For the countless-th time, the thugs regretted provoking Shen Tang and the other one.
At the same time, for the "countless plus one-th time," they were glad they had not completely offended them to death and had luckily kept their lives. They did not know what Shen Tang and the others intended to do. Upon hearing the order to stay where they were, they could only obey despite their reluctance. Several dozen people gathered together, from time to time raising a hand to swat bloodsucking mosquitoes, or staring blankly into space to pass the time...
They waited nearly two hours, but that Black Fiend Star still had not returned. Instead, she had a cheerful chat with those guards of unknown origin, and eventually simply fell asleep on their side. The thugs exchanged looks. No one dared move until someone could no longer hold back. "Should we run?"
The Black Fiend Star was no longer paying attention to this side.
What a perfect chance to escape!
"But what if they catch us after we run?"
"What else can we do? If we run, we run for our lives—find a place to hide. Can those two really dig every last one of us out?" The thugs felt that was unlikely. Once this uproar had passed, they would be safe.
Some of the more levelheaded ones raised a practical question.
"It's so dark. How are we supposed to get down the mountain?"
Falling off the mountain because they could not see the path and dying from the fall would still be a comparatively quick death. The scary thing was running into starving wolves with green-glowing eyes, or other venomous insects and savage beasts, and watching themselves get gnawed apart alive.
The thugs: "..."
At those words, quite a few thugs whose backsides had