"What's your name?" The flatbread suddenly asked.
"Xiaoyao," Xiaoyao casually answered. At this moment he hadn't paid attention to why buying flatbreads required asking for names. But it was just a name, nothing unspeakable. What harm was there in telling him?
"What do you do? Do you have any relatives at home? Why did you come here?" The flatbread continued asking.
"I'm a servant. I have no relatives. I came here just passing through. I want to roam the martial world," Xiaoyao answered.
"Roam the martial world?" The flatbread was very strange. A servant roaming the martial world? What did this mean?
"Mm, roam the martial world." Xiaoyao nodded.
"Didn't you say you were a servant? Servants should serve their master's family. How can you roam the martial world?" The flatbread asked puzzledly.
"My boss and I were abandoned by the family, and my boss doesn't need me, so I came to roam the martial world and gain some experience." Xiaoyao said unconcernedly.
Xiaoyao's words were misunderstood. Others thought Xiaoyao had been driven out by his family and abandoned by his boss. They thought "doesn't need" meant this, and wouldn't think that Xiaoyao's boss Guxing could take care of herself, so didn't need Xiaoyao always by her side.
Because of this, Xiaoyao became an unwanted little servant, someone no one cared about, someone whose death wouldn't be known by anyone. This was exactly what the flatbread was looking for.
There was another condition the flatbread also conveniently confirmed.
"Have you practiced martial arts? What level are you at?"
"I've been practicing since childhood. My level is early Scholar Level. Boss, what are you doing? Do I need household registration just to eat flatbreads?" Xiaoyao looked at the flatbread, somewhat suspicious of his purpose.
"Nothing, nothing, just asking casually." The flatbread immediately replied, but was secretly delighted in his heart. Xiaoyao seemed to meet the conditions even better.
At this moment, the flatbread didn't ask about Xiaoyao's cultivation details, otherwise he would definitely be shocked.
He just felt that practicing since childhood and being at early Scholar Level at this age was pretty good progress. Though not a genius, it was still excellent.
Such conditions completely met the requirements. This time was really lucky, he hadn't expected to find someone with such conditions.
"Then come inside with me. There are more flatbreads inside." The flatbread said with a smile, and there seemed to be a trace of sinister intent in his smile.
"Don't need to pay?" Xiaoyao didn't notice that, just asked.
"As long as you can eat them, anything is fine." The flatbread said with a smile.
"Then boss, you're going to go bankrupt." Xiaoyao said with a laugh.
"It's fine, just some flatbreads..." The flatbread said with a smile. At this moment he felt that no matter how much Xiaoyao ate, he would quickly earn it back.
However, the flatbread seemed to feel he had thought wrong. The flatbreads he had prepared for today were all eaten up. Although this was an unknown small town, there were still many people passing through. Generally people also liked buying flatbreads as provisions, so sales volume was quite large. The flatbread had prepared quite a lot, enough for over a hundred people to eat.
This amount enough for over a hundred people was actually eaten up in a very short time. He felt he might really go bankrupt. This loss was really quite heavy.
Xiaoyao had been traveling these past few days and hadn't given Chi Chi too much to eat. These flatbreads for over a hundred people were just enough to fill Chi Chi, who hadn't eaten full for several days. If there were more, it could still eat much more.
"Chi chi..."
Look, now Chi Chi was asking the boss for more, asking if there was any left.
"..." The flatbread fell silent. Fortunately the other party could bring him quite a few benefits, otherwise this time would really be a total loss. But with this happening, he wouldn't earn much either.
"Boss, thank you for the hospitality. We'll leave first." After Chi Chi finished eating, Xiaoyao wanted to leave.
"Want to leave? I'm afraid it's too late." The flatbread said with a cold snort.
"What's wrong, boss? Do you want to go back on your word? This was agreed upon, no charge," Xiaoyao immediately took a defensive posture toward the boss, as if saying, I'm someone who knows martial arts.
"Don't be like that. You're just an early Scholar Level martial artist. If I wanted to deal with you, it would be too simple." The flatbread said. Although he didn't have this achievement when he was Xiaoyao's age, he was already so old now. Over all these years, his strength had long reached late Scholar Level, and he would probably stop at Scholar Level for life.
