On the Shixi Building side, Nan Xian and Huo Shaoying also joined the "rescue plan," taking turns digging a secret passage with several guards.

At this moment, a guard rushed over and said to Huo Shaoying, "Sir, our men just spotted someone sneaking around outside the building. However, he seemed to have spotted the golden-scaled butterflies, and after looking this way for a while, he left."

Upon hearing this, Huo Shaoying stopped what she was doing, her voice tinged with anticipation, "Can you confirm his identity? Could he be one of ours?"

The guard shook his head. "It's too dark, and the person was dressed in night clothes. We can't be sure."

She lowered her eyes in disappointment, thought for a moment, put down her tools, and said, "I'll go take a look myself. Miss Nan, will you come with me?"

Nan Xian was working hard when she heard this and hesitated a little.

She had only just discovered that she was unusually energetic today, as if she had inexhaustible strength. Not only was she not tired, but she also felt a special sense of satisfaction as she dug the tunnel and watched the road gradually widen.

"I'm doing fine here, I can help everyone..."

Before she could finish speaking, a blond guard who was closest to her interrupted, "Miss Nan, you've been digging for almost half an hour. That's more than all of us combined have done. Why don't you go and take a break?"

Nan Xian glanced at the pile of broken pieces behind her, then at the pile behind them, assuming he was just being polite, so she waved her hand and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing! I'm really not tired!"

The blond guard rolled his eyes upon hearing this and said, "We have the most manpower here. Since you're not tired, why don't you go help the others in the other secret passages?"

The other guards nodded quickly, "Yes, yes!"

In fact, these guards were genuinely afraid.

It was already terrifying enough to witness Nan Xian nearly kill Linghu Sheng with a slap, but what's more, whether she had superhuman strength or something else, she worked faster than all of them, and the hoe in her hands was practically sparking!

Especially the ruthlessness she exuded while working, the way she treated the obstacles as if they were her mortal enemies, weighed heavily on their hearts, making even these men, whose hands had taken at least ten lives, tremble and their legs go weak...

Of course, they didn't know at the time that this wasn't some kind of "fierce force," but rather a small amount of pressure that Nan Xian unconsciously released when she concentrated.

Ordinary people would have been terrified and fainted by now, but the fact that they could still continue working under this pressure is actually quite remarkable.

With Huo Shaoying here, the guards were still able to remain calm. After all, she was the strategist they respected and admired the most. She was their backbone and the role model they followed. As long as she was there, they would not be afraid to die.

But once Huo Shaoying left, only the few of them and Nan Xian remained...

The guards said that although they were all burly and strong, capable of killing three bulls with one punch, they couldn't last even a minute against Nan Xian's "absolute strength"!

Huo Shaoying could easily see through their little scheme, and seeing how nervous they were, she couldn't help but chuckle.

She simply grabbed Nan Xian's hand and jokingly scolded them, "Let's go, let's go! These cowards are scared after seeing your abilities, so they're trying to play tricks on us!"

Nan Xian widened her eyes slightly, surprised: "Afraid of me? Afraid of what? Slap you?" As she spoke, she raised her right hand.

Upon seeing this, the guards trembled and retreated in unison.

Nan Xian was both amused and exasperated.

For the sake of these cowards' physical and mental well-being, Nan Xian reluctantly put down her hoe and followed Huo Shaoying out of the secret passage and back to the downstairs hall.

The guard led Huo Shaoying to the window closest to the gate, pointed in a certain direction, and said, "That person swam over from the river, stayed in that spot for a while, and then went back."

In fact, they are now trapped in the Shixi Building.

There are only two ways to get out of Shixi Building: the main gate and the VIP passage. Unfortunately, the collapse of the secret passage also affected the VIP passage.

Previously, when the group of golden-scaled butterflies were released from the birdcage, they all followed their nature to seek freedom and fly outdoors. Those that failed to fly out were naturally on their last legs and were beyond dead. Among those that flew out, some were perhaps exceptionally resilient, or perhaps the artificial river and rockery outside the Shixi Building pleased them, and they actually settled on them.

Huo Shaoying dared not take any risks. Golden-scaled butterflies are extremely petty creatures. They don't care whether the territory has an owner or not. Once they decide to stay here, this place becomes their territory. Any "trespassers" will be poisoned with golden powder!

However, it's not all bad news. After all, this way, it's not easy for any hostile enemy outside to break in.

Listening to their conversation, Nan Xian seemed to understand something. She asked, "Are there people of yours outside?"

Huo Shaoying nodded: "Before I came, the First Leader sent a small team to lie in ambush around Shixi Building to support me at any time. But judging from the current situation, they have not come yet. I'm afraid something has happened."

Nan Xian: "Have you two kept in touch?"

Since she entered the Dark Zone, she had never seen anyone here use a cell phone.

She could understand this, after all, mobile phones are a technological product of the human world and heavily rely on networks and signals. The non-human world also has its own unique products; for example, Nan Xian knew of message talismans and water-based communication. The former is the most common type of everyday consumable talisman, similar to human voice messaging. Each talisman allows the sender to say sixty words to the recipient, and the recipient, choosing to receive the talisman's energy, will hear the message directly in their ear. The latter utilizes the fact that water is the most readily available and fluid of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth). The sender uses spiritual power to "write" their message on the water's surface, and the recipient receives the message simply by touching the water.

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