There is a sentence in "Six Records of a Floating Life", "Summer mosquitoes become thunder, and I imagine them as a group of cranes dancing in the sky", which means that when the author of the book was a child, he imagined the mosquitoes in the mosquito net as a group of cranes flying. When I heard Yunwen say this, I realized that the cranes did not exist. It seems that my brain was fuzzy and I beautified the image of Yunwen when she came. No wonder she was so beautiful in that half-asleep and half-wakeful state.

I was a little embarrassed. After all, it was a bit frivolous to express my fantasy about her.

"Ahem, I've almost rested enough. The situation is urgent. Don't let important things be delayed because of me. Let's set off quickly." I said.

The two girls nodded.

It is still dark at this moment, which shows that I have not been here for a long time. Counting the time spent walking through the flowers and passing the rat man, it is probably only half an hour. In addition, it was not long from the time I fell unconscious to the time I woke up. After all, the rat man was lying in the flowers, tied up by the roots of the flowers and was still struggling. The thorns on the flower stems are poisonous and have a paralyzing effect. It is still able to move now, which means it has just been subdued not long ago. Including the time it took to be subdued, it was at most five to ten minutes. It was not unconscious and was still struggling, which means it was at most five minutes. Therefore, we will temporarily estimate that fifteen minutes have passed.

From this calculation, Mei Sanniang has been away from here forty to fifty minutes or so. She should have been flying here with me using the Zhenming Umbrella at about the same time. I can't guarantee it, but I estimate it's pretty close. So she may not have reached the ant cave yet, so everything may still be in time.

White mist covered Lingshang's body, and she soon transformed into a huge nine-tailed white fox. I rode on her back, and Yunwen also called on flying ants to sit on them. We returned home on the wind. Before leaving, I found that the tied rat man had white foam coming out of his mouth, and he was twitching in the flowers. His legs and feet were stretched very straight, and he felt a little stiff. I couldn't help but feel a chill down my spine, thinking that if the two girls hadn't come to save me, I might be the one with a stiff body now.

From this I understood something. The rat-man looked huge, but he was so afraid of poison and his body was more fragile than humans. Rats usually carry poison and plague in their bodies, but this rat-man could not stand the toxicity of this plant. This made me feel somewhat surprised. They looked like rats, but were they really rats?

"The poison in their internal organs was eliminated during their cultivation, so their current bodies cannot withstand the toxicity." Ling Shang's keen observation skills enabled her to see through my doubts and she spoke them out.

"What's the point of a mouse making itself look like neither human nor mouse?" I couldn't help but sigh.

"They all want to be Mei Sanniang, so they imitate others and weaken the functions of their own bodies." Ling Shang said.

Soon we left this Peach Blossom Mountain. Lingshang carried me on her back, and Yunwen rode on the flying ant. We returned home. While flying, I couldn't help but think of the time when Mei Sanniang took me flying in the air, and she used the Zhenming Umbrella. If you say that Hu Lingshang has never met Mei Sanniang, I would find it hard to believe. After all, if they had never met, how could the umbrella be returned to Mei Sanniang? How could such an important treasure be taken back by her so easily?

But I had just suspected her, and now I finally cleared it up. If I asked these questions without thinking, wouldn't it hurt her feelings? But if I didn't ask now, I was really suspicious, so I thought of a compromise and asked, "Yunwen, I just learned that many treasures have the function of flying. The Yinxi Pot and the Yangshen Wood have their own magical powers. Mei Sanniang is the one who made the Zhenming Umbrella fly in the clouds. Do you think my Jinque Sword can do the same?"

Yunwen, who was sitting on the flying ant, also thought about it for me, and then said, "Unless you are a Tianque general, it is not realistic for you to use this sword to fly. But if you are a Tianque general, why do you need to fly with a sword? Can't you just fly on the clouds?"

I covered my forehead, feeling a slight headache. I said this mainly to talk about Mei Sanniang holding the Zhenming Umbrella, not to discuss this. Fortunately, Lingshang understood what I meant. She said, "Mice are very good at stealing. If I don't hide the Zhenming Umbrella somewhere and let them take it back, wouldn't they find my tracks? Besides, I said I would not participate in the war, so I will never take the hot potato in my hand to give Mei Sanniang a reason to hunt me and the fox clan. Zhou Lang, do you still have any doubts about me now?"

