"Yes, Butler Chen."
Chen San walked to the big tree where Leng Qingning had just hidden, looked around, and checked again carefully. Seeing that he could not find anything, he went back to report.
"Reporting to Butler Chen, there is nothing over there."
"Did I really make a mistake?" Liu Hanyan felt a little uneasy. This was bad. It seemed that the Chen family would not let him go easily.
She tentatively reached for her waist, but to her surprise, it was empty. Her storage bag filled with various magic weapons and spirit stones was gone, as were the pair of defensive jade bracelets on her wrists and the offensive hairpin on her head. They must have been taken away by the Chen family.
What's even more terrifying is that her spiritual power has been sealed. Now she can't use any magic power. She is no different from an ordinary girl.
Looking at the girl who was looking at him with hope, a dark light flashed in Chen Shu's eyes, and he looked at Chen Wu and Chen Liu beside him with a dim and unclear look.
"You girls must be exhausted after traveling so far to our Wangxia Island. How about you stay at my house and rest for a few days?"
The girls who were tied up all looked pale when they heard the sound, and looked at each other in despair. It seemed that Butler Chen was not going to let them go.
Chen Shu didn't give them a chance to object and directly ordered his men, "Come here, invite these girls to the mansion!"
After the Chen family left, Leng Qingning came out from the corner. When she looked at the vast sea that stretched as far as the eye could see, she felt uneasy.
She was teleported to an island by a space crack. If she wanted to return to the sect, she had to take a boat. It seemed she had to find a way to find a boat.
Just at this moment, there were several footsteps behind her. Leng Qingning turned around with some vigilance in her heart, and saw that it was a group of people dressed like fishermen. She breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were not those people from the Chen family.
"Oh, we've been so unlucky lately. There are sea monsters appearing at sea every few days, and the tsunami the day before yesterday made it so bad that we didn't catch a single fish. God is leaving us no chance of survival. If this continues, we won't even be able to afford food."
The shortest fisherman, who was wearing a tattered straw hat and had dark skin, began to complain.
"Isn't it? I heard that many of the island's residents have gone missing in recent years. It's very likely that the sea monster was responsible. Last year, Second Young Master Chen led a group to capture the fish monster, but he was severely injured and had to recuperate for a whole year."
"Hey, look, there seems to be a girl in front?" When the three of them were chatting with you happily, they suddenly stopped, looked at the seaside in disbelief.
"What a beautiful woman! It's a pity that not only are there sea monsters on the island, but there's also Chen... I'm afraid this little beauty won't live long."
Leng Qingning: "..." These people said it right in front of her, not afraid of her getting angry. However, she was very curious about what else they were talking about and why they didn't just finish speaking. She couldn't help but think back to the girls who were tied up just now. Could it be related to that incident?
These three people were ordinary people, without any spiritual energy fluctuations. Despite this, she still asked cautiously, "Excuse me, where is the boat that leaves the island?"
The three of them looked at her as if she were a fool. "Miss, I presume you're not from here, are you? Don't you know that if you want to leave the island, you can only take the Chen family's teleportation array, or wait for the sea day that comes once every three years?"
The person who spoke was the fisherman in the middle with a black mole on his face, but the look he gave her really made her feel uncomfortable.
"I see. Then I wonder how many days it will take until the day to go out to sea once every three years?" Leng Qingning took out a spirit stone and stuffed it into the hand of the only fisherman who didn't say anything and looked somewhat friendly.
The fisherman took the spirit stone with a look of surprise on his face. "I know that. There's still a year and a half left before the sailing date. If you have an urgent matter, the best way is to convince the Chen family to take their teleportation array. Otherwise, you'll have to wait another year and a half."
The other two fishermen looked at the spirit stone in his hand with some jealousy, and then cursed: "How can you tell everything to others? What if someone does something to the sea and the land?" As they said that, the two men pulled the fisherman and urged him to leave.
Looking at the backs of the three people leaving, her eyelids twitched inexplicably. Leng Qingning gently touched the little black thing sleeping on her chest and looked around cautiously.
She always felt that the people here looked strange, so it was better to be careful.
Just as she was about to open the several storage bags Yan Ci left for her and take out the pills inside, she found that because Yan Ci was now in a deep sleep, his storage bags had automatically closed.
Originally, Yan Ci left a trace of his breath on the storage bag in order to prevent it from falling into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, but he didn't expect that this would backfire.
Her cultivation had only recovered to the initial stage of foundation building. The island was shrouded in fog, and it was not easy to find the teleportation array to leave.
She must recover her strength quickly, and then find better healing pills for Yan Ci to take, so that she can use the things in the storage bags Yan Ci gave her.
Now, she can only use the things in her pocket. Although there are not many pills in it, there are still quite a few magic weapons, so it is no problem for her to protect herself.
Leng Qingning changed into men's clothes, slightly painted and modified her facial features, and found the Cao Mo grass that was everywhere on the island not far away. She squeezed out the juice and painted her skin black. Now she looked like a slightly delicate scholar who couldn't carry anything with his hands.
However, this herb has a drawback: it cannot come into contact with water. Once it comes into contact with water, its original skin color will be exposed.
Just as she finished disguising herself and was about to leave, she saw two of the fishermen who had just left coming over with two other people. She recognized them at a glance as Chen San and Chen Si.
The only one missing was the friendly-looking fisherman.
Leng Qingning passed by the four of them, but they didn't pay any attention to her. Seeing their sneaky looks, she felt a little suspicious. She hid in the dark and secretly observed their every move.
"Where is Mr. Liu? Didn't you say that there was a stunningly beautiful woman here? How come she is gone?" Chen San looked at the fisherman with a mole on his face with an ugly expression.
"Third Master, I wouldn't dare lie to you. Oh, that woman must have left. She even asked us for information on how to leave the island."
Another fisherman's face suddenly lit up and he agreed: "Yes, that must be the case."
Chen Si held his chin with his hand and said, "How about this, I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself. Find someone to spread the word that our Chen family will provide opportunities to use the teleportation array in a month, and the number of places is limited to five."
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