Why do you want me to be the leader of the martial arts alliance?

"Son, now we seem to be in a big/trouble."

"Huh? What's the trouble?"

Qiao Zhu pointed to the road ahead and asked, "Why do I feel that this road is getting more and more strange as we go, you see that the front is covered by thorns, is it like this when we came?"

Uh, Qiao Shuyu looked in the direction he pointed, and found that there was no road ahead at all. Looking around carefully, they seemed to be in a forest now!

It's over, because the sky is too dark, it seems to be going the wrong way!

"Little Zhuzi, do you remember the way you came here just now?"

"My lord, every time we come here we take a carriage, how could we know the way!"

When they came just now, they hired a carriage, but because they had to stay for a long time, Qiao Shuyu let the carriage go back first, thinking that it would not be very far to go back here, and then they would just walk back.

But he overlooked one key point, that is, it was dark now, and it was impossible to tell the direction in the woods.

"Are we lost?"

"Don't worry, let me take a look."

Qiao Shuyu walked back the same way, but found that the surrounding environment was still very unfamiliar. At this time, the sky was already dark, and he couldn't help becoming anxious.

In this kind of ancient forest, who knows what will jump out at night, what should I do if there are wild animals, I and Xiao Zhuzi don't know martial arts, so they are waiting to die?

Xiaozhuzi said with some self-reproach: "It's all my fault. You should have seen the way clearly when you came here."

"What are you blaming yourself for? I didn't pay attention. The main reason is that it's dark. If it's daytime, I can definitely find my way back. Now I don't know what to do."

"Young master, I'm afraid."

After all, Qiao Zhu was only 16 years old. In Qiao Shuyu's eyes, he was just like a child, so it was right to be afraid. Qiao Shuyu patted him on the back pretending to be calm and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

But in fact, Qiao Shuyu may be more afraid of the dark than Qiao Zhu. His fear of the dark is affected by being abandoned in the dark when he was a child, which made him particularly afraid of the dark since he was a child.

He didn't feel it when Ye Tingyuan was by his side a few times before, but now he is afraid but he can't show it, because if he is afraid, Qiao Zhu will be even more afraid.

Qiao Shuyu suddenly remembered that Ye Tingyuan had said that there were hidden guards around him. He looked around and shouted, "Is Brother Dark Guard here?"

Qiao Zhu looked at Qiao Shuyu suspiciously, not knowing what he was doing.

"Ye Tingyuan's hidden guard, is there?"

After Qiao Shuyu finished calling, he waited for a while and found no response, so he couldn't help but wonder whether he summoned him in the wrong way, or Ye Tingyuan had already withdrawn the hidden guards?

"The dark guard is about to appear?"

"Young Master, what are you mumbling about? I'm even more afraid of you."

Qiao Shuyu just gave up. These dark guards are really unreliable at all, and they refuse to come out of such a dark place!

"Little Bamboo, do you have a fire pocket?"

"No."

"Me neither, it's so dark, it will be more dangerous if you wander around in the woods, it will be bad if some hunters install some hunting traps."

"How is that good?"

"Sit down and rest, I can only pray...it will be dawn soon."

In fact, Qiao Shuyu wanted to say that he could only pray that there would be no wild beasts to visit him, but he was afraid that Qiao Zhu would be frightened if he said it, so he changed his words abruptly.

The two sat down next to each other with their backs against the big tree. The wind howled in the woods at night, which sounded a bit strange, and always felt like howling.

"Young master, please talk to me."

"Well, say what?"

"I don't know, but the quietness is even more terrifying. Why don't you tell me about your hometown? Is it the same as Chongming City?"

Qiao Shuyu thought about it carefully, then shook his head and said, "It's not the same, it's completely different. For example, if we get lost in my hometown, there are a thousand ways to solve it, but here, I can solve it in every way. Have no idea."

In modern times, as long as you have a mobile phone, you can check the map and call a car. How can you just shiver in the woods now, afraid of wild animals, and even more afraid of those men in black who want his life at any time.

"Really? Where is the son's hometown?"

"You don't even know, it's in a very far away place, so far away that I may not be able to go back in my life."

"Why? Master, don't you want to go back?"

"I thought about it before, but I don't want to now, because I can't bear you!"

Qiao Zhu laughed when he heard the words, and said teasingly: "In my opinion, it's not because you don't want to part with us, but because you don't want to part with the dean."

"Little Zhuzi, you've failed in your studies. If you don't learn well at such a young age, what are you thinking about all day long? You should let Mrs. Sun teach you well."

"Master Sun is a good man, but it's a pity that he lives alone."

"Little Zhuzi, you have to remember, sometimes if you don't meet the right person, you might as well be alone, because with the wrong person you will find that life will become more bitter."

"Is the dean the right person for you?"

Qiao Shuyu propped his chin with his hands, looked at the dark front, and said helplessly, "I don't know, but I hope he is the right person."

The two of them were chatting nonsense, the sense of fear gradually dissipated, and the drowsiness struck while chatting, and they leaned against each other and fell asleep, thinking that they would be fine if they fell asleep.

"My son... my son..."

In a daze, Qiao Shuyu seemed to hear someone calling him in his ear. He opened his eyes a little tiredly. It was still dark in front of him, but he could clearly hear Qiao Zhu's voice.

