43. Is He Gone?

"What now? We wanted to find him then he came to us. Do you still want to keep looking for him?"

Feng Shao politely asked while he was busy setting up a place where he could sleep. It had darkened and the moon was no longer much of help. Their fire was also out.

"We will still go to the next village. Do you want to stay in the jungle all the time?" Lui Xian conversed from across him. He was also preparing his part. They had long eaten the fish and exhausted all the topics they could think of.

"Lui, if what Huo Ling said is right. Are you going back?"

Feng Shao inquired in a low tone, his hands were clutched tightly, he feared to be alone again. Even though he had promised he wouldn't return until he got the bandit but now what.

'He might leave again.'

Lui Xian turned to look at the wallowing pumpkin before him. A smile surfaced on his lips. "You don't want me to go?" He felt pleased. Apart from Rushan, he had never been so close to anyone. All his life, he had one true friend and unr