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“That Yu Man,”
Jiang g paused for a moment, then said calmly, “She’s most likely been captured by the vilge chief, or she might be dead.”
It’s quite on to enter the deaths of teammates in nightmares, but usually, it’s caused by ghosts. It’s rare for someone like Yu Man to be harmed by an NP a mission.
Xiaomeng didn’t want to specute about what Yu Man might face if she fell into the hands of the vilge chief and others. In fact, she even hoped that Yu Man would die before being captured.
“Don’t think so much,” Jiang g’s voice came through, “Instead of w about others, you should focus on yourself. No matter what happens to Yu Man, it’s already a fact, aher of us ge it.”
“If you don’t want to end up like her, pull yourself together, find the clues, a out of here as soon as possible.”
Xiaomeng’s earlier hesitation was only based ohy as a fellow woman, but after a brief moment, a look of determinatiouro her face. “Let’s go in,” she whispered.
Jiang g held a metal pie his hand and was the first to croud slip through the secret door.
Xiaomeng followed behind him.
The spaside was very narrow, and they could only move forward by bending over.
But this also made Jiang g, who was leading the way, less nervous.
He judged that Li Lu wouldn’t choose to ambush them here.
After turning several ers, they kept going upward. Jiang g mentally ted the steps until they reached the top of the stairs.
Above them, there was a trapdoor with a simple wire handle on it.
Based on the number of steps, they were now ohird floor of the inn.
Both of them realized that behind this trapdoor was the secret room where Qian Jianxiu lived.
Success or failure depended on this moment.
Jiang g gripped the handle and looked back at Xiaomeng. She him, signaling that she was ready.
After taking a deep breath, Jiang g quickly flipped operapdoor, dashed out of the revealed hole, and immediately stepped sideways to clear the opening.
Xiaomeng appeared shortly after.
Though the room was dark, Jiang g immediately reized it as not a secret room but the room they had stayed in earlier, Room 307.
The secret door was hidden uhe wooden table and was very cealed. Once closed, it was hard to spot the crack from ihe room.
A chill ran through both of them simultaneously.
Who would have thought that a secret passage was hidden in the room they had stayed in? If they had fallen asleep, the innkeeper and his people could have burst in, and the sequences would have been unthinkable.
At the same time, Jiang g also realized ahing that had happened earlier.
No wohe innkeeper, Qian Jianxiu, had immediately grabbed a knife and rushed to Room 307 after notig someoside. He hadn’t just been suspicious of them; he had been firming whether the secret passage had been exposed.
The bloody footprints disappeared here.
Jiang g and Xiaomeng worked in perfect sync, cheg uhe bed, in the wardrobe, and ihroom, pces where people could hide. They found nothing.
Opening the door, they saw the same lonely debra at the end of the hallway.
The pt of the debra was odd—it ositioned in the exact middle of the wall, her higher nor lower, which made its illumination quite limited.
Behind the wall at the end of the hall was the secret room where Qian Jianxiu lived.
Xiaomeng’s eyes grew strange.
The two of them carefully walked toward the end of the hallway, one behind the other.
Xiaomeng, keeping a oer distance from Jiang g, stayed alert to any movement around them. In her mind, the door to the room could open at any time, and someone could rush out with a knife.
They reached the end of the hallway, where the wall stood.
The wall was dark, and even with the dlelight, it gave off an uling feeling. From beyond the wall, it felt as though a chilly wind was leaking out. Xiaomeng subsciously swallowed.
Jiang g found the cra the secret door on the wall, gently pressed on it, and the door opened slightly.
This made them both sigh in relief.
Their biggest worry was that they couldn’t open the secret door. After finding the clue, if they failed to open the door, everything would have been for nothing. They would probably be so angry they could spit blood.
Jiang g gripped the cra the secret door, and his arm slowly exerted force.
The weight of the door was beyond their expectations, and he didn’t want to make too muoise, so after widening the crack, Jiang g cautiously leaned closer to the gap and peered inside.
It was very dark inside. He couldn’t see the white dles that Zh had mentioned earlier. He could only vaguely make out some blurred, deep bck shapes, likely furniture.
As his gaze swept around the room, he suddenly noticed what seemed to be a drical object standing in the back, about as tall as a person, like a high stool.
However...
Just as he focused his vision to figure out what this object was, a cold fsh of light suddenly passed through the darkness. At the very st sed, Jiang g fell backward.
Almost immediately, a gleaming dagger appeared where Jiang g’s eyes had been.
If he had been a half-sed slower, that dagger would have pierced his eye socket.
After the failed strike, the dagger quickly retracted, and the already slightly opened secret door smmed shut with a loud noise.
Everything happened so quickly that when Xiaomeed and rushed forward, the secret door had already closed, and the gap was o be found.
“Bastard!” Xiaomeng kicked the secret door.
The door was so thick that it didn’t even tremble.
Jiang g quickly got up.
Without a doubt, they had once again fallen into Li Lu’s trap.
That drical object behind the secret door was where Li Lu had been hiding, waiting to ambush them.
He had been w why Li Lu had been so cautious along the way and hadn’t made a mistake like leaving the secret door open. It turned out this had been arap.
Now the secret door was pletely shut.
Finding the meism to open it might not be too difficult, but it would take up precious time, and time was exactly what they cked.
A few seds after the door closed, the thing they had been most worried about finally happened.
“Vroom…”
Both Jiang g and Xiaomeng’s hearts skipped a beat.
The door appeared.
A faint light fshed, and the iron door appeared in Qian Jianxiu’s secret room.
In a certain sehis game was already over.
Li Lu was the ultimate winner.
She would undoubtedly get all the rewards.
As for Jiang g and Xiaomeng, all they could do now was ehe secret room before the door disappeared and go back to their own world through the door.
There was no point thinking about rewards; surviving would be good enough.
Just as the two of them stood in front of the door, trying to figure out the meism to open it, they suddenly heard a loud crash.
The sound came from downstairs, and it sounded like a door had been forcibly opened.
Then came a flurry of chaotic footsteps, rushing up the stairs.
“Old Four!!”
A heart-wreng shout came from downstairs, shaking Jiang g’s eardrums.
It was the vilge chief from Xiao Shijian Vilge. If Jiang g hadn’t heard it with his own ears, he wouldn’t have believed that the vilge chief, in his sixties, could have such explosive power.
(End of the Chapter)
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