"My dad is the District Chief of Zone 101! My grandpa is an important representative of the Fallen Zone Management Association! If anything happens to me, you'll all die!"
"You want to chop off my hand? In the whole Great Xia Fallen Zone, there aren't many people who would dare say that!"
The young man stood up with a vicious grin and looked at Chen Qiao. "That red dart just now-you threw it, didn't you?"
"That's right, I did! No one gets to break the rules in my place, even if you're the noblest of nobles! I can let you keep your hand, but get out right now and never show your face in front of me again!"
He could tell that this woman clearly didn't care about his identity, and he wouldn't gain anything by continuing to push her.
On top of that, his three bodyguards had suddenly gotten drunk out of their minds for some reason.
The young man took a long look at Chen Qiao, then another at Qin Xun, as if committing their faces to memory.
Without a word, he turned and left.
This was perhaps a rare moment of intelligence on his part.
The three men also struggled to their feet and staggered after the young man, supporting one another as they left.
Every so often, the three men fell to the ground.
They were clearly very drunk!
"All right, it's over. Everyone, get some rest," Chen Qiao said, turning to the crowd and sending them away.
The woman named Lulu took a long look at Qin Xun. "That kid is rather interesting..."
Feeling dizzy, she didn't stay either. She turned and left with her companion.
"I'm sorry, Sister Qiao'er. I caused you trouble." Qin Xun faced Chen Qiao, feeling a little ashamed.
"It had nothing to do with you. The rules here don't allow anyone to cause trouble. Since he broke them, I wasn't going to be polite to him."
"Even so, he'll definitely bring people back for revenge." Xu Chao came up to Chen Qiao, his face full of worry.
He and Qin Xun would be fine. They would just dust off their backsides and leave first thing tomorrow morning.
But Chen Qiao's shop was here, and she couldn't leave.
Ordinary nobles had no authority to deploy the Guard Team outside the zone.
But given the young man's identity, getting the Guard Team sent outside the zone would be as easy as lifting a finger.
One look at the young man's eyes just now was enough to tell that this wasn't over!
He would definitely bring people back for revenge!
"Actually, I knew his identity wasn't ordinary long ago. I saw that Demon Token right from the start."
Xu Chao was taken aback. "And you still made a move against him? Is it really like you said, that no one can break the rules here? Or is it because we're close, so you helped us no matter the consequences?"
"I had a reason for making a move..." Chen Qiao turned around and raised her head to look at the starry sky. "I've always wanted to look for my master, but I've been wavering over it all this time. I made that move just now to cut off my own retreat and force myself to leave this place."
Xu Chao stared at her in shock. "You're leaving?"
"What else can I do? I've already lost my parents. I can't lose my master too, can I?" Chen Qiao lowered her gaze and looked at Xu Chao. "Maybe she's still alive. I don't want to suddenly hear that she's dead while I'm here one day. If that happens, I'll definitely regret not going to look for her."
"Where will you look for her?"
"What about you? Where are you going? We might be headed the same way, and I could take you part of the way!"
"Aren't you the boss who never asks her guests where they came from or where they're going?"
"That was before. Now I've decided I'm not going to be the boss anymore." Chen Qiao turned to Qin Xun with a smile. "Little brother, if you don't have anywhere to go, you can come with me. I'll take you under my wing!"
"Are you really leaving?" Qin Xun asked.
"Yes. I've had the idea for a long time, and tonight I finally made up my mind!"
Xu Chao fell silent for two seconds, then said, "How about this? Once I'm done with what I'm working on, I'll go back and ask our people to gather some information and see if they can find any clues for you."
"I appreciate the offer, but there's no need. You're different from me. You have more important things to do, and there's no need to spare extra effort on this. If my master is still alive, I believe I can find her."
Ten minutes later, outside the tavern.
Sisi, dressed in a short pink skirt, had red eyes. "Sister Qiao'er, are you really leaving?"
