How come I was the one being targeted?

After Bai Jun recovered, the first thing he did was to grab the chestnut-haired girl's shoulders. His cornflower-like eyes stared at her seriously, "Do you know how dangerous this is? Although you won't get hurt if you fall into the sea of ​​​​star rafts, have you ever thought about the speed of the passing star rafts? If they hit you, the consequences would be very serious!"

At this time, Su Shang, who had been in a daze, finally realized what had happened. She blinked slowly, and panic appeared on her delicate and pretty face. It was not because she was still in shock about what had just happened, but she raised her fingertips and pointed at Bai Jun's lips with trembling hands.

Under Bai Jun's puzzled gaze, Su Chang finally squeezed out a dry and guilty voice from her throat: "Well, that... you, you are bleeding."

Bai Jun was stunned for a moment, then he noticed a warm flow on his face. After reacting, he covered his nose in a hurry, but he could still feel the warmth seeping through his fingers. He immediately raised his face to prevent the blood from staining his collar.

No need to think, it must have been caused by the collision just now.

Su Shang certainly understood this, and hurriedly felt her pocket, intending to quickly take out some paper to wipe her benefactor, but after searching for a while, she found nothing. Only then did she remember that the toilet paper in her pocket had been used up long ago.

In a panic, a flash of lightning flashed through Su Chang's mind, and she instantly came up with an emergency plan. She mustered up the courage to move in front of Bai Jun, and under Bai Jun's almost dull gaze, she pressed her white sleeve against his nose. The more she wiped it, the more embarrassed she became. Her sleeve was gradually soaked with blood. Even so, Su Chang didn't care at all, and didn't stop until her sleeve was completely soaked with blood and the bleeding stopped.

Well, it seems that people really can laugh when they are speechless to the extreme.

Bai Jun smiled bitterly and shook his head, with helplessness mixed in the smile in the corner of his eyes. Looking at Su Chang's red-stained sleeves, he secretly swore in his heart: This kind of idiot is definitely rare in a century.

"I'm sorry, it's all because of me that my benefactor got hurt."

Su Shang knelt on the ground with her knees together and was sitting stiffly. Her hands were placed neatly on her legs. Her fingers unconsciously twisted the corners of her clothes into a ball. Her head drooped slightly, and she looked at the ground with a gloomy expression. Her ashamed and lonely voice seemed to make the air around her much more depressing.

"Don't call me benefactor."

Bai Jun sighed helplessly upon seeing this. He could not bear such a title. He then bent down and squatted in front of Su Shang to help her roll up her red sleeves. He then wiped the blood off her wrists with a handkerchief. After doing all this, he gently patted Su Shang's shoulder and comforted her:

"Okay, stop looking like you're about to cry and just stop doing stupid things like this in the future."

"No, no!"

Su Shang was still kneeling on the ground, and in the depths of her clear and transparent eyes, one could see her stubborn determination.

Bai Jun carefully wiped his bloody fingers with a handkerchief, his listless, half-closed eyes flickering with helplessness. Although he didn't know what the little girl was trying to do, he still patiently asked, "Why?"

"Because..." Su Chang's fingers, which were twisting the hem of her clothes, suddenly loosened a little, trembling slightly, but then suddenly clenched them the next moment. Although she looked like she was about to cry, her tone was remarkably firm: "I will be responsible for you!"

As if hearing something unbelievable, Bai Jun gasped several times and retreated to the side of the road. A hint of disgust crossed his cold and handsome face. "What on earth could you possibly be so determined to say such a thing... But let's be clear, the laws of Xianzhou carry very severe penalties for hooliganism. Don't think you can act recklessly just because you're a girl."

"Rogue? Where? I won't let him off!"

When Su Shang heard the word "hooligan", she immediately sat up straight and looked around vigilantly, as if she was going to make sure that if anyone dared to attack her, she would never be able to return.

But after looking around for a long time, she couldn't find any trace of the so-called gangster. Su Shang looked at Bai Jun in confusion, but found that the person he was looking at with disgust was herself.

"Wait, benefactor, when you say 'rogue', are you talking about me?"

Su Chang swallowed hard, an expression of disbelief appearing on her pretty face, but she still refused to believe it. She stepped forward tentatively, looked around, and then asked cautiously.

