Chapter 196 - The Elder Of Ulthar (1/2)
Chapter 196: The Elder of Ulthar
Translator: Lonelytree
‘Sahts crossed Gu Jun’s mind, in the end, he decided to shuffle towards the two This was a risky choice but it would be much riskier for him to stay behind He trailed behind the two youth and passed through thearound the narrow paths between the black towers The sound of pursuit was fading away Gu Jun paid attention to his surroundings as heunusual Occasionally, a passer-by ht was not a coe sent and carried a scent of danger with it
At the sa his t co black hair and lithe physique Thebut the woman was quite beautiful
‘Why would they help me? What do they , they reached a shore underneath a stone bridge There was an old raft that could fit 5 people which was tethered there The ba on it, its diot onto the raft first and picked up the oars to ready their escape The woet on”
“Ah” Gu Jun croaked, still refusing to expose his own language because the usage of either earth’s language or the foreign language would expose too much information about him He pointed at his eyeballs and returned to his use of ‘eyeball language’, “Who are you people?”
“Sir, that will put so much strain on your eyes…” The woman frowned “I am Peacock and that is Malachite” Gu Jun frowned behind his mask He was quite sure that was not their real name Both peacock and malachite were names of jewels and they did not explain in Probably like him, they too did not want to reveal too much about themselves
“Why did you choose to help me?” He moved his eyeballs to enquire, to try to probe for their intention It was still Peacock who spoke She said seriously, “Sir, you are a disciple of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, right? Its power could be felt through your night but we could sense it, you have summoned its power before”
It then dawned on Gu Jun ‘So the sa froht about it and probed further “And I thought you saved me because we are of the same race”
“That naturally is the other reason” Peacock slanced at the black towers that lined the river banks Living at this kind of place, caution was a virtue needed to survive “Where are you guys heading?” He asked
“We need to leave Dylath-Leen immediately” Peacock looked at him and said kindly “We do not knohat has happened to you, but you cannot stay here any longer The black merchants will not allow their slave to escape Whenever one did escape, every black merchant would unite and search the whole city to recapture them Once they were captured, they would be stuffed into a wooden barrel until they die from starvation” She turned to look down the horizon before adding, “We’re heading towards Ulthar, sir, you are welcoo your oay”
Gu Jun thought to hiroup of people are very familiar with this world If i ask about Ulthar, it would expose ht be construed as vulnerability…’ So instead he asked, “Why are you guys going there?”
“We’re going to visit Atal, the great elder at the Ulthar Te to ask hio into details Gu Jun understood this was caution on their part, after all wasn’t he doing the sa tack, he switched the subject, “Where are your other cos to do at Dylath-Leen” Peacock answered “Sir, ti with us or not”
“Then how did you knoasfor e of the theatre at the ti in fear and screa after them” Gu Jun did remember the trio of audience members It was an acceptable explanation but it was still too much of a coincidence for Gu Jun’s preference…