Their commission was suspicious.

"I... failed." Bei Chenya sighed.

This star-gazing instrument and the tiny genie living inside it are incredibly powerful. Not only are they extremely fast-reacting, but they can also split into multiple forms and summon barriers.

"Come on," Bei Chenya said, making way for the raven.

But the raven shook its head repeatedly.

“No need to try. Since this barrier can even stop sand, I won’t embarrass myself. I’m afraid neither of us can break it within 10 minutes.” Raven shook his head.

"Huh? I thought you would put on a show, making the crystal ball create an opening when you attack, then attack His Highness the Star Gazing, and win the competition." Bei Chen Ya Xin seemed somewhat surprised.

Aren't you all in cahoots?

Do I need to teach you how to cheat?

"Your brain is actually that sharp?" Raven was greatly shocked.

Raven originally thought that Kita no Yashin was just a simpleton with a dull mind, full of loyalty and martial arts, but she never expected that he could come up with this idea.

"...I simply enjoy practicing martial arts, but I am not stupid." Beichen Yaxin looked at Raven with an unfriendly expression.

So Raven looked at Chen Luo again and asked him what he thought: Should we put on another show?

"As long as I'm still here, no one can hurt Guan Xing. That's the bottom line," Chen Luo refused.

After all, Chen Luo had already boasted that if anyone hurt Guanxing, he would give up the position of Genie to Guanxing!

[...] The user-friendly plugin looked at Chen Luo's expression with great satisfaction.

His lord had finally come to his senses and knew what to say and what not to say.

"Alright, since you, Beichen Yaxin, can't do anything to my protective magic treasure, let's call this a draw." Guanxing sighed.

“A draw…what do you mean?” Bei Chenya was taken aback.

"It's very simple. Since it was originally agreed that if we win, you can no longer stop us, and if you win, we will go back with you... why not combine the two?" Guan Xing said calmly, waving his feather fan.

"Combine? How do we combine?"

"You will help me set up formations throughout the country. Once the formations are in place, they will suppress any possible reappearance of the strange beasts. After that, I will go with you to see my royal uncle. What do you say?" Guan Xing said.

"But, but..." Bei Chenya hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping herself.

Just as Beichen Yaxin said, although Beichen Yaxin likes martial arts, she is not stupid.

It's obvious that Guan Xing wants to be his own bodyguard.

But I brought the stargazing team back with me.

However, if I were to fight my way to a draw and then go back like this, wouldn't I become a laughing stock?

Having failed to fulfill his lord's request, yet also bound by his promise...

“Foolish.” Guan Xing suddenly pointed at Bei Chen Ya Xin with his feather fan.

"Ugh?"

"I originally thought you were an extraordinary person of unparalleled loyalty and bravery, but I didn't expect you to be just an ordinary warrior who only knows how to display reckless courage! If the third strange beast, the fire beast, is released and there is no one to restrain it, then all living beings will be devastated. If the royal uncle's place is also attacked by the strange beast, you will be an accomplice of that strange beast. How can this be called loyalty and bravery?" Guan Xing was disappointed in his lack of ambition.

"If this matter gets out, the Imperial Uncle will lose face and be filled with shame and indignation! How will the Imperial Uncle face the consequences?"

"This...this..."

"Alright, that's enough. Follow me until you've figured it out. Actually, this isn't entirely a bad thing. If you help me quell the ferocious beasts, then your royal uncle will naturally gain some good reputation. Or are you just a coward who's afraid of death and doesn't even dare to help seal the beasts?"

"Your Highness, there's no need to say more. I will definitely protect you along the way!" Bei Chenya said with a firm expression.

"Oh, you don't need to worry about protecting me. After all, no one can break through the Genie's protection and hurt me." Guan Xing shook his head.

"Huh? Then why did Your Highness Guanxing bring me along?" Bei Chenya asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Ah, could it be that we need manpower to hunt down the ferocious beast?" Bei Chenya suddenly realized.

"No, if things go smoothly, we might be able to seal the beast as soon as we see it. And we also have the raven for physical attacks." Guan Xing shook his head again.

