Time Travel: Pampered by the Aloof Prince-Chapter 382: Will You Let Us Out?

This issue inadvertently awakened Li Mingjue, who furrowed his brows slightly and suddenly recalled something. He said to Qi Yu, "Do you still remember the origin of Ghost City?"

Qi Yu considered for a moment, "Is it what you mentioned before, the incident where Tulan annihilated another nation?"

Li Mingjue nodded slightly, "Yes, I had thought that Ghost City and Tulan were not the same place. But now thinking about it, Tulan established its own nation here after annihilating another’s."

After hearing his words, Qi Yu felt goosebumps all over her body, "So, you mean, Tulan and Ghost City are the same place?"

"Yes. The so-called Ghost City can also be considered an illusion because it simply cannot be seen by people. However, people can enter it through some means as if entering this Ghost City, which means that Ghost City very likely does exist." Li Mingjue’s expression turned colder, his tone frosty.

It seemed, the person behind the scenes not only penetrated the secrets of Ghost City but also successfully sent them in, all to kill them without anyone noticing.

By then, alive not seen and dead not found, they would completely disappear from this world.

Qi Yu frowned, "Truly exists?"

She was becoming more and more confused.

Li Mingjue scoffed lightly and explained, "Ghost City wasn’t formed until today; it might have existed for over a hundred years. As to why no one can find this place, it might still hide some enigma that we have not deciphered."

Qi Yu was stunned, just dumbly nodding her head.

Before, she had never believed in the matters of ghosts and spirits.

But wasn’t she herself a "ghost" who had inexplicably come to this world?

It seemed she was also not in a position to question the existence of these profound mysteries.

The two sat in the house for a while when suddenly, there came a stepping sound from the wooden staircase.

Qi Yu’s expression instantly turned cautious, already nervously grasping Li Mingjue’s arm, ready to pull him into a space at any moment.

Li Mingjue looked at her and said, "Don’t worry, the person coming has no ill intentions."

As a martial artist, he could judge the intentions through the other’s actions.

Qi Yu calmed down and thought, that’s right, if they were after them, why would they deliberately make such a loud noise?

Wouldn’t that be startling the snake in the grass?

The footsteps stopped outside the door, followed by a cold yet familiar female voice, "The two of you, our City Lord requests your presence."

Qi Yu recognized this as the voice of the Ghost Envoy, and catching her implication, her expression relaxed.

She looked at Li Mingjue, her eyes filled with deep confusion.

Why did the City Lord suddenly want to see them?

And, how did she know they were hiding here?

With these questions, Qi Yu and Li Mingjue followed behind the Ghost Envoy, heading into the Imperial City.

The Ghost Envoy led them to the front of the palace, bowed slightly, and addressed the person inside, "City Lord, the individuals have been brought here."

Soon, a lazy female voice came from inside, "Okay, you can retreat." freeωebnovēl.c૦m

"Yes," the Ghost Envoy responded and glanced at the two people standing beside her before slowly leaving.

Qi Yu noticed that as she walked now, there was no sound of footsteps.

It seemed that it had indeed been intentional before.

"Please come in, both of you," the Ghost Envoy had just left when the City Lord’s voice rose again.

Each time Qi Yu heard this ethereal and somewhat surreal voice, she felt a chill wrapping around her, lingering for a long time.

The two proceeded to walk into the hall together.

This was Qi Yu’s first time entering this palace; besides being spacious, it felt chilly and devoid of life.

But then again, this was the Ghost City, and other than the two of them, living and breathing, everyone else was a long-dead ghost.

Entering the hall, what caught her eye was a glimpse of red, like the color of fresh blood, which after a while seemed dizzying to look at.

She remembered the Princess she had seen in her dream, who, although also dressed in red, did not evoke the spine-chilling feeling that she felt now.

The girl in red from the dream was bright and fresh, her face displaying the unique shyness of a young girl, her eyes shone like stars flowing past, compelling one to look longer.

However, the person before her had black hair falling to her waist, exuding a chilling yet enticing aura, and those eyes were bone-chillingly cold, devoid of any emotion.

You two are rather bold to have dared to barge into the Ghost City," the City Lord slowly turned around, gazing straight at them with a nonchalant play of her long fingers.

Qi Yu tried to find the image of that girl from her dream on her face, but the lively presence was long gone; apart from this face, these two people seemed nothing alike.

"Barge in?" Qi Yu caught this word, frowning in confusion, "We don’t even know how we got here, how could we possibly have barged in?"

The City Lord sneered coldly, her sinister laughter echoing through the empty palace, unsettlingly eerie.

Her gaze landed straight on Qi Yu’s face, the smile not reaching her eyes, and she asked chillingly, "So you mean, you were brought here by someone?"

Qi Yu felt, if gazes could kill, she might have died hundreds of times already.

She had encountered many who wanted her dead, but none had a gaze as chilling as this, a single look felt like being pierced through.

"Exactly," Qi Yu steadied herself, calmly responded, "That day, we boarded a carriage, and after a few hours, we ended up in this ghostly place."

"Ghostly place?" The City Lord laughed heartily as if she heard a joke, "Well put, this indeed is a ghostly place."

Qi Yu had gradually figured out this person’s temperament; in some ways, she was quite like Liu Wensheng, potentially twisted.

From her experience, those whose psyches could twist to such an extent usually had a tragic background or had undergone some distressing experiences.

Thinking of the girl in her dreams, always smiling and speaking in a gentle voice, she looked at the person before her, feeling even more eerie.

What could have happened to transform a Princess, cherished since childhood, into the figure she saw today?

"Will you let us leave?" Qi Yu asked tentatively.

What she wanted to know most now was how to leave this ghostly place.

But after her words, the smile on the City Lord’s face stopped abruptly, and she glanced at her faintly—not malicious, but not exactly pleasant—with a light scoff, "Didn’t the one who sent you in tell you? There’s a way into the Ghost City but no way out."

Qi Yu’s expression changed as she inquired, "What do you mean by ’no way out’?"

The City Lord, seeing a flicker of panic in her eyes, took a keen interest, looked her up and down several times, released the strand of hair she had been twirling, and gently tapped the position on her temple, speaking lazily, "It means, you can’t leave."

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