The room suddenly fell silent. Li Chanxiu felt several gazes abruptly turn toward them, and Physician Hu beside him began trembling even more.
Immediately afterward someone got up from the ground and strode over.
Li Chanxiu only felt a gust of wind approach him. There was a rustling of cloth beside him, and then by his ear sounded the disbelieving voice of the Fourth Boss called Xuanping,
“How could it be impossible to treat? Wasn’t it said that the Yongfeng Town garrison has a miracle doctor who can even save someone whose intestines are severed? My big brother only has a leg injury and poisoning, how could you be unable to treat it?”
Physician Hu was so frightened that his voice trembled. “H-hero, I truly am not deliberately refusing to treat him. Just now when you were changing the medicine on that young master’s wound, I secretly opened my eyes and saw it. The flesh at the wound has already rotted down to the bone, and the blood is dark black, it’s a symptom of poisoning. The leg can no longer be saved.”
Judging from where his voice was coming from, he must have been lifted up by Xuanping in one hand.
“What do you mean it can’t be saved?” Xuanping’s voice was coarse as he roared in a low voice. “Didn’t they say you could even save someone whose intestines were severed? My big brother’s leg isn’t even cut off, how could it not be saved? You…”
His voice trembled and choked. Halfway through speaking, he suddenly seemed to remember something. He hurriedly released Physician Hu and clumsily helped him straighten his clothes, speaking to himself, “I understand now. It must be that when I invited the miracle doctor earlier, I was too rude and offended you. Please forgive me, miracle doctor. I apologize to you. Please don’t blame me anymore, please save my big brother…”
Physician Hu, standing beside him, not only did not relax but trembled even more with fear.
Li Chanxiu sighed helplessly in his heart and finally opened his eyes.
He had just been about to say, “I can help take a look at your Young Master Lu,” but before he could speak, a voice above him rang out, mixed with muffled coughing and anger: “Nonsense! Xuanping, quickly untie them.”
“Yes, yes, untie them.” Xuanping hurriedly fumbled to untie Physician Hu, apologizing as he did so. “I’m truly sorry, old miracle doctor. I really had no other way, so I resorted to this method to invite you here. Please show mercy, my big brother’s injury truly cannot wait any longer.”
Li Chanxiu looked upward toward the man called Lu Zhi.
The man was handsome, with upright and well-proportioned features, looking about the same age as Pei Er. However, his face carried the pallor of illness. At this moment he was sitting in a wide chair, covering his mouth as he coughed softly.
His left leg rested on a long bench beside him. Through the white trouser leg one could faintly see dark black bloodstains. The situation indeed appeared exactly as Physician Hu had described.
Beside him, a middle-aged man with a beard was patting his back and softly advising him.
Two other youths stood nearby with their heads lowered, looking as though they had done something wrong.
So it really was him, Lu Zhi.
Li Chanxiu’s gaze flickered slightly, and his eyelashes quickly lowered.
He knew of this man. However, the one he knew was not the Lu Zhi before him, but the future hero of the Northern Expedition, General Lu Zhi.
In that dream, it was more than a year later, when he returned from Western Qiang after many twists and turns and reorganized his father’s old troops, that he first heard of Lu Zhi.
It was said that he came from Youzhou in the northern lands, which had already fallen. Yet he had always remained loyal to Great Zhou. After both of his parents died resisting the Hu invaders, he led the remaining members of his clan and finally succeeded in escaping south, returning to Great Zhou.
Originally, after successfully fleeing south, he was filled with passionate determination. He immediately joined the army, wanting to march north and recover the lost territories. But reality struck him heavily. Not long after joining the frontier army, he discovered that the imperial court had no intention of recovering the northern lands and only wanted to maintain the current situation.
The frontier army he joined had long since lost its fighting spirit. From the generals down to the soldiers, they had all fallen into indulgence and pleasure, and gambling was rampant. They did not fight the Hu people; instead, they habitually oppressed the nearby villagers, using the money they extorted to visit brothels and gambling houses.
Lu Zhi was completely disillusioned with such a frontier army. After speaking out several times and being targeted by the army’s commanders, he finally developed the intention to leave.
But just before he left, he encountered the camp’s general drunkenly attempting to force himself upon a respectable woman. The man was arrogant and domineering, even declaring that his subordinates would take turns as well. In a fit of anger, Lu Zhi killed the man by mistake, and afterward he was wanted and pursued.
