Gu Yan originally planned to go to H City by himself, just like last time. As long as Su Kun was careful not to return home too late at night, there shouldn't be any danger. After all, this was the familiar Li City, and it had just been thoroughly cleansed by him. Those monsters and hungry ghosts that could threaten Su Kun's safety wouldn't appear again in a short time.

But before hanging up the phone, the Master reminded him that it would be best to take Su Kun along this time when going to H City, in case the problem was more tricky and they had to stay in the foreign city for a long time, which would be unsafe for Su Kun.

"Why? I've already dealt with Li City, and we don't yet know the dangers of H City. No matter how you look at it, wouldn't it be more appropriate to leave him in Li City?" Gu Yan asked.

Su Kun also chimed in from the side, "Master, what do I have to worry about? Those little ghosts and monsters shouldn't be able to hurt me, right? With the jade in hand, I have nothing to fear in the world."

The Master paused for a moment, sounding a bit hesitant. He thought about it and sighed, "What I'm worried about is not those ghosts and monsters, but what your jade can't block..."

Gu Yan and Su Kun looked at each other. Su Kun was completely baffled, unable to think of what else the Master could be worried about besides these things. All along, weren't these the only things that could possibly harm him?

However, Gu Yan obviously thought of something else. He frowned and pondered for a moment before saying, "Master, you don't mean... humans?"

The Master sighed again, seemingly confirming his guess.

Hearing his reaction, Gu Yan nodded knowingly and said with complete certainty, "Your fellow disciple named Qing Yuan."

Su Kun raised his voice in surprise, "Your fellow disciple has no grudges or grievances with me, so how could he pose a threat to my safety?"

"Um... his personality is a bit eccentric," the Master mumbled something vaguely, then continued, "Anyway, for him, people he knows or has had interactions with may be more attractive than strangers, more likely to make him do something."

"How do I have any dealings with him, let alone know him? We only met once at the restaurant and didn't even talk. Does that count as knowing each other?!" Su Kun was speechless. If it really counted that way, then everyone on the street who had made eye contact with him would be considered an acquaintance? He really was a weirdo!

"Hey, anyway, you poker-faced kid, it's still better to take him with you than leaving him alone, right? My fellow disciple is like a mole, too good at hiding. We don't have many people, and it's impossible to station someone in every city. If he sneaks back to Li City while we're searching other cities, that would be troublesome."

Although Gu Yan felt that the Master's words were a bit confusing and obviously there were some things left unsaid, it was impossible to get to the bottom of it over the phone. So he didn't say more and just accepted the Master's suggestion, nodding, "I will take him with me."

Thus, Su Kun inexplicably became Gu Yan's sidekick.

It happened to be the weekend, so Su Kun entrusted the milk tea shop to the newly hired female clerk. She had probably just graduated from school, but her education and major didn't give her much advantage in finding a job. After searching for a year without much result, and with living expenses starting to run low, she decided to first find a job at Su Kun's milk tea shop.

However, the girl was quite honest, smiling most of the time, quite suitable for working in a milk tea shop. It's just that when truly interacting with people, she wasn't very good at talking, being too direct, sometimes inadvertently touching others' sore spots without realizing it. This was probably one of the reasons why she encountered many obstacles in the workplace.

But Su Kun didn't mind. He himself was a bit carefree when it came to interpersonal relationships. This carefree attitude didn't mean he was brainless or couldn't tell right from wrong, but rather he didn't pay much attention to some details and didn't hold grudges.

Once he knew someone's personality was straightforward and their words were unintentional, even if he heard some unpleasant remarks, he wouldn't take them to heart. Especially after interacting for a few days, he found that the girl was essentially good, so he used her with peace of mind.

Moreover, on weekends, a male student from S University would come to help part-time, so he wasn't afraid of the girl being overwhelmed alone or offending customers with her clumsy words. She only needed to be responsible for making milk tea in the back.

Su Kun was also acquainted with that S University student. It was the bespectacled guy he had met at the rice noodle shop when he was wandering around S University before. This student was in his senior year and had found a company to intern at, but had nothing to do on Saturdays and Sundays, so he would come to help at Su Kun's shop.

Su Kun figured that even if there was something going on in H City, with Gu Yan and the Master's abilities, it couldn't drag on for too long. So it wasn't a big deal for him, the shop owner, to be away for a few days.

The day after receiving the Master's call, he called the girl and the bespectacled guy early in the morning, then hurried to the train station with Gu Yan.

Fortunately, when Gu Yan joined that special department, he had already solved the issues of ID card and household registration, so when he bought train tickets together with Su Kun in a state similar to a normal person, they didn't encounter any obstacles.

However, at the train station, Su Kun felt that the Master's suggestion for him to go to H City with Gu Yan was really wise.

