
Chapter 21: Intrusion
While Liu Huan was watching them, a bandit troupe came from behind. Hearing the footsteps of the horse, Liu Huan quickly hid behind the trees there. In the company, he saw some prisoners walking behind them with their hands tied with ropes.
“Hmm... It seems like I have an idea,” Liu Huan said.
Liu Huan took off some of his equipment and infiltrated the entourage as a prisoner. Quietly, he walked behind the group. As he approached the group, the prisoners looked towards him. Liu Huan told them to be quiet, making them understand what Liu Huan wanted to do.
Since the guard at the back was absent, Liu Huan easily entered the entourage.
[Master it seems you forgot something]
Instantly a rope tied Liu Huan's hand and connected with the other prisoners' ropes.
“Good work, system,” Liu Huan said.
When he got to the front of the gate, the group paused for a while.
“Open the gate!”
“Good, Sir!” said one of the guards
The gate of the settlement was opened, and they again walked into the settlement. As it passed by the guards, there were sinister gazes from them towards Liu Huan. Realizing that, Liu Huan tried to remain calm and lowered his gaze.
After they entered the gate, the bandit troupe descended from their horses. One of them walked towards the prisoners, untied them and told them to follow him.
“Here you all!” his orders in a proud tone.
Inside the settlement, Liu Huan saw extremely apprehensive conditions. The neighborhood in the settlement felt gloomy and dark, as if life there no longer had hope. In the corners of the settlement, he saw many starving people with thin bodies, sunken faces, and hair beginning to fall out.
‘Sial, what exactly are they doing here?’ thought Liu Huan.
While paying attention to the surroundings, Liu Huan continued walking following the orders of the bandits. Until they reach a tent.
“Come in turns” said the bandit.
One by one the prisoners entered the tent. As they waited for their turn, they saw the frightened faces of the people who had entered and exited the tent.
‘What's in there?’ thought Liu Huan.
After a long wait, under the scorching sun, Liu Huan's turn finally arrived. He casually walked into the tent. There, he saw a man with a large body sitting while eating tiger meat. The man was named Dao Fang, a leader of the bandit group. When Liu Huan entered the tent, Dao Fang stared intently at him. The meat in his hand was placed on the table. He stood up and walked towards Liu Huan.
"So you're the last one?" tanyakanya.
Liu Huan simply kept silent and did not care about his talk. Seeing that, Dao Fang asked once again, "Damn it, if anyone asks, answer it!"
"Yes," Liu Huan replied with a tone of judes.
"Good-good. You know, here trash like you guys would be very useful to us. Some can be entertainers, workers, and some can even be soldiers" Dao Fang said as he circled Liu Huan.
Feeling uneasy from being stared at by Dao Fang, made Liu Huan become a little emotional. "Damn it, can I kill him now?" thought.
[Please arrest the host, if you kill him here it is likely that those outside will attack you immediately]
‘Sial..’
After observing Liu Huan for quite a while, Dao Fang walked back to his seat. With an arrogant pose, he looked at Liu Huan.
"Now, you'll be a fighter in our group."
"Twin duo, come here!" dao Fang's screams were heard all the way out of the tent.
Suddenly from far away, Liu Huan felt the footsteps of two people rushing towards them. When the tent opened, Liu Huan saw two twins who were about 14 years old. One was a white-haired man with such a cute face and another was a short-haired woman with a serious face.
"Yes, sir. What's up?" askthem.
"From today, you train this man with you."
"Good, sir."
"Good, then take this man out and start training him."
The three of them came out of the tent. When they were outside, they inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.
"Eh?"
"Eh?"
There is a strange thing between them.
"Greetings, my name is Yin, and my sister is Yang" said the twins.
"I'm Liu Huan."
"Sister, from the appearance of big brother, it seems like big brother is more trained than us. But why did you get caught?" ask Yin.
Because he was still in front of Dao Fang's tent, he invited them to go to his tent and talk about the matter. When he arrived at the tent, Yang observed around and closed the curtain of his tent.
“Aman,” sahut Yang to her brother, Yin.
“Good, now can you tell me what your destination is here?” yin asked Liu Huan
At first, Liu Huan thought that they would be resolute and suspect him, but it turned out that the opposite was true.
“Hmm... Before that, why did you even say that? Shouldn't you be following orders from your leader?”
“Kakak, we are actually also the one who was arrested a few months ago. Due to such a hard working system, we harbored emotions on him.”
“Then, why don't you guys fight him?”
“Hadeh, so this is brother. With our current strength, we will not be able to defeat Dao Fan who is in the realm of ‘Heavenly Transformation’. Therefore, challenging him is tantamount to looking dead.”
Hearing Yin's words, Liu Huan came to mind.
‘System, if I face him, can I win easily?’
[Of course not.]
‘Eh, why is it like that?’
[Regarding the cultivation level that the host got from completing the tutorial mission, at this moment the host was only at the middle stage primary core realm.]
‘Sial, so how should I fight it?’
[Just practice and wait for my next mission.]
‘Can't I use my original cultivation alone?’
[No, using the cultivation obtained from the system only makes you a trash. If you want strength then practice, many people end up successful because of their hard work and experience.]
‘When can I use that cultivation?’
[You can use it if you are in a state of urgency or about your life.]
‘So now I'm-‘
[No. Once I said no yes no.]
Seeing the silent Liu Huan, Yin and Yang tried to call out to him.
“Kakak!”
“Kakak!”
“Eh, what's up?”
Liu Huan regained his senses from his daydream.
“What do you think?” yin asked with a worried face.
“Nothing, I was just thinking how my life would go here.”
“Do not worry brother, here we guarantee everything will be safe.”
Behind the sincere words of the two of them, it turned out to be a wicked smile behind him. Meanwhile, Dao Fan who was in his tent was seen smiling while eating his favorite meat.
“Now let's wait for information from the Twin Duo. As a leader of the number 2 bandit squad, what would they do to the boy?”