Chapter: Chapter 30
The current situation, how to put it… well, it’s quite unsuitable for children.
Although their strength was far from adequate, the resilience of these young heroes secretly earned nods of approval from Bai Ling and the elders observing the match.
“So, why bother?” Leticia said with her arms crossed, a look of regret on her face. “I was planning on slacking off, but it seems I still had to take action.”
“You look more like you were playing,” Bai Ling replied coolly, returning to Leticia’s side.
Unlike Bai Ling’s swift and decisive actions, the battle between Leticia and Xia Xia appeared somewhat childish.
It was entirely Leticia one-sidedly toying with the girl named Xia Xia.
“Look at what you’re saying, I was just waiting for you to finish your business,” Leticia shrugged, indicating she wasn’t intentionally slacking off. “However, I feel like this girl’s voice is a bit familiar.”
“Your friend?” Bai Ling’s eyebrows, hidden beneath her mask, twitched slightly.
Leticia shook her head, “I don’t have friends. A king doesn’t need friends.”
“Then that’s truly pitiful.”
“I think you’re the least qualified person to say that,” Leticia rolled her eyes. “Alright, the matter is resolved, let’s go home and sleep.”
Bai Ling didn’t react. She stared blankly at the black safe in Leticia’s hand. Her old friend hadn’t mentioned this before.
“What’s inside?”
“How should I know? Didn’t your people give it to me?” Leticia stated that she just received it, so she had no idea what was inside. “Probably something worthless.”
“Something feels off… Hmm?” Bai Ling suddenly looked in the direction the trio had run from. “Someone else is coming.”
“I remember this road is basically deserted, right?” Leticia was also a bit confused. Although she hadn’t left home, she had seen the so-called ‘Central City’s Least Crowded Street Ranking’ online.
The street they were standing on was ranked second on that list.
What kind of day was it that made this road so lively?
A disheveled figure appeared under the dim streetlights. He wore a black coat and had several fragments of shiny silver rope netting hanging from him.
His expression was desperate. Upon seeing the two figures, one black and one white, standing not far away, and the three youths lying scattered on the ground, his expression seemed to crumble.
“Are you… the helpers they called for?” He covered his right eye with one hand and asked Bai Ling and Leticia.
Bai Ling nodded.
“You’re here to clean up? You’ve come quite in time, but these things on you…” Leticia seemed much more lively.
The man covered his face and sighed, “Alas, I am the one they were hunting.”
“Huh?”
“?”
The two girls tilted their heads simultaneously. If this man was who those three brats were chasing, then who was the black-clothed man who ran over earlier?
“Wait, wait, let me open this box.” Leticia quickly placed the safe on the ground. “I hope there’s nothing valuable inside.”
She had used the item as a hammer several times earlier, and hoped that whatever was inside wasn’t fragile.
The lock on the safe was naturally no match for Leticia. She lightly flicked her finger on the lock, and the seemingly secure lock simply cracked open.
Leticia’s forceful lock-picking method was convenient and fast, but it was a bit hard on the lock.
“Phew, let me see…” Leticia opened the lid of the box, and a small, yellowish-brown booklet appeared in her sight. “It’s a book?”
Bai Ling also leaned closer to Leticia. ” ‘A Treatise on Ancient Magic’, Hmm…”
“Could it be written by some chuunibyou? Are there still mages in the human world?” Leticia scoffed disdainfully.
She thought it was something good, but it turned out to be this?
Humans nowadays were no longer capable of using magic, so a magic book from the human world was evidently not credible.
“I don’t know about that, but it looks like stolen property, which somehow fell into the hands of you two ladies,” the man who had chased after them explained. “Let me take it back first…”
“That won’t do,” before the man could finish, Leticia refused. “You say that person just now stole it, but how do I know you’re not the thief who failed?”
“I can show you identification.”
“Identification can be forged, and so can people,” Leticia shook her head. “Although I have doubts about the credibility of this book, it involves ancient matters after all, so I cannot be careless.”
“Your expression is very serious. Is this book important?” Bai Ling whispered in Leticia’s ear.
“It’s not important to me, but if it falls into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, this world will probably have no peaceful days. I don’t want to have my game interrupted by a sudden power outage or network disconnection one day.”
“That answer is quite in your style.”
“Thank you for the compliment. Little sir, you should let someone known to this lady come and retrieve this book. Until then, this book will be kept by us, is that acceptable?”
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