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Chapter 828 Not a trace left, the plan has changed.

His head was spinning from the knocking, but unfortunately, he dared not speak out in anger.

His intuition told him that the silver light hanging between his brows could really kill him.

And there will be no chance of survival!

"I... I know Lin Yuanyin, but I don't know where she is." Seeing the person in front of him narrow their eyes, clearly dissatisfied with his answer, he quickly added, "I was only recently brought here, and I'm still adjusting. I really don't know!"

Lin Shuangshuang released her hand from the girl's mouth and whispered in her ear, "Is what he said true?"

The girl nodded slightly and mustered her courage to speak: "The cave master has indeed only been here for a short time."

"Cave Master?" Jiang Hanying almost laughed at the title. "You're still the Cave Master?"

"That's what they all call it. As long as you own this cave, you're considered the cave master. Actually, it's nothing special here. It's just a little higher in status than a blood servant like her."

Jiang Hanying shook her head: "Then it seems you're no longer of any use."

"do not want!"

Silver light flickered, and golden patterns strangled it.

In the blink of an eye, this newly minted cave master was completely gone.

This not only startled the pretty young woman who was still holding the tray firmly, but even Lin Shuangshuang was taken aback by Jiang Hanying's decisiveness.

Li Chengxiao quickly stepped forward, looked at the still-retracted phantom of the longsword, and lightly touched the pale golden pattern on it. "That was just now..."

Jiang Hanying looked up at him, shook her head blankly, and said, "I don't know either, I just knew how to use it subconsciously."

Normally, killing him wouldn't be a big deal, but when I killed Bai Xiaoer last time, at least I left behind the worm that had parasitized him, which was later struck by lightning and turned to dust.

But this time, she herself, along with the insects, was reduced to ashes in one go.

"It's quite clean."

Li Chengxiao lowered his eyes and looked at the stone bed in front of him, which was completely devoid of any fragments.

It really is!
Lin Shuangshuang didn't quite understand the conversation between the two, so she simply focused her attention back on the hostage in her hands. She saw that the little girl had a blank expression and was still a bit dazed.

He patted her on the shoulder and asked, "What's your name?"

"Ah, hello sister, my name is Mao Liu."

Lin Shuangshuang had a complicated situation.

With such a face, and such a name...

Li Chengxiao turned his head, "The Twelve Earthly Branches?"

Mao Liu immediately shrank back and obediently nodded, "Yes."

Jiang Hanying was too lazy to continue recounting how she had cleaved the washing sword into dust, and instead asked, "How long have you been here? How did you get here?"

"I... I grew up here and have never been outside."

After he finished speaking, the bridal chamber was silent for several seconds.

Lin Shuangshuang's expression became complicated.

No wonder she had a strange feeling about Mao Liu from the first time she met him until now; now she can understand it better.

Both the older sister and Liu Ruyu grew up in a relatively equal environment, and their first reaction upon being sent to this place was to escape from this cage.

But for Mao Liu, this was a place she had been familiar with since childhood. No matter how she was treated, whether she was bled from time to time or treated as a servant, she had become accustomed to it.

Jiang Hanying walked up to Mao Liu, took the tray from her hand and put it aside, then reached out her other hand.

Mao Liu instinctively shrank into Lin Shuangshuang's arms, "No, don't kill me!"

Lin Shuangshuang, who watched as the person shrank into her arms, was speechless.

Jiang Hanying, who was seen as a killing machine who would attack at the slightest provocation: "..."

No, where are you hiding from? They're clearly in cahoots!
Jiang Hanying gritted her teeth and could only promise, "I won't kill you." Seeing that Mao Liu's face relaxed, she said, "But I have a question for you."

"You want to ask about Sister Yuanyin?"

Lin Shuangshuang's arm around her waist tightened suddenly. "You've seen her? How is she now? Do you know where she is?"

Mao Liu was almost breathless from the tightness of the grip. Sensing the urgency of the question, he didn't dare to be coy and nodded, replying, "I've seen her a few times. I don't have a good feeling about her. I know where she is, but you can't get through to her."

Upon hearing her last sentence, Jiang Hanying raised an eyebrow, about to say that there was no place she couldn't get through, when she heard her cheap master ask, "Why did you say you couldn't get through?"

He had no choice but to swallow his boast.

If it's just her, then there's nothing she can't get through.

But with the cheap owner, Sister Shuangshuang, and a few others guarding outside, it seems they really can't manage to carry it.

“Sister Yuanyin is on the thirteenth floor, which is the bottom floor. Today is the day of the Heavenly Bathing Ceremony. You didn’t encounter any other adults on your way down, right? Because apart from the Cave Master who is still in the adaptation period and couldn’t participate in the Heavenly Bathing Ceremony, most of the other adults are gathered on the twelfth floor right now.”

"What are they doing gathered on the twelfth floor? And what is the Heavenly Bathing Ritual?"

"Bloodline fusion, absorption, and can also be used to heal wounds. The benefits of Heavenly Bath are numerous. It is gathered on the twelfth floor for reproduction."

Lin Shuangshuang's expression changed when she heard the last two words.

"So, from here to the eleventh floor, it's all empty now?"

Mao Liu nodded. "More or less."

Jiang Hanying clasped her hands together. "That makes things easier."

Li Chengxiao understood what she meant and pulled out a small walkie-talkie. "Come down directly. We're on the fourth floor. Over."

The sound was transmitted, and after a few seconds, Hummingbird's voice came through the walkie-talkie: "Received, over."

While waiting for Hummingbird and the others to come down and meet up, Lin Shuangshuang suppressed her anxiety and asked Mao Liu about her sister again.

I finally heard familiar footsteps outside and couldn't wait to open the door and go out.

Just as Jiang Hanying was about to step out, she glanced at Mao Liu, who was still standing there looking bewildered, and said, "Follow me."

It's safer to keep people close by.

This little girl doesn't seem to have a high status here, but she knows quite a lot.

Mao Liu pursed his lips and obediently followed to the back.

As I closed the door, I glanced back at the empty stone bed.

"You found your sister so quickly? Where is she?" Li Jingmo saw Lin Shuangshuang walk out of a door and hurried over to ask. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a new face and paused, thinking, "This is... "

Lin Shuangshuang shook her head at him, "This is not it."

Before Li Jingmo could ask any more questions, his younger brother, who had also come out of the house, said, "The plan has changed. Now all the targets are focused on the twelfth floor, but the person we're looking for is on the thirteenth floor. To get into the thirteenth floor, we have to deal with the twelfth floor first."

Seeing the team members nodding and looking behind him, he said, "This is Mao Liu; she provided all these clues."

Facing the scrutinizing gazes of several people at once, Mao Liu forced a nervous smile and gave them a well-behaved one.

Li Jingmo glanced at Mao Liu, then looked at Lin Shuangshuang, "This Mao Liu looks..."

Lin Shuangshuang nodded directly at him, "Our situations should be about the same."

As she covered Mao Liu's mouth, she sensed a similar temperature and texture under her palm and guessed what was going on.

As Mao Liu had predicted, every floor along the way was indeed empty.

Until we reached the eleventh floor, wisps of pink smoke were visible to the naked eye drifting out from the stairwell leading to the twelfth floor.

The hummingbird, which was at the front scanning the nest and drawing a model with its instrument, accidentally took a sniff and swayed, almost falling headfirst. It was pulled back by the big bear behind it.

Only after the water was splashed on its face did the hummingbird gradually regain its senses, and it exclaimed, "This fog is poisonous!"

Mao Liu's cautious voice came from the back, "It's 'Flower in the Mist'."