Fang Ya looked at Goh Fei with a gaze filled with heartache. In fact, Goh Fei didn’t have to come back, but she did it just to help her find those lost friends.
"Fang Ya, you don’t need to feel guilty. I wanted to do this. I also want to help those who are lost. But if you don’t leave now, you might really not be able to."
Her gaze turned to the mountains; it was time for everyone to be heading back.
"It’s okay, let’s look for the sisters first. Fang Ya, you go ahead and return."
She and Wu Wa were certainly fine here, but if the two of them weren’t present, she feared the others might get lost again.
"Right, you and Goh Fei go back first. I’ll go look for them with Xingxing. Rest assured, you’re already very tired. Do you need us to support you?"
Xiao Qi’s voice was very gentle, his already handsome face even more so, giving off a warm and reassuring feeling.
At this moment, Xiao Qi was showing a bit of interest, which made Goh Fei’s cheeks embarrassingly redden.
She wanted to speak up, but realized she had already been supported...
It was Wu Wa and Bai Zhi, while Xiao Qi took care of supporting Fang Ya; for some reason, Goh Fei felt a bit upset at this moment.
She was actually classmates with Fang Ya, just from junior high. Later, she went out to work, and it wasn’t long ago that Fang Ya found her, asking if she was from this village...
At that time, it was because she saw Xiao Qi that she had agreed, but now...
"Sister Goh Fei, you’re familiar with this place. Is there a shortcut we can take to enter the mountain?"
Bai Zhi’s words interrupted her thoughts, and she paused before responding.
"Yes, there is. Just take that path over there and keep walking..."
She pointed towards the not-so-obvious path across from them and spoke.
Bai Zhi looked and seemed to see it too before she spoke.
"Then, thank you, Sister Goh Fei. We’ll accompany you to the iron chain bridge."
Bai Zhi escorted them to the iron chain bridge, watched them cross, saw the brother on the other side waving to them, and then turned around with Xiao Qi, ready to head into the mountain.
Soon after, they heard a loud boom...
The iron chain bridge, the sound was definitely from the bridge being broken.
The noise was so loud it seemed to shake the forest. Xiao Qi turned around, but he could see nothing.
"What was that noise? Should I go check it out?"
They had already started their journey into the mountain, but that noise...
"It’s nothing, just the iron chain bridge breaking."
Bai Zhi didn’t seem to care, her expression still carrying a light, breezy smile, as she casually offered Xiao Qi a proposition.
"Do you want to eat some rice balls? We’ll have to stay here tonight, brother. Did you bring a sleeping bag?"
Bai Zhi and Wu Wa both opened their backpacks, which surprisingly contained many rice balls. It looked as if they were on a spring outing.
"No, Xingxing, the iron chain bridge is broken. I need to check the situation immediately."
He was anxious; the bridge was the only connection between here and the outside world.
No, that’s wrong. Precisely because it was the only way, someone must have broken it deliberately, and if they went...
He had been too careless.
He looked back to see the two little girls had already begun to eat; he too squatted down to eat. Only with a full stomach would he have the energy.
"When do we continue to look for those lost girls?"
The mountains were simply too vast; they had no direction at all.
"After we eat, then we can continue. Don’t worry, there is someone to guide us."
Those people would surely want them to find the girls.
Xiao Qi thought to himself, it was possible someone would voluntarily offer to guide them.