Ye Qingcheng felt fear in her heart, on the verge of tears, but upon closer inspection, it seemed as though she felt nothing at all. They had already landed, and in the end, she couldn't bring herself to cry. After a moment of recovery, she actually managed to calm herself down.
Upon landing, Long Miaomiao saw that Ye Qingcheng was quite brave, which somewhat reassured her. She immediately led Ye Qingcheng towards the garage to meet up with Ye Tiancheng and the others.
Because Ye Tiancheng had already taken Hou Mingzhu away from the car. Previously, to call Long Miaomiao, and to be logical, they didn't want to involve the driver. Upon realizing the logical inconsistency.
This wasn't to guard against the driver or anything, but rather to avoid causing too much trouble and unnecessary explanations.
By doing this, from the driver's perspective, it would appear that Hou Mingzhu and Ye Tiancheng had brought Ye Qingcheng down together and planned to leave. At most, there would be an additional person, Long Miaomiao, who looked very familiar but had never been seen before. However, the problem wasn't significant, and the driver wouldn't ask too many questions about these matters.
Seeing that their daughter had been successfully rescued, Ye Tiancheng and Hou Mingzhu were both excited and relieved. They hugged their daughter, but dared not delay for too long, lest the other party realize something was amiss and immediately pursue them, leaving them no time to escape.
Since they had already notified their subordinates to evacuate in an orderly fashion, those people were already on their way out. Ye Tiancheng and the others no longer needed to worry about anything else. Hou Mingzhu directly told the driver to drive them away from this small county town, preparing to rendezvous with the main group.
The driver was surprised but, seeing that Hou Mingzhu wasn't joking, complied.
Thus, everyone successfully regrouped, and Ye Tiancheng successfully rescued Hou Mingzhu and Ye Qingcheng.
They were also afraid of being caught, so they kept the driver driving as fast as possible to leave the city. Fortunately, Long Miaomiao's disguise was so good that no one noticed anything amiss for a long time.
Fatty had been absent due to some business and was completely unaware that Hou Mingzhu and Ye Qingcheng had already fled.
When he returned, he saw the fake "Ye Tiancheng" alone in the hall, so he asked the fake "Ye Tiancheng," "Has Hou Mingzhu returned?"
The fake "Ye Tiancheng" replied to Fatty, "She returned long ago. It seems there was a last-minute change, and her work was canceled, so she came back. She's in the study now, accompanying that little girl."
After hearing this, Fatty went to the study, quietly opened the study door a crack, and peered inside through the gap. He indeed saw "Hou Mingzhu" and "Ye Qingcheng" together, looking at a book and discussing it. He then quietly closed the study door.
It wasn't until dinner time when Fatty and the others went to call them that they found "Hou Mingzhu" and "Ye Qingcheng" in the study were unresponsive, as if lost in their own world, constantly discussing books.
It was only when Fatty realized that these two could only be seen with their eyes but not touched with their hands that he understood these were merely illusions and the people were long gone.
They never expected Hou Mingzhu to disappear right under their noses, and even a child with her. They hadn't managed to keep track of them.
The person impersonating Ye Tiancheng here was not a formidable character. Upon discovering this, he was terrified.
Fatty's face was also grim. Seeing this scene, even if he didn't know what had happened before, the situation was now crystal clear, leaving no room for doubt.
Ye Tiancheng must have come, discovered their whereabouts, and then rescued Hou Mingzhu without alerting them.
Fatty had no doubt that Ye Tiancheng possessed such ability, let alone having the assistance of Little Fox by his side. While doing such a thing was beyond his expectations, it was still within his realm of possibility.
His expression was somewhat gloomy, but he ultimately said nothing.
Since the matter had already occurred, they had to find a way to rectify it. Simply being angry and blaming others would be useless. After a moment of thought, Fatty began to mobilize his men to track down Ye Tiancheng's whereabouts.
Fatty questioned the fake "Ye Tiancheng" and then calculated the time. Even if Ye Tiancheng had fled with Hou Mingzhu, they shouldn't have gone too far and might still be caught.
After betraying Ye Tiancheng, Fatty also had his own men, arranged by the person who helped him betray Ye Tiancheng.
They were both an aid and a surveillance.
What made Fatty and the others even more furious was that after they started their operations, they discovered another fact.
That was that Hou Mingzhu's bodyguards and attendants had also all left, and they had dispersed in different directions, making their tracking infinitely more difficult.
The magnitude of the incident finally alerted the man behind it all.
The man in the black cloak appeared once again. Upon seeing Fatty, the first thing he said was a barrage of accusations.
"I told you before that Ye Tiancheng is not to be underestimated, and you couldn't be too careless. Perhaps Ye Tiancheng was recuperating before, which allowed us to take advantage. But it's possible that after he received the news, he was already secretly tracking us."
"Your previous arrangements were too careless."
Fatty lowered his head and admitted his mistake, saying, "Indeed, my thinking was not thorough enough, and I was too presumptuous."
However, at this moment, the most important thing for them was not to assign blame, but to quickly find clues to Ye Tiancheng's whereabouts. Where had Ye Tiancheng taken Hou Mingzhu and the others?
