It was not afraid of the Golden Sword in my hand at all. I didn't expect it to be so sudden. It had long arms, and after pressing me to the ground with its slender arms, my hands couldn't touch its body at all. It just clamped my shoulder blades tightly, and I screamed in pain. The fingertips were about to pierce through me. The pain was simply unbearable.

The Golden Que Sword was thrown aside and I wanted to retrieve it, but it was still some distance away and out of reach. Its rat face looked extremely scary in the moonlight, and its wide-open mouth seemed to be ready to swallow me at any time. I could only struggle hard to break free, but unfortunately I failed. Its hind legs were kneeling on my legs and the weight of its whole body was pressing on me, and my hands could not reach it. This powerlessness made me feel endless fear.

"Get out! Get out of my way!" I shouted.

However, the rat man did not make any movement. He just turned his head and kept his mouth open, making a crackling sound. It felt really weird, as if he had come to the land of giants and he was like a piece of cheese.

It was just very strange. He just held me down to prevent me from moving, but did not take any further action. According to the nature of ordinary animals, there are only two reasons. The first is to protect the territory and offspring, and the second is to hunt. But there can be neither a rat's nest nor a rat's territory nearby. After all, they mostly live in sewers or damp places, and it is basically impossible for them to live in a place with flowers. Therefore, the possibility of hunting is slightly greater. But it didn't bite my throat as soon as it caught me, which shows that it was not for hunting.

So why did it attack me and pounce on me? I couldn't help but wonder, but when I saw that the rat man had his mouth open and his teeth chattering, but still turned his face away and just kept his head away from me, propping up his body and looking at me with his red eyes, I seemed to understand that it didn't mean to kill me, but was restraining its desire to kill.

It seems that this is Mei Sanniang's plan to trap me. She thought that if I leave the flowers, she would let the rat man trap me so that I could not leave this damn place. I clenched my fists and felt angry, but in the end I was still controlled by Mei Sanniang.

"I've heard of obedient dogs, but I've never seen a mouse so obedient. It's really weird. I didn't know there were such ghost things like you. If I knew, I would definitely raise a big cat to eat up all your mouse nests." I couldn't help but say loudly.

And perhaps because the sound was so loud, I heard a lot of rustling sounds around me. I thought that the ratmen might have gathered here, in this remote place. In addition, it was impossible not to be afraid in such a situation. As the Jinque Sword in my hand was thrown to the side, I couldn't reach it. The roots of the flowers began to sweep towards me, with a rustling sound, and some of them had already wrapped around my feet, and the thorns were once again stuck in my flesh.

I screamed in agony. I was still saying arrogant words just now, but at this moment I couldn't speak and was about to faint from the pain!

Perhaps because the thorn contained poison, my brain nerves were also affected to varying degrees. The poison became more and more, and I began to feel dizzy and drowsy. But I knew I couldn't sleep. Once I fell asleep, everything would be over. Yunwen's heart would be taken away, and Mei Sanniang was afraid of her existence, so she might make her body disappear completely. With her habits, she would definitely do this to cut off my thoughts, and then I would completely lose Yunwen.

At this moment, in a half-conscious and half-awake state, I seemed to see Yunwen. She was sitting on a huge crane, flying down from the sky, floating like a fairy. Her pretty fairy-like figure, the look that made me worried and thinking about her day and night, was getting closer and closer to me. I knew that my brain might have been completely corroded by the toxin, which was why I was so confused, but looking at the illusion before my eyes, I still didn't want it to disappear. I would rather believe that it was real.

"Yunwen, my woman, you must be okay..." I muttered.

In a trance, I heard a response. It was Yunwen's voice. She said softly, "Zhou Bo, I'm here. I'm fine."

I couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking that this was just my own psychological comfort, a kind of compensatory psychology.

However, at this moment, I felt that pair of slender and tender hands wiping my face. The feeling was so familiar and so real that I could hardly tell whether it was true or false. So I forced myself to sit up and shook my head hard, then I realized that I had fainted without realizing it. When I woke up, I was no longer the same as before, and the person sitting next to me was Yunwen herself. It was really her who touched me just now. No wonder the way of touching, the gentle rhythm, and the special feeling brought by her slender fingers seemed so real.