Seeing her innocent and foolish look, Bai Jun immediately gave up his previous thoughts. It was impossible for a fool like her to do anything rogue, right? So he shook his head helplessly and sighed, "No, just think of it as me joking."

"Ahaha, my benefactor is really something. You scared me!" After hearing these words, Su Shang finally felt relieved. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and smiled with relief.

Well, it seems that this guy is really an idiot... Bai Jun came to a conclusion silently in his heart, bent down to pick up the broken Qiongshi bird string from the ground, mourned for a while with a rather distressed look, then relaxed his expression a little, turned his head and said:

"But your answer is too frivolous. Please think carefully before answering next time!"

After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, but before he took two steps, he felt someone pulling at the corner of his clothes.

"No, benefactor! My mother taught me that I must repay a favor. You saved me, and I must be responsible for this!" Ignoring Bai Jun's speechless expression, Su Shang still clenched the corner of her clothes, unwilling to give up easily.

"I understand your determination, but no matter what, it's a bit inappropriate to say such words to a man you meet for the first time." Bai Jun took a deep breath, and with the attitude of treating a child, he solemnly and gently pried open her fingers.

"N-Not right? But I just want to repay you!"

"That's enough. How long are you going to keep pestering me? It's really outrageous." Bai Jun glanced back at Su Shang, ignoring her pleading eyes. His tone became slightly impatient: "I'll just pretend nothing happened, and you can almost forget about it, okay?"

"Why would you say you forgot? You just saved my life... Saying you forgot is really weird!"

"What's so strange about this? If you must say, you're the weird one!" Noticing the strange looks from the passers-by around him, Bai Jun, who was about to burst with shame, complained loudly.

"Don't go, please, my conscience will definitely feel guilty—Ah!"

Seeing Bai Jun turning around and leaving, Su Shang immediately wanted to step forward to stop him. However, just as she grabbed Bai Jun's wrist, she tripped over her left foot in her anxiety and fell to her knees with a thud.

"You are just thinking about yourself..."

Seeing her so stubborn, it was really hard to convince her. Bai Jun had no choice but to take out the stick and slowly said under Su Shang's puzzled gaze: "Forget it, since you insist on making compensation, then compensate me with a string of candied haws and let it go. And don't call me benefactor, just call me Bai Jun."

"I understand, Mr. Bai Juan!"

Hearing this, Su Chang, who had been frowning and looking worried, finally felt relieved. She ignored her long hair being messed up by the wind and just put on a bright and cheerful smile.

Finally, imitating his sentence structure, she added: "My benefactor, just call me Su Shang!"

Sky-Splitting Watchman Star, Bright Sky Fire: Unlimited Bounty

As the title says, straight to the point, I want to offer a reward and answer some questions at the same time.

This is the second book I have written, and I haven't offered any bounties yet. Also, I update relatively slowly, so I can see that the comments are all about topics like betting on when the book will be discontinued.

In fact, new books really need support. Lack of feedback on young books can really make people lose motivation, and there are so many malicious comments...

To be honest, it makes me very sad.

I promised my last book would reach a million words, and I actually did. The current hold is only temporary. I promised to finish it, and I will finish it. Please be kind. Besides, if I were truly a eunuch, why wouldn't I just use a smurf account? Do I have to be so servile as to use my main account and get scolded?

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There are still about 11 manuscripts in stock. Here is the reason for the slow update:

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The second reason is that the author is now a sophomore, majoring in foreign languages, and has a lot of academic pressure. Many of the manuscripts in his inventory must be written by squeezing out his free time. In order to ensure the stability and quality of updates, he must maintain a good reserve of manuscripts.

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Chapter 25: Is she really a genius?

"Ding--"

[Moral Praise +15]

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The cold mechanical sound in his mind made Bai Jun dazed for a moment. After he calmed down for a moment, before he could be happy, he suddenly found that his wrist was tightly held by a small hand, and the skin was slightly hot.

"Su Shang, have you held it enough?"

He glanced down and saw that it was Su Shang who was smiling foolishly across from him. He coughed softly and nodded at her gently and kindly, suggesting that she should let go quickly.

But Su Shang didn't understand what he meant at all. On the contrary, she thought this was proof of his approval of her, so she also smiled, looked at Bai Jun calmly and frankly, and clenched her hands even more tightly. Bai Jun's face darkened and he slapped the back of her hand without any hesitation.

