Chapter 173: Chapter 173: Ruo'er's Vigilance.
Hearing the name, all the girls raised their eyebrows. Although It was not a common name, they did not think much about it. Those who were aware that it was an alias just shrugged it off while Ruo'er took a note of his name.
"Don't mind him, he is not a man of words! He is just there to span- ahem! Protect me." Ma Li coughed and waved her hand with a straight face but everyone except Ruo'er immediately understood what she wanted to say.
How could they not know what kind of woman she was…
Noah was acting like he did not even hear what she had said and continued to stay in his position. To pass the time he used his soul sense to look around the forest and see what the others were doing.
Ruo'er felt like she was missing something because she did not understand why the other girls were looking at Ma Li like she was a weird person.
"Rou'er, you should recover your energy the others might be arriving anytime soon." Seeing the awkward silence, Jiang Shi spoke up. She did not want the girl to feel awkward with them so she directly changed the topic.
Since Ruo'er looked around her age she did not have much difficulty conversing with her.
Ruo'er also agreed with her words and sat down to recover but soon she realized a main problem at this moment.
How could she use the ring in front of these people? All of her recovering medicines and the spirit stones were inside the ring.
She did not know these people for a long time and she was not naive enough to believe that everyone she will meet in her life will all be kind hearted. Besides, she cannot judge their character just after talking a few sentences with them.
Seeing the hesitant expression on her face, Noah could easily guess what was going through her mind. He could see through the enchantment placed on the ring with a single glance.
"You can use your storage ring here. No need to be so wary about it. I don't know about others but I won't be taking things from a little girl." Noah's words surprised the three girls but Ruo'er felt her heart was grasped in a cold grip.
She instinctively looked at her finger and saw that her ring was not visible and turned to look at the guy standing nonchalantly a couple of steps away from them.
Her eyes looked at them with a hint of vigilance and killing intent. She was ready to use another one of those talismans she had in her ring to keep her belongings safe and run from this place.
Ruo'er's killing intent alerted the rest of the girls.
They were a little surprised seeing that the girl in front of them had a storage ring but they did not have any intentions of eyeing it after all they were sure that this girl was not as simple as she seemed.
The reason for that was that even after hearing Noah exposing her storage ring she remained calm and did not panic.
They were surprised to see how she behaved like she could take the three of them out along with Noah easily.
Noah did not seem bothered by her actions and silently looked at the dark hue flashing in Ruo'er's eyes for a second before disappearing.
After confirming what he wanted to know, Noah raised his own hand flashing his own ring that disappeared as soon as it appeared.
"All the high ranking rings have this kind of effect."
Ruo'er's lips twitched seeing Noah did not even bother to hide the fact that their rings were higher quality than normal ones.
Although after she saw the ring, Ruo'ers body relaxed and she let her ring appear on her finger but Noah could see that the vigilance in her not only did not decrease but increased instead.
If Noah has a ring on the same level as her that means he might have some other life saving treasure like her own. Now she did not have the same confidant look in her eyes.
She could not act rashly now in front of him. She also looked at the other girls trying to gauge their actions.
She also wanted to see if they also had rings like them but seeing the storage pouches on their waist she understood that it was only the boy that was special.
Noah saw her looking at the girls, the tension suspended in the air.
"Well, I don't know about those two girls but Ma Li won't go after your ring unless you have a whip or something like that in your ring."
Seeing the vibe, Noah cracked a joke to ease the atmosphere.
"Shut up!!!" Hearing those words Ma Li turned confused at first but soon she understood his words and she rushed to kick him in the face only to be blocked by the back of his hands.
Her face was flushed with embarrassment as she glared at Noah. Being a pervert, how could she not understand what Noah meant by his words. Although she did not mind if he said that in private, how could he have said that in front of these girls.
Jiang Shi also blushed after seeing Ma Li's embarrassed look. At first she did not understand what was going on but after seeing the look she realized it could only be something perverted if it was related to this girl.
Then she remembered how she walked in on her mother, who was also the elder of her family, whipping one of the other elders and they were both naked. The shocking thing was that other elder was also a woman.
Her mother claimed that she was punishing the elder for breaking a family rule.
But she knew better after she took a whiff of the familiar scent in the room. At that time she just emotionlessly nodded and left the room. After the death of her father, her mother never got into any relationship with another man. Maybe it was because of this matter.