Chapter 1791 — An Encounter on the Way, Part One
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However, despite what Old Master You had said, all the other patriarchs present merely exchanged knowing smiles...
This was the third day since Gu Mengyao and the others had left West Star Mountain Village. Since they were three young women traveling together, they drove during the day and, after leaving the highway at night, found a large budget hotel in whatever city they happened to reach.
Whenever they checked into a hotel, Xiao Shu carried Wei Zhao on her back. She looked as though it took everything she had, but no one else could help her. Wei Zhao's body was simply too hot; apart from Xiao Shu, nobody could stand being near him!
Yet Xiao Shu was astonishingly tough, holding out for several days running. No one knew where she found such explosive strength.
Of course, since they stayed at a different hotel every night, no one grew suspicious. Whenever the three women checked in, they simply explained that Wei Zhao had caught a cold and was running a fever. The flush covering his body made it easy enough to tell that he was ill.
As for the flush on Xiao Shu's face, no one thought it unusual. They all assumed she had become flushed from exhaustion after carrying Wei Zhao.
"We're almost there..." Tang Zhi studied the map in her hands and could not help letting out a sigh of relief. They had traveled by highway the entire way, so there had naturally been no danger, but they had still been afraid that some unexpected complication might arise...
Yet, as the saying went, the more you feared something, the more likely it was to happen. They had made it safely through the entire journey, only to run into trouble at the very last stop!
Because of Snow Valley's unusual geographical location, once Gu Mengyao had driven past the final stretch of highway, they could only continue along mountain roads and narrow country lanes.
Along the way they passed fields and villages. But just as they were driving down a narrow lane lined with trees on both sides, they discovered a fallen log lying across the road ahead, blocking their way!
"What is this?" Gu Mengyao brought the car to a halt and stared at the log in the road.
"Should I get out and move it?" Tang Zhi did not think much of it. The log was not particularly large. It would take some effort, but she could move it by herself without too much trouble.
"Don't!" Gu Mengyao stopped Tang Zhi almost instinctively. She and Xiao Shu had often traveled together before, so she naturally had more experience than Tang Zhi. She had never personally encountered a log blocking the road, but she had heard people talk about such things. Usually, only a very small number were trees that had broken naturally and fallen across the road. Most were deliberately placed there by people!
And the purpose of doing that was to block the road and rob passing travelers!
"What is it?" Tang Zhi asked, taken aback.
"It may be dangerous." Gu Mengyao locked the car doors and said nervously, "What if we've run into road bandits..."
"Road bandits?" Tang Zhi was startled. When she looked at the log more carefully, her heart gave a sudden jolt. Its broken edge was neat and sharp, nothing like a tree that had snapped naturally and fallen there. It truly looked as though someone had cut it down and deliberately laid it across the road...
No sooner had Tang Zhi finished speaking than two dark figures sprang out from near the log. Seeing that Gu Mengyao and the others had not opened the doors, they swaggered straight over and stopped beside the driver's seat of the Grand Cherokee. One of them rapped impatiently on the window. "Get out! Get out!"
Gu Mengyao had already closed the windows, but the men outside were shouting so loudly that she could still hear them clearly.
The two men did not look like decent people to begin with. And the fact that they had appeared right in front of the log left their intentions obvious enough!