Chapter 644: Decision
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Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Where’s Zhao San’er?”
“Zhao San’er goes home at night and doesn’t stay at the inn.”
“Has Zhao San’er been working here all this time?”
“Yes, I don’t see how Zhao San’er would be involved in this.”
“Go fetch him and ask.”
The innkeeper casually sent someone to fetch Zhao San’er, but before the person left, Xiao Jingye stopped them. After learning of the astonishing discovery made by Gu Qingluan’s group, he instructed the guards to go with the person and find Zhao San’er.
Zhao San’er was not at home, and the two guards returned empty-handed.
“So, Zhao San’er is the mole?” Xiao Jingye’s eyes narrowed dangerously.
The innkeeper wanted to deny it but seeing Xiao Jingye’s expression, he cowered and remained silent.
Xiao Jingye said, “If we can’t find him, we’ll enter the teleportation portal!”
He couldn’t wait any longer.
“This teleportation portal is small, and it has limited uses. It can only accommodate three people before self-destructing,” Gu Qingluan reminded him.
Xiao Jingye’s impatience couldn’t be concealed. “I’ll go in personally!”
Regardless of what awaited on the other side of the teleportation portal, he had to go in person.
Gu Qingluan’s lips curled slightly, a hint of curiosity in her eyes. She tilted her head and winked at Feng Tianlan, saying, “I’m quite interested in someone who can create a teleportation portal on an artwork. Why don’t we go take a look together?”
When Feng Tianlan heard her say “we,” his eyes softened. “Alright.”
With two people accompanying him, Xiao Jingye felt more confident.
However, one of his guards was still worried. “Young Master, this teleportation portal is completely unknown and potentially dangerous. It’s better for us to wait here. Let us handle it.”
“They both dare to take the risk, why should 1 be afraid? After I leave, make sure none of you slack off. Continue searching for the Ninth Prince, understood?”
Xiao Jingye’s stern gaze made the guard leader nod in agreement.
Xiao Jingye took a deep breath and infused the teleportation portal with his arcane power, placing his hand on the painting.
A dazzling light flashed, and Xiao Jingye’s figure disappeared into the white light.
Gu Qingluan and Feng Tianlan followed closely behind.
After a moment of dizziness, the three of them landed one after the other.
Gu Qingluan surveyed their surroundings, and they found themselves standing in the middle of a bustling street.
Pedestrians on the street were startled when they suddenly appeared.
“Ghosts!”
“What kind of ghosts? There are shadows on the ground. Stop yelling!”
Others took a closer look.
Sunlight cast long shadows on the three individuals on the ground.
It turned out they had shadows!
At least they weren’t ghosts.
“Where did these three people come from? They appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the street. It’s quite unnerving, isn’t it?”
Onlookers couldn’t help but stare at them.
Seeing the constant flow of people pa.s.sing by, Xiao Jingye’s mouth twitched. “Did the teleportation portal bring us to this bizarre place?”
Before entering the teleportation portal, he a.s.sumed that the other end of the portal would be connected to the mastermind behind the scenes.
But what did the place they were teleported to have to do with the mastermind behind the scenes?
Even worse, they soon discovered that their current location was less than a hundred meters away from the Xin Yue Inn!
It felt like they had been played!
Gu Qingluan couldn’t help but feel that it was just as she suspected.
It seemed that the person who created the teleportation portal on the painting hadn’t perfected their spatial manipulation abilities, resulting in such a short-distance teleportation portal.
Of course, there was another possibility: the other party might have set the other end of the teleportation portal in such a baffling location to avoid being tracked to their base through the portal.
“Let’s go back; there’s unlikely to be any clues here.”
The three of them returned to Xin Yue Inn.
Seeing them return so quickly, Yu Jingting and the others were quite surprised.
“Investigate! Find out where this painting came from!” Xiao Jingye ordered with a stern face.
Gu Qingluan and Feng Tianlan didn’t stay to wait for the news; their people were at Xin Yue Inn.
Jing Feng and his men had been interrogating the inn’s staff all night, so the interrogation should be over by now.
So, they informed Xiao Jingye and left together.
“Master, Madam, you’re back!”
Seeing the two of them return, Jing Feng greeted them.
Gu Qingluan asked him, “Did you find any clues?”
Jing Feng shook his head.
Hearing this result, Gu Qingluan wasn’t surprised.
“It seems that this matter is even more complicated than we imagined.”
Feng Tianlan calmly asked, “Do you want to stay and continue searching for clues?”
Gu Qingluan shrugged. “I don’t think we’ll find the real culprit anytime soon. Xiaonan and Yuanxi need to go to school, so let’s stick to our original plan and head to the Qiankun Academy.”
Whatever decision she made, Feng Tianlan supported it.
So, Gu Qingluan released Xiaonan and Yuanxi from the Stellar s.p.a.ce.
They had spent several days in the Stellar s.p.a.ce, even though only one night had pa.s.sed in the outside world. The two kids were full of energy.
They had breakfast, packed their belongings, and set off out of the city.
“Wait a moment, Your Highness Prince Lan!”
From behind the group, a shout could be heard..