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Chapter 899 Taking Things Slowly

“What’s the matter?” asked Xavier as he approached her, sensing her strange behavior. While her head was lowered as she observed her surroundings, Veronica answered, “It’s nothing.”

“Did someone try to kill you?” Despite her efforts to hide the truth, he had guessed the answer just from studying her expression.

Knowing she could not hide the truth from him anymore, she nodded without speaking as she observed the footsteps on the ground, wanting to find clues from the traces left behind.

Xavier went inside the tent and felt his heart skip when he saw the two stab marks. At that moment, his anger for Matthew surged, but he knew that no matter what the situation was, he did not want to see Veronica get hurt.

When he came out of her tent, he saw a few people coming toward them and whispered a reminder, “They’re back. It’s better if they didn’t know what happened last night.”

“Alright.” She nodded and stood up straight before looking toward Nelson’s tent. Narrowing her eyes, she fell into deep thought.

“We found a few wild bird eggs. Xavier, Miss Murphy, you guys get some water boiling so we can cook them,” Liam ordered.

we supposed to cook without a

night in her heart, Veronica smiled and joked with Liam, “There’s no pot of any sort in our mighty backpack.” Then, she pointed at the eggs in his hand. “Let’s

they have limited resources, it was

agree with her,”

difficult for ourselves? It’s still quite early. We should slow down our

it not be better if they let the other groups see the animal and fight amongst themselves for it? Then, they would be able to take advantage of their worn-out state and get what they

sounds nice.”

with

“Since there are so many competitors, we don’t need to be in such a hurry. Wouldn’t it be better if we just

Liam is

in the distance, feeling nervous. We’ve agreed that we would look for each other after entering the mountain, but now, Zac and the others want to slow down our pace and even stay in the same spot. That means Matthew and I will not be able to meet up. It will be more difficult

thinking of that, she glanced at

…

Master Iron.