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Chapter 343 Ghost hits the wall

After Fu Wen left, everyone else remained in the house. Although Lu Yan was persuaded by Lu Qing, he was clearly still holding back his anger. He sat there with a dark expression and didn't say a word.

The others all had silver needles stuck in their fingertips, and the constant stinging kept them awake, but none of them spoke either. If you listened from outside the house at this moment, you would probably think that the house was completely empty.

Yan Daoxin persevered until he could vaguely see the gradually brightening sky through the window paper, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

“It’s already dawn, so it’s probably not a big problem. No one came to do anything all night, so it’s even less likely that it would happen in broad daylight,” he said to the others.

Lu Zhang was somewhat worried and uneasy, but after staying up all night, he was really struggling to stay awake. However, he was too proud to admit that he would be ridiculed if he was the one who couldn't stay awake while others were still persevering.

In contrast, Yan Shu had far fewer concerns. Upon hearing Yan Daoxin's words, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, removed the silver needles herself, helped Yan Daoxin put them back into the needle case, and went back to her room to sleep while yawning.

Lu Yan had always assumed that Yan Shu, who called himself "Yan Wei," was like Zhu Yu, a strategist that Lu Zhang and Lu Qing took with them when they went out. In addition, he had always looked down on Lu Zhang. Now that he saw Yan Shu going back to rest so casually, he couldn't help but laugh.

"I never expected this young man to look so frail, but he has quite the courage. With that composure, he seems like a real hero," he teased meaningfully.

Lu Qing and Yan Daoxin pretended not to hear, but Lu Zhang's expression was much more complicated.

At this moment, what he felt most complicated was not Lu Yan's veiled insults, but the thought that the person who was "brave and a good man" was actually his betrothed. He was unsure whether to feel more joy or sorrow.

Lu Qing also took Zhu Yu's hand and quickly and steadily removed the silver needles from her fingertips one by one: "It's dawn, you should go and rest too."

Zhu Yu was different from others. She persevered for the entire night. As someone with no martial arts skills, she had needles inserted into all ten fingers to stay awake. At this point, she was indeed starting to feel the strain. Once all ten needles were removed, she quickly felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier.

Just as she was drifting off to sleep, she suddenly remembered something and forced herself to stay awake to ask Lu Qing, "When you went out to scout the terrain of Fairy Castle last night, did you hear anyone letting out a shrill scream?"

“No,” Lu Qing answered with certainty. “It was extremely quiet outside last night. I didn’t hear the screams I vaguely heard in my sleep.”

"It seems that the person is actually closer to this courtyard, and farther away from the fort."

But... there are no houses or anything around this little courtyard, so where did the sound come from...?" Zhu Yu analyzed, but her eyelids were so heavy that she could barely lift them. She barely finished speaking before falling asleep.

"Alright, stop standing guard here, let's all go back to our rooms and rest!" Yan Daoxin waved to Lu Yan and Lu Zhang. "In the current situation, eating well, drinking well, and resting well are the safest things to do."

Lu Yan nodded, yawned, got up and walked out to his room. Lu Zhang quickly got up and followed him out.

And so, after a night of turmoil, except for Fuwen who went out to gather information and Fulu who insisted on guarding the door no matter what, everyone else was finally able to get some sleep and relieve the fatigue from struggling to stay awake all night.

When Zhu Yu woke up again, the room was empty. She got up, tidied her clothes and hair, pushed open the door and went out. She looked up at the height and position of the sun outside and guessed that it should have just passed Chenshi (7-9 AM).

She went downstairs and saw Lu Qing and Yan Daoxin sitting in the living room.

"Why are you up so quickly? Shouldn't you rest a little longer?" Lu Qing asked as she approached. Zhu Yu waved her hand, noticing a few pieces of cake on the table, placed on a handkerchief, and asked with some confusion, "What's this...?"

“You were all asleep just now when those servants came to bring breakfast,” Yan Daoxin told Zhu Yu with a wry smile. “You were all still asleep, and we told them we’d come back later to clean up the dishes, but they didn’t react at all.”

We both felt that the reaction was unreliable, so we simply ate the soup and broth that was not good to keep first, and then found a large cloth, poured the cakes and pastries over it, and put them aside.

And guess what? Those guys arrived right on time, rummaged around packing their things, and left as usual, ignoring everything we said!
If it weren't for our quick thinking in wrapping the cakes and pastries separately in a handkerchief, none of you would have had breakfast and would have gone hungry!

Zhu Yu frowned, finding the reactions of those servants increasingly strange.

Lu Qing silently picked out a piece of cake, handed it to her, and then stuffed a cup of tea into her hand: "Eat something first, you can think about it later after you've filled your stomach."

What he said was true; the group of them were essentially trapped in this small courtyard, unable to go anywhere, and they certainly had plenty of time.

Zhu Yu quickly ate something to eat and then left the guest room.

The servants had just taken away the breakfast not long ago, and it wasn't lunchtime yet. The courtyard was quiet, and there was no sign of anyone coming.

So Zhu Yu decided to give it a try.

When she got close to the entrance of the courtyard, she held her breath and walked quickly out. Although the directions were complicated and winding, she did not have any hallucinations whether she looked forward or backward.

But there will always come a time when you can't hold your breath any longer.

When she could no longer bear it and caught her breath, that dazed feeling instantly washed over her. After groping her way in the right direction for a while and turning a few corners, Zhu Yu found herself back at the entrance of the courtyard.

Even if she held her breath beforehand and walked out, nothing changed; she was already trapped in a maze.

So she stopped trying, went back to the courtyard, sat on the stone steps under the eaves, rested her chin on her hand, and pondered to herself.

At noon, the servants came again to deliver lunch.

Having heard what Yan Daoxin had said, Zhu Yu became bolder.

Just to be on the safe side, she placed the talisman nearby to keep watch, so she could intervene promptly if anything went wrong.

"Don't worry, Second Master, with me here, anyone who dares to lay a finger on you will be sent to meet their ancestor!" Fu Lu said, patting his chest.

"Okay, I feel relieved to hear that." Zhu Yu nodded with a smile, ready to confidently go over and "bully" someone.

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