“Since Miss Lin is not convenient to go home, then I will take my younger brother out to look for her, and help Miss Lin book a suitable room so that Miss Lin can settle down and recuperate from her injuries.”
Ye Tiancheng was very compliant with Lin Yanqin’s wishes and answered her words according to her request.
“If your home is not nearby, Miss Lin, and your injuries have not healed, excessive travel will not be conducive to your recovery. In that case, finding another place to stay temporarily would also be a better choice.”
Ye Tiancheng noticed that after he said this, Lin Yanqin showed a slight reaction of relief.
He immediately realized that Lin Yanqin might not want to go home that much.
He didn’t know why.
Ye Tiancheng couldn’t help but speculate in his heart whether Lin Yanqin chose to leave home and live in a hotel because she didn’t want to stay at home, and then something happened, or whether the reason for Lin Yanqin’s accident was related to her family, which caused Lin Yanqin to be unwilling to go home now.
Or perhaps, in the past, the direction of investigation was incorrect, which led them to not be able to collect enough clues, leaving them at a loss now.
Ye Tiancheng subconsciously felt that Lin Yanqin’s accident and the matters concerning her family were likely related.
However, theoretically, Ye Tiancheng and the others should not know so much, and Lin Yanqin did not intend to reveal it. Since Ye Tiancheng and the others did not ask too much, they could only pretend to know nothing.
If Lin Yanqin was in the mood to mention it, or if another opportunity arose, perhaps Ye Tiancheng would have a chance to investigate the truth.
However, at least for now, Ye Tiancheng was powerless.
After making arrangements with Lin Yanqin, the doctor at the clinic also seemed a bit annoyed that Ye Tiancheng and the others were in the way. It wasn’t necessarily that they were disliked, but rather, after Ye Tiancheng and the others expressed their intention to leave, the doctor naturally adopted a posture of seeing them out.
Ye Tiancheng, along with the little fox, searched the city again. For safety reasons, they inquired with some locals and checked into a large and reputable hotel.
He booked a room for himself and the little fox, and another room for Lin Yanqin, and then went to pick her up.
Lin Yanqin would have her own room.
They were temporarily settled in this way, and the situation became somewhat of a stalemate.
When they were alone, the little fox sighed and said to Ye Tiancheng, “If we had known, perhaps we shouldn’t have exerted so much effort before. Maybe the key was to save Lin Yanqin’s life on the last day, and then it would have been basically fine.”
Hearing the little fox say this, Ye Tiancheng shook his head.
The little fox said confusedly, “What’s wrong? Are there any other problems?”
Ye Tiancheng said, “Even the hotel owner, who didn’t sincerely help Lin Yanqin find anything, could ask so many questions. But all the information we have was obtained from the hotel owner, not from Lin Yanqin’s mouth.”
“This makes us restrained everywhere. If we want to ask a question, it’s not easy to directly ask Lin Yanqin, and we still have to find excuses and opportunities.”
“I think if we had followed the normal procedure and found the correct method, we might have been able to figure out all the causes and effects within those seven days. Then, after saving Lin Yanqin now and arriving at this place, it might not have been so easy to fall into a stalemate.”
After listening to Ye Tiancheng’s speculation, the little fox was stunned and fell into thought.
“Ah… is that so?”
He hadn’t thought about it from this angle, but as Ye Tiancheng said, the little fox also found some logic in it.
Perhaps they had used the wrong methods from the beginning, which led them to miss a lot of crucial information and important conditions, causing them to be in such an awkward situation now. Otherwise, they might have resolved the matter long ago and would not be in such a stalemate.
The little fox could only sigh and say, “I don’t know if it’s still too late to make up for the parts that weren’t done well before.”
Ye Tiancheng said, “There is definitely not only one solution to the problem. At most, we haven’t discovered it. I think there should be other opportunities, or we can try to achieve other outcomes through different methods.”
“These are not big problems.”
“Anyway, for now, Lin Yanqin should trust us quite a bit. If we find the right opportunity, we might still be able to find a chance to put everything back on track.”
The little fox said, “I hope so.”
Since steps were missed, they could only find ways to make up for it.
After discussing the topic of Lin Yanqin, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox couldn’t help but worry about their companions.
Although they knew that Nie Chongyang and the others were unlikely to be in mortal danger, they were separated, which inevitably caused some worry for each other.
The little fox said to Ye Tiancheng, “I wonder how Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping are doing now. I just hope they don’t encounter too dangerous situations.”
Ye Tiancheng said, “They have so many defensive items, and they are quite capable themselves. Otherwise, after the Special Operations Group expanded, they wouldn’t have been able to firmly hold such important positions in headquarters, and even lead the overall situation.”
