Niu Sheng rushed up the steps and returned to the surface, then said gruffly:
"Safe!"
Everyone prepared to leave.
Just then, two more Examinees came chasing out of the Tunnel.
"What now?"
Zhang Pengcheng asked quietly.
"Xueyao, Xiao Bing, Tong Ni, take her and go. Pengcheng and I will cover the rear," Xu Yuan said.
"Okay."
The three women turned and left with the little girl.
Xu Yuan blocked the two Examinees charging toward them.
Seeing Xu Yuan take that stance, Zhang Pengcheng drew his Long Sword too and said with a smile:
"First Highness would never make trouble for a child. You must have it wrong."
"Cut the crap! Move!" one Examinee shouted.
Zhang Pengcheng suddenly swung his Long Sword up, catching an Examinee's blade.
Xu Yuan immediately sent the Qiong Iron Sword flying out. It swept forward and slashed head-on—
One Examinee vanished on the spot.
The remaining Examinee was about to attack when Zhang Pengcheng's sword pierced his chest.
He vanished too.
"That barely counted as a warm-up," Zhang Pengcheng said.
"I was thinking the same thing," Xu Yuan replied.
The two retreated cautiously, then caught up with the main group in one burst.
The little girl instinctively reached for Xu Yuan's hand.
Xu Yuan lifted her into his arms without thinking and kept walking.
Yang Xiaobing was startled.
That's the Commandery Princess!
Xu Yuan had insisted on saving the Little Boy last time and looked after him all the way. Maybe he was acting out of habit.
He doesn't know she's the Commandery Princess!
Remembering her own embarrassment just now, Yang Xiaobing hurried to warn him, but she opened her mouth and found she could not say anything.
When the Commandery Princess had revealed her identity, she had done so through a voice transmission to Yang