The evening breeze rustled the surrounding weeds.

The lychee tree in the middle of the depression was only forty or fifty meters from the edge. I followed the route that had been crushed and reached the edge of the lychee tree in no time.

In the dim light, two men were wolfing down lychee peels under a tree, surrounded by piles of lychee shells.

"Gurgle!"

Manjing saw the two men eating and his stomach growled. He whispered, "Big brother, should we take care of them?"

"Wait a little longer."

I gently waved my hand, and taking advantage of the mountain breeze rustling the weeds, I moved forward a little further.

"Pooh!"

A bald man under the tree spat out a lychee pit, burped, and said to his companion, "After so many years in the martial world, I can endure any hardship, but what I fear most is hunger. Those bastards in Fengmen Village are really too much trouble!"

"Haha, thankfully we've obtained the token, so it wasn't a complete waste of time!"

Another man leaned wearily against a tree: "It's just a pity about Lao Liu and the others. They risked their lives to draw the border guards away from us, and we don't know how much they suffered!"

Hearing their conversation, I immediately understood who they were.

These two people are the ones who surpassed those in our team.

The night before, I thought they had been caught by mistake, but I never expected that the people who were caught were deliberately trying to attract the attention of the border guards.

"Don't worry, they don't have any contraband on them. Even if they get caught by the border guards, they can only be charged with smuggling. Once we enter Fengmen Village and sell our drugs, we'll figure out a way to get them out!"

The bald man stretched his shoulders: "Didn't they say Fengmen Village is incredibly powerful? We have money, so why should we worry about getting them out?"

"Yes, we've been working hard for several years. If we can find a market for our products in Fengmen Village this time, then our efforts won't have been in vain."

Hearing the bald man's words of comfort, the other man stood up from the ground: "Time is of the essence, let's get down the mountain as soon as possible. If we are caught by the border guards, Lao Liu and the others will have sacrificed themselves in vain."

The two chatted as they walked toward me together.

I hid in the grass, knees slightly bent, while I pondered something else.

Judging from their conversation, these two men are now preparing to descend the mountain, which means that the route they took to ascend the mountain is not the same as ours, and at least they don't have to avoid the soldiers at the training ground.

The distance of a few meters passed in the blink of an eye. The two walked into the bushes and then turned back along the path they had come from.

As they brushed past me, I suddenly sprang up from the bushes and pounced directly at the bald man.

"Gulp!"

Caught off guard, the bald man was roughly pinned down on the grass by me.

"Enemies!"

As the bald man shouted, he grabbed my clothes by the shoulder and shoved me to the side.

"You fucking bastard!"

The other man saw me on top of the bald man, pulled out a sharpened branch from his waist, and stabbed it at my neck.

"Bang!"

When Manjing saw that I was being attacked, he charged out of the bushes like a mad bull and knocked the man away.

The bald man was much stronger than me. He used one hand to throw me off him, and with his other arm bent at the elbow, he roughly slammed it down on my cheek.

I raised my arm to block the bald man's blow, feeling as if my arm had been hit by a steel pipe. At the same time, I reacted quickly, sticking out my finger and aiming it at his eye.

Seeing the trajectory of my attack, the bald man quickly withdrew his fist and held his palm horizontally in front of his eyes.

My gouging out his eyes was just a feint. Taking advantage of his obstructed vision, I punched him in the Adam's apple, then pinned him down and slammed my knee into his groin.

"Aww—"

The bald man was struck in his weak spot, letting out a heart-wrenching scream. He instantly clutched his crotch and rolled around in agony.

"Don't move!"

I gripped an arrow and pressed the sharp end against the bald man's chin: "Move, and I'll bury you under a lychee tree!"

At this moment, Manjing also subdued another person and dragged him back. When the man saw the bald man's appearance, he struggled and asked, "Old Yu, what's wrong with you?"

The bald man groaned in pain, "That kid has no sportsmanship and attacked me from behind! I was careless... I didn't dodge!"

I applied slight pressure with my hand and pierced the bald man's skin with the arrow: "Stop talking nonsense, hand over the token if you don't want to die!"

Baldy, his face covered in sweat from the pain, explained through gritted teeth, "Brother, it's all a misunderstanding! There's nothing in these mountains. We were just about to leave when we ran into you!"

“I heard your conversation a long time ago, including the time when Lao Liu distracted the border guards for you.”

I stared coldly at the bald man: "I know the item is on you. Should I kill you and search for it myself, or will you hand it over in exchange for your lives?"

Upon hearing my words, the bald man's face immediately turned ugly, then his eyes hardened: "I admit, we did get the token, but it's not on us. You can search us yourself if you don't believe me! You can have it, but you have to let us down the mountain first. I'll only hand it over to you once I've ensured our safety!"

Looking into the bald man's determined gaze, I pulled out his belt and tied the man's hands together, then tied up the man that Manjing had grabbed as well.

Manjing searched the two men and shook his head at me: "Brother, they weren't lying. There really wasn't anything on these two."

Seeing that we hadn't found anything, the bald man sneered, "I told you long ago that we've hidden the item. I absolutely won't hand it over unless I'm sure it's safe. You know what kind of place this is. Delaying this won't benefit anyone! Since we've been caught, we'll just have to accept it. As long as you let us down the mountain and can guarantee our safety, I can tell you where we've hidden the item! Otherwise, you'll never see the token."

"Is that possible?"

I smiled at the bald man: "I know exactly what you're thinking. You want us to take you down the mountain, then you'll give us a fake address and run away with the token, right?"

The other person loudly retorted, "You saw it yourself, we don't have any tokens on us, how could we possibly deceive you?"

"Both of you are seasoned tomb raiders, and there are only a few ways to deceive the heavens and the sea. You wouldn't really ask me to turn you into earth immortals, would you?"

I used the arrow in my hand to slash along the bald man's neck to his abdomen, and then stabbed him at the pylorus: "Let me guess how you hid the jade pendant, whether you swallowed it or inserted it through your anus... Well, guessing won't make any sense, I'll just kill you and dissect you myself!"