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Chapter 130: The Chase! - The Fugitive's Tracks

As mentioned in the previous chapter, King Jianhao and Wei Qingping were unaware that someone was climbing the mountain wall in pursuit of them. After narrowly defeating two "iron-hoofed beasts," they settled into a barbecue. They planned to rest early today and set out again tomorrow morning.

The story ends here, and we are about to continue from an earlier chapter, and go back to talk about the chief jailer who is hunting down the Swordsman King.

Speaking of the chief jailer, we have to go back in time to early this morning.

As we said in the previous chapter, the chief jailer and two jailers planned to start climbing the mountain wall as soon as the day broke.

At this moment, the chief jailer and three others were at the bottom of the mountain wall.

When the head jailer saw that the thin jailer was already ready but the fat jailer was still dragging his feet, he became very angry.

Think about it, they got up so early in the morning and hadn't eaten yet. The warden was already in a bad mood, and now he was annoyed by the fat warden's procrastination. The consequences can be imagined.

The head jailer knocked the fat jailer on the head and asked him, "Why are you dawdling?"

The fat jailer replied to the head jailer in a wronged tone, "It's not that I'm dawdling, it's just that this thing seems a little small..."

The head jailer said to the fat jailer, "This isn't like buying clothes. It's fine as long as it's tied tightly. Besides, didn't you buy this yourself?"

The fat jailer said slowly to the head jailer, "Let me hang it up first and try to see if it will fall down."

The thin jailer said to his two companions, "The pitons on the wall are all freshly driven in by the escaped prisoners. If they were loose, they would fall down first."

The fat jailer looked very reluctant and said to the thin jailer: "My weight is different from that of the fugitive!" Even at this moment, he was still thinking about refusing this climb.

The head jailer said to the fat jailer, "Hey, why are you so nosy? Come on! Try it quickly! See if it will fall off..." At the end of his words, he glanced at the rock nails hammered into the cliff. He was not sure whether these rock nails in front of him could support the weight of the fat jailer.

The fat jailer argued for a long time, and finally tested the strength of the rock bolts. The rock bolts could indeed hold up, and if he slipped, they would not break all at once.

After looking at it, the head jailer said to the fat jailer, "That's enough! As long as you're alright! The fugitive has already helped us hammer in the pitons. We just need to follow them and we'll definitely make it up! Everyone, be alert! Once we get up there, we'll have accomplished a great feat!"

The head jailer couldn't think of anything else to say to encourage the soldiers. After all, he was only accompanied by two other jailers, so he just made do with what he said. Who could guarantee that they would achieve great success once they went up there?

The thin jailer said to his two companions, "Then I'll go straight ahead. If I see any unstable rock bolts, I'll temporarily reinforce them."

The head jailer agreed and said to the thin jailer, "Right, right, right! You know better. I'll rely on you!"

The head jailer looked back and saw that the fat jailer was dragging his feet, so he asked him to climb ahead of him. He said to the fat jailer, "You go in the middle, and I'll go at the end."

The head jailer was thinking that he could urge the fat jailer to climb up from behind, and also prevent the fat jailer from giving up halfway and going back directly.

You know what, these three people are all very scheming and have a lot of tricks up their sleeves.

So why did the thin jailer know so much about climbing? It was because the jailer had once been incarcerated in the prison of the Grilangchi capital. He had a conversation with a "snatcher," and he'd become fascinated with climbing. Later, whenever he had free time, he'd practice the techniques the thief had taught him. Actually, he'd only done it a handful of times, not often.

Just like that, after arguing for a while, the chief jailer and his three companions began to climb.

The warden didn't know that there was no one on the top of the mountain, but he still held a "go all out" mentality, that is, to "make meritorious service while serving his sentence" and thus demonstrate his absolute loyalty to the queen! Once they climbed to the top of the mountain, they found that they had thought too much, because there was no one on the top of the mountain.

They climbed up the mountain with a "stumbling" pace, mainly due to the fat jailer. In short, the climbing speed was extremely slow. This is understandable, as the slowness was mainly due to the fat jailer.