"Little Zhuzi, why are you making noise when you don't sleep?"

After Qiao Shuyu finished speaking, he was stunned, because he found that there was no one around him, and Qiao Zhu who was leaning against him had disappeared, so he stood up quickly.

"Little bamboo? Where are you, little bamboo?"

Shouting a few words, but getting no response, Qiao Shuyu panicked. Could it be that he was taken away by wild beasts in the middle of the night?

"Qiao Zhu, little Zhuzi, don't scare me!"

Qiao Shuyu woke up completely, thinking about where to find someone, but at this moment, he heard some strange sounds, like someone humming, which sounded creepy in this quiet night.

He boldly shouted: "Who is it? Don't play tricks, get out of here!"

After shouting, there was no response, and the humming disappeared. Qiao Shuyu clenched his hands. His fear of the dark was not so easy to overcome, and now he was trembling a little.

Following the voice just now, he slowly groped and approached, and said, "Is it a little bamboo?"

After walking a few steps, he found that there seemed to be a black shadow in front of him, and he couldn't see what it was. He asked, "Little Zhuzi? Is that you, Little Zhuzi?"

"Son..."

Qiao Shuyu did hear Qiao Zhu's voice, but the problem is that Qiao Zhu's voice came from not far behind, not the dark mass in front of him.

He swallowed, and could feel beads of sweat streaming down his forehead, and the black figure in front of him suddenly moved, accompanied by the familiar humming sound just now.

"Ah, monster!"

Qiao Shuyu yelled, turned his head and ran away, he didn't care about the direction, anyway, he just wanted to stay away from the mass behind him, there are many trees in the forest, it was not easy to run.

However, Qiao Shuyu didn't run much distance when he felt his back collar being grabbed. He trembled all of a sudden, and shouted, "Help, help..."

He ran forward desperately, and finally the restraint of the back collar disappeared, and he plunged into an embrace, almost fainted from fright, and struggled desperately.

"monster……"

"monster?"

Just two words made Qiao Shuyu quiet instantly. He touched the person in front of him, and asked with a trembling voice, "Ye Tingyuan, is that you?"

"It's me, why are you running?"

"There are monsters."

"What monster?"

"No, goblin...not right either, yes, monster." Qiao Shuyu was a little confused, and after thinking for a long time, he finally came up with a word, and said with certainty: "It's a beast, yes, a beast, I shouted the wrong thing in too much haste just now. "

After talking, there were some torches around him, it was Zhu Ze and the others, Qiao Zhu was also there, Qiao Shuyu asked Qiao Zhu with some doubts: "Little Zhuzi, where did you go just now?"

"I think of Ye, I told you, but you seem to be in a deep sleep. I don't know if you heard it. Later, I saw the torch, and when I walked over, I found that the dean and the others were looking for us, young master, just now What are you yelling for?"

"There's a dark thing over there. I thought it was you, but it's not at all. It might be some kind of beast. It just grabbed my back collar!"

Ye Tingyuan lowered his head to look at Qiao Shuyu's back collar, which still had a small branch hanging on it, and said helplessly, "Just now your back collar should be hanging on the branch, here."

Qiao Shuyu took a closer look and found that it was indeed a tree branch. He was puzzled and said, "But there is really a dark shadow over there."

Ye Tingyuan patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, it's fine, Zhu Ze, go over and see what's going on."

"Yes……"

Qiao Shuyu watched Zhu Ze lead the people there, and shrank into Ye Tingyuan's arms with some fear. Ye Tingyuan hugged him, thinking of the wedding night, wondering if Qiao Shuyu was afraid of the dark?

Qiao Shuyu raised his hand to pinch himself, and found that it was not a dream, and immediately complained a little aggrieved: "Ye Tingyuan, your so-called dark guards are useless at all, I won't show up even if I shout, do they think it's too much?" It's late so I ran to be lazy? Too irresponsible!"

"It's my fault, I must reprimand them well."

Ye Tingyuan's complexion was not very good, because he asked Zhu Ze to contact the dark guard when he found out that Qiao Shuyu hadn't returned, but the problem was that he couldn't get in touch, which meant that something happened to the dark guard.

Thinking of Yaoyin Palace and those men in black who chased and killed Qiao Shuyu a while ago, Ye Tingyuan was worried that Qiao Shuyu had also had an accident, so he almost searched the whole city of Chongming, and only later found out about it at a place renting a carriage. News that they were out of town in the morning.

The current situation is that Qiao Shuyu is doing well, and the hidden guard is missing, but Ye Tingyuan didn't tell Qiao Shuyu about this, for fear that he would be even more worried.

After a while, Zhu Ze came back, and the men behind him were still carrying a person. Under the reflection of the fire, he found that the person was covered in blood, and seemed to be seriously injured.

"Master, I found someone."

"know?"

"I don't know, the injury is not serious, how should I deal with it?"

"Let's take it back first. The medical center is probably closed at this hour. Take it back to the mansion. Mu Yunxi is still in the mansion. Let him have a look."

"Yes……"

Ye Tingyuan took Qiao Shuyu's hand and walked forward, Qiao Shuyu finally felt relieved, it turned out that he was an injured person, no wonder he kept humming, almost scared him to death.

A group of people walked forward, but no one noticed that the person who was being carried showed a successful smile...