Nuannuan watched the scene before her, stunned.

For a moment, she even forgot about Han Zhan's previous indecent behavior.

"Why are they trying to kill you?"

Nuannuan shook her head blankly. "I don't know."

"Fifteen days ago, this group of shadows appeared in Fulong City." Nuannuan hesitated a bit before continuing.

She finally decided to tell her story to this handsome but perverse guy.

"At first, there was only one shadow. It suddenly appeared in the evening and tried to kill me."

"I ran for my life, kept running, and finally made it to the next day. As the sun rose, it disappeared."

"I thought it was over, but it was just the beginning."

"Every day since then, the number of shadows appearing at night increased. More and more shadows wanted to kill me, and it became harder to escape them."

"Later, to avoid the pursuit, I had to leave the city at dusk and hide deep in the forest where the trees were thick."

As Nuannuan spoke, she recalled with lingering fear, looking pitiful and helpless.

"Are you with the Anti-Xia Alliance?" Han Zhan asked again.

The little girl nodded.

Han Zhan frowned slightly. "Doesn't the Anti-Xia Alliance care about this?"

Shadows increasing every night, a dozen shadows appearing in Fulong City, and no one cares?

Han Zhan's question made Nuannuan shake her head in fright, as if recalling something terrifying.

"They can't see!" Nuannuan's little face turned pale.

"They can't see them at all!"

She kept emphasizing this sentence.

Can't see?

Upon hearing this answer, Han Zhan instinctively glanced around.

The corpses he had cleanly cut down were still on the ground.

When fighting, the response from his Moonlight Longsword stabbing them felt very real.

Who couldn't see them?

Nuannuan said painfully, "Those capable uncles and aunts, older brothers and sisters, tried to help me at first."

"But after a few attempts, they all thought I was lying! But Nuannuan never lied!"

The little girl rolled up her sleeve, revealing a section of her snow-white arm.

A hideous scar, recently scabbed over, was there.

"This is the wound from being struck by the shadow. They really exist!"

Nuannuan became very emotional as she spoke.

Han Zhan was the second person besides her who could see and kill these shadows.

If it weren't for Han Zhan's bizarre behavior initially lowering Nuannuan's impression of him to the maximum extent.

She would now probably be holding onto his arm, crying loudly.

That's why, after hesitation, she decided to tell Han Zhan all this.

Han Zhan, upon hearing all of this, fell silent.

A group of shadows that only this little girl and he could see?

He looked up at the sky, which was pitch black, not a star in sight.

Yet it seemed something was watching him in the darkness.

"It's getting late, let's head back to Fulong City first."

He withdrew his gaze and said.

Perhaps because Han Zhan had helped her deal with the shadows that had been haunting her for days, Nuannuan didn't feel as repulsed by him as she did initially.

Her impression of Han Zhan shifted from a super disgusting pervert to a not-bad-looking rogue.

But she still maintained absolute distance with caution.

A combination of a little girl and a rogue appeared on the road to Fulong City.

As the main city of the Anti-Xia Alliance, Fulong City.

Is undoubtedly a giant city.

Its magnificence first manifests in this towering city wall before them.

The crimson city wall stood a hundred meters tall, with two similarly tall bronze gates at the front.

At deep night, the gates were tightly shut.

"Why so slow?"

As Han Zhan examined the city wall and gate, an old lady smoking a pipe emerged slowly from a side door nearby.

Beside the giant city wall of Fulong City, in an inconspicuous corner, there was another side door.

The old woman came out from there.

"Token?" she stretched out her hand to Han Zhan.

Spotting little Nuannuan beside him, she let out an "Oh."

"So it's really Zhan Ning's favored subordinate who so quickly tricked a young girl into your hands."

"Tsk, going after a minor, quite shameless."

With a few words, the old lady revealed her identity.

So this was the fourth gate Zhan Ning mentioned, here.

Han Zhan felt a bit awkward and scratched his head.

"Zhan Ning said, each day he misses you, he'd pluck one out, thinking of you daily, with deep affection."

Nuannuan, hearing this, immediately blushed fiercely, like a boiling teapot.

The old lady, however, calmly took a puff from her pipe, exhaling clouds of smoke.

"Words mean nothing. Where's the token?"

Han Zhan feigned ignorance, "What token?"

The old lady knocked her pipe on the ground and bluntly asked, "The hair?!"

"The... the hair was blown away by the wind." Seeing the old lady's wrinkled expression, Han Zhan quickly added, "But I can assure you, they're all in the woods a few hundred meters away."

"If it pleases you, you can go and fetch them one by one."

Old lady: "..."

"Without a single hair, you want me to let you into the city?"

The old lady seemed a bit agitated.

But she soon calmed down again, letting out a laugh.

"Fine, given you look more handsome than Zhan Ning, let's do you a favor."

"Come on..."

As she spoke, the old lady intended to lead Han Zhan through the side door as tall as a person.

Unexpectedly, Nuannuan shook her head resolutely.

"I won't. I won't crawl through the dog hole."

"I'll wait here until dawn and enter through the main gate when it opens."

"Dog hole?"

Han Zhan halted and looked at Nuannuan.

"Yes, the main entrance is over there. This side door is called the dog hole in the Anti-Xia Alliance; that's what we all call it."

"If others saw me crawling through the dog hole, I'd never live it down!"

"Anyway, the gate will open after dawn, so why should I enter through the dog hole."

Nuannuan stated seriously.

"Is this really a dog hole?" After listening to Nuannuan, Han Zhan turned to ask the old woman.

The old woman readily nodded.

"Yes, for the people of the Anti-Xia Alliance, this is the 'dog hole.'"

"She can wait until dawn when the main gate opens and walk in with dignity because she belongs to the Anti-Xia Alliance."

"But you can't. As an outsider of the Anti-Xia Alliance, to enter its main city, there are only two ways."

"First, go through the side door, the dog hole. You've seen it, even though it's called a dog hole, it's the height of a normal door."

"Over the years, tens of thousands or at least thousands of outsiders have entered Fulong City this way. Don't have any psychological burden, even Zhan Ning entered Fulong City through the dog hole, it's not shameful."

The old woman tried to persuade sincerely.

"What's the second way?"

"The second way?" The old woman took a deep drag on her pipe and knocked on the giant door with force.

"The second method."

"Knock and challenge, break through five gates, enter the general's tent, fight your way in."

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