Only My Way

"Hey!"

"Kid, did you see anyone just now!?"

After kicking open the dilapidated door of the broken temple, the man stood at the entrance, carefully surveying the interior. He saw only a pile of duck bones, a dimly lit, almost extinguished bonfire, and a small beggar lying motionless, presumably asleep.

Hoping it was better to ask anyway, he casually shouted:

"If you saw them, I'll give you a big pile of money right now!"

To his question, Ling Wuyuan simply raised his upper body from the ground with a bewildered expression:

"Huh?"

"What?"

His expression was one of utter confusion.

He looked completely dazed, as if he had just been woken up and hadn't understood the question at all.

Although he didn't directly answer the question, his face was written all over with the words [I don't know anything].

It was a perfect example of eloquent silence.

Seeing this, the man, who didn't want to interact with a beggar in the first place, immediately showed a look of disgust and impatience.

He understood that relying on Ling Wuyuan was clearly unreliable.

He immediately turned and left without looking back.

He had no intention of paying Ling Wuyuan any further attention.

And so, thanks to his excellent acting skills, Ling Wuyuan successfully deceived him.

About an hour passed.

The outside world was completely silent, with only the distant firelight still bright.

Ling Wuyuan understood that the Pei family was likely finished.

After he closed the dilapidated door of the broken temple,

At this moment, the little girl also emerged from the dry well, looking rather disheveled.

Looking at her blankly squatting beside the bonfire, he didn't know what to say.

Tell her to take it easy?

Um… wasn't that just pure nonsense…

After such a thing had just happened, who could take it easy so quickly?

Was he just talking without understanding the situation?

However, after thinking for a moment,

He felt that business was more important.

With a serious expression, he said to her:

"Next, you should find a way to escape the city as soon as possible."

"Although this city is big enough that hiding one or two people isn't difficult, your family has ultimately lost power. Continuing to hide in this city is truly a poor choice. The longer you delay, the more dangerous it will be for you."

After a second of silence, the little girl suppressed the sadness in her heart and replied:

"I know."

"I'll leave in a little while."

She understood that Ling Wuyuan had already done his utmost to help her once.

After all,

It was a matter of death if they were caught.

Furthermore,

She also understood that even Ling Wuyuan himself was in such a miserable state. Even if he wanted to help her, he was powerless to do so.

He simply didn't have the ability.

Hearing this, Ling Wuyuan slowly nodded and then asked: "Do you have a plan to escape the city on your own?"

"…Yes, before letting me evacuate, the family head actually revealed the location of a secret passage out of the city. Through that passage, I can directly escape the city."

Although she didn't want to answer in too much detail at first,

Thinking that Ling Wuyuan could at least be considered an ally,

The little girl briefly explained her plan.

Hearing that there was a secret passage in the city that could directly lead out of the city, Ling Wuyuan was a little surprised, but not too shocked. He just silently sighed in his heart that the Pei family was indeed a local powerhouse that had stood for hundreds, or even longer, years. They really had all sorts of backup plans.

It seemed that the ancestors of the Pei family had foreseen this situation long ago.

For a moment, Ling Wuyuan thought of even more things.

Such as those Pei family members who existed in other regions.

Although the mastermind behind this operation could wipe out most of the Pei family's main force, for the Pei family, whose direct descendants numbered in the thousands and whose clansmen were distributed in different regions, the current situation was at most a severe loss of foundation, but not yet a complete extermination.

Perhaps, after the little girl escaped the city, she might still have a way to join forces with the surviving family members…

After pondering this carefully for a while, Ling Wuyuan turned and went to a certain place in the backyard.

Under the little girl's somewhat puzzled gaze, he dug in the soil and quickly unearthed a small box.

There weren't many things in the box, only a pitiful amount of money and some daily necessities.

From it, Ling Wuyuan took out a set of clothes and a slightly old dagger.

How to describe that set of clothes… it could only be said to be ordinary.

Extremely ordinary for ordinary people.

But for Ling Wuyuan, it was relatively precious.

He usually couldn't bear to wear it at all.

Furthermore, a beggar dressed too well was truly disrespectful to professional ethics, easily stacking negative BUFFs and leading to a decrease in his income.

Therefore, after picking it up, Ling Wuyuan had never worn it.

As for that dagger, it was a white-grade equipment that Ling Wuyuan had picked up at a certain knife fighting competition, from a small hoodlum who had long since kicked the bucket.

However, now, these two things also had their uses…

After placing that set of clothes in front of the little girl, under her somewhat puzzled gaze, Ling Wuyuan bluntly said:

"Although I don't know the specifics of your plan, it's better for you to change your clothes now. The clothes you're wearing now are a bit too conspicuous."

Finally, he thoughtfully added: "Although this set of clothes doesn't look like much, it's definitely clean. I haven't even worn it myself."

Hearing these words,

The little girl looked at the clothes she was wearing, then looked at the clothes he handed her, and understood his meaning.

She understood that her current clothes were indeed not suitable at this moment.

Then, she turned her head and looked at the surrounding environment.

Um…

In this dilapidated temple with drafts coming from all sides, there was no suitable place to change clothes at all.

However, after lightly biting her silver teeth with a slightly flushed face, she still decisively took the clothes.

And walked towards the inner part of the broken temple.

Seeing this, Ling Wuyuan chose to walk forward a few steps.

Standing at the very front of the broken temple, silently looking up at the bright moon in the sky.

It wasn't until the rustling sound of changing clothes completely stopped behind him, and the sound of footsteps gradually approached, that he spoke up and asked:

"Are you done changing?"

"…Changed."

That was a cold and clear voice, but also containing a hint of shyness.

Obviously,

Under such circumstances, changing her clothes near a strange boy was truly quite embarrassing for the little girl.

Even if the situation was urgent, it was still the same.

Turning around, amidst the other party's somewhat evasive gaze and flushed face, after carefully looking her up and down for a while, Ling Wuyuan took out the previous dagger and pointed to a certain place next to the bonfire:

"You sit down first, next I'll help you shorten your hair and put on some makeup to change your look a bit."

"Okay…"

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