Night wrapped the mountain forest and every tree appeared as a spirit of the darkness, watching the humans as they moved about the forest. On one side were the humans fleeing and the other, the humans chasing. This was a meaningless game in to the trees. 

Gu Ke-Wu had been on the chase from the middle of the night to late night. There had been tracks to follow in the beginning but those had been lost later. He had broken up his groups into three teams, one to the peak, one to the left of the path and the rest to the right of the path, together with him at the lead. This was in the direction of Bailu Town. 

In his pursuit, Gu Ke-Wu had gone from excitement to disappointment, finally ending in despair as they’d lost the tracks. He was dog-tired and had wasted so much energy but had yet to even smell Xia Lei’s fart, much less catch him and kill him off. 

What was worse was that it had started to rain. 

Spring rain came pattering down from the sky and the treetops acted as funnels, sending water down in a continuous...