Meditate

As they reached a darker, more ominous part of the ravine, the atmosphere thickened with tension. The air was cold, damp, and filled with the faint echoes of water dripping from unseen cracks in the rocks. Calvin slowed his pace, glancing around as if searching for something. Then, he stopped abruptly, his movements deliberate.

“This is where we need to stop,” Calvin said calmly, his voice cutting through the uneasy silence. The Han Xin soldiers, weapons still trained on him and Lizzie, exchanged skeptical glances.

“Why stop here?” the leader asked, suspicion heavy in his tone.

Calvin turned to face him, his expression unreadable but composed. “In order to find the Fountain of Health, I need to meditate. The path ahead is full of dangerous forks and dead ends. If we take the wrong one, we’ll be lost, or worse.”

Lizzie shot Calvin a quick look, her eyebrows raised in disbelief. She opened her mouth to speak but quickly closed it, sensing this was part of his strategy.

The leader of the
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