Modern Women's Charm
Who Is Right
Jean is of course confused by Uncle Ben's warning that Marco's group is not a good group of people.
What makes Marco's group bad? Jean doesn't understand.
According to him, the people in Marco's group are very friendly and kind to him, especially Mia and Marco, but Jean will pay more attention to their movements in the future.
He came back with an ordinary face like before so as not to arouse suspicion.
As Jean sat in his place, Marco came up to her and asked,
"Jean, did you know the hunter?"
"Yes, that's Uncle Ben, my late father's hunting partner, what's up?" jean replied while observing Marco's serious-looking face.
"Oh no, I was just wondering what you were talking to him about?" Marco asked again.
"He was just talking about my late father. Is there a problem?"
Jean felt a bit strange about Marco's question.
Suddenly Mia replied, "Jean you have to be careful with that person. He's a bad and dangerous man."
One eyebrow Jean raised, she asked curiously, "What do you mean, why is he dangerous?"
"Sshht Mia, stop! Don't say anything! Jean doesn't need to know about him." Marco silenced Mia's mouth with one finger.
Mia nodded, understood and sat back to where she was.
"Jean all you need to do is stay away from that person in the future." Marco turned away after saying that.
Jean is getting confused and curious.
Why Uncle Ben says Marco's group is not good people, while Marco tells him to stay away from Uncle Ben who he says is dangerous. Which is right?
Because the two parties who accused each other made Jean all suspicious. He didn't know who was right, so he was more alert and not as calm as usual.
Even so Jean's face was still as usual on the surface, it was just that she was more reserved not asking too much about the contents of the forest as before.
In the evening the group built 1 simple tent and lit a bonfire.
On the other hand the group of hunters also built one tent.
For night duty, take turns with two people from the picking team every one hour.
Jean never sleeps well, she is woken up by Mia to watch the night with him.
The campfire outside the tent drove away the ferocious beasts around, yet there were also ferocious beasts that were attracted by the light of the campfire, but that was rare, so there was no need to worry too much.
Outside the tent was not as quiet as he thought, the night scenes in the forest were noisier because of the many sounds of insects or night animals.
"You want warm water?" Mia offered him a glass of warm water in her hand.
"Yes, thank you." Jean accepts.
Mia poured warm water in another glass and sat down next to Jean.
They watched the blazing bonfire.
"Mia, what's with the hunters that came up to me? Can you explain to me why you're saying he's dangerous?"
"Jean, I can't say it. You heard Marco, didn't you?" Mia refused to talk.
"Yes that's it." Jean sighed after taking a sip of warm water, she chose to ask again later.
The night was so slow, probably because Jean couldn't sleep well thinking and worrying about things.
***
Early in the morning, the sunlight penetrated through the gaps of the leaves forming a straight line of transparent light.
Leaves of plants of various colors and shapes appear to be filled with droppings of dew water.
Although Jean didn't sleep too long, she felt refreshed looking at the forest scenery when she woke up in the morning.
After breakfast each, the journey to the outer forest begins.
They camped on the border of the fringe forest and the outer forest so it only took half an hour to get to the outer forest region.
There Jean found several medicinal plants and one of them there is a higher value that is the leaves of the grass that can be exchanged for 40 copper coins for each leaf. Jean got four leaves of grek, meaning he got one silver coin and 60 copper coins.
"Good start Jean. The more we go into believing the more good plants we can find." Marco praised.
The more he went inside, Jean more often heard a whistle sign of a beast. Not one Pluit tone but there are different tones also heard. It was the whistle of another group.
When Jean was about to pluck the buds of a light green Beet, a large tree trunk moved quickly towards her.
It turned out that it was a one-horned green snake with a body as big as a person.
"Piiiiiittt..."
Jean quickly blew the whistle and rolled to the side avoiding the attack of the snake that wanted to peck it.
"Jean come!" Marco yells at Jean, he's the first person closest to Jean.
The horned snake tried to attack again, Jean stood up as quickly as possible and ran towards Marco.
Then a fist-sized stone hit the head of the horned snake from the right, making the snake undo its attack.
It appears that 3 people from the hunting group have arrived and provoked the attention of the snake.
Arriving at Marco's place, Jean stood bowed with his hands resting on his knees, he was very afraid.
His chest rose and fell rapidly, it was the first time he had been attacked by such a huge snake.
If Jean had avoided for a second, it was certain that he would not have survived.
The taste of being targeted by a savage beast was very scary, it was probably the cause of many people choosing to die of hunger rather than get out of the wall.
Mia came in late, "Are you okay Jean? Drink up." He gave Jean a bottle.
Jean's hands trembled to receive the bottle, he drank it slowly and some water spilled from the vibrations of Jean's land.
"Don't be afraid of Jean, the group of hunters who overcame the beast." Mia calms Jean down, her hands clutching Jean's shoulders and patting her shoulders.
