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Chapter 1462 20.26 First Black Star - Thief

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Borderlands

Xiejing Province

A newly rented mansion was occupied by two gorgeous young ladies. They were always accompanied by two bodyguards and a maid as they strolled around the market area of the province. A lot of bachelors on the street were staring at them. After all, such noble ladies are rare to appear near the pier, which is surrounded with the scent of salty wind mixed with scent of raw fish and seafood.

Outsiders would always complain of the fishy smell.

As expected when Gu Roulan and Shi Mengli were walking around near the pier, their faces wrinkled by the fish smell. Shi Mengli immediately pinched her nose with disgust imprinted on her face. On the other hand, Gu Roulan calmly used her sleeve to block the smell for a while until she got used to it.

Shi Mengli complains, ”Ah~ What is this smell!? So fishy!”

The fish sellers in the area looked at them with an unfriendly expression. After all, Shi Mengli wouldnʼt even hold back her disgust, which annoyed the commoners in the area. As expected, a few minutes after Shi Mengli complained, some people whispered and snorted.

”Tsk! How did these young noble ladies get lost in the fish market area?”

”Donʼt tell me they are here to cause problems?”

”Should we call the Yamen over?”

”Would they even dare to touch noble beings like them. Tsk!”

”If they couldnʼt stand the smell, they shouldnʼt come in this area. So annoying~”

”This is why those noble daughters shouldnʼt have come over in our province.”

These words were heard by Shi Mengli, who was about to shout at these pheasants that didnʼt even know their place.

Shi Mengli shouted with her fist high up as if she wanted to hit someone. ”Who the hell are you calling annoying!?” Watch me destroy...”

”Xiao Meng, stop right now!” called Gu Roulan.

The warning in her senior sisterʼs tone was so scary that Shi Mengli instantly shrank her neck and looked at her with teary eyes.

Gu Roulan gave her a glare and approached the seller in the area. ”My little sister is young. I hope aunts and uncles will not be offended by her words. I will definitely sell her when we get home.”

Some sellers were understanding seeing the politeness this young lady is showing to them regardless of the difference in their standing. Some sellers in the area ignored yet, and some averted their eyes in embarrassment.

A kind aunt said, ”Young lady, you must have gotten lost. The main market is not this way, but on the opposite side. There is only a cliff at the end of this direction, and itʼs dangerous for you to go there.”

”Thank you, aunt. We are actually here to look for someone. I plan every place in this province. So the cliff must be checked as well. By the way, are there any other outsiders that stay in this province? We just wanted to investigate, and maybe we can find our relatives who had gone missing?” said Gu Roulan.

The sellers in the area felt sympathy towards him, and some other gossipy seller had also come over to talk to these young ladies.

The fish market sellers said:

”This place is too close to the sea. There are always some people pushed over by the waves that land in our area. Most of them have left and some stayed to live in this place.”

”No one knows why there are too many deserters or outsiders found in this province. Maybe because the sea is kind that they were brought over at the shore alive.”

”Most of them had left after being treated, and some had married over to some villages in this place and lived here.”

”Ah! Right! Did that ugly bachelor also find this place a few years ago?”

”That used to be memoryless, but after almost dying under the claws of a blind bear, he remembers everything.”

”Didnʼt they say he died in the clinic?”

”Eh? But the Saint Doctor cured him; except for his ugly, everything else is good.”

”I know about this. Didnʼt that man almost die when the sky turned gold?”

”They say he was blessed and survived in the end. Even the Saint Doctor was surprised he was still alive the next morning.”

Gu Roulan and Shi Mengli when they heard about the phenomenon of the man who died and going back to life when the phenomenon of the golden sky had happened. They already heard from their elders that maybe those divinities borrow a mortalʼs identity to remain in the mortal realm. Even the god that appeared on the mainland had borrowed the identity of a young official.

They immediately join the conversation of the gossipy villagers.

”Aunts, Uncles, can we know more about this person whom you said to have survived under the attack of the blind bear?” said Gu Roulan.

The aunts looked at her worriedly and said, ”Young lady, you are too beautiful. If it was someone else, we couldnʼt mind introducing you to that ugly rich man.”

”Thatʼs right. Unfortunately, we heard he is already married to a Ger and had been waiting for his Fulang to come pick him up. You already have no chance.”

Upon hearing this, Shi Mengli was stunned at first, but after digesting the content of the conversation, she covered her mouth and stopped the laughter that was about to burst out of her mouth. These aunts thought her senior sister was interested in that ugly man as a husband candidate.

Pfft!

Gu Roulan calls with a warning tone, ”Shi Mengli.”

”Okay. I wonʼt laugh anymore. Forgive me, Jiejie~,” said Shi Mengli.

Sigh~

After choosing to ignore her silly junior sister, Gu Roulan continues to speak with the gossipy aunts and uncles.

”Aunt, I am not finding him as a candidate husband. We just wanted to check if he was our missing relative and wanted to meet him,” said Gu Roulan.

