At the same time, voices could be heard coming from the cliff.
The voices of those people rose after the sound of the boulder hitting the ground.
"Did you hear that? Those two people fell to the ground! Judging from the time, the cliff must have been very high! If they survived such a fall, they must have been saved by a deity!"
A moment of silence.
Only the mountain wind is blowing.
"We still need to go down and make sure they're not dead. What if a miracle really does come to their rescue?"
"You dare kill those saved by the gods? Aren't you afraid that the gods will stab us through the throat while we're asleep?"
A cold laugh rang out.
"It is said that the Crown Princess is cunning and treacherous by nature. The people above said that no matter whether the Crown Princess is alive or dead, the person must be delivered to him, otherwise the mission will not be considered complete!"
"Take thirty men down to search for the Crown Princess's body. I'll take twenty men to guard up here. If the Crown Princess is alive, as soon as she climbs up, I'll kill her and send her body to that person."
"yes!"
Soon, Ye Qingxue and Zhuang Xin heard the footsteps of those people moving in different directions.
That's really ruthless. They actually want to see her alive or dead. She had been thinking that after she fooled the group of assassins, she and Zhuang Xin would slowly climb up or slowly descend to the bottom of the mountain to find a way to leave.
Now both paths are blocked, and Zhuang Xin's injuries obviously won't last much longer. What should we do?
Ye Qingxue took a deep breath, gripped the whip, steadied herself, and said softly, "Lord Zhuang, try climbing up the tree and see if you can manage."
The only solution Ye Qingxue could think of at the moment was to wait for Dong Bai and the others to escape, or for Bai Qi to find reinforcements to rescue her and Zhuang Xin.
However, if Zhuang Xin keeps pulling the whip and holding her, let alone waiting for Dong Bai or Bai Qi to come to the rescue, he probably won't be able to hold on for even half an hour. He will faint or die from excessive blood loss.
Zhuang Xin was indeed in a daze, his whole body aching and numb.
Holding onto the rope to protect Ye Qingxue was his inner obsession, and now that he heard Ye Qingxue's words, he obediently did as she said.
Although the tree is oddly shaped, it is large enough, and its roots grow very aggressively, climbing the smooth cliff face and spreading in all directions, growing wherever it can find a crevice.
Its roots and stems cover an area of about ten feet in diameter.
Therefore, it was able to support the weight of both Zhuang Xin and Ye Qingxue, and it also had many forks, so Zhuang Xin didn't have to worry about falling off while lying on it.
Ye Qingxue had planned to find a flat place to stand after he went up, but she couldn't find one no matter how hard she looked.
When Zhuang Xin asked her to climb the tree for the third time, Ye Qingxue went up.
Zhuang Xin said in a low voice, "It's unfair to make the Crown Princess stay with a rough man like me."
"It's not that I didn't come up because I disliked you. I'm just worried that if we stay here too long, the tree won't be able to support both of us. If that happens, neither of us will be able to save the tree, and wouldn't that be a huge loss?"
It wasn't that he was disgusted. Zhuang Xin was a little touched, but also a little heartbroken: "If I was afraid of being taken advantage of, I wouldn't have come to save the Crown Princess."
After a moment of silence, he said, "If this big tree can't support us anymore, it should make a creaking sound before it breaks. Let's listen carefully and rest well before it breaks."
Ye Qingxue hummed in agreement and said no more, because she felt a slight pain in her abdomen. She slowly inhaled and exhaled, trying to regulate her condition.
Zhuang Xin, due to severe injuries and excessive blood loss, fell into a brief coma after speaking.
Besides Zhuang Xin's shallow breathing, Ye Qingxue could hear the sounds of the thirty people walking down the mountain and the twenty people on the cliff.
Instead of sitting quietly on it, the twenty people picked up stones from the ground and threw them down.
"If those two were still alive, they would definitely groan when hit by the stone."
Ye Qingxue: "..."
This is absolutely outrageous!
Fortunately, their location was relatively secluded, with bushes providing cover, so they were not discovered or hit for the time being.
On the other side, as Ye Qingxue had instructed, Qiu Shen led Chun Qian and Xia Lü off the carriage ahead of time and hid them, while Dong Bai drove the carriage forward at breakneck speed.
After the assassins chased after them, Qiu Shen led Chun Xia and the other two to run desperately through the mountains and forests towards the capital city. Even when their clothes and skin were pierced by thorns, and even when they tripped and fell to the ground and were injured, they did not stop.
We must go to Kyoto to get reinforcements; only then can the Crown Princess be saved!
The city gates were locked, but there were soldiers guarding them. As long as they identified themselves, they could enter the city.
However, when she arrived at the city gate, Qiu Shen clearly sensed that something was wrong. The guards at the city gate were much stricter than usual, and the atmosphere was extremely tense. She immediately stopped.
Chunqian was covered in wounds, blood still flowing from her face, and asked her, "Why isn't Qiushen leaving?"
"If tonight's assassins were sent by people from Kyoto, can we enter the city now?" Qiu Shen stared intently at the city gate, answering her own question:
"No, we'll be killed as soon as we show up!"
Xia Lu's face turned deathly pale with anxiety: "What should we do?"
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