Mrs. Oliver's Castle

Lin Baici held the phone in the room, his face lighting up with joy!

"Qingqiu?"

The voice through the receiver was a little distorted, but it was definitely Gu Qingqiu.

"Xiaoyou? Where are you right now?"

Getting a call from Lin Baici out of the blue felt surreal, but the God Ruins were a place where gods existed. What was impossible here?

So Gu Qingqiu wasn't surprised at all. Instead, she quickly thought about how to seize this opportunity and get the greatest possible benefit from it.

"I'm in Mrs. Oliver's castle. I don't know how they charge for calls, so I'll keep this short. Now that I've reached you, I can summon you to my side!"

Lin Baici spoke very quickly, but clearly enough.

"Is it urgent?"

Gu Qingqiu hesitated.

"It is. What's wrong? Do you have something going on over there?"

Lin Baici furrowed his brow. Normally, anyone hearing this would agree immediately and reunite with their companion. But Gu Qingqiu clearly had something else on her mind.

"We're in the middle of a prison break!"

Gu Qingqiu explained, "I'm in a warden's room, and I've already got the keys. If this phone hadn't kept ringing, I wouldn't have answered!"

Lin Baici was pretty lucky. Only someone as audacious and thrill-seeking as Gu Qingqiu would answer a call from an unknown number in the middle of a prison break. Anyone else would have ignored it.

"I've run into some Rule Pollution, and I urgently need someone who can play chess."

Lin Baici also gave her a brief explanation of his situation.

"How did you know I could play chess?"

Gu Qingqiu laughed. "You actually looked into me? I always thought you trusted me on instinct!"

"..."

Lin Baici thought, I looked into you? What for?

But there was