This was an alley about two meters wide and not very long, merely the gap between two adjacent buildings. Its length matched the buildings' depth, roughly five or six meters.
But after Qian Ying walked through the alley once, he found nothing. Both sides were building walls, constructed from rectangular blue bricks. Beneath his feet was an alley paved with bluestone slabs, with nowhere anyone could hide.
They were all fairly large stone slabs. How could anyone possibly hide there?
He stepped forward to the building wall beside the alley and tapped along it a little bit at a time, yet still found nothing.
They were all solid stone walls. There was nowhere that produced a hollow sound; it was the same at every height.
Finally, Qian Ying reached the end of the alley and turned around. He could see the rear of the house from here. There was a window at the back, though it was roughly three meters away from the alley.
According to Qian Wantong, it was at this distance that he had turned around and discovered that the Martial Artist following behind him had vanished. Qian Wantong had immediately returned to the alley entrance to see whether the man was behind him, but there had been no one there.
Qian Wantong then darted through the alley and returned to its entrance, where he examined the surroundings but still did not see that Martial Artist. From that position, Qian Wantong could see Zhou Zixing, and Zhou Zixing had also seen the anxious Qian Wantong.
Qian Wantong then went back again and ran to the rear of the house, but he still did not find that Martial Artist. So he had anxiously stood before the cliff wall and waved at Zhou Zixing in the distance, signaling that something