Having soothed Yu Linglong, Mu Jinyu then turned his head to look at Lin Qiaoxia who was standing nearby, her pale face showing hints of aggrievement and longing.
Afterward, he wrapped one arm around Yu Linglong's slender waist, and extended his other hand towards her.
Lin Qiaoxia's slightly aggrieved face immediately broke into a smile, and she too threw herself into Mu Jinyu's warm embrace.
Before long, Lin Qiaoxia also fell asleep exhausted in Mu Jinyu's arms.
Mu Jinyu looked at the two women in his arms, his expression filled with a mix of pity and helplessness, then he picked up Yu Linglong on his back and lifted Lin Qiaoxia in his arms.
He then turned to look at the expressions of Father Lin, Mother Lin, and Yu Xiuwen, which were somewhat complicated, and said, "Uncle, Aunt, can you walk?"
"Yes, let's hurry and leave this place," Yu Xiuwen did not want to remain in this godforsaken place any longer.
Unlike their daughter whose spirits were fragile and who, after experiencing great fluctuations of emotion, fell asleep defenselessly in Mu Jinyu's arms without a sense of crisis, they were still afraid that criminals might come at any time. Therefore, even though they were exhausted and wanted to sleep, they had to suppress their drowsiness and urgently leave the place first.
"Alright, follow me," Mu Jinyu said.
After saying this, carrying one and holding the other, he led the way out of the room, and to avoid frightening the parents of the two girls, he intentionally took a detour to avoid passing by the clown's room.
After Mu Jinyu led them out of the abandoned factory,
he took out his cell phone and called his subordinates, asking them to send cars over and commence the cleanup.
If it were just Yu Linglong and Lin Qiaoxia, Mu Jinyu could have carried them and rushed all the way back to the Seaview Garden Villa District.
But with three more people present, he couldn't rush back home with everyone, so they had to wait for the pickup.
Soon, several members of the Dragon King Hall sent over several executive cars. Mu Jinyu had someone open the rear door and gently placed Lin Qiaoxia, whom he was holding, in the back seat.
Then he closed the door, opened another car's door, and placed Yu Linglong inside.
Father Lin, Mother Lin, and Yu Xiuwen who stood to one side watched with a mix of envy and sourness.
How fortunate their daughters were! They were asleep, yet Mu Jinyu did not wake them but instead arranged a car for each to be taken home.
There they were, exhausted and beaten, without such a luxury, having to squeeze into a car with Mu Jinyu.
But, after all, these were their daughters.
They weren't truly dissatisfied.
After Mu Jinyu instructed his subordinates to deal with the clowns and the like inside the abandoned factory, he got into the passenger seat of a car and signaled the driver to leave.
After about fifteen minutes,
Mu Jinyu and his group had returned to Seaview Garden Villa District.
After getting out of the car, he again picked up Yu Linglong and Lin Qiaoxia and carried them back to their respective rooms, tucked them in, and after telling their parents to get some rest as well, he went back to his own Building King number one.
When he got back home,
it was already eleven o'clock at night.
The night was deep.
Mu Jinyu had been rushing around all day and hadn't had much for dinner, just a cup of milk tea while waiting at the milk tea shop, and by that time was feeling quite famished.
He had assumed that Su Zijin and the others would have gone to bed already.
But when Mu Jinyu arrived at his doorstep and saw the lights still on inside the house, he felt a twinge of guilt, but it was accompanied by a touch of emotion.
The feeling of having someone at home waiting for his return was rather nice.
When Mu Jinyu had been living on his own at Yinlong Mountain, where had he ever felt such sentiment?
Mu Jinyu silently vowed in his heart that he would never worry Su Zijin and the others again, and since he had become the new Dragon King of Dragon King Hall, he would also arrange for more experts to secretly protect those close to him, ensuring that occurrences like today never happened again.
He had just arranged for several experts to secretly protect Xu Qingya and Shen Shuyao as well.
"You're back, are you hungry? I'll go make you a late-night snack."
Su Zijin had been sitting on the sofa in the living room, frowning with worry. Hearing the sound of the door, she hurriedly stood up, and seeing that it was indeed Mu Jinyu who had come back, she looked relieved and asked with a smile.
Seeing the faint traces of fatigue between Su Zijin's brows, Mu Jinyu knew she was tired, so he shook his head and said with a smile, "No need, Mom, I'm not hungry. You should go and rest early."
After speaking, he turned to Gu Xiyan and the other women who also hadn't gone to rest and said, "The same goes for you all, go get some rest."
When Su Zijin heard Mu Jinyu call her "Mom" once again, her eyes and brows were filled with joy, and she hurriedly said, "It's okay, I'm not tired. You didn't eat well at lunch, and you missed dinner, too. If you don't have some late-night snack, it could harm your health. I'll just go and cook you some noodles."
Without heeding Mu Jinyu's advice, she rushed to the kitchen to prepare a late-night snack for him.
Seeing this, Mu Jinyu sighed helplessly and walked over to Gu Xiyan and the others.
"How are Linglong and Qiaoxia, are they okay?" Gu Xiyan, seeing Mu Jinyu return safely, guessed that they should be alright but still wanted to hear a definite answer to feel more at ease.
"Yeah, they're fine now. They had been starved by those madmen for several days without a drop of water, and were very weak, but I've already taken care of their health. Now they're alright and have gone home to rest," Mu Jinyu said, his voice tinged with a hint of weariness.
Wen Rou saw this and silently sat beside Mu Jinyu, raising her hand to massage his temples to ease his nerves.
Mei Yinxue also sat on the other side, pounding his back and rubbing his shoulders.
Not wanting to be outdone, Gu Xiyan directed Mu Jinyu to stretch out his legs on the coffee table so she could pound his legs for him.
Mu Jinyu looked at the three women massaging him and felt both amused and bewildered for a moment.
However, he also knew they were doing this because he was really tired; otherwise, with Mei Yinxue and Gu Xiyan's personalities, how could they let go of their pride and join Wen Rou in massaging him?
Soon, Su Zijin hurriedly finished cooking a bowl of fragrant longevity noodles and brought it to Mu Jinyu on a tray.
Looking at the steaming noodles, Mu Jinyu's already growling stomach couldn't help letting out a few more rumbling noises.
Listening to this, Su Zijin chuckled to herself.
"Hurry up and eat, you must be starving," Su Zijin handed the chopsticks to Mu Jinyu and then said to Gu Xiyan and the others, "There's plenty more in the kitchen, so if you're hungry, go have something too."
"Thanks, Mom." Although Gu Xiyan and the others had eaten dinner, they hadn't eaten much due to their worry for Yu Linglong and the others. Seeing Mu Jinyu wolfing down his food now made them feel quite peckish, and they also wanted to eat a bit more.
After having their late-night snacks, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
Instead of going straight to bed after returning to his room, Mu Jinyu made a phone call to Mu Hongchen, instructing her to arrange to wipe out Withered Tree Quest for Spring, who had disgusted him on several occasions!