Chapter 222: The princess made her beautiful little eyes widen until they were round…

"Did you leave that dark cabin, escape the pirates' clutches, return to the forest, return to that fairy-tale-like forest?" the city boy asked the bird princess.

"If I escaped the clutches and returned to the forest, could I still tell my story here in this dark cabin with you?" the bird princess countered the city boy.

After the bird princess's counter-question, the city boy suddenly realized that he, like her, had been captured by the pirates and locked in this dark cabin, both unfortunate souls stranded far from home.

Then what happened?

Later, seeing that I would rather die than be defiled, this gang of dwarf bandits threw me into this dark cabin, leaving me unable to live or die.

I've run into you today. How did you also end up locked in this dark cabin by these dwarf bandits?

Exactly, how did I get thrown into this dark cabin by those dwarf bandits?

The city boy simply couldn't remember.

He glanced at the bird princess's petite, beautiful figure, suddenly realized, and said, "I was captured by those dwarf bandits while trying to save you."

"To save me?" the bird princess widened her beautiful little eyes until they were round…

"Yes, to save you! I am the brother you've been looking for!"

"Are you the brother I've been looking for? You're a liar, aren't you? Your intentions are impure!" the bird princess said skeptically, "How could my brother be you! You liar, get out! I never want to see you again!"

"Princess, please don't misunderstand! This isn't the place for reminiscing. What's urgent now is that we think of a way to escape."

One sentence dispelled many of the princess's doubts.

"How to escape? The dwarf bandits are heavily guarded! Unless you have godlike abilities to slaughter all the bandits on the ship, do you think those bandits are fools?" the bird princess said disappointedly.

"Slaughter all the bandits on the ship? No! I want to turn the bandits on the ship into fools!"

"You're just a bragging expert, aren't you?"

"No, I'm not a bragging expert. I'm an illusionist; I studied under Zhuangzi and learned illusion arts."

"You studied under Zhuangzi?"

"After my brother and sister were separated, while searching for you, my sister, I wandered to a mountain. Master Zhuangzi took me in. I became his sole disciple, and before he turned into a butterfly, he passed his transformation art to me. Master warned me not to use this technique unless at a critical moment, because it can only be used once. And now........"

(Original creation on Qidian, exciting to be continued in the next chapter――――)