Can't Ride a Horse

If there's room for explanation, then explaining is fine. If there's no room for explanation, and any explanation will be seen as a defense anyway, then why explain? Just state your position with actions!

Seeing Zheng Yichen with that "You can't beat me, so what can you do?" attitude, the people gathered there found him rude and ungraceful. However, if Zheng Yichen weren't rude, they wouldn't be talking so nicely right now.

Also, Zheng Yichen retracted his previous thought; there were quite a few guns in this town!

"Let's contact the police..." The people with authority in the town gathered and made a decision. Zheng Yichen was a Demon Hunter, not a police officer. So far, his actions hadn't been abnormal, at least not on the surface.

But he was ultimately a person of Unknown Origin, and there had been victims in the town. Regardless of whether it was related to Zheng Yichen or not, this wasn't something they could handle. This matter should be handled by professionals.

"That must be a misunderstanding," Katrina said somewhat indignantly by the riverside.

"Many people don't think so. I plan to go into the forest for two days. Is there anyone here who knows the forest well?" Zheng Yichen stood up. People wouldn't believe the misunderstanding anyway, so he might as well present the evidence directly.

He would kill that Headless Knight.

"Some of the older folks in town know it very well. How about I go with you?" Katrina looked at Zheng Yichen with some anticipation.

Zheng Yichen glanced at the girl speechlessly. Girl, being this proactive could easily lead to trouble, especially going into the forest with a man for no reason. Moreover, this era is relatively backward. If we really went together, what if I had some wicked thoughts...

"Your family definitely wouldn't agree, and it's very dangerous to go. I'll go alone," Zheng Yichen waved his hand and left the riverside. Watching Zheng Yichen leave, Katrina hesitated. She really wanted to follow him.

Even if her family disagreed, Zheng Yichen gave her a different feeling than any of the young men in town. Most of them only thought about living in the town forever, with no other greater aspirations.

But Zheng Yichen was different.

In the forest, Zheng Yichen looked at the twisted trees, the faint mist, and the vines hanging from the branches, which made the entire forest atmosphere more eerie. He held a Fishing Rod in one hand and a gun in the other, searching for clues in the forest.

He was looking for Hoofprints. It was hard to find traces at night, but easier during the day. The Headless Knight rode a horse, and it wasn't a horse that could walk through the void. As long as he found some traces, he could discover new information.

Hoofbeats sounded from a distance. Zheng Yichen looked in the direction of the sound. A girl wearing a white Cloak was riding a horse and chasing after him. She also brought another horse.

"..." Zheng Yichen received the girl's good intentions, but the problem was he didn't know how to ride a horse. As a typical young person who grew up in the City, riding a Bicycle or a Motorcycle was no problem, but horses were truly rare in the city.

Longcheng had a Riding School, but he wasn't the type of rich person who would go there for leisure.

"It would be hard to catch the Headless Knight without a Mount, right?"

"Chasing is one thing, but the main problem is I don't know how to ride a horse."

Zheng Yichen said with a serious expression. The girl's expression immediately faltered. She stared at Zheng Yichen in a daze. As a Demon Hunter, he didn't know how to ride a horse? Shouldn't that be basic training?

"You might not believe it, but that's the truth." Zheng Yichen also felt a headache coming on. He really didn't know how to ride a horse. It was fine for him to sit on a horse's back, but he had no idea about the subsequent operations. He couldn't just imitate what he saw in a Movie, spurring the horse with his legs and shouting "Giddy up."

He would just look straight ahead, and let the horse figure out the rest.

"Then, how about you ride with me on one horse?" Katrina dismounted and patted the other horse beside her. This horse automatically ran towards the edge of the forest. It wasn't far from the town, and almost everyone in the town knew her horse. It could run home on its own from this distance, and no one would stop it.

"You ride first. I still need to look for some traces." Zheng Yichen didn't ride with the girl on one horse. It wasn't that he didn't want to; he was here on official business. How could he do official business while riding a horse?

Katrina watched Zheng Yichen search for clues, and she saw something new and novel on him again. Zheng Yichen took out a small box from his backpack. The small box contained something like a shrunken windmill blade. After he assembled it, he attached a small object to it.

Then, under her astonished gaze, the thing flew up.

Zheng Yichen looked at the flying camera. The included flight component was a free gift when he bought the item. It couldn't compare to a drone, but besides being able to fly, its advantage was its portability. Its battery life wasn't bad either, but it couldn't be controlled as freely as a drone.

The flight mode was very basic. If this thing wasn't smaller than a pencil case when not deployed, Zheng Yichen wouldn't have brought it. Drones were useless in the Southern Forest, but now he regretted not preparing one.

This thing would have to do. Zheng Yichen looked at the footage synchronized to his mobile phone and nodded slightly, adjusting it to follow mode.

"Is this some kind of special prop? It can actually fly."

"En? No one can fly in this world?" Zheng Yichen asked.

"Hmm, I've read in books that some vampires can turn into bats and fly. I don't think there are others," Katrina said uncertainly. She had never imagined that if the blades of a windmill were shrunk and spun fast enough, they could carry something and fly.

"If this thing were big enough, could it also carry people to fly? Just like the props in those 'movies' you showed me?"

"Of course, but there are many problems to solve. It's not just about spinning a stick fast enough to lift a person," Zheng Yichen said, looking at the footage captured by the camera. With its assistance, the search progress had accelerated significantly. Things that were unclear from the ground could be clearly captured by the high-definition camera.

After some searching, he actually found something, though it wasn't what he was looking for.

"People live in a place like this?" Zheng Yichen saw a cave through the camera carried by the simple drone. Caves in the forest weren't uncommon, were they? Such places were usually inhabited by creatures like bears, but here there were signs of human activity. There were no animal skeletons around the cave, and after adjusting the angle, he could see a dilapidated wooden door inside.

"Someone? Who would live in the forest?" Katrina was also a little confused.

They arrived at the cave.