"Let’s go," Lin Yi felt that Ye Shaohua was too ungrateful.
She was also somewhat furious with Cao Yanzhi, hence she left first.
The squad leader and Mo Wei both gloated and mocked Ye Shaohua with looks of scorn and anger.
Then they immediately followed Lin Yi.
At that moment, they longed to rid themselves of the two burdens, so naturally, they didn’t help Cao Yanzhi.
The three of them quickly disappeared from sight.
Cao Yanzhi hadn’t expected the dispute over a flower would escalate; it was Ye Shaohua who had helped him up the mountain the night before. Despite her talkativeness, she seemed very honest and treated him with cold indifference.
But Cao Yanzhi didn’t feel the slightest bit of adoration from her, which was why he had spoken in defense of Ye Shaohua.
He thought Ye Shaohua was completely different from the person he had imagined.
Yet he didn’t expect Lin Yi to just leave like that.
He was truly stunned, and it took him a long while to come back to his senses.
"You..." His leg was injured again, and if it had been before, he would not have cared about such a minor wound, but he wasn’t like that now.
Cao Yanzhi looked at Ye Shaohua, wanting to speak, but he was afraid she would really leave him behind.
He said nothing.
"Let’s go too," Ye Shaohua said without any other people around to hide from, casually breaking off a tree branch of suitable length and handing it to Cao Yanzhi, "Use this to walk."
Cao Yanzhi saw the neatly cut branch and a flash of light crossed his lowered eyes.
Then he followed Ye Shaohua, quickening his pace, "If we hurry, we can still catch up with Lin Yi. Even if she won’t wait for us, as long as we keep up with her, she can’t shake us off. This area is very complicated; the two of us can’t get out on our own."
As Cao Yanzhi spoke, he realized Ye Shaohua wasn’t heading in the direction Lin Yi had gone, and he frowned, "You’re going the wrong way."
"No," Ye Shaohua moved forward.
Initially, Lin Yi may have been guided by the old tree and taken the safest route.
But the mountain was so vast that, after a night, she had already begun to take detours.
Ye Shaohua had wanted to remind her, but now that they had split, it was exactly what Ye Shaohua had wanted.
"Are you thirsty?" Ye Shaohua stopped beside a tree and glanced at Cao Yanzhi.
Without waiting for Cao Yanzhi to answer, she could tell from the dead skin on his lips that he was, indeed, thirsty. They hadn’t drunk any water all night, and after eating a roasted chicken the previous night, they were extremely parched.
Ye Shaohua directly carved a hole in the tree with a pebble.
The tree was full of water, and Cao Yanzhi immediately used a leaf to catch and drink it.
After drinking his fill, he showed a very content expression.
When he looked up, he saw Ye Shaohua had already returned, carrying two wild chickens and several wild fruits.
Seeing her quick return, Cao Yanzhi wore a complicated expression; he truly hadn’t expected the person he cared the least about to be so unexpectedly resourceful.
Then she led Cao Yanzhi away; this time, unlike when they were with Lin Yi, they felt no hunger or fatigue, it was as if they were on vacation.
Cao Yanzhi watched her, suddenly remembering the herbal medicine she applied to his foot the previous night.
Could it be...
She was serious then too?
Thinking this, Cao Yanzhi grew increasingly guilty.
Although the wound on his leg wasn’t completely healed, because his internal injury was much better, he could now keep up with Ye Shaohua without feeling fatigued at all.
Their journey was much faster than when they were with Lin Yi.
In less than three days, they had walked out of the mountainous area.
After they found people and returned to N City, Ye Shaohua found the home of her predecessor using her memories.
Her mother opened the door; seeing Ye Shaohua return, she was extremely surprised, "Shaohua?"
Her face showed no joy.
Ye Shaohua noticed that her mother didn’t seem to want her back; she saw a strange middle-aged man in the house, not her biological father, holding a baby in his arms.
Her real father had been in a car accident while searching for her and had become a vegetable. Her mother had quickly remarried.
On the sofa in the house sat a girl about her age, the daughter of Ye Shaohua’s stepfather. Seeing Ye Shaohua standing outside in her tattered clothes, the girl’s eyes glinted with disdain and contempt.
Dressed in a very elegant dress, holding a high school textbook, she looked down at Ye Shaohua, "Are you the daughter, same age as me, who was abducted by human traffickers for a year that Mom was talking about?"
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