"My dear, I'll head back first, and you follow behind slowly," he said.
"Go on, go on, what time is it now? Stop dawdling! Hurry home and see how my mother is doing." Xuexue anxiously waved him away.
Seeing Xuexue's urgent demeanor, Big Bull felt an unexplained nervousness, so he agreed and swiftly turned to run toward the village.
The area below the mountain was a plain that had to be crossed to reach Mo Family Village.
Normally, this plain was overgrown with weeds and filled with a variety of wild vegetables, which the villagers liked to gather and cut pigweed amongst other things.
The villagers, who were digging for wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, sometimes glanced up to see a shadow flash by and disappear, thinking their eyes were deceiving them.
"Hey, did you guys see something just now?"
"No, what would there be?"