Chapter 64: Another Discovery
In another room, Sylphia sat alone, her eyes wandering over the room’s interior. She was quite anxious about what might have happened to the others, but after a few minutes, no one had yet come to see her. Each of them had been separated and placed in their own private interrogation room. Aldrian had told them to wait for his move, assuring them that they would not need to resort to violence.
She trusted Aldrian, so she waited. After all their time together, she had learned not to underestimate his judgment or assume his thinking was simple. Every time he spoke, it was as if everything was under his control. In her 150 years of life, a relatively short span for a cultivator, she found Aldrian’s existence to be an anomaly, something beyond her ability to describe.
When she first met Aldrian, she had seen him as a young boy with incredible talent, performing miracles that no one else had ever achieved. She had considered him a little brother, seeing some similarities between them. But over time, she realized how wrong she had been in her thinking. His speech, wisdom, mannerisms, and gaze were not those of a typical 12-year-old boy.
Talking to Aldrian felt like conversing with a mature, experienced man, full of knowledge, making it impossible for her to see him as just a child or little brother. The only thing that reminded her of his youth was his height, still shorter than hers, but even that would not last much longer, given his rapid development and cultivation.
Despite all the oddities surrounding Aldrian, she found herself intrigued by his origins. Who were his parents? Where did he come from? What was his secret? She felt irresistibly drawn to the mysteries surrounding him. As she reminisced about the past, she heard a sound from outside the room. Moments later, the door opened, revealing the young man who kept her so captivated. He smiled at her.
"Let’s go, we need to pick up the others."
Sylphia returned his smile and walked outside, only to see the guards already lying on the ground. They didn’t seem to have any external injuries and appeared to have simply fainted.
"I just put them to sleep. When they wake up, they’ll have forgotten all about us," Aldrian said.
Sylphia nodded and followed Aldrian to the other rooms. As they walked, she occasionally glanced at his back. He had grown much taller since the first time she met him, and the confident, relaxed way he moved made her feel more at ease, dispelling her anxiety.
"Hey, who are—ugh." A guard bumped into them on their way, but with lightning-fast reflexes, Aldrian slapped them, causing them to faint instantly. He reached another room where two guards were stationed in front of the door, which he swiftly dealt with. After he opened the door, Eleine stepped out, and they headed towards Xin Haotian’s room when they finally were all able to regroup.
"So, what’s your plan now? Once they wake up, we’ll be fugitives if we just leave them like this," Xin Haotian said.