Chapter 17

The next day.

It was already dawn, and the rain had stopped, but it was still opaque, and it was still a little dark. The surrounding vegetation was clean, and a few birds were parked on the branches of tall trees, as if they were tilting their heads and looking towards this side.

Xiao Yu woke up, got up and took his cloak from Ning Jinsi and put it on.

After a while Ning Jinsi woke up, the morning air was always extraordinarily fresh, looked at the bright moon leaning on her shoulder, and softly called out: "Mingyue, wake up."

She didn't get up until Mingyue woke up, "Your Highness, have you found a way out?"

"No."

Ning Jinsi frowned: "Then where are we going now?"

Xiao Yu gathered his cloak and said lightly, "Go to the cabin you mentioned yesterday."

"Huh?" Ning Jinsi was puzzled, "The cabin is not in this forest, it's in a..."

As I talked, I thought of something. This forest is very big, but I don't know how big it is. Maybe they will be trapped and die here like most of the people who came here.

After walking for a long time, Ning Jinsi found that the road she walked this time was very different from the one she walked yesterday. Yesterday they all walked wherever there was a road, but this time they walked a road out of the dense forest.

The brambles on both sides scratched Ning Jinsi's skirt, she frowned slightly, and looked carefully, and felt that the grass on both sides was really weird.

"Your Highness, there seems to be something in the grass." Ning Jinsi tugged at the corner of Xiao Yu's clothes in front of him.

Xiao Yu stopped in his tracks, secretly glanced at the corner of the clothes being held by Ning Jinsi, pursed his lips, and looked at the grass on both sides.

After staring at it for a while, he stretched out his hand to Ning Jinsi: "Knife."

"Knife?" Ning Jinsi frowned and thought about it, then turned to ask Mingyue for the knife and handed it to Xiao Yu: "What does Your Highness want the knife for?"

Xiao Yu took the dagger, without saying a word, cut the knife in the palm of his hand, and the blood on his hand dripped onto the leaves of the grass. After absorbing the blood, the leaves began to shake violently, as if they were longing for more blood, and kept moving upwards. In less than half a cup of tea, the grass that had absorbed the blood grew almost half a person's height, and the grass next to it also grew slowly, but not as fast.

Ning Jinsi took two steps back in horror, but she didn't know that a vine was approaching her at the fastest speed behind her. Suddenly she felt itchy on her calf, turned her head slightly and looked back, and found that there were some vines on her leg. The hair-like tentacles were climbing up, as if they were using her as a pergola to inhabit.

"His Royal Highness, what is this?"

Ning Jinsi's voice trembled a little, and the hand holding the hem of his clothes trembled even more.

Xiao Yu brought her into his arms, and with his backhand, he used a dagger to cut off the following vines at the fastest speed, and then sprinkled the blood on his hand far away, and the vines turned their heads and crawled towards the blood.

Ning Jinsi slammed into a firm and warm embrace, a little dazed, and retreated from Xiao Yu's embrace when she regained her senses, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Mingyue was also frightened, but she still stepped forward to support her and thanked Xiao Yu.

"Let's go if you have nothing to do." Xiao Yu glanced at the wound on the palm of his hand, and handed over the dagger, Mingyue reached out to take it and put it away.

"Wait a minute." Ning Jinsi called to him, took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve pocket, raised Xiao Yu's hand to help him bandage it.

Xiao Yu watched and saw some thin beads of sweat on the girl's nostrils. She might have been frightened, and her slender eyelashes trembled slightly.

"Okay, be careful, Your Highness, don't get infected."

The girl looked up at him, her eyes were shining like stars filled the sky.

Xiao Yu didn't speak. He glanced at his hands and continued walking. After a long time, he said two words softly: "Thank you."

Ning Jinsi was stunned for a moment, then realized that he was thanking herself, and if she wanted to say thank you, she should be the one who said thank you to him, so she smiled and said, "You're welcome."

When she smiles, two inconspicuous dimples appear on both sides of her cheeks, which is very cute.

Xiao Yu glanced at it before answering the question she just asked: "It's man-eating plants, which live on blood, and they can also parasitize on people, just like just now."

Ning Jinsi suddenly realized, "No wonder there are no animals walking on the ground here. Could it be that those who came in and couldn't get out were sucked to death?"

"Ah."

very scary……

She had heard of this kind of blood-sucking grass before. This kind of grass usually grows in swamps and lives on the blood of animals. If you want to transplant it to other places, it will take a lot of manpower. There are hundreds of meters of this kind of plant around, and this kind of plant will usually pounce on it when it sees blood.

Just now, the blood of His Royal Highness made them move, and now they are wriggling slightly.

After walking for a long time, the hill that appeared not far away gave Ning Jinsi hope.

They came out!

"Your Highness, that's right there."

Xiao Yu didn't stop, and continued to walk forward. Ning Jinsi picked up her skirt and trotted to follow, and looked back at the grassy forest behind her from time to time. It was obvious that she had just walked out not far away, but it seemed that there was a long distance. In the depths of the grassy forest, nothing could be seen, and it was pitch black.

After walking for a while to arrive, Ning Jinsi looked at the surrounding environment, and was very familiar with it. Looking a little farther away, he could still see the edge of Jiangbei City, but where did the village that was supposed to be here go?

"Miss, this..." Mingyue panicked and looked around helplessly.

"Your Highness, there was indeed a village before this..." Ning Jinsi's voice gradually became weaker, and in the end she almost didn't believe that there was a village here.

Xiao Yu walked over and took a look: "There used to be a village here, but it was abandoned many years ago, so you didn't come into the village, let alone sleep in it. The place where you slept was a cemetery."

cemetery? !
Ning Jinsi looked over and saw a huge tombstone facing her. She took a deep breath and couldn't accept that she had spent the night in the cemetery.

"Miss, this place is so weird." Mingyue stood behind Ning Jinsi, staring straight at the tombstone facing them.

"It's really weird. It's just that we came to investigate the epidemic in Jiangbei. These things have nothing to do with us. Now that we have found the source of the disease, let's go." Ning Jinsi was afraid, and she wanted to leave quickly.

Suddenly Mingyue screamed and pointed to the tombstone: "Miss, look, isn't that your golden hairpin? You didn't have it just now."

Ning Jinsi looked at the tombstone. On it was indeed her hairpin, the one she gave to the village chief, but why?
"Have you sent anything inside?" Xiao Yu asked.

Ning Jinsi nodded, and replied slowly and dullly: "When we first came here, a village chief found us a place to live. We didn't bring any money, so we gave him a hairpin as a thank you."

Xiao Yu didn't speak, walked over and bent over to pick up the hairpin from the tombstone, walked over and handed it to her: "Here you are."

Ning Jinsi didn't pick it up, she didn't dare to pick it up, she shook her head: "Your Highness, you should throw it away quickly, it's unlucky."

"That's right, but the things you take from here can't be thrown here again." Xiao Yu twirled the hairpin in his hand playfully.

"Then take it far away."

Just don't give it to her anyway.

Xiao Yu: "This is your thing, do you let Gu throw it away?"

Ning Jinsi took a step back: "Then Your Highness should put it back."

She didn't dare to take it, as Mingyue said, this place is very strange, if she is not careful, she will die here, she hasn't found the murderer who killed her mother, she can't die.

 early.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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