As a late Scholar Level dealing with early Scholar Level, that was very easy. Even mid Scholar Level would be equally easy to take down. Generally speaking, early, mid, and late stages were each a major realm. The gap of one major realm was enough to explain everything.
Of course, this was only under general circumstances. Some people could still fight above their level, but such people were generally from major sects. The flatbread felt Xiaoyao couldn't be one, just an unwanted little servant.
"What do you want to do? I'm telling you, I'm penniless." Xiaoyao first declared his poor person status to make the other party give up the idea of robbery.
"I don't want your money now. How much money could you have? What I want is you." The flatbread said.
Just as the flatbread's words fell, Xiaoyao got goosebumps all over. He jumped far away from the flatbread and said weakly, "I'm not that kind of person. I sell art, not my body. Besides, I don't like men either..."
The flatbread looked at Xiaoyao in a daze, thinking: Does this kid have brain problems? What nonsense is he talking about, completely irrelevant. But soon he discovered Xiaoyao's meaning, and his face showed shame and anger.
"You brat, what are you saying. I'm not that kind of person either. Let me tell you, I want your person now to offer you to Young Master Feng Hai of the Azure Dragon Society in exchange for rewards." The flatbread said with a treacherous face.
Azure Dragon Society. Xiaoyao seemed to have heard of it. A sect that was neither small nor large. He didn't know where their mountain gate was, or rather this place was too unknown. Now it seemed like the latter.
However, as a sect, the Azure Dragon Society did have some power. They could definitely run amuck in such small countries. Even larger countries would give the Azure Dragon Society face. After all, it was also a sect with many years of heritage, and reportedly the current leader of the Azure Dragon Society seemed to have considerable strength.
Also, the Azure Dragon Society's leader seemed to be called Feng Chi or something. This Feng Hai should be the leader's son or something. Mm, it should be like this.
However, his hobby was really special, he actually liked men...
This was what Xiaoyao was guessing at this moment. Looking at this flatbread's words, this matter probably wasn't just once or twice, and he wasn't the only one doing it. That meant many young men like him had been offered to this Feng Hai before.
Damn, he'd seen plenty of forcibly taking civilian women, but this was his first time seeing forcibly taking civilian men.
"Ugh..." Xiaoyao hugged his arms, looking like he was shivering with cold. "Just thinking about it is disgusting. Better leave quickly."
"Leave? You can't leave now."
At this moment, a group of people came in from outside, surrounding Xiaoyao. Behind them followed a refined and handsome young master who looked at Xiaoyao with burning eyes.
Damn, this time was trouble.
Flatbreads, again it was flatbreads causing harm. Never buying flatbread again.
An unknown kingdom, unknown mountains, an unknown small lake...
This series of unknowns made Xiaoyao somewhat unclear about where he even was, because these were parts not on maps. Map makers wouldn't be willing to go everywhere, especially places not belonging to their own countries and not peaceful places.
There were quite a few such places on the continent, unless there appeared map makers or adventurers who weren't afraid of death and had ideals.
But some places, even if people were willing to come, they might not necessarily be able to enter. Besides natural obstacles, there were also human ones.
Some places had always been blank on maps, disguised by mountain ranges or forests, because these places had powerful forces controlling them, not letting outsiders know the internal situation.
The place where Xiaoyao was located was this kind of human-made situation. Here was controlled by several sects including the Azure Dragon Society. Although these sects couldn't compare to those major sects, the alliance of several sects could make those major sects not dare invade here, making outsiders unable to approach unless they could get their permission.
Xiaoyao was brought in by the Azure Dragon Society's young master for his special hobby. And there was more than just the Azure Dragon Society's young master who had special hobbies, quite a few young men liked this thing.
When Xiaoyao saw their burning gazes, he felt he was facing the biggest crisis of his life. Compared to that idea and the current predicament, Xiaoyao felt the current situation wasn't much, at least not that serious.
Now Xiaoyao also understood his original idea was wrong. Originally those people's gazes at him weren't that kind of preference. Although it was equally perverted, it wasn't what Xiaoyao had imagined.
They indeed forcibly took civilian men, as well as civilian women, but not for physiological needs, but for a very perverted psychological need. They used various reasons and methods to concentrate some people in their territory, in these unknown mountains. Only they knew about this matter, because they were also afraid of people knowing this truth.
Therefore, this was a very secret matter that needed a very secret place…
(End of Chapter)