For half a month, he was extremely busy and exhausted.
His skills improved somewhat, primarily due to a change in mindset.
Then he began to walk eastward.
Following the road signs.
Their caravan needed to pass through one settlement after another.
Currently, the problem was the population was too sparse.
Fortunately, there were three settlements near Dinghe Village. Normally, the distance between two settlements took five days to travel, but all three villages were within two days' journey of Dinghe Village.
They traveled very slowly, mainly because the roads were treacherous, desolate, and required cautious steps, while also considering accommodation and hunting issues.
Dinghe Village used two rafts to cross the river to the north, enabling smooth hunting on the game-rich wilderness, making food suddenly very abundant.
Ma Lin and the others carried over a hundred pounds of smoked meat on the road.
They all walked relatively fast.
But they were not impatient.