It was said that during the time he was being hunted, he lived extremely badly. Not only did he lose one of his legs, but his body was also left with lingering illness due to poisoning, which later caused him to die young. The old followers around him also died one after another during that period while protecting him, until only one man named Xuanping remained.
Later the Hu people launched a massive invasion, refugees rose everywhere, and the Great Zhou court fled south in panic. While fleeing, the emperor issued an edict allowing every region to recruit troops on their own to resist the Hu invaders and the refugee uprisings.
It was at this time that Lu Zhi spent all his family wealth recruiting local volunteers and marched north to fight the Hu.
At first he had fewer than a thousand men. But a year later, when Li Chanxiu returned from Western Qiang, Lu Zhi already had tens of thousands of troops under his command. Later, at the height of his power, he commanded nearly a hundred thousand men and recovered Henan and Hebei in a single stroke.
At that time Li Chanxiu had also been reorganizing his father’s old troops and resisting the Hu. He had once considered recruiting this man. Unfortunately, before he could speak, the small Zhou court that had fled south had already recruited Lu Zhi.
At that time Lu Zhi and Pei Zhen, who was resisting the Hu on the eastern front, were both known as the final pillars of Great Zhou.
Unfortunately, the court of Great Zhou never made proper use of either of those two pillars.
After Lu Zhi recovered Henan and Hebei, he was soon suspected by the court. Not long afterward, his old illness relapsed and he died young. His army was quickly absorbed by the court, and only a general named Xuanping refused the official position offered by the court. Following Lu Zhi’s final wish, he cremated his body into ashes and brought them back to the northern lands.
Speaking of it, in Li Chanxiu’s dream, although Pei Zhen on the eastern front had always disagreed with Lu Zhi politically, after Lu Zhi’s death Pei Zhen still wrote an elegy for him and even sent people to help Xuanping escort the ashes back to the north.
Although Li Chanxiu had not interacted much with Lu Zhi in the dream, he had met him once. So earlier, with only a single glance, he had already recognized him.
Later in the dream he also heard that during the time when Lu Zhi was being hunted, he had once fallen into banditry, and it was during that time that he lost his leg. It must be this period now.
He just hadn’t expected that the place where Lu Zhi had become a bandit would be Wuding Mountain.
And because Li Chanxiu had not fled the military camp as he had in the dream, but instead used his dream knowledge to treat wounded soldiers in the army, he had coincidentally been captured and brought here by Lu Zhi’s men.
Li Chanxiu thought quietly to himself, feeling that this circumstance was truly coincidental.
Lu Zhi seemed to notice his gaze. After coughing softly for a moment, he suddenly lifted his head and looked at him, his eyes sharp and carrying a hint of scrutiny.
“This young lady has been looking at me the whole time. Could it be… that you know me?”
As soon as the words fell, the people in the room immediately became tense, likely because Lu Zhi was currently being hunted.
Xuanping, who was beside them untying Physician Hu’s ropes, also froze and looked nervously at Li Chanxiu.
Li Chanxiu lowered his eyelashes slightly, avoiding everyone’s gaze, and said, “It’s not that I know you. It’s just that… you’ve found the wrong person.”
Everyone in the room froze for a moment, seeming not to have reacted yet.
Lu Zhi was the first to understand and said, “Oh, miss, you mean, you are the divine doctor?”
“I wouldn’t dare claim that title,” Li Chanxiu replied. “But if the person you’re looking for is the physician who sews up people’s intestines, then that would indeed be me.”
“Thud!”
Xuanping was stunned for a moment, and the hand gripping Physician Hu suddenly loosened, causing Physician Hu, caught completely off guard, to fall with a thump. Physician Hu didn’t even dare make a sound.
The others were also stunned.
What? The divine doctor wasn’t the elderly man beside them who clearly looked experienced in medical practice, but this… very young little girl in front of them?
After Xuanping came back to his senses, he hurriedly helped untie her. But remembering that she was a woman, he became somewhat awkward and restrained; while untying the rope, he kept saying, “Pardon me, pardon me.”
Strange how he hadn’t felt embarrassed when tying her up.
After the rope was untied, Li Chanxiu moved her wrists for a while. Once they no longer felt numb, she bent down to help Physician Hu up and removed the half-untied rope still on him.
Physician Hu was still trembling and asked quietly, “Have you seen his injury? Are you sure you can save him?”
