If we kept going, we would soon reach the summit of Terrifying Ridge.
The Embroidery Woman Temple was only four or five li from here.
But we were about to leave this forest. Once we were out, finding decent cover would not be so easy.
But we couldn't just hide in the forest forever, could we? I had come here to find Zeng Dajiang.
Yet we still hadn't seen any sign of him.
Bang! Another gunshot rang out, but this one had been fired by Yuan Jiang.
Then we saw someone tumble from a huge boulder ahead of us, startling everyone.
Little Demon jogged over and checked the person Yuan Jiang had shot. "More of those soldiers!" I looked at Yuan Jiang. "How did you spot him?"
Yuan Jiang said, "I saw a flash of reflected light and fired on instinct."
The soldier was actually holding a sniper rifle. The reflected light Yuan Jiang had mentioned must have come from his scope, yet none of us had noticed it.
Maybe it was because I had been distracted earlier.
Gongshu Ce picked up the large sniper rifle. "The bullet was already chambered. If Yuan Jiang hadn't fired in time, one of us might've been taken out."
After saying that, Gongshu Ce neither set down the sniper rifle nor handed it over to us. He simply kept it for himself.
I said nothing. At this point, we were a small group, and it was a good thing for him to have a weapon on him under these circumstances. Besides, if I really took the sniper rifle away, he probably wouldn't feel too pleased about it.
I believed he wouldn't dare do anything reckless now, much less cause trouble.
I merely asked jokingly, "Do you know how to use it?"
He nodded. "I