Chapter 661: Chapter 443 Assassin
“How could they disappear? That doesn’t make any sense! You haven’t left since you checked in last night.”
A middle-aged man mumbled to himself as his subordinate nodded in response.
Ye Shiqi was observing the outside from her space. She saw the people who entered the room, the Shopkeeper and the staff. No wonder she felt something was off about this store; it turned out the Shopkeeper and the staff had ill intentions.
It was also strange that the Shopkeeper and the staff, who wanted to capture her and rob them, hadn’t sabotaged their food.
Ye Shiqi only imagined this and didn’t know why the other party hadn’t poisoned them.
The poison had already been applied to their food and water, but none of them, including Ye Shiqi, were affected because they had all drunk her Space Water.
The Shopkeeper and the staff, seeing that the poison in the food had no effect on them, assumed they had taken Detoxification Medicine to counteract the poison.
What they didn’t know was that the old housekeeper and his team had no idea that these people had poisoned them.
Realizing that the poison had no effect, they had no choice but to resort to direct confrontation.
At first, Ye Shiqi thought that bringing the old housekeeper and his people into her space would reveal her secret.
Over the years, she had only performed magic in front of her relatives and had never brought live animals or people inside.
The emergency situation made her forget this consideration, leading her to bring the housekeeper, his team, and her maids into her space, along with the carriage and horses.
She had acted without thinking of the consequences, her only thought being not to lose the grain, even though there was already a lot of it in her space.
The grains were largely the laborious harvest of the old housekeeper’s team.
Only a portion was gifted by others.
Besides grain, there were other goods they had purchased upon arriving at this location.
Ye Shiqi felt mentally exhausted all of a sudden from taking in so many items, people, and horses into her space.
She turned to check on the old housekeeper’s team, the maids, and the horses.
She found them all asleep, even the horses were standing still on the ground of her space.
Earlier at the inn, the carriage horses had been separated to feed and rest.
Late into the night, anticipating an attack, they had harnessed the horses again to expedite the departure, leaving the reins untied.
Now the draught horses stood sleeping, surprisingly not disturbing the grain-loaded carriage behind them.
The riding horses were also standing steadily as they slept.
The old housekeeper’s team, although asleep, was also standing.
The maids, of course, were no exception and stood as they slept.
Ye Shiqi couldn’t help but marvel at their well-trained nature; even in sleep, they maintained a standing posture.
They were asleep, but their eyes were open; truly impressive!
Ye Shiqi observed from her space that after the Shopkeeper and the staff couldn’t find anyone, they left the room and then encountered some people. Fighting and killing ensued.
The inn emitted screams, sounds of people being killed or wounded.
There were even shouts for retreat, followed by the assassin chasing after the fleeing figures.
Ye Shiqi, of course, wouldn’t venture outside at this moment; she would wait until daylight.
She didn’t know how long had passed, but eventually, the sounds of fighting subsided. Then, government soldiers conducted a search, surrounding the inn to investigate.
As daylight broke, a murder had taken place in the inn, and the government soldiers scrutinized everyone staying there.
Regular visitors who came for meals discovered that the inn had been sealed off.
Ye Shiqi thought over and over again and felt that appearing in this place again would only lead to being tracked or assassinated.
She could only think of one strategy, to act alone, since she had already gathered the caravan and people into the space, along with the horses.
Previously, the old housekeeper considering the proximity to water, had planned to travel by waterway afterward.
They had already arranged to travel by water today, and had even hired a boatman.
Ye Shiqi felt this was not secure. If the old housekeeper had someone summon the boat and people became aware of it, they could discover her boarding the boat, start the engine, and perhaps the ambushers would notice the movement and track the boat.
While she was pondering this, she slowly started to transition from the space, gradually shifting. Originally, she would have entered the space from the inn, and without shifting, she would reappear at the inn.
This inn had already been sealed off, so her appearance there would definitely attract attention.
She decided to move directly to the riverbank to locate the boat the old housekeeper mentioned. He had already shown her their route on a map.
In case any issues arose on the road, she could return to the Imperial City, or head outside the border by herself.
The old housekeeper did this merely as a precaution, feeling that covering such a long distance without their protection, how could the young lady possibly reach the regions outside the border?
After a day’s travel, how could she possibly return to the Imperial City alone?
The old housekeeper knew the young lady was very clever but was unaware of some secrets she kept.
Ye Shiqi arrived at the riverbank and found the boat the old housekeeper had mentioned, which was actually their contact point’s boat.
This boat also served over the years as a contact point for transporting materials. The sailors and the boatman, appeared just like ordinary folk.
The muscles under their unremoved clothes and their posture, far from ordinary, showed they were trained fighters.
Ye Shiqi moved into the boat, then observed the outside shoreline and the surrounding docked boats.
There were boats loading and offloading goods.
There were also boats specifically for receiving guests.
On this dock, people continuously moved back and forth.
Ye Shiqi didn’t notice anything amiss, but she could feel eyes watching her.
At that moment, a young deckhand hurriedly ran from the shore towards a boat.
That boat was the very one Ye Shiqi was on, the young man appeared frantic outside, but once inside, he shrieked anxiously.
“Boss, the old housekeeper and their group have disappeared!”
The one referred to as the boss, a burly man with a thick beard, was surrounded by various casually dressed boatmen.
In the morning, they had stayed within the boat, waiting for messengers to report back, expecting, based on their agreement, that the old housekeeper and his party should have arrived, but they saw no one.
To be cautious, the boss had sent someone to investigate.
And this news shocked everyone.
“What in the world happened? Did you just miss the old housekeeper? Maybe they took a different street.” Thɪs chapter is updated by novｅlfire.net
The questioned man shook his head, “No, they were staying at that inn. I heard last night there was a murder, and the government has sealed the inn off.”
“What? Could the master and the old housekeeper be in danger?”
The boss and the other boatmen all asked anxiously.
The others could only listen urgently, as only the boss was asking.
“It’s not right, I’ve inquired — they said the murdered individual did not reside in the inn, and that some staff of the inn were also killed. I also inquired with the government officials, and they said neither the old housekeeper nor the goods were at the inn, they had vanished.”
“Could it be that they knew there was danger and the caravan and people escaped?”
The man replying to the boss shook his head, “I don’t know. Those supposed to rob them didn’t get anything, and now can’t find them either.”