The battle began.
The battle ended.
The entire battle had been plain, unremarkable, and dull. It could be summed up perfectly in those eight words. Throughout the fight, the only thing Ye Weiming did was command Dao Mei and Jiang Jin Jiu, the two red-clad Evil Ghosts, to launch their attack.
Then, in the blink of an eye, the elite thug monsters had all been wiped out. Only Wanyan Ke'erke remained, deliberately spared by the two of them and lucky to survive, fleeing in disarray toward the rear courtyard of the mansion.
Ye Weiming and the other two were in no hurry to pursue him, instead giving him plenty of time to escape. After taking the scrap of cloth Dao Mei handed him—the piece she had torn from Wanyan Ke'erke's clothes—and putting it into his bag, Ye Weiming leisurely followed in the direction Wanyan Ke'erke had fled.
Judging from the traces he had left behind, after escaping the main hall, Wanyan Ke'erke had not intended to flee Prince Sai's Mansion. Instead, he had headed straight for the training room in the rear courtyard.
When Ye Weiming and the others entered the training room, they saw that a secret passage leading underground had been opened and seemingly had not yet been closed. At the same time, the back door of the training room stood wide open. Cold wind poured in from the front and rushed out through the back, instantly carrying away all the previously comfortable warmth in the room.
Seeing this, Dao Mei could not help turning to Ye Weiming. "Stinky Constable, you were the one who said we should spare Wanyan Ke'erke's worthless life so he could lead the way. Now we have no way of knowing whether this passage was his escape route or a decoy meant to