"Sister Shen?"
Zhou Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead, set the Black Iron Great Spear on the weapon rack, put on his clothes, and opened the door.
He saw a hint of anxiety on Shen Qingxue's face. The coldness she usually wore was nowhere to be seen.
"Junior Brother Zhou, are you free right now? I'd like to ask you for a favor."
Shen Qingxue spoke quickly. Before Zhou Yun could reply, she continued, "Snake-Men have infiltrated our Escort Agency. Something's already happened there... My father just happens to be away on an escort mission, and you're the only person I can turn to for help..."
"Something's happened at the Sky Sea Escort Agency?"
Zhou Yun was utterly shocked. After all, the Sky Sea Escort Agency's headquarters had no shortage of Dark Force martial artists.
Although Shen Qingxue's father, a Transformation Force grandmaster, wasn't there to hold down the fort, the agency still had someone at the peak of Dark Force. How could Snake-Men who'd infiltrated the place overwhelm them so completely that Shen Qingxue had come to him for help?
Could a Snake-Person Race member on the level of a Transformation Force grandmaster really have entered Black Stone County? What was the authorities' good-for-nothing department doing? And where was their Transformation Force grandmaster?
"Wait. If things were really that urgent, Senior Sister would've gone to Master Liang for help first... At the very least, she'd have looked for Chen Jingping or Wang Lan. They're part of her inner circle."
Zhou Yun calmed down. Shen Qingxue didn't know he'd already knocked on the gates of Dark Force. In her eyes, he was only at the peak of Bright Force—not even a match for Liang Chengshi, who had just reached Dark Force.
By any measure, he should've been the last