"Then, why is that?" Bei Chenya was even more puzzled.

"Because the Genie said you have a face that looks like you'd be a great cook, so for the sake of my stomach, it's better to have you come along. After all, Raven's cooking is really terrible," said Stargazer, stroking the Stargazer he was holding in his arms.

The genie really thought things through for himself.

Moreover, it was also the Genie who taught him how to temporarily bring Beichen Yaxin under his command.

Although the Genie said it was a trick of despicable adults, the Stargazer was surprised to find it very effective.

"..." Raven's face darkened, but he didn't dare to refute it, fearing that he would be fined ten thousand taels of gold.

And what the other party said was actually true.

"Cooking? I've done some research on that. If anyone needs it, I'll do my best." Beichen Yaxin nodded.

A dual-wielding cook joins the party (?)

Chapter 2174 Chen Luo: But what if a minor attacks me? 9k

"If you ask me, if you were willing to take my advice, we could have arrived this morning. Why did we only arrive at the inn in Ziyuan Town at noon?" Chen Luo complained.

"Isn't it because your suggestion, Mr. Genie, was a bit too much?"

"Hmm..." Chen Luo was considering whether his suggestion was really too much.

What did I say before I set off?

Isn't it just saying that you can control the crystal ball to make it bigger, and then let the stargazer sit on it and fly with the stargazer?

There are four people in the stargazing team: a genie who answered the call of the future to grant a girl's wish; a girl who wants to solve the cholera epidemic that is ravaging the world with her own strength; a greedy assassin who was originally there to assassinate someone but was tricked into becoming a bodyguard and is not good at cooking; and a samurai who is skilled in dual-wielding but whose only use is cooking.

Guan Xing does possess considerable skill, but among the four, she walks the slowest.

So, if Chen Luo simply increases the speed of stargazing, wouldn't he be able to speed things up even more?

"Foolish genie, I'm wearing a dress!" Seeing that Chen Luo didn't seem to have realized he was stargazing, he tapped the stargazing instrument with his feather fan.

"...So what? I'm not going to look up anyway, and besides, if I really wanted to look, you couldn't stop me." Chen Luo muttered.

Moreover, when you first meet the stargazer and put your foot on the stargazer, you've already seen most of what you should and shouldn't see.

"..." Guan Xing sighed.

However, considering that Chen Luo is not human and his views may differ from those of humans, Guan Xing did not bring it up further.

"Hey, I have something to tell you guys, but you absolutely mustn't tell anyone else."

"Hey, what new way have you found to make money? Tell us yourselves!"

"Well, I don't really know if this is true or not. A couple of days ago, when I was in Huangyue City on business, I had a really bad stomachache and couldn't find a latrine, so I just found a spot against a wall. Suddenly, I heard two people whispering behind the wall, saying something about the eldest grandson of the emperor running away and that we should hurry up and find him."

"Shh, we can't discuss royal matters. One wrong word and it could lead to..."

"Yes, yes, let's have a drink. We didn't say or hear anything just now."

Amidst the clinking of glasses and the already hushed chatter, the inn's noise was completely drowned out.

"Guanxing, Guanxing, the news of your escape from the capital has spread far too far! It's caused quite a stir," Chen Luo said from the side.

"Yes, the pressure on the guards has increased," Raven sighed.

"So, do we need to make a wish to eliminate all these rumors and ensure that no rumors will spread?" Chen Luo asked.

“This… there’s no need for that. Ziyuan Town is the only gateway from Huangyue City to the Western Regions, and it has long been a place with many people and eyes. This inn is even more so. Anyway, these are just idle rumors. We don’t need to pay attention to them. They will disappear like a drop of water into the sea and no longer be known to anyone.” Guan Xing hesitated for a moment and then shook his head.

Along the way, Guanxing has already owed Chen Luo many favors and received a lot of help. If he owes any more favors, Guanxing doesn't know how he will repay them.

"Don't worry, just consider it a small holiday gift for our big debtor. Besides, it's a very easy thing for me to do."

