She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 211: This is a Snake Pit!
Chapter 211: Chapter 211: This is a Snake Pit!
Xiang Ying lifted Xiang Yuanlang onto her horse.
The little fellow voluntarily tightened the reins, like a little adult, but his feet couldn’t reach the stirrups.
Xiang Ying asked him in a low voice, "Second child, what did you promise these tigers?"
Last time on Bogui Mountain, Xiang Yuanlang could control the Snow Beasts.
Xiang Ying already knew the extent of the little one’s abilities.
However, the reason the Snow Beasts helped last time was due to the lack of food on the mountain top.
Prince Xuan’s men ended up becoming their delicious meal.
Xiang Yuanlang said softly: "I told them, once the matter is resolved, as for those bandits, they can eat as much as they want based on their abilities." freёweɓnovel.com
Xiang Ying clicked her tongue twice.
She is truly worthy of being her child!
These three tigers were indeed extraordinarily dedicated.
For the food that Xiang Yuanlang had promised, they did not hesitate to lead the way ahead, leaving their own territory.
From daytime until nightfall.
The forest became denser.
In just half an hour, Pei Qinglin had already killed several venomous snakes.
Suddenly.
The three tigers stopped.
Xiang Yuanlang immediately spoke: "Wait, don’t go any further."
He jumped down from the horse, running to the side of the tigers.
The tigers growled lowly, looking ahead, issuing threatening sounds.
Xiang Yuanlang nodded as if he understood.
He turned to Xiang Ying and Pei Qinglin, "We can’t continue on this path ahead until daytime; it’s too late in the night, and it’s easy to encounter danger."
Pei Qinglin paused: "Are we closer to those bandits now?"
When they passed through a bush earlier, they found a torn bundle.
It appeared to be some clothing materials that had passed through, with bits of blood on the torn rags.
In such a deep and remote forest, apart from bandits, Pei Qinglin couldn’t think of any other possibility.
Xiang Ying dismounted from her horse.
"We should be closer to those bandits; let’s rest here tonight."
Pei Qinglin frowned secretly.
He didn’t want to wait; Princess Xining had been in the hands of the bandits for over three days, and each extra day posed more danger to her.
But the three tigers responsible for leading the way lay down in the nearby bushes.
Seeing that Mr. Wang, along with his son and guards, also moved to the side, Pei Qinglin had no choice but to agree and instructed his surrounding soldiers, "Rest on the spot."
Just as the soldiers started a campfire, Xiang Ying walked over and stomped out the flames with her foot.
"You--!" The soldier exclaimed angrily as he got up, "What are you doing? Looking for trouble on purpose?"
Xiang Ying’s Phoenix Eyes held a faint chill of dark blackness: "If we are close to the bandits’ lair, we need to stay concealed. A fire would only reveal our position."
The soldier frowned: "But it’s so dark now; if there are wild animals..."
He hadn’t finished speaking when Pei Qinglin spoke up to stop him.
"Mr. Wang makes sense, let’s follow his guide."
The soldiers could only reluctantly lower their heads and kicked the gathered firewood aside.
Xiang Ying then sat back next to Xiang Yuanlang.
In the midst of this deep and dense forest, the night felt like a giant, airtight opaque cloth that tightly covered the entire woods.
The bright moonlight, now entirely shielded by dense foliage layer upon layer, allowed only a few streaks of faint light to squeeze through the leaf gaps, landing on the ground as weak as nearly non-existent.
In such darkness, viewing someone else’s silhouette was like seeing a blurry shadow.
Taking advantage of the situation, Xiang Ying retrieved a warm lamb-filled pie from her space and stuffed them into the hands of Xiang Yuanlang and Qi Fengyi.
Near a large tree, they sat with their back against the trunk, eating without being easily noticed.
The fragrant lamb pie, crispy on the outside and tender inside, sprinkled with a layer of black sesame, each bite released a burst of delicious flavor between lips and teeth.
