"Do you think the people at the Royal Sanctum are idiots who can't see such an obvious attempt to use them to kill someone?"
Weiwei: (⊙o⊙)...
Lu Xingyuan continued:
"And you should pray I haven't made a mistake. Otherwise, who knows how much longer we'll have to stay here."
Weiwei tilted her head and thought for a moment:
"Oh, right."
Yiyi looked anxiously at her father:
"Dad!"
But the honest, unassuming Old Man fell silent instead of immediately denying it.
Yiyi's heart sank to rock bottom.
Could it be...
Teemo and the others felt their hearts lurch as well.
They all stared at the Old Man before them in disbelief.
After a few seconds of silence, the Old Man finally spoke:
"I know where the thing you're looking for is."
"Will you take us there?"
The Old Man gave a helpless, bitter chuckle:
"I don't seem to have the right to refuse."
But a moment later, his tone shifted.
"Still, let me warn you now. It's dangerous there."
No matter how dangerous it is, I have to go.
Lu Xingyuan murmured inwardly.
After all, this concerned Hand Sis.
He couldn't hide like a coward.
Throughout his journey, Hand Sis had given him more support than he could count.
Now that Hand Sis needed him, how could he turn tail?
Under Yiyi's deeply conflicted gaze, the Old Man led the group out of the city.
Normally, the roads outside the city had long since been cut off and shrouded in mist. No matter how many times they tried, they would eventually end up back where they started.
Yet now, the Old Man deftly led them onto a secluded path.
A huge bluestone slab stood beside it.
The Old Man cut his wrist.
Blood immediately spilled onto the slab.
Strangely, a series