With her eyelids lowered, Li Chanxiu said softly, “Not yet.”
When Physician Hu heard this, his heart immediately sank to the bottom again. Lowering his voice, he said, “Alas, it’s not that I doubt your ability. It’s just that that young master’s injury has clearly been dragged out too long. On top of that, he’s been poisoned, it’s already at the point where only amputation is possible…”
Even though the two spoke in very low voices, Xuanping was right beside them and heard everything clearly. He couldn’t help glaring at Physician Hu.
Under that glare, Physician Hu felt as if thorns were pressing against his back, and his voice gradually grew quieter.
Lu Zhi noticed and gave Xuanping a low rebuke. Then he looked again at Li Chanxiu and said carefully, “You… really can treat it?”
Although when he had just scolded Xuanping and the others he had said that it wouldn’t matter if the injury went untreated, that had been more out of anger, and because he didn’t believe the two physicians they had kidnapped could cure it.
But no one suddenly wants to lose a leg. If it could be treated, and the physician was willing to treat it, who wouldn’t want it treated?
Still, seeing that Li Chanxiu was truly young, and a beautiful, delicate girl, he couldn’t help but doubt a little, and his words carried some hesitation.
After helping Physician Hu steady himself, Li Chanxiu also turned to look at him. Her clear, bright eyes met his as she said calmly, “I can’t guarantee anything. I need to look at the injury first.”
Since she had fallen into a “bandits’” den, and the people before her were not actually vicious, saving someone was naturally the better option.
After all, saving someone at this moment was equivalent to saving herself.
Even without considering that, judging solely by Lu Zhi’s character in the dream, he was worth saving. A person like him, if he did not lose a leg, if the poison did not leave lingering illness, might not die young in the future.
If he did not die, then Pei Zhen on the eastern front, Li Chanxiu in the southwest, and the many soldiers in the dream who still resisted the Hu people to the very end would gain one more source of support.
Perhaps even…
Li Chanxiu’s thoughts turned again. If she showed Lu Zhi kindness now, in the future he might become a source of support for her and her father, perhaps even someone under their command.
Even if that did not happen, forming a good relationship would do no harm.
While she was thinking this, Lu Zhi also seemed to be silently pondering.
Xuanping and the others beside him were already anxious and couldn’t help urging again.
“Big brother, just let this young lady take a look at the wound.”
“Yes, young master, treat the injury first. Afterward you can punish Xuanping and the others however you like.”
“Young master, your health is what matters. Please let this divine doctor girl treat you. We know we asked for help the wrong way, you can have us apologize however you wish.”
Li Chanxiu also looked at Lu Zhi. He was not in a hurry; he only needed to wait patiently.
Lu Zhi coughed lightly, seeming to waver, but still somewhat hesitant. Carefully, he said, “Then…”
As he spoke, his gaze met Li Chanxiu’s eyes, and paused again.
The people beside him immediately became anxious. One of them simply crouched down and, rather rudely, pulled up his trouser leg, saying, “Oh come on, young master, stop hesitating. Even if you punish me by making me go three days without food, today I still have to make sure you get that wound treated.”
After saying that, he quickly turned and urged Xuanping.
Seeing this, Xuanping immediately extended his hand and made a “please” gesture toward Li Chanxiu.
Lu Zhi was caught completely off guard by this turn of events. By the time he reacted, Li Chanxiu had already looked at his injury and was walking over.
At this point, pulling his trouser leg back down would be meaningless. But being watched by a little girl while his leg was exposed made him rather uncomfortable.
Lu Zhi tried to sit upright and formally clasped his hands toward Li Chanxiu as he approached. “Many thanks… little divine doctor.”
Li Chanxiu did not think much of it. She had long been used to examining soldiers’ wounds in the wounded soldiers’ camp, besides, she was originally a man.
Since it was nighttime, when she bent down her shadow blocked the wound. She said to the person beside her, “Please bring the lamp.”
Xuanping quickly went to bring over the candlestick with a lit candle. He also grabbed a small stool so that Li Chanxiu could sit while examining the wound.
Li Chanxiu didn’t stand on ceremony. After sitting down, she had him hold the lamp while she reached out to untie the cloth bandage wrapped around Lu Zhi’s leg.
Lu Zhi hurriedly extended a hand and said, “I’ll do it myself.”
But before he could touch it, Li Chanxiu raised her hand and blocked him. His movement froze.
