After catching Yan Qing's sword, the girl hurried away.
"Argh..."
Clutching his stomach, Yan Qing struggled to his feet, his head spinning.
Buli Wolf Soldiers, Medicine Master's Legacy, robbers—he had run into all of them today.
He slowly turned and met the eyes of Yan Huan and his companion, who had been watching the spectacle. He said awkwardly:
"Uh, something unexpected came up. I'll have to keep you both a little longer."
"Let me find out exactly what happened."
"No problem. We love watching drama," Yan Huan replied.
"Go ahead and ask. We're listening."
"Right." Once the other Cloud Knights had taken away the unconscious Buli Wolf Soldier, Yan Qing led the two of them to find the Cloud Knight captain responsible for the area.
As they walked, they reached the docks.
No sooner had they arrived than they heard an argument off to the side.
"Friends of the Xianzhou." An Interastral Peace Corporation employee gripped his energy rifle and addressed the Cloud Knights before him in a low voice:
"We're grateful you saved us. But detaining both us and our cargo? Isn't that going too far?"
A Cloud Knight soldier answered firmly:
"We have orders to hold your cargo for inspection until we establish the full circumstances of the attack."
"Once all the paperwork and inspections are complete, we'll release you and your cargo."
The Interastral Peace Corporation employee stood his ground:
"But this shipment wasn't even bound for the Luofu. It contains proprietary company technology. What gives you the right to inspect it?"
The Cloud Knight soldier stressed:
"Under procedure, all cargo arriving at the Luofu must be inspected!"
"But we weren't even coming into port," the Interastral Peace Corporation employee said with a frown.
"We only docked at the Luofu to regroup because the Buli Ren attacked