"I was asking for Lin Hang, don't be fooled by his carefree attitude, he belongs to the Lin Family's Key Faction, highly valued," Yu Longting said as I, moved by impulse, tiptoed to kiss his cheek.
Suddenly, Yu Longting's expression turned blank, words squeezed through his clenched teeth, "Su... Wan...".
He was annoyed with me for flirting with him under these circumstances.
Given our tight schedule, I definitely had no time to respond to him.
"I'm so grateful to you, Yu Longting, you think so far ahead! At that time, I hadn't even used the Kin-seeking Clothes, how did you know they were trapped in the Pill Room and went to find Lin Hang in advance!"
I said with a face full of admiration, nearly worshipping Yu Longting completely.
Before I met him, I had always been unlucky, having to shoulder everything myself.
Since meeting him, no matter the trouble, he had faced it with me.
In my past life, I must have done countless good deeds to have met Yu Longting in this life!
Yu Longting paused, then flashed a wicked smile and leaned in to nibble on my earlobe, "Su Wan, the best gratitude you could show me is to let me take good care of you, for a lifetime."
"..." Cold sweat formed on my forehead, chilled by the breeze.
Yu Longting turned me around, his hands on my shoulders, pointing in a direction, "Let's sneak through the tunnel. The alchemy process produces a lot of waste water and gases, there are ventilation ducts above and drainages below, you can try to sneak into either, but I'm worried about you climbing up." Latest content published on noveⅼfire.net
"Oh." I was just about to crawl out from under the Taihu Rock, when Yu Longting grabbed me, "Wait, let me disable the formations along the way first."
"That's unnecessary." I proudly pulled out a pure white cloth strip embroidered with a hidden dragon from my pocket.
Yu Longting smiled faintly, "Hm? The embroidery from the Invisibility Clothes?"
"The Invisibility Clothes are too bulky, and I'm already wearing the Blood Splendor Robe and the cheongsam, so I could only bring a cloth strip. Let's go, Yu Longting, and you must take good care of yourself~" I tied the cloth strip around my wrist. Though it wouldn't render me invisible, even the foxes with their keen sense of smell wouldn't be able to detect me afterwards.
If I encounter an attack formation, as long as I don't step right into it,
the formations wouldn't be able to detect me and therefore, couldn't attack me on their own.
The Pill Room was situated up high, I followed the tall wall below,
slowly searching for the drain along the base of the wall.
I had just spotted a manhole cover,
when it suddenly flipped open slightly.
I quickly hid behind a tree and took a peek from behind it.
Two black foxes crawled out from under the manhole cover.
The somewhat fatter one said, "Damn, we wanted to sneak into the Pill Room from underground and sweep up all the Lin Family's direct descendants in one go, but damn it, we encountered a lightning formation."
"We used to be White Foxes, and now we're scorched black, so unlucky," the thinner one complained.
The fatter one sighed, "It was the Purple Gold Lightning Formation, we're lucky to be alive."
"Lucky? My two hundred years of cultivation are gone."
"If we hadn't run fast, we might have been completely annihilated on the spot."
The two foxes walked away arm in arm, almost like humans.
I was almost stunned; these foxes had become spirits, indeed...
They didn't look like ordinary foxes at all.
After hesitating a few seconds, I snapped out of it.
I lifted the manhole cover, climbed in, then closed it again.
Beneath the cover, it was dark and eerie, with a strong smell of sulfur. A strange feeling of heaviness filled my stomach, and the stench made me cough, "Cough, cough..."
"Did you hear that? There's a coughing sound in the well."
I was on the ladder under the well, a sudden cold sweat breaking out, hearing the voices of the two foxes returning to check.
Terrified, I immediately stopped coughing, no matter how itchy my throat.
No matter how uncomfortable it was in my lungs, I dared not make a sound again.
If they came down to check and discovered me, just one shout,
and I would be found and subsequently surrounded...
Then I would have to face the traps set by Lin Qianshan and a whole bunch of fox monsters directly, that would really be the end of me.
Suddenly, a pair of eerie green eyes appeared, like two bright neon lights, shining through the crack of the manhole cover.