Infinite Gate: I Became a Martial Saint from Another World

After a while, Zhou Hong and the girl were walking one after the other in an alley.

The alley is very narrow and can only accommodate two people of normal size walking side by side.

As Zhou Hong was too strong, he could only follow behind. However, he was not worried that the girl would escape. As a strong man in the internal organs realm, if he let a person who knew nothing about martial arts slip away from him, he might as well just run into a wall and die.

Passing through the alley, Zhou Hong followed the girl to a dilapidated temple.

The ruined temple was surrounded by weeds and the roof was in tatters. The sunlight shone through the holes on top, illuminating the stone statues in the temple.

"Is that your explanation?"

Zhou Hong looked at the girl beside him, his eyes becoming more dangerous.

Seeing his eyes, the girl's heart tightened, and she quickly said, "Please wait a moment!"

Afterwards, she entered the ruined temple, but did not escape. Instead, she brought out a younger boy.

The boy was about eleven or twelve years old, with tattered clothes, and looked very poor, just like the girl.

"Sister Xilan...what's going on?"

"Who is this uncle?"

The boy didn't seem to notice anything was wrong and spoke in confusion.

The girl, whom the boy called Sister Xilan, did not answer the boy's question. Instead, she knelt on the ground and pleaded with Zhou Hong, "Sir... I'm really sorry. I can only do this to support my brother!"

"I hope you can forgive me!"

Then she kowtowed heavily.

Seeing the girl begging for mercy, the boy seemed to be frightened. He ran to the girl and said fearfully: "Sister Xilan, what's wrong with you?!"

"Don't scare me..."

As he spoke, the boy started crying, looking very helpless.

But the girl did not waver at all and continued to kowtow.

Seeing that his words were useless, the young man knelt down in front of Zhou Hong and cried, "Sir, I'm sorry, I don't know what Sister Xilan did, but she is a good sister, please don't kill her!"

Looking at the actions of the two people in front of him, Zhou Hong felt strange.

Damn, why do I feel like an unforgivable villain?

The next moment, even though he had made up his mind, Zhou Hong still came in front of the girl and said, "Get up."

Hearing this, the girl got up.

"Let me ask you, are you stealing... for him?"

Zhou Hong pointed at the young man kneeling beside him and asked.

"Yes!"

The girl's tone was firm and her eyes were penetrating. Zhou Hong could feel that she was not lying.

"So, have you ever stolen from an innocent person?"

Zhou Hong's expression remained calm as he asked again.

"No, I only target those who are rich, especially warriors!"

Hearing this, Zhou Hong retorted: "You are lying. With the ability of a warrior, you can't succeed at all!"

"Because... I once got a martial arts book from a martial artist. That book recorded a magical stealing technique. If you practice it to perfection, even if you have no skills, you can steal from martial artists in the physical realm without them knowing it!"

The girl revealed a secret, which made Zhou Hong understand why the other party dared to touch the warrior's tiger whiskers.

But then Zhou Hong asked again: "If that's the case, why are you two still so poor?"

Hearing this, the girl sighed and said, "Because someone is targeting us. The Luosha Gang in Fumian County has people specifically coming to collect fees from beggars like us."

"My superb stealing skills were also revealed to Mr. Chang of the Luosha Gang by other beggars. He was very interested in it and asked me to hand over most of the stolen property to him. Otherwise, he would send me to jail!"

The young man next to him was stunned when he heard these words. He didn't expect that Sister Xilan, whom he respected so much, was actually a thief!

Although it was for him, he still felt very uncomfortable because Sister Xilan had always taught him that he must never steal!

At this moment, his heart was full of confusion.

Hearing this, Zhou Hong knew what to do. He asked, "What are your names, both of you?"

"My name is Chen Xilan, and this is my brother, Gao Ye!"

Chen Xilan said.

"Oh? You are not siblings?"

Zhou Hong asked.

"Yes, Gao Ye's parents starved to death, and I saved him!"

Chen Xilan said.

"In this case, Chen Xilan, I will take it as what you said, and I will not care about this matter anymore."

"But I want to ask you, do you want to become stronger?"

Zhou Hong asked.

Hearing this question, Chen Xilan looked at Zhou Hong in surprise, seemingly a little unbelievable.