Gu Shan looked at Gu Bai once more, and after he’d made sure he was completely unconscious, his figure shook once, then turned into a twisted black shadow, and slipped away towards the window, like a snake.
If Gu Bai had been awake, then he would’ve definitely realized this was one of the gold fingers he’d given the protagonist, which was also the entire reason for how the protagonist had been able to kill a bunch of beings around him and level up his martial skills in the beginning. It allowed the protagonist to become a shadow anyone below Wu Di wouldn’t notice, it was the 《Shadow Snake Travel Skill》.
But too bad, Gu Bai hadn’t woken up.
Just like Gu Shan had said, he didn’t think Gu Shan would have had a poison that could have rendered him unconscious, he also hadn’t even known about the existence of such power.
But after all, this was a world with all its bugs fixed, so everything was able to be logical.
A being such as the Sky Swallowing Python that would have been the hardest beast to beat, if it could’ve digested the body of many Wu Zhe that surpassed normal people, how could it not have been venomous?
So, anyone that had the bloodline of the Sky Swallowing Python, for them to have been able to control poison, was just natural.
Within the pitch-black night, the twisted snake figure traveled quickly.
After a short while, he had already traveled a few hundred miles under the night sky. Then in front of him, there was a little snake that climbed extremely fast. Its speed was like lighting and its pitch-black body, beneath the moonlight, shone off pale-white, and cold light.
Really quickly, a Wu Zhen appeared in front of them.
The Wu Zhen was really big, it was even a bit bigger than the Town of the Blue Goats, so within it, there were a few families that weren’t too small. Within each of those families, there were always a few, very powerful, High Leveled High-Rank Wu Shi, even some Beginner Wu Juns were there.
As for that snake shadow, those were the people it was trying to find.
Under the little snake’s guidance, the snake shadow quickly came to the front of a great house.
Many overlapping tree shadows created a cover for the snake shadow; and allowed him to pass by the first window successfully, then he slipped through one of the cracks that could barely be seen on the wall, into a chamber.
Within the chamber, a young man with a strong build slept deeply on the bed, and on the man’s left and right arm, there was a beautiful woman.
The snake shadow quickly stretched out and turned into a handsome youth in an instant.
He had a smile on his face, but within his eyes, there was only coldness.
Then, he blew out a cloud of black mist. That black mist’s speed wasn’t slow, and in just a few seconds, it had filled up the entire room.
The two women on the bed immediately succumbed to death in their sleep, without any movements at all.
The man hadn’t had enough time to react either, and blackness built up between his brows.
Gu Shan stood up straight and walked up to the bed.
This man wasn’t Gu Bai, so Gu Shan obviously hadn’t considered about the quantity of poison he used, so the man’s ending had already been decided.
He looked at the man’s strongly built body and disgust flashed over Gu Shan’s eyes for a moment.
Then he reached out his hand, placed his five fingers on his head, and released a fingernail that was the length of one cun[1].
Then his finger acted like a knife and cut right into the man’s dantian[2].
What was more disturbing was that, even though Gu Shan’s hand had already broken open the man’s muscles, the man still hadn’t bled.
For the area where Gu Shan’s hand had pierced through, it slowly started to shine with a thick red light.
At the same time, on Gu Shan’s face, a satisfied look slowly appeared. “As expected of a Beginner Wu Jun, definitely better than all that other trash.”
After about five minutes, the red light became weaker and weaker, then it slowly disappeared.
Then, Gu Shan pulled his hand back.
He swayed his body once again, and transformed into a snake shadow to slip into another room, then repeated the same actions again.
Until he had absorbed all the power of the martial artists above a High Leveled High-Rank Wu Shi of that family, he then turned to go to the next family and started making his moves again.
Over an hour later, all the high-powered people within those families had been caught by him, not a single one had been left out.
Tomorrow, when those martial artists woke up, they would also realize that their talented roots for training had been sucked away. Even the power on them, there was only the slightest bit left. But they wouldn’t go around and spread it, because, without those things, they would’ve lost everything. All of their enemies would have all jumped on them, like blood-sucking leeches, and dragged them down to a tragic state, where they couldn’t flip the table ever again.
If such things were found out by the head of the family, then they wouldn’t be exposed either.
Because the quantity of high leveled Wu Zhe, also represented the power of their family, once exposed…their family would’ve also been targeted by countless greedy wolves, then harshly bit and split into pieces!
As for the Gu Shan who’d made all of that possible, he felt the powerful feeling of his dantian being fulfilled on one hand, while he covered up his own tracks on the other hand.
After all that power had been digested, he transformed into the snake shadow and returned to the outside of Tian Du Cheng.
He then went even faster, to return to the city governor’s bedroom.
Then, Gu Shan bent over and sucked away the black mist that had caused the city governor to become unconscious. He then flipped over as well and slept by the city governor’s side.
Just as if nothing had happened at all.
Due to the reason that Zi Ju Shu Bai liked quiet environments, after he became the city governor, his living place hadn’t changed and was still within one of the quieter parts of the palace.
But after it received a remodification from the servants within the palace, it now allowed a great amount of light to shine in and wind to flow in smoothly.
As for the many types of decoration, they were also delicate and picked out carefully, low-key showing off their extravagance.
So at that time, during the morning hour, slight light came in through the window and shone on the bed within the room.
