CH 383

This scene was already a common occurrence for Lin Xiao.

When he saw those two mounds becoming larger and larger in front of his eyes, he knew that he was already a goner… Lin Xiao didn’t know how Elena felt when they hit his head, did it hurt or did it feel good? Well, anyway he wouldn’t know because he was already unconscious.

He didn’t know why Claire popped up and interrupted his beautiful dream.

When he woke up, it was already noon.

The carriage rumbled forward, Lin Xiao’s eyes fluttered open and the first thing he saw were strands of long black hair.

“Ah, you’re awake?”

“Sister Ying?”

He rubbed his eyes and saw her looking down at him, he then realzied that he was enjoying a lap pillow from her so he quickly got up.

Her exquisite legs weren’t meant to be used as a pillow, what will he do if he squished them?

“Hm… why do you keep running, I’m willingly giving you a lap pillow… do you dislike it that much?” ShenDai Ying complained while massaging her slightly numb legs.

“Uh…”

Lin Xiao didn’t know how to explain.

Of course, he didn’t dislike it, he just unconsciously evaded her.

It was strange, it wasn’t like he was a pure and innocent little boy, but he was coy when it came to ShenDai Ying. He couldn’t even act completely naturally with her, let alone tease her as he does to Elena.

“Cough… so, what’s going on?”

Lin Xiao didn’t have an answer so he could only change the topic.

Inside their carriage, he had a beauty on each side, ShenDai Ying who was pouting and Elena who seemed to still be annoyed with what happened earlier. The siblings and Tom were in the carriage behind them, that was how it usually was.

The problem was… why was there an additional carriage behind them?

“Oh, that’s Claire and Andre’s team.” ShenDai Ying smiled and replied.

“Hah? Why them?”

Lin Xiao couldn’t believe what he heard. Why were they following them? He was only unconscious for a while, why did this happen all of a sudden?

“Elena, did you do this?” Lin Xiao questioned the maid that was staring out the window.

ShenDai Ying has always been understanding and been his most reliable helper and the siblings and Tom wouldn’t do anything since they were aware of their own positions and just had to obediently listen.

So other than Elena, it couldn’t be anyone else!

“Me? I didn’t do anything. I already said that I won’t cause you any trouble and will singlemindedly help you. If you still can’t trust me, then there’s nothing I can do.” Elena glanced at his and then continued to look out the window.

“Uh, I do trust you, but…”

Lin Xiao felt a bit ashamed after she said that and then continued on.

“Then why is that tomboy following us?”

“How would I know?”

“Strange, there’s no reason for her to, doesn’t she hate me… did you say anything to her?”

“Yes.”

“Oh? What did you say?”

“Everything.”

“What? What do you mean by everything?”

Lin Xiao suddenly realized this was the problem and had to get to the bottom of it.

Elena was annoyed and summarized what happened for him.

After the farce in the morning, Claire was shocked that they were the so-called special investigation team and on the other side was angry at their shameless feet play.

For the latter, Elena coldly explained to her that Lin Xiao was just dreaming and accidentally grabbed her feet, they weren’t doing anything perverted.

As for the former, regarding Lin Xiao’s identity, Elena couldn’t find any excuse.

“Wait… special investigation team? What the hell is that?”

“Because of your performance in Nighttown, Abra secretly recommended you and Yao Zi to Claire and hoped that she could assign important missions to you.”

“Damn! Didn’t expect that old geezer to have that up his sleeve!”

He got the gist of what happened. Claire had only heard his name before so she didn’t know who he was, and he never identified himself, which caused a misunderstanding. Claire finally realized the truth when she overheard their conversation.

“So, what does that have to do with her following us? Wait… you didn’t tell her about us exterminating the ants, right?”

“I did. I told her everything.” Elena nodded, “She asked me and I told her the truth, is there a problem with that?”

“Hey, that’s a huge problem! How could you tell her the truth?”

So this was where the problem was!

Last night, Claire traveled overnight and didn’t arrive at Link village until early morning, but Lin Xiao and they already slept overnight in the village and were even making breakfast, so they were a lot faster than Claire… the only explanation was that they broke through the ant colony and that’s how they were able to arrive so quickly.

In other words, that meteor shower was something Lin Xiao brought about!

“Damn, that tomboy wouldn’t have her eyes on me, right?” Lin Xiao had a bad feeling.

He always kept a low profile and didn’t like the feeling of being tied down, if Claire saw through their true strength then she will probably start trying to give them orders.

Actually, it’s not like he was completely averse to being ordered around, if the other was a capable commander then he wouldn’t mind being a hired hand. After all, he wouldn’t need to think as much and can slack off.

But if it was Claire… then he definitely wouldn’t want that!

If it was when he first met her, then he would gladly listen to her orders. If she asked he would form a team and carry out missions with her, and it would be even better if he had the chance to sneak a peek at what’s under her skirt…

Unfortunately, ever since the argument at the alliance office, he lost all the favorable impression he had of her.

He definitely wouldn’t agree to someone like that giving him orders!

“Stop the carriage!”

Lin Xiao yelled out and all the carriages stopped. He didn’t waste a beat and jumped off and ran directly towards Claire’s carriage.

Lin Xiao instantly flared up when he saw the beauty in the carriage.

“Hey Claire, why are you following me!?”

“…” When she was suddenly questioned directly, she couldn’t react in time and instinctively responded with, “W-who’s following you?”

“Oh, it’s not you… it’s just a certain unreasonable tomboy that’s persistently following me around.”

“What did you say? Lin Xiao, watch yourself! …I’m warning you, don’t think you can do whatever you like just because you were recommended by Abra. I’m the highest-ranking commander so all you investigators have to listen to me!”

“Hah?”

Lin Xiao’s bad feeling was right, she set her eyes on him!

“So that means I’m not following you, but you’re obeying my orders and carrying out the mission! … Do you understand? Investigator Lin Xiao!”

“Peh! Who’s going to obey you? You know what Claire, I’m an E rank investigator, so I’m not worthy to carry out a mission with someone as important as you. All the main roads pass Yellowstone, so why don’t you take another road.”

“No! I won’t!”

“Sigh… why are you so annoying? Why must you follow me?”

“Lin Xiao, I’m telling you… don’t try to run, I’ll follow you eternally!”

“…”

“…”

“Hah?”