Bai Suihe knew that this journey would be fraught with bandits and highwaymen, but she never expected the first hurdle to be cleared so easily.
"Is this a mistake?" Bai Suihe felt that things had gone too smoothly. It felt just like the toll highways of her past life, which honestly wasn't entirely unacceptable. She mentally despised herself, realizing she was so used to paying tolls that she actually felt this extortion was justified.
"There are quite a few groups like ours," Gu Kaiyuan said. Seeing the guards by the ox cart, he could guess why the bandits had retreated.
Small-time highwaymen probably didn't have the guts to confront them. After all, bandits valued their own lives too.
"Just look at the number of people in our group, and then think about the weapons they were holding earlier. Anyone would know what choice to make."
