"Huh? Is that An Kai?!"
Widow Wang blurted out in surprise...
Hanks nodded with a bitter smile.
Great. Now that they had run into An Kai, they couldn't leave even if they wanted to...
Wait!
With An Kai here, it seemed he no longer needed to leave...
"Pack up. Let's go back to the City Lord's Manor and wait for him. Also, find that list where I recorded the protection money collected over the past few years."
After recognizing the newcomer, Hanks wasted no time packing up the stall he had set up barely ten minutes earlier.
In the increasingly hot weather, perhaps also because he was in a hurry, beads of sweat appeared on Hanks's forehead after he packed up...
Widow Wang gently wiped the sweat from his forehead, asking almost instinctively, "Why are you sweating?"
She meant nothing by it, but he took it to heart.
Without thinking, Hanks protested, "I'm in great shape! It's all this damned weather's fault!"
"Yes, yes, I believe you," Widow Wang replied halfheartedly.
She linked her arm through Hanks's and headed into the city.
The two walked swiftly, as though a magical beast were chasing them.
Hanks's stubborn explanation could still faintly be heard: "I really am in great shape! Believe me, it's definitely this damned weather making me sweat!"
At the entrance to Chaos City Outer City.
"This damned weather is treating this Dragon Lord terribly!"
Nurnexius, who looked like a Big Black Rat, panted with his tongue hanging out like an overheated dog.
An Kai glanced at Nurnexius.
After one day together inside the Mage Tower and five days outside, he had gotten to know him.
He had already figured out Nurnexius's despicable nature.
He called himself "Dragon Lord" every other sentence without even taking a look at his