Once Yue Guan untied him, Flender hurried toward the mountain gully where Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were hiding. He fled frantically through all kinds of bushes and grass, leaving himself thoroughly disheveled.
Along the way, Flender kept looking back from time to time. Although he knew perfectly well that Xu Feng already knew everything about the three of them, including their hiding place, he still could not help being cautious.
Only after confirming that Xu Feng and his people had not followed him did Flender actually return to the hideout.
"Boss Fu, where did you go? Why did it take you so long to come back?"
The moment Flender returned, Liu Erlong noticed his bedraggled appearance. She hurried forward and asked with some concern, "Are you all right? Did you run into danger?"
"Erlong, don't worry..."
Flender was just about to answer, but before he could finish, Yu Xiaogang interrupted with a grave expression. "We can't stay here anymore. We have to leave immediately."
"Why?" Erlong raised an eyebrow.
"Flender's martial soul is an extremely fast owl. If he was only scouting, he couldn't possibly have taken this long to return. And those fresh signs of disarray on him were clearly left while he was running for his life."
"So, while scouting, Flender must have exposed our hiding place. We have to leave."
Yu Xiaogang spoke very calmly, with no other expression on his face. Yet for some reason, Flender sensed a hint of blame.
Flender turned to look at Liu Erlong again. She said nothing, but her gaze held genuine concern for him. He could feel it. Although Erlong did not have romantic feelings for him, at least she sincerely treated him as a friend.
Comparing the two, a thought rose unbidden in Flender's mind. *Yu Xiaogang, has