but its ability to orient by sound had been lost.Yang Jin snorted.
"So you are useless now?"He gently felt the iron arrow in his hand and slowly moved forward."Useful useful!" the scout shouted frantically, "We sparrows never forget anything we see.
Although that place is ominous, I...
but but I can figure it out if I carefully distinguish..."Li Sheng lifted a hand and popped half a pill into the scout's mouth.
The sparrow scout choked as he swallowed.Li Sheng sacó parte del cuerpo de la Madre Gü de la Nacer para el escruto y sonrió: "Come este Gü de la Nacer y guía bien nuestro camino."The sparrow scout was terrified by their methods but could only stumble along.
Li Sheng tied a long rope around him and made him keep his upper body stiff as he led the way.
He whispered to Zhou Fei, "I know you want to find the forbidden land of Quimen, but if what he says is true, we shouldn't rush in with just a few people.
Let's first go see what lies there, then inform your father."Zhou Fei nodded.Li Sheng glanced at Wu Quxu holding the child.
At first glance, it seemed to be no more than two or three years old, but closer inspection revealed that the child was probably several years older, just thin and small due to poor living conditions in wartime.
He clearly knew who wanted him dead and who to save;he stayed quietly in Wu Quxu's arms without making a sound.The sparrow scout led them through the hills and rivers for nearly two hours until sunset.
Even seasoned martial artists were exhausted from the winding paths.
Zhou Fei, though she had long corrected her sense of direction since leaving home, seemed to still have it slightly off;after three years, she felt the same confusion as when she was near Yueyang.She kicked the sparrow scout and said coldly, "Are you leading us in circles?"The scout, whose legs were already weak, fell flat on his back from her kick.
He lay there for a long time without getting up;being gagged by Li Sheng made him unable to cry out as he shook his head fearfully.Li Yan ran under a tree and pointed at the new tunnel mark left by someone's footstep, "We came through here before, look!I even marked it!"Yang Jin said coldly, "We recognize places we've been without marking them."Li Yan glared at him."You slow-witted people from Central China," Yang Jin muttered under his breath as he grabbed the sparrow scout by his hair.
"Make a mistake once and I'll chop you here."He took out a dagger from his ankle, raised it, and chopped off the scout's finger.
Li Yan quickly stepped back but still couldn't avoid getting blood on her shoes;she shrieked, "You savage barbarian!"Wu Quxu could no longer cover the child's eyes in time and turned away with him.The child suddenly wriggled in Wu Quxu's arms, startling her.
Since coming from a wealthy family, she wasn't used to holding children and dropped him when trying to catch him.
He fell onto his bottom but didn't mind, brushed off the dirt, then stood up and walked over to a nearby rock.
He stood on tiptoe and reached out to pick at the stone.