People gathered not far from the entrance of the Laifu Inn, discussing animatedly.
Inside the inn, Long Yi, disguised as an ordinary Itinerant World person, was leading his subordinates in a search.
They searched the ground floor but found nothing.
"Go upstairs and search, Master doesn’t believe that after turning over the Capital, we still can’t find a person."
This group, fierce as wolves and tigers, surged into the inn. The shopkeeper was scared out of his wits, only recovering after a while. Fearing they would scare away the guests, he braced himself, approached, and said, "Master, what exactly are you looking for? Tell , maybe I can help, but please don’t disturb the guests; I still need to rely on them to make a living!"
Long Yi, dressed in gray short attire, looking every bit the itinerant world knight-errant, glanced up at him and asked, "Are you the shopkeeper?"
"Yes, Master."
"Have any suspicious people checked in here in the past two days?"
"Suspicious people in the past two days?"
"Yes, think hard and tell the truth. Otherwise, be careful that your inn doesn’t suffer unwarranted disaster."
The shopkeeper was startled, tilting his head and thinking hard: "No, the guests these past two days have been very ordinary, nothing special."
"Is that so?"
"Yes! You have searched already, how dare I deceive you."
As they were talking, a dozen subordinates had already climbed upstairs to search.
Long Yi glanced at him without speaking. Seeing the sky getting darker, if Miss Situ was not found today, the Master would go crazy.
The subordinates searching upstairs hadn’t co down yet, and Long Yi frowned, looking up and yelling towards the staircase: "Brothers, have you finished searching?"
"Not yet! Wait a mont." A voice ca from upstairs.
Long Yi, growing impatient, also stepped onto the stairs.
"Thud, thud, thud...!"
Arriving on the second floor, he saw subordinates knocking on room doors one by one to search.
"Why is it taking so long?"
"Boss, this one can’t be opened." A subordinate pointed to one of the room doors.
"Can’t open? Is there no one inside?"
"There is, the door is locked from inside."
"Locked from inside?"
"Yes."
Long Yi strode forward and said to the subordinates by the door, "Step back a bit."
The subordinates all retreated a few ters away.
Gathering strength in his foot, Long Yi forcefully kicked the door.
"Boom!"
The wooden door fell down with a crash.
The subordinates rushed inside alertly.
But found the room empty, running to the window just in ti to see several figures jumping onto the street outside.
"Not good, soone escaped," a subordinate exclaid.
Long Yi reacted quickly, leaping from the window to give chase.
"Oh no! Boss," exclaid the subordinate before realizing they couldn’t make it down the stairs in ti, all following his lead and jumping out of the window.
By the ti Long Yi reached the street corner, the dwarf and Zhang San were already far ahead carrying Xuexue.
Quickly gathering strength, he set off in pursuit.
The few people monitoring at the entrance exchanged glances and started chasing as well.
Suddenly, the entire street was filled with wave after wave of people running.
People nearby were clueless about what was happening.
"Oh my, what’s going on? What are they doing?"
"Who knows, probably just fooling around with nothing else to do."
"No, the governnt office is searching everywhere today. Could it be related to this?"
"Are you blind? They’re not governnt people; they’re all wearing civilian clothes!"
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