Chapter 489 - Reacquainted with Zhou Yingxue! (2/2)

but there had to be a reason why the palace would suddenly assign him a quest to take in someone who was injured.

ren xiaosu got up to leave. the storyteller asked from behind him, “where are you going? didn’t you say that you don’t want to get involved in that mess?”

ren xiaosu snapped, “i’m going home to sleep!”

he wasn’t looking to get involved in any chaos, but based on what the palace had said, it was a clear sign that trouble had come looking for him instead!

on his way back home, ren xiaosu kept walking past other refugees who were watching the ruckus from town. as the refugees did not have any activities to keep them entertained at night, they really hoped the fighting would go on for longer when they saw a battle going on in the stronghold.

after all, those big shots responsible for stirring up trouble had always looked down on the townspeople. even if battles broke out occasionally, the hostile forces would not do anything to the refugees. that was because they still needed refugees to work for them as they could not let the factories go unmanned!

when ren xiaosu arrived at the entrance of his home, he first checked the main door and found that the padlock was still intact. however, he caught a whiff of a sweet, metallic odor coming from the inside the house through the gap in the door. it was the smell of blood.

he opened the door with his key calmly. but as soon as he pushed open the door, he saw a pathetic figure attack him with a dagger from inside the house. to ren xiaosu’s further surprise, two vines sprouted out from the ground as though they were trying to grab ahold of his ankles.

but the attacker seemed to have aggravated a wound with this surprise attack on ren xiaosu. this caused the attacker to lose control of their movement, and the vines that sprouted out of the ground also withered away.

ren xiaosu easily grabbed the attacker’s wrist that was brandishing a dagger at him. however, he gasped when he realized the wrist was very slender. it turned out this was a woman’s wrist.

however, ren xiaosu was not really someone who would go soft on women. he immediately landed a knifehand strike on the attacker’s carotid artery so he could properly size her up afterwards.

however, he was surprised by what he saw. the attacker turned out to be an old acquaintance of his!

zhou yingxue!

why would that yang consortium spy, who had tried to get close to him by seducing him at stronghold 88 only to end up jumping rope with him, appear here? and she even looked like she had been seriously injured?

when stronghold 88 was destroyed, ren xiaosu had also apprehended zhou yingxue. but at that time, she had anxiously pleaded with him to allow her to go save her mother. as such, he let her off after some consideration.

he had not expected to encounter her again here.

ren xiaosu carried zhou yingxue to the backyard and saw the potato shooters were putting on their best behavior. zhou yingxue probably escaped being attacked by the potato shooters due to her power to manipulate plants.

zhou yingxue had even controlled two vines on the ground to attack ren xiaosu.

ren xiaosu snapped at the potato shooters, “did y’all not attack her just because she can manipulate plants? why are y’all so useless?”

the five potato shooters gently spat out a few potatoes as though they were trying to get back into ren xiaosu’s good books. ‘here, have some potatoes.’

ren xiaosu did not know whether to laugh or cry. what the hell was this?

he looked at zhou yingxue, who he had thrown to the side. then he listened to the gunfire that was still ringing out in the stronghold. the wang consortium’s troops had probably been alerted now since the gunfire seemed to have only gotten even more intense.