Zhu Wushi nodded as well. That was what he had been thinking. Before, it had only been their group, all of them experts. They traveled day and night at no slow pace, crossing mountains when they met mountains and fording rivers when they met rivers, roaming freely through the wilderness.
After Tingliu City, carrying supplies would slow them down considerably. They would also have to take the main official roads, wasting even more time. If they delayed another half day, their schedule would be dragged behind.
His gaze shifted to Menban and Sledgehammer. Both nodded in agreement. Before they set out, His Highness had said that they only needed to do as Zhu Wushi and Bai Yi instructed.
The two of them did not much enjoy using their brains. With those two around, there was no need for them to think anyway. Just give the word, and they would do it.
Whoever you said to kill, they would kill!
Once they had decided, the group called the others and set off together for the mass graves outside Tingliu City.
On a large tree beside the mass graves, Duan Tianya lay across a branch, his eyes occasionally flicking toward a gravestone not far below. That was the place marked on the map.
It bordered the woods, stood at the edge of a small slope, and the circle marking the treasure site on the map matched the hemispherical burial mound built over this grave.
Most importantly, the name carved upon the gravestone matched as well. Yes, this was definitely it.
Seeing Zhu Wushi and the others approaching from the other end of the mass graves, nearly there already, Duan Tianya leaped down from the tree and waved to them.
Just then, Duan Tianya looked toward the edge of the woods in the