Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 346 Desperate

"Aren't you afraid of falling?" Long Mohan has decided to be her brother for the time being, but this sister doesn't seem to have the awareness of being a sister.

"Don't worry, I won't fall. I'm confident in my sense of balance." Ji Anni said seriously.

"Oh?" Long Mohan suddenly had evil intentions and deliberately sank his body downwards, causing Ji Anni in his arms to fall down suddenly as well.

"Wow!" Out of instinct, Ji Annie screamed wildly and hugged Long Mohan's neck tightly with her arms, like a koala.

After succeeding, Long Mohan smiled evilly and said, "Isn't that a hug?"

"Hmph." Ji Anni glared at him angrily. Since he had no ill intentions, she would not bother with him this time.

Long Mohan carried Ji Anni outside. Ji Anni looked around but didn't see anyone. She said worriedly, "Why hasn't Lai De come back yet? Where did he go?"

Lai De was just like what he said, he was a person with a terrible sense of direction. He could never find a place he had been to the second time.

It was not a good idea to keep waiting like this. Ji Anni suggested, "Why don't we leave some marks along the way? When Lai De returns to this cabin, he can find us based on the marks."

After hearing this, Long Mohan also agreed. He picked up a sharp stone from the ground and deeply carved an arrow symbol on the most conspicuous tree next to the wooden house, telling Lai De and the others the direction to leave.

From then on, every time they walked a certain distance, Long Mohan would leave an arrow symbol on the tree trunk at the same height, hoping that Lai De could find them smoothly through these symbols.

The Cang Gui had been flying above their heads, making intermittent eagle calls, as if guiding them.

Long Mohan and Ji Anni both thought that Cang Gui was leading them, so they followed him to explore. But the forest was like a maze, no matter how they walked, they would reach the end, as if they were just going around in circles in the same place.

It’s really strange, could it be that even the Cang Gui is lost?

"Your Majesty, oh no, it's my brother, let's stop and rest for a while." Ji Anni saw that the sweat beads on Long Mohan's forehead were bigger than soybeans, and she felt a little sorry for him.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Cang Ghost flying overhead screamed sharply. The piercing sound was like an alarm, reminding Ji Anni and Long Mohan that an enemy was approaching.

Long Mohan put his ear to the ground and listened, and sure enough, he heard the footsteps of a group of people approaching.

"Could they be pursuers?" Ji Anni immediately thought of the rebels from yesterday. This piece of forest must have become the rebels' sphere of influence.

"But they can't search the mountain, right?" Long Mohan frowned, unable to guess the rebels' intentions. If the rebels had enough manpower to search the mountain, they would have directly breached the palace.

"Anyway, let's hide first." Ji Annie said, looking around anxiously, looking for a place to hide.

There was nothing to see around them except the bare tree trunks, so unless they dug a hole in the ground, they would have no place to hide.

Just as Ji Anni was getting anxious, Long Mohan suddenly gave a short command: "Climb the tree."

"Climb a tree?" Ji Anni blinked blankly. She looked at Long Mohan and saw that he was serious. He was definitely not joking. She raised her head again and looked up along the tree trunk next to her.

The trunk of the tree reached straight into the sky, and at first glance, the top of the tree could not be seen at all.

"Wow..." Ji Anni exclaimed. It's not like she had never climbed a tree before, but was it too much for her to climb this thousand-year-old tree?

"There's no other way. Hurry up, as long as we climb up, we can successfully escape these pursuers." Long Mohan said as he helped Ji Annie up the tree.

The ancient tree has dense branches and leaves, blocking out the sun. As long as you climb to the center, you can hide in the lush branches and leaves and not be discovered by others. In this difficult place to hide, you have no choice but to climb the tree.

"Okay, I'll climb..." Ji Anni had already realized what was going on. She hugged the tree trunk and climbed up with difficulty.

If her right leg hadn't been injured, a mere tree wouldn't have been a problem for her. Unfortunately, she was injured, and her tree-climbing speed was less than one-tenth of what it used to be, which made Long Mohan anxious.

"Why don't you lie on my back and I'll carry you up?" Long Mohan couldn't bear it any longer, so he peeled Ji Anni, who had not yet climbed high, off the tree trunk and threw her on his back.

His actions were so decisive and swift that Ji Anni didn't even have time to protest before he carried her on his shoulders without a word.

In this way, Ji Anni and Long Mohan became a real koala mother and son. Ji Anni hugged Long Mohan on his back, and Long Mohan hugged the tree trunk tightly and climbed up with all his strength.

He climbed the tree very quickly, like a monkey, and in a short while he had climbed fifteen or sixteen meters high.

"Ah..." Ji Anni sighed and let Long Mohan carry her on his back. The situation was urgent and there was no time to discuss whether the posture was good or not. As long as she could climb the tree safely, she should thank the Buddha for his blessing.

