The dark basement was filled with a hint of cold air. Yi Ming raised the torch in his hand and carefully explored the surroundings. However, his exploration method was different from that of ordinary people. Yi Ming did not even hit the floor and walls like other people. Instead, he shone the torch in which direction, and then quickly analyzed the light structure. If there was a gap behind it that could pass through the light, then Yi Ming could feel it. What's more, the construction technology in this world is not superb. If there is really a dark room, it would be too easy to be discovered.

But Yi Ming walked around the basement and finally returned disappointed. It seemed that this place was different from what he imagined. There were no secret treasures, no secret rooms, and no secret ways.

It seems that the story of any ruined castle that must have treasures underground in the novel is made up to deceive children.

Yi Ming shrugged, but that didn't matter.

Anyway, he was just a result of his excitement and was just going around.

The castle is much better than it was before, and the road problem that Yiming had the most troublesome, was the best solution for Marian. With just one chanting magic, the flowers, plants and trees will automatically move away, paving a smooth road. Next, as long as the soldiers level the entire road with sand and stone, it will be used. After that, the Empire sent some of the same veterans to settle here one after another, but they did not use teleportation magic like the fifty people before, but continued the road that Marian clevered with magic. According to Belloga's revelation, in just a few days, I believe they will be able to come to this castle.

"Mr. Yiming, Lord Marien has something to come to you."

When Yi Ming walked out of the basement, an elf immediately reported to him, and Yi Ming nodded to show his understanding, and then walked towards the study with a helpless expression.

It has been fifteen days since Aini came here last time. During these fifteen days, Marian almost worked hard and found designated positions for everyone. The powerful centaurs and orcs were sent to Elinoa's patrol, while the elves stayed to clean and organize the sanitary environment of the entire castle. Except for the soldiers who went out to symbolically stand guard at the door, the rest took off their military uniforms and reclaimed fields and built houses. Although Yiming once proposed whether to let these people move into the castle, Marian firmly denied the proposal.

"Don't make such jokes, Yi Ming. You must understand your identity and status and never be on par with them. These retired soldiers can only rely on their own. We don't need to care about their living environment. If they can't do it themselves, then our help is useless."

Since Marian said that, it doesn't matter to Yiming. He originally planned to be a hand-off manager and leave everything to Marien. And Yiming had no other interest except digging out the prince and the group of people from this forest. Anyway, he was just a temporary agent, and Yiming was not in the mood to care whether the construction was good or bad here.

(Yiming.)

And at this moment, Mei Yali's voice suddenly came from Yi Ming's mind, which surprised Yi Ming slightly.

"What happened?"

(Elinoa found traces of people camping in the wild.)

"Is it the prince and those foolish men?"

(Not clear, there are no evidence around.)

"What's your direction?"

(Zhengxi.)

"Ok, I get it."

Yi Ming finished speaking lightly, then closed his eyes. Soon, his induction began to quickly arrange the structural parts in front of him and groped westward. It took only a few minutes for Yi Ming to find the structural parts of Mei Yali. From a numerical perspective, they seemed to be on the hillside, so Yi Ming quickly eliminated the useless parts around him and began to detect. But soon he found that things seemed a little strange. There were very few structural parts left around the traces. If these were restored, there would be only one person at most. So Yi Ming quickly withdrew the induction and continued to ask.

"Is there any other abnormalities nearby?"

(No more, I have looked for it carefully, but no other traces were found nearby.)

“……………………”

Yi Ming fell into deep thought. It was obviously not right. You should know that when they met the prince, there were five to six people in their group. There were no particularly dangerous animals in this forest except for the black dragon before. Even except for the old man and Gularo who were killed by Yi Ming, they should have four people left. But the residual trajectory in front of them was very strange, and only showed the value of one person. This was obviously not right. Could it be that those swordsmen all died? Of course, it was impossible. If those swordsmen were all gone, Prince Heine would have evacuated long ago. After all, his purpose was to reconnaissance, not to have a deep feud with the Yuria Empire to the point of fighting the last person to death.

Thinking of this, Yi Ming suddenly sneered.

