A little girl?
The Masked Soldiers found it inconceivable. This was the outskirts of Qi Mountain, not far from Shu Road Mountain. With the high mountains and dense forests, there were almost no registered villages nearby—only countless bandit strongholds that rose and vanished. Merchants and travelers would not dare take this road without a Herald escort.
The little girl before them was not even half their height. Her face was chubby and fair, and her clothes were clearly expensive. Anyone could tell she came from a noble family... but why was she walking alone in a place like this?
Those who managed to become Heralds within the military system might be rotten to the core, but none of them were foolish enough to mistake who held the power. When traveling, the people one had to be most wary of were the old, young, sick, and disabled. Everyone knew they were easy to bully, yet they had survived until now. That alone was proof that they were not to be trifled with.
"Stop!"
A Masked Soldier raised his steel crossbow and fired. The bolt landed beside the little girl's foot. "Duke of Heyang is hunting down important criminals. Unauthorized persons are forbidden from approaching!"
The little girl looked down at the bolt, then at the mounted, armored Masked Soldiers. Drawing out her words, she said, "Oh—"
"I can't tell that those three big sisters are criminals. What crimes did they commit?"
The squad leader was just about to say something when he suddenly realized that something was wrong. They had clearly surrounded the area so tightly that not even air could pass through, with the horses forming a wall. At such a distance, and with the little girl so short, how had she seen that the criminals were three big sisters?