The three of them were struggling to hold their breath underwater, and they didn't expect that this group of people would have to wait for them some more.
Nan Wusi wasn't a very good swimmer, so holding her breath for a long time was quite strenuous. She felt like her lungs were about to burst, but the assassins were still there.
"Am I going to die here?" This thought involuntarily popped into Nan Wusi's mind.
Her body began to struggle, and Xiao Yi, who was beside her, felt it.
So he leaned in and kissed Nan Wusi's lips, passing the breath to her.
This made Nan Wusi's situation slightly better, but if he continued to wait, he feared he still wouldn't be able to escape the assassins' detection.
"Let's go." After waiting for a while and finding nothing had changed, the assassins left.
Only after sensing the commotion did Nanwusi and the others surface.
However, after taking a breath, Nan Wusi and the others sank back down.
Just as they sank, the assassins returned.
"That was close. Xiao Yi guessed right after all," Nan Wusi thought to himself.
When Nan Wusi proposed this method, Xiao Yi also came up with this idea, and he never expected it to actually happen.
When the assassins returned, they found the underground river calm and still, so they finally left.
Nan Wusi and the others waited a while longer before daring to actually go ashore.
"Your Highness Prince Yi, it's all thanks to you for bringing up this idea back then, otherwise we would have really been discovered." At this moment, Nan Wusi admired Xiao Yi for being able to think of this; he was indeed meticulous.
Xiao Yi smiled faintly and said, "It's just that I've been assassinated a lot, so I have some experience."
These words startled Nan Wusi. How could Xiao Yi be assassinated so often? Who was so intolerant of him?
"Let's go find some firewood, otherwise catching a chill might worsen the injury," Nan Wuyu said.
“Alright, you two wounded should stay in the cave. I’ll go find some firewood,” Nan Wusi said. “Those assassins have already explored this cave, and they definitely won’t be back anytime soon. We can rest and recuperate.”
"Okay, little sister, you must be careful."
"Miss Nan, please be careful."
Namo Si's words made sense, so the other two did not object.
Half an hour after Nan Wusi left, he returned with a large pile of branches and decaying leaves.
They didn't have any good tools to start a fire, so they had to resort to the most clumsy method: drilling wood to make fire.
Following the method he had seen in TV dramas, Namo Si began to experiment. He used a suitable twig to drill into a block of wood, and after the tinder was drilled out, he carefully placed dry leaves on it to ignite.
Nan Wusi was somewhat smug; she had actually succeeded on her first try.
After the fire was lit, the group warmed up and took off their outer garments to drape over the stones to dry.
"Your Highness Prince Yi, when do you think Xuanli will be able to find reinforcements to rescue us?" Nan Wusi asked Xiao Yi.
"It should be in the next day or two." Although Xiao Yi knew that he had people in the area, he didn't know when Xuan Li would find them again with the rescue team.
"I hope he can hurry up, otherwise this feeling of hiding is really unpleasant," Nan Wusi continued.
“Yes, Xuan Li is reliable when it comes to getting things done,” Xiao Yi said.
"Your Highness, it's all my fault that you and my little sister have been implicated." Nan Wuyu was somewhat downcast, as it was all because of him that they were being hunted down.
“How can this be blamed on you, Second Brother? It’s clearly the fault of those corrupt officials. You must find a way to arrest them all after you return to the capital,” Nan Wusi comforted him.
"Sigh." Nan Wuyu sighed heavily, fearing that he might not have the ability to expose the person behind it all.
"You say the prefect of Baili Prefecture only embezzled 100,000 taels of silver, where did the rest go?" Nan Wusi asked. "Could it have been replaced starting from the Ministry of Revenue?"
"That's hard to say," Nan Wuyu said. "Shangshu Tang wouldn't dare to be so bold under the Emperor's very nose, would he?"
“Speculation won’t do any good now. We’ll only know for sure after we return to the capital and investigate. This embezzlement must be related to a member of the royal family,” Xiao Yi said directly.
Upon hearing this, Nan Wuyu was startled. Among the princes nowadays, only the Crown Prince and the Third Prince likely possessed this ability.
"Your Highness, is there any basis for this statement?" Nan Wuyu inquired.
"Don't you think the assassins who came today look a lot like royal guards?" Xiao Yi also had his own guards, but he didn't bring them with him. However, these royal guards were trained together from childhood, so their martial arts styles were somewhat similar.
After Xiao Yi said that, Nan Wusi and Nan Wuyu suddenly realized why they had a familiar feeling; it turned out to be the secret guards.
"Since they are secret guards, they must be carrying tokens, right?" Nan Wuyu asked. However, the bodies of the assassins they killed had already been taken away, so there was no way to search for them.
"We'll only know after we wipe them all out," Xiao Yi replied.
"You should rest early today, otherwise you'll definitely have to travel again tomorrow. You're both injured, so you can't keep pushing yourselves like this," Nan Wusi advised the two of them.
"You guys go to sleep first, I'll keep watch," Xiao Yi said first.
"Your Highness, you don't need to keep watch." Nan Wuyu shook his head. He couldn't let Xiao Yi do this kind of thing, especially since Xiao Yi didn't have any martial arts skills and wouldn't be of much use even if he kept watch.
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