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The night at Kuliupo is as dark as ink splashed on it.

After Su Yu left the town, he rushed north. The lights of Blackstone Town behind him shrank into a few dim fireflies in the night, and were eventually completely swallowed up by the undulating ridges.

He did not take the main road - the main road was full of spies from various forces, including spies from the Spirit Snake Trading Company, night patrols from the Lieyang Sect, and secret sentries from the Loose Cultivator Alliance. Every pair of eyes was staring at the people coming and going.

He walked on the animal path that only hunters would choose, walking between bushes and rocky beaches. There was no road under his feet, but every step he took was in the place where it would least leave any traces.

At three o'clock in the ugly hour, he arrived at Kuliupo.

The dead willow tree that had been struck by lightning stood on the top of the slope like a blackened skeleton, its branches twisting and piercing into the night sky.

Lin Shuang was sitting under the withered willow tree, Tingshuang's sword lying across his knees, and he was wiping the sword body with a clean cloth.

Her movements were very slow and meticulous, and she had to wipe every inch of the sword back and forth three times, as if she was wiping the body of an old friend.

Seeing Su Yu walking out of the night, she stopped what she was doing and relaxed her fingers slightly on the hilt of the sword.

"Still alive."

The tone was calm, but Su Yu could hear the tension in her voice - the tension of waiting for nearly two hours and worrying that he wouldn't come back with every breath.

"I didn't get the core information, but I saved a life."

Su Yu sat cross-legged opposite her.

The moonlight leaked through the gaps in the branches of the withered willows, casting mottled light and shadow on his face.

He took out a few pieces of dry food from his arms and gave them to Lin Shuang. Then, while nibbling the dry food, he told what he had found in the stone building.

He said it very briefly, but he did not miss every key point - there is another person behind Tianji Pavilion. This person uses the bronze mirror as a medium to hide in the dark. All the forces are attracted by this person, and the purpose is not to seize the treasure, but to hunt.

Treating everyone who gets the secret treasure as prey, treating all forces as hunting dogs, while this person himself sits in the mirror and watches the show.

Lin Shuang was silent for a long time after listening.

The wind blows through the dead willow branches and makes a whining sound, like someone crying in a far away place.

Her fingers tapped lightly on the scabbard of Tingshuang Sword three times - that was her habitual movement when thinking.

"Does this person know your details?"

She asked the most important question.

"Know something."

Su Yu did not avoid her gaze, "But he won't reveal my true identity for the time being.

Not because he was kind, but because he felt the game would be boring if it ended too early.

What he wants to see is hunting - putting me in the hunting net of all forces to see how long I can struggle.

But if one day he gets tired of it, or if I escape too far and escape his control, he can use my details as a bargaining chip to sell to any force at any time."

"Then what's his bargaining chip? What's your background?"

Su Yu didn't answer immediately.

He took the Gui Zi sword off his back and placed it on his lap. His fingers stroked the dark golden blood line on the sword, as if stroking the scar of an old friend.

The warning of the man in the mirror replayed word by word in his mind - don't tell anyone what you got in the ruins, including the woman carrying the Qingyun Sect Tingshuang Sword.

Once she knows your true identity, the gecko Gu will cause changes in her body and bite through her heart.

He can't say "time clan", he can't say "time seed", he can't say "time debt".

But he didn't want to lie to Lin Shuang - at least, he didn't want to tell a completely baseless lie.

"Follow me."

He stood up and walked down the slope.

There is a dry stream under the dry willow slope, and the stream bed is filled with pebbles washed down by flash floods.

Su Yu stood still in the middle of the creek bed, bent down and picked up a fist-sized pebble and placed it in his left palm, then pulled out the Gui Zi sword with his right hand.

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