Sweetheart
To avoid any further complications, they packed their bags and headed to the Misty Forest the next day.
Perhaps the village chief had great confidence in the Misty Forest and did not allow the bandits to stop going down the mountain.
They originally wanted to go to Doctor Liu to say goodbye, but they arrived at a vast expanse of land with no houses in sight.
"Did we take the wrong road?" Lin Yuan looked at the empty plain, without a trace of human beings.
"Forget it, maybe I took the wrong road. Let's go to the Misty Forest first."
The place is shrouded in mist. Although it is a hot summer day, it feels as cold as autumn.
The three bandits moved through the jagged woods.
They secretly followed the bandits.
The three bandits exchanged glances and dispersed in all directions.
Yuan and Lin looked at each other in surprise, "Oh no, they discovered us!" Yuan Xuanlang's face darkened.
"The village chief must have told the bandits, but he has to tell one."
So the two of them chose the right side, and when they tried to chase the man again, there was no trace of him at all, and they had lost their direction.
I could only follow the general direction and head east, but I always ended up back at the marked tree.
"Let's take a break." Lin Yuan sat under the tree and touched a bone, and the hairs on his body stood up.
"Hey..." He didn't have time to stop her.
"Oh my god!" she jumped up. "A lot of people must have died in these woods!"
“So, don’t wander around, lest you bump into something unclean.”
He used his Qinggong skills to step onto the wood and stand on tiptoe on the branch, looking around. "Qi Men Dun Jia, Yin Yang Bagua, none of these layouts are suitable for this place. It seems that they are unique to Stone Village. They are confusing enough to deceive people. It's like a ghost building a wall!"
"So, lie down. We can't get out."
He jumped down and knocked her on the forehead. "What nonsense! There is always a way out in the world. The mouth and nose are the way out for people, and the crevices in the mountains are the way out for springs."
She lowered her eyes and said, "I'm sorry, I always say discouraging things."
"Don't be sorry. There's no need to ask whether this is right or wrong?" he answered seriously.
Lin Yuan's heart skipped a beat, as if a single word had a thousand meanings and a leaf had ten thousand veins. "Well, thank you."
He looked at her with a smile on his face, which made her feel embarrassed.
"Why are you...looking at me?" She missed his gaze.
"There's a clear silliness in Xiao Yuan's eyes, and she's adorably clumsy."
"Is that a compliment or an insult?" She pouted, not wanting to pursue the matter. "Then how do we get out?"
"Why don't we try the solution to the ghost wall?"
Lin Yuan's lips curled up. "A ghost wall is a state of hazy consciousness. The first way to break it is to wait for dawn and use the light to find the way. However, it's completely dark here, so it won't work."
The second method is to press the middle finger, because this can relieve tension, increase confidence, and help to walk out, but even though I am not panicking, I still can't walk out. "
"There is another method, the Yu Bu Seven Stars Method,"
He paused, satisfied to see Lin Yuan's expectant expression. "Legend has it that when Xia Yu was controlling floods, he discovered a bird that used a strange gait to avoid rolling rocks in the floodwaters. It could make the rocks stop. So he created the Yu Step based on this gait, which can make boulders turn over. This gait can be used to pray to the gods, summon spirits, drive away evil and welcome the true. Taoists often use it."
"Are you sure you're not a superstitious person? Do ghosts and gods really exist?" Lin Yuan asked subconsciously. She realized later that time travel was also anti-scientific. Wasn't this world also anti-scientific?
"It's better to believe it than not to believe it. Let's give it a try."
Lin Yuan extended her hand and gestured: "Please start your performance."
"Hold my hand," he said, not waiting for her to respond. "Hold on tight, or you'll be left behind and can't get out!"
Lin Yuan deeply suspected that "the drunkard's intention was not to drink", and ultimately did not break free from his hand.
He first raised his left foot, taking one step at a time, one forward and one backward, the beginning and the end synchronized. He was seen muttering to himself: "Three Yuan Nine Stars, the great numbers of A Luo, the three levels and nine palaces, following the laws of heaven and earth, the movement of the sun and the moon, and communicating with the gods!"
