Chapter 486 I Promise To Keep You Safe


    When Magee finally came back to the cave, he brought some food with him. But he didn''t find Emily


    there, so he searched the whole cave but found no trace of Emily everywhere.


    "Emily? Emily!" Magee called her name out loud but didn''t get a response. Only the echo of his voice


    bounced back to him and surrounded the empty cave.


    ''Where on earth did you go, Emily?'' Magee started to feel anxious.


    He put down the food and left the cave to find Emily. He looked around and tried to trace the possible


    path Emily took, but he realized it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.


    ''Perhaps Emily went out to look for me. She must be worried, otherwise, she won''t go out on her own. I


    should havee back early. No, I shouldn''t have left her alone in the first ce. What was I thinking?


    She is weak and injured. What if she slipped and fell over? What if she fell unconscious in the woods?


    What if she encountered a beast? No one was there to help her.''


    Magee tried to focus himself on finding her, but he couldn''t stop thinking of the worst case scenario that


    could have happened to Emily. The thought of her getting into trouble made him panic, ''I shouldn''t have


    taken her here in the first ce.''


    "Emily! Emily!" Magee kept shouting.


    Suddenly, he heard a response from somewhere not too far. "Sir!" It was his guards. They traced the


    route and found Magee.


    Magee was frustrated with them for showing up toote, but he would rather save his energy to find


    Emily. He clicked his tongue and said, "Listen up! Emily is missing. Go and find her! Move now!


    Whatever it takes, just find her!"


    "Yes, sir!" The guards were tired and would like to rest for a moment, but when they sensed the anger


    in Magee''s tone, they dared not to say anything.


    They knew that the only thing they could do right now to pacify Magee''s anger was to find Emily.


    Magee followed his guards in searching for Emily. She was injured so she couldn''t have gone too far,


    but they still couldn''t find any trace of her.


    "Sir, look at this! This looks like a footprint from Ms. Emily!" one of the guards suddenly said when he


    spotted a footprint.


    "Let me see it." Magee took a step forward and checked a fresh footprint on the muddy road.


    It was the same mark as the shoes that Emily was wearing. "It''s hers. She is not far away. And there''s


    a trail here. Let''s go. Follow them!"


    "Yes, sir!"


    Magee was hoping that these footprints would eventually lead them to Emily, however, some of them


    were lost in the puddle.


    They already reached a dead end of the trail and they lost track of Emily again.


    Magee was hopeless and desperate. He couldn''t even find a phone signal in this area. They had no


    choice but to look at every possible ce in this area to find Emily.


    ''God, please keep her safe until we find her. I won''t be able to forgive myself if something bad happens


    to her.


    I need to bring her back safe and sound, '' Magee told himself.


    ...


    Meanwhile, in vige head''s house.


    Mr. Yang could not keep Emily out of his mind. He wanted to see her, but he was afraid of his wife that


    he didn''t dare make a move.


    Emily knew that she was just temporarily safe, so she needed to befriend the silly boy Donny to get


    more information about the vige.


    The vige was like a secluded area. It was far away from the main road and the city which was why


    the vigers here didn''t know anything about the outside world. Mr. Yang became the head, and the


    biggest bully of the vige.


    The vigers lived here for generations and no one had the chance or the courage to leave the vige


    and see the outside world. They had been living the way they were and didn''t know about other ways


    of living. The male outnumbered the female poption, that was why most males didn''t have female


    companions and the poption started to diminish.


    Since Mr. Yang was aware of the existence of the vige, he found a solution to the poption


    problem.


    He managed to spread mysterious stories of the vige and the forest, thus attracting adventurous


    travelers. But the way the vige was tricky and only a few vigers knew the way out, so the travelers


    had to hire a local guide to get them in and out of the vige.


    If there were female travelers, they would be led back to the vige and be kept there until a male


    viger bought them to be a wife.


    It was illegal, but the viger didn''t know thew of the world, nor did they ever care.


    Emily was thinking about the other girls that were kept here. They didn''t have the chance to go back to


    their families again.


    "Miss Beauty, what''s in your mind?" Donny asked Emily in curiosity, "It''s your turn! Come on!"


    Emily suddenly came back to her senses, "Oh, all right."


    They were ying the Chinese rope weaving. Emily took the rope and quickly made it into another


    form, and then another.


    Donny pped his hands in excitement, "Miss Beauty, you really can do anything! It''s my turn!"


    Emily watched as Donny tried his turn in the game. She looked at his innocent smile and casually


    asked, "Donny, have you seen any people be rescued by the vigers recently?"


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    "Of course. We''ve helped a lot of people. They were lost and we saved them!" Donny believed


    everything Mrs. Yang had told him.


    "No, that''s not what I meant. Not someone lost their way. More like someone who was seriously


    injured," Emily exined.


    Donny thought for a while and suddenly raised his voice, "Yes! I remember there was someone! Mr.


    Barefoot saved a dying man. He cured him. It was like magic!"


    "A dying man?" Emily''s eyes sparkled with hope, "Did you see him? What does he look like?"


    "Well, I did." But Donny didn''t continue. He seemed quite unhappy.


    "Can you tell me more? I really want to know, please. I can give you this if you tell me." Emily tried to


    ease his nerves.


    She picked up a golden straw and twisted into a cute ring. She put it in Donny''s finger. "Here, this is for


    you."


    Donny was thrilled. "It''s so beautiful! My mom has a ring, too! Does that mean you''re my wife now? I''m


    so happy!"


    Donny''s childishugh reminded Emily of her lost baby. She paused for a moment and tried to hold the


    tears back. She then asked, "Can you tell me now, please?"


    Donny paused for a moment while he yed with the straw ring quietly, then said slowly, "He is a good-


    looking person, just like you. But I don''t like him at all."


    "And why is that?"


    "Because all the girls in this vige like him instead of me. They don''t y with me. They just want to


    y with him."


    "Really?" Emily described to Donny what Jacob looked like. She then paused and asked, "Is that what


    he looked like?"


    Donny nodded obediently and said, "I think it''s him."


    Emily was almost sure that it was Jacob, but she still couldn''t put her hopes high until she could see


    him in person.


    That would be the only time she would believe.


    "Miss Beauty, you can''t like him. You can''t do that! I won''t allow you to do that!" Donny was now


    jumping with his arms waving in the air, "You can only like me! I promise to be good to you all the time


    and will keep you safe!"


    Emily smoothed his hair and tapped him on the shoulder, "Don''t worry. I was just trying to get to know


    the vige. And thank you for being nice to me, Donny."