"Logically speaking, there shouldn’t be any direct conflict of interest between Chen Zaikun and you, Ah You. You’re not soone who likes to vie for power and profit either."
"So why did you end up in conflict with him? It doesn’t make sense..."
Yun You fell silent, trying several tis to say sothing but ultimately refraining from ntioning anything about "Lamia."
It wasn’t that Yun You didn’t trust them, but the matter was too significant to risk any leakage of information.
Lamia was the person Jin cared about most while he was alive, and Rococo couldn’t tolerate her facing any unexpected danger.
However, on another note...
Rococo turned around, and when no one was watching, she touched a shiny golden badge hidden in her pocket.
It was a thumb-sized miniature badge engraved with the symbol of the Thorn Crown.
This was a token Jin entrusted to her a year ago. According to Jin, with this token, Yun You could find Lamia after his passing.
But honestly, Yun You couldn’t quite grasp the aning of this item.
Over the past year, she had thought about it a lot but could never decipher the secret of the badge, nor understand what exactly Jin intended to convey with it.
She also couldn’t find any trace of Lamia; it was as if this girl didn’t exist at all.
"Master...what were you trying to express with this badge? And where exactly have you hidden Lamia, my sister disciple?"
"Though Second Brother hasn’t found her trail yet, that guy is, after all, a Tier Six Death God, and perhaps not long from now, he’ll beco a Tier Six Peak powerhouse, also controlling the whole Equality Association..."
"One day he’ll find Lamia, and when that happens, what should we do?"
"Master, what should I do..."
Yun You pondered deeply.
[Yun Zai]
Suddenly, Master Zero’s voice sounded in the girl’s ears.
[Have you...considered your master’s ho?]
[I rember, ever since the old man passed away, you’ve never visited his ho, have you?]
These words left Yun You montarily stunned.
Indeed...
Although Yun You had always been considered Jin’s confidant, she had never visited his ho as a guest.
And after his passing, she didn’t even have the mind to do so...with external and internal enemies surrounding her, she dared not waste a single mont, always busy, never even having ti to rest.
She had later thought about whether Lamia might be at Jin’s house.
But the idea seed too absurd and she quickly dismissed it.
If Lamia was so important, how could Jin possibly leave her at his ho? Surely, he’d have crafted a separate refuge for her use!
So Yun You never considered it.
But now, reminded by Master Zero, it seed...really reasonable.
The most dangerous place is often the safest, as it tends to be overlooked and becos a hidden sanctuary.
"I’ll go now!"
Thinking this, Yun You rose without hesitation, greeted Mokaka and the rest, then vanished into the night like a shadow after a few quick steps.
...
As a Ranger, Jin had various residences, and Yun You couldn’t distinguish which one was his "ho," so she searched them one by one.
First, naturally, was the Lower City’s slum area.
After the failure of the first uprising, Jin embarked on his lifeti career of teaching, lecturing for the slum children who couldn’t afford schooling, thus granting him hundreds of addresses here.
However, these addresses were all ordinary, mainly broken sheds and abandoned wooden shacks, simply equipped with basic kitchenware and books, with nothing else noteworthy.
During Yun You’s search through Jin’s residences, the children who were once benefited by Jin sohow noticed the commotion and gathered around.
Due to the Equality Association’s strong support for the underprivileged, the entire slum was to be relocated soon, and residents would receive new hos, marking their last days of life here.
Upon arriving, the children couldn’t help asking where their once-knowledgeable elder went, why he hadn’t appeared for so long; they wanted to thank him in person.
This left Yun You at a loss on how to answer, resorting only to vague responses.
"Well...your teacher has completed his mission in this world; he has succeeded, so now he has gone to another world, where he’ll continue to pursue his ideal..."
Hearing this, the children felt a bit disappointed but nodded nevertheless.
"Then, Sister, please tell Teacher on our behalf, we all went to school, and we will beco teachers in the future!"
"We will be like Teacher Jin, teaching more oppressed children, helping them just as he once helped us!"
Saying this, the children clenched their fists, swinging them resolutely in the air.
In that mont, their innocence reminded Yun You of Jin.
Once Jin had also waved his fists, vowing to change the world.
Though he might not have lived to witness it all, his efforts were not in vain.
Yun You smiled, her previously heavy mood lightening considerably.
They were never fighting alone.
Perhaps the ideal was too weighty, unachievable in one generation no matter what.
But as long as the fla was passed down, one day... one day, their descendants would see hope.
...
Later, Yun You also went to the wilderness and other old districts, searching through the outposts Jin used to reside in.
But...Jin’s life was truly modest, his living quarters so simple they didn’t contain any entertainnts, not even a television, with walls barely kept from leaking; not a trace of Lamia, nor much money was found.
After days of searching, Yun You ended up with nothing.
On an empty street, she took out that badge again, examining it closely in the moonlight.
"What was Jin trying to tell with this badge?"
Thinking this, Yun You looked up at the villa district before her.
This was Jin’s last place of residence and the only location with a reasonably good position—a row of townhouses in a place called [Garden Town] in G City.
It was the address Jin had left when he first t Yun You, once saying if Yun You encountered any unsolvable trouble, she could co here to hide.
Strangely, although Garden Town was near the headquarters of the Equality Association, barely ten kiloters from the Huangxing Group, neither the mbers of the Equality Association nor Chen Zaikun himself had ever noticed this small residential area or thought to search here.
Thus, Yun You easily found the villa situated in the corner.
It looked almost identical to other villas, except its door was heavier, without a visible keyhole or password panel, only sothing resembling a cara on the door.
Yun You removed her mask, aligning her right eye to the cara.
"Click~"
With a soft noise, the cara closed slowly, and the tal lock in the door turned a few tis, then snapped open.
"Phew..."
Yun You took a deep breath and stepped inside.
A faint floral scent filled the air as she entered.
The villa’s layout adhered to Jin’s usual simplicity, with no extravagant decorations, only common appliances, tiles, and brightly colored sofas. However, vases were placed in every corner, each containing live greenery, vibrant with life, the source of the floral fragrance.
But tending these plants wasn’t the imagined robotic butler, instead, it was...
A white-haired girl, about thirteen or fourteen years old.
Yun You easily recognized this girl, and in fact, she had known her longer than she had known Jin.
She was Jin’s "doll," without her own na, or rather... her na was just a code na.
She was precisely Shiqi.
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