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370. Escaping the Huang Mansion 36

Upon hearing the name Huang Muyan, the three soldiers first looked bewildered, then the two younger ones looked at a loss, while the oldest one looked terrified.

"Wait a minute, don't shout like that!" The oldest soldier approached, and Huang Muyan could tell at a glance that he was only a year or two older than her.

The soldier's face was covered in mud, and his sun-darkened features made him look extremely nervous. He rubbed his hands together and said to Huang Muyan in his broken dialect, "Don't say that again, fellow villager. If our squad leader hears us, he'll beat us up."

"Oh, is that so? I'm sorry." Seeing that the other party didn't seem to have any ill intentions, Huang Muyan felt a little relieved.

"Okay, I understand." The oldest soldier scratched his head, then asked Huang Muyan, "Hey folks, what are you doing in these reeds? I've seen you walking around in these reeds for ages."

“We…we’re going to Sunset Town,” Huang Muyan said. “I have relatives there.”

"You should have taken the main road over there, why did you come here?" the soldier asked curiously.

"Well... this is our first time here, and we don't know the area well, so we went the wrong way," Huang Muyan said, glancing at the expression on the soldier's face.

"Oh, I see," the oldest soldier scratched his head, then asked, "We're just about to head back. It's too dangerous for the three of you to stay here. Why don't you come back with us?"

“No need, we can just go into Sunset Town,” Huang Muyan said warily, looking at the three people in front of her. “I’ve already made arrangements with my relatives.”

"Oh, I see." The soldier scratched his head, then pointed to Sunset Town and said, "But Sunset Town is sealed off now, and we can't get in."

"Oh, is that so?" Upon hearing this, Huang Muyan decided to walk a little further to see if there was a ferryman ahead. She wondered if he would agree to take them across the river if she paid more.

"Sister, come back with us?" The shorter of the two soldiers suddenly spoke up, and Huang Muyan then realized that he was actually a girl.

The girl with short hair and patches of mud covering her face scratched her face and said, "There's a war going on up ahead. It's too dangerous for you to go there now."

Huang Muyan recognized the girl's accent, but it was also somewhat unfamiliar; she must be from this area.

"Is it a war? Then why is there no sound at all?" Huang Muyan asked cautiously.

"The fighting hasn't started yet, but it shouldn't be long." The soldier who hadn't spoken before spoke up. He was a boy and sounded like a local. "If you go any further, something bad will definitely happen."

The oldest soldier listened to the conversation between the two young soldiers and Huang Muyan for a while, and as if he had thought of something, he hurriedly pushed the two young soldiers in front of Huang Muyan and said, "These two kids are from your area. If you think I have bad intentions, I'll accept it. After all, I haven't looked like a good person since I was a child. But these two kids wouldn't lie to you, would they?"

Huang Muyan looked at the two children in front of her and saw that they had a distinct local appearance. She could understand their accents. Although she couldn't quite understand a few of the little girl's words, she could tell that they lived nearby.

Huang Muyan was talking to two young soldiers, while Mu Baiyuan listened to their conversation, occasionally glancing at the oldest soldier.

The uniforms worn by these three soldiers are somewhat similar in style to those worn by the officers and soldiers that Mu Baiyuan saw when he entered Sunset Town, but the colors are different.

"Is it a new army?" Mu Baiyuan wondered, shaking Mu Wanqing on his back and asking, "Wanqing, are you feeling alright?"

"Brother, I'm fine." Mu Wanqing had just received the messages from Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM in her mind. They said that the three soldiers in front of her were trustworthy.

“The style and color look like the uniforms worn by our army before the Xi’an Incident.” Lu Renkui had been observing the three soldiers through Mu Wanqing’s eyes since they appeared. She was quite interested in modern history and had also read about the history of military uniforms.