The noisy crowd ahead hurried past Yang Qing and his companions at a trot, their faces filled with panic.
These people hardly seemed to be walking. It was more as though something terrifying was chasing them.
If they ran too slowly, they might lose their lives.
Ouyang Lin stepped forward and stopped the man bringing up the rear.
"May I ask what happened?"
The man clearly had not expected anyone to stop him along the way. Still shaken, he looked up at Ouyang Lin and the others behind him, then sighed irritably.
"Are you outsiders? If you have too much time on your hands, don't go sticking your noses into other people's business. You might not even know how you died."
Despite this bewildering tongue-lashing, Ouyang Lin's expression barely changed. He spoke as calmly as before.
"It is precisely because we do not know that we are asking you."
As he spoke, Ouyang Lin slipped a small eastern pearl into the man's hand.
They had found it aboard the Envoy's ship. They might as well take what was there, and now it had come in handy.
After the way that Envoy had screwed them over, taking a few of his little trinkets hardly counted for anything.
The man, however, stared at the small eastern pearl in his hand, his eyes nearly bulging out.
What am I seeing? These outsiders really are generous. They actually gave me an eastern pearl just to ask for information?
Although the eastern pearl was only about the size of a little fingernail, pearls like this were valuable regardless of their size.
"You... this..." The man could not help swallowing furtively, then dug his fingernail hard into the back of his hand.
"Hiss..."
It hurts. It really hurts.
Ouyang Lin remained perfectly still. "As long as