Why it never ends

Chapter 1062 Squatting

Jiahoduolei raised her head slightly, hoping that this posture would make her look more arrogant.

"...Is that all?" Her tone was somewhat judgmental, and she took a few steps closer to Hesta. "Then why did you come to see him this time--"

"Who told you that we were childhood sweethearts?"

The girl looked away: "...Don't worry about it."

"If you don't tell me, I will go ask Bo Heng." Hesta stuck the heavy bow into the ground. "After all, this concerns my reputation--"

"You are not allowed to go!" The girl rushed over and hugged Hesta's bow tightly, "You are not allowed to mention this to Teacher Boheng!"

"You speak the language of the Third District very well," Hesta looked at her, "Why did you need Manna to translate for you just now?"

Gahodore opened her mouth several times and fell silent again, and her face quickly turned red, as if Hesta's question touched on a topic that she was embarrassed to talk about.

"…You have to promise me not to mention this to him. Even if he asks you, you have to say you don't know."

"why?"

"There are so many reasons why!"

"Then I will not only ask him, I will also ask him why I can't ask why——"

Looking at Hesta's serious expression, Jiahoduolei was shocked and angry. She wanted to curse him, but she was not sure whether he was joking or not - because Hesta's eyes always seemed to be smiling...

Hesta could not see the rapid and complicated thoughts in this circle. She just felt that the man in front of her looked angry and on the verge of exploding. So she avoided his gaze, drew the bow again, turned around and walked to the bushes not far away to look for arrows: "You are good at shooting arrows, how about your gun?"

"I don't usually touch guns." Jia Heduolei said coldly.

"You don't want to learn?"

Gahodore followed Hesta, kicking the weeds that blocked her way in annoyance: "...guns are too dangerous."

"Really?" Hesta turned around. "Do you really think so?"

Gahodore glared at Hesta in annoyance: "…They wouldn't let me join the shooting team!"

"Who?"

"Anyway... I'm too light to meet the standard," Jiahoduolei said impatiently, "Unless I gain 20 pounds, otherwise -"

"You are indeed too thin." Hesta said softly.

"Is the gun heavier than my bow?" Gahoduolei immediately retorted, "I can lift the bow and arrow, so of course I can lift -"

A low and long horn sound came from a distance.

Hesta and Gahodole stopped at the same time and looked up at the source of the sound.

Immediately afterwards, the sounds of more than a dozen trumpets rang out one after another, like surging waves, instantly sweeping across the area.

——The trumpet sound that filled the mountains and plains appeared.

"…Lend me your bow!"

Before Hesta could react, Gahodore had already picked up the bow and rushed towards the distance. Hesta chased for a while and soon entered bullet time.

"You have no arrows," Hesta chased after her, "what's the use of a bow--"

"Take it on the way!" Hesta soon understood what "take it on the way" meant - at a broken bridge in a mountain stream, they encountered another hunting team that set out together. Jiahoduolei leaned over and hid behind a rock for more than ten seconds. While those people were trying to figure out the direction, she suddenly rushed over and took out a quiver from one of them's bag.

Jia Heduolei was weak, had poor burst and average endurance, but her agility at that moment was unmatched. After succeeding, she almost immediately disappeared into the jungle on the other side, and the team of seven or eight people could only stand in the half-man-high bushes and stare blankly.

Hesta laughed at what she saw - this level of cleverness could probably only fool the inexperienced Kasyapas. If the fifteen-year-old Rico was here, Jiaduolei would have been caught when stealing the quiver.

The next moment, seven or eight people turned around at the same time, attracted by the laughter, and rushed towards Hesta.

Hesta thought something was wrong and dodged quickly: "...I am not in the same group with her!"

"Stop talking nonsense, thief!"

"Catch her!"

Hesta uttered a series of helpless “Ahhh…” and could only jump up and down in the woods. Finally, he used the help of a cliff to avoid the search.

……

The forest was silent for the entire afternoon. Except for a few occasional horn blasts, the chorus of horns, as raging as the sea, never appeared again.

At dusk, Gahoduolei hid high in the woods, she closed her eyes, waiting for the sound of a horn nearby.

About a quarter of an hour later, the expected sound came.

"I understand. This horn is a reminder. Wherever the horn blower sees a mountain deer, the horn will sound, right?"

The sudden sound scared Jiahoduolei so much that she almost fell off the tree. She looked up quickly and found that Hesta had sat on a branch that was one foot higher than her.

"What are you doing!" Jiahoduolei glared at him, "Is it fun to scare people like this?"

Hesta glanced at her and said, "...I'll settle the bill for this afternoon when I get back."

Jia Heduolei retracted her gaze: "I have nothing to settle with you."

Hesta stood up again by holding on to the branch and jumped to the branch near Gahodole. "I see you've been squatting here for more than half an hour. What are you waiting for?"

"Don't make any noise!"

A small branch poked at her from behind. Hesta broke off a branch and waved it at the back of Jiahoduolei's head: "Tell me."

Jiahoduolei raised her hand and punched Hesta, but the other party seemed to be prepared. He immediately loosened his hands, hooked the branches with his thighs, walked around the tree, and sat back to his original position.

Gahoduolei was so angry that she jumped up and rushed towards Hesta, but Hesta suddenly fell from the branch. Gahoduolei was startled and subconsciously reached out to grab him, but he suddenly grabbed another branch and swung to another place. After going around in circles, he finally came back to her side.

"Are you sure that the deer will pass by here?" Hesta asked, "Or do you have any special hunting skills?"

Jiahoduolei looked at the other person with gritted teeth.

"...It's very difficult to catch it during the day. There are so many hills, and it's like looking for a needle in a haystack if you want to find a deer among them."

"Ah."

"But it's different at night," said Gahodole. "The priests on Mount Lesbos will smear mineral powder on the deer, so it will glow at night - basically the spring hunt ends after nightfall every year."

"I see."

"There are trumpeters on the top of every mountain. Once they see the sacred deer, they will blow the trumpet. The trumpets sounded sporadically here this afternoon. I guess the sacred deer won't go too far, so they come here to guard it."