The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family novel Chapter 5870

Vera's words made Charlie start to seriously consider whether ‘Marcius is really still alive’ for the first time. This was a seemingly absurd question at first glance.

There was no record in the Apocalyptic Book about someone living for over a thousand years, so this touched on his knowledge blind spot long ago.

In fact, the Apocalyptic Book did not even mention the Eternal Pill.

Even Vera fell into Charlie's knowledge blind spot, let alone Marcius.

While there was no direct evidence to prove whether Marcius was alive or dead, Charlie did not dare to be presumptuous. It was essential to be prudent, and he could not afford to be careless.

So, he said to Vera, “Miss Lavor, I fully agree with what you’ve just said, but since we're here already, there's no reason for us to retreat now. Let's go along with your suggestion and explore together.”

Vera knew that Charlie would not give up easily, and he was already making the biggest concession by letting her accompany him, so she nodded without hesitation and said, “Okay! I'll go together with you!”

Charlie nodded slightly, then sighed softly, saying, “It's not realistic for both of us to jump from here. Let's turn back and enter the mountain from the opposite direction of where Fleur appeared.”

Vera obediently nodded and said, “Okay. As long as you are willing to take me along, I'll do as you say.”

After the two reached a consensus, Charlie wasted no more time. He turned around at the next exit, passed the spot where Fleur had jumped, drove several tens of kilometers forward, and then exited the highway at the town where Fleur had left.

After leaving the village road, it wasn't immediately a rugged primitive forest. Both sides of the road were terraced fields cultivated by local farmers, so there were natural paths for people and livestock to walk on as well as paths for motorcycles to travel.

Coincidentally, the direction of this path coincided with the direction Charlie planned to search. So, the two walked along this path, one after the other, continuously advancing into the mountains.

After crossing a low mountain almost completely covered with terraced fields, they continued to move deeper into the mountains. At this time, the traces of humans on both sides were getting fewer and fewer. Although there were occasionally still a few terraced fields, this area had been gradually abandoned because it was far from the town.

After crossing the second mountain and starting to descend toward the bottom of the mountain, Charlie saw that this rugged path in the valley ahead changed from a long strip of yellowish soil to a slender Y-shape. In addition, there was a winding river over a meter wide that flowed downstream from the valley.

The river happened to pass through the intersection of the three straight lines of the Y-shape. Someone had piled up five stone piers here. The river flowed slowly through the four gaps between the stone piers. As these stone piers slowed down the flow of water, a buffer zone of about four to five square meters was formed on the left side of the Y-shape. The originally one-meter-wide creek suddenly widened to nearly three meters here.