The tip of their shoes indicated a path for them, and they ran forward along that path.
Childe's palms were sweaty with excitement, and Forso gradually felt a little tired, as his physical strength was not very strong.
Renault kept observing the situation in the sky. The sky was slowly getting darker as dark clouds were about to cover it.
"Ouch!"
Qiongzhi was startled by Fulsuo's wailing.
He kept looking at the corn stalks on either side. As the sky gradually darkened, the surrounding light became dim. The withered yellow corn stalks were blown by the wind, rubbing against each other and making a rustling sound. Sometimes it sounded like a group of people whispering, or dragging something...
This made Qiongzhi always feel that something was about to come out from inside.
Just as he was distracted, Forso was tripped by something and fell forward heavily to the ground.
"Forso, are you okay?" Childe and Renault pulled him up. Forso's clothes were stained with a lot of reddish-brown mud, and a small piece of skin was rubbed off on his chin.
The wound made him feel pain and tears came to his eyes instantly.
Renault wiped the dirt off him with one of his old handkerchiefs, and then asked him if he wanted to go back.
Qiongzhi felt that Renault knew the timing perfectly. Forso would definitely agree to return at this time!
But Fulsuo sniffed and shook his head under Qiongzhi's passionate gaze, "I must beat Fudok!"
Qiongzhi wanted to slap him, but in the end he could only keep smiling. In order to restrain his inner anger, he shifted his gaze to the ground and then frowned.
He stared at a small depression in the ground. It was this small depression where Forso had just tripped, and in the depression he could see a crushed cigarette butt.
"We've circled back," he said, pointing to the small hole. "Isn't this the hole that Renault made?"
Upon hearing the sound, Renault quickly put away his handkerchief and then looked at the place where Qiongzhi pointed.
He nodded and said, "This is what I just stepped on."
Obviously, at that fork in the road, they chose the wrong path, so they went back, and now it was Fudock and his team that were in the lead!
Zild stamped his feet unwillingly and looked at Forso: "Can you still run?"
Forso shook his head. He fell and his whole body was in pain. He could not run for the time being.
"Then let's walk faster." At this time, Childe considered his friend.
Several people retraced a path they had walked before, although they could not recognize whether it was the same.
"They've already gone by." Returning to the fork in the road, they soon found a few more cigarette butts, which were obviously left by Fudock's men!
Renault frowned and stomped out the cigarette butts one by one to prevent them from continuing to emit wisps of white smoke.
"What a lack of public morality." Qiongzhi complained. They had returned to the fork in the road. The previous road was blocked, so naturally they had to take another one this time.
quack--
Suddenly, a few crows flew out from the cornfield not far away, shouting loudly and flapping their wings as they flew away. They were probably frightened, so they flapped their wings a little hastily.
"It must be Fudock and the others!" Childe said with certainty, "We need to hurry!"
As he spoke, he trotted forward, quickly creating some distance between him and the others. Qiongzhi looked back at Fulsoe, who was being supported by Renault. Although his foot was not sprained, it still hurt a little.
The two people behind him obviously couldn't walk fast, but they couldn't leave Zilder alone. There was no other way. Qiongzhi took a deep breath to control the urge to curse, turned around and said hurriedly, "I'll follow him."
Then he trotted after Childe.
Although they did not split into two groups, their four-person team was still briefly disconnected, and Qiongzhi felt helpless about this.
Childe's figure was already very far away, and there seemed to be another turn in the road. Afraid of not being able to catch up with him, Qiongzhi couldn't help but quicken her pace.
As soon as he turned the corner, he bumped into someone's back, which made his nose sore and his eyes turned red due to the chain reaction.
"What are you doing!" Qiongzhi was a little angry because Zild was standing there motionless for some reason.
"Is that Fudock's clothes?" He heard Childe's trembling voice ask, and then he realized that the other party's expression was very strange.
Following Childe's gaze, Qiongzhi was also stunned.
As soon as the road turns, you can see a scarecrow standing on the side of the road. This is not a strange thing. There are always a few scarecrows standing in the fields. When they came here in the Renault car, they also saw scarecrows in the rice fields along the way.
What really surprised them was that this scarecrow was extremely lifelike, and it was wearing the clothes that they had seen Fudock wearing not long ago.
"Is this a prank?" Child asked. "This guy Fudock wanted to scare us, so he deliberately put clothes on the scarecrow!"
After saying that, he nodded affirmatively and looked at Qiongzhi: "Let's catch up! Don't let him succeed!"
Qiongzhi looked at the scarecrow, then at Childe who was running again as if he was escaping something. She wanted to ask something but couldn't because Childe had left.
What he wanted to ask was: Does a prank require taking off all the clothes and pants? And the necklace around the neck and... the pair of shoes on the straw bottom.
The more he thought about it, the colder he felt. Renault was right. It was about to rain, so the wind had already picked up, blowing his heart like the corn stalks. He hurried to catch up with Childe.
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