Chapter 1234: Wide Search
After thinking for a moment, Pei Lang opened his lips.
"So may I know...why mister Aldrian saved me?"
Aldrian still smiled.
"Well, let’s just say that I have a close connection to the Pei family. When I heard you were in trouble, I decided to save you."
Pei Lang raised his eyebrows.
"Mister Aldrian is close to the Pei family? My apologies if I look surprised, but father and mother never told me that they have someone like mister Aldrian. Are there any members of the Pei family out there other than me, father, and mother?"
"I don’t know about that, but as long as everyone from the Pei family experiences the same thing as you, I would still do the same," Aldrian answered.
Pei Lang released a sigh of relief. At least he finally knew Aldrian’s reason for helping him. But then he realized something, and his expression turned regretful as he lowered his head.
"I see, but with me escaping from the prison, I am already a fugitive and I think I cannot live here anymore. I would have to live far away from here and look for a new life." When he said this, his gaze seemed reluctant, as if he did not want to leave the place that had already become his home for so long.
Aldrian shook his head.
"No, you don’t have to go. You can still live in this city if you want to. I will not let you leave your home if you do not want to."
Pei Lang showed surprise.
"How, mister? There is no way I could just walk normally on the street after my face becomes known to all the cultivators of the city lord manor while they keep hunting me. Sooner or later, I will be caught."
Aldrian smiled.
"There will be an uproar in the next few days. At that time, forget about looking for you. I doubt even the people hunting you down will have the mind to focus on you."
Pei Lang raised his eyebrows. He wondered what kind of thing Aldrian would do in the next few days.
"Anyway, for now let’s go to a place where you can rest. I know you already went through a lot and need to rest your body," Aldrian said.
Pei Lang released a sigh and nodded.
"I will follow mister’s arrangement."
Aldrian nodded, then the two disappeared.
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On the next day, after the sun rose and the people started doing their daily activities, the high security prison was already in an uproar as a death row inmate had escaped. The guards that took the shift after midnight were brought for investigation because the inmate escaped not long after the last patrol during the middle of the shift change.
When they returned to patrol a few hours later, one inmate had already disappeared, and this inmate was the one confined because he had done something taboo.
Now that the inmate escaped without anyone understanding how, the city lord manor ordered a search throughout the entire city. Many cultivators of the city lord manor and the city guardians already spread out to look for the escaped inmate.
Inside the manor, in one of the rooms where a middle-aged man with long black hair tied in a ponytail sat while reading a scroll, a young man stood with his firm build and hands behind his back.
He was a handsome young man with long green hair tied in a ponytail. Wearing a white and blue robe, with cultivation at Peak Immortal Overlord stage, he exuded a certain charisma that attracted people to him.
He stood not far from the middle-aged man while facing him as the middle-aged man continued reading the scroll.
Although he only stayed silent and focused on reading, that simple activity itself already showed how majestic his character was.
Even more so, he was the strongest being in the city lord manor and even in the city itself, with cultivation at Low Immortal Saint stage. He was the city lord himself. The one who stood above everyone in this city.
Su Zhen.
After a few moments, Su Zhen clicked his tongue and showed an irritated expression.
"This is really strange. How could that kid escape from the black area of the prison? The place is guarded by many Immortal Warriors and Immortal Lords, added with many detection formations. How could that boy, or anyone, take him out without anyone or anything detecting them?" he said.
"We already investigated all the guards guarding the area and the ones near the black area at the estimated time of the inmate’s escape, but we found out that they also did not know anything. There are no traitors, and there are no traces," the young man reported.
"We also cannot track that boy using karma law techniques, which means that someone deliberately hid his presence even from karmic tracking techniques. That’s why we concluded that someone from outside helped the boy escape, and their target was specifically him because we did not find any other prisoners escaping or any signs pointing to the possibility that the unknown parties were targeting other prisoners."
Su Zhen narrowed his eyes.
"It is also coincidentally that the boy is the death inmate because of his connection with those evil gods. Is the one helping him connected to that blasphemous resistance group, or perhaps even the group itself?"
The young man nodded.
"That is also one of the possibilities we already suspected, and now we are searching for clues whether they indeed entered the city recently. Considering that they may have infiltrated the city without the barrier detecting anything entering unauthorized, that means they must have used disguise techniques to enter."
Su Zhen clicked his tongue as he could not help but continue showing his displeasure.
"To think there would be trouble like this when the tournament is almost here. This will give a bad image to our city, and we might even embarrass ourselves in front of the Zhu family," he said.
"Do we need to report this to the Zhu family, my lord?" the young man asked.
"Even if we do not tell them, they will still know that something like this happened. It would be worse if we did not report it to them. I will report it to them later, but for now let’s hold it. Let’s see if we can find the bastard who took that boy before I report it to the Zhu family," Su Zhen replied.
"Tsk, we have to do our best to resolve this problem before the envoys from other territories arrive tomorrow at the latest. Focus the search on areas that have been outside our attention all this time. There might be a chance they are hiding there," he added.
The young man bowed.
"Yes, my lord."
Unbeknownst to the two men, inside one of the inns near the city plaza, the boy and the person they were looking for were staying there.
The twins chose this place because of its nice view and strategic position. From the upper floor where their rooms were, they could see many sights of the city.
The busy streets, the plaza, and even some parts of the city lord manor in the distance because their location was not really far from it.
No one would ever think that an escapee from this city’s high security prison was hiding right near the city plaza and even near the city lord manor. Even more so with the fact that the inn where they stayed was one of the expensive inns where prominent figures sometimes stayed for the night.
Even if somehow the search team investigated the inn, Aldrian already had measures to make them unable to find them. Even if they found them, there was no way they could catch them. And even if by some miracle they managed to trap them, then there would be a great bloodbath.
At this moment, Aldrian observed the movements of many cultivators of the city lord manor, and even without anyone telling him, he already knew what they were doing.
They had already been moving back and forth for the past few hours while looking for Pei Lang, and it amused him.
They still did not realize that Pei Lang was here even though they had already searched places near them.
As Aldrian continued observing all the search activities, the twins appeared behind him like ghosts.
"Your Majesty, we came to report that the cultivators from the city lord manor have already spread across the city, with the focus concentrated on the areas near the walls. It looks like, just as Your Majesty predicted, they are trying their luck by searching the places where they think we might hide and escape more easily," Zervan said.
Aldrian nodded.
"With the limited number of search parties, they need to make their efforts as effective as possible. Moreover, the city lord must also be quite anxious with the tournament starting the day after tomorrow," he said.
"Should we do something to those search parties, Your Majesty?" Zarven asked.
"Let them be. Our action will begin the day after tomorrow. For now, just enjoy their confusion and anger," Aldrian answered with smirk.
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