Chapter 1129

This forest is home to many types of animals, as marked on the map.

Gentler ones like rabbits, pine trees, birds, and whatnot, it has it all.

Even some fiercer creatures are present, such as wild boars and badgers.

Some of these animals are artificially bred and released into the forest just before the competition, while others are genuinely wild.

Or they are specifically captured from other places to be released and roam in this forest.

Baili Xia and Shengxue walked until they saw two horses and then stopped.

Both horses belonged to the Mu family, with saddles embroidered with the “Mu” emblem.

The horses looked familiar; if she wasn’t mistaken, they should belong to Ziqing and Mu Ziying.

They must have met up together earlier.

Taking up her bow and arrows, Baili Xia looked around, but could not spot any people within the visible area.

The path ahead became difficult to traverse on horseback, which is probably why Mu Ziqing and Mu Ziying had left their horses here.

She dismounted her horse in one leap and gently patted Shengxue’s back, “I’m going in, play by yourself for a while, I’ll be back soon.”

Shengxue whinnied softly, as if responding to her.

Unlike Mu Ziqing and Mu Ziying who tied their horses to trees, Baili Xia simply let Shengxue stay where it was and walked along the path ahead.

After about five or six hundred meters, the path was indeed getting difficult to navigate.

With every step, she had to push past branches to proceed.

Fortunately, she was dressed in a sturdy outfit today; otherwise, those branches would certainly have left quite a few marks on her body.

Suddenly, a shout came from not far away.

“Quick, quick, catch it with your hands, use your hands!”

The voice was all too familiar; it was the cheerful voice of Mu Ziying.

Feeling delighted, Baili Xia hurried towards the sound.

Indeed, not far ahead, she spotted Mu Ziying and Mu Ziqing chasing after something.

On closer look, they were trying to catch a rabbit that had been shot in the hind leg.

The rabbit, with the injured leg, wasn’t very agile and was striving to hop along.

As soon as Baili Xia arrived, both of them were thrilled, and the three of them quickly formed a semi-circle, trapping the rabbit in the middle.

Mu Ziying lunged forward and caught the rabbit in her hands.

“Xiaxia, your timing couldn’t have been more perfect. We were exhausted from trying to catch it.”

Holding the pitiful rabbit, Mu Ziying was overjoyed.

“Have you two been together for a while?”

Looking at them, Baili Xia felt utterly depressed; she had endured an hour of solitude to get there.

In this place, the loneliness was truly intolerable.

“Yes, we bumped into each other shortly after coming in.”

Mu Ziqing looked at Baili Xia and said softly, “But it’s hard to catch anything with Ziying; she has no patience.”

Upon hearing this, Mu Ziying was not pleased and pouted with a huff.

“Ugh, why are you blaming me? You’re too delicate, scared of ruining your pretty star face with all those branches.”

Seeing the two start to bicker, Baili Xia quickly changed the subject.

“How many have you caught? Seems like quite a few?”

Both of them had a few little creatures like rabbits and wild chickens in the nets they carried.

“We haven’t caught much. We just saw someone carrying a goat back,” said Mu Ziqing, her words still betraying dissatisfaction with their haul.

Listening, Baili Xia was bewildered; they considered this a modest catch?

By that standard, her own score was probably too embarrassing to mention.

It seemed everyone was indeed quite formidable!