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"": "Luo Bin and Hu Jin had not taken the road up the mountain.
They were heading down!
They had already left the boundaries of Three Trigrams Town, keeping to the edge of the road and avoiding any evil spirits that might appear as they continued in the opposite direction.
Getting up the mountain was no easy task. The road teemed with evil spirits, and Three Trigrams Town had the Blackblood Vine.
Taking such a risk to descend would make it difficult for them to climb back up.
But Hu Jin was adamant. To truly ascend the mountain, they had to descend first!
As for the specifics, Hu Jin said he could not explain everything clearly. Luo Bin would understand once he saw it for himself. If Hu Jin had lied, Luo Bin could simply kill him.
All Luo Bin could do was wait and see as he followed Hu Jin.
Along the way, Hu Jin explained a few things that had puzzled Luo Bin earlier.
The wooden houses beside the road, for instance.
Those houses were shelters left by the families on the mountain. For various reasons, the people living up there had to come down from time to time.
This was not the only road down. Roads could exist in any direction across Floating Tortoise Mountain, and there was far more than one family living up there.
The wooden signs they came across at intervals pointed toward the Group Dwellings.
Of course, every Group Dwelling had its own signs to guide its occupants. Those signs were also a kind of trap.
Luo Bin remained silent at that.
Indeed, if someone followed those directions when a Group Dwelling already held sixteen people, what would happen to the extra arrivals?
If Observers wearing human skins had