Chapter 422 - 8.22 You’re The First
Lu Yizhou did not even need to consider it for more than one second. Compared to searching for his lover, these two women could just drop dead for all he cared. If they still had not finished when he returned later, then he might sneak in to take a look.
Firmly holding the Invisibility Cloak around himself, Lu Yizhou made his way to the stairs. His boots made soft clicking sounds against the wooden floor, almost inaudible if one did not pay attention to it.
’Daddy, are we going to search for Mommy now?’
Lu Yizhou hummed in affirmation. He stopped at the base of the stairs and looked up. Maybe it was just his imagination but there seemed to be faint mist floating around the floor, making the surroundings all the more mystifying. He hoped that he would be able to find her, or at least found out something about her tonight. He took a few steadying breaths to steel himself and started to climb.
On his shoulder, Ozzie suddenly sneezed.
’Are you cold?’ Lu Yizhou asked.
’No, Daddy," she sniffled and snuggled closer to him. Her whiskers twitched adorably. ’It’s the dust. There is so much dust here meow...’
Lu Yizhou halted on his tracks in the middle of the staircase and looked around. Ozzie was right. The steps beneath his feet were carpeted and it was dark brown in color. All the more reason for Lu Yizhou to easily discern how thick the dust was. White granules of dirt stuck to every inch of the surface, Lu Yizhou almost thought that the carpet was gray in color at first! Even the second floor’s staircase did not look this dusty. It was as if... nobody had ever stepped here again for years.
His brows knitted, puzzled. How could that be? Baines had said that the fourth floor was Miss’ sleeping quarters. Even if his lover had stayed on this floor during the time she was sick, it was not like Baines or her parents or even the previous batch of doctors wouldn’t even come up to visit her, right? So how could the stairs be this dirty?
Carrying the doubt with him, Lu Yizhou continued to make his way up to the fourth floor. From the blueprints 666 had provided, he knew that the whole floor had been transformed into one huge quarter belonging to the Miss. The inside of the room would then be divided into different areas according to the Miss’ preference. So far, Lu Yizhou only knew that there was a bedroom, bathroom, reading room and a small greenhouse. Hence, as soon as Lu Yizhou came up, what greeted him was a dark hallway that led directly to the closed double door.
It was so cold here, he noticed, even colder than the lower floor. Every breath he exhaled had turned into white mist before they vanished into thin air. Fortunately, he had Ozzie, this furry scarf and little heater, wrapped around his neck tightly to disperse the chill.