INTO THE ENEMY'S HEADQUARTERS 1

"Aaaaa!!!" Hu Nayin screamed aloud. She closed her eyes, getting sure that she would die. And she did not want to die with opened eyes.

But suddenly her hand was restrained. And her falling movement stopped.

"Uh oh..." Hu Nayin opened her eyes. Her hand was not restrained, more precisely to say, it was held by someone.

"Y... you... Payloth!" Hu Nayin screamed in disbelief. Above her, Payloth was pulling her by exerting his all efforts.

"Don't let your hands loose!" Payloth shouted toward his other fellows on the brink.

"You are.... the new members!" Zhu Su shouted in distrust while watching the nine members of his team, who had previously been so fierce against him, were now working together to save Hu Nayin. With nine people giving help, they quickly managed to pull Hu Nayin back to the edge of the valley.

"Th... thank you very much... all of you..." said Hu Nayin, her voice sounded trembling, and also panting.

"Next time you mustn't do that stupid thing, Nayin! Helping His Highness is a commendable deed, but still, you should take care of yourself," Xue Mei advised, her voice was also panting due to much energy she had exerted earlier.

"Besides, that kind of plant doesn't merely grow on rocks. So many of them grow in other places," Lin chimed in.

"All of you... how do you know that we are looking for medicinal plants?" Unable to withstand his curiosity, Wu Qi asked. "And why do you want to follow us? Don't you oppose His Highness, you all assume that His Highness is a cruel leader who can only rule with violence?"

Wu Qi's last question made the nine of them bow their heads.

"We... do apologize to Lord Zhou Wang... It's really, really a shame of us... we have been so negligent, can be fooled by Fa Ha so easily..." Representing them, Qing answered in embarrassment.

Wu Qi still did not believe them. "If you don't intend to oppose from the beginning, despite being fooled or hypnotized or whatever it is, still and all, you won't get provoked by provocateurs. You can be provoked by Fa Ha, then you are indeed holding a desire to oppose His Highness!"

Wu Qi's accusation quickly made them kowtow, they even touched their foreheads to the ground. "Please forgive us, Your Highness! But really, we have no intention to oppose you, even in the slightest! At first, we only confide each other about the difficulty of our work, silly then, since we are still newbies... We don't expect that it will be utilized by Fa Ha," Xiong said, his voice sounded very pitiful. "We ourselves are deeply ashamed with our actions, we are no different from a flock of barbaric people. We know that you trust us so much and are willing to accept us as members of your team, but we instead bite the hand that feeds us... But you can be sure, we have been resipiscence, Your Highness!"

"We are resipiscence, Your Highness! Please forgive us!" The others also shouted.

Watching all of them, Zhu Su took a deep breath. Actually, he had the right to be angry and then refused their apologies... yet now his mind was filled with great relief. Yes, he had eased so much, since his team had changed to be the team he initially expected. Even though they had to experience a mass turmoil, but in the end they succeeded to become a team he could fully believe for all time.

"Never mind, all of you. Stand up, no need to overact like that. I have forgiven all of you," said Zhu Su.

They looked up. Finding Zhu Su's earnest face, slowly they stood up, thus said with a cheerful voice. "Your grace is immeasurable! Rest assured, the same thing won't appear in the future!"

"It's true! If you still dare to repeat it again, then you'll get the consequences!" Wu Qi grumbled. "You, tsk tsk... His Highness gets severe headache just because of your rebellious action!"

"Alright, Sir Wu Qi!" They shouted together.

"Your Highness, anyway, where will we go?" asked Han Zhong.

"Yes, Your Highness, please permit us to follow you," Xiong chimed in.

"I am looking for medicinal herbs that probably can cure the poison hurting Fu Huang. So if you want to help me, then find any plants that appear rare and we'll research them together after returning from here."

"Which way will you use to do the research, Your Highness?" Di Na asked.

Di Na's question was truly beyond Zhu Su's estimation. He had also no idea about how to answer it - but indeed, he should admit that it was a very important question. "That... eeerrrr... I have no idea..."

"If you are looking for the antidote for Xie Wang's poison, then don't be so fussy."

Everyone turned their heads towards the one who was just speaking. Zhu Su was startled. "Liu Ku!"