Daylight gradually brightened outside the cave. Liu Erlong hastily ate some dry rations, gathered her things, and set out alone.
She traveled swiftly, avoiding the merchants coming and going along the main road and choosing only secluded paths. Before long, she reached the outskirts of Heaven Dou City.
From a distance, she spotted the noticeboard by the city gate. Several fresh wanted posters had been pasted on it, their corners rustling in the wind.
She drew closer for a look. Though the portraits were crude, the five names were perfectly clear-Liu Erlong, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Tang San, and Tang Hao.
Seeing her own name written there so conspicuously, Liu Erlong did not panic. Instead, she gave a derisive laugh.
Those scraps of paper might frighten ordinary people, but they could not frighten her. At her age, what storms had she not weathered? If they thought a wanted poster would make her shrink back and tie her own hands, they were dreaming.
She pulled her hood lower, covering most of her face, and joined the stream of people entering the city, walking toward the gate at an unhurried pace.
She had already disguised herself and changed into inconspicuous homespun clothes, looking no different from an ordinary woman coming into the city on errands. The guard at the gate gave her only a cursory glance. Seeing nothing unusual in her expression, he waved her through.
Just like that, Liu Erlong slipped effortlessly into the city.
Once inside, she was met by a wave of chatter from every street.
In teahouses and outside shops, people were still talking with relish about the great battle the night before. Whenever they mentioned that hundred-meter blood hammer, their faces lit up with excitement.
Liu Erlong sneered inwardly as she listened-
Those spectators probably could not have