Chapter 60 The Woman in the White Dress

Gu Chen was holding a blue bag and soon ran into Soto City. At first, he cradled it in his arms, but seeing many people staring at him, he switched to carrying it by hand.

He walked aimlessly, pondering the true intention of the master. He paid no attention to something falling out behind him.

After walking for a while, he noticed that the bag was growing lighter and lighter.

Looking down, he saw that a hole had torn at the bottom of the blue bag, and a significant portion of the items inside was missing.

Gu Chen turned back to search and found his dropped item near a trash can—it was a chicken leg.

It had been picked up by a very pretty woman with slightly messy hair, wearing a white long dress and white sneakers.

She was taller than average women by half a head, probably around one meter seventy-five, and her fair face was smudged with a bit of dust.

Her eyes were vacant and she looked somewhat foolish. At that moment, she picked up the dirty chicken leg from the ground and prepared to put it straight into her mouth without even wiping it.

Gu Chen stopped her.

"Wait a moment, miss, this chicken leg cannot be eaten!"

"......"

Gu Chen wanted her to return the chicken leg to him.

The woman refused, pointing at a fast-food restaurant nearby that was packed with customers.

She giggled foolishly, "You treat me to a meal, and I will give this back to you!"

Gu Chen smiled awkwardly, "I have no money!"

He was not lying; he genuinely had no money. Before they set out, Yu Xiaogang had confiscated all of their funds...

"Then I cannot give this to you. What I pick up belongs to me."

The woman in white raised the chicken leg, about to put it into her mouth once more.

Gu Chen hurriedly dissuaded her! "Miss, wait a minute!"

Suddenly, he remembered something. He had picked up a bag of barbecue along the road, and it looked like it was cooked!

So he suggested, "Miss, if you give me the chicken leg, how about I treat you to barbecue?"

The woman in white glanced at the transparent bag of meat skewers Gu Chen was carrying in his right hand.

She nodded and readily agreed.

The two of them arrived at an abandoned, windowless old newsstand not far away.

The woman sat on the ground with no regard for her posture and picked up a few skewers of barbecue to eat.

Watching the woman devour the food voraciously, Gu Chen began to feel a bit hungry as well. He picked up a skewer and took a bite.

Yet the moment he bit into it, the nauseating sensation of eating raw meat made Gu Chen feel extremely uncomfortable, and he spat it out instantly.

"This cannot be eaten! Let me treat you to the fast-food place next door instead!"

The woman in white looked at Gu Chen in some confusion, but Gu Chen did not explain.

He took the meat skewers from her hand, put them back into the bag, pulled a tissue from his pocket, and gently wiped the bloodstains from the corner of her mouth.

"These are raw meats and cannot be eaten! Hurry and spit them out!"

With her mouth stuffed full of raw meat, the woman shook her head. Seeing the reluctance in her large, bright eyes, Gu Chen felt an indescribable pang of heartache.

"Hurry and spit it out! There is much better food inside!"

The woman stared blankly at Gu Chen for a moment, pondered for a while, and reluctantly spat out the raw meat.

Gu Chen picked up an old newspaper from the ground, wrapped up the raw meat that both he and the woman had spat out, and threw it into a trash can not far from the newsstand.

Before doing so, however, he habitually sorted the garbage!

He took out another tissue, gathered some water from the public washing basin by the fast-food restaurant's entrance, wiped the dirt from the woman's face, and straightened her messy black hair.

An exquisitely beautiful woman, looking like a daughter of a noble family, now appeared before Gu Chen.

"Alright, let us go inside and eat now!"

Because of his cultivation of the profound heart technique, Gu Chen instinctively gave people a feeling of approachability.

Combined with how gently Gu Chen treated her, she instinctively hooked her arm through Gu Chen's.

Gu Chen did not refuse either. In his heart, she was simply an innocent child, much like a younger sister.

Entering the fast-food restaurant, Gu Chen ordered some burgers, fried chicken, french fries, and other fast food.

The two of them swept away all the food before them like a whirlwind. When it came time to pay the bill, Gu Chen seized the moment when no one was paying attention to him, grabbed the woman in white, and bolted!

They had not run far when they heard someone shouting from behind: "Sir, you haven't paid the bill yet!"

