Chapter 102 What's your name?
"We've already deployed people to surround the entire black market, and we even have people throughout the entire Golden Crow East Sea," the female host stated, signaling to the other side not to be too smug for too long.
Once we catch this guy, we'll skin him alive!
"Hahahaha, the secrets of heaven cannot be revealed. By the time you arrive at the place where I release my soul eye, I will have already—" Before the man could finish speaking, the three people and one cat who were originally in the golden shield disappeared instantly, without leaving a trace.
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Late at night, in a corner of a wooden ship that had just set sail from the East China Sea to Yingzhou, a girl next to a boy was glaring at the man in front of her.
"Is this cat yours or not?!" Mu Jianjian slammed her hand on the table, her tone fierce as she looked at the man whose cultivation had dropped to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment. "Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely!"
"Calm down, calm down," the man in black chuckled dryly as he picked up the cat, trying to appease it. "How about we split the treasure I smuggled out fifty-fifty?"
At this moment, the red silk bell hanging around his neck was fully revealed, clearly a pair with the one around the white cat's neck.
“Eighty-two,” Mu Jianjian said without backing down, “I’ll give you eight and you two.”
"Ah!" the man screamed. "How about 46? You get 60% and I get 40%?"
"Three-seven." Mu Jianjian made the final decision. She took the various treasures that the man took out of his spatial bag as a matter of course and forced half of them on Linghu Zhuoyu.
She held out her hand again. "There's more."
"What else?" the man asked, bewildered.
"And what about the protection money for this cat! It almost got killed while you were gone, okay?" Mu Jianjian said righteously.
"Hey, I thought it was something else. When danger comes, Bai Tuan runs faster than me," the man said, holding up a finger. "Since Bai Tuan is so close to you, I'll reluctantly tell you that Bai Tuan is a gold-devouring demon."
The Gold-Eating Demon is a monster that particularly loves glittering treasures. It is ferocious and man-eating, yet it is exceptionally cute.
Linghu Zhuoyu opened his eyes. "I remember ancient records saying that the Gold-Swallowing Demon clan was extinct long ago."
The man, not wanting to elaborate, waved his hand. "This young master lost his glass gemstone to a woman. That wretched woman split the stone in half and resold it. I'm still looking for the other half, but the white ball has vanished somewhere. Luckily, I have this bell..."
The man was in a state of utter despair, while Linghu Zhuoyu lowered his eyes in deep thought. No one noticed the slight change in Mu Jianjian's expression.
Like a cat devouring gold, with red silk bells.
In the original book, there is a character on the fringes of the plot who is connected to these two things.
Male, Wuye Xuanzhi.
Ye Xuanzhi, as the fifth male character, is the last and most mysterious character to appear in the original book. He has a gloomy, withdrawn personality and doesn't like to talk. He also wears a red silk bell around his neck.
However, the bell around the man's neck was brand new and shiny, while Ye Xuanzhi's bell in the book was broken and dull.
The two also have completely opposite personalities.
Ye Xuanzhi is a man of few words. As the male protagonist with the fewest scenes in the original book, he only speaks a few words when facing the female protagonist, Sang Wanyue.
Mu Jianjian remembered that in the original book, Sang Wanyue once asked Ye Xuanzhi about the origin of the bell around his neck.
This is how it is described.
His eyes were clear and unwavering, and his voice, which he rarely spoke, was hoarse and extremely unpleasant. "I once owned a gold-devouring demon; it looked a lot like a cat."
To this end, Sang Wanyue in the original book even found a white cat for Ye Xuanzhi to make him happy.
However, Ye Xuanzhi did not laugh.
"What's your name?" Mu Jianjian interrupted the man in front of her.
"So you're so eager to know my name, huh?" the man chuckled. "Is it because my handsome appearance has already taken deep root in your heart, making you..."
Do you want to die?
Linghu Zhuoyu's voice made the man stop abruptly.
Mu Jianjian clenched her fists; she endured it!
"I just want to be your friend. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blind." She was very serious.
"I, this young master, will never change my name or surname; I call myself Fallen Leaf Without a Trace!" The man's tone became agitated again. "You can call me—"
"Ye Wuhen?" Mu Jianjian raised an eyebrow.
"No—fallen leaves are just a way of describing how I leave no trace. Let's just call me 'Young Master Without a Trace'."
Mu Jianjian: ...
This is clearly not a real name.
Why would she have such a wishful thinking as to expect this person to reveal their real name when asked?!
"And you? What are your names?" Wuhen leaned closer to the two of them, rubbed the white ball in his hand, and asked curiously, "Are you siblings? No wonder you get along so well."
Just as Mu Jianjian was about to admit it, she was interrupted by Linghu Zhuoyu beside her.
"We're not siblings." After denying it, the boy fell silent.
Mu Jianjian didn't notice anything unusual, assuming Yu Yu simply disliked being called that. She continued, "We're friends traveling together to Yingzhou to find our relatives. I'm Mu Yuanyuan, and he's Sun Yu—"
She abruptly changed the subject, her clear eyes giving off a dangerous aura, "So what were you doing in Yingzhou?"
Early in the morning, the transferred Soul Eye was placed on a wooden boat that headed to Yingzhou overnight.
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