"Sister, the bandits have gathered five or six hundred men and are going to attack your team tonight."
Lin Yinan was skeptical. "Are you sure?"
Hu Shao spread his hands and said, "Sister, it took me a lot of effort to run out and tell you the news."
"Come with me."
She led Hu Shao through the crowd and strode forward, trying to catch up with Yun Mo.
Yu Suqin, who was sitting on the cart behind, shook her head when she saw this scene. "Look, Qiqiao comes to see her every few days. The two of them don't avoid suspicion and are always talking together."
"Mother, keep an eye on our own luggage and don't meddle in other people's business."
Lin Zhaohui couldn't stand his mother making trouble all the time, without even considering what time it was.
"I just feel sorry for Young Master Su. He's so handsome, why does he have to be with Lin Yinan? Our Qiu Tao is so much better."
Yu Suqin kept saying that she just didn't like Lin Yinan.
"Master, Miss Lin is behind us."
The guards reminded Yun Mo, who was focused on getting on his way.
Yun Mo slowed his pace, turned around slowly, and saw Lin Yinan and a person covered in mud walking towards him.
After hearing what Hu Shao had to say, his brows furrowed.
He asked Yun San, who was standing next to him, "Have you seen Yun Er and Yun Qi?"
"No, Yunyi said that the two of them might have been delayed by something, and they didn't come back last night."
Yun Mo looked up at the sky. It was almost noon, so he simply ordered the team to find an open place to stop and rest, and wait for Yun Er and the others who had gone to gather information.
After the group stopped, Lin Yinan pulled out a set of men's clothing from her spatial storage and threw it to Hu Shao.
She pinched her nose and said to him, "Go and clean yourself up right now."
When Hu Shao returned after changing his clothes, Yun Mo sent someone to find him; it was Yun Er and the others who had returned.
The information they brought back was consistent with what Hu Shao had said.
Lin Yinan and her brother hurriedly led Hu Shao over, along with Su Yunzhi and Lin Yuanzhi, Lin Tiezhuang, and Lin Zhaohui from Linjia Village.
Yun Mo quickly looked Hu Shao up and down, a cold glint in his eyes. He could see clearly that the clothes this man was wearing were given to him by Miss Lin.
"Tell me what you know about that bandit leader?" he asked in a businesslike tone.
This was the first time Hu Shao had been prompted to speak by so many people, and he was so nervous that his voice trembled slightly.
"The bandit leader was named Chen Zixuan. He and Wang Ergou from the same village escaped from the battlefield half a year ago and followed the fleeing group south. During this time, they gathered more than 600 people and specifically targeted wealthy families with carriages on the official road."
Chen Zixuan? Lin Yinan was taken aback; she had a strong impression of this name.
In her previous life, during a prosperous era, the news would always report on the most popular names for newborns every year. She remembered that Zixuan was the number one name for five or six consecutive years.
Yun Er, standing next to him, nodded in agreement, "That's right, Yun Qi and I have discovered that their numbers are indeed quite large these past two days."
"Do they have food? How can they recruit so many people?" Lin Zhaohui asked, puzzled.
Hu Shao snorted coldly, "Most of the children lost by those refugees were caused by them."
"Damn it, they'll do anything to survive."
Su Yunzhi clenched his fists upon hearing this, but unfortunately, he was outnumbered and powerless, and could do nothing but watch helplessly.
"I heard that the bandit leader has a very powerful weapon. Have you seen it?" Yun Er asked Hu Shao.
Hu Shao nodded, his expression grave. "I've never seen Chen Zixuan use it, but I have seen that thing. It's a fist-sized lump with a long thread on it. Wang Ergou said that if you light that thread and throw it out, it will make a thunderous sound that can kill many people and create a huge crater in the ground."
"I heard Wang Ergou boast that Chen Zixuan became very powerful after coming from the military camp. Not only can he read, but he can also avoid the Hu people and government pursuers. He even took over a county's granary."
"After recruiting many subordinates, he named his gang 'Green Dragon Society'."
Lin Yinan was slightly taken aback, then sneered inwardly. She was a member of the "Sun Moon Cult," indeed.
This Chen Zixuan is indeed like her; he too is a time traveler.
Yun Mo, Yun Yi, Yun Er, and Lin Yiheng all looked at Lin Yinan. They had never seen the thing Hu Shao mentioned before, but Lin Yinan had used it.
"Anan, is he your fellow disciple?" Lin Yiheng asked.
Lin Yinan's eyes suddenly turned sharp. "Master only has me as his disciple and has not taken on any more disciples."
Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the Yun brothers decided to find a quiet, open place to rest early in the afternoon to make it easier to deal with the situation and avoid harming innocent people.
After agreeing on the plan, the group continued their journey.
Seeing that there was nothing for him to do here, Hu Shao turned to leave.
Lin Yinan called out to him, "You went through so much trouble to escape, going back is a dead end, where are you going?"
Hu Shao smiled calmly, "The world is so vast, how could there be no place for me?"
Despite his tall stature, Hu Shao is actually two years younger than Lin Yinan, and his ancestors likely have some ethnic ancestry.
A fourteen-year-old boy, in the prosperous era of his previous life, would only be in the second year of junior high school. Yet, Hu Shao is the only one left in his family. What kind of cannibalistic world is this?
Lin Yinan felt a tightness in her chest, and instead of instinctively reaching for her lower abdomen, she tugged at the hem of her clothes.
Finally, she said calmly, "Come with me to the South. As long as I have food to eat, you won't go hungry."
A sly glint flashed across Hu Shao's face. He knelt down with a thud and kowtowed three times to her.
"Sister! From now on, you're my real sister."
Lin Yinan took in the expression on his face. Before she could speak, Lin Yi'an rushed out, pointed at him, and said, "You bad guy, my sister is mine."
Lu Changqing didn't say anything, but went over and pushed him to express his dissatisfaction with him taking his sister away.
As the sun began to set, the Yun family's secret guards found a secluded and empty spot to rest.
To the north is a forest, which makes it easy for everyone to find firewood.
Yunmo and the clan chief discussed it and told everyone to quickly set up cooking pots and cook, keeping it as simple as possible.
There's a risk of enemy attack tonight, so don't pitch your tent.
When the refugees on the official road saw that such a large group had stopped to rest, they also wanted to come and borrow some light. However, the villagers and the guards did not hesitate to drive them away, and the refugees dared not complain.
As night falls and everything is hidden in darkness, evil spirits and monsters begin to emerge.
Soon, the villagers and guards began to notice a shifty-eyed man who was constantly peering into their camp from the woods.
Lin Yinan took out a small repeating crossbow and hid it in his sleeve, while a 128-round submachine gun with a silencer was tucked into his waistband.
With everything ready, Lin Yinan laid out an oilcloth on the ground, lay down, covered herself with a blanket, and closed her eyes to rest.
Yun Mo came to find her, but seeing her like this, he didn't want to wake her up.
Lin Yinan suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze meeting Lin Yinan's. "Tell people to get some sleep. They won't come in the first half of the night."
Yun Mo felt a little embarrassed by her stare, and subconsciously touched the tip of his nose, asking in confusion, "Why?"
She raised the corners of her mouth slightly, a half-smile playing on her lips, and said, "The second half of the night is when people are most sleepy."
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