It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"Not necessarily. The aura of the elven princess is too weak, and we can't sense it at all, so we can't tell whether she is still following the two humans. Although what you said makes sense, you should also understand that we dare not gamble even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance. Since the adults have personally gone to Yuxi City, the matter there should be a sure thing; if the problem of this plan ends up with us..."

It didn't finish its words, and there was a hint of fear in its eyes, but more of worry.

The subordinate also looked unhappy. He nodded and said:

"I see."

The leading demon waved his hand and suddenly asked:

"Speaking of which, why haven't the two guys in charge of covering us caught up yet?"

The demons looked at each other, but no one spoke.

The leading demon snorted and said impatiently:

"Forget it. It's not important... I'm afraid that no one in the entire demon tribe dares to attack us [the King's personal followers]. Maybe they just found some new clues and went to investigate alone. There is no time to go back and take care of them. Leave two people behind to cover the retreat and collect as many wild demons as possible and let them snoop around for information. If you meet the generals under Amifars, just use the token to make them obey your orders. Get all the resources you can and make sure to bring the princess of the elves back!"

39. Carry one on your back and hold one by your hand

One side runs and the other side chases.

The process was short, as it took only half a day to run. It was also long, as the muscles in the legs seemed to tear apart every time the person took a step. Fortunately, Alayya was seriously injured and her breath was weak. In the eyes of the demons, Lid and Delis were no different from two moving stones. Except for the demons chasing them, no other demons were interested in the three of them.

Perhaps it was just that Reid was lucky, as he was always able to avoid the places where the demons were most concentrated.

But Delis couldn't hold on any longer. She used to run, but now she was slowly moving with a stick. Lid used the demon tribe's affairs to stimulate her several times, allowing her to unleash all her potential. Unfortunately, a good cook can't cook without rice. Delis, who had never exercised much, was indeed a bit eye-catching in the long-distance running event.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.

Ten kilometers, seven kilometers, three kilometers, one kilometer...

Delis's blonde hair was completely disheveled, and she was sweating profusely. She had never been so anxious, nor had she ever been so desperate. She kept exerting all her strength, but her legs didn't seem to belong to her. She couldn't keep her balance after running a few steps faster, and she almost fell to the ground several times.

She remembered that when she was with the elves, every time she traveled, she sat in a comfortable and spacious carriage. The guards driving the carriage held the reins tremblingly. If the carriage shook a little and startled her, the half-asleep Delis would whip their backs without hesitation. The guards dared not even make a sound in pain, but would just grit their teeth and drive the carriage more carefully.

Delis never thought that one day she would have to run so miserably.

What she didn't expect was that even though she was in such a miserable state, the demons still didn't intend to let her go.

In a trance, Delis tripped over a tree root and fell forward. She reached out to support herself on the ground, but her delicate palms were immediately scraped off by the hard soil, and a little blood oozed out. She bit her lips in pain, and tears kept welling up in her eyes.

She looked up and found that Reed seemed to be unaware and continued to run forward with Alayya. In the blink of an eye, they were seven or eight meters away from her.

At that moment, a feeling of loneliness came over me.

She wanted to stand up, but her legs were shaking. The breath she had been holding was gone in an instant. She opened her mouth, slowly lowered her head, stared at the gray-black land, and felt that everything in front of her seemed like a nightmare.

But there shouldn't be any pain in the dream, nor would there be such an intense, pounding heartbeat.

Suddenly, the footsteps that had been going away came closer.

"Do you know why you can't defeat the dragons?"

Lid stood in front of her and said unhappily:

"The royal family is like this, and you still expect the people below to be stronger? Let's be honest, our human princesses are ten thousand times stronger than you. They are younger than you, have better physical fitness than you, and are well-behaved and sensible. What use are you? I have seen demons, dragons, and many other races in the royal capital. You are the weakest among them. In the future, I don't have to spend a lot of time and effort to prepare for banquets. I can take you for a walk, and all the guests will stand up and applaud, praising [good food], [good food]."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Delis and said:

"Get up, I'll run with you."

Delis stared into his eyes, took two deep breaths, and placed one hand in his palm.

