I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan both knew that the truth was not what Gu Wenxuan said.

In the era when he and she once lived, the base was able to accurately measure who had evolved, what abilities they had evolved, and what level of abilities they had.

Bai Jingzhou had been subjected to regular testing by al-Qaeda more than once, but the results each time showed that he was just an ordinary person, with no evidence that he had evolved.

What Gu Wenxuan said was just a roundabout way of praising Bai Jingzhou for his intelligence and cleverness.

On the way to the largest and farthest bandit stronghold, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou were not idle either. They treated the journey as a field training.

It is worth mentioning that, since Gu Wenxuan’s strength has recovered to about 40% of its peak period, the only one who was actually trained in this so-called field training was Bai Jingzhou.

Gu Wenxuan carried all the things they carried with them on her back, and Bai Jingzhou only had to keep up with her deliberately slowed pace.

However, even with this, Bai Jingzhou was still exhausted every day.

Fortunately, they only spent two and a half days training during the day and staying in dilapidated temples or deserted houses at night.

On the afternoon of the third day after their departure, the two men successfully arrived at the town closest to the hill where the bandits were located.

This town is far less prosperous than Liulin Town, but it is a must-pass place for travelers and merchants traveling from Xingzhou to various prefectures and counties in the west.

Those bandits chose to settle in the mountains near this town because they thought there was a large flow of people here and their "business" would be good.

The two of them disguised their faces outside the town, and Gu Wenxuan had changed into men's clothes last night. The thick chest wrap made her look less frail, and she naturally looked more like a man.

They pretended to be cousins, walked around the town, bought some things and had dinner, and then stayed in a small inn which did not have many guests because of its remote location.

The inn's owner and manager and the cook are a couple, the two waiters in the store are their two sons, and the people who are responsible for looking after the livestock, cleaning the backyard, and fetching water are the owner's cousins. In other words, everyone in the store is related.

Gu Wenxuan and her companions had no car or horse, so there was no need to go to the backyard of the inn. They went to the innkeeper to book a room, and then followed one of the waiters to the room.

The room was not big, with a clean mat covering the kang (earth bed) inside. Four quilts and four wooden pillows were neatly stacked in one corner of the kang.

After washing up, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan each took a quilt and spread it on the kang, and then took their folded clothes to use as pillows.

One of them occupied the head of the kang, while the other occupied the foot of the kang, and the things they brought were placed in the middle.

To be on the safe side, they did as they did several times before when they stayed away from home. They first carefully checked the entire room, blocked the windows with straw mats, and then set up some hidden and lethal small mechanisms in the room. Finally, they lay down in their clothes and fell asleep quickly in this not-so-quiet environment.

They slept from dusk until the sky turned pale, and then they got up refreshed.

Bai Jingzhou lit the oil lamp and checked the four small mechanisms located near the doors and windows, as well as on his and Gu Wenxuan's sides.

After finding that none of the four mechanisms had been triggered, he took down the straw mat that was blocking the window and, with the faint light of the oil lamp, carefully and skillfully began to dismantle and collect the four small mechanisms.

Gu Wenxuan took advantage of this opportunity to put the two sets of clothes that they used as pillows into the backpack, then folded the bedding and put it back to its original place.

After washing up and having a simple breakfast at the inn, the two of them left the town among the early morning crowd.

They headed westwards and met a large merchant caravan with many people, horses and carts on the official road west of the town. However, the other party had horses and carts, so their speed was undoubtedly faster than theirs.

When the two heard the noise, they simply moved to the side of the road early. They did not continue to move westward along the official road until the smoke and dust raised by the carriages and horses in the team had completely dissipated.

As they walked, Gu Wenxuan said to Bai Jingzhou, "Let's move faster. I plan to take advantage of the fact that the bandits are distracted by the noise made by the large caravan ahead and sneak up behind them to catch them off guard."

According to the intelligence obtained by Bai Jingzhou, the number of people in this gang of bandits who went out to rob each time basically remained at around thirty.

With this number of ordinary young and middle-aged men, Gu Wenxuan could kill thirty of them alone even with just a stick, but those bandits were not fools. If she really rushed forward head-on, they would not be able to beat her and would definitely scatter like birds and beasts at the first moment.

How can we let the bad guys get away? Since we have started, we must eradicate all the evil.

With this thought in mind, Gu Wenxuan decisively chose to launch a sneak attack.

As for Bai Jingzhou, although his physical strength and endurance were not as good as Gu Wenxuan's, the carriages pulling heavy cargo were not much faster than him and Gu Wenxuan.

It was just a matter of running seven or eight miles at that speed, and Bai Jingzhou said he could totally do it.

He handed the backpack to Gu Wenxuan, who took it and put it on the ground together with her own.

The two of them stretched their arms and legs together, and then Gu Wenxuan hung the two backpacks on herself, one in front and one behind, and said, "Go, go, go."

Bai Jingzhou smiled, and the two began to slowly speed up.

At first, the people in the caravan in front did not notice Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou behind them, but after walking about four or five miles, the escorts in the team had to start to doubt the two people who had been following them.

The two escorts in charge of guarding the rear found the leader of the caravan and told him that Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou had been following them. "...Since we left the town, those two have been following our team."

The caravan leader didn't take it seriously, "Just two people?"

The two escorts nodded, "They are two young boys."

The caravan leader hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's wait and see what happens. We have to go west from the town. This is the only way to go. We can't just force them to leave just because they're following us."

He bowed to the two escorts and said, "I hope you two will be more vigilant and pay more attention to the other party's movements."

The two escorts returned the greeting with a bow, "We must do our best in our duties."

They had not originally intended to do anything to Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou. The reason they came to remind the caravan leader was just to fulfill their duty.

The two men rode back to the end of the team, intending to keep a close eye on Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou. However, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou got off the official road and headed in other directions.

The two confused escorts: ???

Gu Wenxuan: For a sneak attack, going around the back is a basic move.