Chapter 718: Chapter 718: Logan Is Wenren
The other side.
The day after Scarlett Jennings and her two companions disappeared from Artefact Village, Samuel Chalrs received a call from Donovan Jennings.
An hour later, Donovan Jennings arrived at Artefact Village with Luca Jennings under the guidance of the Security Bureau.
It was different from their usual missions.
This ti, Scarlett Jennings had suddenly gone to the Otherworld, and… her return date was uncertain.
Neither the Security Bureau nor Samuel Chalrs could keep this from the Jennings Family.
Thus, Luca Jennings and Donovan Jennings ca over.
The village was organizing repairs, and while the presence of outsiders wasn’t unusual to the villagers, the appearance of Luca and Donovan still caught their attention.
Luca Jennings cast his eyes on the village’s architecture and the curious villagers, deep in thought.
Donovan Jennings ignored the villagers, directly finding Samuel Chalrs. His expression was rarely this serious,
“Samuel Chalrs, you must promise that Scarlett will return safely.”
He knew Scarlett had her reasons for doing this, but as family, he couldn’t just say he understood and peacefully wait.
He couldn’t confirm with Scarlett, but Samuel Chalrs, as her fiancé and being present at the scene, needed to take responsibility.
Luca Jennings looked somber as he glanced at his son, then said to Samuel Chalrs,
“I know this isn’t your fault, but please understand, Scarlett is very important to us.”
They didn’t know anything about the Otherworld or about her master; they only knew that Scarlett had gone to a place they couldn’t reach.
In the past, even when Scarlett often went out, as long as they could contact her and knew she was safe, they could be at ease.
But this ti was different.
Samuel Chalrs looked at the two n in front of him for a long mont before he spoke in a deep voice,
“I promise you.”
He said,
“She will return within one week at the latest.”
Seven days was the earliest ti Scarlett had agreed upon with him.
If she didn’t return after the agreed ti,
he would personally go to the Otherworld to bring her back.
With Samuel Chalrs’ promise, Donovan Jennings’ face relaxed slightly.
The two didn’t leave imdiately; instead, they stayed in Artefact Village with Samuel Chalrs.
The villagers heard that more people were going to stay and were a bit uneasy, but upon hearing they were Scarlett’s family, they didn’t mind anymore.
“It’s a pity that our village was damaged earlier, and we’re rushing to repair it now.”
The village chief said while arranging accommodations for Luca and Donovan,
“The original design plans for the village are gone, otherwise, the repairs could be done faster. Maybe we could finish before young Master Jennings returns.”
Luca Jennings, upon hearing the village chief, seed pensive and imdiately called the family steward.
Shortly after, he handed an overall design blueprint of the village to the chief.
Seeing the blueprint similar to the village, even Donovan was surprised,
“How do you have the design plans for this village?”
“When I entered the village earlier, it seed familiar. I asked the steward to check related project books in the study and found it was indeed this village.”
Luca Jennings told the chief,
“This village was initially developed as a specialty tourism project, but after it was built, the project was shelved…”
The village chief, surprised by this revelation, thought about Scarlett’s connection and the past conversations with Jade Bennett and couldn’t help but ask,
“May I ask your wife’s na?”
“Logan.”
The village chief, upon hearing the na, appeared slightly confused,
“I’ve never heard this na.”
He said,
“The person who handed the village to was Magnolia Hearne.”
Upon hearing the familiar na, Donovan Jennings’ heart skipped a beat.
Scarlett never hid much from them, so both he and his father knew Scarlett had been searching for her master.
And her master was Magnolia Hearne.
Thinking of a possibility, Donovan quickly pulled out his phone, found a photo of his mother, and asked the chief,
“Chief, do you recognize the person in this photo?”
The chief leaned in for a look and then his eyes lit up,
“This is Qi Qi! Magnolia Hearne.”
Donovan’s mind buzzed as he finally understood—
The master Scarlett had been seeking was their mother all along.
So, the person Scarlett intended to bring back from the Otherworld… was their mother.
There was a crisp sound.
The sound of a phone screen cracking was heard from his side.
Donovan turned to see his father, usually stern and composed, with muscles tense on his face, and upon closer inspection, his eyes were trembling slightly.
What Donovan could think of, Luca Jennings naturally realized as well.
At this mont, his mind was filled with only one thought—
His wife was still alive.
…
In the Otherworld.
Logan, believed to be alive, and also known as Magnolia Hearne, was enjoying soybean milk with fried dough in a small alley breakfast shop with Scarlett Jennings.
“Many of the fried doughs in the Otherworld are pre-made frozen products. This shop, an old establishnt I found after a long search, makes soybean milk from scratch and fries fresh dough, just the way you like.”
Magnolia Hearne had the deanor of a connoisseur, wanting to share the delicacies she discovered in this world with her.
Scarlett’s fondness for this taste was sothing Magnolia learned during her ti as a master.
But interacting as a master was different from being a mother.
She now preferred to do simple and relaxing things as Scarlett’s mother.
Things that could be cherished as mories of mother-daughter monts.
Scarlett assud this was her mother’s “freshness” from regaining her maternal role.
Although concerned about finding Jasmine Hamilton and the Undying Bone, she patiently accompanied her across half the city for breakfast.
After they finished their bowls of soybean milk, Scarlett asked about what happened last night.
Last night, Magnolia had the restaurant manager expel so people based on a single text ssage, and Scarlett hadn’t asked more at the ti.
Seeing her seemingly well-acclimated to Otherworld life, Scarlett still couldn’t resist asking again.
Magnolia wasn’t surprised by her question and simply replied,
“I’ve not been idle these eighteen years in the Otherworld.”
She said, “The restaurant owner’s mother is from the Gibney Family, and it happens I’ve helped her a bit. She’s one of my loyal clients.”
Scarlett speculated her mother had so source of inco here, curious about what she did in the Otherworld.
Then Magnolia, with a serious tone, said,
“Initially, I helped the society ladies in Sea City with so beauty issues, but later I also assisted businessn with geomancy matters.”
At the ntion of geomancy, Scarlett was taken aback, “Isn’t there no mysticism in this world?”
“Indeed, it doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t matter.”
Magnolia replied matter-of-factly,
“There are still superstitious people here. Although I can’t practice it for real, it’s not too hard to bluff using geomancy fortunetelling.”
Scarlett: …
So her mother, a legitimate geomancer of Demon descent, had a profession in the Otherworld as… a charlatan?
An inexplicable sense of bizarre coherence erged from the ridiculous.
Simultaneously, Scarlett realized she might have overlooked sothing.
Her mother’s ties with the Otherworld seed deeper than she had imagined.
In her view, being overly integrated into one world wasn’t ideal, as it might…
prevent her from leaving.
A concerning thought flashed across Scarlett’s mind.
She decided to search for Jasmine Hamilton and the Undying Bone today.
She wished to gather everyone and leave the Otherworld soon.
Just as she was about to speak, the skies above suddenly darkened.
On instinct, she looked up and saw the sky appear shrouded in a layer of mist.
This mist felt strangely familiar.
“It’s the Black Mist!”
Her wrist was seized by Magnolia beside her as she heard her mother’s sowhat irritable voice, uttering coldly,
“Tch, that annoying old guy that won’t die is here again!”
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