131 Reaching the Vermilion Fores (2/2)

”The Ice Harpy has eradicated yet another Wayfarer caravan,” someone would gossip to Xue Wei. ”It happened in the Kingdom of Heping, actually a lot of things happened there recently. A new Primordial Beast that is known as the Crimson Devil has appeared. Now the Kingdom has sent all their Primordial Beast Hunters to capture him, yet they failed!”

Xue Wei frowned. The Ice Harpy had eradicated a wayfarer caravan? A sudden fear arose in his heart. Could it be Wang Xiaoyun's caravan? She had told him that they were chasing the Ice Harpy.

His eyes blackened for a moment and everything went cold. He suddenly felt as if something had left his life as he staggered, before quickly collecting himself again.

Xue Wei felt uncomfortable. He felt worried and sick within, but he knew that he could not return to the Heping Kingdom to find out whether or not it was Wang Xiaoyun's caravan that had been eradicated.

”Were there any survivors?” Xue Wei asked. His voice trembled slightly, but the only one who seemed to notice was Hei Gou. He looked with worry at Xue Wei before he remembered the stories that this friend of his had told him about his sweetheart, a Wayfarer he had met in the Kingdom of Heping who was hunting for the Ice Harpy.

”We do not know, but if there were no survivors, how could the rumor about the destruction spread?” one of them asked with a frown on his face. Xue Wei nodded his head.

He knew instinctively that there were many reasons for it to be public information: One, someone could have come across the corpses and spread the news; two, a survivor; three, it could be that Chu Huiyin was deliberately sharing the news.

Still, Xue Wei desperately hoped that it was the second option and that Wang Xiaoyun was one of the survivors. He did not believe in God, but he could not help but pray for her safety.

Hei Gou and Xue Wei bid their farewell to the ones that they conversed with and started walking towards the direction they had been pointed towards.

Although Hei Gou and Xue Wei were asking for directions, never once did they let down their guards. They had learned that not everyone could be trusted. Some of the experts they encountered led them to remote areas in an attempt to rob them.

New wounds and scars littered their bodies. Their clothes were in tatters, and they looked miserable, but at the same time their gazes became much more chilling, their bearings extraordinary.

When someone looked into their eyes, it was as if they looked into the eyes of a dormant, yet very dangerous beast that might awaken at any moment.

Many were deterred by these eyes, but a few continued to challenge them.

Finally, after traveling the roads of the Vermilion Forest Kingdom, Xue Wei and Hei Gou arrived at a small village.

This was a village belonging to mercenaries with only a few shops. It was the mercenaries' families that lived in this place, and the men and women would venture into the Vermilion Forest to hunt Fierce Beasts.

Some left for a day at a time, others went deeper into the forest and spent up to a week before they returned to the village.

Merchants and caravans went through the village on a monthly basis where they would stop and buy the things that the mercenaries had for sale.

Because of this, many experts were walking in and out of the village. Although it was a small village, it was a rather bustling place.

Hei Gou and Xue Wei, who were still under the disguise of two tribesmen called He Jie and He Lin, walked into the village under the rays of a burning sun.

Behind the village, these two experts could see the Vermilion Forest proudly towering.

It was a beautiful sight as the vermilion leaves were glistening under the sun's shining rays.

This Vermilion Forest seemed so tranquil from the outside. The trees were all tens of meters tall, and the village bordered straight up to the forest, allowing the youngsters to hide under the shade of some of the trees while chatting.

It was in the afternoon, and all martial art training had finished for the day. All the adolescents aged fifteen and below were in the shade relaxing their exhausted bodies that had been working hard in the middle of the heat and under the sun's rays all day.

Although many experts entered the village, few looked like Hei Gou and Xue Wei who wore fur clothes, which were so warm that one would feel hot just looking at them.

Their peculiar appearance alongside their age made many observe them curiously.

Xue Wei and Hei Gou had a few silver coins, and they went straight to the small inn that was in the village.

This inn served as both an inn and a restaurant for the small village, and since it was in the afternoon, the ground floor was so bustling with mercenaries and merchants that even Hei Gou and Xue Wei had problems making their way to the counter.

Many of the patrons of the restaurant looked at Xue Wei and Hei Gou with curiosity. A few had a bit of wariness in their eyes, but most of them did not seem to feel threatened by the two and were mostly curious about their out-of-place, strange clothes.

They instantly determined that the two came from the Flowing Blood Prairie, and were very curious as to what kind of news they could give them.