After taking care of her personal business, Nangong Xue seemed to have given up all pretense and naturally pulled up her pants before leaving! Of course, she only did so while Chen Mo had his back turned!
Once she was done, Nangong Xue walked back without calling out to Chen Mo! There was no helping it—no matter how unreserved she was, she still felt a little embarrassed!
Chen Mo smiled faintly and followed Nangong Xue back.
After a long while, Nangong Xue suddenly said to Chen Mo, "Don't laugh!"
"Uh! All right, I wasn't laughing!" Chen Mo explained.
"I heard you laughing just now!" Nangong Xue's blushing face looked especially radiant beneath the shadows cast by her headlamp!
"Really, I wasn't!" Chen Mo was being quite smart at the moment. Even if beaten to death, he could not admit that he had laughed, or he really would not be able to explain himself!
"Hmph! You were laughing. I can feel it!" Nangong Xue seemed determined to be unreasonable.
Chen Mo could only conclude that arguing with an unreasonable woman was the stupidest thing possible. To avoid an argument, he stepped forward, shouldered his backpack, and said, "Let's get going! I'll walk in front, and you follow behind!"
Now that they were setting off, it was naturally no longer appropriate to keep arguing. Nangong Xue nodded and followed behind Chen Mo!
They stumbled along the whole way—well, Nangong Xue was the one stumbling, and they had to stop and rest from time to time. This slowed them down even more. That was nothing, though; the difficulties along the way had already made progress difficult enough!
In the end, after walking for more than four hours, the two arrived at an exit! However, the exit was completely blocked off!
Fortunately, after sweeping