Afraid that this group of outlaws might become angry, Physician Hu quickly explained on Li Chanxiu’s behalf, “When we physicians treat injuries, we become completely focused and absorbed. The thing we fear most is the patient moving around, it can interfere with the treatment.”
Lu Zhi paused, then silently withdrew his hand.
After carefully examining the injury, Li Chanxiu looked up and said, “I can first help you clean out the poisoned blood and rotten flesh, and partially suture the wound…”
“Then that means you don’t have to cut off the lower leg? My big brother’s leg can be saved?” Before she could finish, Xuanping impatiently asked.
Lu Zhi also looked at her, his gaze carrying a trace of tension.
Li Chanxiu smiled lightly but did not guarantee anything. “I still need to prepare medicine to neutralize the poison. As for whether the leg can ultimately be saved, that will depend on how it recovers afterward.”
Hearing this, the several of them already breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the physicians they had previously invited had all said the leg could not be saved.
The middle-aged man behind Lu Zhi, who looked like a steward, couldn’t help becoming somewhat emotional and said, “Truly, the master and madam in heaven are protecting us. The ancestors of the Lu family…”
Before he could finish speaking, he received a look from Lu Zhi. The steward immediately felt he had misspoken and hurriedly fell silent, thinking it was because they were worried about revealing their identities.
But the two of them quickly realized that just now Physician Hu had been pretending to faint, so he had probably heard the part where Lu Zhi said his own name.
However, it was only a name. Even if he heard it, it didn’t matter. A physician from a remote border town might not necessarily know that there was a wanted criminal named “Lu Zhi.”
Lu Zhi withdrew his gaze and looked again at Li Chanxiu, seeming to relax a little, and once more cupped his hands and said, “Then we’ll have to trouble the divine physician.”
Li Chanxiu smiled. “There’s no need to call me a divine physician.”
Compared with the wandering doctor in his dream, his medical skills couldn’t be considered good. If one had to say, that wandering doctor was the true divine physician.
Lu Zhi’s leg injury was already extremely serious and couldn’t be delayed any longer.
Although the conditions were somewhat insufficient, after weighing it over, Li Chanxiu still decided to clean and stitch the wound for him tonight.
Because of that experience in the dream, Li Chanxiu usually carried needle and thread with him, just like the dagger.
Physician Hu, who practiced medicine regularly, was also used to carrying a set of silver needles, knives, scissors, and the like.
There were also some of the medicines Li Chanxiu had bought today that he had brought with him. As for the medicinal materials on the cart…
He turned and asked Xuanping, “Those medicines on the cart, were they really not brought here?”
Xuanping glanced at Lu Zhi, whose expression immediately turned stern, and hurriedly pointed to the sky and swore, “I really didn’t snatch them. I didn’t even touch a single medicinal leaf.”
Only then did Lu Zhi’s expression ease. He looked apologetically at Li Chanxiu and the other, but before he could say anything, he heard Li Chanxiu sigh.
“What a pity.”
“Ah?” The future General Xuanping looked confused.
Li Chanxiu explained, “There were medicinal ingredients on that cart for making mafeisan. If they had been brought, we could use mafeisan first before treating the wound, and it wouldn’t hurt so much.”
So that was the reason?
Lu Zhi relaxed and said, “No matter, divine…”
He had intended to say “divine physician,” but remembering that Li Chanxiu had just said there was no need to call him that, he changed his words: “May I ask the young lady’s surname?”
Li Chanxiu was carefully washing his hands with clean water and salt water. Hearing this, he looked up. “My surname is Shen.”
Lu Zhi nodded and continued, “Miss Shen, please go ahead.”
Li Chanxiu glanced at him, but suddenly thought of Pei Er. That person also wasn’t afraid of pain.
Speaking of which, these people under Lu Zhi had settled as bandits in Wuding Mountain, and the mountain bandits Pei Er was going to suppress were also in Wuding Mountain. Could it be… such a coincidence?
He couldn’t help glancing at Lu Zhi and the others again, though his expression remained calm.
After washing his hands, he instructed Xuanping and the others to prepare more lamps, in case when he treated the wound later the lighting wouldn’t be bright enough, or shadows might get in the way.
Physician Hu also washed his hands clean and, as usual, stayed beside him to help, passing him things.
Perhaps still intimidated by this group of bandits, when he handed things over he was still trembling slightly, trying hard not to shake.
