Although Lu Xin knew that the Spades Office had already issued a bounty for his assassination, he truly had not taken the matter to heart. All he was thinking about was finding the children in the orphanage first, asking for their help, figuring out exactly what the Old Director was plotting, and then completing the final link in Mom's arrangements to help himself and them escape the orphanage together.
As for bounties, assassins, and the Spades Office, none of that mattered.
Once Qinggang's research produced results, he would naturally go find them.
He could even ask them then: I brought you the living version of myself. Can I get half the bounty?
Still, things really were just as Qinggang had predicted.
Perhaps everyone in the world with well-informed channels already knew his identity, and also knew that he was not easy to kill.
But under the Spades Office's enormous bounty, there would still be people tempted to try—and quite a lot of them.
On the first day after they left the city, they drove steadily onward.
Because Qinggang's influence and strength were growing by the day, public order in the wilderness had improved considerably, at least within the range of Qinggang's influence.
Along the way, they passed several large settlements and areas where knight orders often appeared, yet they did not encounter a single highway robber.
Even the few people watching them from a distance with unfriendly expressions scattered as soon as they approached.
The heavy jeep and the highly technological motorcycle had probably made them sense danger.
They passed the first day safely.
They spent the entire morning of the second day without encountering anything worth noting.
It was not until the afternoon of the second day, when Lu Xin had pulled about a hundred meters away