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　　Lie Er gasps and opens his eyes, his vision is still blurred.

　　His strength has become weak since he was drugged and the overnight runaway exhausted his energy, falling and rolling in such way made him became unconscious, when he opened his eyes, he stared at the moon in the sky in a daze, there is only one thought in his mind —— Yu Lang was. .h.i.t by an arrow.

　　He heard Yu Lang’s scream just now.

　　If he hadn’t been seriously injured, a master like Yu Lang would never fall off the horse.

　　If Yu Lang wore the phoenix armor, this might not have happened.

　　Pain, like a cold thin blade pierced through his heart, the world turned pale within emptiness.

　　Lie Er ferociously quivered, that he can’t help leaning his face to Yu Lang’s neck.

　　The skin touched lightly, but Yu Lang he who has fallen on the ground suddenly moved and jumped up alertly the next second.

　　His movement is like energetic dragon and fierce tiger, showing no sign of injury.

　　(t/n: 龙精虎猛 the metaphor for energetic and high-spirited).

　　Lie Er seems to have been hit hard on the chest by something, and after a big shock, he immediately wakes up. “Are you not injured?”

　　Yu Lang looks intently at the rus.h.i.+ng water not far away and said in a deep voice, “I almost fainted when I hit my head when I rolled down, but luckily I woke up in time.”

　　Lie Er went back and forth from heaven and earth, hadn’t yet breathed a sigh of relief he found that Yu Lang obviously had a plan, he immediately became vigilant again, he says, “Even if you jump into the water, Yong Yi will send someone to search downstream, you cannot escape.”

　　Yu Lang is at the point of life and death, how can there be time to talk nonsense to him, he picks up the bow and arrow that fell on the gra.s.s when he fell and hang it on his body, he pulls out the dagger and actually pierces the skin hanging on his waist. This skin was taken by Yu Lang from his bag and hung on his body, Lie Er always thought it was filled with water, now that he saw it, he’s greatly surprised.

　　Red blood-like liquid gush out of the skin and flow to the gra.s.s.

　　Yu Lang rushes to the edge of the water at the fastest speed, creating traces of the red liquid flowing all the way, when he reached the water’s edge, he takes the skin and throws it into the water.

　　He does all this without any delay and happen to hear the sound of hoofs and voices coming from the back of the hillside.

　　A little hesitation at the moment is a dead end.

　　Using both hands and feet Yu Lang quickly climb a tree with the most dense branches.

　　The horses hiss more clearly.

　　When the chaser troops climbed to the top of the slope and looked down at the situation at a glance, Yu Lang has just had time to hide his body in the three fork branches of Maoye tree. That was a close call!

　　From the beginning to the end, Lie Er was bound by his back.

　　“It’s here!”

　　The horse’s hoof sound louder, closer and closer, stop under the tree where the two are hiding.

　　Someone suddenly says, “His Highness is here.”

　　Yu Lang carefully plucks away a few leaves and peers down.

　　Lie Er is lying on his back and he can see a little from the side of his neck, his heartbeat suddenly increased.

　　He saw Yong Yi.

　　Limited by angle and line of sight, it’s impossible to see clearly, but from a distance, Yong Yi looks a lot thinner and haggard, he seems to have a little stubble beard on his chin.

　　Yong Yi has dismounted and was standing on the gra.s.s silently watching the thrilling ‘blood’.

　　The pool of ‘blood’ dyed the gra.s.s red and an intermittent red trace extended from the ‘blood’ berth to the water’s edge.

　　The subordinates surrounding Yong Yi are all oppressed and uneasy by the atmosphere of silence.

　　It takes a long time before someone whispers, “Your Highness, from the look of this, they should have suffered a rather serious trauma. Probably unwilling to be captured alive, they walked to the edge of the water and jumped down.”

　　Yong Yi stares at the pool of blood, he says with calm voice without undulations, “They? Who are they? Is the one who was shot by the arrow the man who captured Lie Er, or Lie Er? Have any of you seen it clearly?”

　　Some of the people who shot the arrow just then trembled and dare not to look up.

　　Ying Wei is Yong Yi’s confidant, he understands Yong Yi’s feelings for Lie Er better than everyone else, after hesitating for a while he comforts him, “Your Highness should not be worried about Lie Er Young Master, the night is so dark, there is a distance between the chaser troops in the forest, no one can clearly see the appearance of the man on the horse. However, according to this subordinate’s opinion, neither of them would be Lie Er Young Master.”

　　After a pause, he continues to a.n.a.lyze, “Your Highness thinks about it carefully, the thief is very smart and quite resourceful. In such a terrible situation tonight, if Lie Er Young Master is really robbed by him, he will certainly use Lie Er Young Master in exchange for living conditions. Anyone knows that this is the most advantageous and safest way. But he was chased by us in the middle of the night, trying hard to escape, and even injured and dived in the end, but he never mentioned that he wanted to negotiate with Your Highness, from this we can see that he has no bargaining chips at all. The person riding with him must not be Lie Er Young Master.”