Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 386 Black Snake

After finally consoling Prince Ming to sleep, Ji Anni herself felt sleepy.

She yawned, rubbed her eyes which were almost unable to open, and fell beside Prince Ming and almost fell asleep.

Children nowadays are so precocious. Even at such a young age, they already know how to worry about their parents' emotional disputes.

Ji Anni gently stroked Prince Ming's sleeping face and felt that he was cute and pitiful. If the real Zhao Ji knew that Prince Ming was so worried about her, what would she do? However... if it was the real Zhao Ji, there would be no emotional problems with Long Mohan.

After thinking about it, Ji Anni actually felt that the fault was hers.

Forget it, forget it, I'd better go to bed early...

She closed her eyes and fell asleep before she knew it. But she didn't sleep soundly. The images of Yan Niang, Princess Tianning, Yun Zhen, Bao Er, and Long Mo Han played over and over in her mind. Now, these people and these things were no longer insignificant strangers in different time and space, but had already been deeply imprinted in her mind, important figures that she always missed and worried about.

Tormented by the chaotic dreams and unable to sleep, Ji Anni turned over.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a strange noise in my ear.

For some reason, her nerves have become very sensitive recently, and the slightest movement will make her alert. This sensitive nerve reflex is like that of a police dog.

Perhaps, the part of the monster blood in Zhaoji's body has begun to awaken, she couldn't help but worry about this.

Sitting up from the bed, Ji Anni was no longer sleepy. She opened her eyes wide and stared at the strange black shadow outside the window.

The furry tail behind the black shadow allowed Ji Annie to accurately guess its identity.

"Is it you, Yan Niang? I know it's you..." Ji Anni called softly to the dark shadow outside the window in a voice that would not wake up Prince Ming.

The black shadow didn't say anything. With a "Ya" sound, the window was pushed open by the black shadow.

Ji Anni's nerves suddenly tensed up.

A black shadow rushed in from the window, and the bright moonlight fell on it. It shook its red hair in the moonlight.

As Ji Annie expected, the unexpected visitor was a fiery red fox.

"What are you doing here?" Ji Anni's voice was very stern, and it was obvious that she did not welcome Yan Niang's arrival.

Yan Niang did not transform into a human form, but remained in the form of a fox, and said to Ji Anni, "Minister Bao is dead."

"What?" Ji Anni rubbed her ears, wondering if she had heard it wrong. Yan Niang came to her in the middle of the night, just to inform her of the death of a stranger. No, wait... I seem to have heard the title "Minister Bao" somewhere...

Ji Anni thought for a moment and asked in disbelief, "Could it be...Mrs. Bao's father?"

Looking back, when Ji Anni was delivering Bao'er's coffin, she had met Minister Bao.

Yan Niang nodded, "Yes, it is him. However, he is not only the father of Concubine Baogui, but also... the biological father of the princess."

"How could it be him!" Ji Anni couldn't help but scream without bothering to lower her voice.

Although she already knew that Princess Tianning's biological father was not the late emperor, she never imagined that Tianning and Concubine Baogui were sisters.

The scream just now almost woke up Prince Ming.

Yan Niang jumped onto the bed and warned Ji Anni with her eyes to keep her voice down.

Ji Anni quickly covered her mouth, lifted the quilt and got out of bed.

In order not to wake up Prince Ming, she and Yan Niang went outside the room. Fortunately, Concubine An had already left the palace and had not returned yet, so they did not have to worry about Concubine An eavesdropping on their conversation.

Ji Anni asked anxiously, "Didn't you say that Princess Tianning was going to die? Why is it that Minister Bao is the one dying now?"

Everything that happened in the Queen Mother's Palace that day was kept secret, and few people in the palace knew the whole story. Although the news of Minister Bao's death has gradually spread, no one knows the real cause of death. Outsiders only know that he died in an accident.

Ji Anni had not heard any news at all. After hearing the sudden news of death, she couldn't help but feel hard to accept. She stared blankly at Yan Niang, not knowing how to react.

Yan Niang broke the silence and said, "I didn't expect Minister Bao's death, but... it still can't save the princess. The princess still has to disappear, but the time is not yet ripe."

Yanniang, who had already revealed her identity to the Queen Mother, had long been unwilling to continue playing the role of a princess. However, Liuguang felt that the continuous deaths would arouse unnecessary suspicion, so he asked Yanniang not to disappear for the time being.

"Concubine Zhao Congfei, as long as the princess is alive, Yuan Rong who is imprisoned in the dungeon will not be executed. He is a serious threat to us, and the longer he stays here, the more dangerous he will be. I am worried about your safety, so I came to Taoyuan to protect you, but I didn't expect to be discovered by you." When she said this, Yan Niang let out a sigh.

Only then did Ji Anni realize that Yan Niang didn't come to ask for help, but was there to serve as a bodyguard.

Yan Niang continued, "In the past, you would never have noticed me outside the window, but now your nerves have become so sharp, which can only prove that... you are gradually waking up. I don't know whether this is good or bad, but... my heart is always in a panic, not knowing what will happen in the future..."

