Chapter 38: Take Care of Me

"What are you standing around for? Shake hands!"

Seeing Chen Mu and the other person standing without moving, Long Tutu urged, "It's just a handshake. Old He, you're not shy, are you?"

"……"

He Ningshuang took a deep breath, faced Chen Mu, and cupped her fists in a salute. "Zhenwu Division, He Ningshuang, greetings to Brother Chen."

"Brother He, you're too kind." Chen Mu returned the salute with cupped hands. "I am Chen Mu, of the Great Blade Gang."

"Great Blade Gang? Hey, Old Chen, you're in a gang?" Long Tutu said in pleasant surprise. "Let's go, let's go, take me to your place. I've never been to a gang before."

Uh…

Chen Mu blinked.

He had assumed Long Tutu was a child from some major family in the inner city, or an official's household.

He never expected Long Tutu's backing to actually be the Zhenwu Division!

The aura emanating from this He Ningshuang before him was at least Postnatal Seventh Layer.

Postnatal Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Layer, within the Zhenwu Division's system, were Copper-Grade Wardens.

Anyone a Copper-Grade Warden would address as "my lord" could only be a Congenital!

With a Congenital standing behind Long Tutu, how would Chen Mu dare take her to a gang?

As for exposing his own identity…

From the moment He Ningshuang stepped forward and said she was from the Zhenwu Division, Chen Mu's identity could no longer be kept secret.

Whether he exposed himself or not, He Ningshuang would have found out anyway.

Being from a gang was a fact that couldn't be washed away.

Fortunately, after Guan Tong took the top seat, the Great Blade Gang's style had shifted toward the respectable.

So Chen Mu wasn't afraid of being investigated.

……

"Still playing?"

He Ningshuang did her best to keep her tone gentle. "My lord said that if I ran into you, I had to bring you back. Tutu, are you coming with me willingly, or shall I tie you up and drag you back?"

"Wow, you're bullying a child!" Long Tutu put her hands on her hips and huffed, "Just you wait. Once I grow up, I'll definitely make things hard for you!"

"……"

He Ningshuang couldn't be bothered to reply, simply extending her hand.

"Sigh~" Long Tutu sighed, turned and waved at Chen Mu. "Children have no rights. I have to go back. Old Chen, thanks for today. Let me see, I'll come out tomorrow or the day after, go to your place, and play with you."

"Alright." Chen Mu nodded. "Goodbye, little Tutu."

"Not goodbye, see you next time." Long Tutu corrected him, then waved, turned, and walked toward He Ningshuang, placing her small hand into the other's.

The two of them strode away.

After walking a little distance, He Ningshuang abruptly raised her hand and shot out a diamond-shaped dart. With a "thwip," it buried itself in the neck of Liu Ye, who was lying on the ground playing dead.

The latter's body jolted, his eyes went wide, and in the next instant the light vanished from them. He was dead.

【Corpse discovered. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

The card was in hand.

Chen Mu reached into his pocket to inspect it.

An Inner Force card!

Two and a half months' worth of inner force cultivation.

'Not bad.'

The corner of Chen Mu's mouth lifted, and he set off back toward Caishikou.

There were far more dead at the execution ground; just now he hadn't had time to pick up cards.

At Postnatal Sixth Layer, any corpse within thirty-six meters could be picked up.

This range made picking up cards increasingly convenient for Chen Mu.

Because officials were stationed at the execution ground, corpses were everywhere around the execution platform.

Chen Mu picked up card after card from a distance.

When he finally tallied them up, there were as many as forty-three!

On the road home from Caishikou, Chen Mu inspected them one by one and found that among these forty-three cards, ten were Inner Force cards!

Three were Skill cards!

Two were Cultivation cards!

Five were Power cards.

The rest were either Stamina cards or Vitality cards.

The latter two mostly came from ordinary people. When the remnants of the Swallow Sect raided the execution ground, they hadn't cared about the lives of the onlookers.