I coughed. This girl is indeed a thousand-year-old fox. Not only did she understand what I meant, but she also figured out the intention of what I said. It seems that my cleverness in front of her is not enough.

We flew all the way back, because the flying process was not as easy as Mei Sanniang's. We did not need to exert any effort at all. We could just rely on the residual spirit in the Zhenming Umbrella to transform into clouds and mist to fly forward. But it was different for us. The whole process required us to expend our own physical strength. Ling Shang needed to run, and the flying ants needed to vibrate their wings to fly.

Therefore, we cannot fly without stopping. We have to keep looking for a place to rest for a while, and then continue to move forward. The efficiency is much slower.

We flew across the canyon and passed the area of ​​broken ridges and ruins hidden below. I followed what Mei Sanniang had said and told the girls not to look into the pairs of eyes emitting faint green light below. However, Yunwen's face changed drastically. I could see that she seemed uneasy, and I felt uneasy. Could it be that she had already looked into their eyes?

But half of what Mei Sanniang said was true, and half was false. Who could tell which was true? Maybe she was just trying to scare me. Thinking this way, I felt much more at ease. Maybe the reason she lied to me was to make me feel that the island was scary, so as to set the stage for her saying that she would take me back.

After flying over the canyon, we arrived near Taiqiong Cave, and then flew back. After passing the Jade Emperor Temple, we arrived at the Monkey Forest. When we arrived at the Monkey Forest, we flew all the way to the southwest. After flying for a long time, we arrived outside the tiankeng. When we first arrived here, we found that it was very quiet here. There was nothing around the pit, but we could faintly smell a fishy smell.

So Fei Yi took Yunwen, Ling Shang took me, and we went down into the pit and entered the Netherworld Cave at the bottom of the pit. We flew forward all the way, passed a pitch-black blind spot, and then arrived near the glowing iron cage. As soon as we got here, Yunwen and I couldn't help but be shocked. She covered her mouth, and I patted my chest to prevent myself from vomiting.

There was green juice bursting all over the ground, and countless ant corpses were lying on the ground in all directions. But at the same time, there were also several ratmen lying on their backs. It seemed that there had been a bloody battle here, and both sides had casualties. But we couldn't care less about these. We still had to pay attention to the situation inside the ant hole, so as not to let the queen ant get hurt.

So we galloped and flew deeper into the palace again. Fortunately, there were no traces of corpses here. It seemed that Mei Sanniang had finally broken out. However, in the courtyard not far from the palace, I saw a touch of scarlet red. Ling Shang, regardless of being on her back, immediately emitted a white mist and turned into a human form. I fell directly off her.

She ran towards that place at full speed, and I stood up and rushed over with Yunwen. What I saw was just as I expected. There was a red fox lying there, its body a little stiff, and the bloodstains were from it.

Ling Shang held it, tears streaming down her face.

I felt extremely guilty. If I hadn't accidentally released the ghost master, how could this have happened? I slowly squatted down, patted Ling Shang's shoulder, and said, "I'm sorry!"

She shook her head and said, "Zhou Lang, this is why I am angry with you. Do you understand now?"

I sighed and stroked the already cold body of the little red fox, feeling very sad.

Then she clenched her fists and said, "Originally I didn't want to take action, but she let the rat tribe attack! If she hurts someone from my tribe, I, Hu Lingshang, will make her return her life. Otherwise, how can I be worthy of Huahua?"

Yunwen also got off the flying ant and said, "Sister Lingshang, go and get your revenge. Mei Sanniang suffered a loss once, so she will definitely not come a second time. Even if she comes, the queen ant and I will try our best to ensure the safety of the other foxes. Just leave this to me. You are very capable. If you can join forces with Zhou Bo to fight the enemy, your chances of winning will be even greater."

I looked at Hu Lingshang. Her expression was usually peaceful, but at this moment she was frowning, which showed that this incident had hurt her quite a bit.

"Okay, so I don't want the fox clan to be implicated, but now that she has taken the initiative to offend me, I will no longer tolerate it and I will return the favor!"