Compared to the terrifying free-fall game Meng Xiaoyu experienced earlier due to triggering a trap, their current situation wasn’t that bad.
They were just lost, which really wasn’t a big deal.
Meng Xiaoyu, being led by Ling Yuer, kept comforting herself with this thought.
However, despite her self-reassurance, she couldn’t suppress the intense anger in her heart and the urge to complain, “This is ridiculous!
Who is the owner of this place, some kind of god?
It’s just hiding money, is it necessary to have traps and a maze?
How much money do you have to go through all this trouble?”
Trapped in the maze, Meng Xiaoyu really wanted to sigh to the heavens, “If I had another chance to choose, I’d rather sleep on the streets and go hungry than play ‘righteous thief’ with Ling Yuer.”
Why was Meng Xiaoyu feeling this way?
It all started two hours ago when Ling Yuer, holding Meng Xiaoyu’s hand, walked into the only secret passage.
Initially, they both thought it would be a straight path, maybe with some traps along the way.
But to their surprise, there were no traps, and the path split from one into two, two into four, and so on, multiplying endlessly.
When they first encountered a fork in the path, Ling Yuer decisively chose the left path, and after walking for a while, they encountered several more forks.
Ling Yuer always chose the leftmost path.
At first, Meng Xiaoyu thought Ling Yuer knew the way!
But after nearly an hour of walking, when Ling Yuer pulled her towards the left path again, Meng Xiaoyu finally asked, “You always choose the left path because you know the way, right?”
As she asked, Meng Xiaoyu secretly admired, “As expected of someone who used to be a thief, she must have gotten the map before stealing.
So smart.”
However, just as Meng Xiaoyu finished admiring Ling Yuer’s cleverness, Ling Yuer suddenly stopped, turned around, and flashed a bright smile, saying, “I don’t know the way!”
“……”
Hearing Ling Yuer’s innocent tone, Meng Xiaoyu was stunned for a while before stammering, “Then…
then why did you…
choose the left path at every fork?”
“Oh!
It’s a habit!
Whenever I don’t know the way and encounter a fork, I always choose the left path!”
Ling Yuer said with another bright smile.
“You said, habit?”
Meng Xiaoyu asked again, as if she hadn’t heard clearly.
“Yes!”
Ling Yuer replied with an innocent smile.
“…..”
“Habit, my ass!”
After hearing Ling Yuer’s confirmation, Meng Xiaoyu snapped out of her daze and shouted at Ling Yuer.
She was so angry she didn’t know what to say.
“What’s wrong, darling?
Don’t scare me!”
Ling Yuer was initially stunned by Meng Xiaoyu’s sudden outburst, then saw Meng Xiaoyu looking at her with a murderous expression, finger trembling, but saying nothing.
Seeing this, Ling Yuer panicked.
What’s wrong with her darling?
Could it be that she was scared out of her wits from the earlier fall?
Thinking of this, she quickly patted Meng Xiaoyu’s cheek, saying, “Darling, what’s wrong?
You didn’t really get scared silly from the fall, did you?”
Meng Xiaoyu, hearing Ling Yuer’s words, slapped away the hand on her face, “You’re the silly one!
Your whole family is silly!”
After shouting this angrily, Meng Xiaoyu turned and walked into a right-side passage, completely ignoring the stunned Ling Yuer.
Ling Yuer snapped out of it just as Meng Xiaoyu’s figure was about to disappear down the passage.
Watching Meng Xiaoyu walk further away, Ling Yuer quickly used her Light Skill to flash to Meng Xiaoyu’s side, grinning, “Darling, why are you suddenly angry?”
Meng Xiaoyu stopped abruptly, turned around, and pointed at Ling Yuer, “Why am I angry?
You tell me why I’m angry?”
“If it weren’t for you insisting on bringing me to this damn place to steal, would I have accidentally triggered a trap and ‘enjoyed’ a free-fall?
