Chapter 809
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There were towering trees on both sides of the mountain road. Even the sound of insects could not be heard. It was so quiet that only the sound of their horses' hooves could be heard, making people feel creepy.
Ye Zhen looked at the distant mountain shrouded in clouds. She turned to look at Mo Rongzhan. "Do you want to go on? It doesn't look like there is prey here."
Mo Rongzhan's eyes were cold. He stopped and looked at the ground not far away.
"Tang Zhen, send the empress back first." Mo Rongzhan ordered in a deep voice.
"Why?" Ye Zhen frowned and asked. She had come here. How could she go back?
Mo Rongzhan gave her a deep look. "I sent Shen Yi and the others into the mountain. They should have taken this road."
There were horse footprints ahead, but there were only footprints entering the mountain. He felt that there was danger in the mountain and didn't want Ye Zhen to take the risk.
"Only if you go back with me." Ye Zhen said firmly in a low voice. If she went back alone, she would still be on tenterhooks. She might as well stay by his side.
Mo Rongzhan frowned at her. "Yao Yao!"
Ye Zhen pursed her lips and looked at him firmly.
"Your Majesty, someone is coming!" Tang Zhen, who had been paying attention to the surroundings, whispered. He vaguely heard someone running.
Mo Rongzhan looked ahead. After a while, he saw a man's figure running quickly.
"It's Sun Jun!" Tang Zhen exclaimed.
Sun Jun was also a secret guard. He entered the mountain with Shen Yi today.
"He is injured. Go and see him." Mo Rongzhan ordered Tang Zhen in a deep voice. It seemed that something had happened in the mountain.
"This subordinate greets the emperor." Sun Jun's shoulder was injured and half of his arm was covered with blood.
Mo Rongzhan looked at him coldly. "What happened? Where is Shen Yi?"
"Your Majesty, we were attacked not long after we entered the mountain. The other party was so strong that he looked like a monster. Shen Yi was injured and taken away by him. The others were injured and ran away when they ran out." Sun Jun said, gasping for breath.
"There are people in the mountains?" Tang Zhen asked in surprise. There were many beasts in this deep mountain forest. It was impossible for people to live.
Sun Jun tried hard to recall. "That person had hands and feet, but I couldn't see his face clearly. There was more than one person. There was another person! We didn't see his face clearly before we were attacked. They took Lord Shen into a cave!"
"Your Majesty, I will take people into the mountain to save Shen Yi." Tang Zhen said to Mo Rongzhan.
Ye Zhen asked the doctor behind her to bandage Sun Jun's wound and looked at Mo Rongzhan.
"I'm going to meet this strange man." Mo Rongzhan said in a deep voice. The martial arts of his shadow guards were not weak. Even if Tang Zhen brought people in, he was afraid that they would not be able to catch them.
Mo Rongzhan turned to look at Ye Zhen. "Yao Yao, if you don't want to go back, wait for me here."
"I want to go into the mountains with you." Ye Zhen whispered.
"No." Mo Rongzhan said firmly, "We don't want to send you away by force, Yaoyao."
Ye Zhen had to compromise and said, "Then I will wait for you here. Come back quickly."
Mo Rongzhan nodded gently. "Tang Zhen, you stay here to protect the Empress. The others will follow me into the mountains."
"Let Tang Zhen follow you. I have Jianjia and Vice-General Jin with me. There will be no danger." Ye Zhen looked at Mo Rongzhan worriedly. Because of the divination, she was really worried about him.
"There are others." Mo Rongzhan said with a smile, motioning to Tang Zhen to protect the Empress. Then, he took the other shadow guards along the mountain road into the mountains. Sun Jun led the way on horseback.
Ye Zhen silently watched their fading figures, her heart unable to relax.
"If he is really a human, how did he live in the mountains?" Hong Ying asked doubtfully.
"Maybe he was abandoned in the mountains since he was a child. Then he can't be called a human, he should be a beast." Jianjia said.
Ye Zhen shook her head gently. "Didn't you hear it just now? There is more than one person inside. Maybe there are more people."
Tang Zhen whispered to Ye Zhen, "Your Majesty's martial arts are excellent. Even if there are strange people inside, they will not be your opponent."
She knew that Mo Rongzhan's martial arts were powerful, but she couldn't rest assured.
After an unknown period of time, the sun gradually rose into the sky.
Jianjia brought dry food and water to Ye Zhen. "Niang niang, eat something first."
Ye Zhen took the water and looked ahead. "Why haven't you come back yet? It's been almost four hours."
"Niang niang!" Jin Shanshan looked ahead in shock. "What is that?"
Hearing Jin Shanshan's voice, everyone looked over. In front of the road, a black shadow was faintly seen running. The shadow was getting closer and clearer. The huge, ferocious shadow made Ye Zhen's scalp tingle.
"Monster!" Jin Shanshan couldn't help but say. She turned to look at Ye Zhen. "Niang niang, you leave first."
Ye Zhen glanced at her and said amusedly, "Don't ask me to leave first every time."
Tang Zhen stood in front of them. "Protect the Niang niang."
The dark shadow was getting closer and closer to them, and Ye Zhen finally saw his appearance clearly.
He was not a beast, nor was he a monster. He was a man who had been burned by fire. He wore a black cloak, and his body was huge. His face was full of burn scars, so he looked ferocious and terrifying.
"Stop, don't take another step forward!" Ye Zhen shouted at him.
Unfortunately, the man didn't seem to understand what Ye Zhen said and still ran over quickly.
"He seems to be carrying someone on his back." Jianjia whispered.
The other party seemed to have finally discovered the existence of Ye Zhen and the others. The speed of his running slowed down. The man in black's beast-like eyes looked sharply at Ye Zhen.
"Who are you?" Tang Zhen stared at them and asked.
The man in black looked at them silently and did not speak.
"They may not understand what we are talking about." Jin Shanshan whispered.
Ye Zhen hurriedly asked, "If they are the strange people in the mountains, then what about the emperor? Didn't he find them?"
"Who are you?" The man behind the man in black asked. He spoke the official language of the Central Plains with a strong accent. Obviously, he was not from the Central Plains.
"This should be our question to you. Who are you and why are you in the mountains?" Tang Zhen asked in a deep voice.
A teenager jumped down from the back of the black-robed man. He looked at Tang Zhen vigilantly and found that there were several women with him. He looked at Ye Zhen, who looked more like the master of these people. "We hid in the mountains to avoid danger. Are you with those people just now?" Tang Zhen's face was filled with fear.
"You hurt our people!" Ye Zhen glanced at the black-robed man. The strange man Sun Jun just mentioned should be him.
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