Chapter 125: Unshakeable Xiao Qiang
The two of them no longer considered the slower waterway, instead they found a post station and bought four swift horses.
Before they left, the two of them thoroughly cleaned themselves in the town and changed into brand new clothes.
Shen Luo employed a small trick, secretly stuffing their previous clothes into a cart headed in another direction.
After all this was done, they immediately mounted their horses and began their journey, riding one horse and leading the other, swapping every two hours. They sped along the road, covering more than two hundred miles in a very short time, and Gu Hualing still failed to appear.
“It seems that Gu Hualing might indeed be using her sense of smell to track us down, we’ve probably thrown her off our trail,” Bai Xiaotian said happily.
“Let’s hope so.” Shen Luo spoke noncommittally, a shadow hung heavily over his heart.
Just as he finished his sentence, his body shuddered suddenly. He turned and looked back, his expression immediately turning grave.
A small grey dot had appeared on the horizon behind them and was rapidly growing larger as it approached swiftly. Who could this be if not Gu Hualing?
Bai Xiaotian also noticed the figure behind them and he couldn’t help but laugh wryly.