A very, very hospitable host and a polite guest

A wave of Pollution suddenly pierced the air, not very dense, but it felt strangely peculiar. Ye Jiang's pupils turned a dark red for a moment, and the young man who had turned to leave paused. He slowly turned back and stared intently at Ye Jiang.

The Pollution quickly disappeared, and Ye Jiang was about to follow Pollution when she noticed the young man's gaze.

She looked at him. The dark red in her eyes had faded, and her eyes had returned to normal, though they looked darker and deeper than usual. The young man stared at her, and after a few seconds, he walked towards her.

Ye Jiang felt the pine scent in the air growing stronger, and her memories were gradually returning. This man seemed to be...

Are you going to Shuiling Town?

The young man interrupted her reverie, asking, "Can I travel with you?"

Chapter 84: Hospitality - A hospitable host and a polite guest.

"Why?"

Ye Jiang asked, clearly puzzled. Shuiling Town was just ahead, and there was absolutely no need to travel with a stranger on such a short distance.

The young man looked at Ye Jiang's eagle-man, and Ye Jiang understood his gaze. He didn't want to walk any further and wanted to hitch a ride with her eagle-man.

I understood it, but--

"Cannot."

Ye Jiang coldly and directly rejected him, showing the same lack of human compassion as always.

She didn't even give a reason for refusing. The young man watched her silently, Ye Jiang ignored him. She kicked a small pebble, which hit the eagle-man who was grooming himself. The eagle-man tilted his head, not understanding what was wrong with dressing up. Ye Jiang pointed to the Sky. Perhaps the yearning for freedom is an innate instinct of every species. The eagle-man, whose intelligence wasn't particularly high, was especially sensitive to this instruction. He spread his wings and soared into the sky.

It plunged into the clouds and tumbled happily a few times. Then, it cautiously looked down at the humans below and found that the humans were still looking up at it with dark, unlit eyes. Its heart tightened, and it abandoned its thought of escaping.

Ye Jiang didn't realize that the threat in her eyes was too strong. Seeing that the eagle man was more docile than she had believed, she calmly withdrew her gaze, and with a flash, she sped towards the Shuiling Town surrounded by high walls.

That's why she refused. Yes, she didn't plan to take the eagleman to the town; it might be troublesome and attract attention. If it weren't for that, she wouldn't mind charging the young people "fares" to earn some extra money.

Ye Jiang touched the ground with both feet and stopped on the high wall of Shuiling Town. As soon as she stopped, she noticed that the wind was moving unnaturally beside her. She turned her head and saw that the young man had also arrived and was standing on the walled city just like her.

Ye Jiang was often mistaken for a speed-type ability user a long time ago, which shows how fast she is. Now it seems that the young man is not bad either.

Ye Jiang had been daydreaming for a moment, only belatedly realizing that the young man had been staring intently at the base of the wall, as if something below was attracting his attention. She paused, then looked over, and the next second her eyes met several pairs of gazes. At the base of the wall, a group of townspeople were craning their necks, staring motionlessly at her and the young man beside them.

They were surrounded by onlookers.

Although she had unusually considered that the eagle-man hadn't brought it, she was still surrounded by onlookers.

"..."

"..."

The two people stared at each other silently, the atmosphere awkward.

Why are you looking at them like that?

Ye Jiang's eyes darted around, her gaze shifting slightly. She noticed that the townspeople had some distinctive features of the border town; their faces and exposed arms were covered in black tattoos. The tattoos were so realistic, as if they were growing out of their skin, exuding a unique, wild beauty.

Ye Jiang's change in gaze was actually very subtle, but the townspeople below noticed it immediately, as if they were extremely sensitive. Their expressions changed drastically, becoming restless and angry, their eyes turning as if they wanted to devour someone.

"What are you looking at!" a dark-skinned woman shouted at Ye Jiang. She was tall and slender, wearing a cropped tank top that showed off her curves. She was quite pretty, but with her arms crossed, she looked very intimidating.

You won't let me see it?

Ye Jiang didn't want to watch it; she didn't feel obligated to.

Her actions improved the expressions of the townspeople below considerably. She then asked where there was a hotel in town. As soon as she said this, the townspeople started to stir again, and their bad attitude returned.

The dark-skinned man immediately burst into laughter, uttering a single word—

Outsiders.

She crossed her arms and looked at Ye Jiang, her tone unfriendly. "Are there really people who dare to come here without doing any research?"

She was good at being sarcastic and sarcastic, and Ye Jiang's expressionless face changed slightly. "You..."

"What?" the dark-skinned man asked sharply.

A hint of doubt flickered in Ye Jiang's dark eyes. "You want to fight me?"

She did nothing wrong, yet she's been constantly targeted. Is this some kind of challenge to a fight?

Ye Jiang wasn't the type to get angry easily; on the contrary, she was as calm as a stagnant pool. The reason she asked this question wasn't because she was angry, but because she was seriously analyzing the situation and trying to find the other person's motives for targeting her.

But the person on the other end didn't understand her and thought she was provoking them, so the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

The townspeople were the ones who could ignite it at the slightest provocation.

"Oh, let's fight! Let's fight!"

