Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

Does this store know that there is a secret passage under its house?

Li Ang returned to the secret passage and found that some other exits were also indoors in the building.

This looks like a secret passage built during a war.

Looking back at the history of Ignis Airspace, it was once ravaged by war, and the Empire's legal system was established at that time.

Spark Port is close to the entrance of the airspace channel and is definitely a must-fight place in war. It is not surprising that there is such a secret passage.

To this day, since it has been identified by the system as a "hidden place", most people probably don't know about the existence of the secret passage.

What are the "rewards" and "secrets" here?

The secret passage was winding and sometimes had to pass through some entrances and exits, so Li Ang checked them all.

Some of the doors are now storage rooms, some are empty houses, some are inside wells, and some may be bedrooms of rich people. He heard strange noises through the door, so he didn't open it.

Finally, he found a special door.

There are magic lamps on both sides of this door, which are convenient for people entering to take away lighting. The lamp looks a bit old but has a gorgeous appearance. It must have been very expensive back then.

The miniature map shows that there are large houses above and near this location, which is obviously an area for nobles or wealthy people.

There is a high probability that there is wealth or secrets behind this kind of door.

He slowly pushed the door open and found a row of clothes behind it.

They are almost all long skirts, neatly hung on hangers. The space is not big, but there are a lot of clothes.

Pushing his skirt aside slightly, Li Ang saw two wooden doors opening onto each other.

Is the exit of this passage a wardrobe?

Looking through the gap in the cabinet door, this is a girl's room. The room is quite spacious, with many kinds of flowers and plants on the balcony. The room is furnished with tea sets, bookshelves, desks and dressing tables. Every place is decorated exquisitely and gorgeously.

Dorothy was sitting at the tea table.

Li Ang was stunned. She didn't expect that this exit was connected to her home.

But this lady came from a good family, so it was not surprising that she lived in a big house.

Leon didn't intend to pry into her privacy and was about to turn around and leave, but he saw Dorothy take out a sharp knife from the box on the table in front of her.

The blade gleamed silver, and Dorothy skillfully twisted the handle with her fingertips, as if she had used it countless times before, then aimed it at her wrist and cut it off.

Suddenly blood gushed out like a fountain. Her charming face, which was originally expressionless, turned into a sad smile after her wrists were cut.

She didn't stop, cutting hard again and again, blood splattering.

Li Ang had not expected this situation.

Dorothy slowly lowered her wrist, allowing the blood to flow quickly to the floor. There was a white porcelain basin placed there in advance, and the bright red blood gathered in it, creating a strong visual contrast that was shocking.

The lady leaned back in her chair, closed her eyes, and waited for everything to end.

Watching his life slowly slipping away, Li Ang gritted his teeth and decided to go out.

He could not interfere in other people's family affairs, but he felt it necessary to provide counsel when someone he knew died.

He pushed open the cabinet door, walked forward, and grabbed the lady's wrist.

Dorothy opened her eyes and screamed in fright at the sudden appearance of the man. Leon quickly covered her mouth.

After seeing Li Ang, she immediately calmed down and Li Ang withdrew his hand.

"What's going on?" The lady raised her eyebrows. "So you're that kind of person? Stalking? When did you sneak in faster than me? Wow, pervert."

"So you're really serious about this, coming to see me specifically. Actually, there's no need to be like this..." She spoke in a lower and lower voice, then chuckled playfully, "Why? Are you willing to take me on an adventure?"

However, as Dorothy spoke, she seemed to remember something, and a sudden blush crept into her cheeks.

"D-did you just see that?"

"what are you saying?"

Li Ang couldn't understand why she was still in the mood to chat when she was clearly committing suicide. He held her wrist and prepared to cast a healing spell.

She could use healing spells herself, but she cut so hard that she certainly had no intention of healing herself. Moreover, the level of spells she mastered was such that a life-threatening wound could not be healed in time.

"Ok?"

The cut was shallow and has stopped bleeding.

Li Ang blinked. He clearly saw her cut the wound, so he couldn't be dazzled.

Without figuring it out, he cast a Shaman's healing water wave on the wound.

The clear stream washed over the girl's wrist, and the wound seemed to be washed away along with the blood scab, and the place where it was washed was as white as before.

Dorothy was startled, then she held her wrist and gently touched the healed area.

"What's the point of committing suicide?"

Li Ang felt that judging from her probing and following behavior in the afternoon, she did not seem like someone who was going to commit suicide. She could only have been provoked by other things.

"I might be being nosy, but I think dying for trash like Wenders Finat is a bit of a rip-off."

"Good scolding."

Dorothy nodded, making no mention of her own suicide.

"Then, I'm not a pervert."

"Isn't it a pervert to hide in my closet? You saw everything!" Dorothy was reminded again, contrary to her previous calmness.

Leon didn't understand what she was thinking. He subconsciously looked around. When he saw the lady's bed, Dorothy rushed over like crazy and pulled at the sheets, as if covering something. Her face was completely red, as beautiful as a peach, and she ran back and grabbed Leon's clothes with her claws and teeth.

"You saw it all! You saw it all..."

