"Get on my back! Didn't you hear me?"
Su Qiao was getting impatient and nearly kicked him.
Jiang Han gritted his teeth. Ignoring his still-disabled leg, he hoisted the heavy backpack onto his back.
Seeing this, Su Qiao tossed the rope in her hand. It covered him, person and all, inside the 'Rope Net.' Then she turned her back to him, bent slightly, and dropped into a horse stance. "Climb on."
"Y-You... what exactly are you trying to do?"
Jiang Han was utterly bewildered by her actions.
"I told you to climb on."
Su Qiao lost her patience. She simply stepped back half a pace, forcibly hoisted him onto her back, then quickly wound the ropes around the 'Rope Net' to the front and tied them into a tight knot.
Fortunately, although Jiang Han wasn't skinny, he wasn't fat either, and he was only half a head taller than the five-foot-seven Su Qiao.
With strength four or five times greater than an ordinary person's, Su Qiao carried him with ease.
Without stopping, she carried him briskly out of the cave. She didn't even check their direction before charging straight into the dim forest.
Jiang Han was even more dumbfounded, and somewhat embarrassed.
This was... the first time he had ever been so close to a woman.
And he was being carried on a woman's back, at that.
It felt... rather strange.
Dazed, Jiang Han lay on her back. He still held a dagger in one hand, while the other gripped the flashlight she had forced into his hand.
"Put the knife away. Turn off the flashlight."
"But..."
Jiang Han looked at the pitch-black mountain forest. He wanted to say, If we turn it off, she won't be able to see.
"If you want the people chasing you to find us,