The abandoned queen is reborn: she makes the prince cry and seizes the throne!

Being called out of the blue, he frowned unconsciously and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

The young general quickly pointed at the forest ahead. The forest was already very deep and dark. Looking at it in the dark, it was so pitch black that it seemed to be able to swallow people.

"More than half an hour ago, our people went inside to look for dry firewood for burning, but they haven't returned until now..." The young general knew that his men had violated military orders, and his face turned red.

Ning Rongzhang handed the map in his hand to the people around him, squinted his eyes to look at the dense forest in front of him, and asked with his thin lips, "When did they go in?"

"It's the hour of You."

"How many people are there in total?"

"Five people."

Ning Rongzhang originally wanted to go and look for it himself, and see if the dense forest was suitable for traveling together. However, the young general grabbed his arm and said, "Your Highness, think twice. This dense forest is dangerous. Your Highness must not take the risk!"

"If you are worried, just follow me."

The young general waved his hand and called a few soldiers, and followed Ning Rongzhang in.

Originally, he didn't want to let the soldiers cross this dense forest, but when he looked at the map just now, he realized that except for this road that passes through Li Nan, there is only the longer route. If he takes the longer route, the marching speed of the entire army will be delayed by half a month, and Li Nan will definitely not last until that time.

A few torches were lit with a tinderbox and burned fiercely. Several soldiers held torches and led the way. The dense forest blocked out the sun and no sunlight could penetrate during the day. At night, it was pitch dark and even the moon could not be seen.

"My lord, be careful."

The vines on the ground suddenly tripped people and made them stagger. Ning Rongzhang had just stood firm when someone in front of him loudly called out the names of the five missing people.

Ning Rongzhang frowned and took the torch from someone and said, "Stop shouting. The jungle is dangerous. It would be terrible if it summoned something else."

After hearing this, those people shut up.

After walking for a while, they still didn't see anyone. The young general's face darkened. "Your Majesty, in my opinion, we should turn around and leave as soon as possible. It won't be too late to look for them tomorrow morning." He looked at the endless darkness in front and behind, and said, "If we go any further, I'm afraid we won't be able to get out."

The Linando insect monster is not just a rumor. It is said that the insect monster is huge, highly poisonous, and can speak human language. "Besides, those people... are probably..." already dead.

No one would walk through the dense forest during the day, let alone at night.

Ning Rongzhang was about to speak when he suddenly heard someone calling for help in the distance, one voice after another. Although it was a bit noisy, it was definitely a human voice.

Someone excitedly said, "I recognized it, it's Daqiang's voice!"

"go!"

A few people looked over in the direction of the sound and vaguely saw the figures of several people together. They could only hear the voices but not see the people.

Someone bravely walked closer, but suddenly his feet slipped and it was as if the soles of his feet were suddenly sucked by something, and his lower body became completely unable to move.

“Hey—don’t come over here!” The man saw someone trying to come over to save him, so he quickly stopped and said, “What’s going on?!”

His whole body was sinking continuously, and in a short while, it had sunk into the calf part. The man cried out in surprise, and the torch in his hand was suddenly swept out, illuminating several people who were also half submerged in the mud.

The torch fell into the mud and was gradually swallowed up until the last trace of fire disappeared.

"It's a swamp!" Ning Rongzhang reacted immediately, stretched out his arms and led the surrounding soldiers to retreat, "Hurry and lie down on it!"

In a swamp, force devours force, and the most taboo thing is to use brute force to fight it.

"Spread your limbs and climb up slowly. Remember to move slowly!"

In the panic of trying to survive, some people were sliding down faster and faster, with the wet soil buried up to their chests, which could suffocate them to death. Someone standing outside the swamp picked up the vine ropes on the ground and threw them next to them.

“Catch it now!!”

The last person who fell into the mud was covered with wetland mud. He lay down and slowly twisted his calves out. He hurriedly grabbed the hand of someone on the shore and thus escaped.

They were trapped in the middle of the swamp, and the people outside could only hold them up with vines and ropes. Even if they used all their strength, they could not fight against the suction force of the entire swamp.

One of them had wet dirt up to his chest, and his hands were tightly entangled in the vines, almost pulling down the person who was trying to save him on the shore.

"Let go, he can't be saved..." Ning Rongzhang held the rope to prevent the people on the shore from being pulled down by the man underground.

The soldier shook his head and refused to let go. He watched him slowly sink, tears welling up in his eyes. "No... He is my brother. I can't just watch him die!"

Someone in the swamp slowly turned his body out, pulling the vine thrown by the people on the shore, and moved carefully to the outside.

"Ah! We're saved!" Then he immediately grabbed Tengman and tried to rescue the last person.

Ning Rongzhang stood where he was, watching the man struggle violently, first his chest, then his neck, and finally his mouth, nose and entire head sinking into the mud, and he blinked slowly.

The vine in the soldier's hand was also gradually swallowed by the swamp. The man stared at the quagmire with disbelief. It was so calm that it didn't look like it had swallowed a person.

"Da Qiang! Da Qiang!"

No one responded.

Silence fermented among the crowd, with a hint of cruelty. Ning Rongzhang still raised his hand to hold down the vine he was holding tightly, and said, "He can't be saved..."

Li Huaize and Ji Yuan were standing outside the woods with anxious looks on their faces, wanting to go in but unable to.

Only after seeing the light of torches in the forest did he shout into the woods, "Prince?!"

"..."

"Regent?!"

"..."

"Ning Rongzhang!"

"What are you shouting about?" Ning Rongzhang finally spoke and replied indifferently.

Li Huaize was almost frightened to death, and asked, "Why didn't the prince say anything just now?"

Several people came out one after another. The last few were covered in mud, as if they had rolled in a quagmire. Ji Yuan was counting them in the moonlight, his face darkened, and he said, "One person is missing."

The soldier who had been holding onto the vine had blood on his hands. He raised his hands and looked at them. He felt a sharp pain and said, "Daqiang is dead."

"The dense forest is dangerous. Pass the order. No one is allowed to enter the swamp without permission tonight."

"Yes."

Someone found some dry firewood and was busy burning it to cook. Everyone seemed to be accustomed to this kind of life where they didn't know when they would die, and they sat by the campfire and under the moonlight in silence.