Xu Family territory, guesthouse.
This was a fairly large guesthouse located beside the main residence.
There was a guesthouse on each side of the Xu Family's main residence. This was one of them, and it housed some members of the Xu Family's collateral branch, as well as highly respected stewards, servants, and other personnel. It was considered one of the more frequently visited guesthouses in the Xu Family territory.
After night fell, Su Ming, cloaked and masked, silently slipped out of the main residence and entered this guesthouse.
His destination was one of the guesthouse's rooms.
The elites who had accepted the secret mission issued by the Six Great Families would gather in this room before leaving through the guesthouse's back door. They would then follow a secluded path that was normally unused, quietly leave the Xu Family territory, and head for the ruins.
Although Su Ming actually preferred to act alone, since that would make it more convenient to cause trouble, no one knew what mechanisms and traps were hidden in the ruins or what dangers they might face. After thinking it over, Su Ming ultimately decided to set out with the main group.
He needed a few meat shields and trap-triggering pig teammates to take his place in death, right?
In any case, Gao Xu and Li Jing seemed to be in the group this time. Su Ming would not feel the slightest bit guilty about making them test the traps and block attacks for him.
Thus, Su Ming arrived at the gathering room, pushed open the door, and entered.
"Tut."
The moment Su Ming entered the room, several gazes and a click of the tongue appeared at the same time.
Some people had already arrived in the room, and one of them happened to be the lucky