guarding him was that someone had interrupted their master's original plan, causing that person to decide to send him away.

Cen An was tied up and sent here. The person behind the scenes had no intention of seeing him at all. He directly threw him into the basement and locked him up with two corpses.

He was almost suffocated by the stink, and struggled desperately to break free from the ropes, trying to find a way to escape. Relying on his previous ability to travel far and wide, he actually found a hidden route to the basement. He walked all the way to the end in the dark. Although it was a dead end, he judged that he had reached the foot of the wall by the foundation bricks. He used the silver hairpin on his body to dig out the sand and soil in the cracks of the stones to remove the bricks, and then dug all the way upwards.

Everyone knows what happened next. He was struggling inside, and Mojiang noticed the movement and started digging outside.

He finally dug his way through and stretched out his hand, but the devil bit him, almost scaring him to death.

To sum up, the person who kidnapped Cen An was most likely King Ping of Yan, and the purpose is unknown.

While he was kidnapping the man and Xiao Li was searching for him, someone made a deal with him and asked him to hand Cen An over to the next person.

The purpose of the man behind is very clear, he wants to kill Xiao Li.