Night lay like ink over Fuzhou City, which rested in the damp, chilly dew.
After bringing the two of them to the wall outside the Lin Family's old estate, Annie first glanced around. Then she gave a slight push with her feet and sailed over the high wall as lightly and silently as a wildcat. Her toes even touched the gray tiles atop the wall, yet she made not the slightest sound from beginning to end.
Seeing Annie vault over without a sound, Lu Dayou furrowed his brow in the moonlight. After exchanging a glance with Yue Lingshan, whose almond-shaped eyes sparkled with curiosity and excitement, he hurried after Annie and leaped over the wall using his lightness skill.
As soon as they entered, the three could see that the Lin Family's old estate had clearly been abandoned for a long time. The main paths were kept in good condition, as though people still walked along them regularly, but the rest of the grounds had been neglected—or perhaps were only tended to at certain times each year.
In short!
Vines covered the mottled walls of what seemed to be a garden. Weeds had long since sprung from the cracks between the stones and the artificial rockeries, swaying faintly in the night breeze. The place looked like a haunted realm occupied by demons and ghosts; even an ordinary thief would probably have been frightened away.
Fortunately!
The three of them weren't ordinary people. Annie went without saying, while Yue Lingshan and Lu Dayou were proper martial artists. So it wasn't as though they'd be scared by a few ordinary shadows. Even if there really were demons and ghosts, the two of them probably wouldn't be afraid.
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(゜-゜)
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Annie glanced at the scenery around them but said nothing. She