Whether it's Chen Luo or the genie lamp, helping others fulfill their wishes will inevitably bring benefits, so Chen Luo won't give up and will continue to try his best.

"In that case, I'll leave it to you..." Guan Xing nodded.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

With a mere snap of his fingers, Chen Luo had erased the Crown Prince's escape from the annals of "ordinary people" by using the power of the law.

[Ding! Mission complete!]

"Sigh, I said I didn't want to rely too much on the genie's wish-granting ability, but I made a wish anyway." Stargazing sighed.

"This wish-granting ability is truly amazing," Bei Chenya thought to herself.

After learning about her wish-granting ability, Bei Chenya's first thought was to make the Second Prince, whom she served, the emperor. However, Chen Luo asked her: "Do you think the Second Prince wants to be emperor?"

It was blocked.

"Sigh, I never thought that even with the genie, the one in debt is the boss these days. I thought only money lenders would give away rice, flour, and cooking oil to people with huge debts during holidays," the raven sighed.

However, the raven is unwilling to make dozens of wishes and become a major customer of the genie.

Once this job is done, Raven can take 30 taels of gold and leave!

While waiting for the food to be served, Guan Xing pulled the observatory closer and began to study it.

Stargazing does seem to have a talent for divination and fortune telling, so one can acquire some strange and wonderful knowledge through stargazing instruments.

The level of the star-gazing formation also increased rapidly as he read the star-gazing instrument, so his gaze never left the instrument along the way.

Chen Luo was also curious about what Guan Xing saw on the stargazing device, but the user-friendly plugin indicated that it wasn't anything important. Apart from some knowledge that Guan Xing wanted to learn, it was just some useless fragments of the future, and Chen Luo didn't need to know more about it.

Chen Luo nodded, then indicated his understanding.

If a user-friendly plugin doesn't provide a notification, it means it's not important...

Chen Luo believed it? No way!

If it were something unimportant, why would one be so engrossed in stargazing?

[It's nothing important, it's just... the Stargazer is looking through photos of you from childhood to adulthood. Of course, they're all photos that don't include anything private, like photos of you taking a bath or anything like that.]

"Oh... um?" Chen Luo perked up instantly.

what did you say?

【What's so strange about that? This astrolabe has become even more magical because of you, my lord. So, it's practically one of your personal possessions. Plus, given its divination nature, it's reasonable that it can reveal some unimportant information about you, right?】

Even someone like Huo Huo, who knows nothing about divination, can use this star-gazing instrument, which is imbued with Chen Luo's aura, to divine where Grandpa Tail is. It's perfectly reasonable for the star-gazing instrument to want to see what it wants to see.

"What a load of nonsense! Don't do weird things behind my back while I'm focused on studying!"

【Master, this is a good thing. The fact that the Stargazer can see photos of you as a child through this observatory shows that it is very interested in "understanding you".】

[Being curious about a boy is the beginning of a girl's descent into infatuation!]

"You unlucky kid... you didn't remind me at all!"

Of course, after all, I'm a strategy guide system.

"How dare you be so self-righteous? By the way, where are you looking at the photos now?"

[When you were three years old, you and your dad were playing a two-player game. Just as you were about to beat him, your dad suddenly told you that your mom was calling you, and then took the opportunity to steal the MVP photo of your victory.]

"Huh? Is that so?"

That's so shameless!

But then again, was I really this good when I was three years old?

[More than that, if you were to examine your own memories, you would find that when you were one year old, you seemed to be able to do things that even adults couldn't.]

"for example?"

For example, you could throw your dad over your shoulder.

"???"

Chen Luo didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.

[It seems your special abilities began to emerge in childhood, but after you became conscious, you gradually became more ordinary. Only after this ordinariness accumulated to a certain degree did you awaken the abilities you should have possessed in childhood.]

"How did you find out about this? Why didn't you tell me?" Chen Luo frowned.

Chen Luo trusted the user-friendly plugin a lot; if it didn't mention it, Chen Luo wouldn't ask too many questions. But this matter concerned Chen Luo's analysis of his own talent...

However, Chen Luo felt that there must be a reason for the user-friendly plugin.