Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 79 Escape
"Nell."

His eyes were filled with extreme fatigue.

But he still looked at Pei Nai seriously and said, "Listen, the next three wall grids are Ming Yi in the third row and first column, Tong Ren in the third row and eighth column, and Tian Di Fei in the eighth row and eighth column."

Pei Nai shook her head, her heart was in turmoil, "Hold on a little longer! Don't give up!"

Gu Jinheng's eyes were complex and gentle. He slowly raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch Pei Nai's cheek.

But Pei Nai was still standing a few steps away, so he could only put his hand down again.

He said: "It's only a matter of time before you defeat it, but I may lose consciousness soon. The distance to the exit is unknown. Leave as soon as possible and don't worry about me."

"Do you want me to leave you here to die? I am not you. I will not abandon anyone. As long as you hold on, I will take you away from here." Pei Nai retorted.

As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Jinheng no longer had the strength to speak.

His eyes froze for a moment, then he slowly closed them.

Pei Nai hurriedly took a step forward and sniffed his breath. There was still a trace of breath, but it was already too weak to be pitiful.

Almost in a dying state.

All the suppressed emotions since she entered this underground palace broke through her defenses in an instant.

She squatted down, slowing down her strength, her eyes slightly red.

It turned out that facing the spear she was most familiar with, she also felt so powerless one day. She was so powerless that she watched the people in front of her lose their lives bit by bit, but she was unable to save them.

The weak do not even have the right to redemption.
How could she accept defeat and watch it all go to waste?

Pei Nai turned around and said, "You are just a puppet. You are not a human being after all."

Without human thinking, there will inevitably be flaws.

Pei Nai stood up, took a few steps, and picked up the spear again.

Her actions at this moment were fierce and ruthless, and she rushed forward with a gun before the puppet took a step again.

Over and over again, she and the doll were back to this point.

No matter how fast it is, all the movements are just mechanical.

As the puppet leaned over and swung its gun, she also jumped backwards, and just like before, the puppet put away its gun and dodged again.

Pei Nai kept her eyes on it, waiting for the man and the gun to separate.

It's time. This time her movements were clean and neat, so she was no longer panicking. She stood still and concentrated all her strength on her hands.

The spear swung suddenly, just like the move she used when Gu Jinheng recognized her again.

The arrows of the army returned were the second one!
Pei Nai has been wondering, what is the difference between the first half of the Pei Family Spear's "Ten Thousand Troops Returning Arrows" and the second half?
But just now she finally understood.

First, the focus is on the word "return".

The second is the character “wan”.

The weapon she swung hit the puppet's spear back, but it was more than just a simple hit back.

The arrows of the returning army came at an extremely off angle, causing its weapon to crack instantly and fall apart in an instant.

Countless sharp fragments were all heading in one direction, towards the direction from which it came.

Each fragment is a deadly weapon and is scattered widely.

Who can escape?

The Return of the Ten Thousand Troops really lives up to its name.

When it fell heavily to the ground, Pei Nai finally collapsed helplessly.

Another wall rose up, opening a new exit. Pei Nai looked into the distance, then turned back and saw Gu Jinheng was still there.

She used her spear to support herself and moved forward step by step.

Pei Nai smiled self-deprecatingly, "Let's just wait until all this is over."

She turned around, pulled Gu Jinheng's hands, crossed them in front of her chest, and tore off a long strip of cloth to tie his wrists.

Pei Nai half-sat on the ground and used another long strip of cloth to tie his legs together a little bit, but she didn't dare to tie it too tight for fear of hindering blood circulation, so she just fastened it around her waist.

She used the power of the spear to slowly stand up with Gu Jinheng on her back.

The weight of an adult man was beyond her imagination, causing her to stagger and almost fall.

The spear in her hand was like a crutch at this moment, but fortunately it allowed her to stand even if she staggered.

Pei Nai walked forward with him on his back.

After passing the exit with the high wall raised, we arrived at another dark room.

She looked carefully and found that this was not the dark room she had just been in. She did not see the small compartment that had brought her misfortune.

Well, I hope this is the next room we should reach. Judging from the contents of the murals and reliefs, this underground palace is also closely related to the ancestors of the Pei and Xiao families.

Ancestor, please don’t harm me again, Pei Nai thought silently in his heart.

I am the only one left in our Pei family.

While pressing the Mingyi hexagram in the third row and first column that Gu Jinheng had mentioned last, she prayed to her ancestors. If they walked into the wrong dark room, they would never be able to go back.

The corridor slowly opened and she staggered in.

We walked for a very long time and almost gave up several times, but we gritted our teeth and persevered.

After recovering his strength, he continued to move forward mechanically.

No matter what, she had to get out of this dark underground palace alive.

Fortunately, the next dark room was empty.

This time she didn't dare to rest. It was like a burning fire that had run out of oil. It was her last breath and she had to hold on.

Then press the second to last wall grid, third row, eighth column, Tong Ren hexagram.

Her mind gradually went blank. She only remembered that the number she had to press was row eight, column eight, row eight, column eight.
The last part of the journey, she walked like a zombie, her body numb, draining away her remaining energy.

Until she pressed eight rows and eight columns.

Heaven and earth no.

There was no corridor this time, and with a "boom", the high wall on the right was lifted up.

The wind whistled in an instant, stimulating the sweat all over her body and bringing a chill to her bones.

I've never felt so free.

The sound of the wind, carrying the whispers of all things, woke her up instantly.

Just like that, she carried Gu Jinheng on her back, walked out of the underground palace, walked out of the cave where the entrance to the underground palace was, and walked among the desolate mountains and wilderness.

Until she saw smoke from cooking, farmhouses, and the crisscrossing fields in the distance.

She held on for her last breath, and a farmer saw them and rushed over.

Remaining consciousness.

Pei Nai threw away Gu Jinheng's badge, and before falling heavily to the ground, he used his last bit of strength to speak.

"Report to the official."

When Pei Nai opened her eyes again, she was lying on the bed.

Faintly, she didn't see anyone, but heard someone whisper under the bed, "Your Majesty, Miss Tang is awake!"

After the words were spoken, there was silence.

Pei Nai could feel that there were many people kneeling in the room.

There was a sound of footsteps coming closer and closer.

Pei Nai squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the footsteps until he could see the man's face clearly.

"Ayi."

Xiao Mingyi had already walked to the bedside and asked, "Are you thirsty?"

He took the bowl of water from the maid and prepared to hand it over.

Seeing Pei Nai was about to sit up, the maid quickly stood up and came over to help her.

Pei Nai took the water from Xiao Mingyi's hand after sitting up and listened to him: "The imperial physician said that you are fine, but you are just too tired and your body is overloaded. You will wake up in a few days. I didn't expect you to wake up so soon."

Pei Nai saw the thatched roof and earthen walls, and she knew at a glance that they were in the farmhouse she had last seen.

"How long have I slept?" Pei Nai asked.

Xiao Mingyi answered her, "Less than half a day."

There were many people kneeling on the ground, but no one dared to look up. She looked around and saw that most of them were imperial doctors, and there were also some of Gu Jinheng's subordinates.

"What about Gu Jinheng?"

Xiao Mingyi looked to the other end of the room.

Over there, people from the Imperial Hospital surrounded them.

But everyone knelt with their heads down, not daring to say a word, and no treatment was taken.

Xiao Mingyi said: "The poison has penetrated deep into his organs and lungs. He has blocked his heart meridians. The antidote is no longer effective. It is a miracle that he can hold on until now. As for whether he can detoxify himself, it is still unknown."

(End of this chapter)