38 Are you trying to steal my food? (1/2)

The exhausted woman was so frightened, drops of sweat slid down her pale bloodless forehead.

She stopped in her tracks to look in front of her to find a figure dressed in gray robes, dawning a veil bamboo hat. The cold wind rustled, causing the veil to slightly flutter. The figure was standing at the convergence point that led to a split path that would lead to different places.

If she had kept running, she would have had to choose a path to take anyway.

”If you want to live, go left.” The voice said again. This tone was unchanged from the first one, it seemed the person under the veiled bamboo hat, was one of patience.

”Who… who are you?” The woman asked cautiously, making the decision if she should stay, or flee.

”It doesn't matter who I am, I've said what I have to say, whether you believe me or not, it is up to you.” The voice rang out again.

She looked towards the center of the path again, perhaps wanting to ask another question, but found that the figure had vanished without a single trace. She hesitantly looked at the two paths that could be taken.

One went straight, while the other led left. She looked at the young boy in her arms with the loving eyes of a mother, holding him close to her. Thinking of the words the mysterious person said, she bit her lips, running towards the left path.

Maybe this was because the person had a very trustworthy voice, maybe it was because the mysterious person didn't attack them, that she decided to follow that advice and take the left path.

Xue'er, who had not yet left, was watching over the woman, holding the child as she ran towards the left path, which was also the path to the largest border city. Her eyes brightened as she saw the woman hug the child and bring him closer to her.

The straight path would have led directly to the miasma on the outskirts of the poisonous forest. If they had continued to run straight, she would have entered the poisonous forest, knowing her desperate situation and died under the miasma.

She couldn't say that she had helped them out of the goodness in her heart, she just didn't want too many people coming in when she was doing her experiments. If she had continued running, there would have been two corpses trapped in the miasma poisonous forest, she would have led the six assassins chasing them into the forest, a total of eight people would have been disturbing her experiments.

But going to the border city was not bad, if she hid well, no one would be able to find her among the tens of thousands of people living there.

Xue'er looked at the sun that was high in the sky, she could barely see any shadows on the ground, which meant that it was midday.

[Great, I've been here an entire day.]

It seems that Xue'er had lost track of time within that forest, where night and day were not distinguished.

She already knew that Gan Tian Chi would not be even slightly worried about her not returning to the cottage for one night, just as she was also not worried if he were to go somewhere without notice.

They both had a pretty good understanding of each other.

He had told her that they will go to the border city tonight and there are still a few hours before night falls, so there should be enough time.