Why did you provoke me?

Yu Meng led Niannian around the battlefield for about 7 more days, basically covering the entire battlefield, but they still couldn't find that place that looked like a dense forest.

Niannian sat on a fallen tree trunk. She stuffed some dry food into her mouth, then took a sip of water. "Fourth Sister, it seems that's the only place left. It's a bit of a pity."

"What's the pity? I didn't even expect this place when I came here." Yu Meng swallowed the dry food in her mouth.

"How so?"

"You always read storybooks, haven't you ever heard of the principle of 'kings not meeting kings'?" Yu Meng asked.

"Of course I've seen it, but what does it have to do with this battlefield?"

"Then do you think that dense forest is inhabited by King-level beings? The First Battlefield is only so big, how could there be two King-level beings there?"

Niannian rolled her eyes. "That's true." She took a sip of water. "Fourth Sister, look, that thing in the dense forest can run. Doesn't that mean it's not a regular visitor to the First Battlefield? Maybe it's just here for a few days."

Yu Meng nodded, "That's possible. It's assuming there are similar places on other battlefields, like the ones we've been to before."

Niannian put down the kettle. "Fourth Sister, when are you planning to go exploring?"

Yu Meng paused for a moment, looking at Niannian's shining eyes, "Go out and rest for a bit, then we'll go."

"Which one should we go to first? I'll ask Third Brother to look up some information for us."

Yu Meng looked at her in surprise, "I feel like you trust that Jing San quite a bit. What did he do?"

"Huh? Really?" Niannian looked up, confused.

"Yes, if I needed to check information, I would definitely go to Uncle Wu, not Jing San or Jing Si."

Niannian scratched her head. "Maybe it's just a habit. I don't want to go to Uncle Wu. His eyes are like radar; it's like he knows everything I'm going to say, but he doesn't say anything, just waiting for me to speak."

Yu Meng thought for a moment, "Really? I don't feel that way."

"That's you. He's the one who speaks first when he's with you. But with me, he doesn't say anything. I always feel like he can see right through me, which makes me very uncomfortable."

"When did all this happen? I remember he always had his eye on you if he had anything good."

"That's a different matter. He's been very good to me. Oh, Fourth Sister, don't ask anymore. It's just a matter of feeling, you can't be sure. Maybe it's my problem."

Seeing that she didn't want to talk about it, Yu Meng stopped asking.

"Okay, let's split up and investigate. It's never a bad thing to know more."

Back at Teacher Sun's residence, when we sat down to talk, we learned that the people Secretary Wu had sent had already entered the battlefield.

Teacher Sun placed the food she brought in from outside on the table. "I also want to ask, do we really want to save those people? They have absolutely nothing to do with us."

"Aunt Sun, you don't agree either, right?" Niannian started eating snacks heartily.

"To be honest, I don't really want to save them. Does anyone know who they are?"

"Yes, just as I thought."

Yu Meng didn't even look up, her hands busy with the snacks on the table. "Let's listen to Uncle Wu. If he says he'll help, I'll give him face. Anyway, this isn't too difficult for us."

Teacher Sun fell silent. Old Wu wasn't the type to easily show kindness.

"By the way, have those Jia family bone-drawing masters learned it yet?" Yu Meng asked, remembering this matter.

Teacher Sun looked a little unwell. "Hey, you mean those two? Only two of them know it. The rest have some problems."

"No way. My fourth sister and I have been gone for about half a month now, and they still haven't learned it?"

Teacher Sun glanced at Niannian. "They can't be compared to us. Their foundations are different. They need to change their techniques first before they can learn our skills. But why should we teach them our techniques?"

Niannian forgot to eat her snacks. "Aunt Sun is right, we can't just teach them anything." Then she remembered something else, "We have a few of our honorary disciples, have they learned it yet?"

Teacher Sun's smile was strange. "She studied with me for three days but didn't learn anything. When Jing San heard about it, she took her away. I heard that when she came out after learning, she had lost a lot of weight and said that Jing San was a devil."

"She's so ungrateful, she learned it and then cursed the person who taught her." Nian Nian pouted, "Next time, I won't teach her."