”Meeting is not hard. You go to the Anjia Village. The only mansion in that village happens to be his. You can go meet him.”

”Child, let me warn you. Donʼt ask him to remove his mask. I heard her face was completely disfigured by bear claw marks, and it looks extremely scary.”

”There are lots of men in this province. There should be a more suitable husband candidate if you are interested in matchmaking.”

Before these aunts and uncles surrounded them, Gu Roulan and She Mengli urgently bid their goodbyes and ran off. They no longer choose to check on the cliff in the morning as there are too many people. They can only check if there are any traces left in the evening. They reappeared in the main street, where the market is bustling at this period of time.

Shi Mengli and Gu Roulan got separated by the crowd and had no choice but to investigate on their own.

Shi Mengli said, ”Wuaa~ those aunts are scary. How come they want to matchmake any single ladies and ger they found!?” but when she turns around, there is only one maid and bodyguard puppets following her. Her senior sister had gone missing.

”Senior Sister? Ah! We got separated!”

This silly young lady didnʼt even notice that a group of rats (thieves) were targeting her from the dark corner of the market. They already have their eyes on these two young ladies when they come out of that rented mansion. Unfortunately, Gu Roulan didnʼt look easy to deceive, and they wanted to wait when there were fewer people to act as the two ladies.

Who would have expected that they would get split by the crowd, giving these bad men an opportunity to make trouble?

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On the other side of the street, Gu Roulan is pinching the space between her eyebrows. Just the fact that Shi Mengli got separated from her gave her a headache; she is afraid that her junior sister must cause a commotion and even used her qi to fight. If that happens, it would be over, and these mortals would look at them guarded and unfriendly.

She had experienced that multiple times and realized that the hatred between cultivators and mortals is too widely spread and hard to ignore. Thatʼs why she chose to disguise herself, and this is to avoid unnecessary problems from happening.

Gu Roulan sighed. ”Forget about the mission for now. I need to find Xiao Meng before she makes things worse.”

Suddenly, she noticed that a commotion that caused people to gather was happening on the other side. She overheard a few mortals passing by her talking to each other.

”I heard there is a fight happening over there!”

”Hahaha~ this is the first time I have seen such a powerful young lady.”

”They said they saw her pick a man bigger than her and beat him to the ground.”

When Gu Roulan heard about this event, she couldnʼt help but cover her face in helplessness.

She mumbles, ”Hah~ itʼs already too late.”

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At the side of the street where Shi Mengli got lost, she didnʼt have the same patience of her senior sister to do the mission. She had even gotten lost near the food street where countless stalls selling food were in rows. This young foodieʼs eyes glowed when she saw the various foods.

In the Floating Island, except for some rare snacks and tea, most disciples would eat a Bigu Pill to keep themselves from being hungry. This Bigu Pill was distributed to the disciples who havenʼt reached the cultivation stage where they can control their qi through spread throughout their bodies to keep an optimal state where they wouldnʼt feel hunger.

For Shi Mengli, who loves food it was like a torture to eat only Bigu Pill every week. Thatʼs why she likes going to the mortal realm, which sells a variety of food to compliment her bottomless stomach. Now, holding a few skewered grilled mutton and squid in her hand as well as a small basket full of snacks and candies, Shi Mengli happily eats her food.

She was enjoying herself and even completely forgot about her task and the fact that her senior sister is missing.

”Yum… This is also delicious! Ah~ so sweet. Hm~ this is heaven~” Shi Mengli said while giggling as she happily eats her newly bought street foods.

She suddenly saw a small stall selling noodle wontons and the scent had attracted her. ”Grandma, give me a bowl of that noodle wonton!”

”Haha~ okay! Come over and grandma will serve you a big one!” said the noodle wonton seller.

All of a sudden, just as Shi Mengli was about to receive the bowl of noodles from the grandma, a young man ran past beside Shi Mengli, almost bumping her over and her bowl of noodles almost spilled. Shi Mengli was annoyed and shouted,

”Hey! Watch where you are going!” Shi Mengli said.

A kind customer beside Shi Mengli noticed that the young man that ran past just now is a thief and informed the young lady. ”Little darling, check your pouch. That man just now seems to be a thief!”

The other customers near them also checked their pouches and noticed that some of theirs were gone. Shi Mengli checked on her clothes for her coin purse and noticed that it was gone.

”Itʼs gone! My coin purse! You damn thief!”

Shi Mengli was about to chase after the thief when she recalled that she hadnʼt paid the old lady for the noodles she just finished eating. She looked through her robe and found not even a single tear of silver on her. She decided to give her warming jade to the old lady as payment.

”Grandma, take this jade as payment. I still need to chase that bad thief!” said Shi Mengli.

Before the old lady could decline, Shi Mengli, this wild lady, had already run after the thief. Those who had lost their pouches had also chased after her. Maybe that young lady might thoroughly be able to chase the thief.