Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1029 Escape
Lu Xiao looked at him. She didn't know if it was because of the thick smoke or some other reason, but her already red eyes became hot, as if a hot current was surging up and filling her eye sockets.

She bent down and looked at the face which had already become hideous and terrifying.

Although this person has always been like this to her, in fact, she has never really seen him clearly, because he is not Xiao Yuansui. She also does not think that Wang Shaoji's brother is a good thing, but just a bird of a feather.

She thought she had enough experience to see through every man, but what had just happened made her doubt him, and even herself, for the first time.

She spoke, her voice hoarse from the smoke: "Wang Shaoqiu..."

Hearing these three words, Wang Shaoqiu's originally distracted eyes suddenly flickered, as if his soul that had entered hell was called back. He raised his eyelids and looked at the incredibly charming face in the billowing smoke and the shining firelight. This seemed to be the first time that he saw that there was no strangeness, disregard, alienation, and disgust in her eyes when she looked at him.

"Ah--"

A little sound came out of his completely blocked throat, like a laugh, or like a sigh.

Then he closed his eyes.

Lu Xiao was still standing there numbly, but time and everything happening around her did not allow her to remain numb. People kept exclaiming, screaming, falling down, and running away. Just when she pinched the wound on her palm hard and finally regained her consciousness and was about to turn back, Li Miao and Gao Chen also walked to her side.

"Miss Green Silk!"

As soon as Li Miao opened his mouth, he immediately inhaled a mouthful of thick smoke, which made him cough repeatedly. Gao Chen on the side hurriedly covered his mouth and whispered, "Let's go quickly, it will be too late if we don't leave now!"

As they were talking, several relatively strong Turkic soldiers had already risked their lives to rush out of the fire scene.

The rest were either afraid of the fire and were so frightened that they didn't know what to do, or they were choked by the thick smoke and lost their minds. They gradually bent over and squatted down, the sound of their coughs gradually weakened, and slowly collapsed to the ground...

If we don’t leave now, it will be too late!
Gao Chen's eyes were red from choking, and he didn't even look at Wang Shaoqiu who was lying on the ground. He just said to Lu Xiao, "Let's go!"

After saying that, without waiting for her to speak, the two men grabbed one of her arms.

Lu Xiao did not say anything, nor did she struggle. She turned around with the strength of the two people. At this time, the fire had spread to most of the stone chamber along the direction of the tung oil flow, and even burned the coffin on the stone platform. But at such a critical moment of life and death, who would care about that? Seeing more and more people falling down around her, she could no longer hesitate!
Li Miao and Gao Chen were also sweating all over at this time, but they were immediately dried up by the scorching heat. The flames that were almost about to pounce on them almost roasted the oil out of their bodies. The two men took a deep breath and almost involuntarily exerted strength to lift up Lu Xiao.

Just as the two men were about to rush out of the fire to protect the weightless woman, when they saw the flames approaching their face, Lu Xiao almost instinctively turned her head and took a last look.

The entire stone chamber was filled with thick smoke and flames.

At this glance, she could only barely see Wang Shaoqiu, who was sitting in the corner under the thick smoke, like a hollowed-out sack. His face was blue-gray, his eyes were dull, and he seemed to have died, but also seemed to be still alive, because when Lu Xiao turned around, she seemed to see the firelight flickering in his eyes. The longing look that always disgusted her shone for a moment, and finally returned to silence.

At the same time, the burning sensation all over her body made Lu Xiao feel like she was falling into hell, but she clenched her teeth and swallowed the scream that was about to come out of her mouth, and she felt as if the world was spinning. They finally passed through the flames!

As if they were reborn, or even reincarnated as human beings, everyone on the tomb passage at this end of the stone chamber was breathing heavily. The two guards who were protecting Lu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief after putting her down, and immediately reached out to pat off the flames on their bodies. When they looked at each other, they couldn't help laughing.

But Lu Xiao just stood there numbly.

She didn't move at all, and couldn't even feel the burning heat on her body. It was Shang Ruyi and Woxue who came forward and helped her pull out the burnt ends of her hair and the corners of her clothes stained by flames.

Shang Ruyi asked, "Are you okay?"

"..."

Lu Xiao looked at her, her throat choked, and finally said: "No——"

But before he could finish his words, his throat, which was burning like it was cut by a knife, could not utter a single word. At the same time, the fire had completely filled the entire stone chamber, and from time to time there were shrill screams from people who had not been able to escape. Finally, the fire gradually died down, leaving only bursts of burnt stench that continued to pour out with the thick smoke, and soon poured back into the tomb passage!
Someone shouted, "Run!"

In fact, there was no need to shout, as some people had already rushed out of the stone chamber and immediately ran desperately along the same path they came from. Among them, the first one to react was Ashina Zhuxie. He was walking in the front with Lei Yu. At this time, only their backs could be seen.

Wo Xue hurriedly supported Shang Ruyi's back and pushed her down a little, then said, "Princess, let's go too!"

Shang Ruyi nodded and grabbed Lu Xiao's hand.

So the group of people bent over and lowered their heads, and ran back along the way they came, crawling and tumbling like mice chased by a cat. Fortunately, there was only that dark tomb passage that was accessible, otherwise, if they had run away in such a panic, no one would have known where they would have gone.

I don’t know how long I ran, but I finally saw a beam of light shining down from the air in front of me.

Although everyone was rushing forward just now, as soon as they saw the light, the chaos seemed to be suddenly dispersed. Even though there was thick smoke billowing behind them, everyone gradually calmed down. Ashina Zhuxie led Lei Yu to climb up along the hanging rope first, followed by Li Miao and Gao Chen who also protected Shang Ruyi, Lu Xiao and Woxue, and then everyone rushed to climb up again.

As soon as they returned to the ground, almost everyone collapsed.

Shang Ruyi sat on the futon that had been overturned long ago, with a pale face and no words. After Wo Xue stood still, he took two deep breaths to calm himself down, then immediately walked behind her and wiped her back. Shang Ruyi's face became more and more red, and he finally coughed up a mouthful of pus with black flocs, followed by a violent coughing fit.

Everyone was coughing.

Just when everyone was calming down and breathing again, Ashina Zhuxie suddenly rushed forward and grabbed Zuo Zhen who had climbed out of the cave.

"you--"