The little fox finished speaking, and a faint light emanated from Ye Wuji’s bird form. Then, he transformed back into human shape and fumbled to hold onto the little fox, as he had been standing on the little fox’s shoulder.
The little fox also fumbled to catch Ye Wuji.
Ye Wuji said, “I apologize, I got too emotional and forgot I was still in bird form.”
The little fox shook his head and said, “It’s alright, you’re back now. Tell me, what did you want to say just now?”
Ye Wuji nodded, then spoke to Ye Tiancheng and the other two, “I overheard you talking about the Lin family’s patriarch, Lin Yanshu?”
The little fox replied to Ye Wuji, “Yes, it’s Lin Yanshu…”
As he spoke, the little fox suddenly paused slightly, then asked Ye Wuji, “You know Lin Yanshu? Have you met him?”
Ye Wuji looked at the little fox’s question with some confusion, nodded, and then shook his head again. He said, “Regarding this person, Lin Yanshu, I’ve actually never heard this name before. It’s just that when you mentioned it just now, and linked it with this place, it reminded me of some things.”
“Before, the people who captured me, the one who planned to capture me, that young man was not the leader among them. There were several of them, and that young man was just one of them.”
“However, he was not the one in charge. He was just following orders.”
“The person who was in charge among them, I don’t know that person’s name, but I heard others mention it, it seems they were surnamed Lin.”
“I don’t know if that person is Lin Yanshu, whom you mentioned, but I think there might be a connection between the two. After all, this is the exit of that place from before, there must be a connection, right?”
After hearing Ye Wuji’s words, the little fox paused for a moment before asking Ye Wuji, “The person in charge among those people, you said he was surnamed Lin… was he a man or a woman?”
Ye Wuji replied to the little fox, “Of course, he was a man. Those few people were all men, not a single woman.”
The little fox looked at Ye Tiancheng.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Tiancheng said, “Surnamed Lin, male. Although this aligns with Lin Yanshu, it doesn’t necessarily mean the other person is Lin Yanshu. It could be someone else, but they should have a connection.”
From the beginning, the events they encountered here started with the events in the Lin family. Lin Yanshu was from the Lin family. Although the person surnamed Lin mentioned by Ye Wuji might not be Lin Yanshu, that person definitely had a connection to the Lin family, and therefore, definitely had a connection to Lin Yanshu.
After listening to Ye Tiancheng, the little fox pondered for a moment and then said, “If we connect all this, Big Brother, you said that when we first came to this cellar, was there such a place beneath the cellar back then?”
Ye Tiancheng shook his head and said, “That’s not certain. Perhaps, following the previous course of events, this is very likely something that happened after Lin Yanqin’s accidental death.”
The little fox nodded thoughtfully.
“…That’s true.”
Ye Wuji looked at them with some curiosity. To him, the names Lin Yanshu and Lin Yanqin were completely unfamiliar, except for their surname that reminded him of some things.
Therefore, he didn’t quite understand what Ye Tiancheng and the others were discussing.
However, if the clues he provided could help Ye Tiancheng and the others a little, Ye Wuji felt it would be a good thing.
Ye Tiancheng noticed Ye Wuji’s gaze, extended his hand, and ruffled Ye Wuji’s hair, saying to him, “Thank you, you helped us again and provided us with useful clues.”
Ye Wuji smiled a little shyly.
“I’m not too sure if what I know is useful to you. You’ve also helped me a lot… It’s great if I can be of assistance.”
The little fox smiled and said to Ye Wuji, “You’ve been a great help, it’s a very important clue.”
Ye Wuji also smiled and said, “That’s great then.”
Ye Tiancheng then said, “Let’s not worry about that for now. We can slowly deduce this clue. At least we know that the mastermind is still connected to the Lin family, which is good news for us.”
“Now, Nie Chongyang’s whereabouts are more urgent for us.”
Ye Wuji said, “Oh right, you have another companion who got separated.”
Liang Ping strongly agreed with Ye Tiancheng’s suggestion.
He was already very worried about Nie Chongyang’s safety, but he had been restraining himself, knowing that things had to be done step by step, and believing that Nie Chongyang also had the strength to not get into trouble so easily.
Now that he knew they were in the ruins of the hotel, there was no need to worry about spending more effort to find Nie Chongyang.
Since they were in the same place, it would be much easier to meet.
