Chapter 36: Be Careful When Traveling at Night

Lu Chuan coughed and didn’t say much more.

However, he was still curious and opened up Chen Miaomiao’s status panel.

Name: Chen Miaomiao
Age: 16
Appearance: 94
Affection: 10
Current Skills Available: Basic Assassination Technique

Seeing this, Lu Chuan froze for a moment.

Assassination?

He was familiar with this skill, wasn’t he?

This technique should have been something he already knew, right?

Or perhaps there was something different about it?

He quickly extracted the skill, and to his surprise, Chen Miaomiao’s affection for him increased to 10. It seemed that her perception of him had improved!

At this point, all the skills and techniques he had acquired were just enough for him to use.

So, Lu Chuan wasn’t in a hurry anymore.

After extracting the skill, he suddenly felt a faint flow of information in his mind.

Many assassination techniques he had never understood before began to appear in his thoughts.

At this moment, he realized the difference.

He was originally a mercenary, and although he killed people, most of his work involved direct confrontations, not much assassination.

But assassination was an art.

It involved everything from gathering intelligence, infiltration, causing accidents, and so on…

Sometimes, to kill one person, you might need to spend years setting things up, just to make sure the act is done without anyone noticing.

However, Lu Chuan clearly wasn’t that patient.

After receiving these thoughts in his mind, he immediately thought of someone.

Zhou Tong!

Lu Chuan couldn’t allow Zhou Tong to live until the time when the annual food was collected. By then, even the smallest of Zhou Tong’s abilities could make things difficult for him.

The original Lu Chuan wouldn’t have wanted to go down the assassination route.

Because his methods were rather crude.

But now, with the basic assassination technique integrated into his body, Lu Chuan felt that he could make Zhou Tong’s death seem completely unrelated to him, even making it look like someone else’s doing.

But this still needed to be carefully planned.

Originally, killing Zhou Tong was just a simple matter of knocking his head to the ground.

However, now the biggest complication had appeared—Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng was like a highly alert guard dog, and no one knew if he could spot any issues.

Or even if he couldn’t, he could still make Lu Chuan’s time in Bingzhou incredibly difficult.

After dinner, Lu Chuan was about to sleep.

But Chen Miaomiao tugged at his sleeve, her face cold as she said, “Come outside with me!”

She then left the room.

Lu Chuan looked at her with curiosity.

Finally, he shrugged and followed her, thinking, Damn, it’s only because you can still provide me with rewards that I’m even bothering with you.

“What’s going on?” Lu Chuan asked when he stepped outside, seeing Chen Miaomiao’s serious expression.

“Let me go, alright? I’ll pay you back the money!” Chen Miaomiao said.

Lu Chuan fell silent.

“Don’t worry. I will definitely pay you back the 5,000 coins, and I’ll even give you more as compensation. After these past two days, I know you’re a good person!”

“Stop!” Lu Chuan quickly waved his hand. “Don’t misunderstand, I’m not a good person!”

“I wasn’t before, and I won’t be in the future!”

Lu Chuan’s voice was calm as he looked at Chen Miaomiao. “Do you know why I bought you?”

“Why?” Chen Miaomiao was stunned.

She suddenly remembered the day when Lu Chuan walked by, and it seemed like he spotted her in the crowd right away. Though she was quite attractive, it didn’t seem like a good enough reason for someone to spend 5,000 coins to buy her.

Especially a farmer like him.

At first, Chen Miaomiao thought Lu Chuan had been attracted to her beauty.

But she never expected that after they returned, Lu Chuan didn’t even touch her. Moreover, there were two stunning beauties at his house, and they were completely devoted to him.

“Because you resemble a friend of mine. Her name is Chen Qingqing.”

Lu Chuan sat there casually and continued, “Of course, you don’t look exactly like her right now, but I judge people by their bones. You’re just a bit too skinny and malnourished right now.”

“As long as you get some proper nutrition, you’ll look exactly like her!”

There was certainty in Lu Chuan’s voice.

In that moment, Chen Miaomiao’s breath suddenly quickened.

“Where… where is she?” Chen Miaomiao’s voice trembled slightly, as though this name had an extraordinary significance to her.

Lu Chuan glanced at her and patted her shoulder. “What difference does it make if I tell you? Do you even dare to go look for her now?”

In an instant, Chen Miaomiao seemed to lose all her energy, standing there with a dazed expression.

“What… what do you know?” Chen Miaomiao suddenly became tense.

Lu Chuan looked off into the distance.

“I only know what I should know.”

“Right, Chen Miaomiao?”

Lu Chuan smiled slightly and casually spoke her name.

Chen Miaomiao instinctively took a few steps back, her eyes wide with panic as she looked at Lu Chuan, clutching her clothes tightly. Her gaze was filled with fear.

“Do you… do you know who I am?” Chen Miaomiao asked nervously.

Lu Chuan glanced at her, then turned his gaze back to the horizon. “I told you, I only know the things I should know. As for what I shouldn’t know, I don’t know anything.”

“So, you can relax.”

Lu Chuan’s voice was calm, but it felt like a heavy hammer, striking again and again at Chen Miaomiao’s heart.

On the windowsill in the room, two little heads were peeking through.

“Looks like the boss is fooling around again.”

“It seems so. Didn’t you see? Dieyi was scared!”

“Do you think Dieyi’s real identity is?”

“What’s it to us? To us, she’s just Dieyi. When the boss wants us to know, we’ll know.”

Su Ruan and Bai Siyu spoke one sentence at a time.

Chen Miaomiao tried to calm her emotions.

After a long pause, she finally asked, “Why are you helping me?”

“Nothing,” Lu Chuan shook his head. “If you want to leave, pack your things and ask Siyu for some traveling money. Leave while it’s still dark.”

“You have no identity or travel permit. If you’re found by the officers during the day, they’ll probably beat you to death.”

Lu Chuan paused for a moment.

“Oh, by the way, there are wolves, tigers, bears, and wild boars in the mountains.”

“Be careful when traveling at night.”