Chapter 318: Chapter 318

No one knew if this kid was just lucky, encountering a woman like Hei Xue who believed in fate, and actually stumbling into becoming her other half. He should thank that fortune teller.

"Hei Xue? I'm not familiar with her." Xiaoyao blurted out this sentence, making Prince Li Cheng have an impulse to attack, but he ultimately held back.

Now Hei Xue was very powerful. If she knew he was disrespectful to Xiaoyao, the consequences would be very serious. At the very least, wanting to get support would be impossible.

At the same time, Xiaoyao himself had very strong abilities and couldn't be easily offended. Otherwise, if they encountered something in the future, it would be difficult to speak up.

"You may not be familiar, but you can speak to her. We can't even get to talk to her." Prince Li Cheng said. This statement was also an undisputable fact. Hei Xue wasn't someone everyone could talk to. Except for official business, not many people could chat casually with her.

"Your Highness, you're not going to keep talking about this, are you? Then I'll take my leave first. I still need to buy a mount." Xiaoyao didn't want to continue on this topic and prepared to bid farewell and leave.

"Oh, then that's that. Just mention it when you meet with Hei Xue. By the way, what kind of mount do you want to buy?" Prince Li Cheng didn't continue either. After all, his purpose had been achieved. Continuing would only have the opposite effect.

"As long as it's fast, anything is fine. Of course, it can't be too delicate—I can't afford to maintain it." Xiaoyao replied.

"I have a good thousand-li horse here. How about I give it to you?" Prince Li Cheng said. Giving Xiaoyao something would be best—this way he could better close the relationship.

Xiaoyao didn't want to close this relationship. Under such circumstances, if it were some people, they would feel burdened by taking others' things, thinking they might have to return something in the future, and would refuse.

However, Xiaoyao didn't do this. He very naturally accepted it.

"Good, then thank you very much."

Since someone was giving him something, why not accept it? This was voluntary on their part, not something he wanted. What was there to feel burdened about?

Just like that, Xiaoyao obtained a thousand-li horse for free and soon rode the horse out of Qingyun City, traveling a thousand li per day toward the small mountain village in the Eastern European Kingdom.

Although Fang Chunxue died in North Ming City, the place where Xiaoyao was found was the small mountain village. This was most important.

"Damn, what's this supposed to mean."

Xiaoyao arrived at the small mountain village. Through his calculations of the map, it was easy to determine this small village's location. But when he came to this place, he discovered it had actually been burned to the ground. Not to mention people—there wasn't even anything left.

Heaven shouldn't play .

"This seems to have happened over ten days ago. From the scene, this place should have been plundered, and then someone came later to clean up the scene."

Even though it was burned down, Xiaoyao still had to search for clues, hoping for some useful ones. From various clues, it seemed like it was plundered by a group of bandits, then the authorities came to handle the scene.

There was quite a gap between the plundering and cleanup. The plundering was over ten days ago, while the scene cleanup was just a few days ago. This kind of gap seemed to be the authorities' reaction capability.

Of course, these things could be known without deduction, because—there was a notice at the village entrance from the Eastern European Kingdom's East Sea City authorities, stating that the small mountain village had been plundered. For any matters, such as looking for people or reporting information, please go to the East Sea City yamen.

If that was the case, then he'd make a trip to East Sea City. He needed to go there to look for clues anyway.

East Sea City was only over a hundred li from here. With a thousand-li horse, it wouldn't even take half an hour if traveling at full speed. The road from here to East Sea City was all main roads, so he could gallop at full speed.

Xiaoyao's galloping came to a stop because in front of him was a convoy that occupied the entire road, slowly moving along with some travelers following behind.

This convoy looked very luxurious and also very domineering, occupying the entire road. It should be some important person's convoy, and a very domineering type of important person at that.

Xiaoyao followed behind for a while and felt it was really too slow, so he prepared to go around from the side. Although there was only one road, the roadside was also very flat, and it would be easy for the horse to pass.

At the same time, to prevent causing trouble, Xiaoyao deliberately went farther from the road and went around.

Unexpectedly, this trouble still found him...

"Kid up ahead, stop." People from the convoy behind shouted. Obviously, they were very displeased with Xiaoyao going around and getting in front of them.

