CH 263

After Ferro left, Xi Ning sat at the door of the carriage and waited for a long time, but the head guard did not bring him here and he couldn’t resist his sleepiness and went inside to take a nap.

He slept for the whole night. When Xi Ning opened his eyes, it was already dawn. Everyone packed up and prepared to leave. Only then did the head guard come to see him.

Xi Ning opened the carriage door, but did not see the figure he wanted to see. The head guard stood alone in front of the carriage , “Please forgive me, Your Highness……”

After listening to the explanation from the head guard, Xi Ning was silent for a while before opening his mouth, “He doesn’t want to come?”

The head guard replied, “Yes.”

When he went to the mercenary group commander to explain his purpose last night, the mercenary group commander had a strange expression and asked, “What does His Highness of the elf want him for?”

The captain of the guard said that he was not sure, and the mercenary group commander hesitated for a moment and shook his head, “He won’t go.”

According to Xi Ning’s words, Lin An is just a slave, why would the mercenary group commander will still care about his own attitude?

The head guard couldn’t help but ask, and the mercenary group commander rolled his eyes, “What slave…… can’t our mercenary group advocate freedom and equality? I won’t hand over Lin An if he doesn’t want to go, there’s no way His Highness of the elf will rob him from me with force, right?”

The mercenary group is not an ordinary organization. Ferro spent a lot of time and money in asking them to escort him this time.

Shortly after he left, the mercenary group commander whispered to his subordinates, and before going to bed, Lin An quietly appeared at the door of the mercenary group commander’s carriage.

“Are you looking for me?”

Wearing a black full-face mask, he didn’t look like a normal person in the dark at first glance, the mercenary group commander patted his chest, “……It’s not a big deal, just that the highness of the forest elf said that he wants you to be his bodyguard.”

Lin An stood at the door and did not move for a while, the mercenary group commander said in a relaxed tone, “I have already refused it for you. Did he get startled after seeing your face today? I’m just here to inform you about this matter. Just stay away from him next time.”

The mercenary group commander thought that creatures like elves are all beautiful, but they don’t understand the world, so it’s normal for them to be unaccustomed to ugly faces. Xi Ning wants Lin An to be his bodyguard, mostly just to bully him.

He was the only one here who knew Lin An’s true identity. When he was away, Lin An was just a lowly slave, and it was really inconvenient for him to take action when he was in trouble.

Since Lin An was wearing a mask, his expressions were covered under the mask. The mercenary group commander could only see his emotionless eyes. After a few breaths, Lin An replied, “Got it.”

He disappeared into the distance in a blink of an eye, and the mercenary group commander got up and closed the door of the carriage.

Ordinary slaves all took their sleeping bags and search for an open space to sleep. Lin An passed them, climbed to the top of a tree, and rested on a thick branch.

He took off the mask and hung it aside, took out a folded piece of paper from his clothes, and slowly opened it.

On the paper were the portraits that Xi Ning had drawn at the beginning and later that Ferro made more copies and posted some on various streets.

The dense foliage completely blocked the moonlight, and Lin An’s face was completely hidden in the darkness.

He usually wears a mask most of the time. If anyone pays more attention, they will find that half of his face that does not have bruises is at least 80 or 90 percent similar to the face on the portrait.

There’s some aura condensed in his eyes, Lin An looked at it for a while, and then folded the portrait and put it back on the inner layer of his clothes. He then closed his eyes and rested.

The mercenary group commander did not agree to let go of Lin An, and the head guard reported the matter to Ferro.

Ferro was also in an awkward situation when he heard the words. Xi Ning didn’t say why he wanted Lin An for. He was not sure what to do after the mercenary group commander rejected him directly in this way. And at that time it was already very late at night, so he ordered the head guard to go and informed Xi Ning about this matter the next morning.

Xi Ning asked, “He really doesn’t want to come? Why?”

The head guard replied truthfully, “I didn’t meet Lin An in person last night. It was the mercenary group commander who said he would not come, and he also said that as long as Lin An did not agree, he would not let him go.”

The carriage was about to start moving forward. The head guard apologized again to Xi Ning and before he left, he said, “Don’t worry, His Majesty will try to negotiate with the mercenary group commander again. If you need anything else, just let the people around you know.”

He left in a hurry, and the servant helped to close the carriage door.

Xi Ning waited all night and thought that he would see Song Zhou again, but he did not expect such an outcome. He was feeling down and sat in the carriage for a long time.

“Why doesn’t he want to? Is it too sudden?”

He only saw Lin An for the first time yesterday, and he didn’t have a chance to say a word to him. It seems to be abnormal to ask him to be his bodyguard directly.

Feeling that the carriage had started to move, Xi Ning opened the window and leaned against the window to look out.

The servants all followed behind, Xi Ning’s carriage was in the middle, so it was impossible to see Lin An.

The system comforted, “Don’t worry, master, as long as he is in the mercenary group, you will meet him again sooner or later.”

Next to the carriage was the one who greeted him yesterday. Because Xi Ning ignored him last time, he changed his expression today and looked at Xi Ning delicately, “Your Highness…… Are you looking for someone?”

Xi Ning only exposed half of his face and was enjoying the breeze, he kept looking back and when he heard the words, he responded to his gaze, “Yes.”

He thought for a while and asked, “Can you do me a favor?”

The mercenary soldier was very young, and everything was written on his face. He immediately patted his chest, “Of course, you can just say your request.”

“I want to meet with Lin An in your mercenary group,” Xi Ning said, “He’s a slave with black marks on his right face.”

The mercenary scratched his head, showing a confused look, “I remember this man…… Why are you looking for him?”

“Nothing really, I just have something to tell him.”

Xi Ning added, “I just want to meet with him once, I have no other intentions, and I won’t let him leave your group.”

The mercenary soldier was riding on a horse, and it wouldn’t take long to go to the back and bring a person with him. He looked back, nodded and agreed to Xi Ning, “Okay, I’ll call him.”