Chapter 239: Life-or-Death Maze (17)
After that, Ji Ning suppressed her inner unease and glanced to the left, looking at Xing Ye and Sheng Churan.
Sheng Churan didn't react much, just furrowed his brow slightly, thinking he had bad luck. But Xing Ye looked at her and smiled.
The kind with obvious deeper meaning.
Ji Ning's heart skipped a beat, suspecting that Xing Ye had noticed her little move.
Although he seemed like a serious and upright handsome man, he was actually very meticulous at heart. He was especially attentive to Ji Ning, and often his words and actions would perfectly hit the bottom of her heart.
This little trick probably couldn't escape Xing Ye's eyes.
However, he just smiled at her without saying anything. Was he tacitly approving her behavior?
Ji Ning's courage had now been fattened up by the men.
She walked up to Xing Ye, pretended not to know anything, and struck up a conversation: "Brother Xing Ye, be careful when you scout ahead later."
"Alright." Xing Ye raised his hand and touched her head. "With Jiang Ting and Yanshu with you, I'm at ease."
No one else understood their secretive exchange. Song Weiyang immediately shouted: "Brother Xing, what's that supposed to mean? You're not at ease if Ning-Ning is with me and Brother Ran?"
"At ease, all at ease." Xing Ye replied to Song Weiyang, still looking at Ji Ning. "But those two are a bit older, they know how to take care of people."
Ji Ning paused, feeling something was off, but couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was.
Jiang Ting and Qin Yanshu exchanged a baffled glance, both thinking at the same time: was Xing Ye praising them or insulting them?
Livestream comments:
"Even the dark-skinned hunk has learned to be sarcastic now"
"Brother Xing's coolness -1, cuteness +1"
"Among all the men here, Jiang Ting is the oldest and most seriously injured"
After that small interlude, everyone discussed the details of marking. They decided each team would choose a captain and use the first letter of the captain's knight title as the team mark.
For example, for Xing Ye and Yan Qiao's group, Xing Ye was the captain. He was the Eagle Knight, so taking the word Eagle, the team mark would be E.
By this logic, Sheng Churan and Song Weiyang's team mark was H, and Jiang Ting and Qin Yanshu's team mark was S.
The three teams would use stones to make marks on the concrete walls of the maze, so they could know which team had visited which path.
Moreover, if a path was a dead end and they had to return, they would draw an X on the mark to prevent people who came back later and chose paths again from repeatedly entering dead-end routes.
Compared to a square maze, the circular maze had shorter passages and more forks, requiring more teamwork. Therefore, during the maze traversal phase, the advantage of the Purple-Side Princess Faction led by Ji Ning was especially large.
Unless the opponent dared to split up and scout alone.
Just before the three teams separated, Xing Ye arranged the upcoming time allocation: "The Princess's lowest stat value still has 88 points left. There's at most three hours of exploration time. Within three hours, we must enter the forest to replenish. So each team, manage your own exploration time well, leave a twenty-minute buffer to regroup with Group S, and enter the forest together."
Ji Ning glanced up. Her lowest value was the Arousal that she hadn't replenished just now. Compared to the other three stats, this one was the most unstable.
If on the way, her brain inexplicably had wicked thoughts, the time left to enter the forest would be less than three hours.
So Ji Ning secretly clenched her fist. She had to keep her mind clear. Even if Jiang Ting and Qin Yanshu tempted her, she must remain stern and abstinent.
At that moment, Jiang Ting walked up to her, spread his arms with a delighted expression: "Come, Kitty, it's time for me to carry you."
As soon as he spoke, alarms blared in Ji Ning's mind.
Because if you had to say who loved tempting her the most, it had to be Jiang Ting. His notorious misdeeds included, but were not limited to: pressing close to teach her at the lectern as a teacher, dressing her up in the office as a CEO, and saying he wanted to serve her by the pool as a manager.
He got people dizzy with bewitchment while maintaining that abstinent and reserved look himself—absolutely detestable.
"No, no, no!" So Ji Ning immediately refused, shaking her head rapidly, and took the initiative to circle behind Qin Yanshu. "Yanshu, you better carry me. How about giving me a piggyback ride?"
Jiang Ting: ?
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