That's how it is...

Hua Wuye then looked at Lin Ling beside him, as if waiting for him to state his position.

"...Why are you looking at me? If Little Ye wants you to accept it, just accept it."

After a pause, Lin Ling rolled his eyes and said, "If Little Ye feels embarrassed, why not share some of the newly acquired elixirs with us?"

Fang Yue: ???

You're really fixated on my good stuff!

Lin Ling was unhappy when he found out that Fang Yue hadn't bought him any elixirs to increase his cultivation at the auction. Unfortunately, Fang Yue retorted with a "Do you have money?" leaving him speechless.

Because Lin Ling is really poor, he can barely scrape together some black ember, let alone blackstone. Any black ember he gets is used for his own cultivation.

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While the three were talking about this, Lin Ling had already called a group of elite guards to gather together.

"Let's go to Ma the blacksmith's smithy!"

Fang Yue waved his hand, leading his men to set off.

Anything else can wait, but Ma the blacksmith's matter can't be delayed!

"Why are we arresting Ma the blacksmith?"

Lin Ling and Hua Wuye, who were following beside him, were still puzzled.

"Because he's a strange creature!"

"What?!"

"Impossible!"

The two spoke almost simultaneously.

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Ma the blacksmith has been in Guyue Village for a long time, even longer than they've been captains.

In their minds, Ma the blacksmith is a Guyue Village resident, so how could he suddenly become a strange creature?

Neither of them believed Fang Yue's words, but Fang Yue didn't seem to be joking.

"It's too troublesome to explain. I'll tell you the details after we catch Ma the blacksmith."

As he said this, Fang Yue led them to the entrance of Ma the blacksmith's smithy.

It was still daytime, and the smithy's doors were wide open, with some customers and apprentices sitting inside.

"Surround the smithy! Don't let anyone out!"

With Fang Yue's order, the guard队员s behind him, although confused, still obeyed and spread out, surrounding the smithy.

Fang Yue and the other two then stepped inside.

"Vice-Captain Ye...no, Captain Ye?"

"Captain Hua, Captain Lin...what are you three captains doing barging in here?"

The apprentice guarding the shop was clearly flustered and asked nervously.

Fang Yue ignored them and directly searched room by room.

But soon, Fang Yue was stunned.

Because Ma the blacksmith was nowhere to be found in the smithy.

"Where's Ma the blacksmith?"

He grabbed a blacksmith apprentice he had met before leaving the village.

"Ma, didn't Ma the blacksmith go to welcome Captain Ye back to the village?"

"He? Welcoming me?"

Fang Yue frowned and looked at Hua Wuye and Lin Ling, who both shook their heads slightly.

"He hasn't appeared, or he might be hiding in some corner, watching us from afar."

Lin Ling analyzed, having a vague guess in his heart, seeing Fang Yue making such a big fuss.

Since Guyue Village had produced a strange traitor like Mu Zi, it wouldn't be surprising to have another internal accomplice.

It's just that he never thought that someone who had been in Guyue Village for ten years would actually be an internal accomplice!

"When did Ma the blacksmith leave, and what did he take with him?"

The apprentice seemed to sense that something was wrong and tremblingly recalled, "He, he took a bag, saying he was welcoming Captain Ye back to the village, picking up Ma Ling'er to return to the smithy, and buying the ink-colored ore from your hand."

Carrying a bag?

Fang Yue's expression was unsightly. This was clearly a prepared escape.

Ma the blacksmith must have initially run towards the village entrance, first observing the situation after the escort team returned, and then making his next move.

In other words, even if he wanted to escape the village, he would start from the village entrance!

"Go! We're going back to the village entrance!"

With a sinking face, Fang Yue led Hua Wuye and Lin Ling back to the village entrance, leaving only a small group of people to guard those in the smithy.

Ma Ling'er hid so deeply that Fang Yue suspected that no one in the smithy knew the true details of the two of them.

Back at the village entrance, the Blood Hunter was in charge of the scene.

"Blood Hunter, have you seen Ma the blacksmith?"

The Blood Hunter was slightly stunned: "Weren't you going to arrest him? Did he run away?"

"Well... before we could arrest him, he first lurked nearby and probed our situation. He probably saw that Ma Ling'er wasn't in the team and started his escape."

The Blood Hunter frowned.

He knew that Ma the blacksmith was a problem, so if he had seen Ma the blacksmith, he would have stopped him from leaving the village immediately.

But... he hadn't seen him... Wait!

The Blood Hunter's expression suddenly changed slightly: "That group of people just now! Just now, a group of guards went out on patrol! They were the only ones who left on horseback. If Ma the blacksmith wants to escape Guyue Village, foot travel is definitely not enough, he must steal a horse to leave! He must be in that group!"

Fang Yue frowned.

"Come, horses!"

"Wait, take me with you! I'm a hunter, and I can determine the direction they left by the hoof prints of the horses!"

"Okay! Blood Hunter, come with us!"

The 队员s next to him led over a dozen fast horses. Fang Yue was about to ride out of the village to pursue Ma the blacksmith.

"Going to the wild?" Lin Ling frowned, clearly hesitant.

"Captain Ye must have a reason for doing this. Let's follow!" Hua Wuye didn't have any objections.

The two captains, the Blood Hunter, and a group of elite guards soon rushed into the wild.

With the help of the Blood Hunter, they quickly followed the fresh hoof prints and found the patrol direction of the guard队员s who had left the village.

While riding after them, Fang Yue couldn't help but ask, "By the way, why did the village road become like this? Did something happen?"

As soon as these words came out, Lin Ling and Hua Wuye couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Don't you know?" Lin Ling said strangely.

"A few days ago, a large number of strange creatures ran towards our village, a chaotic mix of all kinds of strange creatures gathered together, like a fair. The village sounded the alarm at the time, and I even went to see Lord Han, but I didn't get a response. Later, we discovered that the strange army was just passing by and wasn't really heading for Guyue Village.

Even so, we were still worried about whether there would be another group of strange creatures, so we destroyed the village roads in various directions."

"Why? What does this have to do with the village roads?"

"...Because someone analyzed that the village roads have an aura that repels strange creatures, which in itself has become a kind of road sign. It can still work for weak strange creatures, but it's useless against this kind of strange army, and may even become an attraction."

Fang Yue frowned: "Isn't this just nonsense analysis? It doesn't make any sense."