The bed was extremely big and was a customized one. With the extremely delicate mattress[3] on it, it was super soft, and it had enough space for five to six people to roll around on the top of it.
Of course, on the bed just then, there were only two people.
Gu Bai woke up within a pile of warmth…he had pretty good energy then, and felt he hadn’t slept that well for a long time.
Thinking about it, just then, he was the most powerful within the whole City Governor’s Palace. So how could he rest assured and trust his own safety within, on those shadow guards, city guards, and any other type of guards?
Or maybe he just worried too much.
But maybe, because he had just met his “childhood” friend yesterday, Gu Bai surprisingly slept very deeply.
Could it be that he felt safe in front of Gu Shan?
He silently put his hand on his forehead internally…that guy’s martial skill was even worse.
Such a thing as breathing in someone else’s fragrance, once he was a bit more awake, he felt a bit embarrassed by it.
Then after he opened his eyes, he became even more speechless and stiff.
Fuck, he’d only said to share a bed, but not a pillow! Especially when he’d already thought of drawing a “Military Demarcation Line” before sleeping last night, okay?!
So how had they rolled into this kind of spot once he woke up today?!
Gu Bai’s face was now stuck up against a wide, thick chest plate…wait, why did the slender and thin-looking, pretty boy have a “wide, thick chest plate”?
His waist was held by the other and he, himself, was also hugging onto his arm, it was like his whole body was within the other’s embrace…
Gu Bai felt that he had received an extremely severe challenge towards his pride of being “the elder brother” here!
Not to mention, with the balanced breathing that came from above his head, the chest he was up against, also went up and down slightly.
Obviously, the person who hugged him, was not awake at all.
Gu Bai thought, with no expressions shown, should I kick this brat down, or should I kick this brat down?
But most martial artists were sensitive enough, with Gu Bai’s change in breathing, the person who held onto him also had a reaction.
And so, Gu Bai felt the top of his head being rubbed by someone else’s chin, then he heard the low and magnetic morning voice of Gu Shan’s, “Gege…”
Gu Bai heard it and was shocked. Then the embrace he was in tightened.
He just heard Gu Shan chuckled lightly, “I remember when I first saw Gege, it was also like this.”
Gu Bai was a bit stunned, he was right, it was just that the person who had hugged and the person being hugged, was switched.
Because those good memories of his were dragged out, some parts of his new-born anger blew away.
But memories were still just memories, two men hugging each other like this so early in the morning, that was way too indecent. He had to push him away!
So Gu Bai reached out a hand to push him a bit, “Time to get up.”
Gu Shan gave him an “mn” from his nose, then let go.
Gu Bai got up and quickly started to dress.
Gu Shan lay against the bed as he watched the stiff back of Gu Bai, then he looked at his own arm that had just now been holding the other, he raised his brows.
But all he did was just stretch his body, then jumped down from the bed. “I haven’t slept this well in a long time, as expected, being together with Gege makes me the happiest.”
Being confessed to by this “didi” with so much enthusiasm, the root of Gu Bai’s ears reddened a bit, then he turned his head, “You will be my personal guard from now on.”
Gu Shan’s eyes lit up, “Is that really okay?”
Gu Bai nodded, “It’s fine.” His eyes were certain, “This city is mine.”
Gu Shan smiled extremely kindly, “It’s good, as long as I don’t create any troubles for Gege.”
After getting up, the two ate their breakfast.
Gu Bai took Gu Shan to the manual room of the City Governor’s Palace, then he let the other pick out some martial manuals that suited him, and said specifically, “Once you finish picking them out, let him help and lead you to me.” As he said that, he pointed towards the servant by the door.
Gu Shan glanced at the servant and answered with a smile, “Okay, Gege can go and busy yourself now.”
Gu Bai kept up with his cold appearance as he nodded slightly, then went to his study room by himself.
In there, Qin Xu Bo had already been waiting for a long while.
Gu Bai sat behind the study table, “How is it?”
Qin Xu Bo offered him a stack of paper, “The shadow guards found this information last night, Gu Shan’s life events are just about all on there, please look it over, city governor.”
That’s right, in that stack of papers, was recorded the things Gu Shan had encountered before.
Even though Gu Shan had already told him about those events, but better safe than sorry, so Gu Bai would double-check it.
Qin Xu Bo was a trust-worthy servant of Gu Bai’s, so of course, he understood Gu Bai’s mindset a lot. So, after seeing that Gu Bai had kept Gu Shan over yesterday, he’d already started the research.
Gu Bai looked over them with care.
Gu Shan was the first person who had given him warmth, not because of his position and also the first person that Gu Bai saw as an actual “person” and not an NPC; in Gu Bai’s heart, he had a very important spot. So, he not only hoped that Gu Shan didn’t have any other goals that made him want to get close to him at all. Just like how Gu Shan wished that Gu Bai wouldn’t lie to him, Gu Bai also wished that Gu Shan didn’t have the intention to harm him.
After all, they had last been together many years ago, with so many changes within the last few years, who knew if Gu Shan was still the kid from back then who had attachments towards him?
Within Gu Bai’s heart just then, he just hoped that Gu Shan was the same as him, and still missed the short amount of time that they had together from that year.
After he finished looking over them, Gu Bai finally released a breath.