"However, since it had already changed, searching any further would only waste time. From here to the village, it would take at most two days. If the news came two days late, then it came two days late. If I went looking for an outpost, I'd inevitably have to take all sorts of detours and waste even more time! Better to return to the village directly!"
After washing his hands clean in the river, Chiba grabbed several smoked meatballs from his Ninja Tool Pouch and popped them into his mouth one by one. After chewing for a while, the rich fragrance of smoked meat filled his mouth.
After traveling through the night, Chiba needed to replenish his food as well.
And as he chewed, he settled on the direction of his next move.
Around now, He Yin should be starting to prepare breakfast, right? As he ate the smoked meatballs, layer after layer of smoked meat melting in his mouth amid that hearty texture, the thought somehow surfaced.
Then, after swallowing the food in his mouth, he rose. With a heavy step, his figure shot away. Without the slightest hesitation, he used Water Walking and raced southward.
"You... haven't slept yet?"
Meanwhile, in the hunter's cabin where Chiba lived, He Yin had been staring blankly for a while with an iron pot in her hands when her eyes flickered. She suddenly noticed Yu Ze kneeling in the corner. Startled, she hurriedly asked.
After Chiba had left last night, Yu Ze had become the only one sleeping in the cabin. Seeing him kneeling by the window, reading the papers in his hands by the dim morning light outside, then looking at the campfire with its flickering sparks and wisps of smoke, He Yin instinctively felt that Yu Ze had not