Time Travel: Pampered by the Aloof Prince-Chapter 374: Are These Two Really Going to Get Away?

Chapter 374: Chapter 374: Are These Two Really Going to Get Away?

As night fell, the city was steeped in silence, without a single person to be seen on the streets.

Inside Ningzhu Pavilion, on the wooden staircase leading to the second floor, there was an occasional creaking of footsteps.

Mixed within them were one or two faint whispers, floating in the air, creating an extremely unsettling atmosphere.

"Is the person still inside?"

"They can’t get away, I’ve been watching the whole time!"

"These two people have such strong yang energy; as soon as you get close, it’s like your whole body is on fire, makes you envious just looking at them!"

"Yeah, no idea who brought them in here, though."

"..."

A group of people, no, rather, a group of ghosts, were whispering among themselves on the stairs.

Leading them was Ningzhu Pavilion’s waiter, the very one who had shown Qi Yu and Li Mingjue upstairs that afternoon.

A ghastly ghost fire flickered at his forehead, and his dark, greedy eyes were fixated on the end of the corridor, his throat swallowing with anticipation, "What a delicious scent, we’re sure to have a feast tonight."

The others echoed in agreement, "Yeah, we’ve finally got two people after so long, we’ve all been starving."

However, some discordant voices coldly retorted, "Just two people, how could that be enough for so many of us?"

As the words were spoken, all the ghosts fell into deep thought.

The waiter looked ominously at the person who had just spoken, licked his lips, and said in a sinister tone, "Then it’s every ghost for themselves, whoever grabs them first, keeps them!"

No sooner had he spoken than he bolted out ahead of the others.

Seeing this, the other ghosts hesitated for a second, then quickly followed in his footsteps.

The waiter had reached the end of the corridor; he turned around, disdainfully glanced at his companions pushing their way through, and deftly pushed the door open.

After slipping into the room, he closed the door with a "bang," making it completely airtight, allowing no draft to pass through.

"Open the door—"

"Bang bang—"

The ghosts locked out began banging on the door, clearly displeased.

But the waiter had sealed the door, and unless he chose to open it himself, no one could push it open.

He smirked with malicious glee, walked over to the bed, ready to feast, but suddenly realized, to his shock, that the bed was empty!

Could the people have run away?

No, that was impossible.

He had been watching these two all afternoon; they hadn’t left the room at all.

The waiter shook his head, dismissing the notion, and searched the room again.

Not a single corner was overlooked, he even checked under the bed, but there was still no trace of anyone.

Damn it, could those two really have escaped?

He was so angry he hit the bed, grinding his teeth furiously, making a grating noise.

The ghosts outside were still tirelessly pounding on the door; the waiter glanced at the door in irritation.

Ultimately, he stood up reluctantly, removed the seal, and opened the door for them.

"Damn you, how dare you lock us out!"

"Thinking of hogging the feast for yourself? Not happening!"

"..."

After the ghosts crowded in, they initially echoed each other in denunciation of the innkeeper’s assistant.

The assistant sneered and pointing to the empty room, he said to them, "Who wants to have it all to themselves? Look for yourselves, is there anyone in this room?"

Upon hearing this, the ghosts quieted down and awkwardly turned their heads, searching the inside and outside of the room thoroughly.

Indeed, there was no one.

The assistant clenched his teeth and told them, "I assure you that the two people have not left this room since they entered."

The ghosts looked at him blankly, then shook their heads, "Impossible, this is Ghost City, they cannot escape."

The assistant’s face contorted fiercely as he shouted angrily, "But now the people are gone!"

The ghosts were startled by his outburst and took a step back.

"I don’t believe it, you must have eaten them, and then lied to us that the two ran away!" From the bustling crowd, suddenly an incongruous, sharp voice rang out.

The assistant looked towards the person who had spoken and saw an elderly man with a face full of wrinkles and drooping eyelids as if they were about to reach the ground.

He said to the old ghost, "I eat all by myself? These are living people, could I eat them so fast that not even bones are left?"

The old ghost was left speechless.

The assistant was not lying; it was possible with children, but to eat two adults with such vigorous vitality was not so simple.

The other ghosts, upon hearing this, nodded, thinking his argument made sense.

But where exactly had the people gone now?

For a moment, the ghosts began to ponder this question.

The assistant, growing impatient, scrunched up his eyebrows and waved his hand, "Stop guessing, they disappeared without a reason; there must be some problem. Let’s go directly to the City Lord, he must know where these two have hidden."

"Yes, we’ll go to the City Lord!"

"The City Lord has vast powers; he must know what happened!"

"Then let’s hurry, the City Lord is still in the Imperial City!"

His suggestion was echoed by the crowd of ghosts.

And so, a horde of ghosts left Ningzhu Pavilion in a grand procession, heading towards the Imperial City.

Almost as soon as they left, two figures suddenly appeared out of thin air in the previously empty room—it was Qi Yu and Li Mingjue, who had just been invisible. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

The two had hidden in Qi Yu’s space, disappearing without a trace under the noses of the ghosts, no matter how hard they searched.

But they could hear everything happening outside, so now Qi Yu knew that the ghosts indeed planned to devour them.

However, it wasn’t in the form of making human meat buns; they intended to gnaw directly on them.

Recalling the harrowing scene just moments ago, she breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Mingjue, "Thankfully, in Ghost City, the space didn’t fail. Otherwise, we would have become a feast for that group of ghosts."

Li Mingjue saw her pale face and trembling hands, gently patted her back, and comforted her, "It’s okay, at least we have now found the Achilles’ heel of this city."

Qi Yu nodded, "Hmm, if we’re not wrong, this city’s Achilles’ heel is the City Lord mentioned by those ghosts. I just don’t know what kind of person this City Lord really is."

Li Mingjue walked to the window, cracked it open slightly, and looked out onto the street, where blue-purple ghost flames were burning everywhere, and a group of ghosts was floating unstoppably in the direction of the Imperial City.

"It seems that the City Lord is hiding in the Imperial City," he whispered as he gently closed the window and turned back to Qi Yu.

By now, Qi Yu had calmed down and took out two silver needles from her space, handing one to Li Mingjue, "Take this, for emergency."

Li Mingjue accepted the silver needle and tucked it into his sleeve.

The two changed their appearance and went downstairs, blending into the procession of ghosts.

Together with them, they set off towards the Imperial City.

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