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"": "It was simple. There was a deadly trap at Gravemound Ridge, and Hu Jin was not there. Dai Zhixiong had arranged for men to capture Luo Bin and kill those beside him. The mountain pass, his only way out, contained another deadly trap.
This was the conclusion Luo Bin had reached from reading Miao Miao's face and observing the details himself.
It meant that neither advancing nor retreating offered him a way out.
Every move he could make had been calculated.
But that only applied within the bounds of ordinary possibilities.
If this place was what Luo Bin suspected-Dai Zhixiong's lair-then he was currently in an outer manifestation similar to Cabinet Mountain's. Only by entering a deeper layer could he truly enter this place.
Since Hu Jin was not at Gravemound Ridge, he had to have been imprisoned somewhere!
After all, Dai Zhixiong was not the one acting directly. Before his men could react, couldn't Luo Bin take some other drastic action and destroy something, creating an opportunity to escape?
"Let's look around the village."
Luo Bin glanced at Miao Miao.
"Oh..." Miao Miao pressed her lips together slightly.
The two entered Ludi Village.
The village was indeed quiet, but that was how rural villages were these days.
Most young people went to the cities for work, and even the vast majority of middle-aged people worked on construction sites. Many villages had only elderly residents left behind. This generation was more aware, too. Unlike a decade or so ago, when people would leave their children in the village for their grandparents to raise, they now took them along and tried to provide a better educational environment.
As a result, children playing and running wild along village roads were rarely seen either.
They walked a hundred