"Of course."
The man dressed as a sailor looked to be only in his twenties. He had a crew cut, a fair, clean-shaven face, and a pair of brown eyes that revealed a weathered air.
An Awakened's appearance never represented their actual age.
This man.
Might well have been seventy or eighty years old.
Hearing Jiang Qiao's question, he replied matter-of-factly:
"I've not only seen Jiang Qiao."
"I even participated in the battle when His Grace the Duke surrounded and attacked him."
"But unfortunately."
"He got away."
"That was an exceptionally vicious fellow. He fled from the surface into the underworld, and even the Guangming Society failed to capture him."
"I heard he caused a series of tragedies on the surface."
"Destroying dozens of villages."
"To maintain order, the Guangming Society tried to capture him several times. Not only did they fail, but he also injured several of them, including a Ninth Tier Expert."
"Absolutely brazen!"
???
Jiang Qiao was dumbfounded.
So this was how the Guangming Society was slandering him behind his back? The mud they were throwing was getting ridiculous.
Obviously.
Those bastards couldn't find him.
So while continuing their search, they had posted wanted notices everywhere, hoping to obtain some clues. But they didn't want anyone to know that he had killed a whole bunch of their people.
So they had simply started making up stories.
"I didn't kill enough of them."
Jiang Qiao thought to himself.
On the other side, the man was still rambling on. "At the time, His Grace the Duke discovered his whereabouts and immediately surrounded and attacked him."
"But that fellow was as slippery as a fish."
"Extremely difficult to deal with."
"We chased him down and blocked his escape, fighting hundreds of rounds. In the end, he still tore through the