Suddenly, Wo Wan raised her head and said something to Chen Zhou. Chen Zhou was taken aback and stopped in his tracks, immediately looking around.
But the surroundings were no different from before, except that it was even quieter. No carriages were passing by now. What was the difference?
Chen Zhou couldn't figure it out, so he looked at Wo Wan again. Wo Wan was still looking up, just like Chen Zhou, with curiosity on her face.
"Why do you say that?" Chen Zhou asked directly. He hadn't noticed anything different, so he could only ask Wo Wan.
Wo Wan didn't answer at first, but thought for a while before saying, "When I came here, this road wasn't like this. There was a lot of people coming and going. Why are we the only two going to the Northern Kingdom now? All the other carriages and such came from the Northern Kingdom?"
Wo Wan and Chen Zhou had been walking for a long time before they discovered this strange thing. Indeed, as Wo Wan said, Chen Zhou suddenly realized that it seemed that only the two of them were traveling from this road to the Northern Kingdom. The others who traveled this way were all coming from the Northern Kingdom, clearly leaving it.
"It does seem a bit abrupt that the two of us are like this. Why is that?" Chen Zhou asked curiously, as he himself didn't know what had happened.
"I don't know either, that's why I said it's strange." Wo Wan had rested for a while and was now able to stand up straight. She strode towards Chen Zhou and stood beside him, looking around just like him.
"This matter is definitely not that simple," Chen Zhou pondered.
Although Chen Zhou had never been to this avenue before, based on the trade between the North and the South, it was definitely not deserted. Now, only a few carriages were passing by, and there was not even any large-scale cargo transport. Why?
Moreover, the Ghost Path is no longer the same as before; Chen Zhou has cleared away the biggest obstacle to communication between the two countries.
“I think so too. When I came back from the North, countless people entered the North through this road, including many large transport fleets. Why is it so deserted as we walk on this road now?” Wo Wan continued to ask curiously.
Now that the two have stopped here, Wo Wan has more time to rest. At this moment, her body is slowly recovering in a positive direction under the gradual restoration of her true energy.
"We'll wait here for now, and when a carriage passes by, we'll stop it and ask them," Chen Zhou said calmly. This was probably the only way to find out the reason now—to stop passing carriages and inquire.
Now, no matter how hard Chen Zhou and Wo Wan try, they can't guess the correct answer.
"It seems we have no choice but to follow your suggestion now; there's no point in continuing like this," Wo Wan said.
Indeed, now that the two have discovered this problem, there is a high probability that something is wrong with the road. Therefore, the best option for them is not to continue forward. Now, they should quietly wait for the next carriage to arrive, flag one down, and ask. This is the best way to get the best result.
So Wo Wan and Chen Zhou sat cross-legged on the main road, quietly waiting for the next carriage.
For some reason, Chen Zhou, sitting cross-legged on the ground, felt a strange chill, a chill that was even somewhat bone-chilling.
"Do you feel very cold?" Chen Zhou looked around in confusion. The surroundings were still the same, but Chen Zhou felt a strange chill.
"Could it be because you've been hiding your true energy?" Wo Wan thought back to her disheveled state while traveling earlier. Perhaps Chen Zhou's health wasn't very good either. Without the protection of true energy, he would naturally be able to feel the cold outside.
Upon hearing Wo Wan's words, Chen Zhou could only nod slightly to indicate that he understood. Logically speaking, he shouldn't even feel the fatigue of traveling, and his physical fitness should be very strong. So why was he feeling a strange chill now?
Chen Zhou didn't mean that the cold was very obvious, but rather that it was so cold that it felt like it was piercing to the bone. It seemed to have penetrated to the core, subtly trying to change Chen Zhou's body.
However, Chen Zhou did not feel that his body had been changed, so he did not take it to heart and could only continue to sit cross-legged and turn his head away from the matter.
The two were still concealing their presence, neither using their true energy. They didn't know what had happened yet, so neither of them planned to reveal themselves. They were waiting for the next carriage to arrive.
"That's not right. Based on the frequency of the carriages we encountered earlier, the next one should be arriving by now. Why hasn't it come yet?" Chen Zhou asked curiously. While traveling, Chen Zhou had started counting how many carriages had passed by out of boredom. He had even calculated the approximate frequency of each carriage passing by. While still on the road, Chen Zhou had predicted the arrival time of the next carriage, and it turned out to be quite accurate.
So Chen Zhou, who was sitting cross-legged and waiting, naturally used the frequency he had summarized to do a simple calculation. Chen Zhou found that a good while had passed, but the next carriage still had not appeared.
"Master, you're too impatient. Let's wait a little longer. This kind of thing doesn't come easily." Wo Wan was still recovering from her fatigue when she said to Chen Zhou.
Wo Wan was unaware of the frequency Chen Zhou had calculated. She only knew that the carriages would definitely not arrive one by one at the frequency Chen Zhou had calculated. If that were the case, what difference would there be between this and the planned schedule?
However, just as Wo Wan was complaining in her heart, a carriage slowly stepped out in front of Chen Zhou and Wo Wan.
The carriage emerged from the thin mist. At some point, layers of mist appeared ahead of Chen Zhou and his companions on the main road. At this moment, Chen Zhou and Wo Wan could no longer see the main road ahead, but could only see the carriage slowly passing through the mist.
What's intriguing is that the carriage had no driver and was deathly silent, seemingly moving forward solely on the horse, with no one to guide it.
"Could this be an empty car?" Wo Wan murmured to herself.
At this moment, Chen Zhou felt as if the whole world had become quiet, so he did not hear Wo Wan's voice. Chen Zhou gradually felt that something was wrong. At this moment, even Chen Zhou and Wo Wan's bodies slowly began to be enveloped in a thin mist, which made Chen Zhou feel an even stronger, bone-chilling cold.
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