I know where the item is.

The commotion over there eventually drew the attention of Moli, who had been immersed in the delicious taste of the gourd. She had no worries that whatever her son fed her might be inedible.

"Hurry up and find it! Search!" roared the man sitting in his wheelchair, looking as though he wished he could leap to the ground and search himself.

"It's him!" Moli swallowed the last bite of the gourd and muttered to herself.

That man was none other than the one who had been crippled by Xiao when they first entered the Illusory Hualan Continent. He was also the eldest young master of the Feng family, Feng Guojing, and Feng Wujiang's own elder brother.

"Damn it! Which bastard stole my treasure? Are you all tired of living?"

"You few, seal off this alley from end to end right now! Search everyone here one by one, and search thoroughly! Even if someone swallowed it, I'll make him spit it out!"

Seething with rage, Feng Guojing vented his fury on his subordinates.

Upon hearing that they were going to be searched, the people who had been stopped by this sudden chaos reacted differently; some resigned themselves to fate while others protested indignantly, and the scene instantly descended into disorder.

Moli and her companions were shoved and squeezed into a corner among the crowd.

"What right do you have to stop us from leaving and search us? Is there no longer any justice in this world?"

A rather exquisitely featured woman stepped forward, pointing right at Feng Guojing's nose and cursing.

"Ha! Justice? You're talking to our Feng family about justice? Are you tired of living?" Feng Guojing sneered and shouted arrogantly, a lewd smile spreading across his face when he caught sight of the woman's delicate features.

"Little Sanzi, grab her for me."

"Considering that you're not bad-looking, I'll spare you from a public search. I'll give you special treatment, and we can search each other privately—haha!"

Feng Guojing stared fixedly at the woman's chest, saliva practically dripping from the corners of his mouth.

"Bah! You shameless scoundrel!"

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and search them one by one! If you don't find the item, every single one of you can go report back to King Yama!" Although cursed by the beauty, Feng Guojing was not in a rush; his priority was ordering his subordinates to find the object.

"This... Xiao, let's think of a way!"

Among the people standing at the front were two or three fresh and delicate young women. Moli clearly saw the thugs using the pretext of the search to make crude gestures and take heavy liberties with the girls.

The girls' cries of shame and anger echoed intermittently through the crowd, plunging the entire alleyway into utter chaos. Meanwhile, the chief culprit, Feng Guojing, looked thoroughly amused, staring excitedly at his subordinates and giving them free rein to commit outrages.

Moli could simply no longer bear to watch. Even now, she still did not realize that the item Feng Guojing was desperately looking for had already gone into her own stomach.

Long'er's eyes had been covered by Xiao Junwang's hand long ago, out of fear that such unsuitable sights might corrupt the child.

"That fellow wields considerable influence; otherwise, how could so many people dare to be angry yet afraid to speak out?"

"The thing he lost is extremely valuable. If you don't want to attract attention, later on you should..." Xiao Junwang murmured the rest in a whisper, leaning close to Moli's ear.

"No! They are innocent. A third of the people here are women. Now that they are being humiliated like this, how will they ever be able to marry in the future?"

The moment she heard his arrangement, Moli immediately protested. Asking her to hide behind him to escape this disaster while watching fellow citizens being tormented by a bully—how could she possibly do that?

"Stop right there, Feng Guojing!"

"I know where the thing you want is! Let these people go this instant!"

Once Moli became stubborn, no one could hold her back. Before Xiao Junwang could stop her, she had already taken the lead, stretching her neck out in the crowd to shout at Feng Guojing while waving her raised arm in time with her loud voice.