Seeking for the best

Luo Jin asked coldly, "Did you catch these kids?"

Long Ying waved her hands quickly, "No, it wasn't me... I..."

She smiled, "You know, I get paid to do things, I do whatever someone pays me to do, right?"

She looked at Jiang Mo with some resentment, "Why do you keep following me? I can't kill you by beating you, and I can't get rid of you by shaking you off... And how did the door of this secret room open? I'm so confused..." Jiang Mo

said, "Jie Gui said you're not a good person, he said you wanted to kill Xiao Lian, so I followed you. You."

Long Ying smiled bitterly, "I am Xiaolian's master, why would I kill her? I just wanted to use my power to heal her, and Jie Gui was wrong, you...you don't follow me, okay?"

She turned to Luo Jin again, "You can't take these children away, I can't explain if you take them away."

She then turned her gaze to the man lying on the ground, raised her eyes and looked at Luo Jin, "You beat him? No way? This man's strength is close to the ninth level..."

Luo Jin stared at Long Ying silently and did not answer.

Long Ying suddenly smiled, "I remember you went to Emperor Gaozu's tomb to get the Red Emperor Dragon last time, right? The princess is still alive, you must have gotten the Red Emperor Dragon. Is the dragon on the prince or on you? I heard that this Red Emperor Dragon... is a good thing!"

Her face suddenly turned cold, and she waved her palm to suddenly attack Luo Jin's chest.

Luo Jin stood there without moving, but Jiang Mo had already stabbed Long Ying in the back with a sword. Long Ying had to turn around to avoid it. She stepped back a few steps and smiled, "Oh, it's just a joke, don't be angry."

She shook her head and said, "My principle is to fight if I can win, and run if I can't. Money is important, but life is more important. I guess that Shangshu has already mobilized troops, right? Forget it, just consider my mission a failure..."

Luo Jin suddenly said, "Is it really just a mission failure?"

She turned around and looked at the child behind her, "Did this woman come here recently?"

A Kui shook her head, "No! She has been here in recent years. She is in charge of this place..."

Long Ying's smile faded, and she suddenly raised her hand. Several silver needles flew out of her hand in an instant and hit A Kui's face.

Jiang Mo raised his sword, and after a few "ding" sounds, the silver needle fell to the ground.

Luo Jin said slowly: "I guessed right, you... are the mastermind!"

Long Ying laughed again, "How could it be... just an old customer, what do these kids know?"

"Let me ask it another way," Luo Jin paused and looked at Long Ying, "Xiao Lian... is she really ten years old?"

Long Ying was stunned.

Jiang Mo also froze for a moment and looked at Luo Jin.

Luo Jin said slowly: "The fastest person to break through the ninth level in Jiuyuan Continent is Shui Yingchen... This is a setting, and it is impossible for an NPC to break this setting at will. If the ten-year-old Xiaolian is already at the eighth level, she can break this setting, which is absolutely impossible."

Long Ying: "..."

"I don't understand what you are saying."

Luo Jin said word by word: "Then change the question to one that you can understand. She... is also a dwarf slave, right?"

Long Ying shook his head quickly, "No, she has grown so tall, how can she be a dwarf slave? Dwarf slaves can't grow as tall as her, don't talk nonsense..."

"She had a fever this morning, and I heard her calling 'mother' in her dream. According to what you said, she was abused by her stepmother since she was a child. But in her dream, she asked 'mother' for sweet date cakes!" Luo Jin looked at Long Ying, "This doesn't sound like the dream talk of a child who grew up being abused."

"But... maybe she is referring to her biological mother?"

"If she really lost her mother at such a young age, would she really have an impression of her?"

Luo Jin glanced at Jiang Mo and said, "In this world, whether a person can break through to the strongest ninth level depends entirely on personal talent. People with high talent can break through early, while people with low talent will never break through in their lifetime, so talent has the greatest impact on a person's strength. For example, Shui Yingchen broke through at the age of fifteen, and Jiang Mo broke through at the age of seventeen, but most people can only break through to the eighth level at most in their lifetime, so there are only a few ninth-level people in this world."

"I guess that Xiaolian was just an ordinary girl with a happy family, until one day, someone abducted her and sold her to a nest for breeding dwarf slaves. She would have been suppressed and grew up like all dwarf slaves, but suddenly one day, you discovered that she had an extremely strong talent for martial arts."

"So you let her out, erased her memory, let her continue to grow, and let her learn martial arts. But she had been in the cage for so long that her growth period had long been missed. Even if she was released and grew naturally, she would not be as tall as an ordinary person."

"You lied to her and said that she was abused and almost died, and you saved her, so she was very grateful to you and listened to you in everything. But she never thought that the person who abused her was you!"

"You left her in the inn and didn't bring her here. Were you afraid that she would be reminded of how she was trapped in the cage when she was touched by the scene?"

"She could have grown up happily in an ordinary family, but you ruined everything for her!"

Long Ying smiled and clapped her hands, "Right! I liked you the first time I saw you. You are indeed the kind of person I like, smart!"

