This cargo ship is not small, with five layers of hold alone.
Chen Tang took a walk on it, checking here, looking there, occasionally pausing to listen.
After a long ti, he ca down from the top layer to the bottommost hold, which was dark and damp, filled with various miscellaneous goods and assorted wooden boxes.
Chen Tang walked around below, not seeing a single figure.
He pondered for a mont, then suddenly spoke to the air around him: "Thanks for your help earlier, I brought you so food."
There was silence all around, no one responded.
Chen Tang placed the packed food from his arms to the side, saying, "You eat first, I’ll leave now."
After saying that, he turned and left.
After Chen Tang left, half an hour passed without any movent here.
After a long ti, a figure slowly erged from a dark corner of the top of the hold, like a ghostly apparition, ca to the spot where Chen Tang had just stood, looking at the wrapped food, seemingly deep in thought.
This figure was extrely slender, with ordinary features, and eyes as dark as stagnant water—it was the top of the Dark Ranking, Ghost Concealnt!
He could actually find ?
Ghost Concealnt tilted her head slightly, feeling a bit puzzled.
With a flick of her wrist, a dull gray dagger slipped into her palm.
She extended the dagger and gently pried open the greaseproof paper to reveal the food inside.
She took out a silver needle and tested it one by one.
No poison.
Ghost Concealnt thought for a mont, realizing that she was indeed hungry, and picked up the dry food to eat.
As she ate, she thought, "This person brought food again, what does he want?"
Clearly, the deal was set that after today, there would be no holding back upon eting again; is he not afraid I’ll kill him by coming over like this?
In the darkness, Ghost Concealnt ate alone, quietly and slowly, making no sound at all.
She still ate very little, about one-third full, then she stopped.
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Chen Tang returned to his guest room, recalling what had just happened.
In fact, he hadn’t discovered Ghost Concealnt.
But based on Shen Yu’s description, there should be soone who killed all the Upper Concealnts boarding previously.
Moreover, the whole process was silent, and even Shen Yu and his people did not know what had happened!
The bodies of these concealers were sunk to the bottom of the sea, so that sea surface was stained with blood.
In Hermit Continent, he knew only a few people, and there were only three with such abilities.
As the leader of the Shadow Tower, Lady Yun’s cultivation is certainly not weak, but it is precisely because of this identity that she cannot help him personally.
That fortune-teller blind man cos and goes without a trace, and the two tis he helped before were because Chen Tang paid him.
In his words, it was "taking money from people, solving problems for people."
The other person was Ghost Concealnt.
Ghost Concealnt may have helped him because of a al on the first day of the year.
This move, considered as repaying a favor, ans both parties owe nothing to each other after.
If Ghost Concealnt stays on the ship, it may not yet abandon its assassination intention towards him!
Therefore, Chen Tang decided to wander around, to see if he could find any trace of Ghost Concealnt.
He searched for a while but found nothing.
But after entering the bottommost hold and seeing the surrounding environnt, based on his days of understanding the concealers, this place is indeed the most suitable for hiding tracks.
Besides, after entering Divine Illumination State, he vaguely sensed a slight oddity here.
If nothing unexpected, Ghost Concealnt is right here!
Chen Tang’s idea was simple; he left the food, so once Ghost Concealnt ate it, there’d be no chance for an assassination next ti.
The presence of Ghost Concealnt still put a lot of pressure on him, not even weaker than the third-grade Upper Concealnt!
If he could get along with Ghost Concealnt and let her give up the assassination, that would be the best.
Even if not, delaying for so ti until he breaks through to the fourth-grade, the threat of Ghost Concealnt would diminish considerably.
The next day, Chen Tang’s daily routine involved training his cultivation thod, guiding Shen Yu’s cultivation, chatting casually with Ye Yushi about martial arts insights, and packing so food to place in the bottommost hold.
Every ti he ca here, Chen Tang would mutter a few words into the air.
"Your appetite is good, nothing was left from the food I brought last ti."
"How is your arm injury? Next ti, I’ll bring you so external dicine."
"Your injury last ti wasn’t due to lacking power, but because I had the upper hand. If there’s a chance, we should have a good spar with the Dragon Capturing Technique."
"You eat so much, yet you don’t gain any weight?"
"How about I bring you more food next ti?"
Hearing Chen Tang’s murmurs daily, Ghost Concealnt kind of got used to it.
Only, whenever Chen Tang ntioned her eating a lot, she would feel a bit unhappy and want to retort.
Clearly, she ate very little!
But the leftover food left on the cargo ship could easily arouse suspicion, so she quietly tossed it into the sea.
The tenth day.
"You eat so much, you’re almost catching up to . Today, I’ve brought you plenty of delicious food..."
Hearing Chen Tang’s mutters, Ghost Concealnt finally couldn’t hold it anymore, stepped out from the shadows, and expressionlessly confronted Chen Tang, looking at him coldly.
"Oh, you’ve co out?"
Chen Tang was taken aback but then laughed: "Good timing, it’s still warm."
Ghost Concealnt clenched her fists.
She wasn’t a glutton, who’s always obsessed with food!
She ate just to maintain strength; whether it was delicious or not, warm or cold, she didn’t care!
Chen Tang pushed the packed food in front of Ghost Concealnt all at once, saying: "Have a quick bite, starving the kid, and now you even ca out yourself today."
Ghost Concealnt really wanted to kill the man in front of her with a knife and shut him up.
But she couldn’t.
Under Chen Tang’s stare, Ghost Concealnt quietly picked up the dry food inside and began to eat, leaving the at and vegetables untouched.
Having only eaten a small portion, Ghost Concealnt stopped.
"Am I making you uncomfortable by watching?"
Chen Tang said: "If you want, I can leave, and you can eat freely."
Ghost Concealnt didn’t answer, wrapped up the remaining food, and tossed it all into the sea in front of Chen Tang.
Chen Tang: "..."
Such a waste.
"No wonder you’re so skinny."
After a mont of bafflent, Chen Tang began to rant again: "You need to eat more, look at your sallow complexion, your hair splitting; people might think you’ve been mistreated."
"Let tell you, I have a little sister who was as miserable as you before, but not long after staying with , she beca healthy and chubby..."
Thinking of Zhiwei, Chen Tang couldn’t help but sigh.
Apart from these old acquaintances, he most worried about was Zhiwei.
After all, she was still young, and alone, learning skills with people from the Profound Celestial Sect, he wondered if there was still a chance to et again.
"What’s your na?"
Chen Tang turned his head and asked.
Ghost Concealnt gave a plain glance at Chen Tang, ignoring him.
"I know you’re Ghost Concealnt."
Chen Tang said: "But Ghost Concealnt is just your title, surely you have a na."
Ghost Concealnt was silent, then raised her hand to point to her mouth.
"Mute Girl?"
Chen Tang tentatively asked.
He seed to have heard Lady Yun ntion it once.
Ghost Concealnt nodded slightly.
"Not good, not good."
Chen Tang shook his head: "The na doesn’t sound nice, and in fact, it doesn’t count as a na. How much of your childhood do you rember, like a nickna or similar, any impression?"
Ghost Concealnt lowered her head and said nothing.
After a while, she dipped her finger in so water and wrote a character on the wooden box: "Li."
"Li?"
Chen Tang inquired: "Ah Li?"
Ghost Concealnt didn’t respond, as though acknowledging.
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