Chapter 331 - Fleeing (2) (2/2)

With her front facing the entrance of the cave, she indistinctly saw a black figure flashing by behind the silver-white waterfall through the weeds covering the cave.

“Screech—”

The screeching of the eagles gave Bai Qingqing an affirmative reply.

Holding her breath, she nervously gazed outside.

[We didn’t see them anywhere. Could they be hiding in the water?]

The eagle beastmen were talking amongst each other, but in Bai Qingqing’s ears, all she could hear were screeches that went on and off. This made her feel all the more nervous.

[Let’s go into the water to take a look.]

[Darn it! We should have brought along a beastman with a keen sense of smell. With Muir injured, I’ll bet they can’t run too far away. We ought to have caught them long ago if we could follow their scent.]

This screeching suddenly stopped. Bai Qingqing saw that the black figure on the waterfall was getting nearer and nearer. It seemed like they were discovered.

Bai Qingqing closed her eyes. All the cells in her body stopped breathing at this moment.

An eagle beastman was hovering above the center of the lake, and he was gazing right at the waterfall.

“Have you discovered something?” An eagle beastman who had transformed into a human asked.

His words were like an inauspicious confirmation to Bai Qingqing.

[Nothing.] The eagle beastman who was staring at the waterfall shifted his gaze away, thinking that what he sensed earlier was probably his hallucination.

Bai Qingqing, who had no idea when the eagle beastmen outside had left, laid with a stiff body the whole time. She didn’t even have the energy to check if she had recovered her strength.

It was only when Muir let out a frail cuckoo sound in front that she snapped out of her trance. If it weren’t for the fact that Bai Qingqing was near to him, it was almost impossible to detect that amidst the loud sounds of the waterfall.