By evening, Chen Luo had arrived at Jin Yuanjiang's place.
Silver Bell was panting. Chen Luo had carried her tucked under his arm.
Silver Bell had never imagined anyone could move so fast.
Chen Luo introduced her. "This is my disciple, Silver Bell."
Silver Bell greeted them politely. "Uncle Jin, Uncle Xia."
Xia Haoran looked sheepish. I'm only twenty-five, and I'm already an uncle.
Jin Yuanjiang looked at Silver Bell in surprise. You've really shot straight to the top.
Chen Luo took eight dishes out of his ability space. He had once kept his ability space under wraps, but now he hid nothing from his core members.
"Ma Yu isn't here either, so we'll have to make do with this."
Make do?
You call this making do?
For a moment, Silver Bell couldn't tell whether her master was humblebragging.
They sat down, and Chen Luo told her, "Silver Bell, we'll talk. You just eat."
Chen Luo asked, "How are things progressing here?"
Jin Yuanjiang paused to think. "After you warned Ye Yu that day, Leader, he chose to suppress the news. It wasn't exactly something to be proud of."
"But it happened in front of everyone, and his base has informants from other bases, so word still got out."
Jin Yuanjiang smiled. "It was a bombshell. The whole area went wild. None of the survivors here ever imagined someone would dare warn Ye Yu to his face. Even his people steer clear when they see us."
"But I haven't spread the word that we have ample supplies and all the food anyone could want."
"Supplies have far too much sway these days."
Jin Yuanjiang smiled wryly. "If we let that information out, the population of our branch base would probably explode overnight. We'd easily reach a thousand, and two or