With one effort, Reed pulled her up from the ground.

Delis's expression was a little complicated. She wanted to say thank you, but she couldn't lower herself to say it.

Lid didn't care and just said:

"A year and a half ago, my brother hired three assassins to kill me. Alayya held two of them by herself, but the third one was hiding very deep. He didn't attack until the other two led Alayya away. He stabbed me in the neck with a dagger. I turned and ran, and he chased after me. He refused to stop for either of them."

Delis looked at him in surprise. Reed said it lightly, as if it was something as common as eating and drinking.

Lid smiled and said:

"That day, I ran eight laps around Lingyun City. In the end, I had no strength left, and neither did he. We crawled on the ground like two turtles, and only crawled two or three meters in a minute. But even so, he still didn't catch up with me, just a little bit. In the end, he couldn't hold on any longer, and fell on his back, cursing [cnm, you son of a bitch, your father doesn't want this order anymore!] and fell to the ground. I crawled slowly until I reached the main road, and was taken home by a passing carriage. Afterwards, I saw that my chest, arms, and thighs were all rubbed with blood, and my clothes were soaked with blood, but I was still alive. In a head-on fight, the odds of winning are unpredictable, but running away is nothing more than a competition of who can hold on longer."

Delis shuddered and couldn't help but look at Reed's chest.

But his clothes were now properly on, so Delis couldn't see anything.

"I am the princess of the elves."

Delis held Lid's hand tightly and said through gritted teeth:

"If you can do it, I can do it too!"

Reed nodded and said nothing more. He exerted force with his hands and continued to run forward with Delis.

Delis recovered and glanced at her hand held by Lid. Her cheeks, which were already red from exercise, suddenly became even more red. In these years, not to mention boys, even her close maids had never touched her hand. Now, a human was holding it carelessly. Delis could feel the roughness of his palm. There were no calluses, but it was completely different from her soft skin. When they rubbed, Delis felt her heart beat faster for no reason.

She remembered when she was a child and took candy from her father's hand, the Elf King's skin was whiter than hers and his palms were softer than hers.

Male elves are extremely handsome and pay great attention to maintenance. Pure-blooded male elves are even more delicate than female elves.

Delis didn't know what was wrong with her, but she knew that her palms were slightly sweaty. So she couldn't help but start to think wildly. She had seen Lid holding Alaiya's hand and showing their affection in front of her. For some reason, her mind was filled with one question at this moment: Do Alaiya's palms sweat?

What she didn't know was that what she was thinking about was completely beyond Reed's thinking.

At this time, Lid had no feelings at all. He had kissed a human princess before, so what was wrong with holding the hand of an elven princess? A famous police officer once said, "Subordinates should not kiss their superiors." Theoretically, the city lord and the princess should also be in a subordinate-superior relationship. Since they had kissed each other before, holding hands didn't seem to be a big deal.

He was struggling, very struggling, whether he should take advantage of Alayya's coma to kill the demons following behind. He knew that it would be troublesome to attack in the demon's territory. Once his strength was exposed, he might attract high-level demons to chase him. But now it was too tiring to run with one on his back and another by his hand. Moreover, the further he went into the demon's territory, the harder it was to walk. There were rugged rocks everywhere. The dark clouds covered the sun, and the visibility in the dark forest was very low.

But just as he was thinking this, a familiar breath suddenly flashed within his perception range.

Reed narrowed his eyes slightly and found that there were only a few demons left out of the dozen or so that had followed him.

Although the leading demon clan had split off some of their people and taken different paths, those demon clans should soon discover his tricks and quickly come back to join him and continue to hunt him down. If he didn't come back, there was only one possibility -

I'm afraid they will never come back.

Thinking of this, Lid showed a relaxed smile. He knew that he didn't have to do it himself, and this feeling of getting something for nothing made him feel very comfortable.

In his words, this is the way to get away with it.

40. Suspicious

"Xue Zheng and Hei Guang still haven't come back..."

After a demon whispered this, the leading demon immediately stopped.

It was a male spider-man, with a white and strong human upper body and an eight-legged spider lower body. It was at least two and a half meters tall, much taller and more powerful than an average human, with hard hair growing on its eight legs, and the tips of its legs flashing with cold light, which was obviously extremely sharp.

