Tracking and Scheming

He returned to the room and pushed the door open to find the table still empty and barren, with no lunch prepared for today.

Li Qingyue saw this and sighed softly.

He was silent for a moment, made something simple to eat himself, and then he and Na'er managed to get through a bite together.

After finishing, he left Na'er alone at home.

Li Qingyue did not actually worry too much about Na'er at this stage.

This was because he knew very well that Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and other Ferocious Beasts would soon arrive, or perhaps had already arrived, only he himself had not yet noticed.

Li Qingyue was mentally prepared long ago for these Ferocious Beasts to take Na'er away.

He understood that he had no reason to refuse, let alone the ability to stop them.

After all, with his current strength, he was definitely no match for Ferocious Beasts like Di Tian and Xiong Jun.

Even if they crossed paths head-on, even if these Ferocious Beasts sensed some kind of connection between him and Gu Yuena and dared not deal him a fatal blow.

He still did not want to endure a beating for no reason at all.

So he simply lowered his head calmly, gently reached out, and pinched the young girl's cheek.

Na'er had long since grown used to Li Qingyue's fair hand lightly pinching her cheek.

She blinked those large, beautiful purple eyes, gazing straight at Li Qingyue, neither angry nor upset, and instead feeling a wondrous delight.

Na'er quite liked this harmonious atmosphere.

However, at this moment, her Remembrance had actually recovered quite a bit.

To be precise, the soul beast personality and human personality within her—namely Gu Yue and Na'er, two complete and distinct personalities—had long since coexisted within the very same body.

Therefore, no matter how happy Na'er's main consciousness felt, deep within her eyes there always remained a hint of aloofness, or perhaps a trace of awkwardness.

Li Qingyue simply pretended to be completely oblivious to all of this.

To watch a cold and haughty young girl like Gu Yue watch her own cheek being kneaded by someone, yet still forced to put on a cute expression.

To be honest, Li Qingyue did not feel anything particularly special about this, other than finding it quite amusing.

After giving Na'er a few simple instructions, he headed straight downstairs.

As his figure stepped out of the front door, the youth's footsteps paused slightly.

He raised those striking ink-black eyes, quietly gazing in the direction of the sun.

Under the illumination of the sunlight, a trace of extremely faint gold seemed to emerge deep within his eyes.

Yet this flash of gold vanished in an instant, so faint it was almost impossible to catch.

The youth quickly withdrew his gaze, stepped out of the residential complex, and walked toward the bus stop outside.

Just a few minutes later, as the youth's figure completely vanished, a young human figure slowly emerged.

The man wore a set of plain black casual clothes with a clean-cut appearance and a very ordinary face, looking at first glance no different from an ordinary passerby.

His gaze sized up the direction of the unit door with keen interest, and then looked toward the direction the youth had left.

His eyes flickered for a moment, and he prepared to walk toward the unit door.

However, he had barely taken a few steps when a calm voice came from behind him.

"These two children shouldn't be the people the adult is looking for, right?"

"Little Seventeen, do you know what the consequences will be if you disobey the adult's orders and come over here on your own?"

That voice was crisp and melodious, clearly belonging to a woman.

The young man turned around abruptly upon hearing this, and couldn't help a flash of embarrassment cross his eyes when he saw a young girl wearing the same plain black casual clothes standing behind him.

The female looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, but deep within her eyes was full of mockery, accompanied by a condescending attitude.

Facing the superiority she exuded, the young man appeared extremely constrained, yet he only lowered his head slightly.

"The boss didn't say who that person was either; we've been searching for over three years now without finding that so-called fire-type Phoenix Martial Soul."

"You know very well that Phoenix Martial Souls are extremely rare to begin with, and if the other party doesn't actively reveal it, they're likely born with Twin Martial Souls, so these two little kids could possibly be them."

As the young man spoke, his face carried a hint of flattery.

The woman merely swept a calm glance at his far-fetched defense, not actually caring about any of it.

As early as a few days ago, she had noticed that this young man had been following those two children.

Especially upon discovering that these two children seemed to live alone without any adults accompanying them.

At first, she hadn't held much interest, but after a brief investigation, the outstanding appearances of these two children truly piqued her interest.

One had to know that in this world, people's looks were generally quite decent.

Yet people possessing peerless beauty like Li Qingyue and Na'er were still extremely rare, to the point of near extinction.

And looks of this caliber, regardless of gender, if they could be sold to those wealthy merchants and high-ranking officials or carefully cultivated.

Then resold, it would definitely fetch a shocking astronomical price.

If the other party had adults guarding them, the two of them wouldn't have been so easy to make a move.

Yet now, the other party didn't even have a guardian, so the two of them naturally harbored crooked intentions.

"I understand what you mean, but afterwards I want an eighty-twenty split—I take eighty and you take twenty."

"If you have objections, we'll go back right now to see the captain; if you have no objections, then we go straight inside."

"Of course, you'd better be a little careful. This is an upscale neighborhood, and people who can live here may not have completely clean identities, but they very likely have big shots backing them up."

When the woman said this, she let out a bored yawn.

The young man's lips twitched upon hearing this, but in the end he still squeezed out a ingratiating smile and nodded.

He knew in his heart that he had only been selected into the family's covert guards because he possessed some meager talent.

Yet the woman before him was a collateral member of the family and had even awakened the family's signature Martial Soul.

Although her strength wasn't high and was even inferior to his, she still wasn't someone he could easily afford to offend.

If the family behind the woman stepped up to endorse them, his subsequent actions would naturally be much easier, and at least the main risks would be borne by the woman.

Even if they really sold someone and offended some big shot, nothing would likely go wrong.

"Let's go, then we'll go up first to grab the little one, and then wait for the big one to come back."

"He should have gone to the Blacksmith Association; he himself seems to be a Blacksmith, and his identity rank shouldn't be low either."

The young man sighed as he spoke, then immediately prepared to head upstairs directly.

He had long since thoroughly scouted the floor and even the specific apartment number where those two children lived.

With the methods of soul masters like them, wanting to break open an ordinary family's door lock was no difficulty at all.

Even if it weren't an ordinary door lock, it was virtually non-existent to them.

Listening to the young man's words, the woman merely nodded offhandedly.

Clearly, this wasn't the first time they had done such a thing.

Over the past three years or so, they had committed similar shady deeds countless times, and to be honest, they had long since grown somewhat accustomed to it.

Yet just as the two prepared to head straight upstairs and move toward their target, no one noticed.

At the entrance of the residential complex, a youth with pale golden hair was quietly standing there.

As his palm lifted gently, deep-blue armor rapidly spread across his body, covering him entirely in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, a longbow resembling condensed starlight was steadily gripped in his hands.

Two deep-blue soul rings slowly emerged from his body and sank downward.

Then, after just a brief pause, the second soul ring on his body flared brilliantly.