Chapter 245: The Spies Are Gone

“While other glass products haven’t appeared yet, selling this now will fetch the highest price.”

Yun Huizhou rubbed his chin and said, “If we take it back and let Martial Uncle Xi put it in the Linjiu City auction house, it should fetch at least a hundred gold taels. That is, provided no other colorless glass has appeared on the market by the time we get it back.”

Lian Li sighed and said, “But it will take us at least three months to get back. Who knows if other colorless glass will have appeared by then?”

Lian Li suddenly missed the express delivery services of the modern world. Of course, there were escort agencies here that could transport goods.

However, colored glass was already considered a luxury in this world, let alone transparent glass. There was no guarantee that the people at the escort agency wouldn’t be tempted when they saw such a “rare treasure.”

Lian Li thought for a moment, then said to Yun Huizhou, “Do you think Grandmaster’s gyrfalcon or Martial Uncle’s eagle could carry this back?”

Yun Huizhou replied, “The weight wouldn’t be an issue, but it would take them some time to fly back. They would inevitably bump it while catching prey mid-journey. Glass is fragile; I’m afraid it would be damaged by the time it arrived.”

“Sigh~ Then there’s no other way. Let’s find a place to hide it first.” Lian Li said in a low voice, “It’s just a shame this thing is so fragile. Otherwise, given its size, taking it into the desert wouldn’t be a problem.”

The two chatted as they returned to the small border town.

As they approached the inn, they keenly noticed that the people who had been spying on them earlier were all gone.

Lian Li frowned slightly. Only after returning to their room with Yun Huizhou did he whisper, “Those people are all gone. If Master dealt with them, that’s fine, but if they ran off, it might be a bit of trouble.”

“I’ll go ask Master,” Yun Huizhou said.

Lian Li nodded and said, “Go quickly then. If they really did run off, we need to prepare early.”

Yun Huizhou knocked on Island Master Nan’s door. Although Island Master Nan was already asleep, he woke up the moment Yun Huizhou approached his room.

As soon as the knock sounded, the door opened automatically.

Yun Huizhou entered the room. Island Master Nan was sitting on the bed looking at him, his eyes questioning.

After Yun Huizhou finished recounting everything that had happened after he and Lian Li went out that afternoon, he asked, “Master, where are the spies?”

Island Master Nan shook his head and met Yun Huizhou’s gaze.

After a moment, Yun Huizhou understood Island Master Nan’s meaning. After he and Lian Li had left, that group of people had also departed. As for where they went, he didn’t know.

Yun Huizhou took a deep breath and said, “It seems we really are going to be besieged by another wave of horse bandits.”

Island Master Nan did not blame them for causing extra trouble and provoking the bandits. Before lying back down, he conveyed his intentions to Yun Huizhou.

【Resolve it as quickly as possible; do not delay for too long. You must enter the desert before May.】

“Understood, Master,” Yun Huizhou replied, then withdrew from Island Master Nan’s room.

Hearing the sound of Yun Huizhou’s return, Lian Li immediately scrambled up from the bed, his eyes full of hope as he asked, “What did Master say?”

Yun Huizhou: “Master said those people left the city shortly after we went out and haven’t returned.”

Lian Li’s expression stiffened. “In other words, the horse bandits will likely receive news of us again and come to hunt us down?”

Yun Huizhou nodded. “Yes.”

“Is there any way to know which nest of bandits it is? We can’t just wait for them to come looking for trouble,” Lian Li said. “The things we need won’t be ready until the day after tomorrow. We can’t exactly run away overnight.”

Yun Huizhou walked to the bedside and toyed with Lian Li’s hair, saying, “Actually, they might not necessarily come looking for trouble.”

“How so?” Lian Li asked.

“If it’s a small-scale group of bandits, they lost over forty people coming after us this time. If they come again, they’d need at least sixty people to dare show their faces,” Yun Huizhou said. “If they lose again and throw away more manpower, the loss would be devastating. Other bandits would surely find a way to annex them.”

“But what if it’s the kind of bandit group with several thousand people?” Lian Li asked.

He didn’t really care about small-scale bandits; what he worried about were those large-scale groups.

Yun Huizhou rubbed his chin and said, “If it weren’t for this colorless glass business, I’d think the large-scale bandits might come looking for trouble. But now that this colorless glass has appeared, I think those big bandits will be more focused on the glass than the small change we spent on bathwater and supplies.”

“After all, we saw three groups of bandits fighting over the colorless glass today, plus a group of black-clad assassins of unknown origin. So, quite a few bandits should know about the colorless glass.”

Lian Li lay flat on the bed. “But the colorless glass is also on us.”

Yun Huizhou smiled and said, “But no one knows that. The bandits and the black-clad assassins are all dead. However, we’d better leave as soon as we get our supplies. After all, the place where we killed the first group of bandits isn’t too far from where the bandits were brawling. If they discover everyone died at our hands and go to the first group of bandits to gather information, we might not be facing just a few thousand bandits.”

Lian Li: “Then how many would we face?”

Yun Huizhou: “At least three large bandit groups, one small group, plus the reinforcements sent by the black-clad assassin organization. If just the three large bandit groups mobilize in full force, that would be over ten thousand people. Add in the scattered bandits looking to scavenge, and the number will likely be even higher.”

Lian Li pulled the quilt up, covering his entire head. His voice came out sounding broken: “Ten thousand bandits… even if Master makes a move, I’m afraid ‘many ants can bite an elephant to death.'”

Ten thousand bandits—even if ninety-nine percent of them only knew basic brawling, they wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Although Island Master Nan was a Transcendent whose martial arts were strong enough to transcend the level of ordinary people, he was still human at his core. He would get tired, and his internal energy would eventually be depleted.

“Yun Huizhou, I think we’ve stirred up a huge mess,” Lian Li said.

Yun Huizhou also climbed onto the bed, crawled under the quilt, and hugged Lian Li, comforting him: “Don’t be afraid. This is just the worst-case scenario. Besides, we are a small group and a small target; they might not necessarily find us. We’ll just keep a low profile for the next few days.”

Yun Huizhou truly didn’t think it was a problem. If they couldn’t win a head-on fight, could they not at least outrun them?

On Drunken Dream Island, the internal energy cultivation methods and lightness techniques available for disciples to learn were all world-class.

Their main philosophy was: if you can’t win the fight, you can still win the race.

After all, the requirements for Drunken Dream Island to accept a disciple were too high. It was far too difficult to find a disciple worthy of entry, so naturally, they didn’t want a disciple they had finally taken a liking to to end up dead.