For a moment, I had no idea what to do.
I wanted to chase after that man and woman, but other hunters could appear here at any time.
The moment I stepped into the open, who knew where a hidden arrow might come flying from?
If that woman had been with the male Adventurer just now, would she have taken me away with her? Or would she have left me to those two hunters?
I regretted it somewhat. If I had directly shot those two hunters just now, perhaps I could have thrown things into chaos and at least secured temporary safety.
But now, the two hunters had already vanished into the darkness.
I could only choose to feel my way forward through the dark.
After hesitating for a moment, I chose to sneak in the direction where that man and woman had disappeared. Perhaps if I found that Adventurer, I would still have a slim chance of survival.
But very quickly, I felt as though I had gotten lost.
There were no stars or moon, only a gray haze. I could not tell east from west, north from south, and could only walk by instinct.
A faint light glimmered ahead.
I quietly crept toward that dim light.
It turned out to be an old residence.
Its gates stood wide open, with two large lanterns hanging outside. The light I had seen came from those lanterns. They were bright red, bearing the character for "double happiness," and the same bright red characters were pasted on the gates. Yet when I looked through the entrance, everything inside was pitch-black. It did not look like a wedding celebration at all.
Just as I was about to go in, a hand suddenly reached out from the side, grabbed me, and pulled me into