Although there were some losses, we didn't leave empty-handed.

The setting sun cast a long shadow of her.

Outside the cave.

When Yunmo returned to the cave, the people inside were already gone.

Fortunately, the jade pendant he left behind was taken away.

Looking at the lush forest, he felt a sense of loss.

Although I couldn't see the other person's face clearly in the darkness, the delicate touch of their skin was deeply imprinted in my mind.

Looking at his blood-stained hands, his fingertips twitched slightly. He rubbed his hands hard on his clothes, unwilling to touch those beautiful hands and get them stained with this filthy blood.

When he regained consciousness, he heard someone coming outside the cave.

Without thinking twice, Yun Mo hurriedly put on his clothes, leaving only a jade pendant behind, and then left the cave.

When he went outside, he discovered that the people who had come were five Hu spies.

So Yunmo led the visitors to a distant grove of trees and cleared it away.

When I returned, she was no longer there.

He had no idea who she was, what her name was, or where she lived.

Is she a mountain dweller?

Or were they people who fled to the mountains?

A gust of wind blew by, causing the strands of hair to flutter slightly.

A person dressed entirely in black suddenly appeared and knelt before Yun Mo.

"Your subordinate is late, please punish me, Master."

Yun Mo snapped out of his thoughts, his nose twitching slightly as he caught a faint whiff of blood in the air. "You're injured?"

"Thank you for your concern, Master. It's not my blood." The man in black paused, then continued, "The Hu army has set off from Pingcheng and will arrive in Xincheng by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. On the way up the mountain just now, I took care of two Hu spies."