"Hadn't Youzui already posted a task at the Wander Bar? Why did you still go looking for that old Wanderer Wizard on your own?"
"It wasn't the same." Lin Guo puffed out his chest, wearing the expression of a little adult. "Youzui posting a task at the Wander Bar could only ensure that some wizards would take notice of it... But if the Wanderer Wizard stepped in, every wizard at the Wander Bar would pay attention. As they said, 'To gain its benefits, one must bear its weight.' It was only human nature."
Zheng Qing froze for a few seconds.
He had never imagined that he would discuss the ways of the world with an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy.
"Everyone said the Wanderer Wizard was a Dark Wizard. Weren't you afraid?" he could not help asking.
"Since I was eight, I'd already learned how not to be afraid." The young wizard looked utterly serious. "Besides, the school hadn't arrested him, which meant he wasn't all that bad... And so many students went in and out of the Wander Bar every day, but nothing terrible had ever happened there... Don't worry!"
When Zheng Qing heard the first part of his answer, he could not help raising a hand, wanting to pat the young wizard's head. Having to learn to support himself at such a young age, Lin Guo truly understood life's bitterness and sweetness better than he did.
But after hearing the rest, he ultimately set his raised arm on the young wizard's shoulder.
"A Black Hand bar was often safer than one run by an ordinary owner, but that didn't prove anything." He patted Lin Guo's shoulder and let out a deep sigh.
"Since when had innocence and stupidity become synonyms... You thought you were finding hope bit by bit,