According to the information Wu Jinliang had gathered, Lan Qiaoyan and her family lived somewhere in this mountain. They were not the only family in the area, either. Supposedly, everyone who lived here was either rich or powerful, and the protective formation before them already proved it.
They had thought that, since more than one family lived here, people would naturally come and go. If they waited here, someone was bound to turn up.
Snakes had their trails, and rats had their runs. As long as they encountered someone, they would find a way.
But damned if the people here did not seem to have forgotten to come home. There was such a broad road through the mountain, yet not a single soul appeared, nothing like the traffic on the Royal Capital's other roads.
They waited all the way until midafternoon.
After waiting so long, even Shi Chun began to doubt it. "Say, Jinliang, are you sure people actually live in there?"
"Of course," Wu Jinliang said. "I wouldn't just take someone's word for it. I found someone else to confirm it, too. People definitely live here, and they're all rich or powerful."
Seeing how certain he was, Shi Chun fell silent for a moment, then activated his right-eye ability and looked inside. He discovered nothing of note within the protective formation, but did notice something unusual in the mountain woods behind them.
Comparing the views through his two eyes, he confirmed that a small group of people was hiding among the treetops on a nearby peak along the road they had come by. He did not know what was going on. His left eye could see the treetops where they were hiding, which meant those people could also see the spot where he and Wu Jinliang stood.
Shi Chun