Chapter 29: It seems like it’s a revolving lantern

Ruilin’s footsteps stopped. Her heart beat faster.

Without turning her head, her voice trembled:

“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

“Tsk, haha.” Lu Xin grinned helplessly. Ruilin wanted him to say it again.

Lu Xin pushed Little Grey, who had poked his head out to watch the show, back into his arms, took a deep breath to adjust his mindset, and said bluntly:

“I like you.”

Ruilin was stunned. She hadn’t expected Lu Xin to be so direct.

In the Kingdom, when she had free time, she would also read romance novels that the ladies and young misses liked.

But that wasn’t how it was in the novels.

There should be one party who couldn’t say it for various reasons, and then kiss amidst life-and-death separation…

Kiss….

Ruilin felt like she had a fever. Not only were her cheeks burning, but her ears were also hot.

When she thought of another scene, she felt like a layer of mist covered her eyes, and she couldn’t hear anything else.

“Are you thinking about how I saved you from the Stone Golem, then led you to a safe place, and then…”

As the words came from somewhere unknown, Ruilin remembered the times she spent alone with Lu Xin, and murmured:

“Mmm, it was really happy. I’ve never experienced this before.”

Lu Xin stood in front of her, but she seemed not to have noticed him yet. He nodded thoughtfully and said:

“Looks like your life is flashing before your eyes.”

Ruilin slowly came back to her senses because of his words.

She stared blankly at his handsome, confident, sunny face and whispered his name softly.

“I’m here. What’s wrong?”

Ruilin felt his words, covered her chest, lowered her head, and said softly: “You philanderer.”

“Huh?”

“Hmph, are you going to say the same thing to Ailya and… Audrey too?”

Ruilin raised her head, looked at Lu Xin with a smile, and met his eyes.

She really wanted to see what the person in front of her would say and how sincere he was.

“Mmm… I would, if they’re willing to accept it.” Lu Xin answered naturally, without any evasion in his eyes.

“Oh, then you’d better perform well.”

“I’ve always been performing well and living well.”

Ruilin covered her mouth and chuckled lightly.

She walked briskly past Lu Xin. She had never felt the world could be so wonderful.

Lu Xin looked at Ruilin’s back and thought of Ailya.

It had been so long. He wondered if Ailya had eaten well and rested well.

The Colorful Chicken’s chicken eyes glanced at Ruilin’s back, then at Lu Xin beneath it, and nodded in satisfaction.

Lu Xin quickened his pace.

He didn’t want to delay any longer.

He needed to find Audrey quickly and then return to Morning Breeze Town. There was a girl waiting for him there.

Just as Lu Xin lifted his foot, the Colorful Chicken suddenly lowered its head, pecked his hair, and pulled upward.

“Ah, what are you doing?”

The Colorful Chicken didn’t answer. It just kept pecking and pulling Lu Xin’s hair in the other direction.

Ruilin looked back in confusion, and Lu Xin roughly understood the Colorful Chicken’s meaning.

“You want me to go in another direction?”

“Coo coo.”

“…”

Lu Xin was silent for a moment. He exchanged a glance with Ruilin.

Although they didn’t understand the Colorful Chicken’s intention, they still walked in the other direction.

On the other side, at the Spring of Life in the Misty Forest.

Audrey and the others had already arrived here. They had traveled all night, and now it was noon.

This meant that the flow of time in the area where Lu Xin and the others were was different from the outside.

“Is this the central area of the Misty Forest?”

Audrey dismounted from her horse and looked around warily. Countless monsters surrounded the vast lake.

But the monsters only glanced at them and then turned back to rest.

Ailya walked to the lake, stretched, and her cloth clothes lifted slightly, revealing a glimpse of her slender waist.

“Mmm, finally getting some sun. It’s so comfortable.”

After enjoying the sun, Ailya looked around, hoping Lu Xin would arrive soon.

“They shouldn’t be so fast. It might take another day.” Audrey explained softly to Ailya.

“Alright.”

At that moment, a knight walked to the lake, scooped up some water, and drank. Unexpectedly, the wounds on his body began to heal.

Seeing this, the other knights quickly went to scoop water as well. The military doctor of ‘Iron Wall Rose’ wanted to take some lake water back to the Kingdom to study it later.

Ailya watched with a smile and reminded them: “This is the Spring of Life. The water only has healing effects here.”

Hearing this, the military doctor helplessly drank the water he had just collected.

A few knights took a bottle of water to the severely injured Hai Er’s lips and fed it to him.

Just then, noises came from the other side of the forest.

The knights present and the monsters all looked in that direction. A group of people wearing silver plate armor emerged from the dense forest.

This group had twelve people, but actually there should have been more.

Because they had split into two groups heading for the central area, but the other group had bad luck and was wiped out halfway.

Audrey warily looked at the sudden arrivals. The silver plate armor they wore was standard for knights.

The leader was a middle-aged man. The most striking thing was that he had only one eye; the other eye socket was empty.

First he was shocked that so many monsters had gathered here, then he also saw Audrey and the others not far away.

Sang Qie grinned, looking even more sinister. He spoke in a dry voice:

“You must be knights of the Kingdom of Delk.”

“Mmm, so you should be knights of the Kingdom of Helvi.”

Audrey’s thoughts were the same as Ruilin and Lu Xin.

At a time like this, only people from the Kingdom of Helvi would appear here with such excellent equipment.

“Heh, no. We’re just bounty hunters. We got a good reward and came here to risk our lives.”

“But I recognize you. You must be Audrey, the captain of ‘Iron Wall Rose’.”

Sang Qie’s remaining eye continuously swept over Audrey, not hiding his desire.

Even the few bounty hunters behind him kept laughing and constantly swept their gazes over the two women.

The several knights of the order had recovered from their injuries. They stood up one after another and looked at the bounty hunters opposite.

Audrey’s brows furrowed slightly. Even if the other side didn’t admit it, she was sure that they were connected to the Kingdom of Helvi.

Audrey withdrew her gaze and looked at the calm lake.

She didn’t want to get involved with these people too much.

However, Sang Qie and his group seemed to have different ideas.

They walked toward them while forming an encirclement.

“Mmm, looks like the Kingdom of Delk isn’t much. A knight order actually has two women, and they seem quite different in flavor.”

Audrey drew her longsword and said haughtily: “What do you mean? Do you want to start a war with the Kingdom of Delk?”

Sang Qie didn’t fear the name of Delk at all, because besides searching for the Hidden Treasure, they had another mission.

That was to kill anyone from Delk they encountered.