Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

"It's not about the painting. I brought you here to show you the palace's gate. Oh, and to steal the layout diagram from your study. Oh, yes, I'll send someone else to your Li Mansion." Coach Zuo kept his eyes on the outside and kept talking. "This painting is for an internal team meeting. I didn't intend for you to see it. Who knew you would come to my little shabby house?!"

The overall plan was actually more detailed and involved, but there was no time to say more now, so he just told everything he could.

Coach Zuo felt that he still had a lot to say, but based on just these words, Li Huoyue felt that he had said a lot, so much that it made her doubt the truthfulness of his words.

"Come to think of it, what made you want to come to me?" Coach Zuo said, then became curious about Li Huoyue's sudden visit. "Tsk... No, I've already taken a nap."

Except for the strange portrait shrine in Guide Zuo's room, the other furnishings are very simple and normal, which is very different from the prince's room. In Guide Zuo's room, there is no object related to or similar to the modern era.

He glanced at the timer candle, "...Where did you go just now?"

Before Li Huoyue could speak, a noise came from afar. Mixed in with the sound of rain, it was difficult to hear clearly. Only some angry and abusive words could be heard occasionally.

Coach Zuo was puzzled, not caring whether Li Huoyue answered or not. He muttered to himself, "It shouldn't be possible. They found it so quickly? The props can't be used right now, how could they locate it so quickly?"

"The props can't be used?" Li Huoyue really underestimated this fake King Liang. He knew so much.

"It probably won't work tonight, and if it does, it'll probably be a mixed bag." Coach Zuo raised his chin and said something that seemed completely unrelated to Li Huoyue, "Look, it's still raining."

"Rain?" Li Huoyue felt that the rain was a little strange today, but he didn't think anything was wrong. At least the rain didn't change. "What's wrong with the rain?"

"The rain is falling differently in the inner and outer cities. Didn't you notice?" Coach Zuo sighed again. "Forget it, forget it. Let's go now. Don't let them catch you later."

Li Huoyue came from the outer city, so he naturally knew that the rain intensity in the inner and outer cities was different.

Coach Zuo kept trying to get her to leave, so how could she leave so easily? "Since you want to reveal it, why not tell it all at once? What's the point of telling half and leaving the other half?"

She wanted to add, "I hate people like you who make me guess all the time," but she swallowed the words back just as they were on the tip of her tongue, because she herself was the kind of person who liked to talk like that, even less honest than that, and loved to tell riddles even more.

Coach Zuo turned around in shock. The noise outside was getting closer and closer. He looked at Li Huoyue with eyes that almost said she was courting death.

"I know you must have a lot of questions right now. I can tell you and answer them for you. I can say that I'm probably the only person who can talk to you directly about these things right now."

Coach Zuo didn't notice that Li Huoyue had any intention of leaving. Judging from the way he was looking at him, he might still be planning how to kidnap him as well.

He knew that his words of urging people to leave would not convince Li Huoyue, so he rubbed his temples and said a few more words.

"But you have to obey!" Coach Zuo said earnestly, "Listen to me, you can't afford to offend those people sent from outside. If something happens to you, who will save your mother?"

He also had some selfish motives of his own. He really wanted to end this kind of life as soon as possible. He didn't know what the meaning of living a repetitive life was, but he didn't dare to die. He could only beg others to do better.

"Save her?" Li Huoyue raised an eyebrow. "Do you know where she is?"

"I have a rough idea." Coach Zuo also guessed based on past experience, "It should be in the dense forest. All right, hurry up!"

Li Huoyue was still standing there. Coach Zuo was so anxious that he had no idea what to do. He sat down on the edge of his bed, looked at the mess in the room, and began to give up on himself.

"It's King Liang." Li Huoyue said.

Coach Zuo looked up in confusion.

"It's the Prince of Liang who's here, not the people you think." Li Huoyue added, "You...should be able to mobilize the Prince of Liang to do something? Can you tell him not to come in and go back to where he is?"

Coach Zuo confirmed again that it was still raining heavily outside, and his look of disbelief was now filled with a strong glow of hope and joy.

"You..." Coach Zuo looked at Li Huoyue, "Can you hear yourself?"

Before playing it, Li Huoyue must have thought, what nonsense is this? My ears are my own, of course I can hear it.

But now, after the conversation just now, Li Huoyue understood that Coach Zuo was actually asking: You didn’t use props?

Li Huoyue nodded and gestured to the door with his eyes.

"It's okay, he doesn't dare to break in on his own." Coach Zuo breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still worried. "But you still have to leave as soon as possible."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door. Liang Wang's voice was anxious and angry, "Fuck it, Coach Zuo! Wake up! How can you still sleep?! Wake up!!!!!"

Coach Zuo inside the door adjusted his state and returned to his calm yet slightly weak voice after waking up. He raised his voice and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Come out quickly, come out quickly! Something has happened to those two guys!!" As he said that, King Liang knocked on the door twice more, trying to use the noise to urge Coach Zuo inside to take action.

Coach Zuo didn't move and continued to ask, "What happened to them?"

"My son disappeared inexplicably!!!" King Liang was so anxious that he was pacing around the door. "The other one seems to be in trouble. Damn it, why didn't that old man report before going out to collect herbs? He really has no idea how to choose the right time! What should I do now? Tsk, don't you dare say anything bad, but with such a big thing happening, you should get out here right away! My son is missing! Please send someone to help me find him!!!"

Coach Zuo rubbed his temples and thought for a while, then suddenly asked, "Did the two of them go to the river?"

"What riverside?" Liang Wang paused. "Oh my! It's already this time. Forget about where they went to play. Hurry and find them first! Oh, and help me think of a way to find someone to show the other one!"

"I understand. You go back first." Compared to King Liang, Coach Zuo was as calm as a machine that was not disturbed by anything.

Prince Liang did not respond immediately. He stood outside the door hesitantly, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Coach Zuo didn't indulge Liang Wang and said calmly, "If you think it's useful to continue standing here, then stay."

After hearing this, Prince Liang left, cursing profusely. He gritted his teeth as he walked away, "I don't know who the hell is, but they even kidnapped my own child! Damn it, don't let me catch them! You're such a jerk! You're doing this to me in the middle of the night!"

Just like when he came, Prince Liang left alone and noisily.