After a short time chilling, they must keep going. Sung, the driver and Wendy, three of them continue moving toward the mountain. It remains silent in the carriage. The sun has risen from the east, they arrived at the mountain area. Wendy only slept for half an hour, due to the bouncing on the road. While she fell asleep, Sung stared at her all the time. He doesn’t feel that much hatred. Later then, a small village appears in front of the road, a small hostel should be placed in that village. “High!” The driver stops.
“We are here, your majesty!” The driver yells from outside. Sung opens the certain, the sunrise paints the sky into pink, blue and orange. Very stunning itself! The big drops of water fall from the green leaves to the ground like crystals. “Look, your Majesty! The hostel is gone!” The driver points to an empty field and says. Looking through his finger, Sung sees no hostel, just many bushes grow wildly on the ground. Yes, everything changed so much after these years. “That’s good, now he must bring me with him.” Wendy laughs inside. Sung knows things can’t be that easy, it probably because of the thieves! No one would dare to live here, that’s why they closed the hostel.
“So, your majesty, what do we do now? Let’s keep moving and find another hostel?” The driver asks. “I guess nothing will be there.” Sung replies, deep in thought. “Then it’s goodwill, your majesty. You need to bring me this time.” Wendy says proudly. Thinking of her words, Sung turns to the driver, “You wait for us here. We will go to find the plant. We will come back in two days! Our guards will be here soon and you wait with them together. If we don’t show up in two days, you and the guards go up to get the plant with this sketch. Am I clear?” Sung can’t leave Wendy with the driver, if something happens to her then it will be worse to explain to his father and others. So he better takes her with him this time. Wendy nods, she is correct, this man is wise!
So Wendy and Sung goes to the mountain. Sung walks in front, while Wendy follows behind with her big bag. After a while, seeing Wendy still not complains, Sung starts to pay attention to her. Actually, Wendy used to go hiking a lot when she had no work in the hospital. She could climb the mountain for a long time without stopping. “Hey, the snakes come sometimes, it’s still autumn. You batter watch out! I won’t save you!” Sung says with uncaring. Wendy knows he does care about her. She smiles back, “Your majesty, no worry, I will look after myself!” Sung gives her an annoyed-looking, replies, “Well, I guess I can’t count on you. So please don’t make any trouble for me!” He knows sooner or later, Wendy is gonna complain. When they are about to reach the middle of the mountain, Wendy feels a bit tired, just a bit, she still has lots of energy, that’s very funny to her. The road becomes more steel and stone. “Maybe my body is really changed after I recovered. Hope I won’t become the Spiderman!” Wendy thinks.
“Hold on!” Wendy stops all of a sudden.
“What’s going on?” Sung looks back, frowns, he thinks she’s tied and wanna take a break. Coincidentally, a big rock is placed right next to her.
“Your majesty, listen! Did you hear something?” Wendy replies.
Sung closes his eyes, focus on listening, “No, I didn’t hear anything.”
“Really? I heard some animal breathing…” Wendy replies. “Well, I heard nothing! Let’s go!” Sung says without looking back. The sun has risen in the middle of the sky, which shines through the clouds to Wendy and Sung, the heat makes her dazzling. She can’t open her eyes and her ears get a timeline, “You are correct, your majesty, maybe I heard something wrong.” Wendy apologizes for what she said, then they keep walking. Suddenly, a sound of bark comes to Sung’s ears! He grabs Wendy and hides in the bushes! The sound becomes more shrill and clear… It’s the deep roar from dog. It’s coming closer to them!
“How come there are dogs in the mountain?” Wendy thinks. Soon, several dogs appear on the road, it’s Tibetan Mastiff! The most dangerous dog ever in China! That’s a big surprise to see the Tibetan mastiff here in ancient time. They usually attack the strangers who come into the places they are protecting.
“You stay behind me!” Sung takes his sword out, ready to fight like a leopard! “I think they have smelled us. That’s why they stopped.”
“Woof!” Suddenly, the dogs jump into the bushes, toward them! Meanwhile, Sung jumps out as well! He waves his sword to one dog, “Roar…” The blood spreads everywhere, he chops its head down! He thinks this would scare other dogs, while he is wrong! He provokes all the rest of them! All other dogs jump to him for revenge! Sung can jump to climate all of them, but he cannot. If he does, Wendy will get hurt! So he must climate them one after one, whoever jumps to him. Wendy just follows his body moving around behind. She is scared to death honestly. She never sees so many Tibetan mastiffs before, and this time she is fighting with them! Suddenly, her feet sprain. She covers her mouth not to scream.
“Kill the left one! That’s the leader!” Wendy yells, she notices the other dogs only follow the leader to attack. Sung notices this too, he pushes Wendy to the bush, then he turns to the left one. He jumps towards the leader, using his sword to pierce into its eye! “Roar…” The big one died. Now three mores to go! The last three ones seem scared now faster their leader died, they all roar around without attacking forward. Sung moves around by following their movements and finds the right time to attack. Suddenly, he jumps up to the sky, by cutting a gordian knot, then he killed all of them in a short time!
“Are you all right?” Sung cleans his bloody sword then back to Wendy. He offers her a hand, “Now get out.” Wendy takes his hand, “Ahh…” She can’t help moaning about the pain on her feet. “What happened? Sprain your feet?” Sung asks and frowns. Wendy tries to move her feet, still flexible. “That’s fine, I can handle.”
“We must leave as soon as possible! Those dogs were not wild, they belonged to someone! If the owner finds us, then we will be in another trouble!” Sung says. “But who kept those dogs in such a steel mountain?” Wendy asks in a doubt. “There are thieves around, it’s their dogs!” Sung takes her bag, replies. “Let’s move fast. My gosh, why you brought so many things?” Wendy feels touched a little though his words sound cold. “Well, they all useful stuff, we will need later.” She replies gently. They keep walking in the mountain, both of them are quite close to each other.
Smelling the flower perfume on her, Sung deeps in thought again. How she recognized the leader dog? Without her helping, I wouldn’t even notice! Perhaps, she really changed, to a better woman? Wendy can read his mind, she knows this man begins to doubt her. Thinking of that burning scene in her head, it’s terrible. She must do something to make him stop thinking!