Why did you provoke me?

Hearing Yu Meng's words, the cripple gritted his teeth in anger, "You're just making excuses."

Yu Meng frowned. "Don't you people care about these things? That shouldn't be the case!"

The lame man was so angry he laughed. "What does my sighing at home have to do with you walking on the street?"

"It's okay! But I heard it, so it's a problem." Yu Meng felt that what she said made no mistake.

The cripple almost dropped his dagger.

"Then what do you want?" the cripple conceded.

"Oh, I'd like to know who you owe a favor to?" Yu Meng glanced at him. "That's not too difficult for you, is it?"

The lame man's expression was complicated, but he wasn't embarrassed. "A woman named Fairy Maiden."

"Never heard of her? If I asked about her background, would you tell me?"

The lame man shook his head.

"Let me rephrase the question: Is she young and beautiful?"

The lame man nodded hesitantly.

Yu Meng smiled and looked at him. "There's one more question. How old is she this year?"

The lame man didn't say anything.

Yu Meng held out a simple, ordinary-looking bracelet. "This is my Illusion Bead, made from alien material. It's never failed," Yu Meng explained simply. "Want to try it?"

The cripple had already closed his eyes when Yu Meng picked up the bracelet. He felt his consciousness was becoming somewhat blurred.

Yu Meng's voice continued, "I have no ill intentions towards you, but you have done things that are detrimental to me. I don't like to nitpick, so I'm only asking questions that you can answer."

"She was from a wealthy family. That year, I went down the mountain to gain experience and encountered a group of madmen parasitized by aliens. During the struggle, my leg was broken, and she saved me. So I owed her a favor," the cripple said simply.

Yu Meng looked at him with a half-smile, "How did she, a girl, manage to save you from that group of lunatics?"

The lame man didn't speak.

"I won't ask about that. You know they brought a few bone-drawing masters this time, right?"

The cripple looked at Yu Meng and asked, "Who exactly are you? Aren't you the woman from that group?"

"You've all set up a trap to catch me, and you don't even know who I am?" Yu Meng said sarcastically.

She raised the magic bead in her hand. "I have great respect for extraordinary people like you, so I don't want to push things too far. But you've already wasted my time. You can tell me what you have to say. If you're willing, I can also pull out that line with the Gu worm in your brain."

The cripple looked at Yu Meng in surprise, "You could tell that too? You're that Yu..."

"It's me," Yu Meng nodded in acknowledgment.

"But what are you doing here?" the lame man asked in confusion.

"It has something to do with you."

"Huh? How does this have anything to do with me?"

Yu Meng snapped her fingers, and the little black cat suddenly appeared on the cripple's head. "Don't move. I've removed this hidden danger for you. You'd better say what you need to say."

The cripple stared blankly at Yu Meng, mouth agape. "Can it really be removed?"

As he spoke, Yu Meng's hand moved, and he held a pure black line in his hand, twisting it incessantly.

The cripple seemed to have lost all his strength; he leaned against the windowsill and slumped limply to the ground.

Yu Meng's Overlord didn't hold back and directly rolled the lines into the backpack.

The cripple lowered his head, sat on the ground, his shoulders began to tremble, and then he burst into tears.

Yu Meng was stunned. Was this still a man? Why was he crying like this?

It took a full ten minutes before the cripple wiped away his tears. "Ask away," he said, "I'll tell you everything I know."

"How many bone-drawing masters did they send this time, and where do they plan to operate?" Yu Meng asked, getting straight to the point.

"What I know is that twelve bone-drawing masters went there, saying they could form a net that could cover the sky and the earth. There are two locations, one is on the banks of the Huma River, and the other is Xiong Guanling."

"Your body has been severely eroded by these lines. If you'd like, you can go to my club and find Secretary Wu, and have him arrange for someone to treat you." Yu Meng's words drifted into the air, and she had already disappeared.

The cripple heard Yu Meng's words, but he remained seated on the ground.

He stared blankly at the ground, still unable to believe that his nightmare had been so easily erased.

He laughed, then cried. He tossed and turned like this for half the night until dawn, then packed a small bundle, closed the door (but didn't lock it), and left.

Knowing the exact locations, Yu Meng sent a message to Jing San, telling him to avoid those two places as much as possible.

Jing San looked at the communication bell in his hand. He knew there was no way to avoid it now; their current resting place was on the banks of the Huma River.

Zhang Zhen looked at the message with a sense of helplessness. "We originally intended to lure the enemy here, but we didn't expect to walk into their encirclement. To be honest with Teacher Yu, this was my mistake."

Jing San turned off the intercom. "Then it was your mistake. Wasn't this a decision made by the four of us?"

"Teacher Yu told us to avoid this place, do you really want to try it?"

"Hmph, why should we be the ones to back down? I'm going to give him a piece of my mind! Teacher Yu said to try to avoid it, but we can't avoid it, can we?"

As they spoke, Jing San and Zhang Zhen both received messages via their communication ringtones: "Signs of someone infiltrating 500 meters away have been detected, suspected to be the enemy. Should we launch an attack?"

Zhang Zhen hesitated for a moment, but still gave the order, "Attack, disrupt their rhythm."

Then he looked at Jing San and said, "The bone painter is yours now. The warrior is Liu Wei and my type."

The group quickly separated, and Jing San replied to Yu Meng's message, "We've already matched up, we can't leave."

Yu Meng stared at Jing San's message, remaining silent for a long while. These people had been having too much luck lately; they'd become a bit arrogant. She could have gone directly to the Huma River to meet them, but now she decided to wait and teach them a lesson. She wanted to show them that there are always people more powerful than themselves.

Jing'er looked at the figures in the distance. "Teacher Yu, aren't we going to make a move?"

Yu Meng remained calm and composed, saying, "With us here, they will be fine. The enemy hasn't revealed their true abilities yet. Don't you want to see what they're capable of? This is a great opportunity to learn."

Jing Er's eyes lit up, while Yu Er behind her seemed lost in thought. Studying at a time like this? Teacher Yu is really domineering!

Just like the last time Yu Meng was attacked, people were approaching from all four directions.

There were more people than Yu Meng had expected, and the number of guards had increased several times over. They were leaving her no way out! But it was strange, why didn't they kill the guild hall?

Niannian was awakened by the gunfire outside. She was about to crawl out of the tent when Sijiu, who was guarding the door, stopped her. "Niannian, don't go out yet. We don't know where the enemy's Bone Painter is hiding. This is the battlefield for the guards."

Niannian didn't listen to him. "I can shoot. More people mean more strength. If we don't take down those guards now, we'll have to pay attention to the battlefield when the Bone Painter fights later. I don't have that skill."

"Then I'll go with you. We're both really good at shooting."

"Okay, let's go over there." Niannian didn't head towards the area with the most intense firepower. She found a very calm direction, climbed up a big tree by the river, and hid.

Sijiu followed suit and climbed another big tree.