Xiao Nanhui closed his eyes for a while.
She wasn't asleep, because she couldn't fall asleep at this moment. Although they seemed to have temporarily escaped the Bai family's pursuit, the road ahead was unpredictable. Before encountering Tiancheng's large force, she had to remain extremely cautious.
So, she just closed her eyes.
Without the distraction of her vision, she could focus more on her other senses.
The air smelled of dampness and sand, mixed with a bitter and cool scent, which came from the string of relics on the man's wrist.
She could hear her own breathing and heartbeat, as well as the man's breathing. It seemed as if there were only the two of them in the world.
The fire had gone out around the fire, leaving only a small flame in the middle still burning. The burnt wood was eroded by the melted snow, making a creaking sound after being soaked.
The snow was still falling, and there was a sound of tiny pieces of ice hitting each other.
The wind blew from far away, whimpering like a crying child.
Xiao Nanhui suddenly opened his eyes.
No, it's not the rumor.
She bent down, as close to the ground as possible, and looked carefully again.
Sure enough, the whimpering sound suddenly disappeared, and when it sounded again, it seemed closer.
She suddenly stood up, quickly put out the fire, and quickly walked over to the man. While gently pushing his shoulder, she lowered her voice and said, "Your Majesty, wake up."
The man paused for only a moment before sitting up, and it seemed that he was not asleep yet.
"What happened?"
Xiao Nanhui was quickly picking up the scattered items on the ground and knocking down the stone wall that had been built earlier.
"I don't know, maybe it's a pack of wolves, maybe it's something else."
Hearing this, the man stood up and looked at her leisurely. "I heard that General Dianwu Sun Zhuo once encountered tigers and leopards in the wild. He fought them alone with his bare hands and captured both beasts alive."
"General Dianwu is mighty and majestic! I admire you so much!" She perfunctorily bowed her hands in greeting, but her feet were busy as she stepped on the remaining sparks in the bonfire.
"Back at Sanmu Pass, Wei Xiang also killed several jackals by himself in just half a cup of tea."
She was already digging a hole in the ground with her qin in hand, burying the few yellow sheep bones she had just eaten. Without even turning back, she heard, "Brother Ding, you're truly a master of martial arts and a true hero!"
"I still remember the autumn hunt two years ago..."
Finally unable to bear it any longer, she turned abruptly and said, "Your Majesty, your generals are all formidable, and I bow down to them. I am not skilled in martial arts, and now I am starving and cold. I really do not want to fight hand-to-hand with a pack of wolves. Please be considerate of your subordinates and remain silent."
She was really anxious, and her heroic eyebrows were wrinkled together, looking a little annoyed.
The man stopped teasing and stood up obediently.
"I was just joking. Are you angry?"
Are you kidding? How could I not know you were the type to joke? Besides, in this situation, are you still in the mood to joke?
Xiao Nanhui took a deep breath and forced a smile: "What is your majesty talking about? How could I..."
Before she could explain, her sharp ears caught a faint sound of breathing.
"Shhh."
She covered the man's mouth with her hand, took him dozens of steps away from where they had camped, and then pulled him down to the ground.
She had discovered earlier that there was a hidden depression in the terrain here, which would be impossible to detect unless she walked closer. The direction they were in was downwind, which could at least cover up the smell on their bodies.
The sound of the thing was getting closer, mixed with the sound of scratching the ground.
Her heart was in her throat. After a while, she saw a figure half a person's height slowly coming in the wind and snow.
It was a gray wolf with erect mane and sharp teeth. Its four paws were covered with sand and snow foam, as if it had walked a long way or dug something.
It kept its head down, sniffing at something on the ground, and walked very slowly. When it reached the campfire, it slowly stopped, then began to scratch the ground with its front paws, and then pulled out a piece of cloth from the sand.
That was the blood-stained cloth that was used to bandage the emperor's wound.
Xiao Nanhui's heart sank.
It's not that she hadn't thought about this possibility, but a wolf's sense of smell is more sensitive than that of an ordinary domestic dog, and she couldn't take the risk of carrying the bloody cloth with her.
The wolf continued to sniff around. She waited for a while, but when she saw no other wolves, she relaxed a little. It was just one wolf; she was confident she could kill it.
But then she thought again, it was strange. This wasn't the time for wolves to breed, and there wouldn't be any lone wolves left alone after failing to find a mate. On the contrary, this was the harshest time of year in the southwest desert, and all the wolves would unite as never before to weather the storm, and they wouldn't easily leave the pack.
She thought of the half-eaten yellow sheep, and a certain premonition in her heart became stronger.
Then, a faint sound of bells came from the wind, and she saw the wolf suddenly stop clawing, raise its head, and howl towards the air.
On the raised wolf's head, there was a strange symbol drawn in blood, exactly the same as the mark on the head of Su Pingchuan's black horse.
The long howl suddenly stopped, and as if being summoned by something, the wolf left in the direction it came from.
It left, but it will definitely come back.
Maybe it was with a pack of wolves, or maybe it was with an enemy that even she didn't know about.
Bai's assassination attempt on the throne may be far from over, and the most dangerous moment has not yet arrived.
The clarion call for Tiancheng's general attack had already sounded the moment the Tianmu River broke its dike, but she had left the camp at this moment and had no way of knowing whether Xiao Zhun had advanced into Yanxi City, and naturally she could not predict whether the road ahead was safe or dangerous.
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