Caught off guard by the sight of the Wild People, both Bai Junjun and Li Wenli were momentarily stunned.
Even during The Apocalypse, people wouldn’t dress so scantily, yet here they were in the conservative ancient times, witnessing people using only leaves for cover.
Despite knowing they were Wild People, Bai Junjun still felt it was quite the eye-opener.
At that moment, the Wild People were singing and dancing around the bonfire, and she was afraid that any more vigorous dancing would cause their leaves to fall off.
In the middle of the bonfire, the skinny, terrified old man could be none other than Mr. Dan He.
It was remarkable that under such a shock he had no reaction other than his pupils trembling.
However, the naturally sharp Wild People soon noticed they were being spied upon.
Instantly, they raised their eyebrows and ran towards them with their long spears ready.
Li Wenli’s sleeves fluttered and a sudden gust of wind blew them over, tumbling them head over heels. Just as the Wild People were trying to get up, they saw thousands of Vines charging at them.
The Wild People’s faces turned pale with shock, babbling something unintelligibly.
Bai Junjun thought they would resist fiercely, but to her surprise, they turned tail and ran!
Before long, the group vanished over the Dune, leaving Mr. Dan He prone on the ground, still in shock.
Bai Junjun and Li Wenli hurriedly untied Mr. Dan He and helped him up.
Mr. Dan He’s face had been smeared with sand by the strong wind just now, and he was coughing miserably with his face and mouth full of sand.
Li Wenli apologetically flicked droplets of water to wash his face.
Mr. Dan He kept his eyes closed the whole time, not having seen Li Wenli command the wind and rain with a flick of his hand, and simply thought Li Wenli was washing his face with a water flask.
After a while, when the sand no longer irritated his eyes, Mr. Dan He finally opened them.
"Thank goodness you came. I thought my old bones were going to be left here. Those people from the Fire-Swallowing Tribe are really terrifying; they pounced like Monkeys. I hadn’t even had a chance to react before they carried me off," he said.
And these people dragged him to this clearing, then started a fire and danced around him, making him think it was some sort of pre-meal exercise to get ready to gnaw on bones.
As Mr. Dan He was feeling the chill, a strong gust came along, and then Bai Junjun and Li Wenli appeared.
The narrowly escaped Mr. Dan He was profoundly emotional, continuously muttering about his close call, seemingly quite rattled.
"You won’t be harmed with us here," Bai Junjun comforted.
The old man uncommonly wiped away a tear.
It was the comfort of the past couple of days that made it hard for him to gather his wits in the face of this sudden event, after all, what was this in the grand scheme of things?
Wasn’t it just being captured by Wild People? In all these years of travel, what situation hadn’t he seen?
And yet he had been scared to tears!
Mr. Dan He wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes and stubbornly said, "Actually, I wasn’t that scared, it was just a bit unexpected."
After all, that was the Immortal Residence, and seeing the Trace of Misdirection, he had indeed arrogantly believed no one could break in.
So when the Wild People jumped in, he was completely dumbfounded.
Bai Junjun calmly nodded, "It’s fine, we’ll just strengthen our defenses in the future."
Once Fox wakes up, having him reinforce the outer Misdirection Tracing Array will definitely not be a problem. Worst case scenario, we’ll take out the repeating crossbow cart from the Space, upgrade it with an automatic system, and it’ll fire automatically if there are invaders.
Then, they’d find themselves unable to escape even if they had wings.
The two helped Mr. Dan He to his feet and patted the dust off him.
Fox even kindly asked, "Can you walk?"