30: Do I look like that kind of person?

Chu Feiyue, with Liu Ling'er, arrived at Wang Dapeng's doorstep: "Pengzi, are you home?"

Wang Dapeng quickly came out. Before he even opened the door, he recognized Chu Feiyue's voice, so he walked out saying, "Coming! What, another mission?"

When he opened the door, he saw a girl following Chu Feiyue.

Wang Dapeng's eyes immediately widened.

Liu Ling'er smiled and greeted him: "Hello, Big Brother Wang."

Chu Feiyue often spoke of Wang Dapeng at home. The two had faced life and death together in the Ferocious Beast Forest, and their homes were not far apart, so they had long become good brothers.

Wang Dapeng didn't say anything; instead, he pulled Chu Feiyue over and whispered in his ear: "Lao Chu, what's going on with you? With the temper of the one at your house, you dare to bring a young lady out?"

Chu Feiyue spread his hands and said, "Pengzi, we've known each other for so long. Do I look like that kind of person?"

Wang Dapeng paused, then said, "Yes."

Chu Feiyue: "..."

Was his usual image outside that bad?

One after another, they all thought he was a heartless destroyer of beauty.

He was clearly acting righteously, wasn't he!

After Chu Feiyue explained the whole story to Wang Dapeng, Wang Dapeng finally understood and then said, "I think that young lady is so pretty, she wouldn't fancy you anyway."

Chu Feiyue: "???"

That's going too far!

Is it just that I'm a bit older?

"Ahem, let's set off. I didn't take a mission, but she did. My wife was afraid it would be too dangerous for her to go into the forest alone, so she told me to accompany her. Did you take a mission?" Chu Feiyue asked.

Wang Dapeng nodded: "I took a simple mission. So, let's go now."

"Dapeng, be careful on the way. Remember to buy some vegetables when you come back, otherwise, there won't be anything to eat tonight," Zhao Jie said to Wang Dapeng, holding their youngest son at the doorway.

"Got it. I'm leaving. Take good care of the children."

Wang Dapeng glanced at his wife and children, feeling reluctant, but to support his family, he had to go to the forest.

Zhao Jie initially stood at the doorway. After Wang Dapeng and the others walked away, she held the child and stood at the main gate to watch, seeing them slowly walk further away and disappear at the end of the road.

"Ah, yi ya ya."

The youngest son in her arms couldn't speak yet, but he seemed to sense that his father was no longer home. He stretched out his small hands, wanting to grasp something, but never caught anything.

Zhao Jie hugged him and turned back into the house, but tears involuntarily streamed down her face.

She was not a Martial Artist, but an ordinary person. The burden of supporting the family fell on Wang Dapeng alone. Every time she watched her husband go into the perilous Ferocious Beast Forest, she felt uneasy, but if she went with him, she couldn't help with anything; she would only cause trouble.

All household expenses had to be bought with Spirit Stones, and the best way to obtain Spirit Stones was to risk going into the forest to complete missions issued by the guild.

In fact, the guild also selected talents from outside every year. As long as one's level met the standard, physical fitness was strong, and they could pass the guild's test, they could join the guild and become an internal member. Then they wouldn't need to go to the forest to earn a salary.

With Wang Dapeng's current conditions, he could completely join the guild, but Zhao Jie was not a Martial Artist and couldn't enter the guild, so they could only be separated.

Zhao Jie knew Wang Dapeng's worries, so she felt even more that she was holding him back.

Fortunately, their eldest son awakened Martial Artist talent at the age of five and could become a Martial Artist. This was the happiest thing for Zhao Jie in a long time.

Even if they, as a couple, couldn't provide their son with much cultivation resources, and the path for their son to become a Martial Artist would be fraught with difficulties, it was still much better than just being an ordinary person... Outside the Wall, at the guild.

The mercenaries hired by Xiao Yue were investigating Liu Ling'er's whereabouts. Since Liu Ling'er went missing after leaving the Wall, they would start their investigation from the guild.

"Big Brother, we've already connected with the guild's intelligence department. The employer provided a lot of funds, and they agreed to help us investigate. They said they would contact us within three days."

"Good. The rest of you, follow me into the forest to take a look."

"Yes!"

...On the outskirts of the Ferocious Beast Forest.

"The Level 2 Warrior mission is relatively simple. With the two of us here, you can rest assured and go hunt that Wind Shadow Cat. We definitely won't let you get hurt."

Chu Feiyue was very confident. Both he and Wang Dapeng were Level Three Martial Artists, and the Wind Shadow Cat mentioned in the mission was only a first-tier beast, which was very easy for them.

"Okay," Liu Ling'er nodded obediently.

On the outskirts, as long as she didn't encounter a fourth-tier ferocious beast, she wouldn't be afraid. Her Qi Cavity was not an ordinary purple Qi Cavity, but a low-grade blue one.

This meant that her fourth level was much stronger than the fourth level of an ordinary Qi Cavity.

If it were a mid-grade Qi Cavity, it would be even more powerful, but unfortunately, no one in the entire Liu Family had ever awakened a mid-grade Qi Cavity.

Only she, Liu Ling'er, and the patriarch, Liu Yancheng, possessed low-grade Qi Cavitys.

This was also why the Xiao Family could be so arrogant.

Xiao Yue was currently the only Martial Artist in the entire 155 Fortress who had awakened the top-grade Qi Cavity, Jade Dragon Acupoint, and his cultivation had reached a terrifying seventh level.

Of course, many people did not recognize Xiao Yue's strength, because the former Xiao Shen was also a seventh-level cultivator and also possessed the Jade Dragon Acupoint.

And it was precisely when Xiao Shen went missing, his life or death unknown, that Xiao Yue became a genius envied by everyone, making it hard not to suspect if there was some connection between the two.

Liu Ling'er didn't know what others thought, but she herself had already decided that on the day Xiao Yue's cultivation greatly increased, the Xiao Family definitely could not tolerate Xiao Shen.

On the way to find the first-tier Wind Shadow Cat, Liu Ling'er gently sighed.

Xiao Shen, where exactly are you?

Are you alive or dead?

...At this moment, Xiao Shen didn't know that Liu Ling'er was looking for him. He had gotten up early this morning and spent the entire morning tidying the house, finally making it presentable.

He had also thought last night that if the strip of cloth he saw that day really belonged to Liu Ling'er, then there should be news about Liu Ling'er's disappearance in the Wall, and he needed to go inquire about it.

"Little brother, you've come to the right person by asking me. I am the intelligence peddler known as the 'Jianghu Polymath,' the 'Wall's Inquirer,' the 'All-Knowing and All-Seeing'—Ximen Chuifeng!"

Xiao Shen, following the information he got from Cui Fucai, found this... Ximen Chuifeng. It was said that if you wanted to inquire about anything in the 155 Fortress, you just had to find him.

Xiao Shen was very happy, thinking that he hadn't expected such a capable person Outside the Bastion. He quickly brought gifts to visit, which led to the current scene.

"You are... Ximen Chuifeng?" Xiao Shen pursed his lips, feeling an urge to turn around and leave.

"Exactly, it is I, humble as I am!"

Ximen Chuifeng had a blade of grass in his mouth, not knowing where he had plucked it. Seeing the gifts in Xiao Shen's hands, he raised his eyebrows, stood up, and approached Xiao Shen, circling him once.