Speculation

Chen Luo ignored the two women's words. He found an unoccupied stretch of wall and rapped twice beneath the Black Wall. Looking up, he could vaguely make out soldiers patrolling past with torches in hand.

After waiting a moment, Chen Luo grabbed one woman in each hand and leaped lightly.

In the gap between patrols, he carried them over the high wall. The sight terrified the two women, who clutched the children in their arms tightly until they entered the city and finally relaxed.

The guards inside the city were even more stringent.

Chen Luo said nothing along the way. He took the two women directly to a side room in the County Magistrate's backyard and settled them there. With such a huge residence all to himself, the County Magistrate must have been terribly lonely. Chen Luo felt it was necessary to help him share the burden.

"Sir, we..."

Both women were extremely nervous.

Breaking into a private residence was a grave crime, and at such a critical time, if they were caught, they would surely be thrown into prison. That was because they did not yet know this courtyard belonged to the County Magistrate. If they knew it was his home, their legs would definitely have gone soft with fright.

"I am acquainted with this place's owner. Rest assured and stay here."

After settling the two women, Chen Luo followed the sensation of his Divine Sense and found the County Magistrate in the backyard, listening to his concubine play the zither. Anning County's County Magistrate was nearly sixty and placed great importance on preserving his health. At this hour, he would long since have gone to sleep, but with the Rebel Tide surrounding the city, he could neither sleep nor eat in peace. One mishandled step could trigger a