Chapter 13: Rest Stop

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•Guess Who I Am

The travel down the mountain was very long. Everyone was extremely silent as they walked.

Half of the reason was because they were scared by the bald man turning into the hunter, and the other half was because they were freezing cold.

This group of people walked on for about half an hour before the static scenery finally started to change. The endless pine trees suddenly opened up and the road they were walking along connected with a larger road at the base of the mountain. There was a stone monument sitting next to the road.

On one side it wrote: Jiming Mountain.1

The other side wrote: 100m ahead.

The name Jiming Mountain reminded them of the dead chickens hanging from the doors in the hunter's cabin. It was clearly referring to the mountain they had come down from.

As for the 100m ahead sign, it was pointing down the larger road.......

Snow and mist obstructed their views and they couldn't see anything clearly.

"W-w-what does it m-mean by 100m ahead? The bottom half is b-b-buried in the snow?" Yu Wen's lips trembled. He was so cold, he was stuttering.

He walked over with both his hands in his pockets and, unwilling to pull it out, he scraped at the snow on the monument with his shoes.

Everyone asked: "What does it say?"

Yu Wen tremblingly walked back: "The dirt is all f-f- frozen solid. Can't scrape it off."

The monument still only revealed the words '100m ahead'. Apart from it becoming clearer, there weren't any other changes.

"Don't tell me it's another........" Zhou Jin's face was frozen cold, and he looked like a ghost.

Yu Wen: "N-n-no way. We just finished an e-e-exam. Aren't they j-just forcing us to die?"

Everyone fell silent. They were hesitant about moving forward.

"Did many die?" You Huo threw this sentence out and walked ahead.

His voice really suited this snowy cold environment. The words that came out whenever he opened his mouth could easily freeze the others up.

Everyone shivered as they looked at each other. They then quickly followed behind him.

With You Huo leading the group, their pace wasn't slow.

Soon, an outline of a house appeared amidst the fog and snow.

The hunter's cabin still left a psychological shadow in their hearts so the moment they saw this house, they weren't very surprised.

But they soon realised that there wasn't just one house.

They walked up a gentle slope and saw that there were several houses scattered sparsely ahead.

If you called it a small town, then it would be too much of an exaggeration. It was more like those unpopular scenic spots on a mountain where local residents would try to get some business from occasional tourists. When it doesn't get enough business each year, it would always be ready to close down.

The house closest to them hung a small lightbox. On the white background, red words wrote: Accommodation, Heating, Catering.

The focus was obvious, and it was very enticing.

The group could no longer move anymore.

"Why don't we make do and stay overnight here?" Old Yu said carefully.

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