"So? You have plan for this? Because I don"t have anything inside my mind now." Honestly speaking, Senja wasn"t in her right mind right now. She was too worried to think about Xiao Tianyao whereabouts."I do." Ye Xiu said.
When night came, Senja and Ye Xiu decided to spend the night among the dense of the trees inside the forest. They had just left district 11 as they went toward the direction of the Capital City.
Ye Xiu still refused to elaborate his plan, so Senja only followed what his instruction. He would bring her to meet Xiao Tianyao and that was all that matter for Senja, she didn"t care what method Ye Xiu would use as long as she could meet him, everything was fine.
Ye Xiu wasn"t the type who would like to talk about everything, so far his only question was; how is Riana doing? And Senja replied she was sick, he felt restless after that, but he kept his calm façade.
Because he had promised Senja, of course he would fulfill it. But, knowing Riana not in her best condition, he seemed rushed to find out about Xiao"s brother army.
Senja didn"t complain though, but his plan that remained mystery piqued her curiousity.
"So, what is your plan? Do you want to meet someone?" She tried to strike a conversation. It was becoming a little bit awkward with only the two of them sitting under the trees, with campfire in the middle, but silence stretched out very clear between them.
"No, someone will find me."
His replied created a frown on Senja"s face as it was very questionable and didn"t explain anything except made her became more fl.u.s.tered.
"So, who is this man… or woman?" Senja asked again with perplexed expression.
"He will help us to fill the information here." Ye Xiu said while adding more dried branches to the fire, make it bigger.
Something wrong with it, but Senja couldn"t put her finger into it.
"And how he supposes to find us?"
Ye Xiu sighed deeply. He didn"t like to elaborate anything to anyone, he had been living by his own and no one asked him more than necessary. He had avoided all the conflict of power struggled and started new with Gong Xu and the other Senja.
Waiting some miracle that the other Senja suddenly could grant his last wish to meet Riana, thus when he knew that there was another Senja who astonishingly had the same face and same name as the other Senja, he knew right away that his answer was laid in front of him.
The key of the mystery to meet Riana was with the purple hair girl who was looking at him expectantly and curiously, waiting for him to explain his answer.
"We had stirred quite commotion among the soldier, so the news will not only fly away unnoticed." Ye Xiu added more dried branches into the fire. "Someone will report this to Xiao Zi." And he added more dried branches.
Now the flame was bigger than necessary, it didn"t make Senja felt warm anymore, but she felt hot. There would be someone find out about their place if Ye Xiu kept feeding the fire.
"And?" Senja drawled, her eyes fixed on the campfire in front of her, slightly back away because it almost ate her face with its flame.
"And someone will know that I am here." Ye Xiu said, standing up and looked around him.
Senja did the same, not feeling comfortable anymore with the fire and something that crept closer to their place.
"I think they are here already." Senja whispered, looking around her with antic.i.p.ation. "Ye Xiu… I don"t think they are here to help us…" Senja muttered as she sensed their presences.
Ye Xiu just hummed as a replied.
"So, how about them?" Senja was nodding at the darkness.
"They will help to make it easy for that person to find us."
Like on cue, the bushes and dense trees were shaking around them and from the darkness of the forest bunch of soldiers emerged, showing themselves into Senja and Ye Xiu"s line of sight.
"In another word, you lured him to find us by creating all of this commotion." Senja remarked when she watched the Azura"s soldier were already surrounding them. "Are you sure he will find us with this method."
"He will. This is the fastest way to reach him." Ye Xiu said while unsheathing his sword.
There was no greeting or wasting words when dozens of the soldiers charged toward them with killing intent in the air.
Senja was literally and figuratively tired with this fight. She had been fighting them since they entered the city"s gates. Now, she was bathing with blood and dirt, feeling agitated and annoyed.
Halfway through the battle, Ye Xiu exclaimed to the empty s.p.a.ce behind the trees.
"Stop sitting idle there and come out!"
Senja subconsciously looked at the direction where Ye Xiu was shouting and watched a man come out from behind the bushes.
She didn"t recognize him at first, but then she felt the familiar feeling about this figure, narrowing her eyes, Senja tried to take a better look at him before shock etched on her face.
"You!?" Senja exclaimed to the person she had known before.
"You!?" The same man responded in the same way as Senja. His eyes widened in disbelief. "Ye Xiu! Why this girl is with you?" That man pointed his finger at Senja.
With another person came for their aid, it had only take another minute to finish all the soldiers who were surrounding them before.
When all those soldiers had gone, that man took his stance beside Ye Xiu and faced Senja with agitated expression etched on his face.
"Now, tell me what the relationship between both of you?" He demanded.
Ye Xiu looked confused. He cleaned his sword from blood with the nearest death soldier"s robe before he put it back into the scabbard. "Both of you knew each other?"
"Well, you can say that she left me behind with a group of people came looking for her and her Prince." He said in mocking tone. Totally despised by the memory of the last time they saw each other.
"I didn"t mean that…" Senja lowered her head in shamed.
He was Ju Long, the person who had helped Xiao Jun when he was in the Rockstone Kingdom, executed Xiao Jun"s plan to make Rockstone Kingdom and Azura"s kingdom fought with each other.
"Good thing I could escape them." Ju Long huffed with dissatisfaction.
"You know he is a prince…" Senja noted about this revelation.
"Of course I know!" He said with matter of fact tone.
Ye Xiu raised his eyebrows by this coincidence, agitatedly Ju Long told him how he had met Senja and Xiao Tianyao in the night where he tried to escape from the guards, but stupidly couldn"t open the fetters.
Apparently, in the end, Xiao Tianyao and Senja left him when a group of people were coming to look for them. Without goodbye or warned him about the danger that came to his way.
And so on, he kept rumbling about his dissatisfaction of Senja"s action and how rude she was until Ye Xiu had have enough with his explanation and cut his complain coldly.
"What happened here?" He asked impatiently. "This city supposed to be under Xiao Jun"s force, but why Xiao Zi"s soldiers are roaming here?"