Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 415 Man is about to die

The night wind suddenly blew, and a rustling sound came from the bushes beside the road.

Kang Xiaorong subconsciously tightened his grip on the sword at his waist and looked around vigilantly. He felt that there seemed to be something terrifying hidden in the bushes. Deep in the dark woods, it seemed that some creatures were staring at them with dangerous eyes.

"Everyone be careful." Kang Xiaorong sent two men to check the forest.

"Young General, didn't you notice? We have been targeted by the monster for a long time." The Queen Mother, who was sitting in the car, suddenly said slowly, "The yin energy around us is getting heavier and heavier. I'm afraid we can't escape..."

His calm tone revealed a sense of enlightenment about life and death.

"Empress Dowager, now is not the time to exaggerate..." Kang Xiaorong couldn't help but frown. The Queen Dowager's words made him feel uneasy.

"Young General has never come into contact with monsters, so he is not as sensitive to monsters as I am..." The Queen Mother glanced at Kang Xiaorong.

Just as Kang Xiaorong was about to speak, he heard two screams coming from the woods - those were the voices of the soldiers who were sent to check the woods.

"Major General! Major General!" The crowd exploded like boiling water, with screams everywhere.

"What's the matter? Calm down!" Kang Xiaorong spurred his horse and rushed towards the place where the scream came from, but after taking two steps forward, the horse under him refused to lift its hooves.

The mighty horse timidly kept stepping on the spot, neighing in panic.

The next moment, guards holding torches rushed to Kang Xiaorong.

With the help of the firelight, Kang Xiaorong discovered that a group of black snakes had already lurked under his feet.

The black snakes' bodies were tangled together, spreading out on the ground like a giant carpet, making a terrifying hissing sound. Their green eyes shone in the darkness, staring at Kang Xiaorong and his subordinates like hunters.

"Hurry! Protect the Queen Mother!" Kang Xiaorong turned his horse's head and rushed towards the Queen Mother's carriage.

At this time, the snakes had surrounded the entire caravan. They entangled the horses' legs and wheels, making it impossible for the caravan to move forward.

Kang Xiaorong's horse was also frightened by the poisonous snake and let out a series of mournful howls. If Kang Xiaorong had not been holding the reins tightly, I'm afraid this brave horse would have run away like a defeated dog, with its tail between its legs.

"Use torches to drive away the snakes! Protect the Queen Mother!"

At Kang Xiaorong's call, a large number of guards had gathered in front of the Queen Mother's carriage. They used their bodies to block the attack of the black snakes, but this was not a long-term solution because the black snakes were not afraid of torches at all. Even if the torches were thrown at them, they would not avoid them and let the flames burn without fear of being burned.

"It's really a monster..." Kang Xiaorong frowned and swung his sword at the group of snakes on the ground.

But there were too many snakes. Every time we killed one, another group would come. It was impossible to eliminate them all.

Now it was neither possible to flee nor to fight. Kang Xiaorong had no idea what to do and could only use the swinging method to delay time.

"Queen Mother, do you know what these black snakes are?" Kang Xiaorong asked, leaning against the car window. From the Queen Mother's indifferent attitude just now, it can be inferred that the Queen Mother knows the origin of these black snakes. If she knew the origin of these black snakes, maybe she could deal with them.

Facing the threat of the black snake, the Queen Mother was not nervous. She spoke calmly and quietly, as if reciting a scripture: "They are Taoist Priest Yuan Rong's Shikigami... It is Yuan Rong, who has come to seek revenge on me. I heard that the night of the full moon is the day when the monsters have the strongest magic power... I am leaving the palace today, which just gives Yuan Rong the opportunity to take revenge... Major General, I hope that the amulet can keep you safe..."

Hearing this, Kang Xiaorong felt a burning sensation in the palm of his hand.

Looking down, he saw that the amulet that the Queen Mother had just given him was emitting a faint golden glow.

Under the protection of this golden light, the black snake was actually afraid of him and did not dare to approach.

Kang Xiaorong's hand holding the gold medal trembled slightly. He didn't understand why the Queen Mother gave him such an important amulet.

If this gold medal is the best talisman to avoid the black snake's attack, why doesn't the Queen Mother keep it for herself?

As if she had seen through Kang Xiaorong's doubts, the Queen Mother whispered, "Young General, demons are rampant tonight, and everyone present is in danger. I hope you can survive more than I do... Because if you die, Tianning will be even more sad, even more sad..." She sighed softly, looking at the moonlight above her head, "Perhaps it is God's will that I cannot see Tianning for the last time..."

As if she had foreseen her own death, the Queen Mother stared into the moonlight without showing any obsession with life.

"Queen, as long as you survive, I will take you to see the princess!"

I don't know where the courage came from, but Kang Xiaorong shouted like this. It seemed that if he didn't do this, the Queen Mother would give up the chance to survive. Although he had all kinds of frictions with the Queen Mother in the past, Kang Xiaorong, who was determined to accept Tianning, gradually forgave the Queen Mother. In addition, she left the amulet to him, which made Kang Xiaorong feel even more guilty. He couldn't bear to see her being bitten to death by the poisonous snake.

After hearing Kang Xiaorong's roar, the Queen Mother's calm and lifeless eyes immediately condensed into two bright lights.

"Take me to see the princess? You said... take me to see the princess?"

