Chapter 398: Found
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Looking at the exhausted soldiers lying in the cave, Rong Xuan smiled bitterly. He tore off his clean clothes and bandaged his wound. “We have to hang on even if we can’t. Our people will definitely be able to send the letter out.”
Qi Xiuyuan’s vision darkened and he became even more dazed. Knowing that this was because the poison had spread, he blinked and tried his best to sound calm and gentle. “Mm, we’ll wait.”
Rong Xuan waved over two men and planned to go out before dawn to see if he could find the herb to relieve the poison.
The three of them used the faint light of the fire to search for medicinal herbs and walked further and further away from the cave where they were staying. Rong Xuan was focused on searching for medicinal herbs, so when the guards behind him suddenly extinguished the torch and threw him to the ground, he did not react for a moment.
“Military Advisor, there’s movement,” the guard said in a low voice.
Rong Xuan shuddered and relaxed his breathing as he lay on the ground. He only heard some splats in the darkness, the sound of feet stepping on fallen leaves and branches, and the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
The expressions of the three people lying on the ground changed drastically. They were all too familiar with this sound. It was the sound of a human body falling to the ground. Only a dead person would make such a heavy sound.
Was it an enemy or a friend?
If it was an enemy, then the ones killed would definitely be their comrades. They knew that this was more likely, but they did not have the courage to stand up. The general was still waiting for their herbs.
Someone sped into the distance. Rong Xuan prayed in his heart, “Run, brother, run faster.” Just as he thought this, he heard a low curse in the darkness. Then, someone chased in the direction that the person had run in.
In the darkness, the three of them froze when they heard the curse. It was in Mandarin, and it carried a Xingzhou Prefecture accent!
One of the guards was so excited that he wanted to stand up, but Rong Xuan pulled him back. Rong Xuan glared at him fiercely. Although he knew that the other party could not see, he could only pinch his arm hard, hoping that he would understand that now was not the time to be exposed. Even if the soft curse was in Mandarin, it did not mean that the other party was a Han Chinese. Since Haoran could speak the Jin language, so could the enemy speak their language. Even if it was mixed with some local accents, they could possibly speak it as long as they had heard it before.
Rong Xuan was both excited and cautious. He hoped that the other party was one of his own, but he was afraid that it was a trick by the enemy.
However, he did not know that the guard’s movements had already exposed his whereabouts.