Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

"Of course they do. You're buying herbs here to treat illnesses. If you make a mistake and someone asks for the source of the medicine, it will lead back to us. I have to make sure." The man was just following protocol.

He added, "I noticed you're from Enswood, so I believed you more, and that's why I asked you so many questions. If it had been anyone else, I would have kicked you out a long time ago."

"I'm really sorry. I can't tell you my mentor's name, but I will definitely be able to cure the ailment." Pearl realized that she might have been too intense and had made the man angry.

"If that's the case, you can't buy anything from us." The anticipation in the man's gaze disappeared. Human life was at stake, so he couldn't just take a chance.

Seeing that the man was about to turn around and leave, Pearl said, "Then can you send the person with you away? I can only tell you."

The man stopped walking. He glanced at the foreign man beside him from the corner of his eyes, and the latter understood immediately.

the middle-aged man was a little reluctant, he

"Okay, go ahead."

people there, Pearl

name was spoken,

reaction, it

"I can't sell the herbs to you then."

She was so strong that the man couldn't pull away, and for a moment, he didn't even know what to say. "What? Didn't I tell you I won't

was a little anxious. "I really need the herbs. I hope you can

know the whole story, yet you think it's

sell the herbs to me just by hearing my mentor's

of her momentary distraction and quickly shook her hand away. "Okay, I get what you mean. Do you really have