Beauty and the Bodyguard

(Note: this does not have to be connected to the main story.)

It was February 14th, the traditional Valentine's Day of Western Culture.

The sky was filled with feather-like snow, and everything was white.

In the countries all over the world, there was an air of celebration. Couples walked through the streets, sweet and happy.

But in one place, on some border of a European small country, the weather was already below thirty eight celsius. This place was an exception.

There was no celebration here. It was quiet and covered in snow, with an air of danger.

Lin Yi dug out a couple of mud balls from the fire in front of him and tossed it to the young girl beside him, "Eat up."

The mud ball was still permeating with heat when it came out, but it was cooling down quickly.

The girl skillfully tore out the mud- inside was a sparrow, cooked. The mud had already stuck onto the feathers that got pulled out with them, and the meat had a nice primordial smell to it.

The girl put the bird at Lin Yi's mouth happily, "Open up--"

"Not hungry," Lin Yi frowned, rejecting the girl's goodwill. He stood up and spoke faintly, "Wait here, I'll go get more branches. This isn't enough for a fire overnight."

"Don't leave, I'm afraid!" The girl called out to stop him.

Lin Yi didn't respond. He turned and left the cave.

"Eagle, wait for me, I'll help you!" The girl put down the bird meat and followed Lin Yi.

Lin Yi slowed down his footsteps, giving the girl a look, but not stopping her.

The land was covered in snow, and the branches as well- it was hard to look for them. Lin Yi, however, wasn't planning on looking for bits and pieces of fallen wood- he jumped on top of a tree and started breaking branches.

The girl only looked at Lin Yi, unable to help. She stomphed her feet, a little frustrated!

If it weren't for her stubbornness, the two wouldn't have gotten separated from the party at all!

Lin Yi broke a couple of branches and jumped down once it seemed enough. He got a softer branch and started tying them all together.

"I can… help you?" The girl said, feeling bad that Lin Yi was doing all the work.

"No need," Lin Yi said with a poker face as he finished the work and put the load on his back.

The girl felt so useless- she came to help, but couldn't do anything.

"Eagle, I'm sorry… I didn't know that I would cause so much trouble…" These past few days, Lin Yi didn't even speak to the girl much, other than for cooking or making fires. She thought he was angry.

"Oh…" Lin Yi replied faintly and went into the cave.

"Hey, I apologized already, why're you still ignoring me?" The girl was panicking.

The girl was the representative of a big family in China, and she came here to talk about partnership- it was just a typical disciple exchanging event between powerful families.

There were not really any risks to this mission- Lin Yi was just invited by Feng Tianlong to participate in this.

It wasn't an official mission, but due to the strength of the family backing this girl, Feng Tianlong naturally invited an outsider operative like Lin Yi for the mission.

Who would've thought that- after finishing the discussions- somethng this big would happen when they just went to admire the view!

They saw a couple of kids wearing rugged clothing, looking like they were refugees. The girl then asked the people they were with to give them some clothes and food, and while Lin Yi disagreed, the girl just called him heartless.

He wanted to say something to that, but kept it to himself.

He was just a protection unit, and the others were all the girl's men. They listened to her.

They were all busy kissing her ass- who would listen to an outsider like Lin Yi?

And so they opened up all their luggage packs, flipping through everything to get some food and clothing, worried that the girl wouldn't be pleased!

Lin Yi frowned, but kept his mouth shut. One shouldn't show their wealth in the open, this was such a fundamental principle- these ass kissers were all idiots!

THe kids took the food and clothes and left happily.

But a while later, an accident happened- a huge force with firepower surged over! The kids who took the girl's kindness weren't grateful, they told their parents where they were, and a huge mugging took place!

There were practitioners among their group too, but in front of so many guns, they seemed a lot weaker.

The enemy's goal was to take everything away from the group.

And, without much ability to fight back under so much firepower, they had to surrender- after all the masters in her group weren't strong enough to handle bullets.

But Lin Yi didn't care at all whether these people lived or died- he had no reason to protect the things in the luggage!

In simple terms, he came as a precaution, a just-in-case sent by Tianlong. Tianlong made it clear, he was just here to guard the girl!

So if the girl died, it was on Lin Yi. As for the other people, so be it if they died. Lin Yi had always been like this.

But these people only wanted the money- they weren't interested in killing, and so they didn't cause any more harm other than knocking someone down or injuring them!

Seeing this made Lin Yi breathe out in relief, but he still stood in front of the girl just in case.

"Can you guys please stop? We can give you all the money, but please stop injuring our people!" The girl felt guilty and was panicking as she called out.

Lin Yi frowned- but the girl had already attracted their attention before he could stop her!

"Get the girl!" The armed man didn't notice her earlier, but she was the only female here. In a world where females are rare, they saw women like treasures, and the leader was quite interested in this one.

LIn Yi wanted to stop her because of that! These people didn't want to kill, but that didn't mean that they wouldn't want to take a girl home by force! They just didn't want to kill on a big scale because it would force a large, deliberate war- if the current local governemnt really did decide to do act because they killed people like this, then they would have a lot more to deal with!