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  Chapter 64: Meeting Xiao Li by Chance

  "Qing Lin?"

  Hearing these two words, Xiao Se was stunned for a moment, and his gaze turned to the girl's wrist, which was covered in dirt but still white. There were indeed some green scales growing there.

  Qinglin, who was about to thank him, suddenly raised her little face and saw Xiao Se's gaze. She followed his gaze and finally stopped at her forearm. Her delicate little face turned pale. She tried to pull her clothes to cover the scales on her elbow, but because the clothes were too worn out, they could not be completely covered. She had no choice but to pull up the sack under her body, put it on carefully, squatted down, and only her little head was exposed. Her petite body kept shaking.

  "I'm sorry, I...I didn't mean to scare you, please don't hit me." Qinglin pulled the mouth of the cloth bag tremblingly, begging bitterly in a timid voice with anxious crying tones.

  Xiao Se smiled and shook his head. He gently stroked her little head with his big hand and said softly, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Everyone is born equal. You don't have to feel inferior. Besides, these green scales are not scary."

  Hearing this, Qinglin was stunned with fear. Since she was born, except for her mother, almost no one had cared about her. Even if there were, after learning that she was half-snake, they all retreated, and then there was endless abuse and ridicule, even resentment.

  Even those who were slightly better off completely ignored her. In the eyes of others, she was the illegitimate offspring of snake people and humans, an alien.

  After her mother passed away, she lost a relative in this world, and living in pain and suffering became increasingly difficult. If it weren't for her mother's dying words asking her to live well, she would have lost the faith to live long ago.

  A sense of wonder quietly emerged in the devastated little heart. He raised his little face, opened his eyes that exuded strange charm, and timidly said: "Aren't you afraid of me? I am the child of a snake man and a human."

  Xiao Se smiled and shook his head. His eyes fell on the strange green pupils. He vaguely saw three tiny green dots. He was a little dazed for a moment, and then he came back to his senses in an instant. When he looked again, the three dots had disappeared. He thought to himself, "Is this the Green Snake's Three-Flower Pupil?"

  "My name is Xiao Se. Is there anyone else at home?" Xiao Se clearly remembered that Qing Lin's first appearance in the original novel was as a maid in the Mo Tie Mercenary Group. It seemed that she was taken in by a woman in Mo Tie. Now she was rescued by himself in the desert, so...

  Thinking of this, Xiao Se radiated his soul power and as expected, he found two figures, a man and a woman, behind a sand slope hundreds of meters away. At this moment, they were very cautious and did not dare to move at all.

  At the same time, Long Kui's voice rang in Xiao Se's mind, "Brother, we didn't pay attention to the man and woman we found half an hour ago, but they seem to be heading here and are now parked behind the sand slope in the west. One of them is a nine-star fighter, and although he is no match for you, you should still be careful."

  "Yes. I understand, Long Kui." Xiao Se nodded slightly in his heart, looking at Qing Lin in front of him with gentle eyes, waiting for her reply quietly.

  Hearing Xiao Se's question, Qing Lin hurriedly shook his head, looked up at Xiao Se's dark pupils that did not contain a trace of falsehood but were full of tenderness and pity, and quietly, a warm current flowed through Qing Lin's heart.

  "I don't have a home either, but fortunately I have a sister and some good friends. Do you want to follow me and become my second sister?" Xiao Se had a warm smile on his face. He rubbed Qinglin's little head and said after pondering for a moment.

  Xiao Se's sudden tenderness made Qing Lin's heart tremble slightly. At this moment, her scarred and weak heart seemed to be healed instantly.

  "Yeah." Rourou responded, and with the help of Xiaose, she took off the sack on her body and stood up.

  After pacifying Qinglin, Xiao Se breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said loudly to the distant sand slope: "You have been watching for so long, why don't you come out?"

  Hearing Xiao Se's shout, the two people hiding behind the sand slope knew that they were exposed. They looked at each other, seeing helplessness in each other's eyes, and then they got up and walked out of the sand slope.

  This is a young couple.

  The man was dressed in mercenary uniform and looked to be in his twenties. He looked quite similar to Xiao Yan, with a tall stature and strong arms, giving people a sense of a wild beast.  

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  The woman was more sexy. At this moment, she was following the young man step by step with a nervous mood.

  Looking at the young man and woman walking towards him, Xiao Se guessed in his heart: "They look a bit like Xiao Yan, but I don't know if they are Xiao Ding or Xiao Li." He came to the Xiao family in Wutan City when he was over six years old. Before that, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li had rarely stayed in the Xiao family, and later they went out to gain experience, so the two parties did not know each other.

  "It's Sister Xuelan who gave me food!" Qinglin, who was standing aside, saw the sexy woman and shouted excitedly.

  The woman called Xue Lan heaved a sigh of relief when she heard Qing Lin recognized her. She and the young man stopped ten meters away from Xiao Se and said softly, "Qing Lin, are you okay? I heard from the people in the slums that you were kidnapped, so I asked our second captain to come and help rescue you."

  Qinglin smiled and said, "Thank you, Sister Xuelan. It was you who saved me."

  Xue Lan smiled and nodded, glanced at Xiao Se, and said, "Then I'm relieved. Originally, I was planning to take you to our mercenary group this time, but it seems that it is no longer necessary this time."

  Listening to the conversation between the two women, Xiao Se understood. He knew that even if he didn't save Qing Lin this time, Qing Lin would be taken to the Mo Tie Mercenary Group to serve as a maid just like in the original book.

  As for how the two of them rescued people from the human traffickers who were powerful fighting masters, it is unknown.

  "I'm Xiao Li, the second leader of the newly formed Motie Mercenary Group in Mo City. This is Xue Lan, a member of my mercenary group. Nice to meet you, sir." The young man bowed. Although he was surprised at Xiao Se's youth, he knew that he could easily kill this human trafficker who had committed so many evil things in the Tagor Desert and was hated by both humans and snake people, and he could also spot the two of them from such a long distance. His strength must be higher than his, and he couldn't help but respect him.

  Xiao Se nodded and calmly gave his nickname: "Xiao Huohuo."

  "Xiao Huohuo?" Xiao Li was slightly stunned. The person in front of him was also surnamed Xiao. But after thinking carefully, it seemed that there was no one named Xiao Huohuo in the Xiao family. With a tentative thought, he asked, "Could it be that brother is also a member of the Xiao family of Wutan City?"

  "No." Xiao Se said calmly.

  "Uh..." Hearing this, Xiao Li was stunned, and then said awkwardly: "Haha, it's Meng Lang."

  Xiao Se shook his head, threw out a few jade bottles, and said calmly: "It doesn't matter. Since you are here to save Qing Lin, you can't come in vain. Here are three bottles of wound pills. Whether you take them internally or crush them and apply them externally, they can speed up the healing of injuries. For you mercenaries, it is perfect."

  After taking the pill, Xiao Li's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly, "Brother, are you a pharmacist?"

  Xiao Se nodded slightly, as an acknowledgement, and tilted his head to look at Qing Lin who was standing beside him, and said softly: "Qing Lin, it's time to go."

  "Oh, okay." Qing Lin was slightly stunned, then greeted Xue Lan, "Goodbye, Sister Xue Lan."

  After saying that, Xiao Se put his arms around Qing Lin's slender waist, tapped the ground with his toes, and performed his fighting skills. In a few flashes, he disappeared from the sight of the two.