After all, the head jailer overestimated himself and his "team" at the beginning. Their climb took almost the entire day!

Even the experienced Swordsman King took a long time to climb. The Warden and his men started at dawn and continued until sunset before reaching the top of the mountain, taking far longer than the Swordsman King.

By the time the chief jailer and his three companions finally reached the top of the mountain wall, they were all exhausted.

The thin jailer had tried climbing before, but he had never challenged himself to climb so high.

The chief jailer and the fat jailer were even more inexperienced. The fat jailer was shaking all the way up, and eventually he couldn't move anymore, which directly trapped the chief jailer behind him, wasting a lot of his energy. The thin jailer saw that the two people behind him didn't move, so he couldn't continue climbing. Because they all shared a rope, and the three of them were tied together, the thin jailer really couldn't shake off the two people behind him.

The three people on top of the mountain wall were now lying on the ground like dead bodies.

The fat jailer said to his two companions, "I'm almost exhausted... I haven't eaten anything since this morning..."

The head jailer blamed the fat jailer, saying, "You still say that? It's all your fault! If you weren't so slow, you would have come up long ago... Look at you now, the sun is almost setting."

The thin jailer said to his two companions, "It's a good thing the fugitives didn't get blocked here. It seems they really have gone far away."

The head jailer said to his two companions, "It may look high from below, but I didn't expect it to be much higher than that when you climb up..." He was so tired that he was incoherent.

The thin jailer agreed with the chief jailer and said to his two companions, "I really underestimated the height. I didn't expect it to be even harder than I imagined..."

The fat jailer said to his two companions, "Fortunately... fortunately there is a place to rest along the way, otherwise I think we would die on the way..."

The three of them rested for a long time on a "small platform" where they could sit down halfway up the mountain wall. Only after their physical strength had fully recovered did they continue this torturous "extreme sport".

The thin jailer said to his two companions, "It seems the escaped prisoner is quite experienced. This climbing route is a good one... Otherwise, we really wouldn't be able to hold on and would have to turn back."

Just think about it, if the Swordsman King hadn't hammered the rock nails in advance, how could the three of them climb with them?

The fat jailer was simply too fat, and carrying a large bag of pitons would have killed him halfway through. The thin jailer was too thin, and a large bag of pitons would have seriously affected his balance. The head jailer was in slightly better physical condition, but carrying a large bag of pitons without any climbing experience would have been a real challenge.

Watching this, you'll realize just how physically imposing the Swordsman King is. After all, he was born an adventurer and later served as the previous king's personal bodyguard. His physical prowess is undoubtedly far superior to that of these three men. Therefore, even if these three men were to catch up with the Swordsman King, they wouldn't necessarily be able to defeat him.

After the three of them had caught their breath, the fat jailer spoke first. He asked his two companions, "What should we do now? We don't have any food with us."

The chief jailer told the fat jailer, "We'll have to starve for a day. What else can we do? Look at the position of the sun. It will set completely in a little while. We can't go back today."

The thin jailer also told the fat jailer, "Don't even think about going down after dark, or you might end up losing your way."

The fat jailer looked dejected and thought to himself, "No way! You really don't want to eat..."

Going hungry for a day was no big deal for the warden and the thin warden, but for the fat warden, it was like the sky falling.

After a while, the chief jailer said to his two companions, "Forget it! While we can still see, let's continue walking forward and see if we can find any trace of the fugitive. Even if we can't catch him, if we find something, it won't be a waste of this difficult climb."

The fat jailer, who had originally looked dejected, immediately raised his head and asked the head jailer, "Even if we don't find it, are we going back?"

The head jailer stood up and said to the fat jailer, "We haven't brought any food yet, so we must go down tomorrow. Stop talking nonsense and get going!" After that, he used body language to urge his two companions.

The thin jailer immediately stood up, dusting himself off. He also said to the fat jailer, "Let's go!"

The fat jailer looked helpless and said to his two companions, "Then... let's go." After that, he stood up and followed his two companions.

