"The child is injured?" Niu Yuanshan's face showed only a trace of confusion, but his heart tightened sharply.
Han Shuangjiang nodded, realizing she had found the right entry point.
"Got into a bit of a conflict with someone." She began to delve further into the topic.
Steward Niu frowned and immediately asked, "Is it serious?"
The cold-faced girl replied seriously, "I'm not sure either, he wouldn't let me see. He seems to like holding on tough."
She used a bit of wordplay, half-true, half-false.
From the perspective of a bystander, Liu Chengqi's move with that last strike of the Eight Trigrams Palm, whose name she had already forgotten, was fierce and certainly unusual.
But what about Chu Huaixu?
He took half of the blow without even a grunt.
——Quite manly, it seemed.
Realizing he might be in trouble, he remained clear-minded and quickly made a decision.
Most importantly, whether in front of Liu Chengqi or now, he positioned himself in front of Han Shuangjiang.
As if, no matter what happened, he was there to support.
In a situation full of crisis, that fox-face still had the time to smile playfully, without adding pressure on others.
A man who, when faced with trouble, has the capability, means, and mindset to handle it is indeed a captivating trait.
Moreover, this trait is effective for both men and women.
Due to various life experiences, Han Shuangjiang was inevitably a person with a lack of sense of security.
Though she only had brief contact with Chu Huaixu, she inexplicably felt quite settled in her heart.
Therefore, with him taking on the issues, she must also do her part as a backup.
Having come from a brothel, she would hardly be naïve and innocent.
Wordplay was a course she had to learn.
Sure enough, Niu Yuanshan's frown deepened.
"Who the hell dares to lay hands on someone from our organization!" His heart already ignited in anger.
Looking at the jar of Er Lang Wine from the Moon Country on the table, his anger intensified.
However, Niu Yuanshan still needed a reason.
After all, he was the organization's golden face. That golden mask represented his core strength and was highly valued!
He knew this newcomer Chu Huaixu was quite bizarre, seemed adept at unconventional ways and flamboyant actions.
He was not like us, who focused on staying low-key and hidden.
But having just joined the Outer Sect, he immediately got into a private fight. He felt he needed to know more about the situation.
Steward Niu did not show much anger on his face and spoke reasonably, "The two of you were brought by the Sixth Elder; I suppose he meant for me to look after you to some extent."
"Shuangjiang, explain the situation; what exactly happened?"
"Alright." Han Shuangjiang responded.
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Inside the bamboo house, Chu Huaixu untied his robe and checked his injury.
"Not bad, the problem isn't major."
The short dagger, stained with blood, was hung back at his waist.
He had just looked at some task details and realized from the system's description that he truly got involved in a big matter this time.
"The Task System will rate the task difficulty based on comprehensive information."
"There are four levels in total: Level A, B, C, and D."
"And Level A is the highest level."
"Which means, according to the system's judgment, this Liu Chengqi is someone players in the Newbie Stage can't mess with!"
Even more exaggerated, this passive task's name is called [Revenge from Liu Chengqi], and its content is merely to not get killed to complete it.
"Damn, he's out to beat me to death!" Chu Huaixu was exasperated.
If not getting beaten to death means completing the task, what background does this Liu Chengqi bastard have?
"Besides, the task requirement is merely not to be beaten to death, and this can still be rated as a Level A system difficulty..."
"Isn't this basically the system telling me, it's very difficult not to be beaten to death!"
This is quite unfriendly to me as a transmigrator.
No way around it, for those stupid players, it's merely a mission failure, plus wasting a [Resurrection Coin].
Chu Huaixu also had 3 Resurrection Coins, but he wasn't sure if he could revive and didn't want to take this risk.
"The task rewards, on the other hand, are rich, with a full 1000 Experience Points."
For players in the Newbie Stage, rewards that high are enough for him to level up quite a few times.
Besides, Chu Huaixu's gaze was deeply drawn to a line of text.
"[Certain probability to trigger a hidden dungeon]."
This is what interested him the most!
Hidden dungeons are what the system and players call them. In the Profound Yellow Realm, they generally refer to them as adventures! Opportunities!
This made Chu Huaixu fall into deep thought.
"Hidden dungeon?"
He recalled carefully and suddenly remembered something, wondering if it had anything to do with the hidden dungeon.
"I had previously thrown Liu Chengqi an [Information Detection] to see how tough he was."
"The system's feedback was that he's currently in a state of Spiritual Embryo damage."
"Could it be related to the Spiritual Embryo?"
These kinds of hidden dungeons that have a probability trigger are the most annoying.
Because it means even if you perfectly complete the task, you might not trigger it.
There's a plethora of coincidences involved.
It relies purely on the player to explore and dig, or to take a chance.
When he played 'Borrowed Sword' and encountered this situation for the first time, his heart was burning with excitement.
In the end, after failing to trigger it again and again, he gradually calmed down and his mindset became peaceful.
If it triggers, all the better; if not, then so be it.
Outside the house, a voice quickly rang out.
"Chu Huaixu, where is Han Shuangjiang! Come out and see me!"
Chu Huaixu had no intention of fleeing, he directly opened the door, and saw three men in black robes standing outside the bamboo house.
The leader was about 1.75 meters tall, somewhat resembling Liu Chengqi, with a coiled whip at his waist, and lightning-like embroidery on the chest of his black robe.
"Law Enforcement Team?" Chu Huaixu squinted his eyes.
A nation has its laws, a sect has its rules.
The Law Enforcement Team exists because of this.
And one of the stricter punishments in the Daoist Sect is flogging.
"What New Singapore rules." Chu Huaixu thought to himself as he looked at the long whip on the man's waist.
As far as he knew, the Outer Sect used regular whips, but the Inner Sect was different.
Did you see the lightning embroidered on their chests?
The Inner Sect uses Thunder Whips...
Some Daoist Sect players who love being flogged would deliberately cause trouble, just for the thrill.
With the pain sensitivity lowered, it's not so painful yet electrifying, immensely stimulating.
Chu Huaixu's gaze slightly hardened, but he had thought there might be an official force coming.
"How should I address the senior brothers?" he asked.
[Information Detection] had already been used, and three question marks popped up, indicating that the opposite's character level was at least 10 levels higher than his, a bona fide cultivator.
"Liu Chenggong, Vice-Captain of Medicine Mountain Law Enforcement Team." The leader answered.
Upon hearing this name, Chu Huaixu felt that this person and Liu Chengqi were on the same page of the Liu family genealogy.
All having the damn same word generation, right?
"May I know why Captain Liu is looking for me?" he feigned ignorance.
"You caused trouble and fought privately at Medicine Mountain, violating the sect's rules. After injuring someone, you also robbed them, compounding the crime!"
"Junior Brother Chu, come with us!"
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