Wakey heard it and immediately turned around.
Sure enough, appearing behind them was Fudge, who had come over in two pieces, and her son, Moll.
“Well? Have you thought about it, Sixteen? Do you want to come with me to that black swamp? If so, then I’ll take you there now.”
Fudge asked once more with a smile.
A swamp?
What swamp? Wasn’t it just a matter of getting here?
Ruo Ruo didn’t understand, and when she saw another new place mentioned, her expression changed and she immediately asked, “What is that place again? Where is it?”
Fudge laughed ……
“Little princess, this is the young prince of Waj beside you, his mother consort committed a capital crime in the first place, if a consort who committed a capital crime was simply left here, do you think the people in the Waj tribe would agree?”
“……”
Ruo Ruo’s face went all white.
What capital crime?
How did it become a capital offense if you didn’t just try to get your child out of here so he wouldn’t die?
Was it only right to meekly watch the child being executed?
Ruo Ruo’s chest rose and fell sharply in anger.
“That’s because this hellhole of yours is brutal and unforgiving, feudal and backward, ask your son if his father executed you if you let him go in Y to save him, right?”
“I-”
The woman was instantly gagged again!
This matter was originally inhumane.
Lu Guan listened from the side, and his chest, again, warmed up.
“Alright, no need to say anything, Ruo Ruo, you wait for me here, I will be back soon.” He turned his head to look at the little girl who was arguing for him behind him, and admonished.
As soon as Ruo Ruo heard this, her face went white again.
“No, I want to go with you, where is that place? We’ll go there together.”
“Little princess, that won’t do, the Black Swamp is in the middle of the Black Water River, I control an ebony boat to get there, it’s already a bit of a struggle to bring two people, if you come along too, the boat will have to capsize.”
“……”
“Besides, the black swamp is not as simple as you think, there is a miasma lingering there, all kinds of poisonous snakes and insects can be seen everywhere, not to mention that if you step on it, there might be a swamp pool more than ten feet high underneath, little princess, do you want to get killed?”
Fuji once again coldly reminded.
So dangerous?
When Ruo Ruo heard this, she finally looked a bit scared.
Seeing this, Lu Guan came over and took her to one side, reaching out to pin a strand of her blown-up hair on her forehead behind her ear as he looked down into her pair of dark, watery eyes.
“Don’t you worry, I’ll be fine, this place, it’s where I was born anyway, I know it well, you’ll be doing me the greatest favour by just waiting for me on the shore and protecting yourself.”
He spoke gently.
This was followed by taking something out of his body.
Ruoruo looked down at it.
Only to find that it was surprisingly a small knife that he used to play with, it was about the length of one of his palms, very delicate, folded to reveal a sheath with colourful patterns on it, and looked, just like a toy.
“Is this ……?”
“My ama made it specially for me when I was little, and the pattern on it, she also painted it on for me with dye, I’ve been carrying it around for many years, today I’m leaving it to you, I hope it will protect you well.”
The young man’s voice was gentle.
It was like a spring breeze brushing over the river, and after softly hitting the young girl’s heart, it immediately made her heart feel like something had hit her hard, and her delicate face went red.
He had never said anything so blunt to her before.
Also, he had never given her anything before, except for the eagle-shaped clasp, which was the second one, and this one, which was still left to him by his ama.
Ruo Ru took it, and when her white, slender fingers felt the knife, which still carried his temperature, she felt her heart roll like never before.
“Good, then you must hurry back.”
“Well, don’t be afraid, everyone is by your side.”
The young man left her with this last sentence, and then he followed the woman onto that boat.
The Ebony Boat ……
Yes, it was a simple raft made of a few pieces of wood tied together.
A large part of the reason why the high priests of Vai, in fact, could cross the Blackwater River in this way was because they could manipulate the parasites with magnets.
And these companions, once they entered the ebony, would be mutually attracted to the quicksand at the bottom of this river, which was also very rich in the element of iron.
Naturally, they would not be knocked over by the waves.
But, unfortunately, this secret, in this backward tribe of the Feng family, no one would know, and they had always thought that such a person was a god, someone they could call into the wind and rain.
Lu Guan was finally led by this woman into this swampy area in the middle of the river.
And on the shore, Ruo Ruo had been watching the back of the man after he had disappeared, and she too found a rock to sit on and just played with the knife in her hand while glancing at the river every now and then.
Moll was there too.
But for the moment, neither of them spoke, as if they were strangers.
If it hadn’t been for the sudden sound of footsteps behind them, I guess the two would have waited until the man who had gone to the centre of the river returned without any communication.
“Someone’s coming, hide!”
Moore was a boy after all.
He heard it, his face changed and he immediately walked towards the little girl.