Chapter 1186: Return to Guan Mountain Island (5)

Chapter 1186: Chapter 1186: Return to Guan Mountain Island (5)

"Brother Yi, I have something to ask of you." Han Jing looked at Ming Qianyi.

"Go ahead." Over the years, Ming Qianyi had spent enough time with Han Jing that they had long abandoned the customary pleasantries and formalities, becoming much more straightforward with each other.

"Sister A Wu and I will go in and see what’s going on, you take a walk around the streets to check if anything strange has happened on Guan Mountain Island these past years." Han Jing felt there must be something up, but the more they felt this way, the more cautious they needed to be.

Ming Qianyi nodded, this sort of thing was his forte. He instructed the two of them, "Be careful, and we’ll rendezvous here at nightfall."

The three of them split up, while Han Jing and Xia Wu quietly breached the barrier and entered the secluded courtyard. Surprisingly, the courtyard was spotlessly clean, and there was absolutely nothing inside.

The two of them meticulously searched every corner of the entire courtyard but still found no trace of anything.

Just when Han Jing was about to give up, on an inadvertent turn of her head, the artificial mountain in the garden seemed a bit out of place.

Han Jing couldn’t help but stare at that artificial mountain in the garden for a long time. She carefully recollected the time when they lived here, remembering how Guan Shining often played with Xiao Xue in the courtyard, and the two frequently darted around near this mountain.

She seemed to recall... the overall shape of this mountain looked like a lion, especially the two front claws. One of them was even lying down, where Xiao Xue often grabbed Little Black and stuffed him into the hole behind the claw. For this, Little Black almost scratched her several times.

That’s it!

Han Jing took two steps at a time to the side of the artificial mountain and saw that of the two front claw-like stones resembling a lion, one, the part with the bent leg, was missing a piece.

Then the whole thing recessed inward.

Unless someone looked closely, they wouldn’t notice anything amiss. But perhaps due to Han Jing’s excessive vigilance, that inadvertent glance made her feel something wasn’t quite right, leading to this discovery.

Han Jing bent down, and the missing piece of stone was precisely at the part behind the claw where there was a small hole.

She reached in with her hand, felt around, and pulled out a stone.

She took out the stone, on which were three crookedly written words.

"Find Little Tao."

Han Jing couldn’t discern if this was hurriedly written by Guan Shining, but apart from Guan Shining, with his natural metal superpower, no one else had the ability to write on stone so effortlessly, not to mention that little hole which ordinary people wouldn’t likely pay attention to.

She did remember Little Tao.

A little sidekick beside Guan Shining, utterly loyal to him. Though not very powerful, he was greatly trusted by Guan Shining and often helped him handle various trivial matters. During their time on Guan Mountain Island, many tasks were assigned to Little Tao by Guan Shining.

"Find Little Tao..." Han Jing frowned deeply, her fingers tightly gripping the stone in her hand. Could it be, something really happened?

"Sister A Wu, let’s get out of here first, to avoid being discovered from staying too long." Suddenly, it struck Han Jing that if only this area was sealed, then if there truly was an incident, it was very likely to have happened right here. Furthermore, if anything unspeakable did occur on Guan Mountain Island, there might be someone lurking in the shadows, observing silently.