They felt that just anyone couldn't walk in front of them, especially someone who looked like an insignificant small character—that was even more unacceptable. Updates are released by novel fire.net

This was naked slapping their faces.

"..." Xiaoyao frowned. These people behind were really persistent, causing trouble even . It seemed the only thing he could do now was—

Whipping the horse, he galloped again. Now the road ahead was wide and clear with no one—they were all blocked behind. He could let the horse reach its fastest speed and leave those people far behind.

Stop? How was that possible? There was no need to even acknowledge such people. The more you acknowledged them, the more trouble there would be. So the most correct approach was to leave immediately.

Xiaoyao left directly without saying a word, making everyone behind stunned and unable to react for a long time before there was finally some movement.

"Damn, this kid is really bold."

"Really interesting..."

"Young Master, this..."

When everyone was expressing their amazement, a handsome young man appeared from the convoy. At a glance, he was clearly an elegant young master. However, his face also revealed a kind of proud dandyism.

This young gentleman was the leader of this convoy. He was a dandy who had always been high and mighty in this Eastern European Kingdom. Behavior like just now was just a drop in the bucket for him.

Here, he had very deep foundations. At least in this Eastern European Kingdom, he could run rampant. As for strong people from outside, perhaps he might have considered them before, but in so many years, he had never encountered any, so naturally he wouldn't consider this possibility anymore.

Sometimes people were . It wasn't that they didn't know there were heavens beyond heavens and people beyond people, but having never encountered them, they felt invincible and could ignore those people.

It was precisely because of this that when they did encounter such people, they didn't know to repent and still thought they were the most awesome, that no one dared touch them. As a result, things only made them regret.

At this moment, the young gentleman naturally wouldn't fear anything and lightly roared at his subordinates, "What 'this'? Stop that person for me. I want to know exactly who dares to walk in front of this young master."

The young gentleman was very displeased, merely because someone else walked in front of him. This was also why so many people had been behind him without overtaking. Even if they had urgent matters, they had no intention of overtaking at all, because they knew that if they overtook, they would definitely be resented by this young gentleman, and any kind of retaliation might appear.

This wasn't something they could bear. These small common people just wanted to live peaceful lives and wouldn't fight with these powerful people. Even when walking, they had to go around them and didn't dare overtake.

Therefore, when they saw Xiaoyao's behavior, their expressions were extremely rich. They saw something impossible happen, but something they also hoped would happen.

Not daring to do something didn't mean not wanting to do it. Often, things one didn't dare do were the things one most wanted to do.

However, although they wanted someone to do it, they wouldn't give support. At most, they would pray that the person could escape—the person before them couldn't be provoked.

What made them happiest was that because of Xiaoyao's actions, that young gentleman's convoy sped up a lot, giving them the most practical benefit—they could reach their destination faster.

"Chase. Chase him down."

Eight people, eight fast horses, were chasing Xiaoyao. In their thinking, Xiaoyao should be caught up to very quickly, because these eight fast horses were all extraordinary—the fastest horses in the Eastern European Kingdom.

In this Eastern European Kingdom, being able to own such fast horses naturally proved from the side that this young gentleman's identity wasn't simple. However, this was only within the Eastern European Kingdom—whether horses or people.

These eight fast horses didn't catch up to Xiaoyao as they had imagined, but seemed to maintain a certain distance constantly. At first, they thought this was because they started late—as long as they were given time, they could catch up.

Now time proved one point: they couldn't catch up. This distance remained the same and had never closed. No matter how they accelerated, the other party could also accelerate and maintain the distance.

Finally, when their horses had reached their limit, the other party could still accelerate, though not too much. Without saying, everyone knew this was because the other party didn't want his horse to reach its limit state, which would be very harmful to the horse's stamina. Unless absolutely necessary, most people wouldn't do this.

Obviously, the other party didn't think being chased was anything that could force him to this point. This thought made them feel even more annoyed. They had always been the ones bullying and toying with people—now it seemed they were being played.

Of course, this was just their own inner feeling. Xiaoyao had no time to toy with or bully them, because he didn't have the time to waste on these people. In his eyes, these people were just an irrelevant group of passersby. Although these passersby were rather arrogant, they were still just passersby.