Because Gu Yan had never taken a train before and had no idea about the process of taking a train. And even if he used a non-human way to go directly to H City, there would be considerable problems.

Although he had a good sense of direction and could distinguish the cardinal directions, when faced with H City's streets that were several times more prosperous and noisy than Li City, the endless stream of vehicles on the roads, the bustling crowds, and the towering buildings, he would inevitably get dizzy.

Modern urban planning and layout were obviously very different from ancient times. General Gu would occasionally take a wrong turn in Li City, let alone in H City.

In Li City, if he took a wrong path, he could just circle around the entire city until he reached a familiar area and naturally find his way back to the right path, after all, the area of Li City was not very large. But if he got lost in H City and took a wrong turn, he might wander for days and nights without finding his way out.

Although Su Kun himself had a bit of a directional idiot attribute and couldn't even distinguish the cardinal directions in unfamiliar places, being even less reliable than Gu Yan, he had two absolute advantages: one was his divine tool, the cell phone, and the other was his buddy, Geng Zimo.

Otherwise, with Gu Yan's physique that sometimes shrank to the point where normal people couldn't see him, even if someone came to the station to pick him up, they might not be able to find Gu Yan. At that point, they wouldn't even be able to contact Gu Yan by phone.

Before leaving, Su Kun had told the master to give that Xiang Ge a heads up, saying that he had friends in Unic and asking him to pick them up, without troubling Xiang Ge further.

Unexpectedly, when Xiang Ge took the call and heard the names of the so-called friends, he laughed meaningfully and replied to the master, "Please kindly tell your two friends on my behalf that Geng Zimo and I will go to pick them up together."

When Su Kun and Gu Yan saw the text message relayed by the master, they had just exited the station after getting their tickets checked. With one glance, he spotted Geng Zimo standing among the crowd of people waiting, and next to him stood a man who had a smile on his face but gave off a very domineering vibe.

From a distance, that man's facial features, especially his eyes and brows, actually bore some resemblance to Gu Yan's. They both had slanted brows and deep-set eyes, looking slightly fierce, but the difference was that the man's skin was quite a bit fairer than Gu Yan's, and his expression was much more animated.

This made the overall impression they gave completely different.

Seeing him and Geng Zimo talking in the distance, not at all like a conversation between a superior and subordinate, and recalling the words in the master's text message, Su Kun could say with 100% certainty that this Xiang Ge was definitely the eccentric boss Geng Zimo had mentioned.

As he was thinking this, he saw Geng Zimo say something to Xiang Ge, and his gaze happened to sweep over in Su Kun and Gu Yan's direction. He immediately stretched out his hand to gesture at them.

Su Kun twitched the corner of his mouth. "Finally remembered us. I thought they came to the train station just to chat..."

The four met up, and Geng Zimo made introductions for both sides. Perhaps because he was used to talking to Su Kun, when introducing Xiang Ge, his tongue slipped and he nearly said "President Weirdo" before managing to change it to "President Xiang" in time, even though the sound of "weird" hadn't fully come out yet.

Even so, it sounded a bit strange. Su Kun silently wiped sweat for Geng Zimo, but Xiang Ge acted as if he hadn't noticed at all and very naturally shook hands with Su Kun and Gu Yan in greeting.

On the way from the station exit to the parking lot, he chatted with Su Kun and the others about many things. He had a very good grasp of propriety in his speech, letting people feel his enthusiasm without finding it stiff, and sincere without appearing servile. He didn't even mind at all that "the master couldn't come and was replaced by someone else", as if he had originally invited Gu Yan in the first place.

And after getting in the car, he didn't hurriedly lead Gu Yan and Su Kun directly to the dorm where the employee who had the incident lived, but first went to a restaurant.

Originally Su Kun didn't feel much, but when the car stopped in front of the restaurant that had been booked in advance, his stomach growled right on cue, and only then did he realize that this was exactly the time they usually ate lunch.

And when they actually sat inside and started ordering and eating, Su Kun discovered that the flavors at this restaurant very much suited his and Geng Zimo's usual tastes. Most importantly, even the dishes were ones he and Geng Zimo loved to eat.

This weird boss was really...too damn good!!

So, less than two hours after meeting, Su Kun, as one of Geng Zimo's "family", had been completely won over by the weird boss's words, actions, and thoughtful treatment. The guy who had previously told Geng Zimo "good luck" on QQ now simply wanted to grasp Geng Zimo's hand, place it in Xiang Ge's, and say, "I'm relieved that this troublemaker has fallen into your hands! Please take him as soon as possible, I'm begging you!"

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Author's note:

The computer has been in use by my classmate the whole time. Typing on a tablet is really tragically slow. Sob _(:з」∠)_

Good night~