Its name is Spiderbis.

Zhubis turned around and found that the number of demons following him was significantly less, and he couldn't help but frown. He sensed it slightly and found that the uncontrollable sword energy was still about one kilometer away from him. This distance was not far, but for some reason he couldn't catch up.

Zhubisi was feeling annoyed. If he couldn't catch up with the guy in front of him, he couldn't be sure whether Delis was there.

It counted and found that there were still eight demons left behind it. Because it had been focusing on the chase, it had not paid much attention to its subordinates following behind. Now, after a closer look, it found that no matter whether it was the demons that split into two groups or the demons that stayed behind to cover the rear, all of them had disappeared, and none of them had caught up.

“…Xue Zheng and Hei Guang should be fine. Xue Zheng killed the tribe leader to take the throne, and Hei Guang killed an entire tribe of lizardmen by himself. They are both well-known demons. The reason they didn’t come back might be because the princess of the elves is over there.”

Zhubis exhaled and spoke slowly, his eyes moving between the front and the side, obviously unable to determine which side was the correct target.

If Xue Zheng and Hei Guang were killed and therefore failed to return to the team in time, then that meant that there was indeed a trap over there and that he was chasing in the right direction. If not, then it only meant that he was running in the wrong direction and that was obviously the escape route of the Elf Princess.

But there was the problem. In this dark forest, Zhubis had no way to verify his conjecture. He didn't know where the guy or guys in front got the willpower from, but he couldn't catch them even after chasing them for half a day. On the other side... Zhubis also couldn't confirm the life and death of Xue Zheng and Hei Guang. The distance was too far, and there were too many demons living here. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack to rely on its breath perception at this level.

It was able to lock onto Alayya because the sword energy on Alayya was completely different from that of ordinary demons. In addition, Zhubis was two realms higher than Alayya, so it did not lose her.

"Boss, I was wondering, would it be possible..."

A werewolf-looking demon hesitated for a moment and said:

"Could they be ambushed? Although Xue Zheng and Hei Guang are quite powerful, if the other party is well prepared, they may still be able to succeed."

The spider narrowed its eyes, and its two sturdy front legs kept stomping on the ground, breaking a solid rock into pieces:

"Ambush? Who dares to ambush us? In this land, even if Amifars comes, he has to do what we say!"

The werewolf pointed to the southwest and said softly:

"If... the demons from over there... once this plan is leaked, I'm afraid they won't just sit there and watch."

Zhubis's expression froze instantly, the corners of his mouth twitched several times, and he said indignantly:

"Even if they are really from over there, they can't be above the tenth level, and the ninth level is probably difficult! In this land, nothing can escape the eyes of Lord Heavenly King. If they are at a lower level, they may get away with it, but if they are at a higher level, they will definitely be discovered! They are both at the seventh or eighth level, but I don't believe that Xue Zheng and Hei Guang really lost everything and even lost their lives!"

Although he said something harsh, it was obvious that there was less confidence on Zhubis's face.

It gritted its teeth, waved its hand, and said to the werewolf and the other demon with a mantis head:

"You two go over there and investigate... Be extremely alert. If you encounter a conflict, don't fight, just run back! Do you understand?"

The two demons answered in unison:

"Yes!"

Then one of them fell on all fours, and the other flapped its membranous wings, and they rushed at full speed from the ground and the sky respectively in the direction pointed by Spiderbis.

That was also the direction that Xue Zheng and Hei Guang had tracked along the salt path.

Zhubis frowned and was silent for a while. He fixed his eyes on another werewolf-like demon and said:

"Go west and report back to the lord first. Tell him that we have some problems. Delis is not in our hands, so the original plan cannot go on smoothly. Perhaps some other big shot has intervened... I don't think we can keep this a secret. No matter what, we must let the lord know first."

The werewolf also nodded, but his expression was gloomy, and he ran westward without saying a word.

