"You can’t harm me. Otherwise, you will be hunted down."
Yuanyuan laughed wildly, "With someone like you? You still want to hunt us down? Dream on, it would be faster."
"Big brother, he doesn’t have anything of value. Just kill him."
Sotun shivered at the terrifying words of this little person.
"If you kill me, you’ll be in big trouble."
"Heh heh, since we dare to kill you, we’re not afraid. Stop babbling, what’s the use of keeping him?" he said while gesturing with the dagger in his hand.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you’re here for the jadeite, right? I know a place with particularly good jadeite that hasn’t been mined yet and hasn’t been discovered by others." Sotun thought that even if he told them, they couldn’t extract it; mining requires a lot of manpower, and with just the two of them, even working themselves to death, they wouldn’t be able to extract it in ten or eight years.
He would think of a way later. He wasn’t planning on telling Lin Kun about this place anyway. That way, there would be no competition.
He didn’t take these two seriously; they couldn’t possibly take away anything valuable.
Yuanyuan shook her head laughing, "I don’t believe what you’re saying. And you want to trade a piece of information for your life? You truly are as ugly as you think you’re clever."
"I’m telling the truth, there really is a lot of jadeite, I can swear to you."
"Then go ahead and tell us," Tan Shaoting said, not wanting to watch this girl mess with this person any longer.
Sotun glanced gratefully at Tan Shaoting. "You see that mountain over there? It’s behind that mountain ridge, there’s another mountain, that’s where it is. I discovered it by accident. I’m telling the truth, you’ll know once you get there."
For so many years, no one has discovered it probably because this mountain blocks it, and no one goes there. Besides, the mines in our village haven’t even been fully mined, so there’s no reason to develop outside."
Tan Shaoting nodded, "Let him go. If he’s lying, next time you meet him, you can do whatever you want."
"I’m speaking the absolute truth, I swear, you can go check it out."
Yuanyuan stood up, "Alright, if there’s nothing, it doesn’t matter. Someone like him, if we run into him next time, we can still take care of him."
"But you must leave us two horses; this is already the greatest kindness to you." She said arrogantly, raising her chin.
How could Sotun refuse? So he watched the little one tie up one of the unconscious men.
"Just wait for him to wake up and untie you."
After saying that, she walked away gracefully, eyeing the three horses, finally picking one that she found pleasing to the eye.
Tan Shaoting also picked a horse, but he watched the little girl leading her horse away, smiling to himself, thinking that this girl must not know how to ride. But she certainly had the right spirit.
The two of them led the horses away, leaving Sotun on the ground cursing them from behind.
Only when they felt they were out of Sotun’s sight did the two stop.
"I don’t know how to ride a horse."
It only took a little while for Yuanyuan to learn. Although she didn’t dare let the horse run, it was already much less exhausting.
"We should go over there and have a look. I believe what Sotun said."
"Alright. Whatever you say."
It looked close, but the two of them rode for about half an hour; it truly was seeing the mountain and not getting there.
And when they got to the mountain’s base, the horse couldn’t go up.
"What should we do?" Yuanyuan now felt she made a mistake; she shouldn’t have taken the horses, what now?
"This mountain is quite steep, leading the horses can’t possibly go up."
Yuanyuan knew that too, but she couldn’t bring herself to put away the two horses in front of Tan Shaoting; she was reluctant to just let them go.
Tan Shaoting smiled, knowing that the girl was too attached.
"Let’s give it a try, perhaps the horses can make it up. Anyway, we have time; we can rest if we get tired."
"Alright, let’s try; I can’t bear to part with them."
The two began leading the horses up the mountain. To be honest, the trail was indeed difficult to traverse, but since the horse was used to mountain paths, it was manageable.
Halfway up, the two of them and their two horses rested. Yuanyuan took out a bucket and fed them water, also taking out quite a bit of cabbage for them to eat.
"Pack up a portion later."
Tan Shaoting nodded; it was nice for each of them to handle their tasks.
The two also ate cake, though Tan Shaoting wasn’t used to it, but seeing the little girl eating so happily, he had no complaints.
"I also have meat-filled pastries here, eat this," she offered.
Tan Shaoting accepted without hesitation, and thus was full.
The two continued their journey; frankly, they weren’t afraid of spending the night in the mountains.
So after dark, they found a cave and led the horses in directly.
At night, they rested there. Yuanyuan certainly wouldn’t skimp on comfort, so she laid out a particularly thick bedding, right next to the fire.
Tan Shaoting felt this was quite good. This girl really knows how to enjoy life, and so he got to share in the treat.
After feeding the horses, they ate themselves. With plenty of time at night, they decided to make dumplings.
"Yuanyuan, being with you feels like the happiest days of my life."
"Is it because we eat so well?"
They chatted and laughed. Tan Shaoting stood watch while Yuanyuan slept.
The next day they got up, leading the two horses again, to continue down the mountain.
The old saying is true, it’s easier to ascend than to descend, especially for animals with four legs.
Still, Yuanyuan didn’t have the heart to release the two horses.
Their speed dropped significantly, but by evening, they finally reached the mountain’s base.
Without a cave this time, they had to set up a tent.
This place was a small mountain basin. The mountain Sotun talked about was much smaller compared to the one they had just climbed over.
"This should be it. We’ll check it out tomorrow."
"We can use Divine Sense to scan it."
They fed the horses first, then sat in the tent to eat.
"Do you think Sotun told us assuming we couldn’t possibly take the stuff away?"
Tan Shaoting nodded; that’s what a normal person would think.
"Heh heh, now he’s going to be stunned; should we use the Earth Element Ability?"
Tan Shaoting nodded, "And we’ll need Divine Sense too."
"We’ll leave him the surface material so he can be happy for nothing."
Tan Shaoting shook his head, "What are you thinking? If we extract the ores, the mountain will collapse."
Yuanyuan thought and realized Tan Shaoting was right.
At dawn, the two led the horses to the mountain’s base.
"There really is something," Yuanyuan was pleasantly surprised.
Seeing her so happy, Tan Shaoting smiled too.
"Let’s eat first, then we’ll start. Even with just the raw material from this mountain, we’ll be very satisfied."
The two washed, fed the horses, and ate. Then they began to show their abilities.
The extracted raw material was directly stored into the space.