Even so, I’ve gotten used to it. In that junkyard, I always keep some emergency lights and batteries in the car trunk. Every night, I try to leave one light on."
Chen Yan thought seriously for a moment... In that case, it’s true, this Mirror World isn’t as safe as he thought.
Theoretically, the city is the safest.
Because in the city, there are countless things that can serve as mirrors, in various angles. They can almost perfectly reflect the complete world.
But once you leave the city, it becomes quite different.
Theoretically, mirrors are only found in places where people live.
But not every square meter of this place is inhabited!
Once you leave the city, there are many dangerous areas with no mirrors at all. Roads! Farmlands! Forests! Hills...
And these areas without mirrors actually separate one city from another.
Even if the little girl has spells that allow her to fly, flying to the wilds, forest, hills, farmlands... these are forbidden zones she can’t enter.
It’s equivalent to saying, once she flies out of the city’s area, the outer regions of the city are filled with mines for her.
"What about leaving Port City by transportation?" Chen Yan asked.
"I thought about it, but I didn’t dare." The girl shook her head: "Like an airplane? I studied the airplane cabin carefully, there are too few mirrors inside.
And the train, yeah, the high-speed train you mentioned, there are too few mirrors in the compartments.
And... what if we pass through a tunnel, and it’s just when the lights inside the compartment aren’t on, or just when the blackout curtains on the windows are drawn down blocking the glass, hiding the mirrors... I would be finished!"
Chen Yan frowned: "Forget the airplane, but for the high-speed train... Even if you encounter such a situation passing through a tunnel, it would only be for a very short time. The last time you fell into darkness in that room, you managed to endure for so long. Passing through a tunnel, for just brief moments, you wouldn’t die."
The girl shook her head vigorously with a firm attitude: "I’ve experienced the feeling of falling into darkness, it’s too unbearable—you don’t understand it! You haven’t gone through it. That feeling is really terrifying and unbearable! I never want to go through that feeling again, not even for a second!"
After a pause, the girl continued with a bitter smile: "Besides, what meaning would there be for me to leave this city? For me, there’s no one in this entire world, what difference does it make which city I go to?"
It seems... it’s true.
Chen Yan accepted the girl’s words.
"That was before you knew me. Now that you know me, I have a way to take you away from here." Chen Yan looked into the girl’s eyes: "Let me tell you, I’m not a local from Port City. I’m just here to take care of some business. Now that it’s done, I naturally need to leave.
So, if you wish for me to continue helping you in the future, like getting you a place to stay, providing food, or giving you Primordial Qi reserves... you’d have to come with me out of Port City."
Chen Yan’s choice was very clear...
He certainly couldn’t fly to Port City every time just to provide supplies for the girl!
After thinking seriously for a while, the little girl finally nodded.
"I’m willing to go with you, but you have to promise me one condition!"
"You can’t tell anyone about my existence!"
Chen Yan frowned: "Why? I have fellow cultivators in my family. As long as I don’t tell ordinary people, it should be fine. Only me and one cultivator from my family would know, it shouldn’t be detected by the Heavenly Dao."
"No, you just can’t say it!" The girl shook her head resolutely: "If, besides you, there’s even one other person who knows about my existence, I’ll leave immediately!
"Why?" Chen Yan sighed, a bit helpless.
"Of course, I have my reasons, but I can’t tell you now." When the girl said this, her tone was a bit strange, looking at Chen Yan with a somewhat profound gaze.
Her eyes glanced at Chen Yan’s clothes pocket — because in the pocket, there was a talisman.
Precisely speaking, it was the "Formless Tribulation-breaking Talisman!"
Earlier, when Chen Yan was cautious, his hand hidden in his pocket clutching the talisman, the girl, with her Divine Techniques, had already seen through it!
And the runes on this talisman...
Chu Keqing returned to the Peninsula Hotel that night—she was supposed to continue staying at Huang Mingyi’s dojo until after the funeral.
But something happened that afternoon... Huang Mingyi’s eldest disciple ran back to the dojo.
When this guy came back, he was in a very bad state, and it seemed he was sent back by the police.
After returning to the dojo, this eldest disciple seemed to have lost some memory and couldn’t clearly explain where he had been during his disappearance.
He insisted that he was kidnapped but presumably was made muddle-headed by some spell cast by Zhong Hongliang.
His return caused a direct confrontation between the second and the third disciples.
The three started to fight for the right to speak in the dojo. The second and third disciples clearly teamed up against the eldest disciple, claiming that he had run away with donations when their master wasn’t even buried yet, and now even if he returned, he had no right to inherit Huang Mingyi’s lineage.
Of course, the eldest disciple refused to admit such accusations, but he couldn’t explain where he had been.
He did retain some memory, vaguely recalling that he had found something and a clue in Huang Mingyi’s relics, and he even said that their master might have been killed.