Chapter 127: Crazy Su Junqing's Dark Room
At that moment, Su Junqing didn’t notice anything suspicious, so he entered the secret room. Ye Yu, who was hiding in his shadow, followed behind him.
Ye Jiuge looked at the secret room and felt her heart leap into her throat. The Sorcerer was most likely inside. If Su Junqing talked with him about how he’d become injured, he could guess Ye Yu’s special ability, which could endanger him. She paced back and forth, unsure of what to do. If she rushed in right now, she might miss out on learning some secrets.
In the end, she gave Ye Yu as long as it took an incense stick to burn, which was also how long Ye Yu could remain invisible. If he did not come out after that amount of time had passed, she would break in to save him. However, now was not the wisest moment to confront Su Junqing head-on. It was better to use gentler methods.
Meanwhile, as she waited for Ye Yu’s allotted time to run out, Ye Jiuge snuck into Old Master Su’s residence to make some arrangements before returning to the spot where they’d parted. When Ye Jiuge was considering whether or not to rush in after Ye Yu, the door to the dark room suddenly opened, and Su Junqing stepped out with the faint smell of blood on him.
Ye Yu was still in his shadow, and he didn’t look so good. Ye Jiuge could sense that Ye Yu’s invisibility was about to wear off, and he was in danger of being discovered at any moment. Su Junqing also looked as though he’d noticed something strange, and his pace began to slow. Although the expression on his face did not change, his eyes were vigilant.
Meanwhile, a lot of noises were heard from the Su Clan, “Fire! Fire!!” Along with those voices, a somewhat terrifying flame erupted from Old Master Su’s residence. Su Junqing’s face immediately changed, and he rushed toward Old Master Su’s residence, afraid that outsiders were harming the Su Clan’s last pillar. Ye Yu took this opportunity to escape from Su Junqing’s shadow.
“Let’s go!” Ye Jiuge jumped down from the house, took Ye Yu’s hand, and rushed out of the Su Clan’s residence as fast as possible.
After Su Junqing arrived at Old Master Su’s residence, he discovered that the fire was just a bluff. Only a corner of the room had been set alight, and servants had already extinguished the flames. Suddenly, he had a bad feeling. Immediately, he returned to the remote room and thoroughly searched it, but he couldn’t find anything unusual.
After hesitating for a moment, he took out a small porcelain vase from his chest and blew it on the floor. The red powder fell to the ground and revealed two pairs of footprints, one large and one small. Obviously, a man and a woman had just been here a moment ago. The footprints were following each other, as if the two people were walking one after the other. One set of footprints was his, while the other definitely belonged to someone hiding in his shadow.