Long Mohan lived up to Ji Anni's expectations. It took him less than half an hour to climb to the center of the tree with Ji Anni on his back. Looking down from here, the ground was covered by dense branches and leaves, and became small spots. Since they couldn't see anything when looking down, the vision of the people on the ground must be even more severely obscured when looking up, and they couldn't even see shadows.

Ji Anni climbed down from Long Mohan's back and climbed up a branch that extended diagonally upwards. The branch was as thick as her waist, firm and solid, and sitting on it was like sitting on a stool. As long as she didn't look down, she wouldn't feel like she was sitting on the branch.

After Ji Anni sat down, Long Mohan also sat down next to her.

Even with the weight of two people, the branch did not make any unhappy sounds. Ji Anni gently touched the branch and thanked it, "Not bad, you are so strong, Your Majesty, oh no, brother, when you return to the palace safely, would you like to put up a sign under this tree to commend this tree for its outstanding contribution to saving the emperor from danger today?"

"It's already this late, and you still have the time to joke?" Long Mohan glared at Ji Anni in feigned anger.

Ji Anni stuck out her tongue and said, "Although our situation just now was very dangerous, we are safe now."

The Cang ghost above her head circled around Ji Annie several times and stopped on her shoulder.

"Thank you for reminding us of the enemy." Ji Annie touched Cang Gui's feathers.

Long Mohan said dissatisfiedly: "By the way, thank it for taking us for a day's walk in the woods."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was pecked hard by the Cang Gui.

"Ouch, get out of here!" Long Mohan used his sleeves to wave away Cang Gui in pain, but the movement was too violent and he almost fell off the tree.

"Brother, be careful." Ji Anni was already accustomed to calling him "brother", and she quickly supported Long Mohan.

"Look over there." Long Mohan pointed to Ji Anni in a direction.

Ji Anni looked in the direction of his finger and saw neatly arranged square streets and densely packed houses.

Although Ji Anni had never been there, she could guess based on common sense that it was the imperial city of the Tianyou Holy Dynasty.

Ji Anni suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly remembered what Shui Furong and Hua Rong had told her. Although the Imperial City was a long way from the Palace, it was not a long way and they could arrive there soon. Considering the time Cang Gui had wasted with her and Long Mohan in the woods, they should have arrived at the Imperial City long ago, but they were still trapped in the middle of the woods, which was really unusual.

Long Mohan glared at the Cang Gui and said in reproach, "It should be flying much higher than this tree, right? It must have seen the Imperial City a long time ago, but it deliberately didn't take us out and made us circle in the woods."

"Why are you always suspicious? Not only do you suspect that I'm a monster, but you also suspect that Yun Zhen's Shikigami is deceiving you?" Ji Anni temporarily put her doubts aside and formed a united front with Cang Gui.

Today, Long Mohan had been following Cang Gui through the woods, thinking that Cang Gui could fly high and see far, and could lead them out smoothly, but who would have thought that Cang Gui was useless, and after spending most of the day, Long Mohan still couldn't see the dawn of hope. Now that Long Mohan had climbed up a tall tree and saw the imperial city so close, he could no longer suppress his anger and vented his dissatisfaction in one go.

Faced with Long Mohan's provocative gaze, Cang Gui also vibrated his wings not to be outdone, as if he wanted to have a big fight with Long Mohan.

Amidst the tense atmosphere, Ji Anni hurriedly tried to mediate: "Don't be angry. I don't think it's intentional to lead us around in circles."

"What is that?" Long Mohan asked unhappily. In his heart, he had already regarded Cang Gui as a villain that he had to be wary of.

"Yes... yes..." Ji Anni suddenly understood, "Yes, it was taking us to find Lai De. But Lai De was walking around in the woods, so it had to chase Lai De over the woods. You carried me on your back, so you were not able to move around easily and walked slower than Lai De, so we spent most of the day but still couldn't catch up with Lai De. In fact, we were not lost because of it, but because of the lost Lai De."

From the beginning, Cang Gui had no intention of leading Long Mohan and the others out of the woods, but rather planned to take them to find their lost companions and then leave together. However, Cang Gui, who was unable to speak, could not report his plan to Long Mohan, which led to unwarranted suspicion. After hearing Ji Anni's speculation, Cang Gui cried out loudly, as if cheering for Ji Anni's speech.

"See, see, I said I won." Ji Annie became happy, even happier than if she had won the lottery.

"Hmph, you guys are all in cahoots anyway." Long Mohan, who was isolated, snorted in dissatisfaction.

"How could we be in collusion? It's obvious that we are in cahoots with each other, so I can guess what it's thinking. Unlike you, you just wrongly blame it."

"Shh. They are coming." Long Mohan's expression became serious. He gave Ji Anni a look to shut up and reminded her to pay attention to the pursuers under her feet.