CH 370

Pursuers from behind and an ambush in front, this really hasn’t been Lin Xiao’s day.

Wasn’t he just teasing Elena… does it really warrant a blade to his neck?

He still had to think of a way to survive this night.

“Xiao Hua, i-is that you?”

He tried asking while turning to look, which resulted in the other party applying more pressure to his neck so he didn’t move too carelessly. Lin Xiao was sure it was Xiao Hua so he tried acting chummy.

“Uh, girl, it’s been so long, why you gotta do me like that?”

“Who’s your girl!? How dare you meet privately with your maid at night… tell me, how do you want to die!?”

“Uh, it’s a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! Listen to me… c-can you please put it down first?”

“No! Protecting the lady is my responsibility, I need to help her kill off scum!”

“Xiao Hua, I’m warning you, loyalty is cute, but pressing a blade to someone’s neck isn’t!”

“Hmph, stop wasting time, give me a rationale for why I shouldn’t kill you.”

“Rationale… like what?”

“For example, chase your maid away and never see her again!”

“I can’t do that… how about something else? I’m sure you’ll be satisfied with this.” Lin Xiao spread his hands and spoke confidently.

“What? Hurry up!”

“For example, your blade isn’t as fast as light, right?”

“Hm?”

Xiao Hua didn’t understand but could instinctively sense danger, so after turning around she understood where his confidence was coming from.

It turned out that there were three light balls floating behind her, the milky white balls of energy were filled with rampaging magic power, ready to shoot fatal rays of light!

That’s right, her blade wasn’t faster than light, if she was hit then she would immediately be stunned. She wouldn’t be able to kill him even if her blade was already pressing against his neck, she would only be able to cut his skin, and she would lose consciousness from the shock.

“No, how is that possible? I didn’t notice you casting magic at all… hmph, you crafty bastard.” Xiao Hua bit her lips and knew that she wasn’t a threat anymore. She could only withdraw her dagger and take a couple of steps back to admit defeat.

Lin Xiao smiled and gently waved his hands and the dangerous balls of light vanished into mist and disappeared into the darkness.

In the dim kitchen where neither of them could clearly see the other person, the atmosphere was awkward.

“Well, don’t be too upset. With my strength, there aren’t many people who can assassinate me.”

“Bastard, don’t get too cocky… if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m not good in combat, you would already be dead!”

“Oh, what’s wrong with being cocky? You can be cocky too if you have the strength to.”

“You!?”

Xiao Hua just hated that she wasn’t strong enough.

But it was pretty lame… she was actually a pretty strong killer, she wasn’t as good as ShenDai Ying, but she would be more than enough to deal with a normal magician, but she was powerless against him.

Noticing that she went silent, he didn’t purposely anger her anymore and gave her a way out.

“So, what brings you here? It’s definitely not to assassinate me… probably for Sister Ying, right? She’ll cook some noodles later, do you want some?”

“No need, I was the one who tricked her out of here.”

“?” Lin Xiao thought for a bit and understood what happened.

He was a bit confused earlier why ShenDai Ying made him go wait in the kitchen, so it turns out she got a fake signal from Xiao Hua and ran off to meet her, but didn’t know that Xiao Hua was already in the kitchen secretly meeting with Lin Xiao.

“So you purposely lured Sister Ying away to meet with me alone?” Lin Xiao scratched his head and was a bit embarrassed, “Xiao Hua, c-could it be that you like me and want to confess?”

“… What?” Xiao Hua thought she was hearing things.

“Well, I know that I’m strong and have a good personality, so I’m bound to be pleasing to girls, but I’m sorry Xiao Hua, I can’t accept you… of course it’s not because you’re not good enough, but it’s because I already have someone I like, so I can’t accept you.”

“Bleghh… I’m going to throw up! Lin Xiao, I never thought you were a narcissist.” Xiao Hua held her mouth and made an exaggerated vomiting motion.

“Am I wrong? If you’re not confessing, then why did you have to secretly meet up with me?”