On the contrary, Li Chanxiu beside him, after sitting down and looking at the wound, instantly became completely calm.
He methodically first helped Lu Zhi clean the wound, then took the blade and scissors and carefully dealt with the festering flesh little by little.
Watching from the side, Xuanping and the others couldn’t help feeling that the roles of the old and the young between the two had been reversed.
Moreover, when this Miss Shen cut open the flesh and faced the ferocious wound, her expression didn’t change in the slightest. Her hands didn’t tremble at all, and her gaze was even focused, as if she were looking at something ordinary.
Even Xuanping and the others, watching the wound being cut open and the foul blood flowing out, couldn’t help but feel their flesh ache and their scalps tighten.
Li Chanxiu didn’t notice in the slightest and remained focused on treating it.
As his blade and scissors moved, Lu Zhi tightly gripped the armrests of the wide chair. Veins bulged on the back of his hands, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and all color had already drained from his face.
Xuanping and the steward both looked at him worriedly, but he shook his head with difficulty, signaling them not to disturb Li Chanxiu. Soon he clenched his teeth again and shut his eyes tightly, sweat continuously sliding down from his temples.
***
Outside the bandits’ stronghold, in the pitch-black thicket of trees.
Pei Er and Zhang Hu and the others were hidden behind the shadows of the trees.
Whether it was incredibly good luck or heaven’s help, not long after the group had gone up the mountain, they had actually felt their way to the location of the bandit stronghold.
Zhang Hu pondered to himself: what luck? The Yongding garrison had attacked so many times before finally figuring out the location of the stronghold, and they even kept it hidden from them, afraid they would snatch the credit.
It showed that the location of the stronghold wasn’t so easy to discover. Perhaps Centurion Pei had already been studying the map and deduced that it was around here, but since he hadn’t seen it in person before, he couldn’t confirm it.
Otherwise, how could Centurion Pei lead them all the way here with barely any detours and suddenly discover the stronghold?
While he was thinking, Pei Er, who had half his body extended to observe, withdrew and hid in the tree shadows together with the others.
“Did you all remember the route just now?” he asked in a low voice.
Zhang Hu and the others quickly nodded. In the darkness, only several shadows could be seen moving.
Pei Er continued, “Good. Then I’ll make the following arrangements…”
He told Zhang Hu one by one how the five hundred men down the mountain should be divided into several groups and how they should attack the mountain.
Just as he was about to finish speaking, several footsteps suddenly came from the distance, and Pei Er immediately fell silent.
After a moment, several people holding torches and lanterns suddenly walked out from the bandit stronghold in the distance, seemingly patrolling.
Pei Er and the others immediately pressed close to the trees behind them, trying their best to block their figures behind the trunks.
“In the middle of the night like this, freezing cold, who knows what they’re patrolling for. That bunch of useless government soldiers down the mountain would be lucky just to find the road up the mountain. Suppress bandits? Hah.”
The burly man walking in front raised his torch and yawned as he spoke.
The people behind him echoed, “Isn’t that right? Besides, the rules set by the East Stronghold, what do they have to do with our West Stronghold?”
“If you ask me, the Second-in-command of the East Stronghold is just too cautious.”
“Exactly. This they won’t let us rob, that they won’t let us rob. If we can’t rob anything, why did we become bandits?”
“Exactly, hahaha!”
“Speaking of which, that Second-in-command of the East Stronghold, he’s about done for, isn’t he?” someone lowered his voice and said again.
“I heard that too. Before, didn’t he forbid everyone from robbing military supplies? But today I heard that his subordinate, the Fourth-in-command Xuanping, directly snatched the military supplies from Yongfeng Town, and supposedly even captured two physicians. If the Second-in-command weren’t about to die, would the Fourth-in-command be so anxious?”
Behind the tree shadows, when Pei Er heard this, he suddenly clenched his hand, his eyes in the darkness glinting with a faint cold light.
“…Isn’t that so? I heard the Second-in-command was poisoned by a strange toxin. If he weren’t half an immortal, he would’ve died long ago.”
“Shh, you can’t say that. You’ll offend an immortal.”
“…”
As they spoke, the group had already walked near where Pei Er and the others were hiding.
Pei Er quickly leaned his body back and held his breath.
At this moment, trailing behind the group, the gaunt bandit carrying a lantern suddenly spoke, ingratiatingly chuckling, “Brothers, I need to go relieve myself.”
