It was almost dinner time, when the two men were busy talking to each other while drinking wine.
"Huang, about her birthmark? Is it really the Dragon insignia?" Bai Rou curiously asked, after all if the insignia was real, they need to provide her their utmost protection.
"Yes, no doubt about it, that is why i have given Shu Ren the task before, so he can protect her and at the same time, he could also investigate her background, but now, i didn't expect him to take her to the east and didn't even bother to inform me." Huang Ryu gripped his hand that was holding the cup, until it broke.
"Huang, there must be a reason for Shu Ren to take her to the east, and in that direction, it seems that he was taking her to the Human Kingdom." Seeing Huang Ryu seething with anger, Bai Rou tried to pacify him.
"What reasons does he have? She's my wife, alright?! What right does he have to take her away from me." Huang Ryu stated sluggishly and took the whole jar of wine and drank from it.
Bai Rou tried to get the wine jar from him since Huang Ryu has started to get intoxicated with alcohol and he doesn't want to carry a drunk man to his room.[It seems that this really affected him.]
Bai Rou sighed helplessly, "Huang, do you want to know what really happen with those assassins inside the forest after our investigation?"
Huang Ryu stop drinking and turned his head sideways to glare at Bai Rou from his shoulder. "Speak."
"Their skin was shredded by a wind, and their innards was burnt by something. The fire element could never do that without burning their skin, so we had concluded that it was done by the extinct lightning element." Bai Rou stated everything that they have found out on the battlefield.
Huang Ryu was amused by their findings, "It seems that my woman really has something to do with that clan."
"That's mostly possible, aside from having a jewel, her insignia and with that lightning attribute that attacked those assassins, it can only be pointed in that direction." Bai Rou concluded everything in one breathed.
Huang Ryu sighed dejectedly, "I guessed that Shu Ren must have found out about Rae Gu's connection with the man that we were trying to find for years, and decided to take her away. Is that what you are trying to say right?"
"Yes Huang, since we were still working with our investigation about the annihilation case of that clan. It was safer for us to hide her from everyones' sight, until we were done with our investigation. Also, Shu Ren must've found out something crucial about her thus making him decide to take action first." Bai Rou looked at Huang Ryu with firmed eyes, he had known Shu Ren for his undying loyalty, so there must be something he had found out that made him do that.
"I want you to hasten and do a full scale investigation about that case starting tomorrow. also.." Huang Ryu paused and looked firmly at Bai Rou.
"I also want you to secretly find her whereabouts, and don't ever let a mole found out about her existence. Now leave me, i want to be alone." Huang Ryu stared at the jar and dismissed Bai Rou.
"Yes, my Lord. Don't drink too much, or else it would be bad for your recovery." Bai Rou stood up from his chair and started to walked towards the exit but was stopped by the Lord.
"Wait, how was Yan Zhao's injuries?" Huang Ryu inquisitively asked.
"His recovering well, so don't worry about him." Bai Rou smiled and and exited the room.
Pouring a wine on the cup, Huang Ryu was left alone inside the study, his eyes stared at a distance and unfocused.
Longing for her presence, Huang Ryu vowed and mumbled by himself. [Rae Gu, what was really your relationship with that man? Just you wait a little bit, okay? I will fix everything as soon as possible and I will definitely find you.]
He drank his fill and summoned Rae Gu's jewel and looked at it, but his expression turned surprised when he saw that the golden barrier that has protected the jewel was now gone, and there was even a little crack in the seal.
Summoning his force, Huang Ryu tried to break the seal, but his attacked was still rebounded. [It seems that it was really an old monster that put a seal on your jewel ah! It's really hard to break it.]
Feeling uncontented, Huang Ryu thought the need to recover his full elemental force before trying to break the seal again.
He then kept the jewel back inside his body, and went back to his room.
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Emerald Town...
After dinner Rae Gu continued to sleep and rest her body to speed up her recovery.
While in the room, Shu Ren dazedly stared at the dark sky from the window, and thought about what that man said and had a flashbacks.
...
Inside the Dark Forest, a man carrying a woman was talking with the golden mist while running.
"Son of Gu Ren, I am just a fist sized fragment from my jewel that was splitted by my wife and left to protect her, I don't even know that i had a daughter until my jewel was triggered by her when she was desperately hanging with her life." The man looked at the unconscious Rae Gu helplessly.
"What really happen that time?" Shu Ren asked with curiosity. They had been investigating the case for a long time now, and tried to find out the truth.
"Me and my family was entrapped by those traitors. I had trusted them because they were supposed to be the family of my grandmother, but what i didn't expect is that their greed was too much and they work in cahoots with those evil humans and lead us to the trap." The man clenched his fist and was fuming with anger.
"It was the Shuan Clan, right? They had also drugged the Lord, and tried to let him do it with their eldest daughter to occupy the position of the Empress." He didn't say further about Rae Gu being a the cure for the Lord, else his head would surely fly off from his body.
It was the reason why Huang Ryu was here inside the Dark forest. He tried his best so suppressed his desire by using his force, and attempted to flushed it from his system forcefully.
But the drugged was too potent and the only cure was to have a woman, incidentally they found Rae Gu inside the forest, so they grabbed her and take her to the Lord's chamber, and they didn't know what happened afterwards.
The man sense that Shu Ren purposely stopped his words and so he tried to pry more, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Shu Ren shook his head tremendously, "No, definitely not."
The man creased his brows and looked at him. He sighed and said, "I don't know if my real body still exist or not." He paused and continued, "And i don't know if my son and wife was still alive, but i think that they were able to escape from the trapped, since my daughter was now fully grown, and I guessed that your father was also alive, as I could sense his force inside Rae Gu's body."
After hearing what the man said, Shu Ren was full of mirth,"My father was still alive? Where is he?"
The man smile wryly, "I'm not too sure where his currently at,and it was just my guess that he might still be alive after we part ways that day, after all i can still feel his aura inside my daughters body."
"Still, this give me hope, i'm sure someday i could find him." Shu Ren smiled merrily.
The man grinned. "I can only conceal your presence up to here, it looks like after i healed that brat, it consumed too much of my force."
"Wait I still have a lot to asked.."
The man looked at Shu Ren and stopped his words with a solemn expression. "So, Son of Gu ren, you are on your own now, and there's a creek up ahead. Just moved along its trail, and you can find a human town nearby."
"But.. " Shu Ren stopped on his tracks and found that the mist was fading.
After the mist was gone, he continued his steps and stopped by the creek before he followed its trail towards the east and found the Emerald Town.