Despite those words, at his tilt of the head, Xun Lingyin still followed Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang, though he did not follow them into the cave.
After they left, Huyan Dao said to Jin Zaogong beside him, "Go keep an eye on the Jade Tide Sect group."
He had no choice but to send his junior brother on such a lowly errand. This matter could not be made public, and entrusting it to someone else could easily leave trouble lurking for the future.
Jin Zaogong nodded and left...
Xiang Lan'er, who had been sitting quietly inside the cave, stood when the two returned. She wanted to ask Shi Chun what that look he had given her earlier meant.
Wu Jinliang had surveyed their surroundings before entering. He hurried up to Shi Chun and said quietly, "We'd only just talked about it, and suddenly a way to verify it fell into our laps. That's a little too quick to be normal. Making us show our faces in the dead of night-couldn't they even wait until dawn?"
Shi Chun needed no reminder. He was no less alert than Wu Jinliang. He tipped his chin toward Xiang Lan'er. "Isn't that why we kept her around? To test the waters?"
Xiang Lan'er interjected, "What do you mean?"
Wu Jinliang said, "That bastard Huyan Dao might have sold us out."
"..." Xiang Lan'er froze. I thought I was going to accomplish something big with you two, and you've already dragged me into a pit?
The trouble was that her identity was sensitive. If she was forced to expose it in public, things would become very troublesome.
Wu Jinliang was not nearly as worried as she was. He asked Shi Chun, "What do we do? Run or fight?"
With his treasured robe on him now,