The City Lord's Manor!
Lian Ziqiong remained in stealth as she followed the Money Rat, moving as though no one were there.
The City Lord's Manor had never been particularly well guarded. Now, with the Beast Tide bearing down on it, almost every Sequence User had gone to the city walls. Only three first-tier guards remained, rendering its defenses practically nonexistent against the Shadow Assassin Sequence's fourth-tier stealth.
The Money Rat ran ahead, its tiny golden figure particularly conspicuous in the night.
Every so often, it stopped, twitched its little nose to sniff, then continued forward.
Lian Ziqiong followed behind, silently marveling.
The Money Rat's fighting ability might have been negligible, but its ability to search for treasure was truly impressive.
Within this sprawling City Lord's Manor, it never hesitated, heading straight toward the study.
The study door stood ajar.
The Money Rat slipped through the gap, and Lian Ziqiong turned sideways and followed without a sound.
It was a study of thirty or forty square meters. A row of shelves lined the wall, filled with books and scrolls, some already yellowed and clearly quite old.
A broad desk stood beside the window, with paper, pens, and several half-reviewed documents on it.
A landscape painting hung behind the chair, its brushstrokes rough, as though casually painted.
Lian Ziqiong stood in the center of the study, her gaze sweeping over the furnishings.
Maintaining a study like this amid the apocalypse was truly rare.
This Holy City did indeed retain something of the world before the apocalypse.
The Money Rat circled the study several times, its little nose twitching constantly, seemingly sniffing for something.
One moment it ran to the shelves, the next it crawled beneath the desk, and then it circled a corner.
Lian Ziqiong did not hurry it. Remaining in