Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 347 - 339: Hidden Merit and Fame

If it weren’t for the extremely bad weather, gathering manpower would have been easy. Unfortunately, due to the current special situation, coming in even once is not easy for them.

They are really in a dilemma now.

At that moment, someone triggered the restriction again. The scene before them changed, killing intent resurfaced, and bamboo leaves turned into sharp weapons, shooting towards everyone like a storm. As everyone spun and leaped, swords left afterimages, and in a flurry of chaos, they barely dodged the first wave of attack.

Before they could catch their breath, the forest suddenly turned pitch black, making the already dim night lose any glimmer of light completely, with dark undercurrents roaring beneath an unusual silence~!

Everyone could only hold their breath, quietly sensing their surroundings, and any signs of movement made their tense bodies react quickly. In an instant, a gust of wind came with a thunderous force, sweeping and roaring towards them.

Ah Li saved a subordinate who was nearly pierced through the chest, still trembling with fear, when another gust of wind whistled past his shoulder.

Having dodged a disaster, Ah Li saw two other subordinates fall to the ground with a scream, feeling deeply regretful, "Master?"

Gu Ming closed his eyes, as if making a difficult decision, "Tell the brothers to hold on for another half hour. If we still can’t find a way out, we give up."

"Yes!"

Silhouettes flashed by swiftly, swish, swish, swish...!

Blades cut through the air, clang, clang, clang...!

Inside the bamboo forest, it was crisscrossed and full of dangers, the fight was exceptionally intense. Outside the bamboo forest, someone was leisurely fondling a stone lion with their small hands.

Suddenly, there was a ’click!’

’Finally found it!’

With the sound, the bamboo forest quieted down.

Inside, people thought they had survived the crisis, and seeing the serene scene as immovable as a mountain, all the survivors hurriedly gathered behind Gu Ming.

"Follow carefully."

Gu Ming decisively walked the path in the middle, with Ah Li and the others following closely behind.

Unexpectedly, they kept walking and walking, and the forest on both sides did not undergo sudden changes, and no one triggered any traps or mechanism.

Everyone was very surprised, wondering how the previously perilous and ever-changing forest suddenly became as quiet as a chicken?

Until they walked out of the bamboo forest, nothing happened. The group exchanged glances, feeling very abnormal, worried it might be a trap.

How could they have passed so easily?

"Master, be careful of a trap." Ah Li said uneasily.

What trap?

Cheng Xiaoxiao, who kept her merits and fame hidden, turned and ran far away, unwilling to be discovered by this group of people.

A sharp-eyed subordinate noticed a piece of white paper pressed with small stones on the stone lion. If it weren’t for the paper’s color standing out in the dark, it would have been hard to spot.

"Boss, look at this, what is it?"

Ah Li took it in his hand, feeling vaguely it was a map, and quickly handed it to Gu Ming.

Yang Zihuan also came over, but due to the lighting, couldn’t make out the map content, "It seems someone is aiding us, but we don’t know if they are friend or foe."

"Let’s go, find a safe place."

Black-clad subordinates spread out to investigate, while Gu Ming took a few people to a hidden place, pulling out a delicate small cloth bag from his belt. When opened, a gentle glow emitted from inside.

It was a thumb-sized Luminous Pearl, and with its light, they were able to see the map clearly.

Their hearts were shocked, unable to calm down for a long time.

This was a layout map of the entire Ouyang Mansion. Not only were the buildings and layout vividly drawn, but it also highlighted the areas surrounded by the top fighters, as well as the positions and numbers of the hidden guards. Even their combat power levels were written clearly.

It looked like a sketch made by the person who arranged it all personally.

"Brother Gu, could this be a trap? Who would be so foolish to reveal their entire inner workings?"

Gu Ming took off his gloves, carefully tracing the lines on the map, "Do you know what these lines are drawn with?"

Everyone was puzzled, Gu Ming’s focus point seemed different from theirs. Shouldn’t they be considering the authenticity of the map? If they fell into someone else’s trap, it might be their demise.

No one answered Gu Ming, but he affirmed to himself, "This is a freshly drawn map, with an unprecedented style, likely from a woman’s hand, with simple and straightforward phrasing, sharp yet with hidden nuances—very contradictory."

Cheng Xiaoxiao almost coughed up blood, ’What did that black-clad leader say about me? Simple and straightforward phrasing, childish strokes.’

Hell with your childish strokes, can’t you appreciate, I wouldn’t have helped them if I knew, being kind-hearted is like feeding livers to donkeys.

Clearly, her drawing skills are top-notch.

As for that Tianqi script, she wouldn’t admit learning it haphazardly.

"Host, don’t you think that black-clad leader’s got some skills? He guessed it was drawn by a woman just from looking at it."

’Haha! A blind cat stumbles upon a dead mouse. There are only men and women in this world, it’s a 50% chance choice question. He probably thinks women are more foolish.’

Foolish enough to offer benefits and even doubted, despised.

System: "..."

It could say the host is indeed a woman, but wouldn’t that be dissing itself too?

The system didn’t dwell on the fool issue, asking, "Host, how did you know there was something off about that stone lion?"

Cheng Xiaoxiao replied perfunctorily, "I said I guessed, do you believe it?"

System...!

Yang Zihuan looked with wide eyes for a long time but couldn’t discern anything special, "Brother Gu, how can you tell a woman drew it?"

Gu Ming answered in a roundabout way, "Have you memorized the guard distributions on the map?"

Several nodded.

Except for the baffled Yang Zihuan, "Hey! You haven’t said if the map is reliable, how could you..."

"Let’s go, whether it’s reliable or not, we’ll find out."

Watching the group swiftly leaving the shadows, Yang Zihuan hurriedly followed, whispering, "Hey, wait for me!"

When Cheng Xiaoxiao finally managed to sneak into the central courtyard of the Ouyang Mansion, she bumped into the nighttime maids changing shifts.

She took the opportunity to knock out a maid about her size.

Changed into her clothes and quietly followed at the back of the line.

She blatantly entered the inner courtyard, and surely those hidden guards in the dark didn’t notice anything amiss.

Just as she entered a courtyard, she heard a maid dressed a bit tightly ordering in a commanding tone, "You guys go boil another pot of hot water."

Cheng Xiaoxiao was puzzled about what they were boiling hot water for in the middle of the night, wasn’t it deliberately making things difficult?

Just thinking this, with her good hearing, she heard sounds of harmony and struggle coming from the main house at the back of the side courtyard.

Oh well, apparently having good hearing isn’t always a good thing.

Which gentleman had such vigor, still working hard in the middle of the night?

Asking to boil another pot of water suggests they used up the previous supplies.

’77, is it interesting?’

Cheng Xiaoxiao teased. As a modern, career-driven woman at the forefront of the times, this was really nothing. This nationwide participatory fitness activity was conducive to promoting a harmonious societal development, adding bricks to national prosperity and growth, quite good.

"What’s so interesting about you humans’ reproductive activities, boring..."

Alright! It didn’t even know what shame was.

It was just exploiting human efforts.