Behind Janet, several burly, fierce-looking bandits suddenly sprang out and lunged straight at Han Shuo with savage grins.
These men had all cultivated battle aura, and each stood around two meters tall. They bore down on him like enormous bears, their charge certainly looking intimidating enough.
"Uh, sorry, but I have something else to do. I can't stay here." Han Shuo showed no fear. Once the burly men drew near, he shifted repeatedly, slipping out of their encirclement like an eel.
His speed abruptly increased, swift as a cheetah. With a step, he darted up a large tree, then leaped lightly more than ten meters away. It looked as though he would soon escape the bandits' encirclement.
"Damn it, stop him! I want him alive! There must be something wrong with this brat!" Janet flew into a rage and charged after Han Shuo. She was astonishingly agile, bounding and weaving through the shrubs and trees, her eyes fixed firmly on him.
At Janet's command, the surrounding bandits sent crossbow bolts and spears flying, raining down thickly toward Han Shuo. Her order to take him alive had clearly had an effect, however. They did not dare aim at his body, instead firing into his path.
Grinning, Han Shuo darted back and forth, his body swaying with uncanny movements. He changed directions among the trees with incredible speed, not only avoiding the repeated volleys but even finding time to explain, "Hey, lady bandit, stop chasing me like this. I really am not a spy."
"So you're not a spy just because you say so? If you aren't, why are you running?" Janet pursued him relentlessly, shouting furiously, "Brothers, who cares whether he's a spy? Rob him!"
These bandits were certainly not weak. The burly men who had first obeyed Janet's order to