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 for money, and

wild chicken noticed

a chase between person and

catch the chicken, she

in the mountain, crying while looking for her grandma, until

in Jiang Ning’s mind: [That little dummy, if she had stayed put after chasing the chicken, she probably would have been found. Instead, she went the wrong direction,

fallen leaves were slippery. Xiao

a stick for her to use as a cane, but upon realizing Xiao Hua couldn’t walk anymore, she

embarrassed despite

after safely descending the mountain, Xiao Hua would develop

didn’t know how long she’d

she heard someone calling her name, and the voice sounded

responded in the direction of the voice: “Over here!

before Jiang Ning, led by Qi Xingzhou, who quickened his pace upon

stared steadily as

hair, clothes drenched in sweat and dew, shoes caked with sticky mud, and his pants

Ning could sense that he was normally meticulous about personal hygiene, perhaps even a bit of a

Xingzhou

filthy shoes toward Jiang Ning, focusing entirely on

took Xiao Hua off Jiang

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

come to rescue them, Xiao Hua was

unfamiliar big brother approached, Xiao Hua

the big brother looked

sensitive, and Xiao Hua vaguely sensed that this big brother’s attitude

when he reached out to hold her, Xiao Hua gripped Jiang Ning tightly, unwilling to let

spoke flatly: “Let go; she’s

usual attitude toward anyone other than Jiang

Xiao Hua more frightened than when he

Jiang Ning’s

of friendliness stepped forward urgently from behind Qi Xingzhou, smiling as he spoke to Xiao Hua, “This sister has carried you all

okay. They’re good people, here to rescue

was passed to the

nine years old, after carrying her, the man found it easier to back-carry her, so he adjusted her on