Kino's face turned red, and he retorted with slight anger, "Who's hiding? Am I supposed to be scared?"
Olivia chuckled and said, "Well, that's uncertain."
Suddenly, Xuan Yue said, "Get ready, they're coming." The sound of horse hooves became softer, and the sound of footsteps approached from all directions, their rhythmic cadence distinctly audible in the quiet forest.
Shadows gradually appeared, as a large group of heavily armed soldiers surrounded them, their long spears pointing forward. Each step they took, Ah Dai and his companions felt an increasing, albeit invisible, pressure.
The heavy armored soldiers kept advancing, and when they halted thirty meters away from Ah Dai's group, a thousand icy stares bore down on them, waiting for something.
