Chapter 938 - The Duo’s Night Battle (2/2)

There was only a beeping sound coming from the phone. At the same time when Xia Jinyuan and Ye Jian went into the darkness, a huge explosion rang from the villa’s kitchen. Not only did it blow up the kitchen, but the explosion also formed a deep pit underneath it. Half of the villa was also reduced to ruins.

The huge shock shook the ground, shocking all the birds in Mount Dalang as they flew away. It was like Mount Dalang woke up in the middle of the night.

When the birds returned to their nests, just a bit of wind was enough to make them flap their wings. Like them, the pheasants in the bushes only needed a little disturbance and they would be cooing.

Ye Jian was following Xia Jinyuan as they hurried to the abandoned houses in the mountains without using the mountain road. The target was only two kilometers away and it was a two-hour climb.

The light was dim, and only the crows and birds were chirping. As the surroundings darkened, Ye Jian could smell a third person’s scent in the abyss.

It rained a few days ago, and it was also autumn. The dense forest was full of the scent of decayed vegetation. Ye Jian had been smelling that ever since they started the journey and was very sensitive to the sudden and strange scent.

She gently pulled the hem of Xia Jinyuan’s clothes and immediately gestured to him as she pointed to the four o’clock direction.

There’s someone in the four o’clock direction.

At eleven o’clock in the evening, the two of them communicated with gestures, pa.s.sing through the bushes silently. They stepped on leaves as though they were sponges, never making a sound. Even the leaves and branches didn’t move at all, and their silhouettes were like shadows, weaving towards the four o’clock direction.

[1] Referring to a mystical pheasant-like bird, also known as Nue in j.a.panese folklore.