The Griffon Sea Eagle had placed everything else on the ground for Xia Chujian to pick up.
Only with this pendant did the Griffon Sea Eagle not place it directly on the ground. Instead, it came to her side and gestured for her to hold out her hand before slowly placing the pendant in her palm.
Finally, it gave her a deep look before spreading its wings and flying away.
Xia Chujian did not know how she could read such an expression as "deep" in a bird's eyes.
But that look truly seemed profoundly meaningful to her.
She just could not figure out why.
Xia Chujian clenched the Precious Pendant, whose wood she could not identify, and slipped it into the military uniform pocket inside her mecha.
With complicated feelings, she waved goodbye to the Griffon Sea Eagle.
Xia Chujian kept all the Rare Plants the Griffon Sea Eagle had given her for herself.
She did not intend to turn these things in. She planned to keep them herself.
Nor did she want her companions to come over and see the unusual state of this place.
Because the Griffon Sea Eagle had taken off and landed several times, its powerful aura had blown the trees here every which way. One look was enough to tell that something was wrong.
Xia Chujian swiftly turned and left, running toward the mountain road outside the forest.
The mountain road outside the forest was extremely narrow, wide enough for at most two people to walk side by side.
On the other side of the mountain road was another forest.
But a creek ran through that forest.
As Xia Chujian ran, she activated her Earpiece and tried to contact her teammates.
While she had been in the forest, she had discovered that, whether due to