Chapter 2253 — Mad Again
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"Master... you..." Wei Zhao was just about to use his silver needles to ease the man's pain when the Heaven-Rank madman gave him a violent shove, sending him staggering aside. Shouting, the man ran out of the cave, crying out as he ran, and in moments vanished into the vast night...
"Alas!" Wei Zhao sighed helplessly. It seemed the Heaven-Rank madman had truly relapsed. Just as before, he had fled without the slightest warning, not even a word of farewell... Uncle Qing's master was truly to be pitied—lucid one moment, mad the next!
Even when lucid he was not quite right, and when mad his mind was all the more disordered!
"Wei Zhao... that madman... why did he suddenly..." Sun Jingyan had been asleep before and had no idea what had happened.
"I do not know, but he has probably had another fit of his madness..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. "Last time, in the cave, it was the same—he was sleeping in the middle of the night, and all at once he leapt up and ran off... This time it is no different!"
"Ah? And he just ran off like that?" Sun Jingyan looked at the iron box in her hands, not knowing what to say.
"Yes, just ran off like that..." Wei Zhao nodded. "It seems that at night, once he falls asleep, he becomes unclear for a while after sleeping halfway through. But by day he is better—in the daytime he still takes me for his disciple..."
"Then what should we do now?" Sun Jingyan said. "Where could he have gone?"
"Hard to say. In the dead of night, if he is set on running, where would we even look?" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. "At most we can follow the direction he fled and take a look. If we truly cannot find him, there is nothing to be done."
Last time Wei Zhao had waited a long while in the cave, and the Heaven-Rank madman had never returned. He reckoned that this time, with the fit upon him, the man would not be coming back either. Rather than stay in the cave and wait, it was better to go out and search for him!
The key problem was that Wei Zhao still had several questions he had not asked—including the matter of Uncle Qing's enemies, and the true purpose and origin of the strange stone, among others.
For now he could only search in the hope of finding him. If he truly could not, then there was nothing more Wei Zhao could do.
And with the Heaven-Rank madman no longer at his side, Wei Zhao did not wish to linger in the cave either. After all, without the Heaven-Rank madman as a close guard, if the Grand Protector's accomplices came knocking, Wei Zhao alone could not handle them.
So, rather than stay here in danger, it was better to go out and search for the Heaven-Rank madman—and at the same time keep clear of the Grand Protector's accomplices...
"Very well, then let us go together," Sun Jingyan said with a nod. She had rested about enough, and most importantly, she too wanted to ask the Heaven-Rank madman what this great treasure in her hands really was. What Sun Jingyan wanted most to know was whether this thing had any connection to her parents, and why she held half a treasure map in her possession.
The two of them gathered their things. Wei Zhao glanced at the iron box—there was nothing special about it—so he had Sun Jingyan take out the strange stone and stow it close to her person. As for the iron box, it was far too conspicuous, so Wei Zhao simply left it behind in the cave.