“For your information! Bastard, you were the one who gave me this task and yet you forgot!?”

“Task? …Oh, I remember.”

A while ago he secretly got in touch with Xiao Hua and gave her a task, yet he forgot about it…

“I kept watch over wailing canyon for a week like you wanted… really, why did I listen to your orders again?”

A while ago, while she was getting in touch with the miss, she was caught by Lin Xiao. She thought she would be tortured for a confession, but he didn’t get rough with her. He reasoned with her, moved her with emotion and explained the pros and cons and hoped that she would help him investigated the enlightened.

Lin Xiao even told her that he really liked ShenDai Ying and would surely marry her one day, so since she listened to ShenDai Ying’s orders then she should also listen to his and help him…

Only Lin Xiao would be able to say those kind of things without shame.

Since he was tied to the lady now, if he were to be in danger, then the lady would also be troubled. Strictly speaking, the enlightened were not Shen Yue Ge’s allies, so there was no problems with her helping Lin Xiao to investigate, and with her skills she wouldn’t be easily found.

“So, did you find anything?”

“Hmph, find? I almost died!”

She kept watch as Lin Xiao asked and finally saw the people she was waiting for.

“There was a strange person called the apostle who brought his subordinate to investigate the cave you mentioned. I wanted to get closer to eavesdrop but they found out and I almost died!”

“Is he that strong? What happened?”

Even with her ability, she was actually found?

“I don’t know… he knew black magic, the finger of death, if I didn’t have a substitution prepared before hand, I would have been instantly killed!”

“So you didn’t find anything?”

“I-I didn’t want to reveal myself, so I only have limited information. I just know that they’re somehow connected to the church, as for the others…” Xiao Hua lowered her head and stuttered, clearly appearing ashamed.

No matter what, it was humiliating to return empty handed. If it was a Shen Yue Ge mission, she would be severely reprimanded. So now, Lin Xiao would probably also scold her.

It cant be helped since she was a servant, it was her duty to listen to orders and complete missions, that was the reason for her existence, it had always been so. But the expected scolding never came, Lin Xiao shook his head and patted her shoulder to comfort her.

“Don’t worry Xiao Hua, you did well, self-preservation is the most important thing.”

“Ah?”

“Rather than the mission, your life is more important, so you have to be careful.”

Hearing that, Xiao Hua couldn’t help but feel a tinge of warmth and was a bit moved.

She had thought that Lin Xiao only took her for a convenient tool, but now it didn’t seem so…

“You philandering bastard… d-don’t try anything with me, I wont fall for your flowery words!” Xiao Hua took two steps back and drew her dagger to try and intimated him to hide her inner turmoil.

“No, no, you misunderstand.” Lin Xiao shook his head and explained, “Xiao Hua, you can only be my servant and continue helping me get information if you’re alive. If you die, who would I order around? So you cant die.”

“Hah!?”

Xiao Hua almost choked and really wanted to get those feelings back from him!

So in the end this guy just wanted to order her around!

“Bastard, I’m the lady’s servant, not your maid, I wont be ordered around by you!”

“Oh, maid? Not bad, maid is cuter than servant… okay Xiao Hua, then you’re also my little maid from now on!”

“… Hey!?”

He was really driving her crazy.

This man was strange, every time they met, all she felt was anger. She really didn’t know what the lady liked about this bastard.

“Sigh, let’s be serious… I don’t get it, Lin Xiao, how did you know they would go back?”

“Well, that’s simple.” Lin Xiao smiled profoundly and didn’t answer her.

This was actually a simple application of criminal psychology, usually, criminals cant help but return to the original crime scene. So if Adele was really controlled by that apostle, then when Adele went missing, he can’t help but return to investigate.

Xiao Hua thought she came back empty handed, but that actually wasn’t the case and brought back abundant information.

The apostle is connected to the church, he arranged for Adele to block wailing canyon and was strong.

Those were just guesses that Lin Xiao made, now he was finally able to confirm it and can confidently conduct other investigations!

“Xiao Hua, I still need you to help me with one other thing!”