"Ouch, it hurts, benefactor, what are you doing?" Su Chang, who was in pain, quickly retracted her little hand that was slapped red, and rubbed the painful back of her hand while complaining dissatisfiedly.

"I'm reminding you to buy me some Qiongshi bird skewers quickly. Also, remember to call me Bai Jun!" Seeing that she showed no remorse and didn't even know what she did wrong, Bai Jun rolled his eyes a little tiredly and said perfunctorily.

"Oh! Okay, um—uh, Bai Jun!" As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Su Chang realized that she had said the wrong thing again and quickly corrected herself, protecting her head: "Can you tell me where to buy it?"

Despite the regional differences, many culinary styles within the Xianzhou Alliance share many similarities.

For example, the sugar-coated haws mentioned earlier can also be called the Qiongshi bird string, which comes from the Qiongshi bird that produces fruits on its tail. This bird is smart and lovely, with a sweet and pleasant voice, and is very lovable. Therefore, people gave the sugar-coated haws a nickname specifically for this bird, and over time everyone has tacitly accepted this name.

Su Shang vaguely remembered that Uncle Mu next door often cooked for her when she was a child.

"There are places selling Qiongshi bird skewers everywhere in the Xingcha Sea... Wait, don't you know?"

"I'm new here, and I don't know much about it yet."

This time it was Bai Jun's turn to look surprised. He looked Su Shang in front of him up and down again, and then he realized that there was a clear gap between this person's clothing style and tone of voice and those of the people around him.

When his peripheral vision caught sight of the ancient Xuanyuan Sword beside Su Chang, Bai Jun slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "Wait a minute, could it be that your mother is Su Yi?"

"Hey, how did you know that? Could it be that you, Bai Jun, are also from Yaoqing?"

There is an old saying in Xianzhou: When fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears.

Although Su Shang had only been away from Yaoqing for a few days, she was a stranger in a foreign land, and as a girl with a sensitive and delicate mind, she could not help but feel homesick. Now that she saw her fellow countrymen, who had just saved her life, Su Shang was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes, and she walked forward and hugged Bai Jun.

"It's a ghost!"

Bai Jun pushed away Su Shang, who was wiping her tears and snot on her clothes, with disgust, and pointed his finger straight at the Xuanyuan Sword in Su Shang's hand.

Everyone in Yaoqing knows the famous Taixu swordsmanship, and the family heirloom sword Xuanyuan is even more famous in the industry.

Some people say that it was forged from the ashes of the light arrow that was shot by Emperor Siming to extinguish the stars, while others say that the sword was a magic sword forged from the essence of the sun's fire. In short, anyone who has seen this sword knows its origin.

Su Shang's usually dull little head now seemed exceptionally bright. She wiped the tears from her eyes and blinked a few times before a thought suddenly popped into her mind: "Could it be... Bai Jun, you know my mother?"

As expected, there was no hope for her. Bai Jun held his forehead helplessly, lamenting the idiot's unconventional thinking, but he was too lazy to complain, so he simply continued to follow Su Shang's words:

"Almost. I lived in Yaoqing for a while and had the honor of meeting your mother a few times. However, I was quite far away and didn't have any social interactions with her. Strictly speaking, I can only say that I know your mother from a unilateral perspective."

"Oh, I see. I understand..."

She said she understood, but looking at her clear and foolish eyes, Bai Jun felt that she didn't quite understand. It was difficult to say anything else, so he could only tell her where to buy Qiongshi bird skewers.

"Uh, benefactor, could you please repeat it again? I didn't hear it clearly just now."

Su Shang scratched her cheek, and her voice, mixed with confusion and embarrassment, made Bai Jun suddenly remember that this guy was a fool. So he sighed, grabbed Su Shang's wrist and walked towards the snack stand on the east side of Xuan Ye Avenue.

Su Shang followed Bai Jun obediently. Like other barbarians, she looked around like a curious baby on the road, tugging at his clothes from time to time to ask what things were: "Bai Jun, Bai Jun, what are those floating in the sky? Whose bed sheet is it?"

"That's a temperature and wind direction detector."

"Oh! This must be the morning glory from Luofu. I've seen it in a book. It's white and beautiful!"

