"Who's behind us?" Ye Buxiu asked.
After a moment, a thin, frail child peeked out from behind the tree trunk, trembling.
"Please don't kill me."
This person should be the fifth black dot, right? Ye Buxiu remembered the five black dots that appeared on the map, and now all five people have arrived.
Ye Buxiu shone the lantern in his hand, and the child immediately shrank back in fright.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you," Ye Buxiu comforted him.
The child finally came out.
Her clothes were tattered and her filthy appearance concealed the exhaustion from her escape.
"Why did you come here alone?" Ye Buxiu asked the little girl.
"They're chasing me," the little girl said, pointing to the three people beside the fruit tree trunk.
Why are we hunting you down?
“I stole some grain because I was so hungry. When the villagers found out, they said they were going to beat me to death, so I ran away.”
Should someone be killed for stealing grain?
Ye Buxiu thought she was joking, but looking into her eyes, he realized it didn't seem like it.
Now he needs to consider how to treat the girl in front of him.
If she is allowed to continue wandering here, not only will she be attacked by wild animals, but the three of them will also go back to capture her once they wake up.
"Alright, come on in," Ye Buxiu said, opening the courtyard gate.
The little girl stood there, too afraid to make a sound, her gaze fixed on the three people lying on the ground.
She had just witnessed the three people enter the courtyard, and then Ye Buxiu carried them out.
"System, can you make the aura temporarily ineffective against this girl?"
[No hostile intent detected; classified as safe.]
Little Phoenix walked over, took the little girl's hand, and said with a smile.
"Don't worry, brother is a good person! Only bad people get punished when they go in."
The little girl was stunned when she saw Xiao Huang'er and instinctively knelt down.
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