"Okay, let's get down to business, why did you bring me here? Could it be that Fu Wenxuan is not in the mansion at this time? Or did he ask you to take me to other places to meet him?—— so you specially stopped me here?"

Amu shook his head and replied, "Neither." Although I did see Fu Wenxuan, that Gao Yu was almost inseparable from him, and I had no chance to avoid her and only let Fu Wenxuan know about my existence. So ......"

"There's no chance to avoid her? Could it be that this Gao Yu is still a stunt? Even a master like you is so wary of her?"

"I don't know what kind of special skills she has, but based on the intuition of those who practice martial arts, I'm sure that her alertness is no less than Fu Wenxuan's. Therefore, I was not sure to avoid her vigilance and only attract Fu Wenxuan's attention. ”

When Gao Ran heard this, he frowned unconsciously, was silent for a moment, and muttered in a low voice: "In this way, they may be spying on each other...... It seems that if you want to see Fu Wenxuan alone, you have to lead that Gao Yu away first. However, in order to do this, I am afraid that we will have to work together with 'Seven'. ”

Thinking of this, Gao Ran unconsciously raised his eyes and glanced at Amu, and immediately decided: "Then let's go back first and discuss with 'Seven' first." ”

She didn't give Amu any chance to raise an objection, and only continued to herself:

"No matter what, you must go with me to see Fu Wenxuan. It's not just for myself, it's for you. I hope that before you make your final decision, at least you can see that there is another possibility. Even if you don't necessarily make the same choice, at least let you see for yourself that there is another option.

"I still say the same, I still hope that you will at least meet your 'brother' before deciding whether you want to know the truth? However, I have said in advance, and your final choice will affect my attitude towards you in the future. - I am only loyal to my ultimate goal, and as for how the process will change, how the position will change, and how the means will change, these are secondary to me......

"So, you'd better not expect me to keep any so-called 'loyalty' like you. - No matter how loyal you are to Gao Liwen, it is only your own choice, and I have never had any 'loyalty' at all. All I have is to discern – what will help me achieve my goals, what will not hinder me from achieving my goals, and what will not only hinder me, but even hinder me from achieving my goals?

"To me, your worth, and the attitude I may change towards you, will only come from how I will assess your value to me?—— whether you will be beneficial to me, or will you hinder me, or even hinder me?—— you should know that it is impossible for you and me to stand in the way of each other. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Ran took the initiative to approach Amu for the first time, and even reached out to caress his cheek, and deliberately whispered to him in an unusually soft and soft voice: "I am different from you. ”

After speaking, Gao Ran was already far away from him before Amu could react, and walked away quickly with steps that were so light that he could barely hear any sound, until he completely disappeared from his sight.

Amu never thought that Gao Ran would be like this...... But what made him even more puzzling was that he didn't know why Gao Ran's momentary gestures and voices that were so soft that even his heart felt slightly itchy that they brought him a warm aftertaste, but they were actually cold to his heart? Even, there were some unexplained fears? Even the hairs on his body stood up slightly, as if he had been frightened by something.

Gao Ran's sentence is still echoing in his ears from time to time - "I am different from you". Amu's body seemed to be fixed there, and he couldn't move, only staring at the direction where Gao Ran disappeared in a daze. Everything around him was so quiet that he could clearly hear his own breathing, his heartbeat, and her soft voice still echoing in his ears......

After staying for a long time, when he finally came back to his senses, Amu muttered to himself in hindsight: "Actually, you can also sneak into Fu Wenxuan's bedroom while the night is dark......

Amu was not without similar doubts, in fact, as early as the way to Yunxiang with Gao Ran, he had wondered more than once: why did she always only travel during the day, but at night no matter what—even if she wanted to sleep in the wilderness, she would never walk more than even an hour, so that she could go to a nearby family's house for a night? As soon as it was getting dark, she would start preparing early to find a safe place nearby, ready to stop and rest. And in this regard, she always uses the sentence "I'm afraid of the dark" to simply prevaricate the past.

In the past, for Gao Ran's rather puzzling stubbornness, Amu once simply understood it as - she was a weird person and had quirks, which was not surprising. I never cared too much about it, but I still inevitably disliked it in my heart.

However, as soon as Gao Ran entered the territory of Yunxiang, he rushed to the border city with him overnight, and went straight to see "Seven", Amu no longer disliked Gao Ran's "fear of the dark", but had more doubts than before.

Now, when Amu was once again suspicious of this same doubt—at least, he didn't believe that Gao Ran, who had always been delicate and cautious, could so easily ignore the existence of the option of "a late-night visit" this time? Unless, on purpose, she did so. This time, he finally stopped simply understanding this fact as just Gao Ran's eccentricity, and he began to suspect that the reason why she easily refused to act in the dark must be her secret and her fatal weakness. Otherwise, why would she be so stubborn?

Amu's eyes flickered unconsciously, and he immediately jumped and flew quickly in the direction of Gao Ran's departure, intending to catch up with Gao Ran, who was already far away.

But to his surprise, Gao Ran walked faster than he expected, and she was able to return to the inn one step ahead of him.

