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Out here in the middle of nowhere, there were not even paths, just tall grass and scattered rocks everywhere. A horse could not really stretch its legs and run. At best, it could pick its way forward at a cautious walk, barely faster, if at all, than He Lingchuan could go on foot.
He led the horse over a low rise, and a sudden warning prickled up his spine. The warning was sharp and immediate, as if the threat were right beside him.
I’m being hunted.
He Lingchuan did not show any signs of having noticed. He kept leading his horse, reins in hand. The heart-protecting mirror murmured from inside his clothes, “Hey. Something’s up.”
He gave the faintest “shh.”
Right then, the grass behind and to his right rustled, like wind combing through brush, or a rabbit skimming the tops of blades.
Here it comes.
He Lingchuan snapped his arm back and flung something without looking. In the same motion, he dropped and rolled, sliding under his horse’s belly.
A fierce tiger that was easily over three hundred kilograms burst out of the grass. Something that huge should have been thunderous when it leaped, yet it landed with barely a sound.
Wind follows the tiger, people said. Apparently, they were not wrong.
The beast had barely cleared He Lingchuan’s back when the object he had thrown smacked toward its...
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