Yuan Jiang and I left that old house once again.
Just like last time, we had been able to leave safely because that woman had appeared and saved us. The difference was that this time, there had been three of us instead of two, but Zhang Dawei had been kept behind by that woman.
There was a story between Zhang Dawei and her, though no one knew what kind of story it was.
But I did not think she would do anything to Zhang Dawei. At the very least, she would not harm him.
Yet what exactly had happened to Zhang Dawei, who had become like one of the Living Dead, was still a mystery to us.
Yuan Jiang felt somewhat guilty. He thought that abandoning Zhang Dawei like this made us seem disloyal. After all, both of us had been calling him Brother Dawei, yet when something truly happened, we had simply left him behind. The more he thought about it, the worse it felt.
"Don't worry. He'll be fine. How could Ke'er possibly hurt him? Didn't you see the way she looked at Dawei? Her eyes were filled with a special kind of feeling." I patted Yuan Jiang's shoulder and tried to comfort him.
He gave a bitter smile. "That may be true, but I still feel like I've let Brother Dawei down."
"Enough. Dawei wanted to stay too. More than anyone, he wants to figure out what's going on. We should think about ourselves instead. What do we do next?"
Yuan Jiang sighed. "Go down the mountain."
I froze. I had never expected him to suggest going down the mountain.
We had come all this way, and we could hardly say we had gained anything. How could we just leave like this?
Especially me. I had not