Chapter 395: First Invasion (1/2)

Alex had nothing to do, so he just sat around watching the scenery. It really was very different.

”What's your name, mister?” the servant girl asked him from the side. Ever since Alex accepted the water, she had been staying close to him. He couldn't understand if it was because her mistress said her to do so or out of her own volition.

However, he very much preferred the company of this servant girl. She was wearing a simple white dress that contrasted the stark red her mistress wore.

While the master had a haughty appearance, the servant girl looked quite soft and amicable. It was a shame that the master had more physical beauty than her.

”Yu Ming,” Alex let her know with a smile.

'I wonder if her mistress is a noble,' Alex wondered. Ever since he got here, he could feel the woman with the red robes nearby, but she never came back to check upon him.

'It's almost like they're treating me like a prisoner,' he thought. However, since he was getting a free ride to Scarlet city, so he couldn't complain. 'Although, I wish I went to capital first. I needed to buy some formation blueprints and formation flags to check with my thing,' Alex thought.

He shook his head; he could do that in the Scarlet City too.

”What's your name?” Alex asked the servant girl back.

”M-my name?” the girl got a little flustered but soon calmed down. ”Sorry, nobody really asks me about my name, so I got a little surprised.”

”My name is Ying Wu,” she said with a smile.

”What about your mistress? What's her name?” he asked.

”Oh, I dare not say my mistress's name unless she's given me permission,” Wu Ying said. Alex didn't know what to say after that; the conversation came to a stop. Wu Ying then had to change the topic to bring back the conversation.

”You look quite a strong mister Yu Ming. You are a cultivator too right?” she asked.

”Yes, I am,” Alex said with a smile. ”I thought people close to cultivators were always cultivators. How come you're not?”

”I- We don't have that kind of luxury. I have to look after my mistress and my mother,” she said.

Alex turned around to take a look at her mother who was sleeping with a slight face of anguish. ”Is she fine? She seems to be in pain,” Alex said.

”No, she's not fine. Although, I doubt she feels pain, however, she's been in a coma for a few years now,” Ying Wu said.

Alex looked at the mother's face closely. At first, he thought he saw a hint of resemblance in her face that he recognized, but it soon faded away. Alex turned back to look at Ying Wu and was a little surprised when he saw basically no resemblance between the two.

He didn't know if he should ask that or not. However, just from his gaze, Wu Ying seemed to have understood what he was thinking and said, ”She's not my biological mother. She had just been looking after me after my real mother died from a disease back in my Mistress' manor,” she said.

”Oh, my condolences,” Alex said.