“Therefore, there’s no need to worry that they won’t be able to handle a dangerous situation.”
“However, we still need to think of a way. We need to reunite as soon as possible. Being separated for too long is ultimately not good. When we are together, we can work towards the same goal, and everything will be more efficient. But being separated will definitely slow down our progress.”
“If we can’t get out, should we ask them to stay here with us for a year or a half?”
“Even if surviving is not a problem, the situation outside is already so bad, and Nie Chongyang’s identity is so important. Being trapped here for a long time is also not ideal.”
Ye Tiancheng had always had such concerns.
They had already delayed Nie Chongyang and the others for too long.
Nie Chongyang and the others were willing to come along, which showed their loyalty. Of course, they also had to find ways not to drag Nie Chongyang and the others down too much.
Ye Tiancheng also had his own considerations.
At this moment, Nie Chongyang and the others, who were being discussed and worried about by Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, should go back to the time when they discovered that the room had changed drastically and they appeared in a strange room that was left behind after a fire. At that time.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping decided to explore the house to see if they could find any clues about Ye Tiancheng and the others.
They tried to find what might be Lin Yanqin’s room.
But they found nothing.
The fire had destroyed almost everything, and after such a long time, it was definitely not easy to find clues.
However, Nie Chongyang and the others were unwilling to give up, and they had no new direction for the moment. They searched everywhere in the ruins, and perhaps they had missed something.
As they searched, Nie Chongyang and the others did make some discoveries.
After searching through the ruins of the house, Nie Chongyang and the others actually found a hidden letter in this abandoned room. The outer shell of the letter was intact, only stained with dust and ashes from the fire.
It was clear that this was placed here after the fire.
It was just unknown how much time had passed, and this item was left here without anyone discovering it.
The envelope did not indicate who the letter was for, but Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping could see a strange pattern drawn on the envelope, and this pattern was not unfamiliar to Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping.
This pattern was a code to them.
This code was only used by the high-level members of the Special Operations Group, as well as Ye Tiancheng and the little fox.
And in this strange place, the possibility of this letter being left by someone from the Special Operations Group was infinitely close to zero. Therefore, there could only be another possibility: this letter was left for them by Ye Tiancheng and the little fox.
Seeing this, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping’s spirits were slightly lifted.
Nie Chongyang immediately opened the envelope and saw the letter inside.
After such a long time, the letter paper had already turned slightly yellow. It was indeed fortunate that it had not decayed.
The handwriting on the letter was still quite clear.
The result was good.
Nie Chongyang and the others unfolded the letter and saw the content.
The beginning of the letter was written by Ye Tiancheng.
Nie Chongyang and the others recognized the handwriting and knew it was Ye Tiancheng’s. It must have been written by Ye Tiancheng.
The letter began, “When writing this letter, I cannot be sure whether you will be able to receive it, but we can only leave this letter with a glimmer of hope.”
“If, after we are separated, the same place we are most likely to go to is here, I think only here is the safest.”
This point was not wrong.
After Nie Chongyang and the others discovered that they were separated from Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, and realized that this might be the former site of Lin Yanqin’s hotel, their first reaction was not to leave, but to try to find Lin Yanqin’s room and see if there were any clues in the room.
However, looking at the aging of the paper, Nie Chongyang and the others felt a sense of unease.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping continued to read.
Then they discovered that things were indeed not very optimistic.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox seemed to be in a different space from them. They were separated, and moreover, they were not even on the same timeline.
According to the letter, the timeline Ye Tiancheng and the others were in should be the era in which Lin Yanqin lived.
However, the place where Nie Chongyang and the others were was clearly the ruins of the hotel that still existed many years after the fire.
Ye Tiancheng also roughly explained to Nie Chongyang and the others that they had saved Lin Yanqin, and at the end of the letter, Ye Tiancheng stated that he and the little fox had just settled down with Lin Yanqin and moved into another hotel.
However, the progress of the matter was currently in a stalemate, and they might need to wait and see, and look for other opportunities.
There was no great crisis on their side, and Lin Yanqin was unlikely to have any problems.
Finally, Ye Tiancheng also said that their place seemed like they had truly returned to the past, but they couldn’t be sure about the specifics, as the conditions were too lacking to make any deductions.
However, it was at least safe there.
At night, they would not encounter any dangers like being threatened by non-human beings, as they had before. He also said that he didn’t know how Nie Chongyang and the others were doing. If they saw this letter, he asked Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping not to worry about them, but to take care of themselves, pay attention to their safety, and avoid accidents.
Other than that, there was nothing else.