Ji Anni understood Yanniang's worries, and she no longer doubted Yanniang's feelings for Xuelan and Xuelan's descendants.

"Don't worry, I will protect myself and Prince Ming well." Ji Anni felt a little embarrassed to let Yan Niang be a bodyguard.

"You don't understand magic and you don't have any ability at all, so don't say these bragging words." Yan Niang snorted sarcastically.

Ji Anni was not angry, because she could hear a hint of intimacy in Yan Niang's cold tone. This intimacy was like a complaint between friends. Although she was not confident that she could become friends with Yan Niang, she knew that Yan Niang would never hurt her.

Yan Niang wanted to say something else, but at this moment, a scream was heard from the room.

"Ming'er!" Ji Anni immediately recognized the owner of the voice and turned around and ran into the house.

But she was still a step too late, and saw that Prince Ming had been wrapped around the neck by a huge black snake!

The black snake was like a rope, tightly strangling Prince Ming's neck, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"Mother, mother!" Prince Ming stretched out his hand towards Ji Anni in pain.

The black snake turned its head and looked at Ji Anni, spitting out its red tongue, looking very scary.

Ji Anni was so scared that she swallowed her saliva and her scalp felt numb. She picked up a chair by the door and wanted to throw it, but she didn't dare to, for fear of hurting Prince Ming.

At this time Yan Niang had rushed in. She was already used to these monsters and was not afraid at all. She bravely pounced on it and bit the black snake's neck.

The black snake's body twitched, and black blood flowed from Yan Niang's teeth.

Yan Niang, who was concentrating on fighting the black snake, did not expect that two scary red lights would appear in the eyes of Prince Ming, who was entangled by the black snake.

Ji Anni was shocked, realizing that Prince Ming might attack Yan Niang. Without thinking too much, she threw away the chair in her hand and ran towards the three people who were fighting.

"Yan Niang, be careful!" Before she could get closer, Prince Ming opened his mouth and bit Yan Niang's back.

Yan Niang screamed in pain and struggled under Prince Ming's sharp teeth.

This is not the Ming prince! This is not the Ming prince! Ji Anni breathed rapidly, trying to pry open the Ming prince who was biting Yan Niang tightly.

Prince Ming's whole body was cold. This body temperature didn't seem like that of a living person at all. Instead, it looked like... a poisonous snake!

When Ji Annie noticed it, Prince Ming's body had gradually become smaller and thinner, and finally turned into a black snake exactly the same as the black snake that was wrapped around his neck.

It was not until then that Ji Anni finally understood why the black snake just wrapped around Prince Ming's neck instead of biting off his neck directly. It turned out that Prince Ming was transformed from a black snake, and its purpose was to attack the people who came to save Prince Ming.

Yan Niang had a whole piece of skin bitten off by the black snake that transformed into Prince Ming, revealing her bloody back.

Ji Anni was tightly entangled by two flying black snakes, unable to move. The black snakes kept shrinking their bodies, as if they wanted to strangle Ji Anni to pieces. No, it's so painful... so painful... Ji Anni couldn't breathe, and her limbs and torso were all about to split apart.

Yan Niang pounced forward and fought with the black snake again, but one fox was no match for two snakes and was unable to rescue Ji Anni who was entangled by the black snake.

Ji Anni was out of breath and her consciousness gradually blurred. In a trance, she heard a "dang" sound, as if something fell from her neck to the ground. She looked down and saw that it was the small black stone used for voice transmission. Yun Zhen... Yun Zhen, save me...

Although she couldn't make any sound, Ji Anni kept asking Yun Zhen for help in her mind.

This kind of black snake must have been seen somewhere...

That’s right, it was Taoist Yuan Rong! Back in the Ghost King Cave, Taoist Yuan Rong had also released this kind of black snake to attack Yan Niang.

"Your target is me, let her go!" Yan Niang yelled at the black snake, but she was too badly injured and could barely stand up. She had already recognized that these black snakes were Yuan Rong's Shikigami, and she knew that these Shikigami were sent by Yuan Rong to hunt her down and avenge her, and had nothing to do with Ji Anni.

"Damn it..." Ji Anni's eyes were dark, but she still tried hard to stay conscious and not faint.

At this moment, there was a "pop" sound coming from under the feet, and it turned out that the small black stone used for transmitting sound suddenly cracked!

This slight noise suddenly awakened Ji Annie's confused consciousness.

Why did the stone suddenly break? It didn't break when it fell to the ground just now, why did it suddenly break apart like it had exploded?

Ji Anni even forgot about the black snake's tight binding, and all her remaining consciousness was focused on the black stone.

She had to guess wildly: the black stone had magical power. Could it be that the person who cast the spell encountered some danger, and the spell failed, so the stone broke? Could it be that Yun Zhen... encountered some danger?

For the first time, Ji Anni felt that she was being too much. Whenever she encountered danger, she would always call Yun Zhen, but she never thought that Yun Zhen might also encounter danger, a danger that she could not imagine...