Legend of the Escape King Volume 1 Chapter 28

“Second Brother, Gu's house is on fire! Please help save lives!” Que Siyu returned to the mansion half-burned by the huge flame. Jiang Ju took her back immediately. “Sister, this fire is weird. The house has already burned more than halfway, and there is no way to save it.” “All the clues in this case are related to the master. At least we should save him?” “Obviously, this fire was set by someone! Do you think he has a chance to escape?” Jiang Ju yelled to her loudly, trying to call her sensibility back. “Go back to the inn first. We can discuss how to handle this issue.” Jiang Ju drew Que Siyu away. Yi Wuxin, who had been overlooked, followed them. At this moment, they met Bird Three who had just run there. “Sisi, are you okay? Have you got any injuries?” Bird asked Siyu anxiously. “I am fine, Bird.” Siyu was too tired to speak a word. “Bird, why are you here? You are not well yet.” “Let’s go back to talk,” Bird answered her. Holding each other, they two went back to Mantang Inn. Jiang Ju and Yi Wuxin followed. When they arrived, it was just the lunchtime. To please Jiang Ju, Yi Wuxin called the servant to order the most popular and expensive dishes. The cook was efficient, and soon the dishes were put on the table. But everybody kept silent; only Yi Wuxin began to use her chopsticks. Yi Wuxin took some chicken bottom put it into Jiang Ju’s bowl, and asked, “Hey, look at the delicious dishes! Why don’t you eat? Juju, let’s eat first.” Que Siyu saw Huo Yuan was walking from the back yard to the front, and she called, “Uncle Huo, come to have lunch with us.” “Hey, it is you, Siyu. Eat with your friends. I have some personal issues to handle.” “Uncle Huo, are those issues urgent? I have some questions to ask you, about the monster strength in Bird’s body.” Huo Yuan heard this and he walked to them, and then sat beside Bird, not knowing how to explain. Que Siyu still wanted to ask about this, but Bird stopped her. The truth was so obvious. In this city, only the Second Princess had this kind of pure blood of the monsters. Yi Wuxin felt the enmity from Que Siyu. She was chewing a chicken bottom. When she found this, she muttered some words to Que Siyu. “Without old Huo Yuan, how could this guy survive after drinking my blood? So it is necessary to kill the old one first.” Que Siyu heard this and she stood up, furious. Bird stopped her again. Bird said, “I am much better after Doctor Huo’s care, and with a few days of rest, I will recover. Why don’t we change to the topic of the Escape Game?” There were many game players in the inn. The case of Gu was the final game of this Xiaoxiang City Round. Most of them had some suspects for the fire of the Gu Family. Someone even estimated that there was an underground power manipulating the case. They were also spreading out some rumors to ruin the reputation of the host of this game. But the inn, as a station of the game, wouldn’t allow any rumors, so some of the troublemakers were killed and taken away. Then, their focus returned to the final game of this round. After a careful discussion, they decided that Bird and Yi Wuxin would go to the house of rich Liu Qian that night, to try finding some useful information. Que Siyu and Jiang Ju went to the government office to find the folder for this case. All the rest waited outside for help. Soon the sky turned dark, and they began to get restless. “Wait a minute; allow a blind one to go on the mission with you? Are you satisfied? I don’t agree.” Yi Wuxin took out her blade to cut it into the table. Nobody, including Bird Three, in the inn wanted to take her opinion, so they just left. Yi Wuxin had no choice but to take her blade and follow, where she met the warning looks from Jiang Ju. She then shut up. “Second Brother, this monster princess came here for you. You’d better pay more attention.” Que Siyu secretly advised, “Better let her leave as soon as possible.” “Sister Sisi, sorry I let you see my drama.” Jiang Ju smiled with apology. But he didn’t take her advice of driving the princess away. Maybe he was the only one who knew the reason. Let me tell you the details about this princess after this case.” “I have no interest in your story. Let’s move quicker. The government officer is near.” Que Siyu and Jiang Ju ran into the government office like the wind. It was quiet in the night. They heard from the guards on duty that the officer was invited to the house of Liu Qian to have dinner. Giving each other a meaningful eye, they passed the guards and crossed some corners, then they entered a room. “This is the documentary office of the government. With so many folders, I am not sure if we can find the right folder for the case in a short time.” Jiang Ju began to check the folders. He had a good memory of remembering everything he saw in his mind, almost like a photographic memory. Once, when Que Siyu was not blind, she had a better memory than Jiang Ju. “You are so verbose. By the way, taking me, a blind, to find the correct folder is a mistake for sure. Don’t complain; go do your work.” Que Siyu sat down in a corner, and no one knew what she was thinking. “I haven’t seen you for many years, so I invited you to come here with me. Besides, leaving you with those people, I would be worried.” Then Jiang Ju began to talk to her of many trivial things, which made her sleepy. When she became sober again, Jiang Ju, who was searching for the folder, went back to sit beside her. His outer coat was on her shoulder. Was she asleep? What a huge mistake! Though she tried to hide the inner secret, her expression told Jiang Ju she had dreamed about the fight ten years ago. “Sorry, I fell asleep.” “You look beautiful when you are sleeping, as pretty as when you were a child.” “Have you found the folder? I guess I wasted some time. We should go back to meet them.” Que Siyu threw the outer coat to Jiang Ju. She got cold and coughed slightly. But she opened the door to run out. Then the room became quiet again. Only with one folder missing.

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