"Brother Chen, those two we just met weren't ordinary people either, were they?"
Once they had walked a long way, Huo Yuhao moved a few steps closer and asked of his own accord.
Lu Chen glanced at him and nodded, acknowledging his judgment.
"I knew it. Out in the middle of nowhere, without so much as a bundle, and dressed so well, too. Way too suspicious-
"Uh, Brother Chen, I wasn't talking about you. Please don't take it to heart."
"Haha, you're not wrong. Those two and I are all suspicious to begin with."
Lu Chen chuckled, genuinely unbothered by Huo Yuhao's careless remark.
If he had not happened to choose a moment when Huo Yuhao was tired and hungry to give him plenty of ingredients, then offered to enter the Star Dou Great Forest with him and even help him obtain a Soul Ring...
Huo Yuhao would probably have run even faster upon seeing him than he would upon seeing Bei Bei and Tang Ya!
After all, unlike Tang Ya, he was not a pretty girl who could make Huo Yuhao blush at first sight.
Lu Chen was still brooding over Huo Yuhao's abnormal way of gaining favorability.
But as for Bei Bei, quite a few characters in the original novel had called him a sanctimonious hypocrite, and now it seemed they were right-
Of course, "sanctimonious hypocrite" was not meant negatively here. It only meant that whatever Bei Bei did, he always looked calm, unhurried, and utterly unconcerned
on the surface, while in reality he took it extremely seriously, had already made his plans, and was brewing mischief~
Yet it was precisely in Huo Yuhao's case that he had nearly capsized.
He had repeatedly said he would follow behind to protect Huo Yuhao, only to arrive late.
If