"Yes! I have to leave so I won't regret it later!"
"If you leave, there won't be much point in me staying. I'm going with you!"
"Think it through. If you come with me, life might be hard!"
"It's not like I never lived through hard times before I started following you. If you leave, I won't know where to go either. Even if you leave me in charge of the shop, without you, we won't be able to keep those customers in line. I'd be better off going with you!"
"All right. Once we find my master, we'll come back and open this shop again!"
"I'm going with you too." A Hu, whose face was covered in pockmarks, also decided not to stay.
"All right, then we'll go together!" Chen Qiao didn't hesitate.
She turned to look at the guesthouse she had run for several years, a thousand feelings welling up inside her.
"Tell the guests we're closing first thing tomorrow morning. It would be a shame to leave the remaining things behind, so let them take whatever they like. Just don't let them tear the place apart."
Five minutes later...
Chen Qiao pointed at a young man standing behind the bar. "Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?"
"Didn't you say we could take whatever we liked?"
"The money in the drawer doesn't count! Put it down! Put it down! Did you hear me?"
In the dark jungle.
A dagger was pulled from a man's throat, and blood spurted a meter through the air!
The man widened his eyes and clutched his throat, then fell backward with a thud, landing beside two other corpses.
Xu Chao wiped the blood from his face and exclaimed, "How exactly does Chen Qiao use that Psionic Power of hers? She got three Psionic Power users this drunk in just a few minutes!"
If the three men hadn't been this drunk, he really wouldn't have dared bring Qin Xun and Mengmeng after them.
"Sure enough, the prettier a woman is, the more dangerous she is..." Xu Chao looked at Qin Xun. "You'd better give up on the idea of pursuing her."
"When did I ever say I was going to pursue her?" Qin Xun looked utterly baffled.
"Don't... don't kill me!" The young man who had claimed that his father was the District Chief of Zone 101 and his grandfather an important representative of the Fallen Zone Management Association knelt on the ground, his eyes filled with terror.
Mengmeng bared teeth and blocked his retreat!
Qin Xun stood to one side with his arms crossed, leaning coldly against a tree.
Xu Chao walked over and crouched in front of the young man. "The District Chief of Zone 101 is your dad, so your surname is Zhao!"
"Yes!"
"You have an older brother who likes to lock people in cages and then set vicious dogs on them to bite them to death!"
"How... how do you know..."
"I'm from Zone 101 too. Come to think of it, you and I are from the same place."
"What a coincidence! We're from the same place, so you can let me go, right?"
The young man looked desperate to live and afraid to die. His earlier arrogance had vanished like smoke and clouds under the shadow of death.
"I heard someone say before that District Chief Zhao of Zone 101 has an eldest son who likes to lock people in cages and set dogs on them. He also has a younger son. Although he's young, he likes doing the same thing as his brother. That couldn't be you, could it?"
"N-no... it wasn't me..."
"That's strange. Surely that friend of mine wouldn't have lied to me?"
"Don't, don't kill me. I'll give you however much money you want..."
The young man trembled as he pulled a large handful of gold coins from his pocket and held them up.
Xu Chao looked down at them. "You really are pitifully stupid. If I kill you, won't this money be mine anyway?"
"I have lots more money. My family has lots more money! As long as you don't kill me, I can give you more. I can even get my dad to appoint you commander-in-chief of Zone 101's Guard Team! You can become a noble too!"
Panic and fear of death were written all over the young man's face.
His whole body was trembling, not because of the agonizing pain in his wrist, but because he was terrified to the extreme!
Qin Xun watched Xu Chao and listened to his tone, then raised his head and pondered. Why the heck does it feel like Xu Chao is the bad guy right now?
"Not everyone wants to become a noble, and not everyone is as stupid as you. Your dad has a stupid son like you-even I feel a little sorry for him." Xu Chao's gaze turned cold, and he thrust his dagger into the young man's throat.