"No, those are hydrangeas. Morning glories only grow in autumn, idiot." Bai Jun waved his hand unhappily, turned around and made a shushing gesture with his fingers: "Be quiet for a moment. I'm actually directionally challenged. If you keep disrupting my train of thought like this, we might get lost soon."

In the following time, Su Shang really became much quieter. She followed Bai Jun silently. Occasionally, when she encountered something curious, she would just look at it for a few more times and would never say anything to disturb Bai Jun. It seemed that she was really afraid of getting lost.

Turn left along the main road and enter Xuanye Avenue. Going straight ahead, the first intersection is a snack stall, where many kinds of Luofu specialty snacks are gathered, and many tourists are queuing up to buy them.

In terms of taste, it is not that delicious, and the price is a bit high. Luofu locals basically don't spend money here, and the only ones willing to spend the money are those foreign tourists who have just arrived.

Bai Jun stepped forward and ordered two Qiongshi bird skewers, and naturally passed the task of paying the bill to Su Shang behind him. When she heard that two Qiongshi bird skewers were priced at 3000 credit points, her fingers that were counting money in her wallet paused for a moment, and finally she gritted her teeth before handing the money to the boss.

"It's so expensive, and the quantity is so small. A whole string of candied haws from Yaoqing is only 400 credit points..." Su Shang looked at the string of Qiongshi bird with only four fruits in it with distress. For some reason, she couldn't bring herself to eat it.

"You don't want to eat? Then give it to me."

"No! I'll eat it, I'll eat it!"

Bai Jun held the candied haws string to his mouth and reached out to snatch the candied haws string from Su Shang's hand, which startled Su Shang. She hurriedly stuffed the candied haws string into her mouth. She didn't want to spend so much money on it and not be able to eat a single bite.

Seeing the cute look of the little girl protecting her food, Bai Jun shrugged with a smile. It was just a joke, so he would not snatch the little girl's things.

He found a random wooden railing to lean against, casually crossed his hands on the railing, looked lazily towards the other end of Chahai, and from time to time lazily stuffed a Qiongshi fruit into his mouth. His leisurely and contented look made Su Shang beside him couldn't help but take a few more glances at him.

She didn't have time to take a closer look just now, but now after taking a closer look, Su Shang found that Bai Jun was indeed a very handsome man.

Tall and slender, skin as white as snow, a cool and handsome face, gentle features, and clean and slender fingers, neatly trimmed nails, with some thin calluses on the fingertips, like the marks left by long sword training...

Su Shang gradually slowed down her breathing, and her eyes stared at his profile blankly as if attracted.

Suddenly, she remembered the white flower she had just picked from her pocket, and couldn't help but pin it to Bai Jun's ear, which complemented his equally silver hair.

"What are you doing?"

"nice....."

Suddenly coming to her senses, she noticed that Bai Jun was staring at her with a strange look on his face. Su Shang's face instantly turned lightly red, and her voice began to stammer and quibble: "Ah? I, I'm a little hot, haha, why is Luofu so hot!"

As she spoke, she used the hand that wasn't holding the Qiongshi Bird string to fan her burning cheeks. Then, she suddenly pointed at the wide star gate in the distance, trying to change the subject. "By the way, what's that big thing on the Jade Realm Gate? It's so cool!"

Bai Jun first looked at the white flower she pinned on her ear, thought about it, thought it was not bad, and then silently pinned it back on.

Then, following Su Chang's finger, he gazed towards the Jade Realm Gate. He took a bite of the Qiongshi bird skewers and calmly replied, "That mighty deity is called 'The Divine Thunder Palace's Chief Administrator, Driving Thunder and Lightning, Chasing Demons and Sweeping Away Evils,'" It's a long name that's hard to remember, so I'll just cut off the beginning and end and simply call him 'Divine Lord.'

"Uh, what are you chasing, what are you sweeping away, what are you chasing?"

Seeing Su Chang's puzzled expression, Bai Jun didn't think it was because of his own incomprehension, but rather that the idiot in front of him had limited comprehension. So he cleared his throat and changed his words to something simpler and easier to understand: "Our Great Immortal is the steward of the Lei family within the Three Realms. He has the final say on whoever he catches and whoever he kills. Old Master, the name is too long to remember, so just call him Third Master and that's it."