Chapter 37 A Shocking Change on a Rainy Night
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Chapter 37 A Shocking Change on a Rainy Night
The mountain road leading to Huguo Temple is winding and rugged, like a giant python coiled in the deep mountains.
When the convoy reached the halfway point of the mountain, the long-brewing downpour finally began.
"Splash—"
Large raindrops pounded furiously against the roof of the carriage, making a dense, popping sound like popping beans.
The gale swept up withered leaves, howling through the canyon with a mournful wail.
The sky instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, with only occasional flashes of lightning briefly illuminating the pitch-black forest.
Inside the carriage.
Pei Yunjing, who had been resting with his eyes closed, visibly paled.
To the average person, this was just a somewhat noisy downpour.
But for Pei Yunjing, whose five senses were overloaded, this was nothing short of torture.
The sound of each raindrop hitting the ground was amplified hundreds of times in his ears, turning into countless heavy hammers that pounded wildly against his eardrums and skull.
The sound of the wind was like the screams of vengeful ghosts, and the sound of horses' hooves was like the booming of war drums.
【Quarrel. 】
It's so noisy...
Kill...kill them...
Pei Yunjing gripped the cushion beneath him tightly, his knuckles turning white, and the veins on the back of his hands bulging as if they might burst at any moment.
His breathing became rapid and heavy, and fine beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
Those once deep phoenix eyes were now tightly closed, their eyelashes trembling violently, and a bewitching scarlet tinge appeared at the corners of their eyes.
Tang Li huddled in the corner, clutching her "escape kit," listening intently to any sounds outside (mainly the sound of a fuse burning).
Suddenly, she felt the air pressure in the carriage drop sharply.
Turning my head, I saw Pei Yunjing looking as if he were enduring extreme torture.
"Your Highness?"
Tang Li's heart skipped a beat, and she instinctively wanted to get closer: "What's wrong? Is your headache acting up again?"
In that very instant.
"BOOM—!!!"
A thunderclap boomed overhead, as if it would split the entire mountain in two.
This loud noise became the final straw that broke Pei Yunjing's rationality.
"Well……"
Pei Yunjing let out a painful groan, his body trembling violently.
In his sensory world, the thunder was no longer a sound, but like a giant axe that cleaved open his skull!
In the field of vision, the originally dimly lit carriage was instantly swallowed up by a patch of blood-red noise.
Reason collapsed.
"come over!"
Pei Yunjing suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes bloodshot and completely unfocused with madness.
Before Tang Li could react, a hot, iron-like hand had already gripped her wrist tightly.
An irresistible brute force struck.
"ah!"
Tang Li gasped as she was pulled over and slammed into a hard, iron-like embrace.
"Don't move...don't leave me..."
Pei Yunjing's voice was hoarse and broken, as if it were squeezed out from deep in his throat.
He held Tang Li's body tightly with both arms, his strength was astonishing, as if he wanted to crush her whole body and embed her into his own bones and blood.
pain!
it hurts!
Tang Li felt like her ribs were about to be broken, and her shoulders were aching from his grip.
"Your Highness... please loosen your grip... I'm about to suffocate..."
Tangli struggled with difficulty, trying to push away the scorching hot iron.
But this only triggered Pei Yunjing's stress response.
"Don't leave!"
Pei Yunjing let out a low growl and buried his face deep into her neck, almost greedily and frantically drawing in the only scent on her body that could calm him.
That was his only antidote in this noisy and bloody hell.
"It's so noisy...it's so noisy outside..."
His body was trembling violently, and cold sweat soaked Tangli's clothes.
At this moment, he was no longer the arrogant regent, but more like a severely wounded, trapped beast on the verge of collapse, clinging desperately to the only straw and refusing to let go.
Tang Li's face turned blue from being strangled, and tears streamed down her face.
We're doomed!
The thing I feared most still happened!
On this most dangerous mountain road, at the critical moment when they were about to face gunpowder and assassination, this top fighter of the entire team, her only bodyguard—
It's ruined because of the rain and thunder!
In this state, Pei Yunjing would have difficulty even protecting himself, let alone killing someone!
"Boom!"
Another clap of thunder rolled by.
Pei Yunjing froze, tightening his grip on Tang Li's arms even more, so much so that Tang Li could hear the cracking sound of her own bones.
"Be good... I won't go... I won't go..."
Tang Li dared not struggle anymore; if she did, this madman would strangle her to death first.
Despite the excruciating pain, she struggled to reach out and embrace Pei Yunjing's trembling back, beginning to hum the soothing tune to calm the beast in his ear while desperately releasing a calming aura.
[Quiet... Quiet...]
That was the sound of rain, not the sound of a knife...
However, this time, perhaps the thunder and rain were too loud, or perhaps Pei Yunjing was overloaded too much.
Her magic touch was greatly diminished.
Pei Yunjing remained in an extremely unstable and manic state, with no sign of the bloodshot eyes fading.
Just then.
"Zheng—!"
A sharp, penetrating metallic clang suddenly pierced through the rain and into the carriage.
That wasn't thunder.
That was the sound of someone striking a gong with internal force!
Immediately afterwards, the carriage braked suddenly and began to shake violently.
The black-armored guards outside roared in alarm and anger:
"Ambush! Protect the Emperor—!!!"
Tang Li's heart sank to the bottom.