Chapter 4697 — Take Me There If You Get the Chance
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"If there's a chance..." Huo Yudie suddenly said, then stopped herself.
"Hm?" Wei Zhao frowned, waiting for her to continue.
"If there's a chance... you could take me..." Huo Yudie still hesitated, and the more she spoke the more flustered she became, until at last her voice was so faint it could scarcely be heard—probably only she herself could guess at what she had said.
"Hm?" Wei Zhao turned his head and gave her a strange look. Though the light was too dim to see clearly, the motion came to him instinctively. What on earth was this girl trying to say?
So hesitant and bashful—could it be something dreadfully embarrassing? Surely not. They had shared that awkward moment, true, but from what Wei Zhao could sense, deep down this girl was still a traditional sort of woman.
"If there's a chance... you could take me... to the secular world, to have a look—would that be all right..." Just as Wei Zhao was letting his imagination run away with him, Huo Yudie finally managed to finish her sentence—except her voice was outrageously soft, so much so that even Wei Zhao only just barely caught her meaning.
"You want to go to the secular world?" Wei Zhao could not help but start. The words sounded vaguely familiar; from what he recalled, Shangguan Lan'er seemed to have said something similar.
"If you won't take me, then never mind. I'm just a little curious, that's all," Huo Yudie said, pursing her lips.
"Heh, of course you can go if you want to. But the precondition is that I can make it back myself. Getting from the secular world to Cloud Terrace Island was hard enough; returning from Cloud Terrace Island to the secular world is even harder. We'll see when the time comes," Wei Zhao said with a sigh. The girl's mind was peculiar to the point of being incomprehensible, but he did not dislike it—at least, in his heart, he had already begun to treat her as a friend, not merely a partner bound by mutual advantage.
"Right, I've never heard of anyone being able to go back either..." Hearing Wei Zhao sigh, Huo Yudie hurriedly explained, "I was just talking idly, nothing more. Please don't take it seriously."
"Since you've already spoken up, how could I not take it seriously? We'll see how things go. If I can get back, I'll call on you," Wei Zhao said with a smile. Returning from Cloud Terrace Island to the secular world was indeed very difficult, but judging by the intelligence he currently possessed, the odds of success were actually not as low as one might imagine.
Carefully worked through, there were at least three possible routes. The first, and the most promising and reliable, was to seek out Zhang Lifeng. The old devil's own personal experience had already confirmed that he truly possessed a dependable method, and given the connection between Wei Zhao and Zhang Lifeng, so long as he could successfully find him, he believed the man would not refuse outright. The only difficulty lay in when he might meet this legendary figure who appeared and vanished like a dragon showing its head and hiding its tail.
As for the second route, it lay with the Central Chamber of Commerce, which had burst onto the scene. One thing was clear: the Central Chamber of Commerce must possess a way to travel freely between Cloud Terrace Island and the secular world. If he could manage to pry out the secret, Wei Zhao would naturally have an opening to exploit. This route, however, was far harder than the first—after all, the Central Chamber of Commerce was a gathering of countless experts. Never mind that Wei Zhao could now slay a Xuan Sheng stage master in an instant; if he truly barged in there, he would be a corpse lying in the street within minutes.