Lu Xiangzi rushed out with Sun Jinyao. Before they reached the entrance of the valley, they saw dozens of people riding horses towards them.
The leading man was young, but looked very heroic, with a natural kingly aura between his brows.
"Whoa." Mu Jingrui pulled the reins and saw Sun Jinyao standing behind Lu Xiangzi at a glance. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
"Junior Mu Jingrui, please see Divine Doctor Lu."
Mu Jingrui turned over and walked in front of Lu Xiangzi.
They were both sizing each other up, pondering silently in their hearts.
"Good boy, you can actually break through my miasma array, you are not simple. Request for an audience?" Lu Xiangzi snorted heavily, "Are you here to request an audience, or to force your way in?"
Mu Jingrui smiled slightly and said, "If I can't even get through the miasma array, I'm not worthy of seeing Doctor Lu."
Before coming, Mu Jingrui had found out clearly that Lu Xiangzi had a strange temper and would not respond to any persuasion or threats. If he begged her, it would have no effect.
"What do you want from me?" Lu Xiangzi didn't seem to be angry at Mu Jingrui's intrusion. He squinted his eyes and glanced at the elite guards behind Mu Jingrui.
Mu Jingrui bowed and replied, "My fiancée ran away from home a few days ago to seek medical treatment for my mother. She left a letter saying that she would come to Medicine King Valley. Have you ever seen her, senior?"
Sun Jinyao saw a hint of anxiety in Mu Jingrui's eyes.
The man who claimed to be Shangguan Wanning's fiancé aroused his interest.
In the past, we only knew that Shangguan Wanning was in love with Xiao Zhenting. Now that Xiao Zhenting has lost his power because of the affair between his father and Concubine Liu, could it be that she has also fallen in love with someone else?
"I do have a girl here, but I don't know if she is your fiancée." Lu Xiangzi glanced at Sun Jinyao calmly and smiled meaningfully.
"Where is she now?" Mu Jingrui's heart suddenly became nervous.
"Master Mu..."
Before Lu Xiangzi answered, Mu Jingrui heard a familiar voice.
He glanced sideways and saw Lutong stumbling towards him, her face full of tear marks and her eyes red and swollen from crying.
"Lutong, what happened?" Mu Jingrui's heart was in his throat.
"The eldest lady... the eldest lady went into the cave..." Lu Tong was anxious and scared, and could not even speak a complete sentence.
This made Mu Jingrui very angry.
"Cave? What cave? Stop crying, calm down and talk slowly."
"In order to get the medical book to treat her mother, Miss Shangguan followed the old monster's request to enter the cave to get it. However, the cave was full of traps, and there were many snakes, insects, rats and ants, which were extremely poisonous."
Sun Jinyao answered Mu Jingrui on behalf of Lu Tong.
Mu Jingrui's expression suddenly changed. "Where is the cave?"
"What? You want to go too?" Lu Xiangzi stretched out his arms, his messy white hair blown by the breeze. "Boy, let me tell you, so far, no one who went in has been able to come out. You have to think it over carefully."
"Stop talking nonsense. Where is the cave?"
Mu Jingrui felt heartbroken whenever he thought of Shangguan Wanning taking risks alone.
She was just a weak woman raised in seclusion, and she had no ability to protect herself or respond to danger.
What if something happens to her...
"You can go in. But I have to tell you that only you can go in. Your subordinates..." Lu Xiangzi shook his head repeatedly, "They can't go."
"Sir, please be careful of a trap." The guard reminded in a low voice.
"Humph, who do you think he is?"
Sun Jinyao's expression suddenly changed and he slapped Mu Jingrui.
Mu Jingrui was caught off guard, but he still reacted in time. The two of them connected in mid-air and returned to their original positions.
"grown ups……"
All the guards rushed over, but Mu Jingrui made a gesture to stop them and ordered, "Wait outside the valley. If I don't come out within three days, you will return to the capital to report, and don't worry about me."
"Sir, this..."
"Take Lu Tong with you and leave." Mu Jingrui was determined and looked at Lu Xiangzi. "Tell me, where is the cave?"
Lu Xiangzi smiled coldly. "You are brave enough, come with me."
Mu Jingrui followed Lu Xiangzi's footsteps, and when they passed by Sun Jinyao, the two looked at each other.
From the moment Shangguan Wanning entered the cave, her heart began beating faster and faster, thumping unsteadily.
She held the torch and walked in carefully.
There was a fork in the road ahead.
Which way should I go?
Shangguan Wanning carefully observed the cave entrance, but could not see any clues. Just as she was hesitating, she vaguely heard a subtle and strange sound.
She couldn't help but look down.
"ah!"
A huge centipede had crawled onto the back of her foot. She was so scared that her face turned pale. When she looked closely, she saw a dense mass of centipedes crawling towards her quickly.
She had no time to think at this point, so she just picked a path and ran forward as fast as she could.
The sparse sounds gradually faded away, and she was panting and leaning against the wall to catch her breath.
"Um?"
Shangguan Wanning felt as if she had touched something, and her palm became sticky. She raised her hand and saw something green, which was sticky to her hand and gave off an unbearable stench.
She took out her handkerchief to wipe it, and looked up inadvertently. A huge spider was hanging above her head, and there seemed to be a faint blue light on its belly.
Shangguan Wanning had never seen such a big spider in her two lifetimes, and she couldn't help but tremble with fear.
A spider silk fell down and lightly brushed across the back of her hand.
“Shh!”
Shangguan Wanning only felt a burning pain, and a blood mark appeared on the back of her hand.
She secretly cried out that something was wrong and turned around to run before all the spider silk fell. She slipped and fell to the ground, and the torch fell out and was extinguished instantly.
"It's over."
The surroundings fell into darkness, and Shangguan Wan Ning felt like crying but had no tears.
In such an environment, the absence of light is tantamount to a death sentence.
She took a deep breath to calm herself down, then carefully stepped back with her hands on the ground.
Suddenly, my palm pressed against something.
Based on the feel of it, Shangguan Wanning guessed that it was a snake.
Goosebumps all over her body stood up, and she didn't even dare to scream. She quickly took her hand away, climbed up and pressed her back against the wall.
The sound of the centipede crawling just now came again, and Shangguan Wanning's scalp tingled and she shivered.
Just when she was almost desperate, she stepped on the torch. She hurriedly picked it up, took out the tinder and lit the torch.
The moment the light came back on, Shangguan Wanning realized that the sound was not made by a centipede, but a spider.
Dozens of large spiders swarmed towards her quickly.
Shangguan Wanning was terrified.
In a trance, a breeze blew and extinguished the torch again, and she felt warm breath blowing on her neck.
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