Ancient Eden-Chapter 78

Chapter 78

(25.2)

Recently, Da Wu frequently came to find her to ask her to teach him more techniques to knot ropes.

In fact, she had already exhausted all of the techniques she knew, but he did not seem to believe her, so Mu Qing had no choice but to teach him the Arabic numerals from one to one hundred.

He was a little puzzled at first, but he slowly came to understand that this was another method to represent the numbers, and that it looked more simple and practical than the traditional knotting method passed down from generation to generation here, so his interest was at once stimulated.

Mu Qing sometimes even thought that this old man was cute in his stubbornness, at least the fact that he was interested in studying as a hobby increased her good feelings towards him a lot.

At first, she thought that he was coming over today to learn numbers again, but looking at it, it didn’t seem like it.

Da Wu watched her for a moment and suddenly revealed a smile, saying, “Follow me.” With that, he turned away with his hands behind his back and walked towards the outskirts of the settlement.

Mu Qing followed him.

He entered the forest, heading towards the north.

The road in front of her was getting more and more difficult to walk, and later on, there was no longer any trace of the path to the settlement, she regretted a little that she came out without wearing her shoes, for the pair of flip-flops on her feet were not enough to protect her feet from being scraped by the thorns on the ground. She already had several bloodstains on the top of her feet. Fortunately, she was wearing jeans, so her legs were protected.

Da Wu was still walking forward, Mu Qing hesitated to turn back several times, but he seemed to sense her intention, so he always stopped to look back at her, smiled at her, and pointed ahead with his finger.

His smile was natural, but with a feeling of command. She subconsciously felt some faint unease from the bottom of her heart, but later on, the situation was such that she could only follow him, because even if she turned back at this point, she probably would not be able to find the way back.

When she later stopped her steps, refusing to move forward, Da Wu touched his bone knife on his waist, coldly looking at her.

She knew she had no longer had a choice. She could only continue to follow him forward, while anxiously looking around and over her head at the dense jungle, but it was useless, she was completely unable to find the direction.

Just when she was turning breathless, Da Wu suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at her.

“Leave. Don’t come back.”

When he looked at her to say these words, his face looked indifferent.

Mu Qing thought she had heard wrong. While she was in a daze, Da Wu repeated his words, this time very slowly, one syllable after the other were spitted out of his mouth.

This time, Mu Qing was sure that she had not heard wrong.

In a flash of lightning, she suddenly understood. 𝑏𝑒𝑑𝘯𝑜𝘷𝑒𝑙．𝑐𝘰𝘮

He wanted to drive her away from his tribe, while Li Mang was not there.

Just before when they came out, no one in the tribe saw them leave, and even if someone saw them, except for Naduo, she guessed that no one would dare to go against the chief’s wishes and tell Li Mang that she had followed the chief out and then never returned. Li Mang would only think that she had escaped on her own.

As for the reason, she believed she already knew.

She had no intention of begging him, by promising him that she would stay away from Li Mang in the future, as long as he didn’t leave her alone in the jungle. Not to mention the fact that she wasn’t able to say such complicated words yet, even if she could, his heart wouldn’t soften even after hearing her words. Because she saw a glint in his eyes, a mix of cruelty and cunning, which she had never noticed before.

She just blamed herself for being too gullible, only thinking of him as an ordinary old man who was about to quit his position. She forgot that he must also have been a brave and even merciless man in the tribe when he was young, which allowed that man to lead his people to survive in the jungle and reproduce to such a large scale today.

And now, he was eradicating his daughter’s rival.

Translator : Laura

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