It was obvious that the three of them had found nothing along the way. However, the warden refused to give up and continued forward, using the moonlight to search for the Swordsman King.

Finally, the three of them were so tired that they stopped. They lit a bonfire and fell asleep. After all, they had been working from early morning to late evening, and their energy was exhausted all day long, so they naturally fell asleep right away.

When they woke up the next morning, it wasn't that they didn't want to continue sleeping, but they were all woken up by hunger.

The fat jailer's stomach had been growling with hunger since yesterday, and naturally it was still growling when he woke up this morning.

The head jailer was annoyed by what he heard and said to the fat jailer, "Stop yelling! You were yelling all the way here yesterday!"

The fat jailer looked aggrieved and said to the head jailer, "Whether my stomach growls or not is not something I can control..."

The head jailer said to the fat jailer, "Don't you have some water? Drink more!" He didn't want to hear the fat jailer's explanation at all, but was just complaining.

The thin jailer asked the head jailer, "What should we do next? Should we go back?"

The jailer thought about it, feeling very unwilling. He stood up and looked around, only to see a big tree in the distance.

The head jailer immediately pointed to the big tree in the distance and said to the thin jailer, "That tree in front is quite tall. Climb up and take a look. Maybe you can see something."

The thin jailer also noticed the big tree in the distance at this time. Before the chief jailer spoke, he and the chief jailer had the same idea.

The thin jailer immediately replied to the chief jailer, "Okay! I'll go take a look!" As he walked, he thought to himself, "Whether I can see anything or not, it's all good. If there's nothing, the chief jailer can give up hope completely."

The thin jailer knew the chief jailer's character very well and knew that this was the chief jailer's last "persistence".

Before long, the thin jailer had scaled the tree with the climbing tools he'd brought with him. Unlike the Swordsman King, they bought their climbing tools openly. They even had grappling hooks made by a blacksmith, perfect for climbing trees.

As soon as the thin jailer reached the heights and took a look, he was shocked. He immediately saw a lake in the distance. That was exactly where the Sword King and Wei Qingping had stayed before!

The thin jailer turned around and waved to his two companions, pointing to the distance and shouting loudly: "There is a lake ahead!"

After hearing this, the head jailer's eyes lit up. He concluded that the fugitive must have been to the lake before!

The fat jailer immediately jumped up from the ground. He concluded that there must be fish in the lake!

When the thin jailer came down from the tree, he found that the head jailer and the fat jailer had already run ahead of him. He had no time to rest and had to quickly catch up with his two companions.

The head jailer and the fat jailer were running forward like crazy despite being hungry!

One wants to achieve great success! The other wants to eat the big fish!

The thin jailer chasing after them was completely paralyzed, thinking, "Is he crazy? Why are he running so fast all of a sudden?"

When the three of them arrived at the lake, the fat jailer immediately rushed into the lake to "fish", in the physical sense of the word.

The fat jailer, who had been searching the lake for a long time, said loudly to his two companions by the lake: "There are no fish in this lake..."

The head jailer shouted to the fat jailer, "You're standing too shallow! Go deeper!"

The fat jailer said to the chief jailer, "But I can't swim!"

The head jailer said to the fat jailer, "I don't know how to do that either!"

The thin jailer said to his two companions, "That's enough! We can't swim. Our country is a mountainous country, and most of the shallow rivers we see on a daily basis are small streams. The wider shallow rivers are all on the border. The only places with more water we have seen are fish ponds. This is the first time we have seen such a large lake."

The three of them had only heard people talk about a certain kind of lake in such and such a place before, but had never seen it with their own eyes.

The head jailer said to the thin jailer, "At least we've seen the lake with our own eyes this time. I heard there's a sea in the north of our country, but it's blocked by the mountains, so we've never been there..."

The fat jailer saw his two companions start chatting, and he became anxious. He hurriedly asked his two companions, "What should we do? There are no fish to catch."

So what can we do? Let’s just read the next chapter!