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Murong Shan looked around with the Night Pearl in his hand, and asked suspiciously, "How do you know we're back?"

The stone walls on both sides of the cave and the road on the ground were exactly the same. Nothing could be seen.

Qu Ling pointed to a certain direction, "That's the poison Little Green vomited out just now."

Murong Shan looked towards the direction where she pointed. After a long time, he finally saw the small black mark on the stone wall.

"How can you be sure that this is a little... Was it the venom left behind by that snake? "

"If a dog can recognize its own urine, can't my Xiaoqing identify her own poison?"

These words sounded absurd, but there was a certain amount of truth to it, so Murong Shan was truly unable to refute it.

After staring at each other for a moment, Murong Shan asked: "Then what should we do now?"

Qu Ling lightly pursed her lips, raised the fire piston that was almost burnt out a little higher, and once again carefully examined her surroundings.

After a while, she walked over to Murong Shan's side, threw away the burnt paper roll, and said calmly: "It's getting late, let's go back."

Murong Shan looked inside unwillingly, "You're going back like this?"

"Why don't you scrape some moss for a memorial?"

"…"

The two of them turned around and walked back. It was very strange; after only a quarter of an hour, they arrived at the entrance of the cave.

One had to know that they had walked around the cave for a full two hours.

After locking the door, the two of them stood quietly at the entrance. Under the dim yellow sunlight, their thoughts were different.

After an unknown period of time, Murong Shan sighed: "I came here for nothing, if I knew this would happen, I would have gone downstream to that cave."

However, Qu Ling said: "Who said we came for nothing? Didn't we already know why we are circling around in the same place after entering through the hole?"

Murong Shan was startled, after reacting to the meaning in her embrace, he scoffed disdainfully, "If I can't break it, what use is there knowing!"

There was a formation placed at the entrance of the hole in the middle and upper reaches of the lake, which was why a situation like 'I can only go out and not go in, I'll only go around in circles in the same place' would have happened to me.

When the two new caves appeared, the Magistrate Zeng had invited many capable people over, and everyone could see that there was a formation inside. However, in the end, they still used the crudest method, and sealed the cave with an iron gate.

This meant that no one could break this formation, or no one could break it.

Qu Ling gave her an even more disdainful look, "Whoever says that it can't be broken will definitely be able to break the formation."

Murong Shan raised his eyebrows, "So, you can break it?"

After staring at each other for another moment, Qu Ling said honestly without the slightest bit of embarrassment: "I can't."

Murong Shan had an "I knew it" expression on his face, and did not continue discussing whether or not he could break the formation with her. Instead, he asked her, "Do you want to go downstream to take a look?"

Qu Ling shook his head, "I'm not going, it's getting dark."

This kind of place is scary even in the daytime, let alone at night.

Qu Ling insisted on not going back. There was nothing he could do about her, he could only bring her back to the other side of the river.

After their feet touched the ground, the two of them simultaneously thought of a very serious problem.

The carriage that brought the two of them here earlier was already sent away by Murong Shan. Without any other means of transportation, the two of them could only walk back.

When Qu Ling thought about walking for such a long distance, his heart started to ache, "Why did you send him away when you have nothing to do, can't you just make him wait here?"

Hearing Qu Ling's complaints, Murong Shan's face turned ugly.

Back then, she had wanted to have her men leave quickly so that she wouldn't stay and wait for them to discover her.

"What are you doing here?"

A familiar deep male voice was heard, and both of their bodies stiffened at the same time.

Slowly turning his head, he saw Xiao Jingyue and Eighth Prince standing not far away, watching them.

One had a gloomy face, while the other was smiling.

Behind the two of them, were Chen Linye, Magistrate Zeng and tens of soldiers.

Qu Ling did not expect Xiao Jingyue to swim down so quickly, and even caught him red-handed, causing him to immediately lower his head guiltily.

Compared to her, Murong Shan was even more guilty. He was still a little afraid in his heart, after all, she was the one who brought Qu Ling out.

That group of people walked up to the two, and the Eighth Prince said with a smile: "Mrs. Xiao, long time no see."

Qu Ling nodded, and replied vaguely.

She almost didn't need to raise her head to imagine what kind of expression Xiao Jingyue was using to reprimand her.

She thought that she would be able to sneak back without anyone noticing. Who knew that she would be caught red-handed?

Xiao Jingyue did not speak, and the atmosphere became stiff for a moment.

Eighth Prince had already spoken, so he naturally did not dare to make a sound at this moment. The matter of easing the atmosphere with this continued to fall on Chen Linye.

He walked out from behind Xiao Jingyue and asked Qu Ling and Murong Shan with a smile on his face, "Did the two of you go and take a look at the cave?"

Qu Ling did not dare to answer, and neither did Murong Shan.

But silence was also an answer.

Xiao Jingyue's face became darker, his entire body releasing a cold aura.

Chen Linye coughed lightly and braced himself to continue asking: "Did you find anything?"

This time, Qu Ling opened his mouth, blinking his eyes, as he said in an extremely admiring tone, "There is. "Lady Murong is so amazing. She actually found a formation inside. This cave can only be left behind because that formation is the reason why we can't enter it."

Murong Shan opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

What was this baldy talking about? It was clearly her fault for bringing up the matter of the formation first!

The Magistrate Zeng had told them about the formation earlier this morning, so they were not surprised.

Just as Chen Linye wanted to continue asking, Xiao Jingyue interrupted him, pulled him into his embrace, and made an appointment with Eighth Prince and the others to come over tomorrow, then left.

Watching the four leave, until he could no longer see them, Magistrate Zeng looked away, cupped his hands and asked: "Your Highness, do you want to go in to take a look?"

Eighth Prince glanced at the cave entrance on the other side and muttered to himself: "There aren't any people present who are proficient in formations. We can't enter this place, let's go down and take a look."

Magistrate Zeng's eyebrows twitched. Even though he didn't want to go downstream, he still replied respectfully: "Yes."

The group of people left, but no one noticed the two figures that had been watching them for a long time.

Xiao Jingyue and Chen Linye had ridden here before, so naturally, they had ridden back as well.

Walking back to the place where the horses were tied up, Xiao Jingyue untied the reins and carefully carried Qu Ling up, then flipped himself over and climbed on.

Without even looking at the other two, he urged his horse and left.

Only Chen Linye and Murong Shan were left behind, staring at a horse.

On the way back, Qu Ling kept thinking back to what he had done before coming out. His eyes kept looking around, and he felt extremely guilty.

Xiao Jingyue's face was cold, he did not look at her and only wanted to bring the girl in his arms back to lock the door and teach her a lesson.

Returning back to the old house and letting the horse go, Qu Ling immediately turned around and tightly hugged onto his waist, and said with a muffled voice: "I'm sorry, I know I was wrong."

Xiao Jingyue let her hug him, his expression not the least bit moved, and asked indifferently: "What's wrong?"

"I shouldn't have gone out without you."

"What else?"

"I shouldn't have gone out without permission and gone to a dangerous place."

"What else?"

Qu Ling smiled bitterly. When he thought about the situation in the house, he couldn't think of anything to say.

But if she didn't, someone would do it for him.

The steward came out to greet him with an anxious look on his face, "General, you're finally back!" The other adults that came with you did not know why, but they had diarrhea all afternoon. This little one is going to get a doctor for them, but they won't let this little one go. "