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It was a good thing that He Lingchuan was riding a cliff ram. A horse would never have managed to scramble up and down these jagged terraces.
“Faster. Go faster!” He Lingchuan urged the cliff ram, his tone unexpectedly urgent. Second Boss Shi did not understand why. He assumed He Lingchuan simply wanted to rejoin the main group, and even pointed out a route. “There’s another small path over there. It’s steeper, but if you go down from that side, you can actually get ahead of the caravan.” The escort unit’s switchback road wrapped around more than half of Mount Fengmo; climbing like this was essentially taking a shortcut.
Only, it was a shortcut no normal party could take.
By now, people were trickling in from several side paths. Upon seeing the ancient ruins, they clicked their tongues in amazement.
They were tourists from other caravans, coming up to sightsee. They were sticking to the proper, designated route, so they were far slower than He Lingchuan and Second Boss Shi by a wide margin.
He Lingchuan had just reached the entrance to the inner mountain path when, from behind, a sudden woo-woo-woo whistle cut through the air.
To be fair, the wind here was fickle; it could sound like wolves howling, ghosts wailing, tigers roaring, flutes whistling, anything...
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