Zhubis took a deep breath, glanced at the remaining five demons, and said:

"Anyway, there is a human who has reached the sixth level of perfection ahead of us. This is an indisputable fact. That human kidnapped the elven princess from us, and there is a high probability that he will act with her. I heard that humans are generally stupid, caring about morality, face, etiquette, and many useless things. They should not throw a princess away casually... Next, I will increase my speed. Those who can keep up with me should try their best to keep up, and those who can't should be fully alert to the surroundings. As I said, even if there is danger, it is only the demons of the seventh or eighth level of strength, which is the same level as you. Don't you always claim to be the strongest in the same realm? Don't embarrass the adults."

After saying that, Spiderbis used all of its eight legs to exert force, and its entire body rushed out dozens of meters in an instant.

It was impossible to move at full speed in the forest, but at this moment it completely ignored the towering trees blocking the way ahead, swung its arms, smashed a tree with one punch, and forcibly crushed a smooth road. The five demons looked at each other, took a deep breath, and rushed out at high speed. With Spider Bis clearing the way for them, the speed of the entire demon team increased dramatically.

One kilometer away, Alayya opened her eyes as if alert.

She was still very weak, leaning on Lid's shoulder and whispering in his ear:

"It's getting closer... Master, put me down."

Reed ignored her and pretended not to hear.

Alayya smiled bitterly and said:

"I've thought about it carefully just now. They shouldn't be able to track the location of Delis and you, young master. I'm afraid they are following my sword energy all the way. Among those demons, there are guys who are much stronger than me. Although I tried my best to restrain my aura, I couldn't hide it... Now I have recovered some strength, at least I can help you lead them away..."

Lid didn't say anything. He exerted force on his hands, pulled the burdensome Delis over, held her horizontally in front of him, and sped up his pace. Although the distance between him and the demons behind him did not increase, the speed of shrinking was slowing down a lot.

He panted, sweating profusely, and said to Alayya breathlessly:

"Remember, because you are not good at learning, your young master is in such a mess, being chased by those dogs like animals, and having to take you with him, a patient who is holding him back."

Alayya's eyes were red, but she clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and tried hard not to cry.

Lidd continued:

"Remember what I told you. You have no right to decide your own life or death. I, your young master, have that power. But unfortunately... in my eyes, your life is more valuable than anything else in the world. If you lose it like this, I will be heartbroken for half my life."

A few tears wet Reed's shoulders.

Delis, curled up in front of Lid, smiled awkwardly. She felt as if there was an invisible barrier around the master and servant, and that her presence here was completely unnecessary. But she felt unhappy for some reason, so she turned her head away and cursed secretly: He must be a scumbag for being able to talk so sentimentally to another girl while he was taking advantage of one girl.

41. The End of the Road

After moving at full speed for seven or eight minutes, Zhubis finally saw a ray of hope.

It kept blowing away the trees that blocked its way, and its arms were also numb. Fortunately, the human in front of it finally ran out of energy. Spiderbis could clearly feel that the distance between them was getting closer and closer, from one kilometer to eight hundred meters, and then to five hundred meters. This process took less than five minutes. At five hundred meters, the distance between the two sides remained deadlocked for a while, and it seemed that the human side also began to flee desperately.

It’s a pity that those with two legs can’t outrun those with four legs, and naturally they can’t outrun those with eight legs.

Zhubisi closed the distance to within 200 meters in one breath, and felt that his perception had never been so clear. The sword energy of the human woman was like the fragrance of top-grade food, which made him intoxicated physically and mentally, and the fire in his eyes became stronger. An idea emerged in his mind: after robbing Delis, the first thing he would do was to eat the little swordsman.

However, what Zhubisi did not expect was that when he reached the 200-meter mark, the distance would not move. No matter how hard Zhubisi tried, the 200-meter mark was like an insurmountable chasm.

The spider angrily smashed the old tree that blocked its way, and moved forward at full speed on its eight legs. Behind it, the hard soil was pierced by its knife-like toes and became extremely soft, like a quagmire, and it would sink immediately after stepping on it. The demons behind it could not help but slow down their pace, and the speed of pursuit was greatly slowed down.

When the distance slowly shrank again to one hundred meters, Zhubis took a deep breath.

It no longer had time to care about the demons behind it.