After hearing senior Xukong’s praise about the Lord, Lin Mu understood that he must be careful with him. A person as smart as the Lord must be carefully dealt with.
Hei Bao saw that Lin Mu was still staring at the tal plates, thus spoke out,
"Are you fine?"
Lin Mu snapped out of his thoughts and hurriedly spoke,
"Ah yes. Let’s go now."
Hei Bao nodded and led Lin Mu out of the safe house. A few minutes later they were standing in the shop upstairs. There, Hei Bao went to talk with the old woman and spoke to her about Lin Mu and their current situation. The Old Woman did not speak much and only nodded, before leaving the room to do her own tasks.
Hei Bao showed Lin Mu off to the door and let him leave. Lin Mu stepped out of the door and saw the dim sunlight that was illuminating the town and the clouds that were trying to block it. There did not seem to be any snow today, and the previous day’s snow had lted too. He let out a breath and saw it fog up.
"Should I take a look around the town?" Lin Mu muttered to himself.
"I think you should; get an idea of what’s actually happening. You may also need to talk with those people from the night vigil." Xukong advised.
"Ah yes! The night vigil. I nearly forgot about them." Lin mu replied.
Having decided what he was gonna do, Lin Mu chose a path and started walking on it. He first decided to go check on the rcenary camp as it was close by. The safe house was located in the western part of the town, thus this was the most obvious choice.
Lin Mu saw so people while walking and observed that they seed to be unnerved and so seed to even be scared. Lin Mu spotted so familiar faces, but they were not the residents of the eastern part. He continued on and reached the rcenary camp.
As soon as he got close to the rcenary camp, he could hear the increase in the noise. He crossed the exit and saw the rcenaries gathered up in an area. They all seed to be shouting about sothing, and a tall and muscled rcenary seed to be directing them.
Lin Mu went to the group to try and listen to what was happening. He glanced at the tall and muscled rcenary and could sense that he was different. He got even more closer and narrowed his eyes after hearing their shouts.
"We won’t stand this anymore! They did not listen to us when rcenaries disappeared, and now that it happened to their own townsn, they’re up in arms about it." The tall and muscled rcenary shouted.
"YES!" The crowd shouted.
"They did not give us answers first and now they suspect us, we won’t bear this injustice!" The tall and muscled rcenary shouted.
"YES WE WON’T!" The crowd shouted again.
Lin Mu was a little stunned after hearing the rcenary’s shouts. He would have never thought that instead of doing a proper investigation, they were instead trying to pin it on the rcenaries.
"Has the town head beco senile?" Lin Mu wondered.
"The machinations seem to be running deep. There’s more to this than we think, but unless we look more into it, we won’t know." Xukong replied.
"Should we interfere in this though?" Lin Mu questioned himself.
"You’re not directly involved in this, except for the part where you were attacked. I would say that you should just watch and wait, let these ’Hei corps’ do their part. Though the final decision is still up to you." Xukong advised.
Lin Mu thought it over for a minute and then made up his mind.
"We’ll wait and watch, only if push cos to shove, will we act. Besides, I still need to cultivate." Lin Mu spoke.
Lin Mu then turned around and was just about to walk away when he suddenly felt sothing.
"Spirit sense!" Lin Mu whispered and turned around.
The instant Lin Mu turned around, his eyes t the eyes of the rcenary that was directing the crowd. Their gazes clashed and Lin Mu understood. He spread his spirit sense probe and started to observe everything more closely. Lin Mu found the source of spirit sense and determined it to be the rcenary. The leading rcenary showed montary shock when Lin Mu did this.
The leading rcenary then withdrew his spirit sense and nodded at Lin Mu before gesturing with his eyes. Lin Mu understood this and walked aside.
"It seems like he wants to et you," Xukong spoke.
"Indeed, let’s see what he has to say." Lin Mu replied and readied himself.
While waiting for the rcenary, Lin Mu probed the other rcenaries in the crowd and discovered that there were two more cultivators in there. These cultivators were standing near the leading rcenary and did not detect anything when Lin Mu used his spirit sense to observe them.
"Hmm, these two probably don’t have spirit sense and haven’t experienced it before either, I think." Lin Mu guessed.
"Or they’re good at hiding their expression," Xukong spoke.
"It doesn’t seem like it. Their cultivation was at the early stage of the Qi refining realm, unlike the other rcenary who is at the peak stage of the Qi refining realm." Lin Mu replied.
"You will have to be careful, he may already know your cultivation base as well," Xukong advised.
"Yes, senior. Though I feel confident that I can deal with it if things go sideways." Lin Mu spoke with determination.
’Haha, at least his confidence is increasing well.’ Xukong thought with mirth.
Lin Mu waited for the rcenary and kept on listening to the shouts of the crowd.
"My fellow rcenaries, even if we are from different companies, we need to unite. Our superiors are out there working hard and thus can’t help us currently. We need to deal with this ourselves." The leading rcenary said before shouting one last ti.
"YES!" The crowd shouted in unison.
The leading rcenary then left the area, and the crowd dispersed into smaller groups. The shouting had stopped, yet the rcenaries were still discussing amongst themselves in the groups. The leading rcenary spoke to the two other cultivators and then started walking towards Lin Mu’s location.
Lin Mu was standing a little distance from the crowd and was leaning against a tree. He watched as the three cultivator rcenaries approached him. Their expressions seem to be neutral and they were walking with an unhurried gait.
The trio reached Lin Mu and stood in front of him.
"Greetings fellow cultivator." The trio greeted with cupped hands.
’I should have guessed this beforehand.’ Lin Mu thought with a chuckle.
"Greetings." Lin Mu responded.
The three n then lowered their hands and a neutral yet amicable expression appeared on their faces.
"I am Hong Luo from the Crimson fang rcenary company. May I have the opportunity to know fellow cultivator’s na?" The leading rcenary spoke.
"I am Lin Mu."
The two accompanying cultivators had an irked expression upon hearing Lin Mu introduce himself in this way. But then the leading rcenary seed to have secretly tapped them, after which they abruptly changed it back. This happened in nearly an instant, yet Lin Mu was able to detect it.
"Why are you here, brother Lin Mu?" Hong Luo asked.
"Oh, I was just passing by and heard so shouts, thus I ca to look." Lin Mu spoke.
"Ah yes. We are, you see, in a rather complex predicant." Hong Luo replied.
"What’s exactly happening, though? I would like to know more." Lin Mu questioned.
"I’m sure brother Lin Mu must’ve heard about the recent incidents of rcenaries disappearing." Hong Luo spoke.
"I did indeed and sothing happened in the town as well, I reckon." Lin Mu replied.
"Since you already know this, then its more simple to explain. The town head basically suspects that soone from the rcenaries is to bla for the disappearances. They did not listen to us when the first incident happened and now when the townsn disappeared, they have the audacity to bla us." Hong Luo explained.
"That is rather wrong of the town head." Lin Mu replied.
Lin Mu did actually feel that sothing was wrong with the town head. He seed to be acting strangely and was taking absurd decisions.
"Brother Lin Mu is on the sa page as us, that makes delighted." Hong Luo spoke, while the other two cultivators nodded.
Lin Mu then realized that the two cultivators had not spoken anything yet.
"And these two are?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Forgive , I forgot to introduce them. These two are the Ming brothers and they are both mute, thus they can’t speak. They are part of the Crimson fang rcenary company as well." Hong Luo answered.
"So what did you want from ?" Lin Mu asked the actual question that he’s been aning to do.
Upon hearing Lin Mu’s question, Hong Lou’s expression beca serious.
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