To Li Xinyue's surprise, Zhang Lin was not angry at Hu Yu's accusations. He even smiled and seemed very calm.

"Mr. Zhang, don't listen to his nonsense..."

But Li Xinyue was still a little worried and wanted to explain to Zhang Lin.

“You keep calling me ‘sir,’ isn’t that a bit too polite?” Zhang Lin interrupted her, smiling slightly. “Just call me by my name; it’s much more friendly that way.”

"Huh?" Li Xinyue was stunned by Zhang Lin's kind attitude. He wasn't like this when she met him in Hope City before!

'Could it be... that he really has his eye on Xiaoyun?' Suddenly, a thought popped into her head that made her both laugh and cry: 'I'm only in my early twenties, and I'm already a mother-in-law?'

Actually, she'll be thirty in two months, but women always want to look young, so until her birthday, she's still in her twenties.

"Calling you by your name is too formal. I'll call you A-Lin from now on," Li Xinyue said, her gaze towards Zhang Lin becoming much warmer after having this thought.

As the saying goes, a mother-in-law likes her son-in-law more and more the more she looks at him…

“Well, then I won’t call you Miss Li anymore. How about I call you Xinyue?” Zhang Lin said without any politeness, not caring whether she agreed or not. “Xinyue, what’s wrong with this young man? Does he have some misunderstanding about me? I feel like he’s targeting me.”

"..." Li Xinyue's mind went blank.

Calling someone by their first name... that doesn't seem like the proper way to treat a mother-in-law...

Hu Yu, who was standing to the side, was startled when Zhang Lin suddenly turned his attention to him, but he immediately snorted coldly and said, "Am I wrong? Are you getting anxious because I've exposed you?"

Li Xinyue snapped out of her daze, glared at Hu Yu, and then said to Zhang Lin, "Ah Lin, please don't mind."

Zhang Lin was naturally bothered. After all, he had come all the way from afar to provide support, and he didn't want anything else but Li Xinyue. Even so, he was still being questioned. How could he not be angry?

"I don't mind, but it's better to clarify things." Zhang Lin waved his hand with a smile, telling Li Xinyue not to worry about it, then looked at Hu Yu, "Aren't you welcoming me?"

For some reason, Hu Yu felt a sense of panic, but since things had already come to this point, he decided to drop the pretense and said coldly, "Of course we welcome reinforcements, but we don't welcome swindlers! Although we are in a crisis now, not just anyone can come and cheat us out of our property!"

Li Xinyue said he wasn't like a young person because he lacked the vigor of youth and was always thinking about running away.

In fact, Hu Yu is just a young man, only he is a very confused young man.

Faced with a beast tide, only by uniting as one can we increase our chances of survival; those who try to escape may actually die even faster.

He couldn't see this, lost his courage, and only wanted to escape.

Faced with reinforcements like Zhang Lin, Zhang Shukai guessed from Li Xinyue's attitude that Zhang Lin was very strong, so he remained silent. He was a smart man. Although Lin Lu couldn't guess Zhang Lin's strength, she was always grateful for the reinforcements who had come from afar, so she also kept quiet. She was a good person.

But Hu Yu was different. Li Xinyue had only promised Zhang Lin some benefits, and before she had even delivered on them, he couldn't stand it. Furthermore, for the sake of saving face, he directly broke off relations with Zhang Lin...

He couldn't see Zhang Lin's strength, nor was he grateful for the reinforcements. Instead, for the sake of some vague sense of face, he was willing to break ties with Zhang Lin...

All I can say is that he is a confused young man with poor character and a very hot temper.

"Oh, so you doubted my strength..." Zhang Lin said slowly with a smile, "That's easy to say. How about we have a spar? That way, you'll know my strength, won't you?"

Looking at the kind-faced Zhang Lin, Hu Yu felt as if he were being targeted by some ferocious beast...

A friendly exchange?

He wouldn't be afraid if others said it, after all, his strength was definitely among the top in this camp.

But facing Zhang Lin...

Unwilling to admit his fear, Hu Yu quickly changed his mind and said, "With the beast tide at hand, I need to conserve my strength to eliminate supernatural creatures! Besides, if you want to know your combat strength, why bother with a duel? Why don't you go and kill a supernatural creature to prove it? I think the giant rhinoceros that chased you before was quite good!"

They all knew that Zhang Lin had been chased by the giant rhinoceros, as Li Shiyun had mentioned. Zhang Lin's sudden appearance just now demonstrated his ability to move, so they weren't surprised that he had managed to escape the rhinoceros's pursuit.

Therefore, Hu Yu is now proposing this condition.

As for whether Zhang Lin escaped the giant rhinoceros's pursuit or killed the rhinoceros before coming here...

Hu Yu believes that this is not even worth considering.

If giant rhinoceroses were so easy to kill, wouldn't they have killed them long ago?

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Lin Lu couldn't stand it anymore and said to Hu Yu unhappily, "That giant rhinoceros is the strongest being in the beast tide besides the Beast King. Even if Big Sister takes action, she might not be able to kill the giant rhinoceros. You're letting Brother Lin go by himself. Isn't that just harming him?"

"So there's no way to prove it?" Hu Yu said with a mocking smile. "If that's the case, I won't say anything more. I don't acknowledge the promise my elder sister made before. If Mr. Zhang is willing to stay, then he can stay. If he's not willing, he can go back!"

Zhang Shukai couldn't stand hearing this anymore.

They came all this way, and you just tell them to go back with a single sentence... Is that even human language?

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