Chapter 54: Lake Is No Lake Part Two

Fang Jie and the other two didn’t enter Guanle County. Instead, they bypassed the county and traveled toward the southeast. With these three top-tier warhorses, they soon got rid of the people who chased after them. Although the royal guards that the Intelligence Department placed around the Maple Forest Ferry Dock had warhorses as well, those warhorses weren’t on the same level as these three chilly warhorses from Northern Liao.

After dashing forward for 25 kilometers, Fang Jie waved at Da Quan and Mu Xiaoyao who were tightly following him, slowing down their speed.

Even if they didn’t need to rest, the warhorses had to eat grass and drink water. It would be a huge waste for these top-tier warhorses to die of exhaustion.

Besides, it was non-sense when people said that the best horses could travel for more than 500 kilometers in a day.

According to the running speed of the top-tier horses, it seemed like it wouldn’t be hard for them to travel for more than 500 kilometers in a day. However, for the big troops such as the wolf cavalrymen of Mongo-Yuan that were light cavalrymen who had great mobility, it would be exceptional when they could travel for more than 100 kilometers in a day.

After all, the warhorses had to rest and eat to maintain their stamina for the next day.

There was a hill in the front, and there was a huge forest at the foot of the hill.

Fang Jie pointed in that direction, and they charged toward the forest.

After they got to the depths of the forest, Fang Jie jumped off his horse and patted the neck of the red horse, telling it to eat grass.

It was hard to tell if this horse understood Fang Jie’s command. It wasn’t willing to lower its head and eat grass. Instead, it slowly walked deeper into the forest as if it was looking for something.

The two white warhorses were the same. They paid no attention to the small blades of grass that just poked out their heads from the fallen leaves, and they slowly followed the red horse as if something was attracting their attention.

Fang Jie was too lazy to manage these horses. He let Mu Xiaoyao rest, and he went back the way they came with Da Quan to clear the traces that the warhorses left.

Xiang Qingniu had told him that the members of the Intelligence Department were the best scouts, so any traces might bring those people to them.

It was fortunate that this forest was covered by a thick layer of fallen leaves, and no distinct marks were left in the ground.

Fang Jie and Da Quan broke off a few tree branches and used them as brooms, slowly wiping the fallen leaves and going back to Mu Xiaoyao.

Although this couldn’t wipe out all traces, it was much safer than doing nothing at all.

All these years, Fang Jie and Da Quan had been doing such things all the time, so they were proficient and smooth, looking like professionals.

After clearing their traces, Fang Jie and Da Quan added some fake traces on the way, creating the false image that they escaped using another path.

With all that done, Fang Jie and Da Quan were stunned when they returned to find Mu Xiaoyao.

Mu Xiaoyao was nowhere to be seen in the forest!

Just as Fang Jie was about to shout and call out, Da Quan pulled his arm and stopped him.

Then, Da Quan sniffed forcefully and quickly pointed in a direction while saying, “Xiaoyao has a unique scent; she should have ventured deeper into the forest this way.”

Fang Jie frowned and replied, “Sister Xiaoyao wouldn’t leave here for no reason.”

He looked around and saw no marks indicating that a fight took place. Then, he walked toward the direction that Da Quan pointed and said, “Although she has the unique ability to sense others’ strength levels, I finally realized that there are many people with unique abilities and powers after I entered Great Sui. There might be enemies that she didn’t discover, and a fight might have taken place here even though there are no signs.”