Fervent Fans

"Xiao Rou?" Lin Chao looked puzzled.

"The girl who came with me to pick something up last time. She's no ordinary person.

She's the senior sister of Three Extremes Martial Hall. That martial hall will fall into her hands someday." Zhao Xiaoyi chattered on without pause.

A burly woman immediately came to mind for Lin Chao.

Lin Chao had previously guessed that woman was either a martial artist or in the military.

It seemed he had been right.

Still, she was a little too muscular.

Lin Chao understood all that well.

The world he was in now was an ordinary one.

Martial Arts trained technique, bones, tendons, and muscles.

Those polluted Extraordinary did not exist here.

"Brother Lin Chao, do you want to go together tomorrow?" Zhao Xiaoyi asked happily.

One more person on the road would make the trip less boring.

"Sure." Lin Chao thought it over and agreed. It was on the way anyway.

"Plane or high-speed rail?" Zhao Xiaoyi asked.

"High-speed rail." Lin Chao considered it before answering.

With his current strength, he would probably still die if he fell from a plane.

Better to take the high-speed rail.

Even if an accident happened, he had ways to deal with it.

Of course, Lin Chao knew that survey data showed planes were the safest mode of transport in the world, with the lowest chance of accidents.

Of course, once an accident did happen, everyone would likely be wiped out.

"Alright, I'll tell Sister Xiao Rou."

Zhao Xiaoyi took out her phone and sent Xiao Rou a whole string of voice messages.

Very soon, delight appeared on Zhao Xiaoyi's face. "Brother Lin Chao, send me your ID number. I'll buy the tickets. I know how to get seats together!"

"Mm." Lin Chao nodded. "Tell me how much it costs, and I'll transfer it to you later."

"Okay," Zhao Xiaoyi replied.

As she bought the tickets on her phone, she watched a livestream on her computer.

The livestream was still covering the excavation in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

Recently, the excavation progress in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range had sped up considerably, but all they had found were bones. There had been no other discoveries.

Expert Liu Chengchao and the host Wang Jiao rarely appeared on camera anymore.

The livestream had become far less entertaining.

Yet it still retained considerable popularity.

The livestream camera swept over the excavation site. Occasionally, it moved to Liu Chengchao and the others.

"Look, Brother Lin Chao!" Zhao Xiaoyi paused the livestream.

"What is it?" Lin Chao looked over.

In the livestream image, three figures could be seen in the distance.

Based on their outlines, two of them were Liu Chengchao and Wang Jiao.

The third seemed to have her face veiled in black gauze, making her features impossible to see.

She was probably a woman.

Lin Chao's gaze settled on the woman, and he fell into thought.

"Do you see that woman in the black veil?" Zhao Xiaoyi asked mysteriously. "She's appeared several times these past few days, but she only flashes through the livestream footage each time."

"And?"

"Don't you think it's strange? A young woman wearing a black veil appearing at a site like this—it just feels eerie." Zhao Xiaoyi said.

Lin Chao nodded.

He agreed with Zhao Xiaoyi.

The people who usually came to an excavation site like this were either experts or related staff.

That black-veiled woman looked unusual, as though she did not belong at the excavation site at all.

"Do you know who that black-veiled woman is?" Zhao Xiaoyi asked.

Lin Chao shook his head.

Naturally, he did not know.

In truth, he had not paid much attention to the excavation in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

The only thing he cared about was whether Heize's corpse—or rather, that spear—was still there.

"From the gossip I picked up in my little circles, that woman is from the Jia family." Zhao Xiaoyi spoke in a mysterious tone.

Clearly, she was a gossip-loving girl, and a particularly skilled one at that.

"The Jia family? What about them?" Lin Chao did not understand.

"Have you heard of millennia-old clans?" Zhao Xiaoyi's eyes shone.

"I've heard something about them," Lin Chao answered casually.

Ordinary people always had plenty of speculation and fantasies about those at the top.

