The night wind howled past, carrying the stench of blood. The waning moon was swallowed by dark clouds, leaving only a few dim rays of light to illuminate the corpses scattered on the ground.
"Qingxue, you made the wrong choice," Shen Jiefeng said, his voice icy cold. "Making the wrong choice will cost you your life."
With Yun Zhuo's help, Ye Qingxue struggled to her feet. The waning moonlight made her face appear as pale as paper, like a ghost.
Shen Jiefeng said, "But I always remember that we have a marriage agreement. As long as you admit your mistake now and come to me, you are still my fiancée."
It would be such a pity if such a courageous woman were to die alongside the deposed crown prince.
The cool moonlight shone down.
Ye Qingxue neither admitted her mistake nor approached him. Instead, she picked up the whip again, ready to attack at any moment.
Shen Jiefeng's face turned cold, and a fierce glint appeared in his eyes. He had never given anyone a chance so many times before. Ye Qingxue was the only one, but Ye Qingxue didn't know what was good for her!
"Release the arrows!" Shen Jiefeng raised his hand, his voice deep and resonant.
In an instant, arrows rained down from the mountainside, obscuring the sky and the moon. All the light before Yun Zhuo and Ye Qingxue's eyes was swallowed up in an instant, leaving only darkness, endless darkness.
People kept falling around me, screams filled the air, the tender grass tips that had just sprouted were trampled into a mess, all stained with blood, and the dry muddy ground gradually became wet, as if it had accumulated water.
At some point, Ye Qingxue pushed the little palace maid next to Bai Qi. Bai Qi glanced at Ye Qingxue, his wolf eyes filled with deep sorrow.
But Ye Qingxue gritted her teeth: "Take her away, and make sure she is safe!"
Bai Qi let out a sob, immediately bent down, and carried the little palace maid on his back.
Yun Zhuo pushed Hui Qi to Bai Qi's side: "You protect Bai Qi and that little palace maid, you must break through!"
Hui Qi also whimpered, not wanting to leave Yun Zhuo, but in the end she obediently stayed by Bai Qi's side, protecting Bai Qi as she rushed out of the crowd!
Swords and arrows were aimed at the two wolves and the palace maid, but they were stopped by Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo with their men.
The two wolves finally led the little palace maid out of the encirclement and into the mountains and forests.
"My lord!" A guard urgently inquired of Shen Jiefeng!
Shen Jiefeng said in a deep voice, "Capture the deposed crown prince first! As long as the deposed crown prince falls into our hands, those two wolves will definitely not be able to escape! Besides, we have people guarding outside the city, so they can't bring the little palace maid into the palace!"
The guards should concentrate their efforts on dealing with Yun Zhuo and Ye Qingxue.
They had been forced into a corner of the valley, surrounded by mountains and forests on all sides, and these forests were full of Shen Jiefeng's men. They had no way to escape.
The rain of arrows gradually stopped, and the guards formed a circle, slowly closing in on Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo, gradually tightening their breathing space.
By this point in the battle, Shen Jiefeng's side still had countless men, but Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo's side only had a dozen or so left, suffering extremely heavy casualties.
At this moment, Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo stood back to back, guarding each other's backs, watching Shen Jiefeng's men approach step by step.
Hiss hiss hiss.
Hissing.
A strange sound suddenly came, and it was so loud that it hurt people's ears and made everyone's scalp tingle.
Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo exchanged a glance and finally saw hope in each other's eyes: Dong Bai and Qiu Shen had succeeded.
Sure enough, the next moment a scream came from the mountains: "Ah, snakes! So many snakes!"
Countless snakes converged from all directions on the ground, spreading out so thickly that no gaps could be seen.
The outermost guards were caught off guard and were bitten. By the time the inner guards reacted, the snakes had already rushed up to them, even crawling up their insteps, ankles, and knees.
Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo were not surprised by the density of the snakes, as it was a trap they had set in advance.
When Ye Qingxue decided to come here with Yun Zhuo to find the little palace maid, she immediately asked Qiu Shen to find Xiang Si Zi and ask her for medicine that could lure out a large number of snakes.
They also sent Dongbai and Qiushen ahead of time to ambush in the bamboo forest and choose a valley to spread the medicine in advance.
She and Yun Zhuo fought and retreated, finally reaching this valley, where Qiu Shen and Dong Bai had prepared an ambush.
There are no markings here, but Bai Qi has smelled the medicine beforehand, and he will bring them here.
When they finally saw Shen Jiefeng arrive with his assassins, they realized that "this battle" was coming to an end.
The time for them to launch a counterattack has finally come, but the prerequisite is to lure Shen Jiefeng and his men into this ambush!
It seems that we have finally succeeded.
The outermost archers were quickly bitten by the venomous snakes and fell to the ground, the "bang bang bang" sounds constantly drilling into Shen Jiefeng's ears.
"Sir, we're surrounded by poisonous snakes! What do we do?" The subordinate's face turned pale, filled with panic!
Shen Jiefeng's expression also changed drastically. He saw Ye Qingxue and Yun Zhuo in the middle of the crowd and noticed their extremely calm expressions. He finally realized that he had fallen into their trap.
They lured them into the valley, where they were attacked by venomous snakes!
"Listen to my command! The outermost hundred men are responsible for slaying the snakes. Those inside, follow me to capture the deposed crown prince and Ye Qingxue. Their lives are no object!" Shen Jiefeng quickly made the decision.
He had previously planned to capture Yun Zhuo and Ye Qingxue alive, but now it seemed unnecessary. He would simply kill them and then throw Yun Zhuo's body into Taoxi Village!
Shen Jiefeng shouted again, "We've reached the final life-or-death moment. As long as we take down the deposed crown prince, we'll win completely!"
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