In front of the Milk Tea Shop.
Jiang Ning watched the old man flee, his expression unchanged. On the surface, it seemed he had merely driven the man away.
In truth, he had planted a Divine Sense Imprint long ago.
Unless the man left Yuzhou overnight, he would never escape Jiang Ning's tracking.
Earlier, Jiang Ning had observed the old man with his Spiritual Sense. Seeing how practiced his methods were, he feared this was far from the first time the man had committed such acts.
This area was not particularly remote. If the man had really taken the little boy away, he would definitely have brought him back eventually. But what might happen in the meantime was impossible to predict.
Don't think only little girls were scarred by such abuse. Little boys could carry the trauma for the rest of their lives as well. It was an utterly humiliating experience.
Jiang Ning could have set up a Small Spell and quietly dealt with him, but there was no need. When facing someone so wicked, he usually preferred to go to their door and settle things with violence himself.
Jiang Ning put the matter aside and returned the bag to the boy. "Where are your parents?"
The little boy knew the big brother in front of him was a good person who had helped chase away the bad old man trying to steal his backpack.
He answered obediently, "They're at home."
Xue Yuantong asked curiously, "What do your parents do for work? Why haven't they come to pick you up this late?"
When she had been about the boy's age, her mother had always come to pick her up, no matter how busy she was.
The only time she had slipped up was during military training right after her first