Reborn as Powerful Minister's Beloved-Chapter 676 - 640: First Update_2
The guards were immediately excited upon hearing the words, shared a glance, and turned to leave.
That night, within the Stone Cave, aside from the restless Xing Yu and Yin He, nobody else could sleep. Once everything had quieted down, Yin He suddenly tapped Xing Yu.
Xing Yu immediately sat up, this was Yin He’s signal.
"Going out for a night stroll?" Xing Yu muttered, as if it were just like any other time, but had already skillfully strapped a small bundle to his chest, and carried Yin He on his back as they walked towards the outside of the cave.
The guard seemed unsurprised; this young man got up two or three times every night, so without even lifting their heads, allowed Xing Yu a sigh of relief.
Outside the cave was a sloped path, leading past a low bush-covered slope to another mountain’s peak, with a deep ravine in between, dense with vegetation, invisible from above.
Yin He’s plan had been arranged early in the morning; they had walked this mountain path by the sloping face for an entire day, and the Sword Tree Hell was just several mountains further in a deeper forest.
The ravine seemed very deep and was densely vegetated; once inside, the larger number couldn’t leverage their advantage.
Moreover, in the darkness, Xing Yu slowly walked across the slope, and once he reached the path, his movements sped up, he directly dashed into the dense forest.
Yin He breathed a sigh of relief, his hands helping to brush aside branches on both sides.
"King, they have moved." The guard immediately reported, and Nanmen Yu sprung up, instantly alert.
"Are all the men in place?" Nanmen Yu came out of his tent and asked straight away, his expression solemn, as expected, they were slipping away.
"Rest assured, King, all is in order." The guard said immediately, the guards who had been sleeping were now mostly awake, all gathered to one side.
"Move out." Nanmen Yu took a deep breath, he always needed to keep busy with something, to stop himself from overthinking.
The guard quickly led his men into the dense woods, and seeing this, Nanmen Yu followed promptly with the rest.
Xing Yu was very fast; in the darkness, only the sound of branches breaking against the two, and Xing Yu’s hurried breathing could be heard.
Focused on listening to the sounds behind them, and hearing nothing, Xing Yu finally satisfied turned his head forward, but in fact, he couldn’t see the path ahead in the pitch darkness, he could only let inertia carry them down towards the bottom of the ravine.
"Yin He, didn’t you say the ravine wasn’t deep, why haven’t we reached the bottom yet?" Xing Yu asked in the darkness.
The young man didn’t respond, realizing it too; from their descent of the slope to now, enough time had passed by his reckoning, they should have reached the bottom of the ravine earlier.
"It should be just ahead." The young man spoke calmly, yet the silence around was too unsettling, suddenly making him feel uneasy.
On one hand hoping, their sudden movement caught the opponent off guard, yet feeling, it was impossible that Nanmen Yu hadn’t heard any news. Otherwise, even if realized late, some noise should have come from behind by now.
Xing Yu still rushed downward, such a downhill path, although the force of inertia carried them swiftly downward, was also the most exhausting, moreover carrying another person made it more difficult.
So, the young man suddenly grabbed Xing Yu’s shoulder, suddenly spoke up causing Xing Yu to stop, but Xing Yu couldn’t brake; the inertia and the weight of two people carried them forward.
"Bang—"
"Bang—" Xing Yu only felt himself suddenly knock into two things, then barely managed to stop, grabbing onto a tree trunk until he steadied, while the tree’s roots were already half pulled out.
"What was that?" Xing Yu asked hurriedly, he had apparently knocked down something, the feeling wasn’t like hitting a tree or stone, but rather...an animal?
The young man didn’t speak, coldly surveying the surroundings, but inwardly sneered, not expecting that Nanmen Yu was so cunning, to have set up an ambush here, and moreover, to have captured them, it seemed he had stationed quite a force around.
Just as Xing Yu was about to take a step, Yin He quickly spoke out.
"Don’t move." Hearing this, Xing Yu dared not move further, although he didn’t know what was happening, he knew something must have gone wrong.
"Come out—" Yin He coldly said, yet for a long while, no one responded to him.
Little did they know, the two individuals just knocked down were exactly the waiting guards, however, after being struck by Xing Yu, the force was enough to send them flying, they were now unconscious, with no one else around.
