Watching his four subordinates leave, Li Zheng stood at the passage entrance with his remaining four men. One of them asked, "Commander Li, what do we do next?"
"Wait."
"Wait?"
"That's right. All we can do is wait for reinforcements." Li Zheng regained his usual wisdom and composure, then said helplessly,
"There are only a few of us left. If we follow that man and beast to pursue them and run into an ambush, I can escape, but you lot will suffer badly."
After thinking for a moment, Li Zheng took the lead in returning to the tomb passage and headed downward.
"Li Commander, what are you doing?" his subordinates asked in confusion.
"All of you, get down here! Be careful they don't double back and kill us. The passage is narrow, so we can at least hold our ground here." Li Zheng was helpless. They had swarmed in, but Li Ling's blunder had gotten more than half their men killed. Only this sorry handful remained at his side.
No matter how furious Li Zheng was, no matter how badly he wanted to take men and tear Feng Wu apart right now, one could not make a meal without rice!
Far away, in a mountain hollow another ten or twenty li deeper into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Feng Wu saw that night was approaching and cleared out the mouth of the hollow as a place to stay with Little Er Ha.
Before the lit campfire, Feng Wu flicked a silver Storage Ring in his hand and smiled. "I was just worrying that the eleven Puppets and the treasures in the tomb chamber took up too much space, and that I didn't have enough storage space. Then the Li Family's eldest young master brought me a Storage Ring."
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