Chapter 141

"Saying outright that someone is a weirdo is rather rude."

"Although, due to certain special reasons, I have absolutely no way to take off the mask on my face, look at my eyes—look at this one eye I have exposed—how could I possibly be a weirdo?"

"Just this one eye alone is enough to prove that I'm at least not a weirdo."

Lin Cheng found it rather amusing to watch Xia Lulu staring at him warily.

As he spoke, Lin Cheng even leaned right in front of Xia Lulu and Wendy, pointing at the single eye exposed beneath his mask.

Gesturing animatedly, as if trying hard to prove he wasn't the least bit weird.

Well, if Eclair and Mengmeng were here right now, and knew the person under the mask was Lin Cheng, they'd be so shocked their eyeballs would practically fall out.

Normally, Lin Cheng's every move wouldn't be this exaggerated.

It was entirely because no one could see through the true face beneath Lin Cheng's mask, so he was letting himself go a little.

If it weren't for the pressures of life, Lin Cheng's soul was actually quite interesting.

"What an utterly ordinary eye."

Xia Lulu carefully examined the eye Lin Cheng had exposed, then gave a light snort and, out of habit, said with her venomous tongue: "Looking at it this way, I can probably guess what an utterly plain and ordinary face is hidden beneath that mask."

"But, since that's the case, I'll go back to sleep for a bit."

"I'm warning you not to try anything sneaky—Wendy is the famous Dragon Slayer Mage. If you try anything, taking care of you would be the easiest thing in the world."

With that, Xia Lulu curled back up in Wendy's arms, ready to continue sleeping.

Earlier, it was entirely because Lin Cheng's behavior was so strange that Xia Lulu had dragged herself out of her light-sleep state.

Now that she sensed Lin Cheng posed no threat, she naturally prepared to go back to catching up on sleep.

"Sorry about that."

"Xia Lulu didn't mean any harm."

Watching Xia Lulu yawn in her arms and go back to sleep, Wendy hurriedly gave Lin Cheng a slight bow and apologized: "I still have something very important to attend to, so I'll be going now."

Watching the agreed-upon gathering time draw closer and closer, Wendy's expression grew somewhat anxious.

Wendy didn't want to embarrass herself in this joint operation by being late.

"I see, you have something important to attend to?"

"Indeed, the agreed-upon time is getting closer. I heard this joint operation will have elite mages and top-tier experts from the various major Mage Guilds—being late at such a critical moment really wouldn't be a good thing."

Lin Cheng nodded very seriously after hearing Wendy's words.

And as Lin Cheng's words fell, Wendy, who had already started running off, stopped once again.

"Are you also a mage participating in the joint operation?"

Wendy looked at Lin Cheng with some surprise.

She hadn't expected that the person she'd casually bumped into on the road would be just like her—a mage participating in the operation to encircle and suppress the Akatsuki organization.

This made Wendy inexplicably a little happy.

At least, she wasn't the only one who would be late.

"That's right."

"We might even have some fate between us."

Lin Cheng looked at Wendy, who was gazing at him in surprise, the corners of his mouth curving slightly upward, and smiled: "I'm also a Dragon Slayer Mage. As for my attribute, I'd say I'm a Light-attribute Dragon Slayer Mage."

"Oh right, we've been talking so long I almost forgot to introduce myself."