The youth was also frightened.

In this pitch darkness, he had only been focused on fleeing forward and hadn’t noticed at all.

Now having knocked someone down, he quickly said, “I didn’t mean to. I didn’t see you.”

Facing the moonlight, he looked down at the girl sitting on the ground, holding that cloth bag.

“So it’s a woman!” He squatted down, but saw that the woman before him had a cloth covering her face, making it impossible to see what she looked like. He asked, “Miss, are you alright? I didn’t mean to. It’s so late at night, I didn’t see you.”

The woman fundamentally wasn’t listening to his words. She continued holding the cloth bag in her hands, gently brushing off the sand grains on it.

The youth felt curious.

Had he perhaps become invisible?

Or was this girl before him deaf?

Just as he was about to speak again, footsteps sounded behind him, getting closer and closer.

“Over there, chase quickly.”

Not good—those people had actually caught up!

The youth felt things were looking bad. He patted the woman’s shoulder and said, “I can’t worry about you. I can barely take care of myself.”

With that, he got up preparing to run.

But after running just a few steps, he looked back and saw the woman he’d knocked down trying to get up from the ground. However, her ankle was injured, and despite trying for a long time, she couldn’t get up.

Given the current situation, he could barely save himself!

If he stopped and got caught, that person called Tiger Lord would truly skin him alive and eat his flesh.

He was very conflicted!

But that woman was truly injured because of him!

Finally, he gritted his teeth, rushed over, and pulled the woman up from the ground.

He directly hoisted her onto his back.

“Come with me!”

What the—?

The woman hadn’t even reacted yet when she was being carried on some man’s back, not knowing where he was going?

But when she looked back and saw people chasing after them, she roughly understood!

So someone was chasing him!

The woman thought about it and didn’t cry out, allowing this strange man to carry her as he ran wildly.

Finally hiding in a small alley.

Only then did they avoid that group’s pursuit!

The youth put the woman down, panting continuously.

His face flushed red.

He looked at the skinny woman before him and said, “I didn’t expect you to look so thin, yet be so heavy.”

He continued panting.

The woman didn’t respond.

“I say, in the middle of the night, what’s a woman like you doing on the street?”

“…”

“I’m asking you?”

The woman still didn’t acknowledge him. Instead, she quickly took the item out from the cloth bag.

It turned out to be a painting scroll!

Fortunately, it was intact!

The youth placed his hands on his hips, carefully examining the person before him, continuing to ask, “By the way! Are you a person or a ghost?”

“…”

A ghost?

“I’m talking to you!”

The woman put the painting scroll back in the cloth bag and glared at the person before her.

She planned to leave.

But her ankle was severely sprained.

After just two steps, the pain forced her to lean against the wall.

She fundamentally couldn’t walk.

Seeing this, the youth quickly grabbed her, saying, “Where are you going? Those people just now saw you with me. If you go out and get caught, don’t blame me.”

The woman was speechless. She flicked her sleeve, shaking the youth’s hand off her wrist.

But she nearly fell again.

The youth once more steadied her, forcefully gripping her arm. “You can’t really be mute, can you? Or deaf?”

…

The woman was truly at a loss for words. Being knocked down by someone for no reason was one thing. Having her painting scroll stepped on was one thing. Being carried around everywhere was one thing. But now it was even better—he was actually calling her mute and deaf.

She was about to speak—

The youth’s next words blocked her again, saying, “It’s fine. These days, mute people live longer.”

Good grief!

This time the woman completely didn’t want to speak.

Perhaps what he said was right!

Mute people did indeed live longer.

The youth asked very curiously, “By the way, what’s a woman like you doing wandering the streets in the middle of the night? Aren’t you afraid of seeing ghosts? Let me tell you, once night falls in this Zhuxin City, all sorts of strange things happen. If you’re not careful, you’ll encounter some eerie events and die without even knowing how you died! Moreover, at this late hour, you couldn’t possibly find a place to stay. I just knocked you down too, and your foot is injured. This young master obtained a good item today and is in a very good mood, so tonight I’ll kindly take you in. Wait until tomorrow morning before you leave.”

“…Huh?”

Without waiting for the woman to refuse, he pulled her onto his back again.

Carrying her up.

The woman thought about it—this person truly wasn’t a bad person. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have turned back to carry her when she couldn’t get up from the ground.

Since there was no danger, it was fine to follow him.

She just happened to lack a place to stay tonight anyway.

Soon, the youth brought her to the place where he usually holed up.

An extremely crude courtyard that couldn’t be more crude.

Just as he pushed the door open, Xiao Ba, who had been waiting inside, rushed over.

“Brother, you’re finally back! You scared me to death, you know? I waited for you for so long, I was just about to take a wooden stick to rescue you.”

There was a hint of tears in his voice.

He practically wanted to burrow into the youth’s embrace.

But when he saw the person on the youth’s back, he immediately froze.

Pointing with his finger, he asked, “Brother, what’s going on?”

The youth smiled and said, “Don’t ask too many questions.”

Having said that, he put down the woman from his back, pointing to the room inside and saying, “You can stay in there tonight.”

The woman nodded her head lightly.

Then limped inside.

The youth crossed his arms, watching that woman’s retreating figure.

Xiao Ba was completely confused.

He stared at the woman’s back for quite a while. Only after the door inside was closed did he lean close to the youth’s ear and ask, “Brother, why did you pick up a person and bring them back? And she’s a cripple too.”

“Want to know?”

“Mm-hmm.” Xiao Ba nodded vigorously.

His eyes full of confusion.

The youth patted his head, saying, “Go to sleep. Don’t ask so many questions.”

“But…”

“But what?”

“You gave the room to that person. Where will we two sleep tonight?”

“We can sleep anywhere. Go find two wooden boards.”

Xiao Ba scratched his head and quickly went to move the wooden boards.

Setting them up under the shed in the courtyard.

Xiao Ba seemed to still have a question. His eyes rolled, and he asked, “Brother, why does that person cover their face with cloth?”

The youth put on a very learned expression, staring at the room inside, saying very firmly, “Because they’re ugly!”

“Brother, did you see?”

“Didn’t see!”

“Then how do you know?”

“Because I know!”

“Why?”

Heh heh!

“Are you stupid?”

“Brother, the person is covered with cloth. How do you know?”

Could it be you have x-ray vision?

The youth said, “Have you ever seen a beauty enter the city alone in the middle of the night? Only ugly monsters aren’t afraid of the dark or ghosts.”

Xiao Ba suddenly understood!

“So that’s how it is!”

The knot in his heart was untied. Xiao Ba cheerfully quickly climbed onto the wooden board to sleep.