58: Shake off the pursuers and wait for the opportunity to leave the city.

"This is a Spell, amazing, right?"

"Liar, how can there be Spells in this world? Even a three-year-old wouldn't believe it."

An Yuyao pouted; she felt Su Yun was teasing her.

"Oh, I was lying to you."

"I knew it!"

On the surface, Su Yun looked like he'd been caught, but secretly he was laughing inside.

He wondered if An Yuyao would feel embarrassed after she regained her memory.

This move of his was indeed a Spell; it was just that it consumed blood essence instead of spiritual power.

There was no time to find a place to dry their clothes now.

If the clothes weren't dry, they would leave water stains on the ground, so he could only get rid of most of the moisture first.

"Su Yun, where are we going now?"

"There are pursuers everywhere!"

"We are going to a place that is both dangerous and safe!"

"Dangerous and safe?"

After hearing this, An Yuyao only felt her head spinning in confusion.

What kind of place was so strange that danger and safety coexisted?

"We're going back to the An Family to hide for a while!"

"The An Family? Didn't we just escape from there?"

"Isn't going back now just walking into a trap?"

Su Yun smiled mysteriously and explained:

"I observed earlier that most of the An Family guards have gone out to search for us."

"So there aren't many guards left at the An Family, and they are definitely guarding near the more important rooms."

"I've observed the houses within the An Family; there are several rooms that are uninhabited."

"We can hide in those uninhabited rooms."

"Those guards won't patrol the uninhabited rooms due to a lack of manpower."

"Now that the scent tracking is gone."

"No one would expect us to turn back and hide so boldly within the An Family!"

"They will only think we escaped to hide in the civilian residential areas of Cuiyan City."

"When they all go to search other places and the city gate is undermanned, that will be our opportunity to leave the city."

After hearing this, An Yuyao couldn't help but stand on her tiptoes and give Su Yun a kiss.

She felt Su Yun was truly amazing, able to play a whole group of people like fools.

"We'll go to the Ji Family first to get the city gate key!"

"Mm-hmm~"

Su Yun picked up An Yuyao and rushed towards the location of the Ji Family he had previously scouted with the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Pearl... Cuiyan City Ji Family.

Su Yun soon arrived near the Ji Family.

After sneaking into the Ji Family, Su Yun found that there were also very few guards inside.

It was likely they had gone with the An Family guards to search the city for traces of him and An Yuyao.

When he used the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Pearl to scout the Ji Family's layout earlier,

he clearly understood what was roughly inside each of the Ji Family's rooms.

Excluding the places where the Ji Family members lived, as well as the Ji Family treasury and so on.

The city gate key must be in the room closest to the Ji Family's main gate.

Because the city gate had to be opened every day, the key couldn't be on the City Lord.

The City Lord would definitely have someone else open the gate, so the key was likely kept by the gate guards.

Thinking of this, Su Yun came near the Ji Family's main gate.

He saw a room not far from the Ji Family's main gate.

"Could it be that room?"

Su Yun lightened his steps and went to the window of the room, only to see several guards snoring loudly inside.

"Good opportunity!"

Su Yun lightly jumped into the room through the window.

Immediately, he quickly struck the necks of several guards with his hands.

The guards all fell to the ground; they probably wouldn't wake up for a whole day.

As for why Su Yun didn't just kill them,

it was because the smell of blood after killing them might reveal that something had happened.

If he threw them somewhere else, and a Ji Family member passed by and found them missing, it would also be exposed.

So the best way was to knock them unconscious and then set up the scene to make it look like they had fallen asleep.

Although they would be discovered over time, delaying for a while was enough.

Su Yun and An Yuyao searched carefully in the room and finally found a key on a wooden shelf.

That key was very similar in style to the city gate lock in Su Yun's memory.

"This is it!"

"Yuyao, let's go to the An Family now!"

"Okay!"

After Su Yun roughly arranged the scene in the room,

An Yuyao naturally let Su Yun pick her up.

Then the two left the Ji Family... Cuiyan City An Family.

It had been nearly two hours since Su Yun left this place.

Entering the An Family again, Su Yun found that there were indeed not many people.

Plus, it wasn't dawn yet, so the entire An Family was quiet.

While passing by An Yuyao's former bedroom, Su Yun took a peek inside through the window.

He found that the pillows and quilts on the bed were gone, likely taken to track them.

After all, pillows are used for sleep every day, and the scent on them is the strongest.

Although An Yuyao had only been back at the An Family for a few days, her scent would definitely be left on the pillows and quilts after long exposure.

Then, familiar with the way, he carried An Yuyao to a remote room in the An Family.

This room was one of several with a higher vantage point.

"It's so high, the stars are so beautiful!"

"Now is not the time to look at the scenery."

"I chose this place because I can vaguely see the scene at the city gate!"

"Where? Let me see!"

"I can't see it; it's blocked by several houses."

An Yuyao stood on her tiptoes and craned her neck, trying to see the situation at the city gate.

"I'll hold you so you can see!"

Su Yun picked up An Yuyao and held her high.

"I see it, there are so many soldiers at the city gate!"

"Look at other places too, especially pay attention to where there are firelights; those people holding torches are very obvious in the dark."

"Indeed, but there are also firelights near here; it seems some people are still nearby."

"When most of the people near the city gate go to other places, that will be the time for us to leave!"

"Now we can sit and rest for a bit."

After saying that, Su Yun pulled over two chairs and chose one to sit on.

An Yuyao didn't sit on the other chair; after a moment of hesitation, she sat directly in Su Yun's lap.

"Su Yun, I want to be closer to you, is that okay?"

"Yes!"

"Hold me!"

An Yuyao said with a blush and a soft voice.

"Okay."

Su Yun answered without hesitation.

Who would refuse a charming and cute girl's initiative to ask for a hug?

Although he had carried her for over an hour while running away, he hadn't been able to properly feel it because of the emergency.

Now that there was a chance, he definitely wanted to properly feel the sensation of holding the girl in his arms again.

An Yuyao's whole body lay against Su Yun, her expression incredibly relaxed.

Su Yun inhaled the faint fragrance from An Yuyao's golden hair and felt her soft skin against him.

He felt his tense nerves relax.

Su Yun looked towards the city gate comfortably, waiting for the opportunity to arrive.

He believed that in at most an hour, those tracking people would go to other areas to search.

There certainly wouldn't be too many soldiers and guards left to watch the city gate.

At that time, by consuming a bit of blood essence, he would be able to break through the encirclement.