Even After My Death

Chapter 718: Chapter 616: Qi Xingzhou Arrives

Jiang Ning walked on the mountain with Xiao Hua.

It was only then she realized that there had been multiple landslides on the mountain the previous night.

However, these landslides were small and didn’t threaten the cave where Jiang Ning and Xiao Hua rested, hence the system reminder.

The mountain had completely changed overnight.

Countless trees lay across the ground, blocking their way, along with the soil and rocks sliding down from above.

Even as Jiang Ning led Xiao Hua out, she had to cautiously avoid the occasional rocks falling from above.

Having never experienced such things, Xiao Hua felt subconsciously afraid when she saw the scene before her.

The path Jiang Ning had taken into the mountain yesterday was blocked by obstacles, and places that had collapsed could possibly collapse again.

Jiang Ning asked the system to calculate the most suitable descent route, and found that the shortest one still exceeded yesterday’s path by a wide margin.

Jiang Ning, while guiding Xiao Hua around the obstacles, talked to her to divert her fear: “Xiao Hua, why weren’t you with your grandma yesterday? Did you go mushroom picking alone?”

“No. I came with grandma…,” Xiao Hua answered honestly.

From her words, Jiang Ning understood the process of how she got lost.

It had been raining recently, and many mushrooms sprouted on the mountain.

But mushrooms don’t grow in clusters; they’re scattered, with one here and another there, rarely forming a dense group.

Over ten villagers came to the mountain to pick mushrooms, not just from Sanwan Village, but from nearby villages as well, so to ensure efficiency and individual harvests, everyone typically searched alone.

Xiao Hua was originally not far from her grandma.

But being young, her legs worked faster than her grandma’s. Upon discovering a large bunch of mushrooms, she got excited, forgot to inform her grandma, and rushed to pick them.

Moreover, she seemed extraordinarily lucky, not only finding a large bunch of mushrooms but also spotting a wild chicken!

chicken, something that could be sold

chicken

ensued a chase between person and chicken, one

catch the chicken, she realized she could no longer see Aunt Tian and the

looking for her grandma,

if she had stayed put after chasing the chicken, she probably would

dense, and the fallen leaves were

use as a cane, but upon

feeling embarrassed despite Jiang Ning’s reassurance;

likely that after safely descending the mountain, Xiao Hua would develop a psychological

didn’t know how long she’d been

heard someone calling her name, and the voice sounded so

responded in the direction of the voice:

team of rescuers appeared before Jiang Ning, led by Qi Xingzhou, who

stared steadily as

hair, clothes drenched in sweat and dew, shoes

never mentioned it, Jiang Ning could sense that he was normally meticulous about

Xingzhou ignored

Jiang Ning, focusing entirely on her and the unfamiliar little girl she

Xingzhou promptly took Xiao Hua off Jiang

Xingzhou and the others arrive, Xiao Hua, who had been clinging to Jiang Ning,

come to rescue them, Xiao

unfamiliar big brother approached,

some reason, even though the big

sensed that this

her, Xiao Hua gripped Jiang Ning tightly, unwilling to

frowned and spoke flatly: “Let go;

harsh, just his usual attitude toward anyone other

normal coldness made Xiao Hua more

Jiang Ning’s

urgently from behind Qi Xingzhou, smiling as

Ning also said, “Xiao Hua, it’s okay. They’re

Hua was passed to the

after carrying her, the man found it easier to back-carry her,