Chen Mu used the five Power cards as he walked.

Once home, he took out the three Skill cards.

One recorded a Wu Gong called "Startled Swallow."

This Wu Gong was not an internal cultivation method that generated inner force and achieved Breakthrough Realm, but rather one that trained the eyes and enhanced vision!

When "Startled Swallow" was cultivated to a high level, one could see a thousand meters away.

An ordinary person couldn't see clearly past a hundred meters.

"Startled Swallow," on the other hand, actually granted farsightedness.

Chen Mu used the Skill card he had picked up. It transformed into a stream of light that surged into his body, and a warm current immediately wrapped around his eyes.

After the warm current vanished, Chen Mu opened his eyes and looked outside through the window.

His vision had clearly improved — scenes five hundred meters away were sharply reflected in his eyes.

The farthest was over five hundred and fifty meters.

Farsightedness!

Although it wasn't a special skill, this "Startled Swallow" was still pretty good.

The second skill card recorded a martial technique called "Swallow Strikes the Long Sky," or rather, a hidden-weapon art.

Unlike "Meteor Needle," after "Swallow Strikes the Long Sky" threw a dart, it could make the dart turn, covering a very large range, reaching up to a thousand meters away.

Clearly, this technique had to be paired with "Startled Swallow."

Chen Mu decisively used it as well. His arm trembled for a moment, and he mastered this technique at the realm of perfection.

The last skill card recorded an internal cultivation method called "Swallow Return Art," with only the first three layers.

In other words, the highest one could cultivate to was the realm of Postnatal Third Layer.

Chen Mu naturally looked down on it and tucked the card back into his palm space.

He then took out the internal force cards. These internal force cards were each worth at least a month of cultivation.

Every member of the Swallow Sect was a martial artist.

Since they were dead, the probability of picking up internal force cards was naturally high.

Whoosh~

He silently recited to use it. The card transformed into a stream of light, surged into his body, and pushed "Rolling Cloud Art" to circulate slowly, increasing his cultivation……

……

……

Wulong Fucheng.

Inner City.

Headquarters of the Town Martial Bureau.

"Old Zhao, I'm back."

Long Tutu trotted on her little short legs, stopped outside the tall threshold, and called out crisply to a man in the great hall whose temperament was mild, who was delicate and handsome, and who was just over twenty, "I'm dying of thirst, I'm going back to my room for tea."

Having said that, she turned around and left.

"This girl……"

The man shook his head, looked at He Ningshuang who had walked in, and asked, "How is it? Have the remnants of the Swallow Sect been cleaned out?"

"Reporting to my lord, ninety percent of the Swallow Sect's remnants have been cleaned out; five remain at large." He Ningshuang cupped her fist and replied respectfully.

"Leave one of these five alive." The man spoke calmly.

"Yes!"

He Ningshuang responded in a deep voice.

After speaking, she opened her mouth, somewhat hesitant.

"What, is there something else?" the man asked.

"It's like this, my lord."

He Ningshuang straightened up and quickly said, "When this subordinate found Tutu, I discovered she was with a youth. That youth is a member of a gang in the East District, named Chen Mu. He has a cousin named Huang Feiyang. Both of them are members of the Great Blade Gang."

"Huang Feiyang just recently became a Big Head, and this Chen Mu became some sort of 'Inspector.' The Great Blade Gang's gang leader, Guan Tong, personally approved it — Chen Mu doesn't have to work, yet enjoys the treatment of a Big Head."

"How is Tutu with him?" the man asked calmly.

"……Very good!"

He Ningshuang wanted to raise her head to look at the man, but didn't dare to lift it, and replied respectfully, "Tutu is very affectionate toward him. When they parted, she even said she'd go find him the day after tomorrow to play."

"Then there's no problem."

The man chuckled lightly, "If it's convenient, you can look after this Chen Mu."

Huh?