General

The long sword was unsheathed, with a faint cold light.

Fei Yan lowered his eyes, hiding his deep and cold gaze, without any struggle or resistance, as if he was just quietly waiting for the man to penetrate his chest with a sharp blade.

"stop--!"

Almost at the same time, Nanli suddenly jumped up from the corner of the cell, threw himself directly in front of Fei Yan, and roared at Xie Zhen, "If you dare to step forward again, I will kill myself here!"

He held a sharp black iron dagger tightly in his hand, raised his head, and the gleaming cold blade lay across his neck.His hands trembled a little, and a streak of bright red slowly slipped down his neck accidentally.

Xie Zhen raised his eyebrows in surprise, and looked at him with interest.After so many years in the army, this is the first time he was threatened with his life by a prisoner? !

"You are just a prisoner, what qualifications do you have to threaten me?" Xie Zhen looked at him coldly, although Li Xuan had told him that this eldest prince was used to exchange hostages and could not be killed, but now Nanli challenged him like this It still makes him very uncomfortable to use it in the open.

"Heh..." Nanli sneered and moved closer to Feiyan, firmly protecting him behind him, "Now that the war has reached such a level, both sides will suffer. What's the use of you killing me?"

"It's better to use me as a pawn and ask Father for some benefits to make up for the loss of this war." Nanli turned his face slightly, and looked at Fei Yan from the corner of his eye. And the sweat that slipped down, eyes full of astonishment, "The general can kill both of us today, we have no room to resist. However, if you want Fei Yan to die, I will always have a way to end myself, At that time, Li Xuan's wishful thinking will come to naught, and the general may not be able to bear it."

The words were utterly threatening.

Xie Zhen frowned and looked at the two, although he was upset, he also understood that there was a reason.He hesitated for a moment, then put the sword back into its sheath and said in a deep voice to the guard, "Let him go."

The guards retreated behind Xie Zhen with interest, only then did Nanli slowly put down the dagger in his hand, and just stared at him without saying a word, with a bit of vigilance in his eyes.

"I will take your opinion back and leave it to General Li to make a decision." Xie Zhen suppressed his anger, turned around and strode towards the prison door. Seeing this, the other guards also retreated.

In the blink of an eye, the dark dungeon returned to a frightening tranquility again.Nanli inserted the short dagger into the sheath, put it back into the corset, and helped the wounded Fei Yan to sit on the haystack, but only then did he realize that his legs were a little weak.

"The eldest prince actually doesn't have to be like this." Fei Yan avoided Nanli's distressed eyes, lowered his eyes and sneered at himself, "The Longxiao people will definitely use you to make demands on His Majesty, so your life is safe, you shouldn't I have come here for my adventure. I have spent so many years licking blood with the tip of a knife, and life and death have long been taken lightly."

"I won't watch them kill you..." Nanli retorted loudly with his eyes burning, "Since Father and I asked you to come, we must go back together!"

Fei Yan looked at Nanli again in surprise for a moment, but didn't speak, but gradually fixed his eyes on the torch jumping alone between the walls.

……

"Oh?"

In the sleeping hall with flickering lamps and candles, Li Xuanzheng was half leaning on the soft couch with lightly veiled curtains.After listening to Xie Zhen's report carefully, he raised his eyebrows with great interest, "I didn't expect Nanli, a wayward and selfish prince, to do such a loyal thing?"

"Yes, I was also a little surprised, so I came here to ask the general to make a decision." Xie Zhen nodded, and replied quite solemnly.

"If he dies, it will be very difficult for the young prince of Fengyu Kingdom to get his hands." Li Xuan thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "That would be too much of a loss."

"You tell Feiyan, we can take a step back and let him live." Li Xuan curled his lips lightly, and continued word by word, "But he must abolish his martial arts, otherwise, no one will be able to go back alive. .”

Xie Zhen hesitated slightly: "I'm afraid Nanli will continue to threaten him with his life."

"Fei Yan is a sensible person, he will make his own choices. He should be very clear in his heart that we cannot easily let the tiger go back to the mountain with such a powerful character like himself. This kind of concession is already the limit."

It's like when I was in the enemy's camp back then, I knew it was impossible to return to Longxiao safe and sound...