'Buzz, buzz, buzz!'
The Golden Small Sword hovered in midair, emitting a buzzing sound.
Hong Ling struggled to move her body. With great difficulty, she spread her arms and shielded the other children behind her.
"Don't... don't kill them..."
"They... they're still children..."
"If you have to kill someone... kill me!"
She thought this was some new, even more brutal form of punishment devised by the Huangfu Family.
But the moment she spoke, the Golden Small Sword trembled lightly and suddenly fell silent.
Then, a clear and astonished voice came from within the Golden Small Sword.
"Hong Ling?"
"You're here?"
In the void, Jiang Fan's face lit up with delight.
He could hardly believe that he had encountered here the red-clad herb-gathering girl he had met before arriving at Tianshu City.
Ever since he had arrived in Tianshu City, he had used Spiritual Power to investigate the key areas of the Three Great Families almost every day, trying to find Hong Ling, but he had gotten no results for the longest time.
Jiang Fan had originally thought that Hong Ling had gone into Deep Space to gather herbs again.
He had never expected...
Hong Ling was actually still in the Huangfu Family's territory...
When Hong Ling heard the Golden Small Sword suddenly call her name, disbelief filled her heart.
He... he knew her?
"Senior... Senior?"
Hong Ling vaguely felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, but in her weakness and terror, she could not remember when she had ever crossed paths with someone like this.
But Hong Ling was clever. She keenly sensed that the other party seemed to bear no hostility toward the children.
So she took a deep breath and knelt before the Golden Small Sword.
"Thank you, Senior... for lending us a helping hand!"
In the void,