It was all money! Colin and the others' eyes lit up.
David led the caravan members to check the Pack Beasts. None of the goods were lost, and the people and beasts were unharmed, though their limbs were weak and they could barely move. Even David's pale face was beaded with cold sweat from their narrow escape.
Both David and Colin now owed Ye Chuqi and her companions an enormous debt. At first, they had thought these were merely a few young people from the mountains who needed their help to get out. Now it was clear they were the ones who had benefited. If Ye Chuqi and the others had not stepped in, none of them might have made it out alive.
David considered himself a man who had seen the world. In all his years of travel, he had met plenty of important people and faced attacks by Demon Beasts. But he had never encountered a frenzied herd, even one made up only of Horned Horses. Nor had he ever seen a High-Rank Magic Beast go berserk, much less been subjected to its crushing aura—
David sighed and walked over to Colin. He said something Ye Chuqi could not hear, and Colin looked up at her too.
Their stares were too obvious for Ye Chuqi to ignore. She turned to them with a smile. "If you two have something to say, just say it." She was easy enough to talk to. There was no need to hesitate as if she were difficult to deal with.
David was about to speak when the Lu Family members who had been watching from afar rushed over and cut him off.
Their target was Yan Jiu. Joshua and the others had kept such a low profile that the newcomers paid them no