Lin Ke secretly stirred his Spirit Power, keeping the insect tide ready inside his sleeve.
On the surface, however, he looked perfectly at ease.
As the door opened, simple wooden furniture came into view.
On the left was a brick sleeping platform covered with a straw mat, on the right were several bookshelves, and before him stood a table, chairs, and an incense altar.
Lin Ke walked straight to the incense altar as though no one else were there and discovered that it still enshrined the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect's founding ancestor.
He lit a few sticks of Soul-Calming Incense from beside it and bowed.
With disaster striking the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect today, this ancestor probably wasn't feeling too good either, was he?
With his back to everyone, Lin Ke closed his eyes. Even after all this, the people beneath the bed and beside the bookshelves still showed no intention of moving.
Left with no choice, he said, "Why don't you all come out?"
The people beneath the bed remained motionless, but someone peeked out from beside the bookshelves.
Was that a child?
Lin Ke couldn't help freezing for a moment.
He strode behind the bookshelves.
Thump, thump, thump-
A patter of scurrying footsteps came from beside a bookshelf.
Then Lin Ke saw a little head hiding beside it, with only two hair buns showing.
Lin Ke waited a moment.
Only then did the little girl cautiously poke half her head out, revealing chubby cheeks as she looked at him with pitiful eyes.
Realizing that Lin Ke had already spotted her, she puckered her little mouth and burst into tears with a wail.
Lin Ke was rather taken aback as well. What awaited him in the bushes wasn't Xiang Yu, but a little girl?
He looked himself