Why did you provoke me?

Nangong Tianshou knew he couldn't leave. He took out his communication bell and was about to turn it on.

Fake Fairy smiled and said, "If you're trying to send a message to someone on that dirt road with two old willow trees, I suggest you save your breath."

Nangong Tianshou looked at him, and Jia Xian'er waved the things in her hand, "They're all here." Then she casually tossed the things to Nangong Tianshou, "Check them, I've really been worrying myself sick."

Nangong Tianshou's face was grim.

"Don't worry, I know he's one of yours. He's just been knocked unconscious, not dead. Let's go, I have a place to stay over there, we'll wait there."

Inside the dilapidated house.

Yu Er looked at the people they had dragged in and asked, "Did you find anything useful?"

"No, I only have a small amount of money."

Do you have any weapons?

"There is a dagger."

"I found a tranquilizer gun. Looks like it's for dealing with wild animals."

Jing Er came back from outside. "I hid the car. There was water and a small amount of food inside. I just didn't dare to touch it."

"Yu Er, look, I found this! A communication bell!" A surprised voice came over.

"Quickly, see if we can get in touch with Secretary Wu?" Jing Er became anxious. He had already missed the time to contact Secretary Wu. "He hasn't received our message; he must be terribly worried."

Yu Er sat there looking at Jing Er, "Do you think they'll find out we're in trouble?"

Everyone looked at Jing Er.

"When we left, Secretary Wu told me to send him a message at that time to let him know we were safe. Now that so much time has passed, he should know that something happened to us."

"Will they come to rescue us?" someone asked, though no one knew whose voice it was.

After a long while, a voice said uncertainly, "They should come, right?"

Jing Er took a deep breath. "They will definitely come. They won't abandon us." She repeated, "They will definitely come."

"But they also said that time, if we..."

Everyone knows how ruthless Secretary Wu was back then. Did they really bring this upon themselves? But they just wanted to go back quickly. They didn't provoke this incident, so they should be forgiven, right?

Yu Er took a deep breath. "There's no use thinking about this now. If we go back on our own, it'll only be a few days late, and we should be able to get through. But we might be punished."

"I don't care what punishment you give me, I'll accept it, just don't kick us out." A voice spoke very softly, but the room was so quiet that everyone heard what he said.

"That's what I think too."

"Me too."

"I finally have a place to stay, I don't want to become a homeless person."

……

Yu Er looked at Jing Er, "Senior Brother, what do you say?"

Jing Er felt a pang of sorrow in his heart; he, too, was a pitiful person with nowhere to go.

But these people still acknowledge him as their senior brother, so he can't back down now.

"Those things can be dealt with after we get back. Right now, the main thing is for us to recover our strength and be able to protect ourselves. We've suffered such a huge loss this time, and if we don't take revenge, we'll be unworthy of being called monsters."

"Yes, we absolutely cannot let this go."

"Find them and break their legs."

"They're really bold to lay a hand on us. We'll definitely get our revenge a hundredfold."

The word "retaliate" immediately piqued everyone's interest.

Yu Er seized the opportunity to guide the conversation, saying, "Who says we don't have weapons? Lines are the best weapon."

"Oh right, how could I forget? Our lines can kill chickens. Even if they don't kill people, stunning them is no problem."

The person lying at the doorway didn't seem to have been done by them.

Yu Er looked at these people helplessly. Most of them came from remote rural areas and mountainous regions. They didn't know many words and no one had taught them how to scheme against others. So when someone taught them something, they compressed their eating and sleeping time to the extreme, which is how they stood out from hundreds of people in the selection process.

But some things just can't be achieved through effort alone.

Last time they went to the first battlefield, with Xiao Wen and Du Wen protecting them, they didn't even get a scratch. In the second battlefield, Nangong Tianshou also protected them very well. Who knew they would be ambushed on the way home and suffer such a big setback? Everyone was holding their breath, burning with anger. If they didn't vent it, they would remember it for the rest of their lives.

"Bring us food and water. We need to recover our strength quickly. Who knows if there are other enemies?" Yu Er shouted.

Jing Er hesitated, "Are these things really edible? Will they be like last time?"

Another long silence followed.

Jing Er fiddled with the intercom, trying to contact Secretary Wu, but unfortunately, all attempts failed.

They looked like abandoned dogs, each one huddled up, trying to shrink their size and minimize their presence.

Lei Er slammed his fist on the door. "Get up, all of you! We weren't afraid when we became monsters, so what are you afraid of now? It was someone else who schemed against us, not us. The sect should be reasonable, and we'll argue our case then. You're already backing down? What kind of coward are you? You've given up? A bunch of cowards! Don't let me, Lei Er, look down on you!" Lei Er's loud, honest voice was practically splitting as he shouted.

Everyone looked up at Lei Er, seeing his face turn red with anger and shouting, and his eyes that looked like they were about to burst into flames.

"Lei Er, you look really ugly right now." A voice rang out.

"Yes, you're really ugly. With looks like that, what girl would dare to marry you?"

"Wow, that's really something! He even dares to yell at his second uncle. What an unfilial son!"

"Yes, Lei Er, you unfilial son, you think you're so great, you don't even respect your elders anymore."

Everyone chimed in with their own criticisms of Lei Er, but Lei Er didn't get angry. He just smiled憨厚ly, as if he wasn't the one who had just been angry.

Yu Er and Jing Er both breathed a sigh of relief. Lei Er's antics had brought everyone's spirits back.

Exactly, they're already in this state, what's there to be afraid of? Why should they wait like pathetic creatures for someone to save them?

"Cheer up, everyone! When we came out of the mountains, we had nothing either. Now, at least we still have our lines and our weapons," an older man shouted.

"Yeah, let's fucking get him. We've never been afraid of anyone. At worst, I'll kneel down and beg Teacher Qing. I heard she has the softest heart."

"I thought you were so capable, but this is nothing? I could do that too!"

The topic changed so quickly that Jing Er was a little caught off guard. It started talking about how to ask the teacher to let them stay when they got back.

"Quiet down, it sounds like someone's coming again?" the person peering out the window shouted.

"Is anyone mobile? Try to crawl out the door, and we should make it look like we're calling for help," Yu Er began to direct.

"Don't be too quiet. We're just idiots; of course we'll call for help when we see someone coming. Just pretend."

"Sigh, I'll just pretend to be unconscious."

"Tch, I knew you were cunning."

"When they get close, you know what to do, right?"

"Sigh, I know, it's all about appearance, isn't it?"

I don't know who asked the question, or who answered it. Anyway, it was quite harmonious.