Alex had nothing to do, so he just sat around watching the scenery. It really was very different.
"What's your name, mister?" the servant girl asked him from the side. Ever since Alex accepted the water, she had been staying close to him. He couldn't understand if it was because her mistress said her to do so or out of her own volition.
However, he very much preferred the company of this servant girl. She was wearing a simple white dress that contrasted the stark red her mistress wore.
While the master had a haughty appearance, the servant girl looked quite soft and amicable. It was a shame that the master had more physical beauty than her.
"Yu Ming," Alex let her know with a smile.
'I wonder if her mistress is a noble,' Alex wondered. Ever since he got here, he could feel the woman with the red robes nearby, but she never came back to check upon him.
'It's almost like they're treating me like a prisoner,' he thought. However, since he was getting a free ride to Scarlet city, so he couldn't complain. 'Although, I wish I went to capital first. I needed to buy some formation blueprints and formation flags to check with my thing,' Alex thought.
He shook his head; he could do that in the Scarlet City too.
"What's your name?" Alex asked the servant girl back.
"M-my name?" the girl got a little flustered but soon calmed down. "Sorry, nobody really asks me about my name, so I got a little surprised."
"My name is Ying Wu," she said with a smile.
"What about your mistress? What's her name?" he asked.
"Oh, I dare not say my mistress's name unless she's given me permission," Wu Ying said. Alex didn't know what to say after that; the conversation came to a stop. Wu Ying then had to change the topic to bring back the conversation.
"You look quite a strong mister Yu Ming. You are a cultivator too right?" she asked.
"Yes, I am," Alex said with a smile. "I thought people close to cultivators were always cultivators. How come you're not?"
"I- We don't have that kind of luxury. I have to look after my mistress and my mother," she said.
Alex turned around to take a look at her mother who was sleeping with a slight face of anguish. "Is she fine? She seems to be in pain," Alex said.
"No, she's not fine. Although, I doubt she feels pain, however, she's been in a coma for a few years now," Ying Wu said.
Alex looked at the mother's face closely. At first, he thought he saw a hint of resemblance in her face that he recognized, but it soon faded away. Alex turned back to look at Ying Wu and was a little surprised when he saw basically no resemblance between the two.
He didn't know if he should ask that or not. However, just from his gaze, Wu Ying seemed to have understood what he was thinking and said, "She's not my biological mother. She had just been looking after me after my real mother died from a disease back in my Mistress' manor," she said.
"Oh, my condolences," Alex said.
"Thank you. That's why I want to treat her as well; I don't want to lose two mothers." Wu Ying's face got incredibly sad when he thought that. He could genuinely feel the amount of love this girl had for the woman over there.
Regardless of if she was his mother or not, he was sure that she loved her dearly.
"Have you not gone to the doctors yet?" he asked.
"I have, but they didn't know what was wrong with her," Ying Wu said with a sad face.
"Maybe they could've helped if you stayed in the capital a little longer," Alex said.
"Maybe they could have. Unfortunately, we had to leave," she said.
Alex thought of something and asked, "Did you mistress force you to take your mother away from the capital?"
He felt that the master was quite rude to him, so it was possible she was actually a bad person in general and forced her servants away from the capital just because she wanted to move away.
"Oh no no, mistress tried her best to get my mother treated. However, we couldn't live there after the beast attacks," Ying Wu said.
"Oh, right," he said. He shook his head as he realized he was thinking negatively of the Mistress. 'Stop judging people by how they show themselves off. For all you know, it could be the mistress that's genuinely helpful, and the servant that's a disguised liar,' he told himself.
However, not everything had to be the opposite of what they seemed either. A person could be good on the outside and be good on the inside as well.
Alex refrained from making judgments for people quite quickly.
"The beast attack was really harsh, wasn't it?" Alex said while sighing to himself.
"Oh, you were there?" the girl asked.
"Yes, I was in the Annual competition a month ago. After the beasts suddenly attacked and I went to go help the people, it certainly was a bad time. So many people died, more were injured, sigh," Alex sighed once more.
Maybe that was one of the reasons his master didn't come searching for him. Maybe they thought he died during the beast attack. He hoped they didn't and kept searching for him.
However, it was impossible for them to search so far away from the city either. They wouldn't have expected him to get taken away here.
"So that's why you are moving away huh? I thought in the month's time, the city would've been built back up. It seems the Cardinal city might fall at this rate," Alex said.
"Cardinal City was the main target of the beasts, so during the first invasion, most of the beasts focused only on the Cardinal city. If it wasn't for the competition, the city would've ended in a disaster," Wu Ying said with a sad voice.
Alex suddenly stood up straight and looked her in the eyes as he asked, "What do you mean… the first invasion?"