Chapter 38: He appeared

The hardships of traveling through the mountains and forests need not be detailed.

However, to put it another way, my master and I should be grateful that at least with Ding’s special powder, we were not harassed by the most common snakes, insects, rodents and ants in the mountains.

After the ancestors saved us once, we didn’t encounter any search teams again. I guess it was because we spent most of our time traveling through secret passages. Yes, except for the first five days, for the next week of our journey, my master and I almost traveled through secret passages.

As for this last time, we spent almost two days in the secret passage before we finally came out of this long secret passage.

The moment we came out, the blinding sunlight almost made my eyes unable to open. It was only after I had shed tears for a long time that I finally got used to the blinding sunlight.

Looking around, I found myself in an unfamiliar place again. My master looked at me for a long time and suddenly said, “Yes, we’re almost out.”

“Master, you haven’t even looked at the map, how can you be so sure?” As I spoke, I scratched my face… For nearly half a month, my master and I had been traveling through the mountains. It was a luxury to have a hot cooked meal, let alone the problem of washing, which was something we didn’t even dare to think about. We just wanted to get out of the mountains as soon as possible.

So, now my image of the master and I should be worse than beggars, with tangled hair, beards, and ragged clothes. It’s because we’ve been living like savages for so long that I feel itchy all over.

“Fool, look at the vegetation… where there is human habitation, the vegetation is always sparse. This is the experience of the master.” As he spoke, the master also took out a map, not very sure, and I don’t know if his experience is nonsense.

“Well, that’s good. After we cross this mountain, we should be there. The road is down the mountain, and that’s our destination.” The master put away the map and couldn’t help but laugh while saying, “After all, after traveling in the mountains for so long, I still miss the world of humans. This is the nature of the human soul, and it’s hard to get rid of it.

The master smiled, and I was happy too. I couldn’t help but laugh along with the master… and I was so eager to eat some stir-fried food and take a bath that I laughed and pulled the master forward as we walked quickly.

I had gotten used to climbing mountains in the past two weeks, so even mountain trails without roads were normal for me and my master. With deliberate quickened steps, we quickly climbed over the mountain.

Below the mountain is a gentle slope, and at the bottom of the slope is a winding road. On the other side of the road is a slightly gentler depression, with sparse farmhouses in between.

My master and I stood on the top of the mountain and saw this scene, and we couldn’t help but be excited. After all, it was the first time we had seen the world of humans in a long time.

We looked at each other excitedly, and immediately ran down the mountain. As for what we were going to do, whether we were going to stop a car on the road, leave, or go to a farmhouse to rest, we had almost no plan.

Because we were running too fast, my master and I both fell down, and then rolled down the gentle slope several times. If it weren’t for the trees on the gentle slope… I think my master and I could have fallen all the way to the road.

Everything seemed to be going so well, but I had an inexplicable premonition of danger. The closer we got to the road, the stronger it became. So before we left the mountain completely, I grabbed my master and hesitated!

“What’s wrong?” The master turned his head and looked at me with some confusion.

“Master, I was only accepted as your disciple because I have excellent spiritual perception, right?” I looked at the master seriously and said.

“Why did you suddenly bring this up?” The master originally wanted to joke with me, but when he saw my serious expression, he knew I wasn’t joking, and his expression became solemn.

“Although it is quiet here, I just have a hunch that it is dangerous. Master… After you left, my spiritual senses have become more and more accurate. How can I put it… when I have a hunch that something is dangerous, it has never been wrong! Master, I know you have planned a lot of things, and we are almost…” I didn’t know how to explain this strange feeling to my master, so I could only explain anxiously. In short, my feeling was that I could not get close to that road.

And this feeling of danger is getting stronger and stronger.

But I didn’t expect Master to interrupt my explanation with a wave of his hand and say to me very calmly, “You don’t need to explain so much to me. You are my disciple, and no matter whether your spiritual awareness is outstanding or not, I believe whatever you say. Now, what do you think we should do?”

At that moment, I felt that I was suddenly relying on my master. I no longer hesitated to tell my master, “Don’t go near that road for the time being. Let’s back up and wait!”

Master didn’t object, and turned around and walked back. You see, the quiet road was not far away at this moment. As long as we got out of the mountain, we could find a way to take us to Xiangxi. But Master didn’t hesitate to retreat to this barren mountain that made us want to throw up.

I am very grateful to Master for this kind of trust and reliance without words. Just this small action made me feel like I had suddenly matured by ten years, and I felt a heavy responsibility on my shoulders.

We retreated quickly until we reached a depression with a few small trees and a clump of weeds. My heart felt a little more at ease.

“Master, let’s hide here for a while,” I said decisively to my master… In fact, on this gentle slope, there were trees everywhere, so there was no need to hide, but I said it subconsciously.

Faced with such a “funny” request, Master didn’t even have a single objection. He hid in the grass as usual, followed him into the grass, then lay down, and then stared at the road, subconsciously telling me that I should do it.

Although there were no mosquitoes to bother us, the small thorns of the brambles were still itchy and prickly, so lying down inside was actually quite uncomfortable.

But I kept staring at the road, without moving, and Master patiently lay next to me. The sun was scorching, and it was three or four o’clock in the afternoon in June, so sweat gradually dripped from our eyes.

I am very grateful that my master did not ask me why, and time did not make me wait too long… About ten minutes later, the sound of a car driving came into my ears.

Hearing this sound, my heart suddenly began to beat faster… I don’t know why. This accelerated heartbeat made me feel an inexplicable nervousness, and I couldn’t help but purse my lips and subconsciously grab a clump of weeds and hold it tightly.

“What’s wrong?” The Master, who had been very quiet, finally spoke very softly when he saw me like this.

“Master, did you hear the sound of the car? I think as soon as that car appears, the answer to the feeling of danger will be revealed.” I said this instinctively, but after saying it, it became a certainty.

“Yes, that’s probably the case.” The master also gave me a kind of affirmative trust.

The car seemed to be driving very slowly. I had heard the sound of the car long before, but it was only after my brief conversation with the master that the car appeared in our line of sight… a black modified large convertible SUV.

When it appeared in my line of sight, my heart was beating at a critical point… I saw eight people in the car at a glance, two of whom were holding binoculars and carefully surveying the mountain and the valley, while the other people seemed to be doing nothing, but they all exuded an unusual aura.

I recognized two of them. They should be the ten top thugs who followed Wu Tian. No, now they should be the Holy King, right? One of these two was the lama. I remember that Wu Tian seemed to value him very highly. The last time I saw him, he was standing just half a step behind Wu Tian.

I don’t recognize the others, but the dangerous aura they exude makes my eyes ache just from looking at them… Of course, the masked man is there.

If I didn’t care about these people, then I had to care about the person sitting in the passenger seat. Not to mention others, just his appearance alone would make my heart beat faster… Because the person sitting in the passenger seat had covered his face with a scarf around his neck and put on a pair of sunglasses… but I could still recognize him—Yang Sheng!

I didn’t expect Yang Sheng to come to this remote place in person… It seems that my master and I have really made a big splash.

A sneer crept onto my face, and on the highway, Yang Sheng suddenly waved his hand, and the car stopped.

Under the scorching sun, in the mountains and forests full of birdsong and insects, I could hear my own heart beating, “thump, thump, thump!”