"Intuition, do you believe me when I say it's intuition?"
Gu Chengyan: ...
"Gu Chengyan, if you trust me, just listen to me. Let's not take this road. I always feel that this road is dangerous."
Gu Chengyan lowered his head and thought.
"September, do you know how much further we have to go if we want to go around this road?"
Lin Jiuyue frowned.
Indeed, the road in front of us is the closest one, and it has been walked on by others and a path has been paved. Unlike other directions, we need to open up our own way.
"We all know that this road ahead is the shortest and easiest to travel. Do you think the group of people who killed people earlier would think the same?"
Lin Jiuyue couldn't explain that she could use her consciousness to investigate the surrounding situation, so she could only convince Gu Chengyan and the others from other perspectives.
The conversation between Lin Jiuyue and Gu Chengyan was overheard by the village chief.
"Jiuyue girl, Ji family boy, stop arguing. You both have your own reasons, why don't we just take a vote? If we take the wrong path, no one can blame you."
Lin Jiuyue frowned and said nothing.
Seeing Lin Jiuyue's expression, Gu Chengyan thought about it and decided to listen to Lin Jiuyue.
"Village Chief, no need. I think September is right. What we can think of, others can think of as well. Besides, this road has been traveled by someone else. We don't know who the person who walked before us was. It's safer to take this route."
"As for the rest of the village, you can talk to them, village chief. The choice is in their hands, so they don't have to blame us if they take the wrong path."
Gu Chengyan felt that he had done enough to take care of these villagers along the way, give them meat, take them to find wild vegetables, identify wild vegetables, and distribute them to them.
If they are willing to take the shortcut at this time, I will not stop them.
Lin Jiuyue opened her mouth and wanted to refute, but no words came out.
The village chief left with a heavy face.
When Gu Chengyan said this, the village chief knew that it was time for some people to make a choice.
After traveling together for so long, Jiu Yue and the others had been quite considerate of the others in the group. However, there were still some people in the group who were not satisfied and kept making irresponsible remarks.
The village chief is also very annoyed with such people.
Soon, the village chief gathered the villagers and analyzed the two previous paths.
When the people in the team heard what the village chief said, they started talking.
Some smarter families expressed their opinions immediately.
"Village chief, stop talking. We are all following you on the mountain road. Whichever road you take, we will take that road!"
"Even if we took the wrong path and something happened, it was our own choice. We will never blame you."
When the village chief heard this, he felt a little relieved.
Not all the people I brought with me are ungrateful.
"Village Chief, why should we take the long way around when there's a shortcut? Besides, this road has obviously been traveled before, so how could it be so dangerous? On the contrary, it's the untraveled roads that are dangerous."
There were also people in the team who did not understand the village chief and began to refute him.
At this time, the team was divided into three groups. One group wanted to take a shortcut to save time and energy, while another group wanted to follow the village chief. They would take whichever path the village chief took.
There is also a group of neutral people waiting for Lin Jiuyue and Gu Chengyan to express their opinions.
"What about you?"
The village chief pointed at the two families who had not spoken.
The two families smiled awkwardly.
"Village Chief, we, we want to go with Jiu Yue and the others..."
After the two families finished speaking, they looked at the village chief with some embarrassment, as if they were sorry for him.
The village chief nodded.
"In September, they chose to take the long way. So, let's do this, just like before. Those who want to take the short way will stand in one team, and those who want to follow us will stand in the other team."
The village chief decided to give the choice to the villagers and let them make their own choice.
Anyway, my whole family will follow Jiu Yue and the others.
When the villagers saw that Lin Jiuyue and the village chief had chosen to take the long way, those who were originally neutral hesitated and stood among Lin Jiuyue and his team.
There were more than a dozen families in total, and only Li Zhuzi's family and another family chose to take the shortcut.
"You, you really are! That road is quite long. It will take an extra day to walk. You better think carefully."
When Li Zhuzi saw Gu Chengyan standing in another team, he became hesitant and tugged at Li Huaer's sleeve.
"Hua'er, how about we follow them and take the long way? Lin Jiuyue and Ji Liangchuan are capable, so we can just follow them. They can't just watch us starve to death, right?"
After Li Zhuzi finished speaking, he looked at his team again.
The son of the family that was traveling with my family was also one of their daughter's "lapdogs." If it weren't for the fact that this route was closer and someone was secretly giving them food, I wouldn't have risked going this way.
"Dad, what you said makes sense, but grandma said she can't walk anymore. If we have to go long distances, you and my uncle will have to take turns carrying her. If dad wants to carry her, we can go with them..."
Although it is necessary to carry the dog on one's back even if it is a short distance, the distance is short. Even if two people take turns carrying the dog, one person can't carry it very far.
Li Zhuzi frowned.
"But, Hua'er, Dad always feels that it's safer to follow Lin Jiuyue and the others..."
Li Huaer also felt so, but when she thought about the fact that she had not encountered much danger along the way, she no longer believed that she would make the wrong choice this time.
"Dad, how about we take a gamble? If we make the right choice, we can save a day's journey."
Walking one day less is indeed a great temptation for a team that has been walking for more than half a month.
Li Zhuzi thought about it for a long time and finally nodded in agreement.
In this way, the team split into two at this intersection.
Lin Jiuyue's group had more people. Only Li Huaer's family and one other family left the group.
But their two families had quite a large population, and the team suddenly reduced by nearly twenty people.
On Lin Jiuyue's side, everyone followed her example, rolled up their sleeves and trouser legs, put on face scarves, and left only their eyes exposed.
As soon as the team left, Lin Qiye asked quietly.
"Sister, why did we suddenly change our route? Is there anything unusual over there?"
Lin Qiye also knew that Lin Jiuyue could use her consciousness to explore the surrounding situation, so he asked this question.
Lin Jiuyue nodded imperceptibly.
"What's going on?"
The two spoke in a very low voice, and no one in the team noticed anything unusual about the siblings.
"There's a cave ahead on that road. There's someone in the cave, but they don't look like good people."
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