Xing Yuhui heard footsteps and turned around. Two young men and a girl walked in, smiling at Long Xiao and heading straight for him.
"Ouyang Tuo, we finally found you."
The girl's voice was sweet, her smile bright with a hint of coldness.
Xing Yuhui frowned. These three acted as if they were above everyone, as if no one else mattered but Ouyang Tuo.
Long Xiao looked at the three and asked, "Is there something you need?"
The girl nodded and said, "Of course, we've been chasing you through two cities to find you."
"How did you know I was here?" Long Xiao asked.
"Why don't you ask us what we need you for?"
Long Xiao turned to look at Xiao Ming, who was still fighting, and said, "What you need is irrelevant, I just want to know how you found me."
"News of your appearance in Pingcheng has already spread. Some people are heading to Pingcheng, and some are coming here from Pingcheng."
Long Xiao looked back at Xing Yuhui. Xing Yuhui quickly said, "Mr. Ouyang, it wasn't us who leaked your whereabouts."
Long Xiao wasn't afraid of people looking for him, but a large number of people, and difficult ones at that, would be troublesome.
"Alright, finish up quickly, we need to leave here as soon as possible." Long Xiao said loudly as he walked into the house.
Hearing Long Xiao's words, Xiao Ming suddenly used the 'Chīmèi Xiāoyáo Bù' (魑魅逍遥步). Liu Tuozi had no way to dodge Xiao Ming's punches.
The previously disciplined fighting turned into a flurry of random punches, raining down on Liu Tuozi.
In less than a minute, Liu Tuozi was bleeding from his nose and mouth, beaten by Xiao Ming and falling to the ground.
Xiao Ming kicked Liu Tuozi's hunchback, and with a bang, Liu Tuozi was kicked to Xing Yuhui.
Xing Yuhui took out handcuffs and cuffed Liu Tuozi. This was a wanted criminal that police from all over were after, and he couldn't let him escape.
Just as Long Xiao reached the doorway, he suddenly dodged to the side. With a boom, someone inside the house fired a shot outwards.
The two young men and the girl rushed into the house like arrows. With a crash, the glass shattered, and two people were thrown out from inside.
Someone inside was handled. Long Xiao and Xiao Ming sprinted to the garage at top speed, smashing open the garage door and charging in.
Inside were piled over a dozen bags of Chinese herbs. On a table, there were over a dozen boxes, presumably also containing Chinese herbs.
"The contents of the boxes are yours. Take the others and leave this courtyard immediately." Long Xiao pointed to the boxes on the table and said.
Xiao Ming took out a bag from his pocket, opened all the boxes, poured the medicinal materials from the boxes into the bag, and left the garage with the bag.
The two young men and the girl encountered Xiao Ming, who was coming out, just as they reached the garage entrance.
"All of you, come with me, leave now."
"Is Ouyang Tuo inside?"
"Hurry up and leave, or it'll be too late."
After saying that, Xiao Ming ran out in a panic. The two young men and the girl, about to enter the garage to look, saw a red light shoot out and return to the garage. A tree in the courtyard suddenly burst into flames and burned rapidly.
"Junior Sister, don't go in, hurry and leave!" one of the young men shouted.
The two young men and the girl followed Xiao Ming and ran out of the courtyard.
Xiao Ming giggled and said, "You believe me so easily when I tell you to run? Hahaha."
Seeing Xiao Ming's mischievous look, everyone was stunned.
"Little brother, what is Ouyang Tuo doing in there?" the girl asked.
Xiao Ming took out a ginseng root, weighing about seven or eight ounces, from his bag, and with a crunch, took a big bite and started chewing.
"Little brother, that's ginseng, you can't eat it like that." A young man, fearing something would happen to Xiao Ming, quickly reminded him.
Xiao Ming finished the ginseng in his hand in a few bites and said, "I saw someone eat it like this and be fine, so I should be fine too."
"Don't talk nonsense, besides you, how could anyone else eat it like this?" The girl's eyes widened as she looked at Xiao Ming taking out another ginseng root.
Xiao Ming said while eating, "A while ago, I went to the East Sea and saw a handsome and dashing little friend eating it like this."
"Impossible, where in the East Sea did you see him?" the girl asked.
Xiao Ming scratched his head and said, "It seemed like a place called a Tang, I remember it was a large medical clinic."
"Xinglin Caotang." Xing Yuhui said.
Xiao Ming nodded and said, "That must be the name, my memory isn't good, I can't remember."
After chatting with them for a few sentences, Xiao Ming had already eaten three ginseng roots and a palm-sized Ganoderma lucidum.
Long Xiao waited for Xiao Ming and the others to leave the courtyard, pushed aside the piled-up herbs, sat directly on the herb bags, and used 'Long Tun Si Hai' (龙吞四海) to absorb the life energy contained in these herbs.
Although there were many herbs, their quality was a bit poor. Long Xiao felt no more life energy after less than half an hour.
He stood up and walked out of the garage. Long Xiao saw that the several trees in the courtyard had completely withered, and the potted plants in the adjacent room had also completely withered. He smiled wryly and walked out of the courtyard.
After absorbing life energy from medicinal materials twice in a row, he felt that a lot of life energy had been absorbed into his body, but his five-elemental energy was increasing more and more slowly.
Previously, after absorbing a large amount of life energy, the transformation into five-elemental energy was very noticeable.
This time, although the life energy increased significantly, the automatic conversion into five-elemental energy was almost imperceptible.
"Brother, all done?" Xiao Ming asked.
Long Xiao nodded and said, "Let's go."
Long Xiao and Xiao Ming got into the car. The girl ran after them, opened the car door, and got into Long Xiao's car.
Long Xiao didn't even look at the girl sitting in the passenger seat and drove towards the city.
"Hey, Ouyang Tuo, aren't you going to ask why we're looking for you?" The girl asked, seeing Long Xiao driving with a gloomy expression and ignoring her.
"If you want 'Dragon's Roar', I won't give it. If you want treatment, I don't have time. If you want..."
"Ouyang Tuo, don't think that no one can cure my grandfather's poison besides you. At worst, we'll go to the East Sea again and find the divine physician Long Xiao."
Long Xiao drove the car into the city, stopped by the roadside, got out, and said, "Go to the East Sea. I'll give you the car, drive yourself there. Xiao Ming, let's go."
The girl was stunned, and Xiao Ming was also confused. If he wouldn't agree, fine, but he even gave her the car.
"Brother, you're giving her the car, what will we drive?" Xiao Ming asked, catching up to Long Xiao.
Long Xiao quickened his pace and said in a low voice, "We'll buy another one. This car might have been targeted, so we can't drive it anymore."
The girl got out of the car and watched Long Xiao and Xiao Ming disappear into the distance, stamping her foot and shouting, "Ouyang Tuo, you stop right there!"
The cars behind them caught up, and after inquiring, Long Xiao and Xiao Ming had already vanished.
Xing Yuhui stopped his car and sighed helplessly. Before he could speak, the girl ran to his car and asked, "Big brother, where did Ouyang Tuo go? You must know."
Xing Yuhui shook his head and said, "He didn't tell me when he left, so I don't know."