Ink Blade Chapter 53 (Part 2)
Translated by Sylver
Chapter 53.2 Night of Sudden Change (part 2)
“Ah Ren?” His room door was not bolted, Chu Yan called out twice more, seeing that no one in the room responded, he pushed the door. “Ah Ren, this Master will come in.”
“……” Under the eaves outside the window, Guard Mo suppressed his breath to almost nothing, just hoping that his master would leave quickly.
The room was empty, Chu Yan looked around, suddenly his gaze fell on the neatly folded clothes on the corner of the desk.
Mo Ren screamed out in his heart, his cheeks were already burning uncontrollably.
He, he just held those clothes for so long…
Sure enough, Chu Yan reached out and touched the residual warmth on the clothes, he couldn’t help but shake his head with helplessness and affection. “This person… rejected this Master, what does it mean to go into the room and hold clothes by himself.” He looked around and mused to himself. “Could it be that he is hiding?”
Chu Yan couldn’t help but laugh, he was awakened by Qiu Jin’s words, and came to find Mo Ren with a full heart of throbbing, but at this time seeing the cold empty room, his mind cooled down a bit. With Mo Ren’s temperament, this kind of thing couldn’t be rushed.
He didn’t want to push too hard, so he didn’t look for anyone, he just found a pen and paper in the dark, and casually wrote a four-word order: Come see this Master.
Then he folded the paper, placed it next to the clothes, walked around the room with affection, and reluctantly left.
…Little did he know that the person he was looking for was hiding at the window, silently watching the whole process.
What should he do?
Mo Ren’s body was suspended in the air against the wall, light as a silent black feather. He frowned: The Master has left a note asking him to come over, then he…
No matter how much he wanted to bury his head in the sand psychologically, Chu Yan’s command was always the first priority for Mo Ren.
He had to go.
However, just as Mo Ren resigned himself to going back to the room to go out, and simply hurried up two steps to catch up with Chu Yan directly. Suddenly, his back felt inexplicably cold, a sharp intuition climbed up his spine like a flash of lightning, and the guard suddenly looked back——
In the corner of his eye, a white robe flashed by, disappearing into the narrow alley outside the inn.
——Bai Hua!?
Isn’t he still unconscious!?
Mo Ren knew something was wrong in his heart, his nerves were instantly tense, and his body moved before his brain, flipping a few times to the outside of the room where Bai Hua was originally placed, holding his breath and looking.
Inside the room, the several secret guards of the Jiuzhong Palace who should have been hidden outside the room to monitor Bai Hua were all laid on the ground without exception, their life or death unknown.
Mo Ren’s heart jumped heavily: Yes, if their calculations are correct, Bai Hua is from the Wuxian Sect, and his physique has resistance to poison and aphrodisiac… They were negligent!
This person probably woke up a long time ago, just pretending to be dizzy to relax everyone’s vigilance, and knowing that Qui Jin would inevitably leave to greet the Master when he came back, so he took advantage of this gap to lay down the scent and put down the secret guards.
Mo Ren was suddenly scared in his heart: Fortunately, he asked Qiu Jin to persuade the Master, otherwise, wouldn’t this girl be poisoned as soon as she returned to Bai Hua?
He redirected his gaze to the direction where Bai Hua’s figure disappeared, knowing that this person was acting so risky, he must be going to contact the mastermind behind the scenes.
If he didn’t catch up, in case something happens, the Master’s plan to catch all in one net would probably…
The four words left by the master flashed in his mind, Mo Ren secretly gritted his teeth, the situation was urgent, he couldn’t care about so much now, he could only wait to apologize when he came back.
He reached into his arms and touched a familiar hard object.
The next moment, the Jiuyun Jade Token was thrown out by him, and with a “click”, it was inserted into the floor of the guest room, three inches into the wood, and the token face was pointing in the direction Bai Hua was leaving.
Mo Ren took a deep look, this object was personally given by the master, and its significance was extraordinary. As long as Qiu Jin came back and saw it, she would definitely know his meaning.
He then turned his head, his body flipped like a black eagle, quietly hidden in the night, silently following up without making a sound.
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It was night, the rain had dissipated, and the moonlight occasionally peeked out from the clouds. The small city was a scene of desolation.
Mo Ren was like a shadow in the dark night, silently sliding over the low altitude of Changqing with the cover of buildings and houses.
Bai Hua changed into a long robe, put on a hat and buried his face deeply. He walked quickly on the deserted street after the rain, and touched the east gate of Changqing City in the dark.
There were already two men in black robes standing under the city gate, and as soon as they saw him, they came up to greet him.
Bai Hua walked quickly to the front of the two men, and the three of them whispered for a while. Mo Ren didn’t dare to approach rashly, he cautiously hid his breath and lay on the roof tiles on one side, unable to hear what they were saying.
After whispering a few words, the two men in black robes stepped forward, one on the left and one on the right, each supporting Bai Hua’s arm, and at the same time leaped up, using their light skills to go all the way up, leaping over the several feet high city tower, and disappeared with Bai Hua on the other side of the city wall.
Mo Ren watched this, his heart secretly shocked. Such light skills, although far from being the best, were not something that ordinary martial artists could have, he didn’t expect these two men in black robes to have such skills.
Moreover, since there were people here to meet them, it seemed that the other party had planned well in advance. Outside this Changqing City, he didn’t know what was waiting for him. This time, he might have to go into the enemy’s den alone.
Mo Ren looked at the city wall, a sense of crisis like intuition heavily covered his heart.
He remembered that his intuition had always been accurate.
