After successfully escaping danger, Sixth Uncle's face had remained tinged with guilt.
To be precise, the other guards all vaguely wore the same expression.
When they had first come to their young master's side to serve as guards, after sensing the strength of Lu Feng's group, each of them had more or less harbored the same calculation.
That was, should danger arise later, after protecting the young master and young mistress, whether they should lend a hand and save the others as well.
But their final conclusion had all leaned toward the calculation of sweeping the snow from one's own doorstep.
It was enough to protect their own people. If others died, then so be it—who told them to be weak and foolishly barge into such a perilous place?
Who could have imagined that the ones repeatedly falling into danger would be themselves?
Falling into danger would have been one thing, but they had even been saved twice in succession by the "weaklings" they had looked down upon.
Putting themselves in the others' shoes, they were so ashamed they could scarcely show their faces.
With such feelings in their hearts, the four guards' unconsciously arrogant bearing had noticeably diminished. Each of them now looked incomparably amiable.
They even... seemed somewhat ingratiating.
After leaving the Night Shadow Sand Lizard territory, they entered an open expanse stretching several li. Aside from yellow sand, there was almost nothing else in sight.
After quieting down briefly, Lian Ankang started chattering again. Compared with his previously purposeful eagerness, he was now even more enthusiastic.
"Big Brother Lu," Lian Ankang said with a fawning smile. Having heard Zhu Yizhong address him that way, he shamelessly began using the same form of address. "What kind of ability was that just now? How did you make those beasts