Traveling through troubled times: Princess disguises herself as a man and becomes a soldier to earn

The gentle expression on Wen Ruosheng's face suddenly collapsed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't praise you. You are a princess after all, can't you read more books? At least you can understand what people say. I really can't explain it to you."

He shook his sleeves, turned around and found a corner to sit down, far away from her, as if avoiding the plague, for fear that he would be entangled.

Jiang Li was a little bored. He fiddled with the firewood casually, listening to the crackling sound of the burning fire. He held his chin up in thought, and his ears pricked up, but he didn't hear anything wrong.

After eating some simple dry food, they each found a corner to rest. Jiang Li leaned over to Mo Yuan's ear and whispered a few words: "A Yuan, don't sleep too deeply at night. Be more alert. Let's go find treasures for Papa."

"The little guy is awake. You should feed him some good food so that he can grow faster. In the future, if he has Papa following you, even if you are not a person with special abilities, you will still be able to fight him if you meet one."

Mo Yuan only felt the warm breath spraying on his ears, which was a little itchy. He couldn't help but shrink and move away a little, saying softly: "Yes, I know, thank you Xiao Li."

Jiang Li rubbed his hands, sat beside him, leaned on his shoulder, closed his eyes and murmured: "It's okay, you are mine, I am always generous to my own people, sleep for a while, so that you can be energetic at night."

"Well, go to sleep, I'll keep watch."

"A Yuan, it really makes me feel at ease to have you here..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of even breathing could be heard. Mo Yuan felt helpless and looked at her with a helpless look. She fell asleep really quickly.

He grabbed the cloak with one hand and gently draped it over her, patting it lightly while staring at the yard vigilantly.

Midnight

A rustling sound was heard, and Jiang Li opened his eyes quickly. He looked up at Mo Yuan's clear eyes. The two nodded in tacit understanding, glanced at the others who were sleeping soundly, got up and left quietly.

Without alerting the servants, he jumped onto the roof and ran towards the direction of the sound. Feeling the vibration on his wrist, Jiang Li narrowed his eyes and said, "A Yuan, Papa said there is a strong smell of blood ahead."

He sniffed, his eyes a little cold: "It's the smell of human blood, and a little bit of rottenness, exactly the same as the smell of the city lord. Be careful."

Mo Yuan nodded: "It's okay, don't worry about me."

a moment later

The two men landed and looked at the big willow tree. They moved closer and a strong smell of blood hit their noses. Jiang Li covered his nose. The smell was so bad. Could this thing be a spirit?

Could it be that the missing villagers were killed by this willow tree? But there are no mental fluctuations on it, and it is obviously not a mutation. Then how could it have such a strong smell?

The little thing on his wrist stretched out its tentacles to touch the willow tree, clinging to it and refusing to let go. Jiang Li's mind was filled with excited cries, which made him a little irritated. He said unhappily, "Stop yelling, it's just noise, it's killing me."

Jiang Li closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he pointed at the willow tree in front of him: "There's nothing wrong with the tree, the problem is underneath, it's empty, there's something there, come and tell me."

Mo Yuan hummed, and walked around the tree, groping around. He touched something, and with a click, a hole opened up automatically under the tree, and it was dark inside.

As I got closer, I could smell a much stronger smell of blood at the entrance of the cave, and it was also chilling, making me shudder.

"A Yuan, I'll go down and take a look. Why don't you wait up there? If I can't handle it, you can still inform them. It's likely... those guys don't want to bother with me."

Mo Yuan was silent, and said softly: "Since Xiao Li knows, why don't we go down together? I won't feel at ease if you go down alone."

The two of them jumped down one after the other. After they went down, the entrance of the cave was immediately closed. It was pitch black inside, and one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. Jiang Li took out a torch from the space and lit it, and the surroundings became brighter.

He walked closer and closer. As he got closer, he could smell the stench mixed with the smell of blood. It made people want to ascend to heaven on the spot. Mo Yuan suppressed the nausea in his heart.

Jiang Li's face also looked a little unhappy. The smell was too familiar. For a moment, she thought she had returned to the end of the world. Damn that familiar feeling. There must be a rotting corpse underneath.

Looking at the bright light in front of them, the two men walked out and looked at the platform stained with blood. There were strange talismans pasted around it, and the cages were full of people, with some people hanging on hooks.

Standing upside down, blood dripping onto the altar, they looked like lambs to be slaughtered. The bloody, horrible and depressing atmosphere made people feel heavy-hearted and unable to breathe.

Jiang Li walked to the cage in silence, looked at the unconscious person, pursed his lips and said, "They are still alive, but they seem to have been drugged. Judging from their clothes, they should be local residents. Who captured them and bled them?"

"Ah Yuan, look at those talismans. Why do they sound a bit weird, like sorcery? They are disgusting and make people feel uncomfortable just looking at them."

Mo Yuan hummed, "I'll go tear down the talisman paper and burn it."

"Well, wear gloves to avoid getting dirty."

Jiang Li continued walking along the direction of the blood flowing from the altar, looking at the blood bubbling in the big pool. What else could it be but human blood? This damn beast actually used a human to drain blood. What was in the pool?

He stretched his neck and tried to see clearly, but his wrist was grabbed and he was forced to move backward. Mo Yuan's eyes were full of worry: "Xiao Li, what are you doing? You almost fell down just now."

"Huh? Really? I just wanted to see what the blood-sucking thing inside was. It won't fall down."

Mo Yuan shook his head: "No, you were not looking at it just now. Half of its body was sticking out, as if it was about to pounce. There was also blood all over it, and nothing was moving. You must have seen it wrong."

Jiang Li turned her head and took another look. It was indeed calm and nothing was moving. So what was it that she had just seen? An illusion or something else?

"But I did see it just now. Could it be an illusion?"

"Maybe, but so many people died here, we still have to tell Si Ling. After all, this is Yu Country, and it's not good for us to get involved too much."

"Yeah, that's right. I thought the reptile said there was a treasure, but it turned out to be human blood. It has never been so excited when it saw human blood before. What a useless little thing."

Mo Yuan glanced at her wrist and said softly, "I don't know what's in that blood pool. This blood is not clean, so don't let it drink. If it gets violent in the future, it might hurt innocent people."

Jiang Li nodded: "Well, I understand what you mean. It can be fed, but it must not touch innocent people. If there are evil people, it can be fed with some blood, otherwise it will grow too slowly."