The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 77 : Chapter 77

Chapter 77: Once You Refuse, You Die!

“Isn’t it just those four words?” Luo Li instinctively started to lift her little chin in pride.

Chen Guan glanced at her.

This girl truly was not stupid.

It was just that, from the ti she was little, that dead old man had kept her shut up at ho, forcing her to bury herself in book learning.

As a result, she knew nothing about cultivation, and as for human relations, worldly dealings, and even the most basic facts of life like daily necessities, she was utterly ignorant.

One could even say that, in terms of life experience, she lagged far behind ordinary people her age.

Fortunately, her mind was still quick enough.

Chen Guan turned back again and looked at the setting sun on the horizon. He noticed that nearly two hours had already passed, yet that blood-red sun still hung in exactly the sa position, utterly unmoving.

Seeing that Chen Guan showed no intention of entering the town again, Luo Li could not help asking curiously, “Brother Chen, what are we waiting for here?”

“We’re waiting for the blood sun to set,” Chen Guan answered succinctly.

“Ah?” Luo Li lifted her head to look at the setting sun, her face full of confusion. “But... isn’t ti standing still?”

“Only the ‘ti’ you can see has stopped.”

Chen Guan folded his arms across his chest and planted one foot on that large rooster, leaning there against the stone wall beneath the gate tower.

“Do not ask too many questions. Just wait.”

He waited there for about half a ke before finally reopening his eyes and saying in a low voice, “All right. The sun has set. Let’s go into the town.”

Luo Li looked toward the west.

That enormous sun was still hanging there. How had it set?

Still, she did not ask any more questions and simply followed behind Chen Guan in silence.

Chen Guan suddenly turned to look at Luo Li and said sternly, “Rember this. In a mont, no matter who asks you to do anything, you must not refuse.”

“I need to verify the rules inside this strange-tale rule.”

Luo Li nodded and lifted her head to look at the four blood-dripping characters above them—Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat. She seed to understand sothing.

Then she nodded hard.

“I understand!”

And so Chen Guan led her once more into that eerie town.

They had only gone a few steps when, suddenly...

A scraping sound, like sothing being dragged across the floor—scrape... scrape...—abruptly rose behind them.

“Little miss, could you... do this old woman a favor?”

A hand, dry and shriveled like a chicken claw, suddenly landed on Luo Li’s shoulder.

In that instant, every hair on Luo Li’s body stood on end!

She instinctively clutched Chen Guan’s arm in a death grip and slowly turned around. When she saw the withered old woman behind her, gaunt-faced and ghastly as a revenant, she almost scread outright. Her eyes imdiately flew to Chen Guan in silent plea.

But Chen Guan’s face remained expressionless. He said not a word.

Luo Li was just about to hide behind him when his earlier warning suddenly flashed through her mind—no matter who asks you to do anything, you must not refuse!

She drew a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and nodded to the old woman.

“G-Granny... what is it you need to do?”

“Ai! I’ve had supper ready for quite a while already, but my naughty grandson went out at noon and still hasn’t co ho.”

The old woman’s clouded eyes were full of anxiety.

“This old woman has searched for ages and still can’t find even a trace of him. Could... could you help look for him?”

“All right!”

Luo Li hurriedly nodded in agreent.

“Thank you, little miss. I could tell at a glance that you were a kind-hearted one.”

The old woman muttered to herself, “This old woman already asked in several places earlier, and not a single person was willing to agree...”

Before she could finish, Chen Guan caught Luo Li by the hand and said in a low voice, “Co!”

The two of them quickly ducked into a narrow alley to one side and imdiately began wandering through it.

Luo Li knew this was a test of life and death governed by the rules of this place, so she did not dare show the slightest carelessness.

Her round eyes darted back and forth between both ends of the alley, not even sparing the weeds in the corners.

“There’s no point searching here,” Chen Guan suddenly said.

“Th-then where do we look?” Luo Li instantly grew anxious.

She might not understand these Uncanny Fiend rules, but she knew perfectly well that this matter of “finding the grandson” was definitely a crucial trial. If she made one wrong move, she would very likely be strangled to death by the rules themselves!

Perhaps she would even beco one more fixture of the street, forever dood to sit here selling vegetables.

Chen Guan looked at how flustered she was. Was this really the material of rebellion?

Ai.

Chen Guan could not help sighing inwardly.

But on second thought, if she had truly been good at everything, then how could she have been so easily dragged into this jianghu in the first place?

“Think carefully now. What kinds of habits do children usually have? Where do they generally like to go and play?”

“Uh!”

That question truly stumped her.

Ever since she could rember, every day of her life had been spent either buried in books or continuing to bury herself in books. At most, her little entertainnts had been strolling through the courtyard to admire flowers or feeding fish.

How could she possibly know what children liked to do?

Chen Guan saw through her awkwardness at a glance and simply caught her by the hand.

“Co with .”

The two of them wound through the alleys for a while before soon arriving beside a small lotus pond.

From afar, they could see two children playing and frolicking by the water.

Chen Guan imdiately reminded her, “Go ask them.”

“Rember, you must ask them about sothing they could know and sothing they could answer. You must not ask them about anything beyond their knowledge. But in the end, your goal must still be to find out where Granny Wang’s grandson is.”

Luo Li nodded hard and walked over with forced courage.

She addressed the little girl with the hair tied high above her head and asked, “Little sister, do you know where Granny Wang’s grandson usually goes to play?”

“Granny Wang’s grandson?”

The little girl scratched her head and thought carefully for a mont before shaking it.

“I don’t know. He ca here to play yesterday, but today he doesn’t seem to have co.”

Luo Li instinctively glanced at Chen Guan beside her. Seeing that he gave no sign at all, she knew she had to rely on herself for this step.

Then she turned to the little boy beside the girl, his nose still running.

“Little brother, do you know where Granny Wang’s grandson is?”

Just like the little girl before him, the little boy scratched his ssy head and thought for a long ti before shaking it.

“He was here playing in the mud with at noon, but I don’t know where he went after that.”

“This...!”

Luo Li instantly began to panic. What was she supposed to do now?

Although her heart was in turmoil, with Chen Guan standing beside her, she did not lose her composure completely.

She forced herself to calm down and quickly ran through everything she had seen and heard since entering the town.

After all, she was still soone preparing to raise a rebellion.

The brains were there. She had simply never known how to use them.

People were all forced into growth. Pressed hard enough like this, her little mind imdiately began spinning at full speed.

Very quickly, she found the logical flaw hidden behind every strange thing they had encountered along the way.

And the key to that flaw was the pear blossom cake Chen Guan had earlier bought for three copper coins.

In the end, he had even traded that one pear blossom cake for a chicken. And the bizarre flaw hidden in the whole affair was this... absurd haggling!

He had slashed the price to the bone, yet not only had those vendors not beco angry, they had accepted with smiling faces.

What did that an?

It ant that those people were not unable to refuse.

They were... forbidden to refuse!

The mont that thought arose, the four blood-red characters on the gate tower sprang back into her mind—Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat!

Ten Thousand Deaths ant dying ten thousand tis.

No Retreat ant never refusing, never shrinking back.

Put together, it ant that even if one had to die ten thousand tis, one absolutely could not refuse any request!

Her eyes lit up at once!

She finally understood!

The reason no one had dared refuse Chen Guan’s haggling earlier was that in this damned place, refusal itself was impossible!

The mont you refused, you had to—die!