Late at night, Ziyang, Xuan Yi, and Jia Juesheng gathered around the stone table in the small courtyard and just finished eating when they saw a light flashing out of the mountains, like a sword energy.
Zi Yang looked at the flickering mountains in the distance, smiled slightly, and said, "I didn't expect them to start fighting so quickly."
Jia Juesheng asked: "Zi Yang, shall we go up the mountain now?"
Xuan Yi shook his head and said: "With such strong sword energy fluctuations, we can't get close at all. We should wait a little longer."
Ziyang crossed his legs and sat leisurely on the stone bench. He said casually: "Let them beat them. The harder they beat, the better. I will go up the mountain when they are tired."
The opponent's strength is unknown, but judging from the air waves blowing, his level must be higher than theirs. Therefore, he does not dare to enter the mountain rashly.
After hearing what he said, both Xuan Yi and Jia Juesheng paused. Obviously, from Zi Yang's words just now, it seemed that he did not want to take them both into the mountain together.
Jia Juesheng persuaded, "Zi Yang, it's too dangerous for you to go alone. You'd better let me and Xuan Yi go with you."
Xuan Yi echoed: "Yes. Ziyang, the three of us can take care of each other together."
Zi Yang refused without thinking: "No! It's troublesome because there are so many people. I can go alone."
"This..." Seeing that Ziyang had made up his mind, Xuan looked helplessly at Jia Juesheng.
Jia Juesheng also understood that he could not persuade him about this matter, so he could only warn: "Okay. Then be careful."
In order not to worry the two of them, Zi Yang deliberately put on a confident look and said, "Don't worry. I will definitely be able to get down the mountain before dawn."
Not long after, the mountains in the distance fell into silence. Zi Yang immediately stood up and said casually: "Okay, I'm leaving."
Without waiting for a reply from the two of them, he jumped out of the small courtyard without any hesitation.
After he left, Jia Juesheng sighed: "It seems that he still has not been able to completely get over his grief. After experiencing life and death, he is really afraid. He would rather take risks himself than take us with him." .”
Xuan Yi smiled and said: "There is no way. He said it was his, and we will do ours. In short, the feet grow on us, and they have to do whatever we want them to do."
"He thinks about us, and we have to share his worries."
The two looked at each other and smiled. This time they had the same opinion and there was no disagreement.
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There was no one in the dark and silent forest, and the cold wind blew across his face, making Ziyang shiver and make the hairs on his body stand on end.
Walking alone in the wilderness, and it happened to be a dark night, it would be a lie to say that I was not afraid.
However, everything around him on the path he was walking on was normal and there was no damage at all. After discovering this, his nervousness calmed down a lot. At least, he knew that he was safe here.
Strangely enough, he didn't see anyone from the small town until he reached the entrance of the cave, which surprised him a bit. Moreover, it seemed that no one had touched the weeds growing outside the cave.
Ziyang frowned and thought to himself, could it be that Yingluo is still inside? this. . . . . . Not likely.
Although I can't believe it, judging from the orderly scenery in front of the cave, it seems that no one has really walked through it.
He immediately thought about it and whispered: "No way... Logically speaking, her injuries should have been healed long ago. There is no need to stay in there."
Ziyang stood outside the cave and hesitated for a moment. Then, with a sudden change of heart, he pushed aside the weeds in front of him and walked in.
Regardless of whether Yingluo left or not, since he was here, there was no reason not to take a look at what was under the pool.
When he came to the pool, he did not find Yingluo's figure. He breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It seems that I was worrying too much. She is indeed gone."
"The most dangerous place is the safest. She never thought I would come back, haha!"
Zi Yang stood there and smiled proudly for a while, then immediately came to the shore in front of the pool. He looked under the calm pool and found nothing.
He looked puzzled and said: "That's not right... Where did the frog under the pool go? Could it be that the treasure was taken away by her?"
"This damn Yingluo is so hateful. She deliberately threatened me so that she could take away the treasure."
"Forget it, don't worry about it for now, I'd better go down and take a look first."
Before Zi Yang could take off his clothes and get into the water, a sharp dagger was pressed against his throat, causing his body to tremble and he stood there without daring to move.
He said hurriedly: "Slowly, I'm just a passerby. I came here just to avoid the war."
Holding a dagger in his hand, the masked man in black clothes standing behind him said: "Passerby? I think you look familiar. You must not be a passerby, right?"
Ziyang's face changed slightly when he heard his voice, and he said with a smile: "Yingluo, it turns out you haven't left yet?"
Yingluo said without emotion: "I was planning to leave here, but suddenly I heard a noise outside, so I wanted to see who dared to come here who is not afraid of death. I didn't expect it to be you."
