After hearing those words, Master merely smiled faintly.
"Yes! It's all thanks to my disciple. Otherwise, I might never have been able to take even a single step forward in this lifetime."
As he spoke, Master took another drag. One-third of the cigarette remained.
Gong Bo also smiled.
"You're still the same as before, always so protective of your own.
Thinking about it now, we met when we were barely in our teens.
Now we're both in our sixties, already halfway into the grave..."
Gong Bo took a drag as well, leaving only one-third of his cigarette. There was a trace of sorrow on his face.
Master exhaled smoke and sighed.
"Fate makes fools of people. I never thought that after decades of friendship, we'd end up here.
I'm guessing you're from the Huang Family, aren't you?
Otherwise, I really can't think of any reason.
After all these years of friendship, there was never any conflict of interest between us.
Yet you suddenly attacked me!"
This time, Gong Bo also exhaled a puff of smoke.
His eyes were somewhat desolate, carrying grief and a trace of killing intent.
"Yes! My surname is Huang.
Gong You, Gong You—put them together, and you get the character Huang!
Huang Xi was my illegitimate daughter.
She died in Red Mountain Town, at the place you went to inspect."
When Gong You said this, both Master and I narrowed our eyes slightly.
That somewhat plump, dark-skinned young woman whose head I had cut off with a single slash was actually the daughter of Master's old friend?
Neither Master nor I had expected this.
And Master had previously told me that Gong You had never married.
It seemed that had all been a lie.
The Huang Family really had hidden themselves within the city...
Trying to