According to their estimations, even if Ye Tiancheng was fleeing with Hou Mingzhu, he would surely be heading towards the next fragment of the Fuxi Qin.
Therefore, they set this as their target, attempting to track Ye Tiancheng.
However, they likely never expected that Ye Tiancheng was not heading towards the next fragment of the Fuxi Qin.
In their understanding, Ye Tiancheng had left the small mountain village and must have found and taken the fragment of the Fuxi Qin from that village.
But, the reality was not so.
Ye Tiancheng had initially pursued so many things to find the whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragment in that small mountain village, even tracing the large black snake impersonating the Dragon God, and even the true Dragon God, Long Miaomiao, eventually forming a connection with Long Miaomiao.
However, after so many events, Ye Tiancheng still hadn't found the Fuxi Qin fragment.
They investigated the large black snake impersonating the Dragon God, but the fragment wasn't on the black snake. Later, they encountered Long Miaomiao again, but at that time, Ye Tiancheng suffered betrayal, was stabbed by Fatty, and was then recuperating.
Before his injuries had fully healed, he learned that his wife and daughter were in danger. He couldn't bother looking for the Fuxi Qin fragment at all. He left the small mountain village almost immediately, so how could he know the whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragment?
Therefore, Ye Tiancheng ultimately had to return to find the fragment of the Fuxi Qin that he had not yet found.
It was for this reason that Ye Tiancheng and Fatty ended up missing each other.
As for the confidence in finding the Fuxi Qin fragment, it was thanks to Long Miaomiao. After some hesitation, Ye Tiancheng asked Long Miaomiao if she knew the whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragment.
Artifacts like the Fuxi Qin, even just a fragment, were extremely important to beings at Long Miaomiao's level.
However, Long Miaomiao was somewhat of an anomaly. Coupled with her inherently innocent and pure nature, when Ye Tiancheng asked, she revealed everything she knew without reservation.
Among these, there were naturally some unspoken thoughts at play, even though Long Miaomiao had never realized it.
Speaking of the Fuxi Qin fragment, Long Miaomiao indeed knew about it.
Not only did she know, but Long Miaomiao's awakening of her spiritual consciousness and her eventual cultivation to become a true dragon was all thanks to the help of the Fuxi Qin fragment. It could be said that the existence of the Fuxi Qin fragment had created her.
She was originally just a small goldfish kept by the young lady of a wealthy family, with a short lifespan. Under normal circumstances, it would have been difficult for her to have such an affinity to complete her life.
By sheer coincidence, Long Miaomiao encountered the most important opportunity in her life.
At that time, during a period of chaos, the young lady of the wealthy family was taken away by her father and brother to escape. On the journey, it was naturally inconvenient to bring a pet goldfish, so Long Miaomiao was left behind in the old residence.
Fortunately, a small fish like her, even without being fed, could survive by eating the duckweed and algae that grew in the fish tank.
Long Miaomiao persisted like this for a not-so-short period.
Until a group of people broke into the old residence abandoned by the wealthy family, smashing and grabbing everything.
Naturally, such people would not be interested in a small goldfish and completely ignored her.
However, it wasn't just that. This disregard was a form of indifference, and because of it, they smashed the fish tank where the goldfish Long Miaomiao lived.
The fish tank was smashed, and the water spilled onto the ground. If nothing unexpected happened, Long Miaomiao would naturally not survive.
But, she was incredibly lucky.
After the fish tank was smashed, Long Miaomiao herself thought she was going to die. However, at that time, because her spiritual consciousness had not yet awakened, she couldn't clearly recognize this. She only had instinctive reactions, struggling to survive and find a source of water.
Fish cannot live without water.
She thrashed on the ground. Those people were still smashing and looting. Then, a fragment hit Long Miaomiao, who was still thrashing, and it was probably unexpected that among the fragments that hit Miaomiao, two were inadvertently embedded in the wood and grew together with the tree, becoming one with the trunk.
Finally, this tree was cut down and made into furniture for the wealthy family.
During the looting by these bandits, those two fragments of the Fuxi Qin were smashed out, hitting Long Miaomiao and injuring her. After Long Miaomiao's blood stained those two fragments of the Fuxi Qin, the situation changed drastically.
Long Miaomiao was thus able to awaken her spiritual consciousness, cultivate, and successfully survive and escape. Eventually, she relied on the fragments to achieve her cultivation.
Now, when Ye Tiancheng asked about the whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragment, Long Miaomiao was not stingy. Upon learning that Ye Tiancheng wanted to collect all the Fuxi Qin fragments, she agreed to retrieve her two fragments and give them to Ye Tiancheng.
Ye Tiancheng naturally did not want to accept them for free and said he would compensate her with something else later.
Upon returning to the small mountain village, Ye Tiancheng finally understood why he could never find the whereabouts of the Fuxi Qin fragment before, and yet he could sense the aura of the Fuxi Qin fragment everywhere, coming from all directions, present everywhere.
In fact, this also had something to do with Long Miaomiao's aquatic territory.
It should be known that Long Miaomiao's aquatic territory was in another space that covered that small mountain village, meaning it was a different space within the same location.
And this different space was naturally created by Long Miaomiao herself to avoid disturbances, and it borrowed the power of the Fuxi Qin fragment.