She sighed and shook her head, "If it weren't for the Red Emperor Dragon in your body, I really wanted to erase your memory and let you be my good sister! I have made up a lie, saying that you were The perverted prince Chai Qi took a fancy to you, imprisoned and tortured you, and I saved you."

Jiang Mo looked at Long Ying coldly and raised the long sword in his hand, "I won't let you hurt her at all."

Long Ying spread his hands, "Don't worry, I won't do anything today, anyway, there is still a long time, we will meet again in the future. I don't want these children anymore, anyway, they are all in poor condition and can't be sold."

She smiled and took a step back, and flew out of the entrance.

"Go!" Jiang Mo's face suddenly changed, "I heard a sound... This place is going to collapse!"

Luo Jin responded and ran out of the stairs with the children in the cave. There were a few children who couldn't run, so Luo Jin and Jiang Mo picked them up and ran out of the underground stone chamber as fast as possible.

As soon as he ran out, he heard a loud "boom" and the whole house collapsed, creating a huge hole in the ground.

There was a noise outside, and when Luo Jin walked out, he saw Jie Gui leading a group of soldiers to surround the place.

The children who had just walked out of the stone room could not adapt to the light outside, so they closed their eyes one after another to let their eyes adapt slowly.

There were many people outside who came to pawn things, and they were also surrounded by soldiers and questioned, and could not leave for a while.

The huge movement in the yard made the people outside look into the yard.

"Why are there so many children?"

"These children look so strange, their faces don't look like children at all..."

"Strange people, stay away, don't get close."

Jie Gui frowned and said, "What do you mean by 'strange people'? They are just a group of poor people who have been persecuted... If I hear someone slandering them again, I will definitely drag them out and beat them with a stick!"

The few people who just spoke echoed in succession, not daring to say another word of blame.

The rescued children were quickly taken away by Jie Gui, and after they were settled, a doctor was called in for diagnosis. The man who was in the underground stone chamber before was also taken to the government office to be detained for treatment. Seeing that Jie Gui was always busy, Luo Jin did not disturb him and planned to go back to the inn with Jiang Mo to see Xiaolian.

Before leaving, she asked Jie Gui: "Can we find an animal that can track the smell, such as a trained dog or something?"

Jie Gui said: "I'll go find it."

"Okay."

Xiao Lian's fever subsided a little, but she was still in a coma.

"You said Long Ying wanted to kill her?" Luo Jin asked.

"It was Jie Gui who said that, not me," Jiang Mo said, "After you went out in the morning, Jie Gui said that Xiao Lian was a little strange. He took me to check, and I saw that the dragon shadow seemed to be about to take action. I tried to stop her, and Jie Gui asked me to follow her, so I followed, and then I saw you."

Luo Jin couldn't help but smile, "You are obedient."

Jiang Mo tilted his head and looked at Luo Jin, "I know I'm not very smart, so I listen to whoever is smart. In the past, I did whatever the prince told me to do, and later I listened to you... You said Jie Gui was very smart."

Luo Jin stretched out a finger and tapped his forehead lightly, "Who said you're not smart? I think you're smart!"

She retracted her gaze and looked at Xiao Lian.

"But what happened to Xiaolian? Why did she suddenly fall into a coma? Why did Long Ying want to kill her?"

Jiang Mo groaned, "As long as she is still useful, Long Ying will not kill her, unless she is no longer useful... Isn't her martial arts her only use? Could it be that her martial arts are gone?"

He reached out and grabbed Xiaolian's wrist, closed his eyes for a long while, and suddenly opened his eyes, "Her martial arts... are less than seven levels left. Strange, how could someone suddenly fall down? What did she do?"

When he said this, Luo Jin suddenly remembered, "She slept with me for a night!"

Jiang Mo was stunned, "Did you... beat her at night?"

Luo Jin: "..."

"How is that possible, I mean..."

She pointed to her head.

"Red Emperor Dragon!" Jiang Mo suddenly thought of it, "Your Red Emperor Dragon has affected her... But she is a human, not a bug! Could it be that she..."

Luo Jin closed her eyes and put her hand on Xiaolian's back. After a while, she suddenly opened her eyes, "There is a dead dragon in her brain!"

She sat on the bed, feeling weak.

She could only lure out the living dragons, but there was no way to get rid of the dead ones.

Xiaolian was in close contact with her all night last night, and her Red Emperor Dragon affected the dragon in Xiaolian's brain and killed it.

Xiaolian had a fever because the dragon died and its body could not be removed from her brain.

Jiang Mo himself had been trapped by a dragonfly for five years, so he understood this feeling best.

He was silent for a while and said, "What kind of dragon is this? What's its use? Could this be the source of Xiaolian's power?"

"It's possible," Luo Jin nodded, "Speaking of power... I met a very strange person today. His strength has almost reached the ninth level, but he is just a small guard. If he is the same as Xiaolian..."

She stood up, "I'm going to the government office! You help me guard Xiaolian."

"Leave it to me."