Hai Bodong was delighted to see him agree so readily. His impression of Xiao Bai rose sharply, and he felt this man was worth befriending—young, talented, and decent in character. Xiao Bai clearly could have used underhanded means to threaten and control him, yet he had chosen to give that up on his own.
If he had not been afraid Xiao Bai would disdain the idea, he would have dragged him into becoming sworn brothers on the spot. A moment later, he laughed loudly and said, "Haha. Good, good, good. I still don't know your name, young friend."
"Xiao Bai!"
"Good. Xiao Bai, you don't need to keep calling me Ice Emperor. Just call me by my name!"
"Then I'll address you as Hai Lao!" Xiao Bai nodded.
"Xiao Bai, when you came to my little map shop during the day, you must have been looking to buy a map of the Tagor Desert, right?"
Hai Bodong did not believe he had come for that remnant map. That should have been a coincidence. Since he wanted to buy a map, it meant he was preparing to enter the Tagor Desert, and right now, this concerned the final medicinal ingredient for his prescription. He had to ask clearly.
"That's right. I wonder if Hai Lao has a detailed map of the area around Shimo City?"
"The area around Shimo City?" Hai Bodong was puzzled. What did he want a map of that place for? He had been prepared to give Xiao Bai the most detailed distribution map of the Snake-People Race's territory so that he could conveniently help him get the medicinal ingredient, but who would have thought Xiao Bai only wanted a map of one small place?
Shimo City was merely a small frontier city, located in the desert. Though