Chapter 374

Tang Wulin only felt a flash before his eyes, and he found himself among a range of mountains.

He was bewildered, when another bright light appeared beside him and Huo Yutong's figure emerged from it.

He widened his eyes in surprise.

"Huo Yutong, why did you follow me?"

Huo Yutong pursed her lips.

"I'm here to help you, aren't you thinking that because you have to undertake a life‑threatening deep adventure to help me, I'd be happy about it?"

"... I'm sorry."

"No need to say sorry." Huo Yutong came to his side, smiled and wrapped her arms around his arm, "If I were in your position, I would certainly do the same."

"Indeed."

Tang Wulin also smiled.

She and he would make the same choice when faced with this situation.

He summoned the Golden Dragon Spear and looked around warily.

"Come to think of it, where is this place?"

Huo Yutong shook her head lightly.

"I don't know, but I have a feeling we've been here before."

At that moment, that flat voice sounded again.

"Deep assessment begins. Assessment objective: rescue. You are on the way to inspect the camp with the White Tiger Duke; soon an enemy ambush will occur. You will not be identified now because of your appearance or equipment. Assessment requirement: you must, when the enemy attacks, assist the White Tiger Duke and ensure his safe escape back to the camp. If the White Tiger Duke dies, the assessment fails and the penalty is death. The assessment now begins."

After hearing this, Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong's expressions both froze involuntarily.

Tang Wulin looked at Huo Yutong with worry; he knew the relationship between her and the White Tiger Duke.

Forcing her to protect the person she despises most, her mood must be terrible right now.

As expected, Huo Yutong's expression was a mix of many feelings, clearly in a conflicted state.

Tang Wulin took a deep breath and suddenly grasped her hand.

Huo Yutong's body trembled; instinctively she lifted her head to look at him, revealing a helpless, childlike, bewildered gaze.

"Wulin?"

Tang Wulin said seriously:

"Huo Yutong, we must rescue him now."

"... Hmm, I understand."

Huo Yutong's gaze dimmed as she nodded, after all she had just heard the words from Qian Kun Asking Valley, and the penalty for failure is death.

If only she were to die, it wouldn't matter, but she absolutely refuses to drag Tang Wulin into it as well.

However, contrary to her expectation, Tang Wulin gripped her hand tightly.

"You misunderstand, Huo Yutong, what I mean is that even for revenge, you must not let him die here."

"Huh?"

Huo Yutong couldn't help but make a silly sound.

Tang Wulin gave a wry smile and patted her little head.

"You, you just cause chaos when you care. I ask you, would you want him to die at someone else's hands before you enact your revenge?"

!

Hearing his words, Huo Yutong's eyes instantly lit up.

Indeed, when she heard that she had to save Dai Hao, she instinctively felt repulsed, but upon reflection, it actually served her revenge.

If Dai Hao dies here, no matter how strong she becomes, she will be unable to complete her revenge, since the target would no longer be alive, making revenge impossible.

Only by preserving his life here does she have a chance for revenge. Huo Yutong suddenly rose onto her tiptoes and lightly kissed Tang Wulin's lips, her face blooming with a flower‑like smile.

"Thank you, Wulin, I understand now; you're right, let's go quickly!"

Tang Wulin's words instantly lifted her spirits; the previously gloomy mood vanished in an instant, turning entirely into excitement.

Tang Wulin, with a hint of savor, touched his lips and then laughed helplessly:

"Alright, don't get too excited; if the mission fails by mistake, it will be troublesome."

"Ah, right."

Huo Yutong quickly inhaled deeply, suppressed the surging emotions in her heart, and her gaze steadied.

If Tang Wulin hadn't spoken, she would still force herself to calm down, but then she would have to suppress her revengeful heart and gloomy emotions.

After mastering her emotional control, the first thing she did was initiate Mental Detection Sharing.

Now her spiritual power has become terrifyingly strong; when fully unleashed, it can even cover a radius of twenty thousand meters.

To rescue the White Tiger Duke, the first thing to understand is who the attackers are and what their strength level is.

Knowing oneself and the enemy ensures a hundred battles without peril, and in the extreme solo mission plan, Huo Yutong's intelligence detection ability has always been the strongest among the three.

There is a spirit detection known as Laipi, and indeed very few things can evade her sight.

With the aid of spirit detection, the two instantly spotted the White Tiger Duke and his party slowly advancing; they were only about a thousand meters away, and if not for the many trees nearby, they might have already been discovered.

That doesn't matter; what's important is that Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong actually discovered some hard‑to‑detect small objects in the air.

"What is this..."

"Hmm." Huo Yutong's gaze also grew solemn, "It's a high‑altitude detection‑type soul conduit; it seems the enemy is the Ri Yue Di Guo."

Only the Ri Yue Di Guo possesses the ability to craft soul conduits of this grade.

Under the surveillance of this high‑altitude detection soul conduit, every move of Dai Hao and his companions is under the enemy's control.

She hurriedly linked to Dai Hao.

"White Tiger Duke, can you hear me?"

Dai Hao, who was sitting on his horse and moving forward, suddenly stiffened all over.

Before he could do anything, Huo Yutong's next words were transmitted into his mind.

"Don't be afraid, we mean no harm; we just want to tell you seniors that you are about to be ambushed right now—return to camp at once."

Dai Hao narrowed his eyes.

"Why should we believe you?"

Huo Yutong didn't speak; instead, she linked part of her mental detection into his mind, then swept it toward the sky, projecting those high-altitude detection-type soul tools into his mind.

Dai Hao's eyes instantly narrowed; as a marshal of the Star Net Empire, how could he not recognize these strategic soul tools?

Instantly, all his doubts vanished; he turned and shouted at the White Tiger Guards: "Retreat! Full speed back to the camp!"

The soldiers hearing his command were momentarily stunned, but as soldiers, their instinct to obey made them follow Dai Hao's order without thinking, they turned around on the spot and rushed toward the camp.

Seeing that everyone had obeyed the order, Dai Hao unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and in his mind he said: "Thank you, sir. May I ask who you are, and what should we do next?"

However, no one answered him anymore.

Only then did he realize that, at some point, the mysterious person's mental detection had been severed.

By the way, to say where Lao Huo's final forgiveness of the White Tiger Duke began, I think it's right here.

From this point in the plot onward, his resentment toward Dai Hao grew thinner and thinner, eventually being worn away bit by bit.

Dai Hao cannot die now; this segment of the plot cannot be changed, but relatively speaking, although I cannot alter the plot, I can change the meaning of this segment.

According to the original work, this is part of dog training, but now I have changed it into a prerequisite mission for revenge.

This is also one of the most important points for Tang Wulin toward Huo Yutong—he can always ensure she does not go down the wrong path.

(End of chapter)