Chapter 148
Chapter 148
“Jiang Yunsui, what are you doing?!”
Everyone lowered their voices as they hissed at the person who had already climbed into the bird’s nest.
Jiang Yunsui picked up all the pretty feathers and tucked them away before climbing back out of the nest.
Fortunately, the two golden eagles were still asleep.
Song Jin poked Jiang Yunsui on the head when she ran back.
“You ate their food and took souvenirs too? Aren’t you afraid of waking them up?”
He had only dared to pick up the feathers scattered around the edges.
Still, when he glanced at the feathers Jiang Yunsui had stuffed away, especially the long, beautifully colored tail feathers, he felt downright envious.
They would leave first. Then he would coax a few out of her later.
“It’s so high. Good thing there are vines growing all over this cliff.”
There were also plenty of protruding rocks and trees growing farther down.
They had lightness skills, so they could pull on the vines as they descended, landing on footholds or trees now and then to break their fall. Going down bit by bit like this should work.
Ji Yi said, “Young Master, I’ll carry you.”
Among them, Ji Yi was strong in every respect, so he was the first to step forward and offer to take Ji Yan’an down.
“What about me?”
Jiang Yunsui squeezed in.
Ji Si stepped forward. “I’ll do it.”
Ji Yan’an glanced at him.
In fact, everyone could tell that among all the hidden guards, the quiet, unassuming Ji Si was the one who liked Jiang Yunsui the most.
He rather looked like he treated her as his own little sister-or even his daughter.
Of course, Jiang Yunsui liked Ji Si very much too.
“I knew Si Si was the best.”
To keep anyone from falling, they still had to tie themselves securely.
Fortunately, they had rope and the like.
Fat Chef and the others looked down, and their faces immediately turned bitter.
It was so high. Their lightness skills were basically nonexistent, and they were heavy too.
They could only hope those vines were sturdy enough.
Fat Chef said, “My life is over. If I fall from this height, won’t I be smashed into meat paste?”
“These vines are so thin. Can they really hold us?”
Song Jin said, “What else are you going to do? Stay here and wait to die?”
“Hurry up and get ready.”
Nanshu said, “Nanmo, you have to protect me properly. If I fall, I’m finished.”
Nanmo said, “Stop shaking.”
Nanshu said, “I can’t control myself!”
Just one look down had turned his face pale.
Nanmo said, “Close your eyes.”
With that, he carried Nanshu on his back and leaped down.
“Shut your mouth. If you wake the golden eagles, you’re taking responsibility.”
Nanmo’s cold voice forced back the scream Nanshu had nearly let out.
The others jumped down one after another as well.
After dropping, they grabbed hold of the vines on the cliff face.
Jiang Yunsui was not afraid. On the contrary, she found it fun, her eyes shining brightly.
Still, she knew she could not shout.
The men from the Cook Battalion had calves trembling with fear.
“Damn it, I’d rather go kill a few Barbarians.”
It felt like the vines could not bear their weight at all.
“That’s what you get for doing nothing but eating and sleeping, raising yourselves like pigs.”
Song Jin mocked them, then raised a brow at Shen Qingzhu.
“Little Qingzhu, need help?”
Shen Qingzhu still wore a gentle smile. “No need. Shen’s lightness skill is passable.”
With that, he leaped down.
Song Jin said to Fat Chef and the others, “If one vine isn’t enough, grab several. We’ll head down first.”
A height of around three hundred meters was indeed not easy to descend from.
But for someone with good lightness skills, as long as there were enough points to slow and support them, it was not too difficult.
Before long, Ji Yi and the others reached the bottom of the cliff.
“Young Master, are you all right?”
Ji Yan’an shook his head and looked up.
“Keep an eye on Chef Pang and the others.”
“Yes!”
Ji Yi had only just answered when a scream came from above.
Chef Pang and the others, who had been climbing down with extreme caution and had already made it more than halfway, ultimately proved too heavy for the vines. They fell.
Song Jin, who had not yet fully climbed down, sensed something crashing down from above.
“Holy-!”
He hurriedly dodged aside.
“You down there, catch me!”
There was no way he was catching him. He couldn’t.
Ji Yi said, “Ji Er.”
Two figures activated their lightness skills at the same time and shot upward, grabbing Fat Chef as he plummeted down.
Fat Chef’s weight was no joke. Even with the two of them hauling him together, they visibly sank a good distance before they barely managed to steady themselves.
By the time they landed, both of them felt their arms go numb.
Fat Chef climbed up from the ground, groaning and moaning. When he glanced at his torn clothes, he looked like he was about to cry.
Who knew when they would get back? There were no spare clothes for him to change into in a place like this.
More people came tumbling down after him, and Ji Si and the others went to help as well.
“Good grief, we actually survived.”
“Where’s that bird?”
Ji Lu said, “Here, here!”
The Quanrong Tribe’s messenger hawk had been tied up from head to toe, looking just like a rice dumpling. Even its beak had been bound shut.
At that moment, it looked utterly done with life.
“Heh heh heh…”
“We finally escaped. I refuse to believe those Quanrong Tribe people can chase us all the way here.”
“Oh, right. When I was falling, I saw goats on the cliff over there. There really are damn goats growing on that mountain wall.”
Actually, they could still see them now.
Those goats ran freely across the sheer cliffs.
Everyone stared in amazement.
They had truly never seen goats like these before.
“How do they even do that?”
Fat Chef said, “Those goats have got to taste good!”
Everyone exchanged a glance.
“Jiang Yunsui, are you hungry?”
Jiang Yunsui patted her belly and nodded without hesitation.
Song Jin asked, “Who’s going?”
Ji Lu said, “Me, me! I want to see if I can catch one.”
Ji Yan’an said, “Find a place to rest first.”
Chef Pang immediately set out his pots, bowls, ladles, and basins.
He also directed people to gather firewood.
They specifically chose a hidden spot farther away from the golden eagle.
Otherwise, once the golden eagle woke up and realized the egg in its nest was gone, and then saw them down below, a fight would be inevitable.
With the Golden Eagle Egg hanging in front of her chest, Jiang Yunsui played around nearby.
Quite a few wild grasses had already grown in the canyon, and there were wild vegetables too.
This was wonderful news for everyone.
Chef Pang and the others immediately began searching for wild vegetables. After going so long without any, they had been craving them terribly.
Jiang Yunsui picked wildflowers.
Those little wildflowers were rather pretty.
No one paid her much mind. She was a child, after all. It was perfectly normal for her to like little flowers.
With so many adults around, they were hardly going to make a child help with the work.
“Mm… are these pheasant eggs?”
She looked at the grass nest on the ground, and at the snake that was just about to eat the pheasant eggs.
Jiang Yunsui used a branch to flick the snake away, then took two pheasant eggs from the nest.
There had been six in total. The snake had eaten one, she took two, and three were left.
Then she went to look elsewhere.
Jiang Yunsui searched carefully for pheasant eggs on the ground.
And she really did come across several more nests.
In the end, she harvested a dozen or so pheasant eggs.
Carrying them, she ran back.
“Fat Grandpa, look! I found eleven pheasant eggs!”
When Fat Chef saw them, he immediately beamed.
“Perfect. Fat Grandpa will make wild vegetable and egg soup for you and the Young Master.”
Once everything was ready, they began cooking.
The conditions were simple and crude. Even the tables were just a few relatively flat stones they had found.
At the sight of green vegetables at last, everyone was beyond excited.
Eating the vegetables, Nanshu was so moved that tears welled in his eyes. “Never in my life have I felt vegetables were as delicious as they are today.”