"I didn't see her after I woke up," Xu Huo said. "There's something wrong with this foggy forest."
"No wonder I fell asleep so quickly." Zhuo Wangsun couldn't help imagining the worst. "Could Xin Hui have brought us here on purpose?"
As he spoke, he took out his navigation device. "Could she have tampered with it?"
Xu Huo took a new navigation device from the Storage Compartment. "Mine's fine."
Zhuo Wangsun looked slightly surprised, then said, "You did that on purpose. You'd already started suspecting her?"
"She said she wasn't a Clown City Player, but she knows a lot about the cleanup zone. She saw other warriors eat dried mushrooms and was able to identify the fungi in the river. That's a bit too far-fetched. Even if she's exceptionally observant, she wouldn't drink from the river without being cautious—unless she already knew the water was safe," Xu Huo explained.
Zhuo Wangsun thought it over. "No wonder she wasn't worried at all when we told her the truth about the cleanup zone. She even planned to keep carrying out her cleanup mission. Looks like she already knew what was going on... Could she be a spy sent by Clown City, here to eliminate those of us who discovered the truth?"
Xu Huo couldn't be sure, but he'd already used the Friendly Handkerchief to track her. Even if she'd run ahead, they could still catch up.
Following Xin Hui's location, the two ventured deeper into the foggy forest. Figures continued to appear around them, but whenever they approached, the figures vanished. They neither blocked nor attacked them, and their attempts to follow were half-hearted at best.
"We can't have these people following us around forever," Zhuo Wangsun said in a low voice. "Haven't you noticed there are more and more of them?"