After escaping, Bai Yunfei did not dare to pause at all. Instead, he estimated the directions a bit and ran all the way. Only after running for nearly four hours did he finally stop on a bank of a small river.
Using the Wave Treading Steps unceasingly for such a long period had almost exhausted his soulforce so he had no choice but to stop and rest for a while before he could make other plans.
In fact, if he had wanted it, all the people in that hotel would have been killed. But he did not know if the enemy had reinforcements or not so he would have been in more danger if he had stayed in there longer. Moreover, it would have been pointless to kill them all too, therefore right from the beginning he had only wanted to flee.
That faint feeling of discomfort in his head had already gone away. Bai Yunfei was sitting on a large rock, silently recovering the soulforce he had used.
“I’m still too inexperienced in the outside world. Who would have thought I would fall into the enemy’s trap so easily? Fortunately, I don’t drink, otherwise…” Recalling that feeling of being drugged, Bai Yunfei still could not help having a trace of retrospective fear.
“Damn it, just how great is the Zhang family’s influence? How can they have so many men in such a small town? Could it be every other town is like this too? Impossible, there are too soul cultivators in that group of men. Even if the Zhang family had a greater influence, it would still be impossible for them to send this kind of manpower to every town. This means… I was too unlucky?” At this point, Bai Yunfei could not help shaking his head in self-derision, feeling rather frustrated.
Actually, he indeed was too unlucky to have arrived in this town of Old Well instead of another town. It just so happened that Zhao Ping’s group was looking for his whereabouts nearby. After receiving the secret message from that innkeeper, they immediately rushed over…
“Now that my whereabouts have been exposed, I believe Zhang Zhenshan will definitely rush over right away. It’s bad. I still can’t stop. I must run even father away!
“Plus, that small animal at the end of the fight was really quite strange. The liquid left on my hand at the time seems to be its saliva. Why did it want to do this?” Bai Yunfei held his right hand before his eyes and observed it carefully under the moonlight but it seemed totally unchanged.
When he put it under his nose and took a sniff, he suddenly frowned: “There’s a slight odor. Could it be… Tracking!”
At this point, Bai Yunfei’s expression became unsightly. He stood up and went to the edge of the river, reached out his hands into the water and scrubbed them nonstop. Then he took out his laundry powder and scrubbed them with it again. Only after washing his hands for ten something minutes and their skin had almost reddened did he stop.
He sniffed his right hand again and could no longer detect that strange smell. Only now did Bai Yunfei relax a bit. However, there was still a trace of worry lingering on in his mind.
“Looks like I’ll have to plan even further to be able to escape!”