"Let's go, let's fight!"

The townspeople were excited and reached out to push the dark-skinned man.

His face flushed red, and he roared, "I'd never fight a little kid who hasn't even fully developed yet!"

"Whispering sound--"

Boos rose and fell.

A town resident shouted, "Hua Ling, you're such a coward! A wimp!"

The dark-skinned woman inherited the town's fiery temperament; she turned around and started fighting with the man who had called her a coward. As the fight escalated, the townspeople all joined in, and a dozen or so were caught in the chaos. When a wind blade flew from a townperson's hand, a pit trap appeared, and the townspeople who fell into it cursed and swung their hands, sending up a cloud of dust.

"Who started this brothel thing? Bah! I'm going to go blind! I'll kill you!"

Boom!

A curtain of fire exploded.

A light rain began to fall on the curtain of fire.

The water that hit the ground turned into ice spikes.

A hand made of steel crushed the ice spikes.

The physical melee quickly turned into a chaotic battle of supernatural powers.

Ye Jiang looked at this scene with a slightly surprised expression. The townspeople's tattoos were so conspicuous that she overlooked the fact that these townspeople were all superhumans, and they all had the Blood Moon symbol on their hands.

Chaos erupted below. A wind blade burst out of the melee, flew up the wall, and headed straight for Ye Jiang. Just as Ye Jiang was about to dodge, a dark hole suddenly appeared in the air. The wind blade rushed into the black hole silently, and the black hole shrank into a single point and disappeared.

Ye Jiang's eyes flickered, and she remembered. "You're the man who stepped on Yun Hua's shadow."

Then she remembered that this person had warned her about being trapped in an illusion.

Rong Yin.

The young man looked at her and said, "My name."

There seemed to be something hidden in the young man's eyes, something too profound. Ye Jiang stared at it, wanting to find out what it was, but was interrupted by the change below.

"The Guard here!"

Someone shouted this, and as soon as the words were spoken, everyone stopped what they were doing, and the dozen or so townspeople scattered in a panic.

Some who hadn't left had their feet frozen in the chaos of battle after accidentally stepping into a trap, preventing them from escaping with the main force. Ye Jiang saw a group of uniformed men approaching, and the dark-skinned man's face changed drastically as he muttered curses under his breath. Just as the uniformed men were about to arrive, he was about to violently break the ice when a dark shadow flashed past. Someone beat him to it, grabbing his arm and pulling him like a radish. The ice shattered, and the dark-skinned man was dragged to the other side of the town.

Wow, so fast!

The dark-skinned man was slightly startled and looked at the little bean in her eyes. The little bean released her and was looking around.

Upon entering Shuiling Town, I discovered that this town is actually quite large, with over two thousand people living within its high walls. The town's houses are densely packed, and judging from its level of commercialization, it is not particularly poor.

As Ye Jiang looked around, the dark-skinned woman on the other side seemed awkward and unsure whether to lean against anything. She glared at Ye Jiang with a complicated expression. "Who asked you for help? I didn't ask you for help!"

Hearing the voice, Ye Jiang looked at her and uttered only two words: "Hotel."

The dark-skinned man's face twitched. "No hotels!"

She suddenly chuckled self-deprecatingly, "We don't have any outside guests here."

Without guests, there are no hotels.

The dark-skinned man sized up the newcomer before him, crossed his arms, and asked, "I was also wondering what brings you and your companion to our Shuiling Town?"

"Not companions." Ye Jiang denied her relationship with the young man, but she did not reveal the purpose of her Shuiling Town.

"Not companions? That's strange. We rarely see outsiders in this wretched place, maybe once every few years. It's unusual to see two groups of people here today." The dark-skinned man said, his tone dripping with sarcasm.

Ye Jiang asked, "Why is no one coming?"

It was clearly the dark-skinned person who was good at being sarcastic and sarcastic, and Ye Jiang was just asking a normal question. But when the dark-skinned person heard this, it was as if they had been seriously mocked, and their face immediately turned ugly as they retorted, "Hey, are you doing this on purpose?"

"?"

"..."

The conversation fell silent. The dark-skinned woman's expression shifted several times before she finally snorted, turned, and left. She wasn't curious whether Ye Jiang and the young man were companions anymore. What did she care what these outsiders were doing here? What business was it of hers?

Ye Jiang asked the dark-skinned person behind her, "Why do you run away as soon as you hear about the town's Guard?"

This was what Ye Jiang didn't understand. She didn't know what the Guard of Shuiling Town was, but judging from the name, it should be something similar to the Ability Control Bureau. However, the dark-skinned people and the townspeople ran away as soon as they heard that the Guard was coming, as if they were very afraid of them.

The person with dark skin did not answer.

Ye Jiang asked again, "Are you very afraid of them?"

The dark-skinned woman hadn't gone far when she stopped. She didn't turn around, but slightly tilted her head, letting her deep voice carry her message: "Outsider, since you don't want to answer my question about your purpose in Shuiling Town, I'll pretend I didn't notice you skipped the question. I haven't pressed you for details. As a matter of courtesy, shouldn't you also curb your excessive curiosity?"