Our Binding Love: My Gentle Tyrant
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Dangerous Treasure

Mo Linyuan listened and faintly smiled, then softly kissed her forehead.

“Thinking that we can get married after going back, I suddenly don’t want the treasure anymore, I want to go back right away.”

Hearing Mo Linyuan’s rare unruly and coquettish words, Ye Mu pursed her lips in a smile and tugged his hand as they started walking back.

“Don’t worry! We can’t run away. It’s already so late, let’s not continue looking for it. Let’s go back!”

Mo Linyuan nodded, and then the group walked back.

When they had walked halfway, the sky was already enveloped in black, but at this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed behind Ye Mu, “Everyone look, what’s over there?!”

Seeing a blue flickering flame on the pitch-black mountain, Ye Mu and Mo Linyuan looked at each other, and could not help going toward that direction.

When they were near, Ye Mu smelled something irritating to her nose, and then saw the blue flame emitting for no reason on the ground. Likewise, a foul gas reeked outward, but Ye Mu was instantly delighted!

“I think we found the right place!”

However, she did not approach too near and dragged Mo Linyuan away. “This gas will remain for a long time, but don’t worry about it, it should be fine when we come back tomorrow. It’s a leakage of phosphorus and sulfur, which means there’s a mechanism below. I just don’t know why the mechanism broke, but it’s truly a blessing from Heaven. We don’t need to find the door anymore, tomorrow we dig this place down, we can certainly dig out the treasure!”

Despite not understanding what she said about the flame, Mo Linyuan nodded. “Alright, not finding it. We’ll go down tomorrow.”

But when they reached the campsite, they found that the people who stayed in camp had all passed out!

Ye Mu startled and hurried forward. Only when she found they were still breathing, did she let out a sigh of relief.

“What happened?!” Mo Linyuan’s look immediately turned ugly, the dozens of people behind him hurried forward and checked, and then said, “Reporting to Your Majesty, it seems they’re poisoned!”

“Poisoned?” Mo Linyuan looked around, the surroundings very quiet, there was only the rustling forest.

This forest was in the hinterland, it was deserted, how could they be poisoned?

Ye Mu carefully smelled, and noticed there was a faint, weird smell around them. But it was too faint, she could not distinguish it.

She tugged Mo Linyuan, frowning. “Maybe it’s not because of a person, let’s look around the area, I smell something unusual.”

At this moment, someone yelled behind them, “Your Majesty, we found something here!”

Mo Linyuan hastily went over with Ye Mu, and then saw, under the foot of the mountain, a person collapsed on one side carrying dry firewood, and beside his body was a large hole!

Ye Mu moved closer and sniffed. “Yes, it’s definitely the treasure’s trap. Because it has been too long, a hole appeared. After this ground collapsed, the poisonous gas from inside wafted out, and our camp is situated on the leeward, and then they got infected.”

“So now what?” Mo Linyuan asked.

Ye Mu said, “As of now, move these people to the windward. Didn’t we bring an antidote? Give them some, and then have someone inform the others to come help.”

Mo Linyuan nodded. “It’s the only way. Wen Feng, move quickly, call the others to gather here. The two thousand people that were sent here first, call them over.”

“Yes.” Wen Feng quickly left. This time, many of his friends were in the five hundred people that followed, so he did not wish for a mishap to befall them.

But what happened tonight?

Ye Mu looked at the large hole before her. “It seems the poisonous gas inside has been released, but I can’t be certain. Also, it’s strange, how could this treasure keep having holes? Normally it shouldn’t.”

Mo Linyuan said, “In any case, wait until tomorrow to talk about everything. Tonight, let’s rest a bit further away in case something happens to it.”

Ye Mu nodded.

At this moment, those who fainted had been dragged to a drafty place. The remaining dozen people took turns to guard. Tonight, they did not pitch a tent and instead slept directly on the grass. Ye Mu lay in Mo Linyuan’s embrace. Despite having shut her eyes, she still could not fall asleep.

“I thought the trap on the other side was already very dangerous, I didn’t expect this place to also have so many traps. We haven’t gone down and people are already harmed, it makes me uneasy.”

Mo Linyuan reassured her, “If you’re scared, we won’t go down tomorrow. We’ll wait above and see the outcome.”

Ye Mu shook her head. “Forget it, let’s wait together. Don’t we have people who were sent in advance? Now that Wen Feng has informed them, we’ll wait patiently. The more people, the greater power. Until then, there are many things to take care of. Only, we’re very deep into the hinterland, we don’t know how many days we should wait until they come.”

Mo Linyuan nodded as he hugged her. “In any case, the situation is amiss. We’ll just withdraw and wait for a few days, the army must already be on the way. Anyway, it’s easy to demolish it.”

Only when Ye Mu heard such words from him, did she nod feeling at ease.

The forest at night was very quiet. There was a rustling noise occasionally, but it quickly disappeared.

At this moment, Ye Mu’s internal energy had almost recovered, so her hearing was more acute than other people. She suddenly furrowed her eyebrows, and then abruptly opened her eyes!

“Not good!”

Once she woke up, Mo Linyuan also woke up. The rest of the troops were still clueless, only when Ye Mu cautioned them did they know what had happened.

“Fall back, all of you carefully look under your feet!”

They quickly looked down. The sky was too dark, the ground was all grass. Nothing could actually be seen. Only until those things were in close proximity, someone cried out in alarm, “It’s worms! So many worms!”

A mass of centipedes pressed on toward their direction. Fortunately, Ye Mu warned them early. They kept retreating. At the moment, no one had been bitten.

“These worms are really strange, shouldn’t they be afraid of people and light? How could they keep coming to our direction?!”

Ye Mu also did not understand. It was Mo Linyuan who said, “I’ve read from an ancient book, if these worms are specially trained, they can indulge in the exact opposite of their natural instincts, such as light and warmth.”

Ye Mu pondered. After retreating a few steps back, she threw a luminous pearl. Those worms did not bother about the object at all, and still crawled toward them.

Ye Mu frowned. “They’re not scared of light. Or maybe, not scared of this cold light.”

Then, they retreated as they experimented. Ye Mu threw a fire over. This time, these worms reacted, they unexpectedly liked fire so much, they shrouded the fire in an instant. What was terrifying was, even though the air was filled with the smell of worms being burned, they were not in the least fearful, like moths hurtling into flame*, persistently advancing toward these heat sources.

*moths hurtling into flame – to seek their own destruction