"Doesn't she know how to work lightly?"

In addition to doubts, Amu also remembered that when he was inexplicably stunned before, when Gao Ran left, her footsteps were so light that they were almost inaudible - even he could barely hear the sound of her walking.

"Could it be that she knows martial arts?" - this thought had just flashed out, and it was immediately denied by Amu.

In the more than a year that he has been by her side, he has been very sure that although Gao Ran has a deep internal strength, he is indeed not good at martial arts. For a while, he really couldn't figure it out: why could Gao Ran be as light and silent as the masters of light skills when they walked?

"You ...... Why did you come back so soon?"

Coincidentally, Gao Ran and Amu returned to the inn almost front and back for a while, and "Seven" also returned. The three of them happened to meet in the lobby.

"You have come back just in time, both of you will come with me to my room, I have something to consult with you. ”

"Seven" listened, and looked at Amu with a puzzled expression, trying to get some reminders from him, so that he could guess some of Gao Ran's possible calculations at the moment.

But he didn't think about it, Amu didn't pay attention to him at all, but stared at Gao Ran with a thoughtful look. And when "Seven" followed Amu's line of sight and looked back at Gao Ran, she found that she didn't look at the two of them at all. Moreover, before he could doubt something, Gao Ran had already turned around and left. Completely ignore whether they are keeping up or not.

"Strange ......" and "Seven" felt the extremely disobedient and awkward atmosphere at the moment, and while muttering in their hearts, they quickly followed Gao Ran before Amu.

"What's wrong with you? Could it be that something happened?" As soon as "Seven" entered the house, he didn't care whether Amu followed or not, so he asked Gao Ran directly.

"Something happened. We have come back to discuss this matter with you. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"That's ......"

But before Gao Ran could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Amu, who had just entered the house. I only heard him suddenly interject and question Gao Ran: "Why don't you want to act at night? If we visit Fu's mansion at night instead, it may not be impossible to see Fu Wenxuan alone." Moreover, the movement will be smaller than that of the daytime. ”

Gao Ran couldn't help frowning and looked at Amu. She knew that this time she couldn't simply pass it off no matter what.

"I'm a little curious to hear you ask. After Amu's question, "Seven" also followed up and asked Gao Ran: "Why do you always only rush during the day?"

In the face of the two of them's successive questions, Gao Ran was not panicked, but he was silent for a longer time than usual, but finally responded: "You ask me why I refuse to act at night? It's very simple, it's not that I don't want to, but I can't." If I forced myself to do something life-threatening at night, the likelihood of my accident would be much greater than that of ordinary people. I'm just trying to protect myself. ”

"Self-preservation?" "Seven" couldn't help but ask even more suspiciously.

Although Amu didn't speak, his eyes also showed that he was also confused at the moment.

But Gao Ran just continued unusually calmly:

"Believe it or not, everything in this world has always had its own way of maintaining balance. It is true that I do have some abilities that are far stronger than ordinary people, but at the same time, I have paid a price comparable to them.

"To tell you the truth, right now, I am actually in a critical period of breaking through the ninth layer of internal strength. At this stage, during the day, my five senses will indeed be significantly stronger than ordinary people—even you masters will be inferior to me, but once it is night, my five senses will quickly weaken, and even much lower than ordinary people, so that my perception and action at night will be far more fragile and clumsy than ordinary people.

"Therefore, in order to protect myself, I will not easily act at night, especially if I need to risk my life, and I cannot rush into it. ”

"Seven" listened, and then thought of Amu's question just now - this clearly shows that the critical stage that Gao Ran said should have started long before she came back to see him. ——Then he deliberately tipped lukewarmly, but also clearly pointedly: "So, you came into the city to see me day and night, in fact, you risked your life?Heh, it seems that your disguise skills are really not to be underestimated, even I was deceived by you? However, you are honest enough...... Aren't you afraid that one day we will take advantage of your weakness and harm you?"

Gao Ran replied disappreciatively: "Heh, if you say 'weakness', then I have a lot of weaknesses." It's not bad for this one. But if you can only see this one Achilles' heel, it only means that you still don't know me very well. Otherwise, how could you only see this?—— and this weakness is something I have told you on my own initiative...... Tsk, where are you ......?"

Saying that, Gao Ran also deliberately shook his head with a seemingly "sympathetic" look, and continued with a smile in his heart: "However, if you think that you can easily kill me by staring at my weakness, then you are either underestimating me too much, or you are overestimating yourself. ”

"Seven" and Amu looked at each other quite tacitly, and neither of them was affected by Gao Ran's small provocation. And Amu, when he happened to receive his gaze at him when he looked at "Seven", he would consciously turn to him and take the initiative to ask Gao Ran: "What will happen if you break through the nine-layer level?"

Although Amu didn't know how long Gao Ran had been cultivating since her internal strength had cultivated to the eighth-layer realm, before she encountered this bottleneck, at least he could be sure that since he had been on the road with her until now, her so-called "critical period" had obviously not passed safely for more than a year—just because her quirk of "easily moving as soon as the night fell" had not changed.