The little mouse stood on the beam of the roof, flicked its tail gently, and squeaked to cheer Yuan Zhizhi up.
Yuan Zhizhi looked up at it, took a deep breath, and climbed up the ladder little by little.
Her little face turned red, and she climbed up using her hands and feet, still gasping for breath.
[This... is too tiring...]
By the time she finally climbed onto the roof, beads of sweat had already appeared on her forehead.
She lay on the tiles, took a deep breath of the cool night breeze, and felt relieved.
【Huh...it's finally out!】
Yuan Zhizhi sat up, wiped the sweat from her forehead with her hand, and put the ladder into her bracelet.
She squatted down again and patiently replaced the tiles she had just removed one by one, trying not to leave any traces.
After finishing all this, he sat down on the roof, exhaled, and looked up at the night sky.
It was already late at night, the moon hung high in the sky, and its soft light sprinkled on the quiet earth. The surroundings were so quiet that the only sounds were the wind and the faint sound of water in the distance.
Yuan Zhizhi looked down and saw that this was a river valley with river water flowing through the middle, nourishing the surrounding area into an oasis.
There are some scattered houses in the oasis, dotted in the night, flashing faint lights like small fires.
She looked around and found that she was not in the center of the gathering, but on the remote edge.
Although this place seemed desolate, she keenly noticed that there were faint lights of fire in the windows of several houses in the distance, and several figures were walking under the eaves, obviously someone was keeping watch.
She frowned, not knowing where she was.
At this time, footsteps were heard from the corridor below, and even the sound of weapons could be faintly heard.
The footsteps stopped right below Yuan Zhizhi, followed by voices talking from below.
"There's an order from above. Bring that little girl out to see Dota!"
Yuan Zhizhi was reminded of this and immediately lay down on the eaves, trying his best to hide his body.
She also held the little mouse in her arms and said "hush" to it.
The little mouse blinked its small black eyes and immediately imitated her, lying down obediently with its whiskers motionless.
"Squeak..." it responded softly.
The footsteps in the corridor stopped at the door of the woodshed, and the shadows of several guards stretched long on the ground.
"Open the door!" the leader shouted coldly.
"Yes!" A guard quickly took out the key and unlocked the door of the woodshed.
"That little girl has been sleeping for a whole day and night. She probably hasn't woken up yet..." The guard said as he pushed open the door.
However, as soon as the door opened, his voice stopped abruptly and the expression on his face froze instantly.
“Where are the people?!”
He rushed into the house and saw only ropes scattered in the middle, but the person had disappeared without a trace.
Another guard rushed in right after him and was also shocked by what he saw: "Where are the people?!"
"What's going on!?" The leader's face darkened and he asked angrily.
The guards frantically searched every corner of the woodshed, their faces filled with confusion.
"No...I don't know! We were just guarding the door and didn't leave for a moment!"
"Run away?!" The leader gritted his teeth, his voice revealing suppressed anger.
"But the door has been locked. We really haven't left!" A guard's face was covered in cold sweat and his voice was trembling.
"Waste! Search! Search immediately!" The leader gave the order sternly, drawing the knife from his waist. A flash of cold light frightened the guards so much that they dared not say anything.
Yuan Zhizhi listened to the noise below and remained motionless, fearing that she would be discovered.
This woodshed has no other entrances or exits except the door, and the guards will probably search the roof soon.
what to do?
The little mouse crawled out of her arms and ran along the roof in the other direction, not forgetting to turn back and squeak at her.
Yuan Zhizhi looked at it, then at the gradually chaotic situation below, and followed the little mouse to crawl forward.
After climbing for a while, the little mouse stopped above a house.
Yuan Zhizhi carefully lifted a tile, looked down, and suddenly a fragrance came to her nose.
Her stomach growled uncontrollably, and she looked up at the little mouse with an indescribable expression.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”
The little mouse jumped up and down on the roof, staring at her with its head tilted.
Yuan Zhizhi covered her face and sighed.
[Mouse... I said I'd give it to you several times, but not now!]
"Squeak, squeak!" The mouse was a little dissatisfied.
Yuan Zhizhi lay on the roof and looked around. He found that there was no better place to go, so he had no choice but to take the risk.
After carefully confirming that no one was in the kitchen below, she carefully lifted the tiles and lowered the ladder.
The little mouse squeaked excitedly, jumped down the ladder nimbly, ran into the kitchen quickly, and went straight to where the food was placed.
It shook its beard, sniffed the fragrance in the air, and its eyes lit up like stars.
Yuan Zhizhi squatted beside the ladder, staring at the delicious food on the table. She couldn't help swallowing, and her stomach growled.
[Sigh... You need to fill your stomach first to have the strength to run! ]
She walked over stealthily, picked up two meat buns and stuffed them into her mouth, then grabbed a big fragrant chicken leg and started to chew on it.
The gravy flowed down the corner of her mouth. She wiped it casually with her sleeve and muttered contentedly: "Good..."
But she did not dare to be careless. She swallowed the food whole while keeping an eye on the movements outside the door.
As she looked out through the paper window of the kitchen, she saw the group of people climbing onto the roof of the woodshed and searching every corner with torches in their hands.
Seeing them return empty-handed, Yuan Zhizhi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking to himself,
【Luckily, I came down first...】
But before she could relax for too long, the group of people came down from the roof of the woodshed, divided into two teams, and began searching room by room!
Yuan Zhizhi's eyes tightened, and she quickly pulled the little mouse that was chewing on the bread and said anxiously:
【Go! Go!】
When the little mouse was pulled by her, it was still holding a piece of meat in its mouth and squeaked reluctantly twice, but when it saw Yuan Zhizhi's anxious little face, it quickly dropped the food and jumped quickly to the ladder.
Yuan Zhizhi grabbed the little mouse with one hand, held the ladder with the other, and climbed up quickly using both hands and feet.
The sounds outside were getting closer and closer, and there were more and more torches.
Yuan Zhizhi swallowed and sped up.
As long as we get to the roof again, we won’t be discovered!
When she finally climbed up, she was about to retract the ladder and pretend nothing had happened.
At this moment, the door was opened with a "whoosh". The person who came in first saw the ladder in the middle of the room, then looked up along the ladder and met Yuan Zhizhi's eyes.
"Found it! Here it is!"
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