Chapter 1333 — Which Way to Go?
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"Why aren't we moving?" Lord Hao spoke up now. "Don't know the way anymore? I said we should go left, and you wouldn't listen — you had to go right with him!"
"This..." Old Hei, thus addressed, began to waver. "Thief, do you really know the way or not?"
"I didn't ask you to follow. You followed of your own accord." Wei Zhao spoke mildly, giving Old Hei not the slightest hint. "If you don't care to follow, you're free to turn back."
"Come, come back with me. We'll take the left," Lord Hao chimed in.
Old Hei and James exchanged a glance, and each saw hesitation in the other's eyes.
Wei Zhao glanced at Lord Hao, then lifted his leg and walked on down the right-hand passage. If there was no danger, then one path was as good as another. As the saying went, all roads lead to Rome — perhaps both these passages would lead out.
Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan trusted Wei Zhao absolutely, Chen Yuxuan above all. He was a man who had survived in the jungle alongside Wei Zhao, and Wei Zhao was a formidable instructor, one who could slip past the traps the enemy set during combat training, a man of keen judgment and sharp observation. Chen Yuxuan had never once doubted him.
Seeing Wei Zhao go, Old Hei hesitated, then followed after all. In his view, the thieving couple might be arrogant, but they were exceedingly cautious in all they did. Those two prized their own lives far too much to do anything that would walk them into their own graves.
Old Hei followed, and Yu Xiaoke followed as a matter of course. James hesitated, then brought his men along too, while Lord Hao trailed behind with a face full of displeasure.
After another hundred-odd meters, Wei Zhao abruptly halted.
"Thief, what now?" Old Hei was startled. There was no fork ahead — why had Wei Zhao stopped?
"Look behind us," Wei Zhao said mildly, turning his head.
This time Wei Zhao had been paying closer attention, and as he walked he had noticed that the long corridor of the passage tilted very slightly. Barring the unexpected, this should be the junction of the two passage mouths.
Sure enough, behind them there were two passage mouths, exactly like the ones they had seen before — and these people had come out of the right-hand one of the pair.
"Ah! There's another passage!" Old Hei cried in amazement.
"If I'm not mistaken, going left earlier would have brought us out right here — these two mouths are connected." Having said this, Wei Zhao lingered no longer and walked on.
This time Old Hei did not hesitate, sticking close behind Wei Zhao. Yu Xiaoke and James went on as well, leaving only Lord Hao, his face thoroughly black, obliged to keep following.