Gu Chen acted as though he heard nothing, pulling the woman in white and disappearing into the mouth of an alley.

After Gu Chen fled, the waiter who had chased after them cursed his bad luck under his breath.

What era was this, and yet people were still dining and dashing!

Gu Chen had no choice. If it were just himself going hungry, he could endure it.

But he had such a pitiful little soul by his side, and he simply lacked the heart, leaving him with no option but to dine and dash. He would just have to return the money tomorrow once he had some.

Gu Chen led the woman in white all the way, and before running far, he sensed that someone was tailing them.

Gu Chen opened his mind's perception and found that the people tracking them were all dressed in black suits, looking like polished gentlemen on the outside.

Yet all of them exuded a murderous aura, clearly having taken lives before!

The pursuers meant business!

Pulling the wrist of the woman in white, Gu Chen bypassed a small alley and entered the back door of a hotel.

He knocked out a few guards at the entrance and hid with the woman in white inside a room that the cleaning lady had just swept and had not yet had time to lock.

In an office within the Soto City branch of the Spirit Hall, four or five men in black bowed respectfully to a man of about forty with a thick beard.

"Vice Hall Master, Miss Han's whereabouts have been discovered. Should we send people to capture her back?" asked a man in black.

"There is no rush; Han Shuya cannot escape! Right now, people from the Yang family are also searching for her. If our people run into them, it might cause a conflict."

"Before the action, secretly arrange a few more men and have them disguised. If we come into direct conflict with the Yang family's people, have these dozen or so people find a way to bring Han Shuya back to me."

"Understood, Hall Master!" the man in black bowed respectfully.

"You are all dismissed!"

"Yes."

......

After these men in black withdrew from the room, the middle-aged man paced back and forth.

He muttered to himself, "The Han family holds secrets regarding the ancient battlefield. If I can obtain this secret, I will surely soar to great heights in the future."

"No, I cannot rely solely on these people; I must take action myself."

He quickly draped a black-gray woolen trench coat that was resting on the back of his chair over his shoulders and put on a black fedora.

Snatching a brown tobacco pipe from the desk, he left the office.

Within the main hall of the Yang family, an elderly man in purple robes listened to a servant's report, stroked his inch-long beard, and walked around a pill furnace a few times.

He instructed a middle-aged man in green robes kneeling on the ground, "Mobilize all elite forces of the Yang family. You must snatch that girl from the Han family back!"

"Understood," the green-robed man replied respectfully, then rose and took his leave.

Watching the retreating figure of the green-robed man, the purple-robed elderly man muttered to himself.

"The Han family, no matter how wealthy and powerful you are, in the end, didn't you still make wedding robes for me, Yang Wudi? Hahaha..."

Inside the hotel room, Gu Chen released his spiritual perception and found that the crowd outside the hotel was gathering more and more.

It would be rather difficult to escape the hotel without using soul power.

However, a clever idea quickly struck him, and he thought of a method.

The divine weapon, the Heaven-Encompassing Luo Umbrella, first layer: Domain. It possessed the ability to conceal one's aura.

All he needed to do was give her a disguise.

"What is your name?"

"I don't remember!" The woman in white shook her head in a daze.

"Is that so? Sigh... Then shall I give you a name?"

"Okay!"

"You wear white garments and possess a gentle disposition. How about Bai Zhirou?"

"Mhm."

"Zhirou! There are bad people everywhere outside; they might be looking for you to settle scores. I will help you put on a disguise, and later you can wear my clothes and go out."

"What is a disguise?"

"It is like this..."

Gu Chen peeled a human-skin mask off his own face, revealing a delicate and pretty visage.

The woman in white stared in a daze.

"You are so pretty!"

Gu Chen smiled awkwardly. He was quite helpless himself; with slender eyebrows, slender phoenix eyes, fair skin, and bright pupils, if Gu Chen were to cross-dress as a woman and enter a courtesan contest, he would undoubtedly win the title...

With a flick of his wrist, the human-skin mask split into two. He placed one over his own face and handed the other to Bai Zhirou.

"I will help you put it on."

"Okay!" Seeming to find it great fun, Bai Zhirou let out a delighted sound.