The beloved baby has a space

"We were entrusted by Princess Yongchang—" The man in the jade crown had barely finished speaking when a whip came flying straight at his waist and abdomen.

One lash draws blood!

Ayu shouted, "Tell the truth!"

The man in the jade crown couldn't bear it any longer and immediately fell to his knees, trembling all over in pain.

Hatred flashed in his eyes, but he endured the pain and pretended not to understand: "Young lady, I am not lying, why do you humiliate me like this!"

"Baby, be careful, he's going to use a poison needle on you."

Ayu had already sensed it, and immediately lashed out with her whip again. The man's right arm was instantly mangled and bloodied, and he could no longer support himself.

He opened his right palm, revealing a miniature concealed weapon.

The others were terrified by this scene.

I thought she was just a simple girl who wanted to fight for justice, but I never expected that she would turn out to be a female demon!
The crowd looked at each other, none of them daring to speak.

A student in the back tried to speak several times, but was stopped by the look of the person next to him.

Ayu sneered: "If I can keep those things away, I can also make them come back."

Tuanzi has already tested it, and the people here have a very low level of affection for her. If they were to drink the holy spring water, several of them would probably die on the spot.

She certainly wouldn't be merciful.

During the months she led the troops, the thing she learned most was that one must never show mercy in critical moments.

Finally, the student who had been strongly stopped stepped forward and said, "If I tell the truth, will you guarantee our safe passage?"

Ayu just looked at him and smiled: "What do you think?"

The student hesitated, but he knew that this woman was the only living person they had seen in the past six months.

They won't last until the next living person arrives.

Moreover, who knows whether the next one to come will be a living person or an even more ruthless King of Hell?

"Li Zhang, shut up!" someone shouted angrily from behind.

His response was a precise lash of the whip from Ayu.

Snapped!
The man's mouth was split open from the slap, and even his tongue was torn; he screamed in agony.

The student named Li Zhang shuddered and, without further delay, had to tell the truth: "We are indeed here for Princess Yongchang, but not at her request. We are here to search for treasure..."

It turns out that this place is only two cities away from Yongchang City, where Princess Yongchang resides, and it is rumored that Princess Yongchang's fiefdom is extremely wealthy.

Even though she had not yet officially moved into her fiefdom or received a generous dowry, the extent to which Princess Yongchang was favored by the emperor was known throughout the land.

The most obvious example is that the ancestral emperor did not continue the construction of his own mausoleum. Instead, he opened his private treasury and ordered the Ministry of Works to gather craftsmen from all over the country to build a mausoleum for Princess Yongchang.

After the first emperor passed away, the new emperor ascended the throne and ordered the continued construction of the mausoleum.

More than 30 years have passed since then, and it is rumored that not only was the mausoleum completed, but even the deceased Princess Yongchang and her rich burial goods have been placed in the mausoleum.

Yes, according to folklore, Princess Yongchang did not disappear, but rather fell seriously ill for many years and later died. To avoid being targeted by tomb robbers, she was secretly buried.

Although it was really outrageous, many people still believed it, especially the people of Fengming City.

These students had heard rumors and, more than half a year ago, were lured here by a group of mysterious people using various methods.

They had come by a different route, which led through the entrance of an ancient tomb, but every so often the path behind them would explode, until they were forced into this dark and sunless underground city.

"On the night of the full moon, the underground ancient city can occasionally see the sky above. We estimate that the ancient city is located in the belly of the Lingshan Mountain in Fengming City, with a steep mountain belly hundreds of feet high above our heads. We are not soldiers, so we are really powerless."

The student became more and more aggrieved as he spoke. He had only heard that there was a job copying ancient books, for which one could earn one tael of silver per book.

With that one or two taels of silver, he could buy a precious inkstone, so that he wouldn't be laughed at by his classmates, and his mother wouldn't have to stay up all night washing clothes.

But now, they're trapped here, and at first they could eat some wild fruits that somehow grew to fill their stomachs.

Later they ate those vines.

After they finished the vines, they could only eat man-eating rats. If it weren't for the poison in the corpses gnawed by the rats, they probably would have eaten people too!
"We were lucky," the student said, still shaken. "If you had encountered a different group, they would have eaten people alive!"

Speaking of those people, the students behind them also looked terrified.

The students were divided into two groups. Besides them, there was an even more terrifying group that would eat the sick and dying students directly!

Later on, they became too lazy to wait for each other to die; if anyone was in critical condition, they would kill them directly.

"Stop talking nonsense, what else do you have to say?" Ayu was too lazy to listen to his nonsense. The task showed that she had only completed 30% of the progress.

This means that finding these students is not enough; taking them out may not be enough to achieve the desired outcome. More important conditions are needed.

The students fell silent.

Seeing that Ayu was about to raise the whip, he swallowed hard and said, "Little girl, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but—"

He glanced at the whip, paused, and then said, "But that place is guarded by another group of people, two of whom are highly skilled in martial arts. You can't beat them."

"Just tell me," Ayu frowned. "Speak!"

She has already wasted a lot of time. If she waits until dawn, her brother Ayou will definitely look for her. When he finds that she is missing, he will definitely search everywhere.

These are turbulent times, and she wants to handle things as simply as possible.

"Yes," the student replied quickly. "Their location is in the middle of the ancient city, where there is an altar. It is rumored that there is a treasure hidden on the altar. Within a ten-zhang radius of the altar, there will be no man-eating rats. They are within that ten-zhang radius."

[Ding! The mission "Rescue the Abducted Students of Fengming City" is 70% complete. Please keep up the good work!]

Next came Tuanzi's voice.

[Honey, these are useless pieces of trash. The mission progress has been refreshed, and I'm seeing the new map location here. I've already recorded the situation over there.]

There are 12 people over there: two weak martial arts practitioners you could take down with a single finger; nine male students; and one female student disguised as a boy.

[The female student's concealment of evidence has been discovered; now these people want to execute her and cannibalize her flesh.]

[But they are still arguing because some people want to insult the female student first and then eat her. Others think this is disgusting and disagree. The two sides are arguing.]

The female student is still taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

Based on my analysis, she is not in immediate danger.

Ayu asked herself, "Elf, are these people also my targets? Do I have to rescue them all to complete my mission?"

To be honest, if it really came down to that, she would rather give up the mission.

Anyway, she won't be punished for failing her mission.

It's just a pity about the reward.

【Let me see—】Tuanzi read very carefully the very, very, very long task rules that had been newly added to the source space.

"Oh, it didn't mention the number of people, nor the number of survivors." Just as Tuanzi finished speaking, she saw that the task rules had changed, adding "the task target is alive."

It unleashed a barrage of attacks into the source space, then quickly told Ayu: "There's no limit to the number of survivors. As long as you bring the students of Fengming City out alive, that's fine."

As for how many survive, that's none of the mission's business.

Ayu smiled and said, "That's good."

One living is enough.

She walked towards the spot that Tuanzi had given her.

As they walked, Tuanzi gave her the latest analysis.

Because Tuanzi has unlocked all the maps of the underground ancient city as the mission progresses, she also knows about the altar.

This altar is actually related to your mother; hidden within its mechanism is an iron book.

[The book says: When the phoenix rises in the west, the world prospers. In times of chaos, a goddess descends. Families fall, nations perish.] (End of Chapter)