He blinked slightly and explained with a smile: "I...just now I saw sword energy flashing out of the mountains, and I thought you were in danger, so I decided to come and see if you were okay. .”
Yingluo smiled slightly and said, "Do you care about me so much? Who just said that the most dangerous place is the safest?"
Zi Yang said: "Hey, please put this dagger away first. If you have anything to say, let's talk slowly..."
She exerted a slight force on her right hand, and the dagger blade was close to his throat. She said coldly: "Don't think that I don't know what you are here for. Don't you want the things in this pool? To tell you the truth, the things belong to me. , don’t even think about it.”
Zi Yang said kindly: "I don't want anything. The main purpose of my coming here is to see you. As long as you are safe, it doesn't matter who owns the things."
Ying Luo was overjoyed, but she didn't show it, and said softly: "Fantasy words, what do you want to do!"
Zi Yang said: "I don't care about you. Besides, the sword is in your hand, what can I do?"
She retracted her dagger, sat with her back against the stone wall, and said casually: "Just say what you have to say, and I will send you on your way."
Zi Yang originally turned around with a smile, but after hearing her words, the smile on his face disappeared instantly. He smiled awkwardly and pretended to be confused: "Send it to me? No, no, I can go by myself. You don't need to send it to me. .”
With that said, he raised his feet and walked towards the entrance of the cave, but unfortunately, before he had taken a few steps, the dagger was pressed against his neck again.
Before he could speak, Yingluo took the lead and said, "Didn't you have something to say just now? Why, are you done now?"
"No!" Seeing her attitude, Zi Yang didn't want to let him go. He said with a smile, "We're not friends. Don't just kill me with your sword."
Yingluo took off her dagger, walked a few steps slowly, turned her back to him and said, "It's okay if you don't want to die. If you become my subordinate from now on, I will spare your life. How about that?"
Zi Yang was a little confused: "Huh? Didn't I tell you a long time ago that I am used to being free and can't stand restraint."
"Okay." She nodded lightly, and Ziyang thought she would let him go.
The moment she turned around, she changed the topic and said with a murderous look on her face: "I have given you the opportunity twice. If you don't cherish it, you will have no choice but to die!"
Zi Yang stared into her eyes with a complex expression, and said sadly: "Do you really want to kill me? When you were seriously injured and your life was hanging by a thread, I saved you, and I saved you twice."
"I treat you so well and take care of you so much, but in the end, you still refuse to let me go."
"Thankfully, I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I risked my life to come back to see you. I didn't expect... Forget it, if you want to kill me, just do it."
He raised his chest, raised his head, exposed his neck, closed his eyes, and looked resigned to his fate.
Ying Luo paused. At this point, she didn't know what to say. She said casually: "It's not that I have to kill you, but that you refused to agree to my request, so..."
"So you want to kill me? I worked hard to save you and take care of you carefully. If you can do it, just kill me with the dagger in your hand." Ziyang got along with her. After a few days, I still have some understanding of her character.
If you give in to her, she will go even further and become even more aggressive. Therefore, if you have a tougher attitude, she may let you go.
In desperation, Yingluo had no choice but to explain to him: "As long as you agree to follow me, I promise to let you go. Also, following me may not be a bad thing."
"Besides, you have killed so many people from the League of Heroes, and they will not let you go. The only way to be safe is to follow me."
After hearing what she said, Ziyang thought to herself, it turns out that she was worried that I would be hunted down by those people, so she wanted me to follow her.
After thinking about this clearly, he smiled and replied: "Despite your cold appearance, I didn't expect that you would still think about me."
"However, I appreciate your kindness. I'm worried that I can't improve my level quickly. If they want to take revenge on me, just come."
Seeing that he didn't appreciate it, Yingluo snorted coldly and said lightly: "It's not that I look down on you, but at your current level, your strength is no match for them."
"You can only survive if you stay with me, otherwise, you will die."
"Don't think that they have forgotten you if they don't look for you now. When they are free, they will definitely look for you."
Zi Yang said indifferently: "The Western Continent is so big, it can't be all their territory, right? There are many places I can go, and I don't worry about them chasing me."
"On the contrary, it's you. I saw several strange people, and I don't know what they are here for."
"Anyway, since you got what's under the sink, you'd better get out of here quickly."
After saying that, he walked straight past her, seemingly about to walk out of the cave.
Suddenly, a cold voice sounded behind him: "Did I let you go?!"
Zi Yang was startled, turned around with a smile, and said, "What are you doing? Why are you so angry?"
At first he thought everything was settled, but he was stopped by her words.