The Queen Mother asked Kang Xiaorong with an uncertain look whether the princess he was going to take her to see was the real Princess Tianning?

Without further words, Kang Xiaorong just nodded vigorously.

A wave of heat suddenly surged in the Queen Mother's eyes, "So you have found her... Is she okay?"

In a flash, Kang Xiaorong couldn't bear to mention Tianning's experience outside the palace, so he nodded subconsciously and said, "Okay, everything is fine. Just wait for you to go see her. She has wanted to reunite with you for a long time."

Among the crowd, only Kang Xiaorong and the Queen Mother knew about the real and fake princesses. No one else could understand what they were saying. Even if they could understand, they had no chance to reveal the secret, because more and more guards had lost consciousness under the attack of the black snakes and fell to the side of the road in groups. Their bodies were quickly swallowed by the black snakes, and a disgusting stench emanated from the air.

After breaking through the circle of guards surrounding the carriage, poisonous snakes began to pour into the Queen Mother's carriage like a flood.

The Queen Mother screamed and could no longer maintain her composure. After hearing that Tian Ning had been found by Kang Xiaorong, she would not allow herself to be buried in the snake's belly. Even if she died, she wanted to see Tian Ning again before she died.

"Empress Dowager, please forgive my rudeness." Kang Xiaorong opened the carriage and dragged the Empress Dowager out.

The number of guards escorting the Queen Mother to the Western Capital was small to begin with, and most of them had been killed by the black snakes. Now, wherever you look, you can hear the terrifying sound of the black snakes. The only sound you can hear besides the whistling night wind is the sound of the poisonous snakes spitting out their tongues. Staying in such a terrifying place for one more second brings you closer to death.

Kang Xiaorong rescued the Queen Mother and put her on horseback, only to find that her shoulder had been bitten by a poisonous snake.

After finally pulling the poisonous snake away, the Queen Mother's wound was already a horrible purple-red color.

"Young General, I'm afraid I can't escape this..." The Queen Mother leaned on the horse's back, panting. Her vision was gradually blurring, and she couldn't see the scenery in front of her. Her body was heaving with the horse's galloping, and the violent shaking made her consciousness even more blurred.

"Queen Mother, the princess is in Kang Mansion, you must hold on!"

Under the protection of the golden talisman, the black snake did not dare to entangle them and only chased them from a distance.

As the horse ran farther and farther away, the black snake could not catch up and had to retreat in disappointment.

Kang Xiaorong, who escaped the disaster, took the empress dowager straight to the Kang Mansion, without noticing the empress dowager's gradually weakening breath in his arms.

He brought the Queen Mother to the courtyard where Princess Tianning was, and before he could dismount, he shouted loudly on horseback: "Tianning!"

Tian Ning was sleeping soundly, and was suddenly awakened by the shouting. He recognized that it was Kang Xiaorong's voice, and hurriedly put on a coat and ran to open the door.

When the door opened, he found Kang Xiaorong standing motionless with his back to him, with a horse panting beside him.

With the moonlight above his head, Tian Ning vaguely saw that Kang Xiaorong was holding something in his arms.

"Brother Xiaorong..." Tianning was struck by an ominous premonition. She mustered up her courage and walked forward gently.

Kang Xiaorong said nothing, his body standing like a stone statue, as if not even an earthquake could knock him down.

"Brother Xiaorong..." Tianning felt like crying. She didn't know why, but she suddenly felt very scared.

"Tianning..." Kang Xiaorong gritted his teeth and squeezed out a painful sound from between his teeth, "I'm sorry..."

It was just an apology, but it sounded like blood and tears.

"What's wrong, Brother Xiaorong?" Tianning walked quickly to his side and found that he was holding a woman in his arms.

"I'm sorry, Tianning... I couldn't save her, and I had to watch... her die..."

He could hardly utter the word "dead". Holding the still warm corpse in his arms, Kang Xiaorong couldn't believe that the Queen Mother was dead.

Tian Ning's gaze slowly moved from Kang Xiaorong's face to his arms.

The moment he recognized the dead man, Tian Ning covered his mouth tightly. His eyes were wide open in fear, as if they were about to fall out of their sockets. There were waves of deafening explosions in his ears, like thunder roaring overhead.

“Mother…Mother…”

It was unbelievable, everything I saw was like a nightmare from hell.

Tian Ning stretched out his trembling fingertips and gently stroked the Queen Mother's face. Her tightly closed eyes seemed to open again, and her soft skin was the same as when she was alive, but her black lips and face conveyed a cruel message to Tian Ning.

"Why? Why is this happening..."

Tian Ning couldn't imagine what was going on. She was just sleeping, and suddenly opened her eyes, only to find that her mother was dead.

"It was Yuan Rong... We were attacked by Yuan Rong's poisonous snake. The Queen Mother left the amulet to me, but she..."

Kang Xiaorong's voice was choked with sobs, unable to hide the pain in his heart. Even though he once hated this woman, when her life came to an end, he couldn't help but sympathize with her and pity her...

"In this world, no one will love me more than her... Even though she did a lot of wrong things, I can't blame her... Hyoyoung, I hope you can forgive her too... It's all for her. All the mistakes she made were for me..."

Tian Ning lay on the Queen Mother's body and shed tears silently.

Sometimes I feel that I, who have done my mother's best, am the most unforgivable person.