"We don't need to, do we?" The woman took a step back, afraid he would take her picture.
Xu Huo smiled. "As far as I know, there aren't any items in the game that can use a photograph to track down and kill a player."
The woman chuckled. "Just because you don't know about one doesn't mean it doesn't exist. What if there really is one?"
Xu Huo didn't press her. He let the children take as many pictures as they wanted, then developed them and laminated each one. He handed them out one by one.
The children, along with their parents, lined up as though they were making an offering. After collecting their pictures, each of them left a few mushrooms behind.
The painted woman fiddled with the mushrooms, then turned to Xu Huo. "I saw rabbits in the woods just now. Let's catch a couple and stew them for soup."
Xu Huo glanced toward the woods, then said to the skinny woman, "Go with her."
The woman was delighted. "Really?"
She had already noticed that the painted woman didn't seem very bright.
"Don't think about running off. The nearest village is Middle Wood Village, and there are more than ten Dungeon players there. That's the safest place to go. If you don't want to get stranded alone, you'd better not go off by yourself," Xu Huo reminded her.
The woman beamed and promised she wouldn't. Happily, she followed the painted woman away.
A little while later, three more players appeared on the other side of the stream, two women and a man. The man at the front saw Xu Huo and the others and smiled. "What did I tell you? There's definitely a village nearby."
"Hey, brother," he called to Xu Huo. "Where did you come from?"
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