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"": "Luo Bin said nothing. He simply stared fixedly in the direction the figure had gone.
With his other hand, he grabbed Xu Lu's wrist and exerted a little force, breaking free of his restraint before hurrying out of the Bamboo Grove in pursuit.
It wasn't that Luo Bin wanted to alert their quarry.
"Hu Xing's" appearance was too strange. How could someone who should have been dead still be alive?
If Hu Xing wasn't dead, why had Fourth Master Gray cried while holding that golden core?
That was the biggest contradiction.
But there was another point: Dai Zhixiong had never personally admitted to refining Hu Xing. He had only said he had captured her.
Could Hu Xing merely have been injured, with a hand or foot cut off and refined into a pill, while she had escaped alive?
That didn't make sense either. The figure he had seen clearly had all her limbs...
Filled with these conflicting doubts, Luo Bin followed "Hu Xing," while Xu Lu and Bai Xian cautiously trailed behind him.
The village road wound from the level ground at the foot of the mountain onto a crooked hillside path. On one side was a slope planted with pomelo, pear, mandarin, plum, and other fruit trees; on the other were numerous farmhouses built against the mountain.
The night sky was exceptionally still. The moon resembled a cold, merciless eye, watching everything below.
Luo Bin continued stepping through the hexagram positions to keep himself well concealed.
"Hu Xing" ahead hadn't noticed the people tailing her and kept walking.
At last, she turned into a courtyard.
In that instant, Luo Bin caught sight of her profile.
He froze, his heart missing a beat.
Her back had looked right, and her profile resembled Hu Xing's, but