38 Confrontation 1 (1/2)

We entered the Ancient Orchid City Ruins and everywhere we can see that the city is in shambles.

Nie Li seemed very happy from his expression but his smile will froze when he sees that the Shadow Devil Lamp has already been taken.

”Everyone be careful as there can still be Demon Beasts around.” Chen Linjian said.

”Everyone walk in a Circle Formation, with the weakest members being in the centre.” He commanded.

We formed a circle formation and in centre stood most of the Genius Class Students leaving only me and Ning'er.

As we entered deeper, sounds of demon beasts roaring is being heard from every direction and some members of Chen Linjian's group became very insecure.

After sometime Giant Blue Armed Apes started to show up as they jumped from one tree to the other.

”Everyone be careful, these demon beasts aren't that much high level but can still hit you as they are very dexterous.” Chen Linjian said.

”As we've reached the Ancient Orchid City Ruins! Now, we have two routes that we can take. Here's the map!” said Chen Linjian, spreading out the map and pointed to the lines on the map.

Everyone began to surround the map and started to discuss which route to take.

”The first route is towards the west gate. By walking along the walls, we can reach the main city quickly. However, what can we find on this route? We'll definitely want to enter the houses in the city so that we can get some spoils!” said one of Chen Linjian's underlings.

”I agree to his view!”

”Yeah, we should search around this house area!” Everyone parroted.

Chen Linjian was silent for a moment. He raised his head, looked towards me and asked ”What do you think?”

Everyone got a little surprised. They never thought that Chen Linjian would ask for Shen Fei's opinion at this moment.

Ye Ziyun also looked at me with her bright eyes. Huyan Lanruo was also unable to take her eyes off me. She had came with the group of Chen Family.

Chen Linjian became my good friend after our meeting in some family situations. And he also knew that I have read many books from the library, so he asked me which caused Nie Li to not show off his knowledge.

I spread my hand out and said, ”If you guys came here just to search the houses, then that would be a big mistake! Those that came before have already searched the commoner's houses. Even if we were to search them again, we wouldn't get any gains. Generally in a city, who is the wealthiest? Is it the commoners? Of course not. 90% of the wealth of a city are in the hands of the big families.”

”There's a radius of hundreds of miles in this place. There are so many commoners houses and a lot of the places here have been destroyed. How would we know where these big families are located?” Some underlings retorted at one side.

”Continue speaking.” Chen Linjian said, looking at me in an interesting manner.

”It's easy to find the inhabitant of big families. Which building in this map is the most sparse? That is the location! Generally, big families would have their own courtyard.” I continued.

Everyone's eyes fell on the map upon hearing my speech.