He walked slowly, then quickly, then walked, then jumped. He was obviously walking the same path, but he gradually walked to a bright place. Finally, his eyes lit up, and they squinted their eyes slightly, not yet used to the dazzling sunlight.
When the view became clear, the mountains were green and their curves were gracefully displayed under the morning light, they were sure that they had gone out!
If there wasn't any unusual movement around, Lin Yuan would have thought this was a magical world.
"Wow! How magical!" Lin Yuan looked at all this in surprise.
"Hey, there's nothing your senior brother can't do!" He held his head high and chest out, his long ponytail rimmed with gold in the sunlight.
She smiled with joy, "As expected, modesty is not your thing."
"So," he lifted a small bunch of Lin Yuan's hair, his eyebrows and eyes smiling: "I am no worse than Chen Zhaoli, and I will treat you better. Why don't you consider it?"
"...Based on my last experience, being nice to you isn't the basis for liking him. If the next person treats me like this, will I like him too?"
"Then I'll give you ten thousand reasons—far better and different from others—for you to like me." He looked at her steadily, making her wonder how this man could be so shameless.
He did not mean to beg, but rather was admirable. His sincere and passionate emotions were just like the young man's high attitude.
However, Lin Yuan thought that the basis of liking and loving is trust. Giving her heart to him and letting him take good care of it or trample on it at will, this powerlessness and uncertainty made her back off.
Moreover, flawless trust is the source of evil.
After all, she is cowardly.
Furthermore, if it were anyone else, she wouldn't feel shy either. It was the kind of shyness that lingered on the tip of her tongue and couldn't be put into words.
She could only remain silent, feeling like a scumbag.
He knew she was sensitive and suspicious, so he didn't show his disappointment. He just pulled her in and held her in his arms, whispering in her ear: "Then who do you think I am to you? You can't just be my senior brother, right?"
His warm breath and the sound of his voice so close to her made her heart skip a beat. Before she could think of how to respond, she saw a black dot flying towards her from a distance, gradually growing larger.
“Gugu——”
Is it an owl?
She tried to break free from his embrace, "Eh? Why is there an owl here?"
He didn't force it, and let go, going to watch the owl, which was as fat as a ball, land on her shoulder.
In the distance, I saw a handsome man in red clothes dancing, followed by a group of subordinates.
Lin and Yuan were both shocked. It was Yu Liushang!
"Lin Yuan, you're finally back." Yu Liushang had a smile on his lips, and his eyes narrowed slightly when his gaze met Yuan Xuanlang.
"Yu Liushang?" Her worries came true. "I didn't mean to break the appointment."
Yuan Xuanlang looked at her puzzledly.
"I know that my wife was deceived by that pretty boy. Now that she has had enough fun, come back with me." Yu Liushang smiled gently, stretched out his hand, and waited for her patiently.
"Lin Yuan, what's going on? Why does he call you wife?" Yuan Xuanlang grabbed her arm tightly.
"To tell you the truth, I am Lin Yuan, the young master of Jifeng Tower, and I am engaged to him." Her hands were trembling, and she gritted her teeth as she revealed the truth.
All the related events connected together and hit his brain directly, and the words "She is right" were about to come out.
Yuan Xuanlang gave an ugly smile and increased the strength of his hands: "Haha, Junior Sister, you are teasing me again. This is not fun."
"Hey! Pretty boy, stop deceiving yourself. My wife and I have admitted it, why are you still pretending to be confused..." Yu Liushang sneered at him.
His eyes were red: "Is this why you don't respond to me?"
Lin Yuan said something completely irrelevant: "I have never done anything to let my master down."
She held his hand, and there was a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
She pulled down hard, freeing her arms from his grip. "That's all for now, even though this is a precious encounter and acquaintance."
She spat out these words stiffly and coldly, smashing his glass bottle full of stars.
He let Lin Yuan pass by her and walked towards Yu Liushang who was smiling triumphantly.
She regretted it after only a few steps. Remembering that she hadn't answered his question yet, she turned around and shouted, "You are my mentor, friend, and brother!"
She didn't say anything in the end, but just moved her lips and said silently: "There is still a sweetheart."
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