One Bite

"You, you, you—"

"What about me? My surname's Wei. Your luck's better than mine, so could you lend me your eyes?"

The man suddenly leaned close. Bian Chunchou met his empty eye sockets and promptly knocked him flat. "Eat your pastries. Say another word and I'll poison you mute!"

Chapter 169: One Bite

"You were the one who told me to speak, and now you're the one telling me to shut up. Why are you so hard to get along with?"

Bian Chunchou snorted. "That's right. I'm exactly this hard to get along with when it comes to scoundrels like you. I helped you out of the goodness of my heart, and you ask for my eyes? What do you take me for, a clay idol in a temple?"

"A clay idol in a temple, huh." The man was remarkably adaptable. He got up, washed his hands, and actually sat down to eat more pastries. "Being a clay idol in a temple isn't as easy as you think."

"Enough with the cryptic nonsense. If you can communicate with... Wait, no. Aren't you an ordinary person? How did you know He Zhizhuo was at Foundation Establishment?" Baigu City had plenty of City Patrol Guards. Some were at Foundation Establishment, others at Golden Core. How had this man known at a glance? Was he really an ordinary person?

The man immediately played dumb. "Huh? Didn't you say so?"

"Impossible." He might be muddleheaded sometimes, but cultivators had excellent memories. There was no way he would forget something he had just said.

...So he wasn't so easy to fool after all.

The eyeless man surnamed Wei turned to "look" at Wen Xu. "Then you said it."

Wen Xu regretted getting involved. He stood. "Since you're only pretending to be mad, Young Master Wei,