Sun Baolu listened to Puppy as he took out a playing card from his hand and played it. “I saw Senior Li go to the village blacksmith. It seemed like he was preparing something. Right, Puppy, didn’t Senior Li ask you to gather some information? And you’re out here playing cards? Aren’t you afraid that he’ll scold you when he returns?”0

“What ‘Puppy’?! Call me Cao Cao!” said Puppy as he played a card. “This small village isn’t all that big, so there’s no need to go through so much trouble. Moreover, I brought back those two kids to question them, and finished it quickly. The village elders all told us that there are man-eating worms in the woods to the west and advised us not to go there.”2

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