Chapter 1134: Would rather miss you in this lifetime (2/2)

I want peace and quiet? I want Jing Jing?

Why does he look so confused and lost?

Han Yunxi grew uneasy and glanced at Gu Beiyue, who quickly came over to take Tang Li’s pulse. But such things wouldn’t tell him anything about psychological problems! Gu Beiyue could only shake his head heavily at Han Yunxi.

Han Yunxi was on the verge of tears. She grabbed Tang Li’s hands and asked, “Tang Li, what’s the matter? Tell me, who’s Jing Jing?”

“Jing Jing?” Tang Li murmured back. “Peace and quiet? I want peace and quiet...I only want to be alone with some peace and quiet. Can you guys stop making a racket? Shhhh….”

Han Yunxi wept and turned away, but she couldn’t hold back her sobs. “Tang Li...I miss ‘peace and quiet’ too. I miss her very, very much. Tang Li, how could you not know who ‘Jing Jing’ is?”

On the side, Gu Qishao abruptly leaped to his feet and revealed the Moye sword spirit. “This old man will go slaughter that Bai Yanqing! I’m going to tear him into pieces!”

Long Feiye looked at the witless Tang Li as he clenched his hands into fists. How could he bear this unless they caught Bai Yanqing? How could he let this grievance go without revenge?

“Gu Beiyue, take Tang Li and Su Xiaoyu out first!” he said coldly.

Ning Jing was already dead, but Su Xiaoyu was back. With this, Bai Yanqing had none of their people as hostages in his hands anymore, so they didn’t need to fear him anymore!

Little Yu’er said hoarsely, “I heard the guard say Bai Yanqing would go through the exit by the cliff. They wanted to take big sis Ning and me to find him, sobsob...if I knew earlier, I wouldn’t have tried to escape! It’s all my fault! I acted on my own and overestimated my abilities!”

Nobody blamed Su Xiaoyu. Although none of them spoke, all of them were blaming themselves. If they had been a little faster, or came a little sooner, things wouldn’t have ended up like this.

“Your Highness, it won’t be easy to get out of here,” Gu Beiyue said helplessly.

Long Feiye glanced at him without replying. In the end, he walked up to the dopey Tang Li and steeled his heart, knocking him out in one blow. “Come with me, then,” he said.

Ever since entering the hive maze, he had left markings on each of the paths. Even if he forgot where he’d gone, they could lead him back to the beginning. Once they reached the start of the maze, he could get a sense of their distance from the entrance and figure out the way out of here. The hive maze had a certain regularity to it and their starting point wasn’t far from the exit. As long as they narrowed down the right direction and circled around a few times, they would be able to get out.

Gu Beiyue picked up the unconscious Tang Li while Han Yunxi held onto Su Xiaoyu as the group followed Long Feiye back to the stone room. Han Yunxi recalled Fourth Young Miss Ren and added, “Wait, I’ll go find Fourth Young Miss Ren. Beiyue, you should take her out with you.”

Han Yunxi was also detail-oriented, so she’d left her own markings after poisoning Fourth Young Miss Ren. She traced them back until her detox system began to give out pings. By the time they found Fourth Young Miss Ren, her eyes were red and puffy as a rabbit’s from crying. As soon as she saw Han Yunxi, she nearly screamed for joy.

“Shhhh….” Han Yunxi quickly fed her an antidote and muffled her mouth.

Bai Yanqing should have gone to the lower levels of the maze to track down the exit from the cliff. No matter where he was now, they couldn’t reveal their whereabouts. It was paramount to get the hostages out of here. Fourth Young Miss Ren immediately nodded and promised she’d be quiet to avoid attracting enemies. As soon as she emerged from her hiding spot, she saw Gu Beiyue.

“Academy Head Beiyue!” she was thrilled.

Gu Beiyue was calm as ever as he nodded back. “You’ve worked hard,” he said.

He was always like this, acting polite while distancing himself from others. Leaving aside Fourth Young Miss Ren, there were plenty of other females in Medical City who adored this young man both openly and in private. Still, none of them dared to go too far, much less get close to him. He was like some lofty deity of a tall snow mountain, only to be admired from afar. Their hearts were satisfied with knowing he was in Medical City itself.

“Gu Qishao, you should accompany them. Yunxi and I will track down Bai Yanqing first and send a signal flare. You can all find us that way,” Long Feiye said.

Gu Qishao and Gu Beiyue would be enough manpower to get out the three others, while Long Feiye and Han Yunxi faced off Bai Yanqing unimpeded! Long Feiye gave Gu Beiyue a compass and instructed, “Go straight from this path and you’ll see a marking on each of the succeeding tunnels. Go down the tunnels with markings next to them until you reach a place with no more markings, then head west. Every single clearing in the maze has three possible paths including the one you use to enter the clearing. That means there’s only two choices per clearing.

“After you head west, take the right tunnel for the first clearing, the left tunnel for the second...anyways, after alternating left and right, you’ll reach the exit soon enough. Otherwise, leave your own markings so you can retrace your routes. Then go left in the first clearing, right at the second, reversing directions until you find the exit…”

Long Feiye gave multiple suggestions that left Gu Qishao lost in a fog, but Gu Beiyue understood them at once.

“Alright. Your Highness, princess, be careful. Qishao and I will be back before long!” Gu Beiyue declared.

Thus, the group split into two, one heading west, one heading east…

1. In Chinese, “peace and quiet” can be written as 静静 (Jing Jing), the same characters as Ning Jing’s nickname.