She lowered her head and whispered, "Now that you've seen it all, what do you think? Will you despise me for this? Or...would it be better if it were this way..."

"I don't know anything, really. I just got here."

Li Ang opened the row of her long skirts in the closet, revealing the secret passage.

Dorothy looked up, trotted to the wardrobe door, and put her head into the dark passage.

"What is this place? So this is what's behind my closet, and I had no idea. How do you know about this place?"

Turning around, the embarrassment on her face quickly faded away, returning to her usual calm expression.

"Oh, I see. You didn't see it. You didn't come here specifically to see me."

Li Ang felt that she seemed a little lost again.

Not intending to dwell on what happened next, he said, "This secret passage—"

"I won't tell anyone."

Li Ang looked at her, wondering what to do.

The current situation is also different from what he expected.

He had originally thought Dorothy was unconscious, so he cast the healing spell and left, leaving her a note of advice, telling her that Windus was about to be captured and that she might not need to commit suicide.

But why was she so full of life? Why was she even concerned about something else? It was as if she wasn't committing suicide.

In order not to be considered a pervert, the secret passage was also made known.

Lock her up until the exploration is complete?

"I know you're worried."

Dorothy's lips curled up slightly, and she put her hands together in a delicate manner and raised them in front of Leon.

"If you capture me and kidnap me, you won't have to worry about me, right?"

58. Adventure

Leon didn't respond, and Dorothy moved her clasped hands closer.

"What I'm thinking about now is whether I should knock you out and make you mistake seeing me as a dream."

Of course, this was not a reliable approach, and he had no real intention of doing so. He simply could not fathom the thoughts of the lady before him.

"Oh," Dorothy snorted, "are you going to leave me again?"

"Again? Why again?"

"Anyway, take me in for a look."

Dorothy insisted on this as she swayed to the wardrobe.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps on the floor outside her room. The person who came was very active, half jumping and approaching quickly, and then knocked on the door.

"Senior, are you there? I'm Leona!"

It was the half-dragon girl I had met before.

Dorothy did not show any joy at seeing her friend. She sighed softly and did not open the door. Instead, she gently pushed the porcelain basin containing the blood from her cut wrists under the bed.

Leona continued to knock on the door: "Senior, it's been a long time since we had a bedtime chat together. I brought some bedding from next door."

Dorothy looked indifferent, as if all joy had immediately left her.

She said to Li Ang calmly, "Let's go. Don't let anyone see me. Just leave me here to rot."

"From the moment I met you until now, you seem to know how to retreat in order to advance?"

Dorothy's eyes evaded, as if she'd been told right. Outside, Leona's knocks grew louder and louder. She really wanted to come in and have a bedtime story with her senior, and it was practically like she was banging on the door.

Li Ang scratched his hair and waved, "Let's go."

He stepped into the secret passage of the closet, and the lady's cold expression instantly melted, and she followed him in with interest.

Closing the wardrobe, darkness enveloped me, blocking out the knocks on the door, and it felt like I had entered a new world.

Dorothy walked down the stone steps and exclaimed, "It's so dark."

Leon lit the adventure lantern, then took down the magic lamp from the door and handed it to her: "This was prepared by the previous owner of your house."

Dorothy took the magic lamp and stared at it in a daze.

"what happened?"

“I don’t know how to use it.”

"This one's a bit old-fashioned. You unscrew the top, take the wick out, inject magic into it, and put it back in."

She first carefully wiped off some of the dust with her index finger, looked at her fingertips with disgust, and then took out the handkerchief from her pocket with the difficulty of making a major life decision and wiped off the dust.

Throwing her handkerchief to the ground, she fiddled with the magic lamp for a while, then looked up at Leon.

"Won't open it?"

Dorothy nodded her head up and down.

Trying his best not to sigh, Leon took the magic lamp, opened the shell, injected magic power into it, and then handed it to her.

The warm yellow light illuminated the lady's expressionless face.

She didn't say anything, and Li Ang followed her.

The secret passage was narrow and winding, so they couldn't walk side by side. Li Ang couldn't always see her condition, so he just had to make sure she followed him.

After walking for a while, Li Ang asked the question in his mind: "Did I abandon you before?"

He originally thought that nothing had happened that year, but since she committed suicide, he became a little uncertain.

He noticed a change in the lady's aura behind him. She paused for a moment before replying, "That's why I'm here doing boring official duties day after day."

If she longs for freedom, then repeating the same life is indeed torture.

"How did I leave you behind?"

Dorothy took a breath and said, "You said we were going to form a team and go on adventures together. I... you didn't take me with you in the end, and you know that yourself."

"That's what you asked before, do I keep my word?"

"correct."

Li Ang always felt something was wrong.

"I remember you, but I don't remember anything like this. I may have said something like that, but..."

Eight years ago, Leon began to look for a reliable and regular partner. Before he met the old captain, he did invite many reliable sky knights he met during adventures to form a team, but due to the problems of the sorcerer profession, he was unsuccessful.

Since he remembered that Dorothy was good at healing spells, it was very likely that he had invited her to join a team.