It seemed she hadn’t had an easy time last night, which is why she flew into a rage and tried to kill him upon his arrival.
Seeing her discomfort, Li Wenli felt a bit relieved.
Not long after Bai Lingyu stopped crying, the heavy rain also gradually ceased. At that moment, Bai Junjun was too preoccupied to concern herself with the heavens, nor had she realized that Bai Lingyu’s crying was related to the rainfall.
Her attention turned solely to her younger brother.
Bai Lingyu shook his head innocently, "I’m fine."
"Did you help set up these traps?"
Bai Lingyu pouted, "They were for catching wild boars."
Upon hearing this, Bai Junjun paused, while Li Wenli just shrugged, his expression one of innocence as if he hadn’t instigated anything.
Bai Junjun massaged her forehead, unsure of what to say.
"Big sister, you’re here too, that’s great! Brother Fox said you might have ended up somewhere else, I was upset for a long time." Bai Lingyu eagerly got up and threw himself onto Bai Junjun, not minding the mud on her at all.
"Where’s Sister Shi Yi? And Xiao Shan, and Aunt Liu, are they all here too?"
Bai Junjun, bombarded with a barrage of questions from Bai Lingyu, didn’t know which to answer first.
On the other hand, Li Wenli ground his teeth speechlessly, "In danger, it’s ’Brother’ this and ’Brother’ that, but once the coast is clear, it’s just ’Fox’. Kids really are heartless."
At this, Bai Junjun once again turned her attention to her dramatic former fiancé.
Li Wenli, as she remembered, was always sickly and usually either taking medicine or remaining silent. She had never noticed his talkative side, nor the traps he had set up in the past couple of days, which showed no signs of his sickly condition.
At first, she thought there was a hidden military unit here, as who else could create such extensive traps.
It turned out it was just Li Wenli and Bai Lingyu.
However, thinking about it carefully, it made sense that it was Li Wenli.
After all, being a Wind-series special ability user, it wasn’t too difficult for him to throw Wind Blades to dig a few quicksand pits.
Despite this, Bai Junjun still felt uneasy and asked, "Is there anyone else here?"
"Do you guys count?" Li Wenli retorted.
"It’s all a misunderstanding." Seeing that the two were about to bicker again, Bai Lingyu quickly intervened with an explanation.
"Brother Fox and I woke up near the water..."
Bai Lingyu excitedly described his and Li Wenli’s circumstances over the past few days.
The story started with the day they fell into Luo River.
Before being swept into the vortex, Bai Junjun had just managed to wrap Bai Sasa and Bai Lingyu in seaweed. At that time, Li Wenli was also washed near Bai Lingyu and saw vines on the child’s body, mistaking it for a case of a child falling into the water, where adults throw vines to save someone.
Desperate to escape, Li Wenli grabbed Bai Lingyu, hoping to hitch a ride.
The next second, the seaweed suddenly grew wildly and entangled, and he was forced into a cocoon together with Bai Lingyu.
However, it was thanks to this seaweed that they weren’t battered to death in the tumultuous waters.
After being sucked into the vortex, they both ended up falling into the Green Pool. Bai Junjun, Bai Sasa, and Xiao Shan, being lighter, were washed downstream while Bai Lingyu and Li Wenli were stuck on this side of the pool.
The pool and downstream weren’t far in terms of waterways, but walking across the hillside was a long and arduous journey. Moreover, the area where they fell was surrounded by jungle in all directions, leaving them clueless about their location.
Li Wenli woke up completely confused.