Ye Tiancheng and the others quickly went out of the cellar. Outside, it was indeed the ruins of the hotel. Ye Tiancheng and the little fox looked at it and found it somewhat familiar, but they couldn’t be completely sure.
They looked at Liang Ping together and received his confirmation.
Liang Ping nodded and said, “That’s right, these are the ruins of the hotel from before. It’s exactly the same as when I left, but neither Nie team nor I knew that there was such a cellar here before.”
The little fox sighed and said, “My Big Brother and I didn’t know that there were so many secrets in the cellar before.”
Ye Tiancheng looked at Liang Ping and asked him, “Where do you think Nie Chongyang is now?”
Liang Ping thought for a moment and then shook his head, saying, “We might have to search slowly. When we had our accident before, even if Nie team didn’t follow me into the tomb chamber, Nie team was under attack at that time. In order to evade the attack, Nie team might have gone somewhere else.”
“The space here also changes, and we can’t guarantee that the place you run to is exactly the same as the place you see with your own eyes.”
“After those four young men entered here, Liang Ping and Nie team searched for a long time, and only found two dead ones. I’m afraid it won’t be easy for us to find Nie team.”
This was also a helpless force majeure.
Ye Tiancheng and the others had no better solutions and could only choose to walk into the building and search slowly.
Ye Wuji didn’t quite understand what Ye Tiancheng and the others were doing, so he obediently acted as a decorative piece. When there was nothing he knew that he could help with, Ye Wuji did not express any opinions.
After Ye Tiancheng and the others entered the building, they first searched the first floor. Having found nothing, they planned to go upstairs.
However, just as Ye Tiancheng and the others were heading towards the stairs and preparing to go up, Ye Wuji suddenly asked, “You’re only searching the first floor, aren’t you going upstairs to find your companion? Are you leaving now?”
Hearing Ye Wuji’s words, Ye Tiancheng and the other two were stunned.
They glanced at the stairs in front of them. The scene in front of them had not changed, but Ye Tiancheng and the other two did not believe that Ye Wuji was speaking without reason or making random remarks.
Ye Tiancheng glanced at the stairs, then said to Ye Wuji, “In our eyes, this is the stairs leading upstairs, but you say this is the main exit?”
He then looked at the little fox and Liang Ping again, and confirmed with them, “What do you see? What does it look like?”
Liang Ping and the little fox looked at each other, their expressions were quite solemn.
They all indicated that the scene they saw was the same as what Ye Tiancheng had said.
Hearing Ye Tiancheng and the other two say this, Ye Wuji became confused. He wasn’t sure if he had made a mistake or if something else had happened.
Ye Wuji said somewhat blankly, “But I see this as the main door leading outside. Did I see it wrong?”
“Then let’s keep going…”
However, Ye Tiancheng shook his head and said, “Wuji, what you see might be true. You haven’t been here before, so you don’t know that there is spatial displacement here. What looks like a normal scene might actually lead to another place.”
“Our eyes can be deceived, but you might not be. Therefore, what you see might be the true situation.”
Ye Wuji was slightly stunned and opened his mouth slightly.
“Ah…”
Ye Tiancheng said to Ye Wuji, “Wuji, are you willing to help us?”
Upon hearing Ye Tiancheng’s question, Ye Wuji of course nodded immediately and replied, “Of course I am willing. What do you need my help with?”
Ye Tiancheng said, “What you see is different from what we see, and we are easily deceived. Therefore, what you don’t see is likely the true situation, which is very possible.”
“Since that’s the case, are you willing to guide us?”
Ye Wuji hesitated for a moment. It wasn’t that he was unwilling to help Ye Tiancheng and the others, but rather…
He said hesitantly, “But what if the path I show is wrong?”
Ye Tiancheng said to Ye Wuji, “It doesn’t matter. We are just verifying. It’s fine if it’s wrong, but it would be even better if it’s right.”
Ye Wuji agreed to Ye Tiancheng this time and said, “Alright, I can help you. Of course, I’m willing to help you.”
After Ye Wuji agreed, he started to guide Ye Tiancheng and the others. Ye Tiancheng’s intention was certainly not to find the main exit and leave the ruins of this hotel directly.
Don’t forget, their goal was still to find Nie Chongyang and confirm his safety.
Therefore, the path Ye Tiancheng asked Ye Wuji to lead them on was the path to go upstairs in the ruins of the hotel.