Why did you provoke me?

Yu Meng noticed that Niannian was frowning and couldn't help but offer a suggestion.

"We're not good at rescue operations in these kinds of complex terrains."

Niannian was tapping on the communication bell when she heard this and looked up. "I know, I'll send him my location first. Fourth Sister, the communication bell is working, so we should be able to sense each other's locations, right?"

"Yes," Yu Meng replied affirmatively.

"Let me ask him what's going on, whether he can still walk?" Niannian said casually.

After thinking for a moment, she looked at Yu Meng and said, "Fourth Sister, let's talk to Uncle Wu about this. He knows a lot."

"Yes, I've already messaged Uncle Wu. Our task now is to stay in touch."

"This flower is so sparse, it's really lucky," Niannian couldn't help but sigh. "If it weren't for Fourth Sister, you want to come and see this big depression, we would have missed it."

Yu Meng nodded. She thought that if she hadn't punched through the deep pit with her foot, the message from the communication bell probably wouldn't have been transmitted.

……

Hua Shulang saw another message on the intercom and quickly checked it. "How's the situation? Can we still walk?"

"Yes, we don't know where we are," came Hua Shulang's hoarse voice.

"I've sent my location, let's see if you can receive it." Nian Nian's messages came quickly, one after another.

The team members surrounding Hua Shulang saw her speaking hoarsely into their palms, and their breathing became lighter.

"We've found the location; look, there's a sand wall in front of us."

Niannian's message came again. "Aren't we...you're not alone?"

Hua Shulang glanced at the team members around him; he knew how many there were without even counting.

"There are 21 people," Hua Shulang said softly.

"So many? Did you get caught in an earthquake?" Niannian forgot to use text this time and sent a voice message directly.

The clear female voice sounded quite unexpected in the cave.

It took Hua Shulang a while to react. "You are... Nian Nian?"

"Huh, he recognized my voice?" Niannian was quite surprised this time.

She turned to look at Yu Meng, "I'm not familiar with him at all."

"I know," Yu Meng said with a smile.

"Then I'll just admit it." A smile appeared on Nian Nian's face. After all, being remembered is always a good thing.

Then Hua Shulang heard Niannian's voice again.

"Yes, it's me, and my fourth sister too."

When Hua Shulang heard Niannian say this, he really wanted to ask them why they came to the Fourth Battlefield, and whether they had received his life-saving message.

But with so many people talking, he put the idea back.

"Hang in there a little longer. I've already messaged Uncle Wu, and he'll bring professionals to rescue you." Niannian's long speech gave everyone underground a much-needed boost of confidence.

"Yes, I will." Hua Shulang simply replied with two words.

The communication bell was turned off, and the surrounding team members slowly approached Hua Shulang. "Captain, who are they?"

"They are two bone-drawing masters from Jingchuan." Hua Shulang didn't say more.

"Are we likely to survive?"

"Captain, you guys should eat something too." Someone stuffed some dry rations into Hua Shulang's hand.

"Yes, we just gave everyone who had dry rations to eat. Let's all hold on together," someone shouted.

"Captain, I remember Jingchuan is quite far from here, how many days will it take them to get here?" As soon as the voice fell, the air returned to its previous stillness.

A soft cough sounded. "Don't say anything discouraging; this is our only hope."

Everyone knew they were in grave danger, as they had run out of food and water.

outside.

Yu Meng stared at the deep pit without any expression.

Niannian was still muttering to herself, "How could so many people all fall to the ground at the same time? If one fell, did the other one jump down too?"

"Niannian, you didn't ask them about their food and water situation just now."

"Fourth Sister, isn't it pointless to ask? We can't just give them our food and water." Niannian said bluntly.

Yu Meng took a deep breath. "What I really mean is, they can hold on for a few more days."

"Shall I ask them now?" Niannian asked Yu Meng for her opinion. "That Hua Shulang is really something. Can't he just tell us the details of their situation? I have to ask him a question and he has to answer it. It's such a hassle."

Yu Meng sighed. Perhaps Hua Shulang's situation wasn't very good either.

Even Aunt Qing called him a little fox, so he wouldn't miss any of this information. Perhaps he had already considered certain things.

For example, if he couldn't give those people hope and then not be rescued within the allotted time, they might go crazy with despair.

Yu Meng stopped Niannian. "Never mind, let's not ask too many questions."

Niannian looked at Yu Meng with some confusion.

Yu Meng could only explain, "He's a smart man, and he probably has his reasons for not saying these things. Asking him might put him in a difficult position."

Jingchuan Hall.

When Secretary Wu received Yu Meng's message, he was completely stunned.

How could Hua Shulang have been buried underground? With that kid's shrewdness, he would never do something so dangerous.

He urgently mobilized all of Jingchuan's forces in the Fourth Battlefield, instructing them to prepare food, water, medicine, and digging tools.

But he knew that the most difficult thing was not how to rescue the person, but how to find them.

After thinking about it, he went to find Nangong Tianshou.

After all, as the former head of the base, Nangong Tianshou's influence was definitely much greater than that of a mere secretary.

When Nangong heard the purpose of Secretary Wu's visit, he was somewhat skeptical. "You know how clever that kid is. He'll lead the whole team astray."

"That's what I thought too, but since it was Teacher Yu who sent the message, I had to believe it."

"Alright, I'll have my men cooperate with Yu Meng to save him." Nangong Dao was straightforward and didn't refuse, after all, he was Granny Hua's adopted son, and he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

Back in his room, Secretary Wu thought about it and was still a little uneasy. He sent a message to Jing Er, asking him to take men to the Fourth Battlefield to provide backup.

Jing Er was quite familiar with Hua Shulang and Xiao Wen. Hearing that they were going to rescue people, she quickly selected ten people to go to the fourth battlefield together.

……

Less than an hour after the incident, Jing San and Jing Ancheng arrived.

Looking at the bottomless sand pit, Jing Ancheng opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing.

He just couldn't understand what had happened to the sandpit that hadn't changed much.

Yu Meng, of course, wouldn't explain. Niannian ran up to Jing San and told her the whole story.

"Third Brother, among your group, is anyone able to detect life energy underground?"

Jing San shook her head, "I've never encountered anything like this before, so I don't know what their special skills are."

Sighing, "If we can't find the person, there's nothing we can do to save them."