Qi Fengyi and Xiang Yuanlang ate very quietly.
Xiang Ying quietly passed over a water pouch filled with freshly squeezed pomegranate juice from her spatial storage.
Upon taking his first sip, Qi Fengyi blinked twice in confusion.
Although she knew Princess had prepared food, she didn’t expect all these food items to taste so fresh.
And pomegranates... there’s a famine everywhere, where did these pomegranates come from?
Of course, Xiang Ying didn’t forget to treat herself either.
She closed her eyes and entered her spatial storage.
She had a simple meal of tomato and egg over rice, followed by a bucket of spicy skewers prepared by her robotic kitchen.
While drinking iced gardenia lemon water, she sat in front of a blue screen, monitoring her cartoon characters.
As the days went by, the army of cartoon characters had grown even larger.
It had developed to 90,000 strong!
The territory of Sha City had also been expanded early on, more than tripling its original size.
Pleased, Xiang Ying first sent the freshly harvested pomegranates to the double-layer floors.
Then, bags of pomegranates were sent into the screen.
She even sent them plenty of rice and dry provisions.
In the middle of the night, General Wei Yong heard his soldiers cheering: "God Wang Ying has bestowed divine grace again!"
He woke from a dream, threw off his covers, and ran outside.
Indeed, he saw above Sha City, under the star-dense Milky Way, a stream of water like a celestial river pouring into their lake.
This was another blessing of water supply from an immortal.
The deputy of Qi Family Army also hurried over, his face beaming with joy.
"It’s great, with more supplies and the remaining Qi Family Army soldiers gathering here, we can surely form a mighty lion team and directly take Nanyue Capital!"
General Wei Yong nodded in agreement, looking up at the sky, deeply moved.
"Hopefully, Crown Prince and Princess can hold on until we arrive."
After finishing her meal, Xiang Ying exited the spatial storage.
After midnight, everyone leaned against a tree trunk and fell asleep.
Pei Qinglin and others, clearly wary of a sudden tiger attack, stayed further away.
Seeing no more movement from Xiang Ying’s side, the soldiers approached Pei Qinglin and whispered, "General, this Wang Ying seems very peculiar. We can’t fully trust them. Now that we know bandits are nearby, we should depart overnight."
"At least locate the bandits’ position, even if we hold off on attacking, it’s better than sitting here waiting to die, under someone else’s control."
Pei Qinglin’s eyebrows furrowed, and he remained silent.
Actually, he shared the same thoughts.
After all, Wang Ying was someone they had met halfway; he might not truly help them.
The matter of rescuing Princess Xining, he must be more vigilant about it himself.
A moment later, Pei Qinglin stood up and whispered, "Gather two or three people, come with me to scout ahead, let’s go."
The night deepened, and a thick fog along with miasma began to envelop the mountains.
In her spatial storage, Xiang Ying was tinkering with her invisible drones, preparing to fly them out for reconnaissance.
However, a sharp scream faintly reached her ears.
She suddenly opened her eyes and stood up, and the three tigers lying beside her also straightened up and pricked their ears, clearly sensing danger.
The soldiers who were resting were also startled awake, opening their eyes to look around.
"What’s happening?"
"The general is missing!"
"That scream just now sounded like Xiaoqi."
As they finished speaking, Xiang Ying had already grabbed her sword and quickly rushed towards the source of the sound.
Upon seeing this, Xiang Yuanlang flipped onto a tiger’s back, and with a command, the tiger swiftly dashed out.
As Xiang Ying approached the source of the scream, she slowed down her pace.
Despite being well-versed and experienced, the scene before her was still shocking.
Pei Qinglin and three or four others had fallen into a deep pit.
Under the bright moonlight shining through the gaps in the leaves, it turned out to be a snake pit!
Pei Qinglin, holding someone’s arm, looked up and saw Xiang Ying, immediately said, "Mr. Wang, save him first, he was bitten by a snake!"