"Then that depends on her."
Ning Qi let out a sigh and turned his gaze to the front.
After so many ambushes, there were now fewer than two full squads left in their party; altogether barely more than twenty people.
However, their carriages and horses hadn't taken much damage.
Once the formation was stretched out, it spanned about a hundred meters.
From this one could tell how many men and horses they'd had at the beginning.
This time they were traveling along a wide official road, surrounded by grasslands. After a stretch, they would pass some hills and then patches of forest.
Overall, it looked much safer than yesterday.
A few people were acting as scouts—some found high ground to look into the distance, others spurred their horses ahead.
They were clearing the way for the convoy.
Advancing steadily like this, they quickly covered a hundred li.
This time they entered a vast open plain, where the eye could see nothing but waist-high grass everywhere.
