Ancient Ruins

"Who are you? Stay back..." Immobilized and lying on the ground, Wu Qingfang watched the unfamiliar young man approaching her, shouting with a guarded expression.

Lin Li stepped up to Wu Qingfang, looking down from above at the pretty, slender girl roughly Su Yue's age, and spoke to her calmly.

"Hello, I'd like to ask you about a few things. I wonder if you have a moment..."

"..." Wu Qingfang stared in silence at the unfamiliar young man a few years younger than herself, who radiated Second-Order Mid Stage spiritual energy fluctuations.

"Of course, I won't have you help for free. I'll pay you a corresponding reward." Seeing Wu Qingfang still watching him with intense vigilance, Lin Li smiled slightly and said in a friendly tone.

Hah... Wu Qingfang scoffed dismissively in her heart, thinking to herself whether she, the dignified young miss of the Wu Family, would ever lack his pitiful amount of money.

"Uh..." Seeing that Wu Qingfang still offered no response, only staring at him with bright eyes and a guarded expression, Lin Li grew rather helpless.

The other's unresponsive attitude left him quite exasperated.

Having arrived at this treasure trove with very little knowledge of the situation, he had hoped to gather some valuable intelligence, only to hit a wall.

Since that was the case, he would just have to drop it.

"Huh?" Immobilized on the ground, Wu Qingfang suddenly watched an item appear out of thin air in Lin Li's hand, leaving her astonished.

Lin Li observed Wu Qingfang's current condition, realizing she must have fallen victim to the paralyzing poison smeared on those people's weapons earlier.

With that, he retrieved an antidote capable of neutralizing paralysis effects from the Mysterious Small Island, removed the cap to reveal a sharp needle, and squatted down, reaching