For instance, the legendary Xia Group special forces, who could supposedly kill a tiger with a sliding tackle.

Or the millennia-old clans that secretly controlled Great Xia.

"That person is said to be a genuine member of a millennia-old clan!" Zhao Xiaoyi said, excitement in her eyes.

"And?" Lin Chao yawned. He did not care about such matters.

Millennia-old clan or not, as long as they did not affect him, that was enough.

"A woman of such noble status actually went to the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

Three theories are circulating online.

The first is that she is a hardcore history enthusiast;

The second is that she is Heize's fervent fan;

The third is that the Jia family, this millennia-old clan, might have been involved in the Wolf Clan's destruction.

Brother Lin Chao, which do you think it is?"

Lin Chao thought for a moment. "The first one?"

"Why?" Zhao Xiaoyi did not understand.

"Let's use elimination. First, look at the third possibility. If the Wolf Clan's destruction had anything to do with the Jia family, then as a millennia-old clan, they definitely would not let that credit slip away.

But in the end, no information at all came out about the Wolf Guard's destruction."

Lin Chao was talking nonsense.

The real reason was that he himself had destroyed the Wolf Guard. No one else had taken part.

Since he knew that, he naturally ruled out the third possibility.

"The second possibility is even more absurd.

If she really came from a millennia-old clan, how could she be a fervent fan of someone as illusory as Heize?

What powerful or wealthy person do you see chasing celebrities?"

"Brother Lin Chao, you're wrong about that." Zhao Xiaoyi said, "Didn't the queen of Maple Brilliant Country always chase after Jacks?"

Maple Brilliant Country lay in the West. It was an ancient nation and ranked among the first tier of the world's great powers.

When the queen of Maple Brilliant Country was young, she had passionately chased after Jacks, becoming quite the celebrated tale.

Zhao Xiaoyi often followed gossip, so naturally she knew all about such things.

"Jacks is alive. Heize is dead. They can't be compared." Lin Chao smiled.

Men were lustful, and women were lustful too.

Moreover, due to their physical traits and other factors, women's lustfulness was, in a certain sense, even greater than men's.

Especially for a woman of the Maple Brilliant Country queen's status, having a night of spring with a handsome man like Jacks was nothing remarkable.

"What's wrong with dead people?" Zhao Xiaoyi clearly did not understand what Lin Chao meant. "Do you know how many fans Heize has now?

Some martial halls are even claiming that their ancestors studied under Liu Xiu and were martial brothers with Heize.

A few days ago, the female CEO of Anhuai Biotechnology Co., Ltd. said she was willing to pay three million for one segment of Heize's finger bone as a collectible.

She also said that if things like Heize's calligraphy or paintings ever surfaced, she would be willing to pay hundreds of thousands for them."

"Cough, cough. There really are a lot of rich people." Lin Chao spoke casually.

He had not expected his own finger bone to be worth so much.

"Exactly!" Zhao Xiaoyi said smugly. "So that black-veiled woman is very likely a fervent fan of Heize."

Lin Chao smiled. None of that had anything to do with him.

"What about you?" Still, Lin Chao casually asked.

"I'm one of the rational ones. I'm not that brainless.

Heize may be very strong, and I admire him a lot.

But people nowadays are too brainless. They've deified him far too much.

I dare say that even if Heize appeared in the present day, he might not be able to beat my Sister Xiao Rou.

Of course, in other respects, he was far stronger than Sister Xiao Rou.

And he killed the Wolf Guard, making enormous contributions to preserving Great Xia's civilization. For that, I admire him immensely!"

Lin Chao smiled.

He had met Zhao Xiaoyi's Sister Xiao Rou.

She truly was a martial artist and had some skill.

Moreover, modern Martial Arts training was more scientific and paid greater attention to physical conditioning.

If they were only competing in a match, among Heize's martial brothers, there were two who might not have been Xiao Rou's match.

But if it came to a fight to the death, Xiao Rou would certainly lose.

After all, in that era, Martial Arts taught techniques for killing.