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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.

supposed to

of last 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

have limited resources, it

right. I agree with her,” Nelson voiced

in disdain, “We aren’t in a hurry to head up to the mountain, so why make things difficult for ourselves? It’s still quite early. We should slow down our pace. After all, isn’t there a saying that those

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

plan sounds nice.” Xavier

agree with Zac

need to be in such a

is

Zac’s idea, Veronica did not say anything else. She turned around and looked toward the mountain’s peak 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

thinking of that, she glanced at

…

Iron. Here, for