Chapter 159

As night falls, fog shrouds Beiyan Mountain in mist.

Blurred.

The ground under my feet was no longer rocky and covered with dead branches, but soft and crumbly, like loose soil.

The humidity in the air is getting heavier and heavier, and it’s going to rain heavily soon.

Bai Yan let out a long breath.

She couldn’t remember how long she had been walking. It seemed that blisters had formed on the soles of her feet, which had broken and were bleeding.

There was something sticky on my Liberation Shoes, I didn’t know if it was blood or mud.

Xiao Zhou took her through various paths, walking and walking.

But the footsteps surrounding us never stopped.

Bai Yan even wanted to give up when she was extremely tired. This forest was like a haunted house with no light and no guidance. If it weren’t for the chirping of insects and birds in the forest, Bai Yan would have felt like she was in a dream.

It would be better to be caught by those people than to hide again and again.

But such an absurd thought only flashed through my mind.

She quickly threw this thought out of her head. No, no! She couldn’t die here in a daze. She still had Meng Hechuan.

I still don’t know how Meng Hechuan is doing now? Is he alive or dead?

The tip of her nose felt cold, and Bai Yan came back to her senses.

Xiao Zhou hurried back from the front and lowered his voice to remind, “Teacher Bai, it will be even harder for us to go down the mountain after dark. I saw a small cave ahead. Why don’t we hide in it first and leave after dawn tomorrow.”

Bai Yan hesitated, “Xiao Zhou, although you and I don’t have watches, it’s now completely dark, so six or seven hours must have passed. I remember that it took me no more than thirty minutes to follow Ruan Xiaohui from the foot of the mountain to the wild path.

So many people in the team are training in the mountains and forests now. Don’t you find it strange? Why haven’t we seen anyone after walking for so long? “

“Beiyan Mountain is extremely large, and a normal training run would take three days and two nights. Moreover, we are heading west, and the training runs are all on the east side, so it is possible that we won’t see anyone. Besides, it would take at least a day to climb over a mountain and get out.”

Seeing Xiao Zhou so confident, Bai Yan didn’t dare to make any more blind suggestions.

She nodded and propped up the tree trunk that Xiao Zhou had picked up for her to support herself. “Time is precious. Let’s find a way down the mountain as soon as possible. Don’t delay!”

As he was speaking, a cold wind carrying icy rain started to blow down on his head.

“It’s even harder to walk on the road when it rains. The soil is loose in spring, and we don’t have lighting at night, so it’s easy to step on the loose soil. Teacher Bai, let’s find a place to hide from the rain first!”

Bai Yan could only nod.

Xiao Zhou had just seen a small hole in front of him, and he pointed to the white smoke. The two of them hurried in.

The entrance of the small cave looks small, but there is a different world inside. Bai Yan and Xiao Zhou still have space left after hiding inside.

The two of them had no tools to start a fire, nor did they dare to do so, so Bai Yan curled up against the mountain wall to conserve her strength and body temperature.

Only when you stop can your brain start to work.

Bai Yan licked her dry and chapped lips and realized that her hands were shaking.

Today was the scariest and most dangerous thing she had experienced since she was reborn through a book.

Bai Yan had read about the hunting down of scientific researchers by reactionaries in books. At the time, she felt that the content written in black and white was far away from her, but she couldn’t help but put herself in the situation. If such a thing happened to her, how would she deal with it?

Is she like a light-as-a-swallow female agent, avoiding all kinds of dangers and then perfectly completing the impossible mission?

But these are all her imagination.

The real life-threatening escape happened right in front of him. The female agent and the light as a swallow were all fake.

She is just a person who can’t even tell the difference between east, west, south and north.

Bai Yan rubbed her body with her hands to make herself less stiff before she slowly spoke, “Xiao Zhou, is Ruan Xiaohui really dead?”

After a long silence, she finally heard Xiao Zhou’s gentle affirmation.

Then he said, “Teacher Bai, you don’t have to feel any psychological burden. Although you are the cause of her death, she deserves it and she deserves to die.”

Bai Yan pursed her lips tightly, wondering if she should say something to appear less cold and heartless.

But the reality was that she couldn’t utter a word.

Xiao Zhou slowly raised his head and looked at Bai Yan in the dark. “Teacher Bai, are you feeling particularly upset? Because you killed Ruan Xiaohui?”

Xiao Zhou’s voice was icy cold, and combined with the raindrops outside the cave, it made Bai Yan’s face turn pale.

The scene before Ruan Xiaohui’s death was too shocking to her. Once she calmed down, Bai Yan couldn’t help but start to recall it.

That was the first time Bai Yan saw a living person fall down without any warning after a bloody hole appeared on his body.

The blood, the twisted face, and Ruan Xiaohui’s eyes that were open in death…

All the scenes reappeared in her mind again and again, stimulating Bai Yan’s fragile and tired nerves.

She was shaking even more.

She subconsciously covered her ears, “Stop talking about this…”

Xiao Zhou was unaware of this. “Teacher Bai, I’m a little scared too. It’s too dark here. I heard that people who don’t close their eyes even after death will look for the last person they saw. Didn’t Ruan Xiaohui look at you before she died?”

Bai Yan’s eyes suddenly widened.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning exploded outside the cave, briefly illuminating the cave, and the thunder of early spring roared.

Bai Yan raised her head.

He had no good impression of Ruan Xiaohui since he first met her. She stole her epaulettes and started trying to frame him in the hotel. After he joined the team, he targeted her in everything.

But they met by chance, so seriously speaking, is there any huge hatred between them?

No.

Bai Yan hated her, but she never thought of taking Ruan Xiaohui’s life. At most, she just wanted to reveal her true face and make her receive the punishment she deserved.

Ruan Xiaohui was not killed by her. What really led her to her death were those reactionaries hiding behind the scenes.

Her expression suddenly changed, “No, you’re not right!”

In the darkness, Bai Yan’s tired eyes were clear and bright. “Xiao Zhou, you are wrong. Ruan Xiaohui’s death was her own fault. It was those reactionaries hiding behind her who killed her. They are the real murderers. It has nothing to do with me.”

Bai Yan smoothed her messy hair and tied it up, “Xiao Zhou, why are you so abnormal today?”

Xiao Zhou had been following Meng Hechuan before the accident, and Bai Yan was familiar with him. He had never been a talkative person.

It would not be like what he did today, when he knew clearly that they were in danger and actually told them about Ruan Xiaohui’s death to increase her fear.

“You…” Bai Yan frowned and was about to speak when she suddenly heard a faint sound coming from the cave entrance.

Xiao Zhou rushed over to hold her back and silence her, but Bai Yan suddenly pushed her away and stood up, “Xiao Zhou, that sound is wrong!”

This voice is very familiar!