Chapter 386 - 382: Figured It Out

Chapter 386: Chapter 382: Figured It Out

Cao Cao giggled. "Master, you should probably take it easy. Even if you ate a whole cow in a private room, you couldn’t stop people from looking at you like you’re some kind of monster."

"So annoying. We’re not eating at the hotel this time. We’ll eat out. I refuse to believe that if I eat my way from one end of the street to the other, and then through a few more, someone will still be watching me from start to finish to see how much I ate." Gu Nuan Nuan laughed at the thought. "Besides, you can’t necessarily find authentic local specialties at the hotel. If I find anything good while we’re out, I can get some to go for everyone back home so they can try something new."

"Will we run into more troublemakers if we go out?" Cao Cao asked, then added with a surprised, "Huh? It’s been so quiet today. Master, what do you think? Is it because what happened with Sisi and Ah Lei at the warehouse the other night got out, making people think we’re not to be trifled with? Or is it that the owner of this hotel has a powerful background, so no one dares to cause trouble here?"

"Probably both," Gu Nuan Nuan said, completely unconcerned as she led Cao Cao out the door, switching to communicate with it telepathically. ’Who cares what the reason is? We’re leaving tomorrow anyway. Besides, we won’t be coming back this way, and since we’ve already decided to take the road less traveled into Nan’an Country, what’s the harm in doing this a few more times?’

"Shouldn’t we go buy some more raw stones while we’re at it?" Cao Cao was eager to continue its treasure hunt. Gu Nuan Nuan shot it a glance. "We can’t be too greedy. What we bought yesterday is enough. We should leave some good stuff for others. Otherwise, how terrible would they feel after coming all this way for stone gambling only to go home empty-handed?"

"Master, you’re so kind."

"I’m also saving money, you blockhead. Did you forget where we’re going tomorrow? When it comes down to it, Nan’an Country is the real source. Wouldn’t it be better if we just find the stones ourselves when we get there? It won’t even cost us anything." ’Cao Cao really was a contradiction,’ Gu Nuan Nuan thought. ’Clever one moment, hopelessly dense the next.’

"Oh, right." Cao Cao scratched its head, laughing foolishly.

The two of them left around six or seven in the evening. True to her word, Gu Nuan Nuan started on the busiest street in front of her hotel and ate her way from one end to the other. She continued on, eating her way through three whole streets in one go, both dining and getting food to go. All this left the several groups of people who had been secretly following her since she left her room completely dumbfounded. They rubbed their own stomachs; just watching her made them feel uncomfortably full. Who would have thought such a young girl could eat so much?

’How bizarre. You really can’t judge a book by its cover.’ It seemed this girl, who dared to show up here all alone and brazenly buy raw stones with a huge bag of cash, probably had some real skills up her sleeve. Thinking of the two who had been dealt with last night, all of Gu Nuan Nuan’s trackers shrank back. No one dared to make a move rashly.

The moment she stepped out of her hotel room, Gu Nuan Nuan knew she was being followed. Frowning, she complained to Cao Cao, "Why are so many different groups zeroing in on me? Something isn’t right."

"Maybe it’s because you’re too beautiful, Master. A rich, headstrong beauty always attracts more attention." Cao Cao was also confused. After failing to come up with an answer, it decided to just tease Gu Nuan Nuan.

"Get lost," Gu Nuan Nuan said with a laugh, finding it even funnier when Cao Cao actually made a motion of clutching its head and rolling through the air.

Joking aside, she didn’t really care that a group of people was following her. She ate and drank as she pleased, and she didn’t skimp on getting takeout, either. The only problem was that with people following her, she was forced to carry bags in both hands. She was quite unhappy about this and couldn’t help but complain to Cao Cao, "This is ridiculous. Logically, there are tons of rich people who come here. Who doesn’t carry around a huge bag of cash? Was I really being that high-profile? Enough for them to be all over me like this?"

Gu Nuan Nuan didn’t know that she wouldn’t have attracted so much attention originally. But it was all because Cao Cao had taken action the night before, causing Sisi and Ah Lei, who had designs on her warehouse, to be taken down so mysteriously.

That’s right. It was precisely because those two were taken down so mysteriously that people were alarmed. And being alarmed, they naturally became wary. Why else would they be watching her? But then, upon watching her, they saw her massive appetite, which left them dumbfounded and even more unsettled. This unease was the reason that when Gu Nuan Nuan checked out the next day, she found herself with a long tail of followers. In the end, she had to duck into a restroom and use an Invisibility Talisman ahead of schedule just to finally shake them all off.