With only two days left before leaving Demon Martial, Lin Shuguang planned to spend more time in the Secret Pavilion. From culture and history to strange tales, he voraciously absorbed every scrap of information about this world.
Three hours later, Lin Shuguang packed up his things and returned to his lodgings.
He neglected neither cultivation nor reading.
That evening.
Hu Shaoqing came looking for him. "Teacher, are you leaving the Demon Capital the day after tomorrow?"
Lin Shuguang was packing his things and replied casually, "To be precise, my train leaves tomorrow afternoon."
"So soon?" Hu Shaoqing froze for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "Aren't you going to stay a couple more days?"
Lin Shuguang shook his head. "I still have things to do back home."
Because of the incident involving Professor Ding, [Fulong Cave] had greatly piqued his interest. Otherwise, he would not have spent this time so voraciously absorbing the world's strange tales and legends.
Now that strange phenomena had also appeared in the [Blood Desolate Land], there was no way he would pass up this opportunity to observe them up close.
Hu Shaoqing fell silent.
Lin Shuguang thought nothing more of it and continued packing.
Suddenly, Hu Shaoqing's somewhat nervous voice came from behind him. "Teacher, can I trust you?"
Lin Shuguang paused and turned to look at him strangely. "What happened?"
Hu Shaoqing hesitated, opening his mouth several times as though trying to work out how to begin.
Seeing this, Lin Shuguang smiled casually without pressing him, then looked away and continued organizing his suitcase.
Before long, Hu Shaoqing began speaking slowly behind him, his voice even trembling a little. "Today... this afternoon, I went out. I just wanted a change of scenery while studying saber techniques, so I went out to the suburbs. But then...