“Heh, this kid.” One of the bandits walking in front shook his head.
The burly man at the front raised his torch, turned back for a glance, and impatiently said into the pitch-black night, “Go quick and come back quick.”
The bandit carrying the lantern quickly responded with an “Aye,” and jogged toward the thicket where Pei Er and the others were hiding.
Pei Er and the others couldn’t help holding their breath. Zhang Hu in particular tightly gripped the blade in his hand in tension.
But when the gaunt figure reached the edge of the thicket, he didn’t step any further in. He only kept turning his head to look back at the burly man and the others ahead.
The burly men grew impatient from waiting and simply stopped waiting, continuing forward. After all, they had walked this road many times and were familiar with it, they wouldn’t get lost.
Seeing the others had all left, the gaunt figure couldn’t help letting out a sigh of relief. Then he chuckled and actually turned in another direction, seemingly heading down the mountain.
Pei Er and Zhang Hu exchanged a glance. Immediately afterward, Pei Er waved his hand, and the two of them acted at the same time, like two ghostly shadows of the night leaping out. They quickly stepped forward and covered the gaunt bandit’s mouth and nose.
The bandit only felt a gust of cold wind behind him. Turning his head and seeing two dark shadows, he thought they were ghosts and was about to shout in fright. But before he could make a sound, a hand chop knocked him unconscious, and he was dragged into the forest.
Zhang Hu pressed the unconscious man into the tree shadows and asked Pei Er in a low voice what they should do next.
Pei Er pulled open the night-walking clothes he wore on the outside in one motion. His voice was slightly cold as he said, “Strip off his clothes.”
Zhang Hu: “?”
In weather this cold, stripping the man’s clothes off would probably freeze him to death. Weren’t they supposed to bring him down the mountain for interrogation?
Wait, could it be that Centurion Pei intends to…
Clearly, he had guessed correctly.
Pei Er soon said, “I’ll follow them into the stronghold to investigate. You split into two groups. One group will take this person down the mountain and hand him to the Thousand Commander to see if anything can be interrogated from him. The other group will stay near the stronghold and wait for my news. If after two days there is still no news from me, have the Thousand Commander attack the mountain according to the method I just described.”
Just now, based on what he had investigated tonight, he had already devised a plan for attacking the mountain and told Zhang Hu and the others.
But this plan still wasn’t perfect and couldn’t rescue Li Chanxiu and Physician Hu first. If during the attack the bandits panicked and directly killed the hostages…
A cold look flashed in Pei Er’s eyes, filled with ruthlessness.
He couldn’t help worrying about Li Chanxiu’s safety. Right now, the best method was for someone to infiltrate the bandit stronghold, rescue Li Chanxiu and Physician Hu first, or at least ensure the safety of the two.
The infiltrator could even take the opportunity to figure out the internal situation of the stronghold and further perfect the plan to attack the mountain. If it could be done in one decisive success, all the better.
For this infiltration candidate, Pei Er naturally would not yield to anyone else.
But when Zhang Hu heard this, he became somewhat anxious and said in a low voice, “Centurion, the attack on the mountain needs your command. Let me handle the infiltration, ”
Before he could finish speaking, Pei Er stopped him with a look.
“I wouldn’t feel at ease with you going,” Pei Er said quietly. “I’ve already told you the plan. When the time comes, just have the Thousand Commander attack according to the plan. With me cooperating from inside and outside, success will be easier.”
After saying this, he didn’t give Zhang Hu another chance to speak and directly raised his hand to stop him. Then he personally started stripping off the bandit’s outer clothing and quickly put it on.
Halfway through putting it on, his movements suddenly paused for a moment, his expression slightly stiffening.
Zhang Hu immediately became alert, thinking there was danger. But after a while he didn’t hear any movement nearby, so he couldn’t help asking, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” Pei Er quickly recovered, though his brows were slightly furrowed.
After quickly finishing dressing, he agreed on a signal with Zhang Hu and the others, then turned and walked out of the thicket, his figure hidden as much as possible in the shadows of the roadside trees.
But after walking only a few steps, his steps became slightly unnatural again.
This bandit’s clothes were really too tight, the trousers were a bit stuck.
He gritted his teeth, adjusted the position a little, and only then moved lightly and swiftly like a leopard, silently catching up with the patrol group from earlier.
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