Li Wei did not wait until dawn.
While eavesdropping, Li Wei had discovered that the Three Great Families seemed to be investigating some case. Their investigation had made no progress, so they intended to keep him there.
But Li Wei had no intention of staying anymore. That vampire looked like a lovesick lunatic. If she were someone he could reason with, that would be one thing, but she was a woman-and a menopausal woman at that...
Yes, Li Wei was very concerned for his safety. He feared that the moment they met, she would leap at him and bite his neck without a word.
That possibility was hardly out of the question.
So Li Wei decisively chose to leave at once.
Fortunately, he had prepared for this as well.
"Whoosh..."
The cold wind battered Li Wei head-on, making his face tense. The Little Mermaid in his arms, on the other hand, clung to him and looked around curiously.
Strictly speaking, Li Wei cut a very undignified figure right now, but this was his only option if he wanted to slip out of Casablanca unnoticed.
Once again, Casablanca was the Old Capital, the former seat of the monarchy.
And it had been the Royal Capital before the Steam Revolution.
The entire city was an enormous fortress, encircled by walls, with only a few gates and a railway station.
Since the Three Great Families intended to force him to stay, those exits were certainly out of the question.
But Li Wei had prepared for this long ago.
A giant eagle was behind him, its metal talons clamped tightly onto his shoulders. Its enormous wings flapped from time to time, carrying him through the air.
Actually, if this were a comic, the scene ought to have looked incredibly cool: a handsome man in