The flames burned recklessly. Chen Zhou deliberately controlled the flames, increasing their intensity. As the flames grew, their pupils also dilated.
"This seems to have ignited itself..."
Then they immediately began to discuss the flames.
At this moment, Chen Zhou immediately asked Yuan Ziyi beside him, "Is it still possible to walk?"
Yuan Ziyi had stopped earlier because she couldn't hold on any longer and had plopped down. Now, Chen Zhou planned to sneak away and didn't intend to get entangled with those people, because he could see them by the firelight.
There were eight people in the group, almost all of them wearing combat armor and carrying numerous weapons, with almost everyone wielding a large sword. They didn't seem like people to be trifled with. Chen Zhou was busy traveling, and Yuan Ziyi wasn't in good condition either. Provoking these people who seemed like desperate criminals here would not do Chen Zhou and his companions any good.
"That's fine."
Yuan Ziyi replied weakly that she had rested for a while and was now ready to start again.
"Okay, get up now and let's set off together." Chen Zhou said seriously to Yuan Ziyi, and then prepared to stand up.
“Okay,” Yuan Ziyi replied, then stood up with Chen Zhou, ready to slip away at any moment.
The flames over there were indeed too attractive to those people, so when two such large people stood up, the people over there didn't feel it at all.
Standing up means being ready to slip away at any moment.
As Chen Zhou watched the people discussing heatedly, he prepared to turn around and leave immediately. Yuan Ziyi followed closely behind Chen Zhou, heading towards the back of the mountain range.
However, this direction is the opposite of Yuan Ziyi's! Their direction is undoubtedly the way back.
"This is the wrong direction," Yuan Ziyi whispered behind Chen Zhou. Upon hearing this, Chen Zhou immediately realized that they had gone the wrong way and were heading in the direction they were going back.
But it was too late now. Chen Zhou was about to turn back, but there wasn't enough time. It would be best to find a new rock to hide behind. However, there were no rocks around. Chen Zhou hesitated. If they went back, they would waste the time they had already spent traveling.
Therefore, Chen Zhou did not want to go back.
Going back would definitely take time, and time was very important to both of them. Chen Zhou didn't want to run into those people, nor did he want to waste time going back, but satisfying one of them meant that the other could not be satisfied.
"What should we do?" Yuan Ziyi asked when she saw Chen Zhou stop.
Chen Zhou didn't know what to do either. The two of them stopped in their tracks, but the people hadn't turned around to look at them yet. They were still discussing the flames, and some were even preparing to touch them with their hands.
However, the next moment the man immediately withdrew his hand. After withdrawing his hand, he immediately turned around and looked at the person next to him who seemed to be the leader. At this moment, the person was looking in the direction of Chen Zhou and the others!
Without a doubt, they had seen Chen Zhou and his group! Chen Zhou and Yuan Ziyi stood still, unaware that the gaze of the person not far away had fallen upon them.
"B-Big Brother... there's someone over there..." The man stammered, looking at the two figures with their backs to them in the moonlight. He was clearly frightened by Chen Zhou and Yuan Ziyi! Neither Chen Zhou nor Yuan Ziyi noticed that the man had spotted them!
The person who seemed to be the leader immediately followed the gaze of the person next to him and quickly saw the two people on this side, namely Chen Zhou and Yuan Ziyi.
"There really are people there!" the leader said confidently, then immediately turned around and shouted to Chen Zhou and Yuan Ziyi, who were still standing there, "You people over there! Stop right there!"
Upon hearing this sound, Yuan Ziyi immediately realized that something was wrong!
It seemed she had encountered these people before.
Yuan Ziyi had never seen them before.
Hearing their voices, Yuan Ziyi realized that these were the robbers she and Ning Qing'er had seen on the road before! They specifically targeted passersby! Because this was the only way to enter the capital from Ningwuzhuang, they often blocked the way for travelers.
Blocking this road is equivalent to intercepting everyone living here.
They can then intercept those people's money.
Although there is no money in this magical city, there is something more important than money: the token! So these people specialize in intercepting passersby, killing them and stealing the token!
"It's like finding a needle in a haystack, only to have it fall into our laps without any effort. We've been searching for so long in the Ningwu Mountains, and today we've finally caught two people," the leader said.
They were thieves who frequented this area, and they were planning to leave for their own place by nightfall, but they never expected to see these two again.
Moreover, these two men looked very weak! One was clearly a frail scholar, and the other woman was even weaker. There were eight of them! All eight men looked very burly and were armed. Among the two, the frail scholar had a black sword at his waist, and that black sword looked very weak.
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