880 Who Are You?

Lin Qiao paused at hundreds of meters away from those people, then stood on a tree and quietly waited for them.

How did they find her? How did they manage to track her?

Soon, she found that those people were actually able to accurately avoid all the dangerous plants, and wriggle their way to her. They moved slowly, but didn't run into any danger.

She guessed that one of those people had a special power.

She stood on a branch tens of meters away from the ground, and her camouflage suit merged into the leaves. As long as she didn't move, no one would spot her.

But soon, she realized that she was wrong.

The five people slowly approached her tree. A man among them twitched his nose, then abruptly raised his head to look at her.

The two of them made an eye-contact.

Lin Qiao looked at that man in the eyes expressionlessly while sweeping the thoughts that she had earlier out of her mind. She thought no one would find her, but that man did. She had restrained her vibe as much as she could, yet that man spotted her easily and accurately.

At that very moment, Sun Lunan was shocked as well. He was expecting to see a mutated animal or plant, or a high-leveled zombie. But instead, he saw a person!

A woman!

He had seen her, so it was pointless for her to keep hiding. Lin Qiao leaped off the tree and nimbly landed on a branch that was meters away from Sun Lunan and his people.

"Who are you?" Lin Qiao looked down at them without any expressions and asked calmly.

She didn't ask those people why they followed her, because if she did, they might not tell her what they really wanted.

Mo Qiqi stepped forward and vigilantly shielded Sun Lunan with her own body while slightly raising her head to fix her eyes on Lin Qiao's face. At that point, Lin Qiao saw the pair of dog ears that abruptly popped up from Sun Lunan's head. She had guessed it out.

Alright, he was a dog man who had a sharp nose. He tracked her by her scent!

Sun Lunan looked at Lin Qiao. He sniffed around to confirm that no scents of other people existed nearby, making sure that the woman was there alone. She was in the forest alone. Clearly, she wasn't just an ordinary person.

Sun Lunan didn't say anything but observed Lin Qiao.

"Who are you?" A man behind him looked at Lin Qiao and couldn't help but ask. Except for Sun Lunan and Mo Qiqi, the rest of team were all stunned and attracted by Lin Qiao's face.

She was pretty!

Lin Qiao glanced at that man but didn't respond. The man was looking at her from head to toe, but she didn't change her expression for that.

Sun Lunan was also looking at Lin Qiao. He couldn't sense her vibe, and was only able to smell her scent. She had a faint, strange aroma, not like the smells of the plants in the forest, neither like the sweet aroma of flowers.

He couldn't tell how powerful she was, but he had a feeling that being enemies with her would be highly dangerous.

"Sorry, we're only passing by. I apologize if we interrupted you. We're leaving now." After a short measurement, Sun Lunan quickly made his reaction. Hearing his words, the others instantly looked at him with surprise. They opened their mouths, but Sun Lunan signaled for them not to talk.

Lin Qiao looked at them expressionlessly. Clearly, they didn't plan to tell her about their purpose.

As she stayed silent, Sun Lunan immediately raised a hand to signal for the others to step backward. He himself made a few steps backward too. Seeing that Lin Qiao was staying motionless, he turned and quickly ran out of the forest.

The other three men took another glance at Lin Qiao's face with regret, then turned and followed Sun Lunan away.

After getting away, one of those men asked Sun Lunan, "Why are we leaving? Is that woman dangerous?"

Sun Lunan nodded and said, "I can't sense her power level. She has no hostility, but doesn't seem to want us to get close to her."

The others weren't stupid. Sun Lunan said that he couldn't sense her power level, meaning that she either had no superpower, or was at a very high level, but with her vibe restrained. She was in the dangerous forest alone, so she was clearly no one ordinary.

"She's so pretty! And clean!" A man licked his lips, his eyes showing greed.

Sun Lunan glanced at him and said coldly, "You don't want to mess with her. I have a feeling that she's not a good one."

"Are we going back like this? What about that thing you talked about earlier? Aren't we gonna look for it?" Another man looked at Sun Lunan and asked.

"We've already found it. We can't take it with us," Sun Lunan responded blandly while looking around, paying attention to the surrounding mutated plants or bugs.

The moment he saw Lin Qiao, he knew that she was the thing that he was trying to find. He and his people didn't have the power to take her away, and she surely wouldn't follow them.

"No? What should we do then? We're tens of miles away from Upper City District. If we go like this, I'm afraid not many of us can make it to the base safely," said a man who wasn't willing to give up.

"There's nothing we can do. She made a pretty clear point just now. She doesn't want to be with us. She won't go with us," said Sun Lunan.

That was the reason why he decided to leave instantly.

Sun Lunan and his people didn't know that even though they were pretty far away from Lin Qiao, she could still hear every word they say clearly.

Lin Qiao remembered the surprised look in the dog's man's eyes. It seemed that he wasn't expecting to meet her, or, a person.

Based on their conversation, they might have found something from her that was beneficial for themselves. Therefore, they followed her, and even wanted to have her, so they could make it to the base safely.

They had found the answer to their question, but the answer frightened them, so they left quickly. If it weren't for that, those men might attempt to do something awful to her. The look in their eyes made Lin Qiao think so.

As the group of people left, a huge black snake slowly crawled down the tree. The snake coiled his body on the branches near Lin Qiao and glanced at Sun Lunan and his people with cold eyes.