Chapter 640: Seeing Them Off
Their original plan had been to depart early the following morning.
Yet because Fu Hongmei had decided not to continue with them, Chen Changsheng and Mo Yuan saw no reason to linger any longer.
In truth, they ought not to have wasted so much time on such a negligible demon in the first place.
Had it not been for that detour, they would have reached the Capital City that morning.
As for why they had lingered, Chen Changsheng and Mo Yuan would likely have offered different answers.
To Chen Changsheng, it was rare to retrace a road he had once traveled, and he was in no hurry to pass it by.
Mo Yuan, meanwhile, was doing what Chen Changsheng had once done: beholding the Red Dust and inquiring of the Mortal World.
All those years of slaughter in the Desolate Sea had taught him much. He had come to understand that ordinary, casual things were often the most precious—and that was why he had taken to the road.
Fu Hongmei came dashing out from the inn after them. "You—you're leaving now?! Why not wait until morning? Walking the road by night, I fear..."