Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

It's time to go, the palace gates are almost locked.

"I know your mother is very capable." Even if there was no other topic, the imperial concubine was still able to speak, "But don't rely too much on your mother. Your mother is not some..."

Li Huoyue laughed out loud. "I, I'm a little scared." The second brother finally sighed and said softly.

It would have been fine if the second brother had been laying the groundwork when he spoke, but now his words suddenly turned pale, which made Li Huoyue a little flustered.

She wasn't very good at comforting people, and she couldn't guess what could have made the second child look like that.

"What happened?" Li Huoyue moved closer and asked patiently.

The second brother raised his eyes and looked straight into Li Huoyue's eyes, as if he wanted to see through Li Huoyue.

Li Huoyue was startled and paused, "What, what happened?"

The second brother sighed. The sister in front of him was considered fierce and spoiled by the outside world, but he had watched this child grow up. Apart from pretending to be calmer than her peers, she was not actually a very fierce person.

"The red dots in the picture...they should represent time travelers." The second brother spoke in a gloomy tone, "We have some in our house."

It turns out that I was afraid of this.

Li Huoyue shrugged, as if what the second brother said was no big deal, and said: "It's Jiang Yunshu, drive him out and he will be gone."

The carriage, which was originally moving steadily, suddenly accelerated. Li Huoyue opened the curtain, took a look at the quiet path, and said to Jiang Yunshu, who was driving the carriage, "Stop for a while and go play over there for a while."

Jiang Yunshu reined in his horse, curled his lips, jumped off the carriage and snorted, saying as he walked, "I'll be back in half an hour! Don't think of abandoning me!"

Li Huoyue did not refute. It seemed that Jiang Yunshu quite liked being a coachman.

After Jiang Yunshu walked away angrily, Li Huoyue listened attentively to the movements around him, and when he found nothing unusual, he lowered the curtain.

"It's not him." The second brother replied firmly.

Li Huoyue didn't know how the second brother excluded Jiang Yunshu, so he could only pretend to lower his head and think about who it was, "Is that so..."

It’s not that Li Huoyue is on guard against the second brother, she just doesn’t want to implicate him.

If the second brother knew that Li Huoyue was a time traveler, then from then on whenever Li Huoyue did anything to stand out, he would be stopped by the second brother in advance.

Will also be frightened.

More importantly, Li Huoyue couldn't be sure, if the second brother knew that Li Huoyue was a time traveler, would he still treat her as a family member?

Would he ever wonder what his real sister would look like if Li Huoyue hadn’t traveled through time?

At this critical moment, Li Huoyue didn't dare to gamble.

The second brother observed Li Huoyue's expression, figured out something, and asked:

"It's the mother, right?"

This question was obviously beyond Li Huoyue's thinking range, but she quickly reacted. Instead of saying anything directly, she sighed.

The second brother smiled bitterly:

"When did it happen? You knew about it from the beginning, right?"

Li Huoyue didn't dare to look at the second brother and just shook his head.

"Did she travel through time while on a mission? That's why we can't find her. Mother..." The second brother seemed to have accepted his own deduction. He choked up for a while when he said this. After calming down for a long time, he asked with difficulty, "...Is she still alive?"

This time Li Huoyue answered quickly. She didn't dare to be vague about this matter. "She's still alive!"

The second brother was obviously relieved, and his breathing was much calmer than before.

"You took the initiative to see His Majesty because your mother is a time traveler?" The second brother also knew that his mother had said before that Li Huoyue would not be allowed to see His Majesty. "Do you want to protect that time traveler?"

Li Huoyue's heart sank and her face turned a little cold. The dim light in the car could not hide her expression.

She didn't even want to hide. She asked, "If I say yes, will you stop me? Do you think that because my mother traveled through time, she is no longer my mother and should be killed?"

This is a very normal mentality. Li Huoyue has seen many mansions that they reported to have time travelers, and most of them have the same mentality.

They are influenced by the Southern Country's attitude towards time travelers since birth, and basically have no sympathy for time travelers. The love they had for the original owner will not be inherited by the time travelers.

More than that, there is fear and hatred.

Time travelers seem like unclean things, and no one would really like the people around them to be suddenly replaced by time travelers.

Li Huoyue had never heard of anything like those things in novels where someone suddenly changed his personality and behavior habits and was welcomed by the people around him in the South.

Sure enough, it was normal for the second son to be like this, after all, his father was a special inspector. How could there be only one person in the Sang Mansion?

Shouldn't they be two time travelers?

Li Huoyue was analyzing step by step when he suddenly heard Lao Er ask again:

"What's the situation in Li Wang Mansion?"

Li Huoyue came back to his senses, looked in the direction of Lao Er's finger, and was also a little surprised.

In the small Li Wang Mansion, all the icons are gathered together!

Li Huoyue couldn't help but repeat the second brother's words: "What's going on in the Li Palace?"

Everyone looked at each other, but no conclusion was reached.

Although the background color of the paper was yellowish, it was obviously new paper. Everyone at the scene could guess that it was left by the mother, but no one knew what its purpose was.

"Why don't we go to Prince Li's Mansion to find out?" The fourth brother suggested, "If we know the situation in Prince Li's Mansion, we may understand mother's intentions."

Li Huoyue focused his eyes and followed the real route in his mind. Starting from Li Mansion on the map, he walked to every place with an icon on the map one by one. He memorized the map by using the actual terrain and impressions.

"I'm afraid we can't keep this map." Li Huoyue said, reaching out to take the map down.

The second brother suddenly reached out and stopped Li Huoyue's behavior.

Li Huoyue looked up at the second brother, who was a head taller than him, puzzled, and asked, "Why are you stopping me? Do you think the heads of our Li family are enough to be chopped off?"

"Don't panic yet." The second brother seemed to be thinking about something. Ever since he had attended the Alliance class, he felt that the appearance of this picture was not that simple. "Are you sure this picture is left for us to see?"

Li Huoyue was stunned. This was something she had not thought about.

"What about the five-pointed star and triangle?" The second brother was not concerned about the majority, but the two shapes with the least number. "There are only six places marked with these shapes, and our Li Mansion is one of them, which has a five-pointed star marked on it."

"We have a red dot in our mansion!" The third brother said happily, as if it was some kind of commendation. "Chulou also has this red dot, there are several, and there are also squares!"

Li Huoyue frowned. Could this thing represent a time traveler?

There is something special about the Li Mansion.

She followed the direction of the path and looked towards Huang Ruchu's mansion, and sure enough, there was a red dot there.

Looking towards the Sang Mansion, there was one too.

"Based on your own conditions, you should know best whether what I said makes sense or not."