Genshin Impact: Funina's Official Pastry Chef

Chapter 569: Unexpected Enemies (Part )

After everyone separated, Chang Ming and Funina quickly arrived at the light punishment area.

Looking at the jailers standing at the entrance of the pipes and the prisoners wandering back and forth, Funina couldn't help but frown.

Those jailers were sent by Leosley to guard the place, and those wandering prisoners were all doing their own things. Logically...if Lenore was going to leave Melo Petersburg, there should have been many people who had seen her.

But why is there no news at all until now?

Finina's brows furrowed more and more, and she couldn't understand the reason behind this.

Did the jailer just miss it? Or did Lenore know they were going to look for her, so she avoided people as much as possible to make it harder for them to find her?

She had to admit that she couldn't figure it out at all. Even though she had learned some of Chang Ming's thinking patterns, she was not Chang Ming after all, and there were still many things she didn't understand.

"Chang Ming... Where can a little girl like Lenore go?"

Funina turned her head slightly and asked Chang Ming who seemed to be thinking about something.

"I don't know... Caterpillar should have searched the entire place, but why didn't he find any trace of Lenore?"

After hearing what Funina said, Chang Ming shook his head gently, as if he had no way to deal with the matter.

"Is this another case of a missing girl? Isn't this a bit too scary?"

"Will this be linked to something else? This matter is already complicated enough, don't let it be linked to some inexplicable things!"

But there is a saying that goes, human subjective thinking cannot affect the objective development of things, no matter how Chang Ming prays, it is useless.

What's more, he is a fairy, not a human, so this sentence does not apply to him.

"Well... let's go look for her again and ask the jailers. We'll try to get as much information as possible. After all, Lenore's current condition... is quite worrying."

There was a hint of worry in Chang Ming's enchanting black and red eyes, as if he was worried about Linore's mental state.

After all... no child can easily accept the departure of a loved one, let alone death, which separates the living and the dead.

Although death is a topic that people can never avoid, it is a bit too early and too heavy for a child.

Thinking of this, Chang Ming couldn't help but clench his fists. For a moment, he wanted to pull out Noklan Sarr, who was still locked in interrogation room No. 3, and beat him up.

These nobles really do nothing all day long. They bully the common people and deduct their wages outside, and they bully the girls in Melopenerburg. It's really...

"Mr. Chang Ming! We are here! Clorinde and I just asked around and got some news!"

Just as Chang Ming was thinking about how to deal with the Noklan family after this incident, an energetic female voice mixed with the somewhat messy sound of high heels came from afar.

Chang Ming and Funina subconsciously raised their heads and saw Navia and Clorinde rushing towards them from not far away.

Although Navia felt that Chang Ming would most likely come to see her because of those bottles of perfume, she wanted to use this to prove to Chang Ming that she had become better, but...

Compared to that kind of thing, what is more important is to help Chang Ming solve his problems.

This is what I should do as a student and as the president of the Thorn Rose Society, which is closely connected with the Mo Mang Palace.

"Hmm? Navia? I said I was going to look for you these two days...but suddenly I encountered such a thing..."

Before Chang Ming finished his greetings, Navia crossed her arms and said seriously, imitating Chang Ming's past behavior:

"Oh, we can talk about these small talk after things are over. Now let's get down to business!"

But soon, Navia couldn't hold it anymore. She shook her head with a helpless look and returned to her lively girlish look.

"Claulinde and I received reliable information from a jailer - Lenore is indeed trying to leave Mello Petersburg."

"But considering the current situation of the siege on Melo Petersburg... we should go to some unusual exits to find her."

"What does 'not normal exit' mean...?"

Funina tilted her head and asked in confusion.

Navia glanced at Clorinde standing beside her, chuckled and nodded her head, as if to signal her to take out something.

"This is part of the information I gathered from the guards and prisoners about possible exits above the water."

"My suggestion is... we should go now and check near these possible exits. It will be faster than conducting repeated searches here."

Clorinde said expressionlessly.

"Well, then... let's go now."

......

Just as Chang Ming and others set out to search other possible exits, in a pipe in the light punishment area, a small figure was struggling to crawl through the pipe that was covered with slippery moss and rust.

Her clothes were wet and even her hair was a little messy. At this moment, she no longer looked like a lively girl. Instead, she looked like a... little refugee fleeing a disaster.

It seemed that the darkness around her made her instinctively afraid, but compared to the darkness, the thing behind her was more terrifying.

She would rather find a way out in endless darkness than endure pure fear in a place with a glimmer of light.

"Come on, Lenore... As long as we can crawl out of this place, as long as we can leave this place... we can find Brother Carter and the others..."

"I will never run around again...I almost got eaten by a monster..."

She murmured softly, as if sobbing or lamenting.

"Mom must have been swallowed by that monster... She must have been. She couldn't have left Lenore alone..."

Lenore's body kept shaking. The wet touch and darkness were eroding her consciousness bit by bit. Only these whispers could keep her awake and moving forward.

However... things don't go so smoothly.

puff--

A sound like a balloon being popped was heard in the narrow, damp, dark tube, followed by a purple-black tentacle that instantly wrapped around Lenore's heel and then quickly retreated.

"No ah ah ah ah ah!!"

Feeling the restraint at her ankles, Lenore's face turned pale and she shouted loudly with some reluctance.

She stretched out her hands hard to grab the edge of the pipe, but the slippery moss made it impossible for her to hold on to the edge of the pipe. She could only be dragged back into the deeper darkness by the tentacles.

This long-abandoned pipeline located in the light punishment area fell into silence again, with only a few traces hidden in the moss indicating what had just happened.

Chang Ming, who was about to leave the light sentence area, seemed to suddenly feel something. He looked thoughtfully in the direction he came from, as if he was a little confused.

"...The power of the abyss?"