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Pockmarked Wang still could not make sense of it. “I know this area like the back of my hand. If I haven’t walked it fifty times, I’ve walked it thirty. I just don’t know what was wrong with me that night. It was like a ghost led me by the nose, and I ran straight here.” He then pointed east and said, “Wudou Town is that way. If I were going back to Shuangyi Town, there’s no way I should’ve ended up at the medicinal fields.”
Wudou Town and Shuangyi Town were not far apart. Going around to the official fields would have more than doubled the distance.
Even if it was raining, how could a local who was walking a route he had taken countless times stray that badly?
Soon, they reached Mount Niutou.
“So that night, you entered the mountains from here?” He Lingchuan took one look at the entrance and immediately understood why Pockmarked Wang had gotten hurt. This kind of valley was also called a rolling stone valley. It was filled with rounded stones, big and small. A single wrong step, and you would slip.
“Yes, I fell right here.” With the carriage unable to go farther, Pockmarked Wang rode the cliff ram and gestured for him. “When the drillwind beasts came, I rolled into that patch of bushes.”
“Where were the lanterns?”
“Up, up ahead.”
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