23: Liu Yancheng's attitude, someone is asking about the whereabouts of the little ice fox

The next day.

Liu Family.

Everyone in the Liu Family, including the Patriarch Liu Yancheng, knew about Liu XinFan being severely injured by Xiao Yue.

"This Xiao Yue is too presumptuous! He doesn't even put me, an elder, in his eyes. Does he really think the Liu Family is a vassal of the Xiao Family?"

Liu Yancheng angrily slammed the table.

He wanted to drive Xiao Yue away, but he couldn't afford to offend the Xiao Family now.

So, in his anger, Liu Yancheng merely fumed.

He went to see the heavily injured Liu XinFan, who was bedridden, and said in a feigned manner, "Ah Fan, you should focus on recovering from your injuries during this time. Don't worry about anything else; I will handle it."

"Yes, Patriarch." Liu XinFan nodded, but he didn't believe Liu Yancheng could accomplish anything significant.

He hadn't realized before how obsequious Liu Yancheng was—oh no, the Xiao Family wasn't even their Liu Family's master yet, and Liu Yancheng had already started fawning.

If things continued like this, it would only be a matter of time before the Liu Family became a vassal of the Xiao Family, just like the Hua Family and the Wang Family.

By then, not only would Xiao Yue not apologize to him, but he might even have to apologize to Xiao Yue, regretting that his neck had bumped into Xiao Yue's hand.

Seeing that Liu XinFan was fine, only needing time to recover, Liu Yancheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Besides Liu Ling'er, Liu XinFan was currently the most talented person in their Liu Family. If Liu XinFan had been seriously harmed by Xiao Yue, it would have been very difficult for him.

This Xiao Yue was truly too much of a bully!

After Liu Yancheng left, Liu Ming brought several peers to visit Liu XinFan.

"Brother Ah Fan, we brought you some healing potions."

"Brother Ah Fan, you're really too handsome! Xiao Yue is simply no match for Xiao Shen!"

"Isn't the Patriarch going to do anything? Xiao Yue has bullied us, the Liu Family!"

"..."

The several people chattered, and Liu XinFan looked at the potions they brought, feeling a little sour inside.

Their talents weren't great, and they usually couldn't save much spirit stone. These potions were probably bought by pooling their money together.

Even they knew to bring something when visiting a sick person, yet Liu Yancheng came empty-handed.

The Patriarch truly exposed his selfishness completely.

"Don't you all worry about this matter; let the Patriarch handle it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be good if it caused deeper conflicts," Liu XinFan said earnestly.

"Yes, Brother Ah Fan, we'll all listen to you." Liu Ming was the first to express his agreement.

The others also had no objections. They usually liked to follow behind Liu XinFan, and in their hearts, Liu XinFan was their big brother.

Liu Yancheng didn't look for trouble with Xiao Yue, but Xiao Yue felt that things couldn't continue like this. He had already waited for three days, and Liu Ling'er still hadn't returned.

A sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart.

If Liu Ling'er really found Xiao Shen, then she might never be able to return.

"Young Master, are you going to continue staying at the Liu Family? The Master has urged several times." The servant by Xiao Yue's side was sent by Xiao Zhenxuan, and he asked when he saw Xiao Yue looking troubled.

"No, we're leaving."

Xiao Yue slammed down his cup with a "bang" and walked away.

Those people from the Liu Family, who used to look down on him, now had to curry favor with him, but he no longer cared for it.

Before snatching Xiao Shen's Jade Dragon Acupoint, he had fantasized countless times: when he became a true genius, would those people's opinions of him change?

But when he truly became a highly talented Level Seven martial artist, he instead felt, what did other people's opinions have to do with him?

In this apocalypse, strength was everything.

If you were stronger than them, they naturally wouldn't dare to speak against you again.

Liu Yancheng was the one who changed the fastest.

Before, every time he came to the Liu Family with Xiao Shen, Liu Yancheng would only speak favorably to Xiao Shen, not even bothering to give him, Xiao Yue, a glance. But now?

The human heart, ah, is truly the most difficult thing to understand... Noon was the time when Lin Feng needed maintenance. He could only operate for eight hours a day; the rest of the time was spent on maintenance, usually at night and noon.

So, when Little Ice Fox ran to look for the tin train, it searched the entire Outer Circle but couldn't find the familiar tin train anywhere.

Hmph, a scoundrel indeed!

It ran off with its money!!

Little Ice Fox was very angry. It seemed not only humans were bad guys, but tin trains were too!

It cursed all the way back, but on the way, it coincidentally met the people it had ridden with yesterday.

So it quickly hid behind a large rock and secretly watched what they were doing.

"Strange, we've walked so far, how come we still haven't seen the tin train?"

Ge Yunying walked in front, looking into the distance, puzzled.

"Yeah, did the tin train go to the Inner Circle today?" Feng Zhi's feet hurt from walking, and he just wanted to sit down and rest now.

"It shouldn't be. Every time we took the tin train before, it was in the Outer Circle. Let's look for another ten minutes. If we still don't see the tin train, we'll go back," Wang Yi said.

"Alright."

Both agreed.

They naturally wanted to take the tin train, but for their own lives, it was best not to go to the Inner Circle if they could avoid it.

After all, there were casually fifth-order fierce beasts there; even if the three of them teamed up, they wouldn't be enough to even fill their teeth.

Little Ice Fox watched from behind the rock. It couldn't understand human speech when not on the tin train, but by looking at their expressions, it could roughly deduce that they were probably also looking for the tin train.

A few minutes later, Wang Yi and the others encountered a very strong big man. The big man was shirtless, revealing solid muscles, and held a mace in his hand.

"Hey, you guys, have you seen a fox cub? Its fur is white, and its tail is very large."

The big man raised the mace in his hand and asked them.

A fox cub?

Wang Yi and the two exchanged glances. Wasn't the big man talking about Little Ice Fox?

At this moment, Little Ice Fox, hiding behind the rock, had already started trembling. It recognized this big man; he was the one who had chased it before!

If it hadn't accidentally stumbled onto the tin train back then, it would probably have died without a burial place long ago.

After so many days of being fine, Little Ice Fox thought that person had already left the forest, but it didn't expect him to still be there!

What to do, what to do?

All three of them had seen it, and they would definitely expose it. They might even join the big man's side to catch it!

"No, we haven't seen any fox," Ge Yunying said first.

Wang Yi and Feng Zhi also said in unison, "Haven't seen it."

Seeing all three of them shake their heads, Little Ice Fox's bristling fur suddenly softened.

They, surprisingly... The big man left after they said they hadn't seen it, without pressing further. After all, they were three people, and if a fight really broke out, it wouldn't be worth it.

"Hey, Yunying, why did you say you hadn't seen it just now?" Feng Zhi only asked now.

Ge Yunying shrugged nonchalantly, "I don't know him, so why should I tell him? I don't know if that big man is friend or foe, but the little fox is so cute, and it rode in the same tin train as us. It can at least be considered a friend, right?"