The Trouble

“Master, do you have a lot of money?” Yuna looked at the beastmen girl who had fled into the forest, and unconsciously asked Lin Feng.

Wealth should not be flaunted. Lin Feng certainly could not tell the truth.

“It’s a secret.”

Yuna sighed, “Alright, then I won’t ask.”

Over the past two days, Lin Feng had looked through almost every slave trader, and would buy any Silver Wolf Tribe slaves to set them free into the forest.

Of course, the money used to buy these slaves was all counted as borrowed to Yuna.

In the future she would still have to repay it bit by bit.

“I don’t understand. Your tribe has exiled you, so why are you still willing to help free them for nothing?” Lin Feng patted some dust off Yuna’s shoulder. “You owe me so much money, I bet you won’t be able to pay it off in less than ten years.”

Yuna was quite calm. Her ears twitched, "If it takes ten years then ten years it is. I think it's worth it."

She really did have the makings of a foolishly kind person, she was quite pitiful indeed.

“To work for master is not suffering, because master treats me very well, and often tolerates me doing some willful things. I'm very willing to work for master,” Yuna softly added.

Since that was the case, Lin Feng also wanted to do some willful things.

He had actually been eyeing Yuna's ears for a while already.

Every time seeing her twitching them, he especially wanted to reach out and touch them.

“Yuna, can I touch your ears?”

“Huh?” Yuna looked at Lin Feng in surprise, her ears immediately drooping down.

She looked around awkwardly and said, “It has to be here? No way.”

“When we get home... you can let me touch your ears a bit.”

Touch?

This...

Could ears be some especially private place?

Oh well, it'd be better to take Yuna to continue working on proper business.

The task of finding her sister had been delayed for too long already.

Lin Feng returned to town.

Winding through the complex alleyways, he finally found this slave market.

As soon as they entered the shop, Yuna began unusually sniffing the air around her.

Seeing customers enter, the slave trader immediately smiled and welcomed them, “Customers, do you need slaves?”

Lin Feng directly got to the point, “I heard you have Silver Wolf Tribe slaves here?”

The slave trader thought for a moment and lightly pushed up his glasses frames, “There is one young Silver Wolf girl, but she's already been booked by another customer.”

Hearing him say this, Yuna immediately became anxious. She gently shook Lin Feng’s arm and tiptoed to whisper by his ear, “Master! That is my sister!”

“Are you sure?”

“There’s no mistake! That is definitely Yu Li’s scent! It’s her!” Yuna anxiously began searching around, and after a while found a hidden door at the end of the corridor.

She immediately broke the door handle.

“Customer, please restrain your slave.” The slave trader’s expression was displeased.

He beckoned, and several burly men blocked Yuna’s way.

Seeing the situation was getting somewhat out of control, Lin Feng hurriedly called out to stop her, “Yuna, we have to follow the rules.”

Yuna immediately deflated.

She returned to Lin Feng’s side with drooping ears, obediently lowering her head, softly apologizing, “I’m sorry, have caused trouble for master...”

Seeing this, the slave trader also gestured for those men to withdraw.

“You’ve also seen how important that Silver Wolf girl is to us, could you give us some leeway and sell her to me for a higher price?” Lin Feng quietly asked.

Slave traders were always profit first. What’s all this talk of booking or not booking?

As long as the money was sufficient, any excuse could fool a customer.

Now it depended on which side of the scale had the heavier bargaining chips.

But Yuna had exposed such an intense desire. How could this trader not seize the opportunity to ruthlessly exploit them?

“150 silver coins, can you afford this price?”

The slave trader shook his head regretfully.

Lin Feng gritted his teeth and held up two fingers, “Two gold coins!”

This price already counted as very good to buy a young Silver Wolf girl slave.

Although the beastmen of Silver Wolf Tribe were rare, two gold coins should still be enough.

“Customer, price isn’t the issue. Her buyer is a marquess.” The slave trader slumped onto the leather sofa, putting on the appearance of having a big headache, “Offending nobility can be very troublesome. Would you go negotiate with him directly instead?”

“Three gold coins, if that still isn’t possible then there’s nothing to be done.” Lin Feng laid down an ultimatum, acting as if he would leave without an agreement.

Meanwhile Yuna tightly clutched at Lin Feng’s clothes hem, not even daring to breathe loudly.

“Deal!” The slave trader grinned extremely craftily.

Lin Feng sighed secretly.

As expected, all that talk of reservations was just farting around. They still skinned him.

They went to the underground dungeon, where various beastmen were imprisoned in cages.

The long detention had left them all numb and disillusioned. Even seeing people come, they would only woodenly glance up.

Yuna went straight to one of the cages. Through the iron bars she saw her sister.

Lin Feng hurried to follow.

The little one lay curled up in the corner with her back to the passage, unable to see her face.

But in the dim light, one could still vaguely see the silver fur.

“Yu Li!”

Yuna softly called but there was no response. Anxiously she violently shook the cage, eager to squeeze inside through the gaps.

Lin Feng pointed at the cage and said to the slave trader, “Open this cage. She’s been desperately looking for her sister for so long, she’s about to lose it.”

The corners of the trader’s mouth curved up as he crooked a finger at Lin Feng, “You have to pay first if you want the door open.”

Lin Feng’s eyebrows slightly knitted together. Extremely reluctantly, he took three gold coins from his pouch and placed them in the trader’s hand.

Not waiting for the cage to fully open, Yuna directly rushed inside.

She hugged her sister and gently shook her several times but there was no reaction.

“Don’t try to scare sister... hurry and wake up.”

Lin Feng leaned forward to take a closer look.

The little one had been starved into skin and bones.

“Appraisal.”

Although she had fainted from hunger, at least her life wasn’t endangered.

“Wasn’t she booked by nobility? You won’t even spare her a bite of food to eat?” Lin Feng irritatedly questioned.

The slave trader also wanted to step forward and take a look, but before his foot entered the cage there came a snarling roar from Yuna’s throat.

The sound even made Lin Feng shudder involuntarily.

He worried she might suddenly pounce and tear out this guy’s throat.

The slave trader snorted mockingly then made a hand gesture, “Food has always been provided, it’s this worthless thing herself who’s on hunger strike. There’s nothing I can do.”

Yuna held her sister distressfully. She didn’t want to stay here another half second.

“Master, I want to go back now.”

They had hardly taken a few steps when the slave trader called out to Lin Feng.

“Aren’t you going to tattoo the slavery mark? You’ve paid quite a lot for this slave. If she escapes it’ll be a heavy loss.”

Lin Feng glanced at Yuna. She hugged her sister with her head lowered and didn’t say anything.

Actually, tattoo or no tattoo made no difference. He wasn’t interested in this little loli anyway.

But taking good care of this little loli could definitely win over her sister’s affection.

“Nevermind, no need to bother.”

Yuna blanked for a second when she heard Lin Feng’s reply. She raised her head to look into his eyes.

She already did not know how else to express gratitude. After a long period of silence she barely squeezed out from her lips a humble “thank you”.

At the same time, the sound of the system rang in Lin Feng’s mind.

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