Looking at the man before her who seemed exhausted and somewhat injured, Tiantian felt this time she had bargaining chips to negotiate with the other party.

“Sorry,” Tiantian said. “Although both you and this child are injured, I don’t know you… so I can only hurry and find a way to get him bandaged.”

“Wait… wait a moment…” The man stood up shakily, his expression showing he didn’t intend to give up.

Tiantian had already anticipated this situation would occur. The short sword in her hand remained held horizontally in front of her.

“You saved our lives,” Tiantian said with a furrowed brow and vigilant expression. “If possible, I don’t want to have a conflict with you…”

“No… no…” The man hurriedly waved his hand. The fresh blood on his hand scattered on the ground like water droplets from unwashed hands. “I don’t want to rob you of the bicycle… I just have a proposal…”

Tiantian still didn’t back down. After all, this was the only escape route for her and Zheng Yingxiong to leave this place.

Almost all the buildings in the surrounding area had collapsed. If they wanted to spend the night, they could only stay in the house beside them, but precisely because there was no place to spend the night nearby, all the people in this area might enter this house, invisibly adding considerable danger to the two of them.

Right now, the best escape route was to take Zheng Yingxiong back to what he called the “Cat” before dark. Not only could they treat his injuries, but they could even find shelter.

It just depended on whether the man before them would let the two of them leave.

“What’s your proposal?” Tiantian came to her senses and asked.

“I… I was thinking…” The man pressed on his gaping wound. “Sister, I’m injured, and that child is also injured… You don’t want him to die, and I also have reasons why I can’t die… so could…”

“Mm…?” Seeing the man hesitating, Tiantian felt the situation was somewhat beyond her expectations. “What do you want to do?”

“Could I take this child to get treated, and you wait for us here…?”

“Ah…?” Tiantian was stunned. “You take him for treatment?”

“Yes… Although it sounds absurd, I really have reasons why I must survive…” The young man kept pressing on his injured palm, trying to stop the bleeding, but the sharp knife had pierced through it, and the blood simply wouldn’t stop.

“But that’s impossible…” Tiantian protected Zheng Yingxiong behind her. “This is our first meeting. How can I be sure you’ll save this child? Your motives are really too confusing to me…”

“If I wanted to kill you, I would have done it already!!” The young man also became somewhat anxious. “To be honest… I come from the same room as those two uncles. I’ve wanted to resist them for a long time… but the two of them colluded together and almost ruled the entire interview room. Now they’ve already ‘Echoed,’ but I haven’t yet! If I can’t bring my memories to the next cycle, I’ll definitely be tortured to death by those two!!”

“You…” Tiantian felt the young man before her didn’t seem to be lying, but entrusting an injured child to a stranger was really too dangerous.

“So I must survive. I need to stop the bleeding immediately!” the young man said. “I also need to find a way to ‘Echo’ myself in the remaining days… Although my wound isn’t serious now, if I don’t treat it, I won’t be able to do anything in the next few days…”

After hearing what he said, Tiantian also had a general idea. He clearly could have directly robbed them of the bicycle, but he kept humbly negotiating conditions. It seemed he still had a bottom line in his heart.

This bottom line forced him not to do things that violated morality.

“Even if…” The young man silently lowered his head. “Even if you don’t agree, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a request from me. After all, it was our appearance that caused you such big trouble…”

“Sister, you can agree to him,” Zheng Yingxiong said softly while sitting on the bicycle.

“What…?” Tiantian was startled and turned back to look at Zheng Yingxiong. “Little brother, don’t get involved in this… The relationships between people aren’t as simple as you imagine…”

“Sister, I’m a ‘Spirit Sniffer,'” Zheng Yingxiong answered with a serious expression.

“‘Spirit Sniffer’…?” Tiantian blinked. “Is that your ability…? What does ‘Spirit Sniffer’ mean?”

“I can smell the scent on his body,” Zheng Yingxiong said with a smile. “His scent is very clean, very different from the two uncles just now.”

“Clean…?” Tiantian carefully pondered these two words that Zheng Yingxiong said, still finding them a bit hard to understand. “So you trust him?”

“Mm.” Zheng Yingxiong nodded vigorously. “The scent on his body is the same as yours, Sister. Very clean, making people feel at ease.”

Hearing Zheng Yingxiong say this, Tiantian finally relaxed a bit. Thinking carefully, he had indeed been troubled by the issue of “scent” from beginning to end. Could his ability be to distinguish a person’s good and evil?

“But where are you… going for treatment?” Tiantian asked again.

“Not far!” Seeing the situation had a turning point, the young man hurriedly said, “When those black lines were chasing us earlier, we knew it was best not to leave the vicinity of the stronghold, so we kept running in circles. If we ride back now, it’ll take about forty minutes…”

“But even if you can find some supplies, how will you…”

“I’m a student at the Traditional Chinese Medicine University!” the young man hurriedly explained. “Although surgery isn’t my strongest field, I know some of it at least! I’ll definitely treat both my and this little brother’s injuries completely. You can rest assured about this!”

Seeing Tiantian not responding for a long time, the young man said, “I’m really begging you. Without transportation, walking back will take nearly two hours… My blood won’t stop…”

“I agree,” Tiantian said. “Since Little Yingxiong says so, you can act together. However…”

Tiantian sighed helplessly. “This bicycle was already very old to begin with. It’s remarkable it’s lasted until now. It would be great if we could find a place to repair it. Otherwise, I’m afraid in a moment…”

She lowered her head and looked at the bicycle chain, then slowly widened her eyes.

At the originally loose chain and pedal area, gears and wires had now been installed, and these gears were actually attached to circuit boards, looking somewhat bizarre.

“Eh?” Tiantian was startled and stepped forward to inspect the bicycle. “This is really too strange… What on earth is going on?”

“Sister, the scent on your body is fluctuating,” Zheng Yingxiong said with a smile. “The ‘Clever Object’ is taking effect.”