And that’s not all, but you brought me here without knowing the way, wandering aimlessly.
Do you know we’re lost?
Do you know we might be trapped here forever?
Do you know…”
As she spoke, Meng Xiaoyu started crying again.
She didn’t know why she, who rarely cried before, had become so prone to tears lately.
But when she thought about possibly being trapped here forever and never seeing Han Rubing and Rushuang again, she couldn’t control her tears.
“Don’t cry, we won’t be trapped here.
I’ll definitely get you out, I promise.”
Ling Yuer gently pulled the tearful Meng Xiaoyu into her arms, comforting her with determination.
“Really?
We won’t be trapped?
I’ll really see Rubing and Rushuang again?”
Meng Xiaoyu lifted her tear-streaked face, asking uncertainly.
“Of course, I promise.
Don’t forget, your wife is the famous Linglong Thief of Jianghu!
A little maze can’t stop me.”
Seeing the hopeful face of the person in her arms, Ling Yuer leaned down and pecked Meng Xiaoyu’s soft lips.
Hearing Ling Yuer’s words, Meng Xiaoyu stopped crying and smiled widely.
Ling Yuer, seeing the smile on Meng Xiaoyu’s tear-streaked face, said indulgently, “Look at you, crying and laughing.”
She gently wiped away Meng Xiaoyu’s tears, then held her hand, asking, “So, how should we go now?”
Meng Xiaoyu shook her head, indicating she didn’t know.
Seeing Meng Xiaoyu shake her head, Ling Yuer said, “Then shall we continue following my lead?”
After seeing Meng Xiaoyu blush and nod, Ling Yuer held her hand and continued walking.
And so, two hours later, Meng Xiaoyu asked again, “Can we really find our way out just wandering like this?”
She was very tired; she had never walked so far in her life.
Even when she first crossed over and traveled to Fuyun City with Han Rubing and Rushuang, it wasn’t like this, walking for hours without stopping.
“What’s wrong?
Are you tired?”
Seeing Meng Xiaoyu’s tired face, Ling Yuer asked with concern.
She regretted bringing Meng Xiaoyu here.
If she hadn’t impulsively taken Meng Xiaoyu, perhaps she would be living well under the protection of Han Rubing and Rushuang.
But this regretful thought quickly passed because Ling Yuer knew there was no medicine for regret.
Since she had done it, she wouldn’t regret it.
“Hey, what’s wrong?”
Seeing Ling Yuer lost in thought after asking if she was tired, Meng Xiaoyu gently shook their joined hands.
“Hmm?
Nothing, are you tired?”
Ling Yuer, snapping out of her thoughts, smiled at Meng Xiaoyu’s concerned face.
“Yeah, we’ve been walking for so long, my feet hurt,” Meng Xiaoyu replied honestly, her tone carrying a hint of the spoiled tone she only used with Han Rubing and Rushuang.
“I see!”
Seeing Meng Xiaoyu’s slightly aggrieved expression and hearing her spoiled tone, Ling Yuer smiled happily.
Then, taking advantage of Meng Xiaoyu’s distraction, she bent down, placed her hands on Meng Xiaoyu’s legs, and lifted her onto her back.
Smiling, she said, “Since you’re tired, let your wife carry you!”
With that, she ignored Meng Xiaoyu’s struggles and continued walking with her on her back.
Meng Xiaoyu, realizing she was being carried, began to struggle.
She didn’t want Ling Yuer to carry her, not because of anything else, but because Ling Yuer had walked just as long and must be tired too.
However, after Ling Yuer gave her a firm smack on the butt, Meng Xiaoyu blushed and stopped struggling, obediently lying on Ling Yuer’s back, which wasn’t broad but made her feel safe.
Ling Yuer, feeling Meng Xiaoyu stop struggling, smiled and said, “You’re really naughty!
You only behave after your wife spanks you.”
Meng Xiaoyu, hearing Ling Yuer’s words, blushed and muttered, “You’re not my wife!”
