1223 I Came Late

Gao Sheng flushed red and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Could it be that the captain of the Proud Hawk Squad jinxed it? Miss Qiao got so flustered from how they so greedily gathered 200 some thousand stalks of herbs that she didn't come?

But back when they were gathering the herbs, they were only thinking that the more they gathered, the better. They weren't necessarily going to charge her one mystic currency per stalk of herb!

The plump Hua Gu spat at the captain of the Proud Hawk Squad. "Scram out of the way! What does it have to do with you! This is our Huge Bear Squad's business. You idlers really are bored out of your minds."

"It's cause your heap of trash is taking up space in the empty lot!"

"That's right!"

"If you don't deal with it by the end of today, we will do it for you."

"Hahaha!"

Everyone jeered as they looked at Captain Gao with amused gazes.

Gao Sheng could only grit his teeth. "You don't need to do anything, we will…"

"Captain!" Suddenly, a crisp, heavenly voice entered the Huge Bear Squad members' ears.

They all turned around in disbelief and saw, standing beyond the crowd, a perfectly-matched couple that seemed to be chiseled from jade. The picturesque couple was looking in their direction with affectionate gazes.

Sis Ge's eyes lit up when she looked over. "Xiao Qiao!"

The little lady kicked hard at the Proud Hawk Squad members that were blocking her way, waving at them amiably with a small paw.

Gao Sheng was practically about to cry.

This little great aunt finally showed up!

After trotting all the way to Captain Gao, Qiao Mu stuck out her small paw and vigorously patted his shoulder while on tiptoe. "Captain! I was held up by something earlier, so I came late. You've waited long."

"Not long, not long." Gao Sheng was a totally different person compared to his gloomy self from earlier.

Right now, he was simply about to take flight from his elation.

"Captain." The little fellow looked up at him, but before she could chat, she was interrupted by two surprised voices.

"Xiao Qiao!"

"Younger Sis!"

Little Sixth Zheng and Princess Mi ran over, one after the other. They circled her and exclaimed in delight, "We've finally waited for you to show up."

"Ah." Qiao Mu was a bit ashamed as she looked at the two. "You, you were waiting for me the whole time?"

Sigh, these two simple-minded fellows. If she didn't remember that she needed to return here to this small adventurer base in the Mystic Beast Forest, wouldn't they have waited until they got weathered by the wind…

"Mhm." Both people nodded at the same time.

When Gongsun Lie, Xiao Mi's personal guard, heard this, he strode over slowly with folded arms and informed, "Princess Mi said that you would definitely come out from the forest. No matter what anyone said, she insisted on waiting here for you."

"I've made you worry," Qiao Mu apologized softly.

"It's all good seeing that you are fine," Xiao Mi reassured with a smile, and then she drew in close with a lowered voice. "Oh yeah, why do I hear people say that you picked up a phoenix egg. Is that true?"

"Mhm." Qiao Mu nodded.

The next instant, Xiao Mi patted Qiao Mu's shoulder with her palm: "Wow, your luck is too good. Where did you pick it up?"

Qiao Mu raised her hand to pinch her sleeve. "You might find it unbelievable, but it suddenly dropped down from the sky when I was walking…"

Yet Princess Mi and Gongsun Lie both chuckled ironically.

This freaking wasn't anything believable!