When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 221

Death by Blade!

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"": "The day passed unusually slowly. In the end, Luo Bin stopped dwelling on it. Things had come to this; no amount of thinking would change anything.

After lunch, he opened the courtyard gate and sat on the threshold, watching outside.

Luo Bin studied everyone who passed, but more than anything, he was looking for one person: Mo Qian.

Several days had passed, and Mo Qian really had not appeared...

Luo Bin wondered whether the Demon Hunter would target Mo Qian.

After all, Mo Qian looked very strange too.

Soon, however, he dismissed the thought. Mo Qian had been here far longer than he and You Jiang had. If anything, people like him and Gu Yiren, who looked normal on the surface, were the strange ones.

In Cabinet Mountain Town, someone as strange as Mo Qian was normal instead?

Cabinet Mountain Town was still too big, and he knew too little about it. Besides, this was not Cabinet Mountain Village, where he had a good father who made everything easy.

Alone, he struggled at every turn, no matter what he wanted to do.

The sky gradually darkened.

After dinner, he returned to the room with Gu Yiren. She lay on the inner side of the bed. He had intended to sleep on the floor, but she pressed her lips together and whispered, "You don't have to. People should have some basic trust in each other. I trust you."

"All right." Luo Bin nodded.

Then he did something else.

He set the Oil Lamp beside the bed, poured in a packet of Lamp Oil, and lit it.

"Go to sleep. I'll be fine. It doesn't matter if the evil spirits come. I won't trigger them."

Luo Bin kept watching the Oil Lamp as he explained to Gu

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