Teacher Sun's smile became even stranger. "I say, Niannian, this matter is really not her fault. Jing San's method was a bit too..." After thinking for a long time, Teacher Sun couldn't come up with a word to describe it.

"I know that Third Brother's approach might be a bit off, but what was the result? How was the result? Was it good or bad?" Niannian clearly understood Jing San very well, so she asked about the result.

"The result was quite good. Those who studied under him learned very quickly." Teacher Sun admired this point.

Yu Meng looked at Teacher Sun and asked, "Have you learned it all?"

"Of course you'll learn them all. If you don't, Jing San won't let you leave," Teacher Sun said with emotion.

"How come I didn't know Jing San had this ability?" Yu Meng murmured softly, and she made a note of it.

After waiting here for three days, Secretary Wu's investigation results came back.

They were beyond communication, and when their men got close, they were nearly killed.

But one thing is still strange: they stay in a fixed area, and the river seems to be a dividing line; they never cross the river.

Yu Meng asked, "Are there aliens where those people live? Did they bring back any samples?"

Yu Meng didn't know the team leader, but he was very respectful to her. "I brought back some of the food that those people had eaten. There were three kinds."

Yu Meng took a look and exclaimed, "Wow, I recognize all of them!"

Yu Meng kept one as a sample, and had the rest taken back to Qingyuan.

Since these people didn't need treatment, and there were many sect disciples here, Yu Meng and Niannian withdrew from the first battlefield.

Yu Meng led her to her small courtyard. Niannian looked around and said, "Fourth Sister, when did you buy this? It's really nice."

"I'll give you a key. If you come here by yourself in the future, you can stay here."

"Sure." Niannian didn't refuse; she wouldn't refuse anything given by Yu Meng.

"Fourth Sister, let's go out and have fun tomorrow. I feel like a savage on the battlefield."

"There's no need for so much trouble. If Little Gray has the energy to absorb, you won't call yourself a savage even if you stay for another month."

"That's true, but now that we're out here and back in the human world, we should naturally do what humans should do."

"What's up?"

"Let's go shopping, buy snacks, buy clothes, eat something delicious, and also buy some local specialties to mail back to Mom." Niannian counted on her fingers, one item at a time.

"Oh, right, we also need to buy some clothes and supplies for the children. We can't forget about my eldest brother's nephew."

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow," Yu Meng readily agreed.

What young girl doesn't love shopping!

The next morning, Niannian and Yumeng got up very early.

The first place they went was the bustling morning market. Yu Meng couldn't help but recall her first time visiting a morning market.

She was thinking that if she hadn't come that time, or if she hadn't reached out to save Xiao Hao, she might still be an ordinary girl now.

She wouldn't be poor, but she would never have achieved what she has today.

Niannian was quite happy. She was happily queuing up, saying, "Fourth Sister, come on, the things that so many people are buying must be delicious."

Yu Meng glanced at the signboard, but didn't know anything about it.

But I didn't refuse, "I saw there were people queuing over there too."

We'll be there in a bit.

The morning market was really crowded. After walking around, the two of them had their hands full of food.

"Can I still go shopping looking like this?" Niannian asked.

"Send it back, then come out again," Yu Meng said with a smile.

"That's all we can do, Fourth Sister. It would be better if the morning market lasted a little longer."

"How so?"

"That way, when we get hungry while shopping, we can come here to buy something to eat."

Yu Meng smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's how it should be."

Niannian smiled and said, "This is my first time in a place like this. When I was in the Zhao family, my sisters always took me to proper restaurants."

Yu Meng glanced at her, "If you want, you can go and see them when you go back this time."

Niannian just smiled and didn't say whether she would go or not.

The two sisters visited many places throughout the day, and learning from their experience at the morning market, they didn't buy much more.

During dinner, Secretary Wu sent me a message.

"We're waiting for news from the second and third battlefields. The fourth battlefield is rather unstable, but we have a squad there. If you're going, I'll make the arrangements."

Secretary Wu has come to terms with it; he can't stop Yu Meng, so he'll cooperate and try to minimize the danger.