Chapter 26: Shan Yu
"Didn't I tell you to stay in the carriage with them?" the captain spoke toward Mi Lan.
She was in a bad state. Although she wasn't physically injured, her partner, Shan Yu, had his stomach torn open, his intestines spilling out, and he collapsed dead.
"We went out to provide support, but what did you do? You left us in the middle and went to retrieve some deaf stranger! Does this outsider mean more to you than your entire squad?" Mi Lan spoke angrily, no longer caring about the matter—her fate was sealed anyway.
The captain did not respond to her. He understood her feelings—she had lost her partner, which meant her life would change, and all the opportunities she had been waiting for in the future had now vanished.
Besides, he knew that even if they had stayed in the carriage, both of them would have been easily killed by Liu Jian.
In fact, they themselves had realized that, which was why they left the carriage. Since their target was Hinako and Kogan, the one coming to take them would undoubtedly be the strongest. What was the point of facing him for a single second only to die?
Besides, they truly wanted to get rid of them. If there was no reward for looking after them, why would they bother? There was no such thing as free work.
And after they left, they wanted to hide and distance themselves from the area. They had no intention of fighting for nothing. But the group that attacked them wasn't only after Kogan and Hinako—that was merely their leader Liu Jian's goal. The rest wanted to take the essence from them.
The essence was everything.
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"We just need to hold out until they're taken away," Shan Yu whispered.