After hearing her gossip, all the civil and military officials went crazy.

Chapter 136 Rescued
Gu Wangyan stood outside, looking down at the sheer cliff below. He could vaguely see crocodiles moving around below. He swallowed hard and slowly moved to the side.

Fang Lingchu, inside, felt her knees were throbbing with pain and asked, "General Gu, what's the situation outside? Can we come out now?"

Gu Wangyan adjusted his position and said, "You can come out, but you need to be careful."

Hearing that she could come out, Fang Lingchu crawled out with difficulty.

Fang Lingchu stuck her head out, saw the abyss below, and then pulled her head back in.

The prince behind them just happened to bump into the sole of Fang Lingchu's shoe.

The crown prince touched his nose and asked, "Chuchu, why are you back again?"

Fang Lingchu said in a trembling voice, "There's a cliff outside, I'm scared."

At this moment, the system said: "Host, hurry up and get out of here! Otherwise, if you stay here, and they come from outside and wipe you all out, it will be a huge loss."

Upon hearing the system's words, the other two became somewhat anxious.

Gu Wangyan found a place to stand outside, then used the vines beside him to tie his body up, and reached out to the cave entrance, saying, "Princess, come out, I'll catch you."

Gu Wangyan's voice is very pleasant, full of youthful energy, without any sense of impetuosity, but rather makes people feel at ease.

Fang Lingchu stuck her head out, slowly moved her body, and followed Gu Wangyan's voice, placing her hand in his palm.

His hands were large, and they quickly enveloped Fang Lingchu's small hands, gently supporting her as if protecting some rare treasure.

When Fang Lingchu placed her hand on Gu Wangyan's hand and felt the warmth emanating from it, her initially frightened heart instantly calmed down.

She was no longer so nervous and let Gu Wangyan tie the vines around her. Fang Lingchu only came back to her senses when the warmth from his hands left her.

The system grinned mischievously and said, "[Host, how does it feel to hold Gu Wangyan's hand? Isn't it warm, reassuring, and comforting?]"

Upon hearing the system's words, the little bit of happiness I had felt vanished.

【No, and I need to correct you. That's not called holding hands, that's called helping each other. There's absolutely no personal feeling involved, understand?】

Upon hearing Fang Lingchu's words, Gu Wangyan unconsciously clenched his fist into the hand that had just been holding hers, a fleeting look of desolation crossing his eyes, but he quickly recovered.

After helping the Crown Prince out, she let him pull Yu Shuang up while she stood next to Fang Lingchu, carefully observing the direction they were heading.

Fang Lingchu was still trying to reason with the system.

[And Guagua, Gu Wangyan has never said he likes me. He only respects and protects me and has no other thoughts. So stop thinking nonsense every day and disturbing my Dao heart, do you understand?]

Our main tasks are to save the dying little golden dragon and to make the Dragon Kingdom bigger and stronger. We shouldn't be thinking about trivial matters of the heart.

The system suddenly seemed to remember something and asked: "Host, if Gu Wangyan asked you to marry him when he was about to die, would you agree?"

Fang Lingchu couldn't help but give the system a good scolding, then said fiercely: "Guagua, didn't I tell you not to question someone's character so easily? Do you think Gu Wangyan is that kind of person? You're trying to morally blackmail me! Seriously, I'm fed up. You're such a child, thinking so much nonsense every day."

Upon hearing Fang Lingchu's words and looking at the data in the hidden panel, the system sighed silently.

He's already done his best!
Fang Lingchu didn't notice the system's subtle movements; she simply observed her surroundings.

It seems like the crocodiles' stronghold is down below. They were in the middle just now, and the only way to get up is to climb up the vines. But they don't know what's up there, and if they rush up, they might get wiped out.

"General Gu, what are your thoughts?"

Gu Wangyan glanced up and said, "Let me see if I can call someone. But..."

Gu Wangyan glanced at the jade flute around Fang Lingchu's neck, then hesitated. Fang Lingchu followed his gaze and saw the thing he had given her. She picked it up and asked, "Would you like to play this?"

Gu Wangyan nodded and said, "The sound of this jade flute can travel for thousands of miles. As long as there are my people a thousand meters away, they will come."

Although Fang Lingchu didn't understand the underlying principles, she just obediently followed them.

I put the thing to my mouth and blew hard, but I didn't hear anything.

Fang Lingchu blinked her big, bright eyes and blew again, but still no sound came out.

Fang Lingchu was a little nervous and asked the system, "Guagua, what's going on? Is this thing broken? Why is there no sound?"

The system, seeing its nervous host, said: "Host, this thing is silent. It's connected to something. If you blow on it, they'll sense it if they're at that distance. Blow on it a little more."

Fang Lingchu continued blowing, seemingly understanding but not quite. After about fifteen minutes, she heard what sounded like footsteps coming from above.

It seemed like I could also hear someone calling Gu Wangyan's name.

"General, General, where are you?!"

"General, General"

……

Gu Wangyan listened to the sound and wanted to pull the jade flute over to play it himself, but after thinking about it, he felt it was unreasonable.

He said to Fang Lingchu, "Princess, you can blow one long and one short whistle, then three long and two short whistles, and they will know we are down below."

"Oh!"

He obediently blew the whistle, and then he saw someone looking down and seeing four figures below.

Everyone quickly went to find ropes to pull them up.

The people were quickly rescued.

Fang Lingchu was alright; she wasn't too badly embarrassed.

The remaining three had various injuries on their bodies, and their clothes were tattered.

Yu Shuang was a girl, and she was still wearing one of Fang Lingchu's coats because her own clothes had been torn to shreds by the crocodile and were no longer wearable.

Feng and the others hadn't expected there to be another woman besides Fang Lingchu, so they only prepared one set of clothes.

Fang Lingchu looked at the clothes in Feng's hand and said, "Let's change Miss Yu into these first. I can still wear the clothes I'm wearing."

Then he pulled Yu Shuang to the nearby bushes to change her clothes.

Looking at the clothes in her hand, Yu Shuang said with difficulty, "Princess, how about I wear what you're wearing and you wear the new clothes? I'm just a rough person, it's alright."

Fang Lingchu took the clothes and said, "Girls don't care about whether clothes are rough or not. Besides, I'm not used to giving away clothes I've already worn, especially ones that haven't been washed yet."

Besides, I haven't even thought about you protecting us yet! You're a girl, you must be scared in this situation, especially when facing those ferocious crocodiles.

"I'm not going to say anything more. Take off your clothes, I'll put some medicine on your wound, otherwise it'll get infected in this hot sun."

Yu Shuang bit her lip, her eyes brimming with tears.

(End of this chapter)