The girl’s words were light and airy, carrying no weight, yet they dealt tons of damage to Qin Mu.
Cold sweat instantly broke out on Qin Mu’s forehead. Damn, had he been exposed?!
“Ahaha, little sister, what are you talking about? I’m just an imperial guard. If I weren’t a guard, where would this armor come from?”
The girl shook the person in front of her who was wearing armor. Recalling the young man’s appearance from earlier, she said, “All imperial guards have Gu Insects.”
At that moment, Qin Mu remembered—when he had taken off this guard’s armor, a small box had fallen out, but he hadn’t paid it any mind back then.
“Little sister, are you that sure of yourself?”
While speaking, Qin Mu was scoping out the surrounding terrain. He never imagined he’d be seen through by a girl.
Hearing Qin Mu’s words, the girl shook her head and said seriously, “That Gu Insect has a very unpleasant smell, but big brother, you don’t have it on you.”
“Smell?”
Qin Mu hadn’t smelled anything at all from the guard just now.
“It’s a very nice smell—a Gu Insect I’ve never seen before. My constitution is a bit special; I can smell some Gu Insects. With this, I can identify many of them. Big brother, you have a certain…”
This statement from the girl shocked Qin Mu. He hadn’t expected there to be all kinds of constitutions, and even this kind. It had to be some sort of Innate Gu Body.
As for the nice smell the girl mentioned, it was probably the Gu Insect that Lu Shuanger had given him, which could prevent most Gu Insects from getting close.
But he already had the spirit medicine from Aunt Lu—who would complain about having too many treasures?
“Big brother, you’re a good person!”
The girl asked with an innocent look.
Qin Mu’s heart skipped a beat. These days, “good person” wasn’t exactly a compliment.
So Qin Mu chose to say:
“I’m not a good person.”
“Then are you a bad person?”
“No, just an ordinary person.”
“Since you’re not a bad person, then you’re a good person!”
Hearing the girl insist that he was a good person, Qin Mu didn’t want to say much more.
“Fine, fine. Whatever you think I am, that’s what I am.”
Qin Mu picked up the flowers that had fallen on the ground. Some of the trampled flowers, after being activated, became lifelike again.
“Here!”
“Ah, oh no!”
Qin Mu suddenly realized something was wrong and said helplessly, “Look, even if you put all the flowers in the basket…”
Qin Mu waved his hand, ready to leave.
Seeing this, the girl followed him.
Mid-sentence, Qin Mu stopped. As he just stepped out of the alley, he saw a wanted poster right in front of him. The portrait on it was of himself.
Qin Mu inwardly cursed. The girl had just seen his real face.
For a split second, Qin Mu even considered knocking her out before leaving.
“Wow! So you’re a wanted criminal!”
After seeing the wanted poster, the girl studied the portrait carefully, then turned around and gave Qin Mu a sweet smile. “But I don’t think you’re a bad person, big brother, since you just saved me.”
This came straight from her heart.
Qin Mu, who had been about to raise his hand, lowered it again. He stared into the girl’s eyes; he could tell she wasn’t saying this to cover up her panic.
“Oh, human kid, why are you hesitating this time? Where’s that fierce resolve from before?”
“Senior Zhong Bo, do you think… she means what she says?”
“Hehe, human kid, what do you think?”
“I hope not, but I’m afraid to believe otherwise.”
“You human kid, why are you starting to talk like those old men?”
“Maybe.”
Qin Mu walked up to the girl, picked up another bunch of flowers, then pulled out a few Ling Stones.
“Here. Consider it me buying this bouquet.”
“But this bouquet doesn’t cost that many Ling Stones.”
“I…”
Just as he opened his mouth, Qin Mu suddenly sensed several auras approaching.
The next moment, a man who looked rather disheveled pointed at Qin Mu and shouted, “It’s him! He’s the one who knocked me out!”
Oh no! How did that guy wake up so fast?!
It was the guard Qin Mu had knocked out. But logically, waking up this early shouldn’t have been possible. Had he been found by other patrolling guards?
Qin Mu sensed the auras of the newcomers—there was a Golden Core Realm cultivator among them.
Even though he wasn’t afraid now, once surrounded, it would only get more troublesome to finish them off. If he alerted some big shot, with time running out, he’d definitely be captured.
“Big brother, over here!”
The girl lightly tapped Qin Mu’s armor, then ran toward an alley.
With no other choice, Qin Mu decided to trust the girl this once.
“Hey! Thief, don’t run!”
The guard who had been knocked out earlier saw Qin Mu trying to flee and dashed forward.
“Tch, so noisy.”
Qin Mu sidestepped the guard’s attack, raised his hand, and brought it down cleanly.
Bam!
Once, and Qin Mu knocked the guard out again. Then he quickly followed the girl.
Under the girl’s guidance, Qin Mu arrived at a very hidden cul-de-sac.
“Over here, over here.”
The girl pushed aside a stone slab, revealing a gap.
“Come on in.”
Since Qin Mu was wearing armor and couldn’t fit through easily, he took off the armor and stored it in his Storage Pouch. Thankfully, Qin Mu wasn’t too bulky, or it would have been a tight squeeze.
“Tsk, this place is really well hidden. How did you find it?”
Qin Mu had looked at the cul-de-sac earlier but never imagined such an operation.
“This is the place where Duoduo and I used to hide from that Elder. But even though it was this hidden, Duoduo was still taken away…”
As she spoke, tears welled up in the girl’s eyes.
Qin Mu had some experience cheering up girls—he’d practiced it on his elder sisters and Aunt Lu. But dealing with a crying little girl was a different matter.
Because he hardly ever encountered such a situation.
Neither Sister Bai Shuang, Sister Luo Yu, nor Aunt Lu were the type to cry easily like a young girl.
The girl sniffled, wiping her tears with her sleeve.
“I’m fine. I just remembered something sad.”
Hearing the girl trying to act strong, Qin Mu didn’t expose her.
“By the way, earlier I heard that guard say ‘the guards are hounds.’ What does that mean? Aren’t the guards supposed to protect you?”
“Before, everyone was happy and peaceful.”
“But half a year ago, after everyone proposed having more exchanges with the outside world, that Elder became a different person. He not only crazily expanded the guards but also captured many people. No one knows what he’s doing.”
“That Elder? Who is he?”
“He’s our leader, one of the Six Great Elders of the Gu Tribe.”
“Oh?”
From the girl’s words, Qin Mu inferred it was Elder Bai!
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