165 Can I Trust You? (1/2)

Mei Chao Bing continued to watch Yun Bei Fen as he practiced conjuring up a small shield of spiritual energy. After a while, he told him to give it a rest for today and continue tomorrow. Then, he went to discuss the patrol for this night with the others, once again excluding Yang Wu Huang and his two followers. He just wasn't willing to count on them. For all he knew, they might purposefully ignore any attackers to push the blame for any injuries on him.

Yang Wu Huang wanted to speak up but Mei Chao Bing just ignored him or spoke up before he could, not giving him any chance to insert himself. Soon enough, everything had been organized and the groups for the night were set.

Mei Chao Bing went back to Yun Bei Fen's side and sat next to him, gently stroking his back until his little bunny had fallen asleep. He looked up at the sky that was growing darker until the first stars finally lit up the darkness.

What was about to come was something that he dreaded if he was honest with himself. His relationship with Song Mu who had been one of the best before his Master betrayed the Teng Yong Sect. In fact, even thinking back now, Song Mu had probably been his only real friend at that time while the others were only taking advantage of his position and knowledge, trying to gain an advantage for themselves by clinging to him.

Song Mu hadn't been like that. He had been strong enough that he could rely on himself so there was no need to play any games. But exactly because of that, it had especially hurt when he turned his back on him at the time when he needed him the most.

Being set up with him for this kind of task … It really wasn't something that he liked to think about. And now, needing to trust him when they had to get rid of Yang Wu Huang and the other two to make sure that everyone else would stay safe, was an even worse feeling. After all, how was he supposed to trust somebody that had already broken his trust ones?

He sighed to himself, gently picked Yun Bei Fen up from where he was lying on his lap, and put him on the ground, kissing his forehead before pulling the blanket higher up so he wouldn't be cold. Then, he got up and slowly walked out of the camp.

Song Mu was already standing a few steps away and looked over his shoulder when he heard somebody behind him. He didn't say anything and the two of them just walked further away into the darkness before finally stopping a few steps apart from each other.

Mei Chao Bing stretched out his spiritual sense to make sure that nobody was around before he turned to Song Mu. ”Let's keep this short.”

Song Mu turned to him and gave a nod. ”I can imagine what you want to ask. I did not know about this. But I guess it isn't unexpected. We definitely can't take them along.”

Mei Chao Bing continued to look at him, trying to gauge whether he was able to trust him. ”What do you think happened?”

”The others?”