An Jin had just left the cave when she ran into the Beastmen from the gathering team who were looking for her.
"Lord City Lord, where have you been? We've been searching the area for you for ages and couldn't find you."
A female named Hua hurried over, anxiously circling An Jin. She patted her full chest, still shaken. "We thought you'd run into a wild beast! We rushed over, following the scent, and found a lot of blood splattered on the grass."
"Don't worry. I just went to gather some supplies and wandered a bit too far."
An Jin took a basket from Hua's hands and walked beside her. Glancing at the rugged path ahead, she began to lead the Beastmen out of the mountains. "I just found a child in a cave," she said. "He's badly injured. It looks like he fought a Demon Beast. The bloodstains must be from that."
'But what was one of Ze Sheng's feathers doing there?'
"An injured Beastman child? All alone in a cave? Sounds like an abandoned cub," Hua sighed.
