People Have Joys and Sorrows, Partings and Reunions (3)

"Aunt An Qi, I would like to escort that young master, but he's not here. Aren't you with him?" Anna said with a wry smile.

"What?! What did you just say? He's not here? Impossible! I just saw him off an hour ago, how could he not be here?!" Long Anqi shouted. A series of questions made everyone realize one thing: Ye Lang had gone there, and an hour had passed, but they didn't know why he hadn't appeared.

"..."

Everyone fell silent!

"The current situation is that Thirteen went out, and in less than two minutes, he disappeared! The reason might be that he didn't want to go with anyone and wanted to go alone, or it could be something else, such as him getting confused and going to the wrong place!" Seventh Brother analyzed.

"If he wanted to be alone, he wouldn't have said he wanted to go with Anna and the others. With his abilities, he could go alone whenever he wanted, and no one could stop him!" Third Brother thought for a moment and said with a frown.

Based on Ye Lang's personality, the first possibility can be ruled out, and still, based on his personality—

"So that means Thirteen is confused right now, and he can even make us go the wrong way on such a short distance!" Seventh Brother frowned, somewhat helplessly.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go find him!" Anna said, and then she was the first to rush out. She was going to notify her mercenaries to start searching for Ye Lang's whereabouts.

That thirteenth young master is such a worry; he can't even show up now!

On this day, the small Ye City was thrown into chaos again. Before, it was because of events, but today it was because of one person...

The Ye Clan and Anna's mercenaries searched for a whole day but couldn't find any trace of Ye Lang, not even a hint of him. It was as if he had vanished from the world the moment he stepped out the door.

This doesn't seem like he's gone the wrong way. Could it be that he's gone missing again, or that he suddenly changed his mind and wants to go find Tiger Girl by himself?

People think this possibility is getting higher and higher. Otherwise, how could there be no trace at all? Usually, when he goes missing, he at least leaves clues so that we know what he did and where he went.

After this incident, everyone made a decision: from now on, even if it's just a few steps, or even just one or two, they would escort Ye Lang there, otherwise he would disappear again in the blink of an eye!

Where did Ye Lang go? Did he change his mind and want to ditch Anna and the others to go to the Tiger Tribe alone?

No, he didn't have that thought. The whole thing was just a coincidence, an accident. Well, at least that's what he thought. It was definitely a coincidence, an accident!

At that moment, as soon as Ye Lang stepped out, he headed in the direction he knew. He hadn't gone the wrong way; Anna Mercenary Group was indeed there, but—

In the middle, there was a small alley with a note posted on it that read "XX Mercenary Group." However, the words were obscured by something, so it was unclear what kind of mercenary group it was.

The mercenary group, that must be Anna's base. How come it's so close? Wasn't it supposed to be a two-minute walk?

Confused, Ye Lang didn't bother to figure things out and simply entered the alley, following the signs to the location of the XX mercenary group!

This mercenary group is obviously a small one, otherwise they wouldn't be hiding in an alley.

Calling it a mercenary group is probably just self-promotion; it doesn't really qualify as a group, more like a mercenary squadron at best!

Logically speaking, Anna Mercenary Group wouldn't be this small, nor would it be located in such a place. Furthermore, this mercenary group is predominantly male, while Anna's is entirely female. Such a distinction makes it easy for anyone to tell the difference.

However, Ye Lang couldn't tell the difference. He thought that Anna Mercenary Group now had male members to make it easier to take on missions. As for the size of the members, he didn't care.

In this dazed state, he thought he had joined Anna Mercenary Group, and what made it even more confusing was that someone was missing, and everyone was waiting for that person...

"Why are you so late? Don't you want to leave? Hurry up, we don't have time!!" one of the mercenaries said. They didn't seem to know their teammate and thought Ye Lang was the only one.

In fact, they were a newly formed small mercenary group; previously, they were all individual mercenaries from all over the country.

"Where did you get these clothes? Change them, they're an eyesore." Ye Lang's clothes really stood out from the crowd, and the group of people didn't find it suspicious at all, just as confused as Ye Lang.

Perhaps it should be said that none of the members of this mercenary group felt they had any value, and no one would want to take advantage of them.

"Change what?" Ye Lang asked.

"Just like us," one person replied.

"Oh..." Ye Lang glanced at the people, nodded, and went inside to change into a set of mercenary clothes, which were rather old, so that they would not attract any attention.

As for why he had such attire, it's simple: he bought it before, theoretically out of extravagance. It was apparently the leather armor of a famous mercenary, or something like that, though he himself couldn't remember.

"Alright, today is the most important mission since the establishment of our mercenary group. Everyone must be on high alert. Let's set off now!!" Under the Regiment Commander's speech, many people responded excitedly.

Of course, many people secretly thought that this was the most important task, because it was the first one!

Ye Lang also shouted from below, seemingly very excited. He seemed to think this was very fun. Even if he discovered the problem now, he might not leave, let alone since he hadn't discovered it yet.

He kept substituting his own affairs into it, and coincidentally, things seemed to be substituting one by one, well, the kind of substitution that's very confusing.

And so, Ye Lang left with this newly formed mercenary group, departing Ye City and heading south...

That's right, it's in the south, which is the opposite direction from where he wanted to go. At this time, he was a bit of a scatterbrain and couldn't tell which way was which. He just followed wherever others went.

When Ye Lanyu and the others found out about this later, they pinched Ye Lang's face and said how could he be so confused, following the wrong person and going in a completely different direction.

After learning about the situation, Ye Lanyu and the others were even more worried about letting Ye Lang go alone. They were afraid that one day Ye Lang would wander off to another continent in a daze.

However, they couldn't stop them; no one could stop them!

Not long after Ye Lang and the others left, a mercenary with slightly disheveled clothes ran over in a hurry. He stared blankly for a while after seeing the empty house.

Then he said, "You're leaving? Looks like I'll have to find somewhere else to make a living!"

Since they've already left, it means they don't need me anymore. I was just a dispensable nobody anyway!