Blue Phoenix Chapter 26 - Mute

Neither Deng Wu nor Hui Yue felt like moving, and both were seated in the comfortable silence for quite some time. So long that suddenly when a maid entered the room to clear away the dishes, she was shocked to see both lords still present and seated next to one another. They were just sitting there quietly. Although she quickly left, the magical atmosphere which had surrounded the two was broken. After a moment, they finally pick themselves up and sighed deeply as they left their chairs. “What are your plans for the day?” Deng Wu asked curiously as he looked at the young man in front of him. “I need to visit Gao Yan,” Hui Yue said while looking around. The feeling of being observed had vanished while he and Deng Wu had been speaking together, and this sudden change made him even more worried than he had been previously. Regardless, he was grateful that whatever it was that was watching him, whether real or imagined, was gone. Now he could get some information from his friend. “I need to get going soon. I am worried that someone might appear and follow me,” he sighed, and with a nod to Deng Wu, Hui Yue left the mansion and walked to the Black Lion.

Now that the feeling of being observed had vanished, Hui Yue could not help but feel that it had been something that he, himself, had made up. That it was just his paranoia and that there truly had been nothing there to begin with. “I can’t do anything about it anyway,” the young man sighed as he picked up his pace and almost ran to the poorer area of town where the Black Lion was located.

Moving swiftly, Hui Yue quickly arrived at the Black Lion and just before he entered, he stopped outside the door to catch his breath and quiet his beating heart. He was still paranoid, perhaps even more so now that the feeling of being observed had vanished, but as he had said earlier, nothing could be done about it. With a deep breath, he entered the inn. Unlike last time, Hui Yue spent no time in the lower area of the inn and directly headed up the stairs moving towards the floor be

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