Chapter 127: and translation of chapter title

Ye Heng escaped safely and immediately told Lin Lin Mengye; both breathed a sigh of relief.

All day Lin Lin Mengye had been worrying about Ye Heng, fortunately he was unharmed.

But after this incident, Lin Lin Mengye also realized a problem.

Whether it was Ye Heng or herself, they were still too weak.

Carrying resources enough to drive others mad, yet lacking the strength to protect them—this is fatal.

Ye Heng thought for a moment and said:

"I was overly confident at first, forgetting that this world follows the way of the strong; this time I've learned my lesson, and once I return I will speed up the development of my forces, never again relying on luck."

Lin Lin Mengye nodded upon hearing that.

"That Floating Light Merchants Guild—for now we avoid its edge; when we become strong someday we need not fear it."

"On this trip to the dangerous zone you must be extra careful; I've bought you a batch of emergency supplies, with detailed instructions for the medicines—do not stint on them when needed, medicines can be repurchased but life comes only once."

Ye Heng felt warm inside; in this chaotic era no one dares say medicines can be used casually, especially for us commoners, a mere lowly life is in others' eyes not worth as much as medicine.

People die and that's it; since the apocalypse enough have died, not caring about a few more.

But medicines that cure and save lives are in this era more precious than life itself.

After Ye Heng gave a muffled "en," his eyes became extremely resolute.

After cutting off contact with Ye Heng, Lin Lin Mengye also felt a sense of crisis, turned and shut herself in the training room, took out a Bigu Pill and swallowed it.

This time she must at least cultivate to the second layer of Qi Refining before leaving seclusion!

For three straight days Lin Lin Mengye sat like a statue, motionless, only the faint spiritual energy swirling around her body indicating she was still alive.

With each breath of inhalation and exhalation, Lin Lin Mengye felt the Yellow Dragon Pill inside her being absorbed a little more.

Unfortunately, her dantian meridians are like a glutton; the absorbed spiritual energy circulates a few cycles in her body without any increase in cultivation.

The cultivation bottleneck mentioned in the books she seems not yet to have hit, indicating she is still far from breaking through to the second layer of Qi Refining.

Counting the Yellow Dragon Pills taken these three days, she has already consumed three.

At this rate, even if she eats the remaining four Yellow Dragon Pills, her cultivation will still not break through.

Lin Lin Mengye studied the records in the books and estimated that her spatial anomalous spirit root is basically a bottomless pit.

It was said that a single-heavenly spirit root cultivates far faster than ordinary people, but for Lin Lin Mengye the opposite is true.

However, for this Lin Lin Mengye merely felt a moment of regret, then quickly consoled herself: even if her cultivation advances slowly on the surface, at least at the same level she definitely absorbs more spiritual energy than other cultivators.

This means that in a fight of equal rank, her chances of winning are greater.

Thus Lin Lin Mengye, with renewed vigor, tightened her cultivation.

One Bigu Pill can stave off hunger for over a month, but it must not be wasted.

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On the fifth day of Lin Lin Mengye's disappearance, Ye Chenjing became anxious.

He had already sent Lin Lin Mengye over 99+ messages, and called every few days to try.

Each time, hearing the cold busy tone, he felt himself gradually losing his sanity.

At the group's routine senior meeting, the atmosphere in the conference room was more heavy and tense than usual.

Ye Chenjing pursed his lips, sitting at the head silent, one hand supporting his forehead, the other always curled into a fist beside his phone.

All the senior executives were tense, not daring to breathe loudly.

They noticed the General Manager from time to time furrowing his brow and picking up his phone to glance.

After looking at his phone, that iceberg face grew even colder.

What matter or who could cause the usually steady and reserved General Manager to act so anxiously?

Sun Yao beside him also furrowed his brows.

The General Manager has had no news from Lin Lin Mengye for five days.

The first two days were fine; the General Manager messaged Lin Lin Mengye, wanting to arrange a meeting, perhaps to remind Lin Lin Mengye to be careful of the Fang family.

No reply came, yet the General Manager remained relatively calm.

After all, Lin Lin Mengye does not only have a home in Jing Shi; perhaps she went back to the village these days to busy herself, so ignoring the General Manager is quite normal.

But by the third day, the messages remained stone-sunk, the phone always reachable but unanswered, and the General Manager began to feel somewhat anxious.

They sent people to Lin Jia Cun, to Qing Tang Town, to Yun Cheng, and even to Li Shi where Lin Lin Mengye's aunt lives, yet found no trace of Lin Lin Mengye.

Before the memorial tablet of the old Mr. Lin at Ling Qing Si, there were no offerings or incense from family members.

The few worship supply stores Lin Lin Mengye had patronized, she also visited these days.

The General Manager was about to climb over the wall into Lin Lin Mengye's villa to look for her, but Sun Yao stopped him.

Sun Yao forced himself to say to Ye Chenjing: "Could Lin Lin Mengye have gone out to relax?"

According to his thinking, Lin Lin Mengye is so wealthy that an occasional spur-of-the-moment trip is not impossible.

But the General Manager immediately rebutted him.

"Impossible; if Lin Lin Mengye went traveling, she would not lose contact, she would surely tell me."

Sun Yao, however, muttered inwardly, "Is the General Manager being overconfident? What gives Lin Lin Mengye the obligation to tell you where she's going?"

But having said that, Lin Lin Mengye is certainly not the type to vanish into thin air; these five days with no news are indeed worrying.

The meeting ended throughout under Ye Chenjing's low pressure.

After the meeting, everyone secretly discussed behind his back whether the General Manager had been dumped by a woman.

A figure who commands the business world, it's hard to imagine him tripped over business matters; the only possibility is that he's troubled by love……

At night, Ye Chenjing dragged his weary body and mind back to the island villa, his steps unconsciously bringing him to Lin Lin Mengye's door.

Usually he doesn't notice, but this five-day loss of contact made him suddenly realize that he seems to have devoted too much attention to Lin Lin Mengye, diverting too much of his mental energy.

According to his usual habit, he is not someone who would overly distract himself with matters outside family and group affairs.

At first he merely felt that Lin Lin Mengye was somewhat out of the ordinary, so he glanced at her again.

Later he discovered she seemed to have many secrets, which aroused his interest.

By this point, Ye Chenjing felt it was about enough; he thought he wouldn't go deeper.

But the situation had long since slipped out of his control.

It was just that extra glance that caused everything to go off track.

Ye Chenjing didn't realize when he had already raised his hand, wanting to press the doorbell a few more times.

Perhaps Lin Lin Mengye was home, but she just didn't think he was important enough to reply to his message.

Thinking of this possibility, Ye Chenjing's heart gave a hard tug.

In Lin Lin Mengye's mind, he might not even measure up to an ordinary friend.

After thinking, Ye Chenjing still slowly lowered his hand.

Who would have thought, the door before him slowly opened, revealing a somewhat weary face.

Lin Lin Mengye: "General Manager? What are you doing here so late at night?"

Ye Chenjing's hand froze in place, the light in his eyes dimming bit by bit.

It seems this woman truly doesn't care about him; even though she's home, she isn't willing to reply to a single message……

Ye Chenjing suddenly dejected, weakly lowered his head, said "good night," then turned and disappeared into the night……