I couldn't help but breathe quickly, looking at her in front of me in disbelief, with thousands of doubts and excitement in my mind. However, my first reaction was to pinch my face hard, and I frowned in pain. Only then did I make sure that I was not hallucinating or dreaming.

"Why are you abusing yourself?" Yunwen smiled with her hand covering her mouth.

"Not...you? It's really you! How could you come to this place? Also, I just saw you riding a huge crane or something like that. Did I see it wrong? Also, I was trapped by a huge rat man and entangled by the roots of flowers. I was poisoned a lot. Are these true?" I asked in one breath.

Yunwen came over and stroked my face, then helped me up. I noticed that my trouser legs had been rolled up and there were a lot of cloth strips wrapped around the door. The wound now felt cool. I thought Yunwen had specially prepared the antidote for me. Looking forward, I saw that the rat man was wrapped by the roots of the plants and his whole body was crawling with them. He could only lie on the ground and struggle helplessly.

Just when I was wondering how Yunwen had the ability to snatch me back from the rat man, I saw that there was another person smelling the fragrance of the flowers on the side of the bush. Looking at her graceful back, I was even more amazed. Such an ethereal figure was something that only Hu Lingshang, the thousand-year-old nine-tailed white fox, could have. She picked a lot of petals and walked towards Yunwen and me.

"Zhou Lang, these are the petals of female flowers, which are used to treat this devil flower. You should take them back and consume them to prevent the toxin from invading your body." Ling Shang said softly.

I was full of doubts. Although I knew it was not a good idea to ask this question now, I was still extremely curious, so I asked, "Lingshang, didn't you seek refuge with Mei Sanniang? If you did, and you came to help me now, aren't you afraid that she would hate you and kill the fox clan?"

"What are you thinking? How could Sister Lingshang be such a fickle person? Not long after you sent the stone letter, Sister Lingshang came to the ant hole to find me. She asked the fox tribe to live there temporarily with the ant tribe to ensure the safety of the fox tribe. After all, that is the safest place in the entire island, isn't it?" Yunwen said.

I blushed immediately, thinking that I had thought too much and misunderstood Lingshang again. I thought that the safe place she was talking about was to surrender to the enemy. I never thought that she meant to go to Yunwen to hide the fox tribe. However, I was still a little confused and said, "But Lingshang left the day before yesterday, why did she arrive at the ant cave yesterday?"

"Zhou Lang, I wanted to go there the first time, but I saw rats ambushing nearby. I was afraid that the foxes would attack, so I took the foxes to find the cave in the castle to rest for a while. I waited until the rats were sent away, and then I rushed to the Nether Ant Cave to find Sister Yunwen and settle the foxes. I was afraid of attracting attention during the day, so I went there late at night to find you and inform you, but I saw Mei Sanniang seducing you. Seeing that she didn't hurt you, I knew where she was going to take you, so I immediately went to inform Sister Yunwen, and we came together." Hu Lingshang said.

So that's how it is. Now I understood why Mei Sanniang went to the castle area before. It turned out that she was going to hunt down Hu Lingshang. The reason why the two of them were able to sense her pursuit was because they sensed Mei Sanniang's movements and came to save me in time.

"It seems that I misunderstood. I'm sorry. When I saw you leaving in anger, I thought..." I couldn't help but say to Ling Shang.

"I am indeed angry, but what wife would abandon her husband? What I said before meant that the fox tribe should not be left in the post station, and I had no intention of taking any action. But my husband thought that I was going to betray you... I was particularly sad to hear that. Fortunately, the matter has passed, so I will not mention it anymore. Now Mei Sanniang is rushing to the Netherworld Cave, and I don't know how long the ant tribe can hold out. The most urgent task is for you, Zhou Lang, to recover your strength. Let's go back and arrange for rescue." Ling Shang said.

Yunwen smiled secretly and whispered in my ear: "There is another misunderstanding. I wonder if you, Zhou Bo, have read too much of Six Records of a Floating Life. When did I ride a crane?"