"It seems that we have new guests."

(You mean, are there other forces lurking in this forest?)

"Of course... don't tell Alinoa about this first. Anyway, for us, one more enemy is the same as two more. Only the dead are the most honest."

(I see.)

Mei Yali didn't say anything more. After all, guessing who the other party is now, and what purpose they come here is a waste of time and brain cells. Since they are here, they will definitely show their presence at any time. By that time, as long as they are arrested and questioned, they will know everything. Yi Ming and Mei Yali never have any random thoughts in this regard. If the other party does not show any traces of connection, then at most they only need to remember that there is such a person.

"Yiming! Why are you stunned there? I've called you several times!!"

Marien's voice suddenly appeared, which made Yi Ming come to his senses. He gave up continuing to communicate with Meallie, but looked helplessly at Marien standing in front of him with a straight face.

"I said, Miss, what's the matter? You're responsible for dealing with it all?"

"You are the owner of this castle."

Marien shook the stack of materials in her hand and complained very dissatisfiedly.

"Although the Lord of Heaven and Lord Belukelin also appointed us to assist you, you are more or less conscious of it?! Miss Meyalie patrolls outside every day, and you stay here but do nothing! Do you have the intention to build this place!!"

"No."

Yiming answered quickly.

"I am different from you. You may get a lot of benefits here, but there is no need for me, so I have no psychological management of these boring things. Just leave them to you... Don't worry, by that time I will throw all the credit to you. If anything goes wrong, I will just push them all to me.

"This...this is not the point!!"

Because Yiming's answer was too unexpected to Marien, she blushed and she could only put a word on her face after a while.

"What else? I promised to resist the responsibility if something happens. I will give you all the credit. What else is there?"

Yi Ming thought that this condition was already very good. In fact, he wanted to give him a "bad governance" so that he could do whatever he should have done as soon as possible, instead of sleeping all day long. But Marien was so angry that her face turned red. She wanted to speak but stopped and didn't know what to say. Marien was arrogant, but she was still very serious about the task sent to complete, but she did not expect that Yi Ming would be completely non-violent.

She was very surprised by her uncooperative attitude. After all, in Marien's impression, men were keen on power, and Yiming's achievements in killing the dragon and killing one of the top ten swordsmen in the Federation also made the Academy Council have a good evaluation of him, so she specially asked Yiming to be responsible for the management of this land. But she never expected that Yiming would eat, sleep, eat, and then run around for a walk, without caring about anything.

Does this man have no interest in power?

So when Marien saw Yiming, she would not get angry.

"Okay, just kidding."

Yiming sighed. He didn't want to face Marien's endless preaching.

"What's the matter?"

"About the Travel Merchant Association! Their Vice President will come here in two days. As a lord, you must come forward to greet him even if it is temporary!"

"Okay, I get it."

Yi Ming stretched and nodded in agreement, but then he seemed to notice something, and his expression moved slightly.

"That's it!.........Don't forget!"

Marian said, turning around and leaving angrily, but she didn't expect that at this moment, Yiming suddenly grabbed Marian's hand.

"What are you doing?! Let me go quickly, I still have a lot of work..."

"Malian."

At this moment, Yi Ming's expression became very gentle. He stared at Marien affectionately, as if he was addicted to her beauty. This made Marien's resistance stop immediately. She turned her head in panic and tried not to look at Yi Ming's eyes. "You......you are..."

"How about going for a walk with me to the woods tonight?"

"You, what are you talking about in your sleep!"

Marien tried hard to break free from Yiming's shackles, but her strength was not great, which seemed to be half-hearted.

"If Miss Mayalie knows it..."

"Don't worry, Mayalie won't know."

As he said that, Yiming suddenly turned his head over and whispered something in Marien's ear. Then Marien's expression changed slightly, but at this moment Yiming had left her body and blinked at Marien at the same time.

"Don't forget, see you all at night."

"I won't go!!"

Marian snorted coldly, turned around and left quickly. Yiming looked at Marian's back as he was leaving, shrugged his shoulders, and then he closed his eyes again, and after a moment of silence.
Chapter completed!