The escaped man ran forward while loudly exposing the group’s position. Within just a few seconds, twenty to thirty people rushed over from nearby.

Lin Qin made a split-second decision and pulled Doctor Zhao to run, but Doctor Zhao stubbornly insisted on taking the mentally scattered Han Yimo with them.

Unable to dissuade him, Xiao Xiao could only pick up Han Yimo and hoist him onto her shoulder, then quickly retreated with the others.

Countless people began gathering behind them. Neither Doctor Zhao nor Lin Qin were good at running, and Xiao Xiao was carrying Han Yimo while her thigh was injured from hitting herself—they were soon caught up by the crowd.

Those people had almost all picked up wooden clubs and iron rods from anywhere they could find them, constantly swinging them at the four people.

Xiao Xiao ran at the rear. In her desperation, she could only randomly use “Shifting Blame” to transfer the blows that fell on her body elsewhere. But for some unknown reason, the pursuers behind were completely unaffected, while Han Yimo on her shoulder screamed more and more miserably.

“I can’t take it anymore…” Han Yimo called out weakly, “Big sister, why don’t you just put me down… why does it hurt more the more we run…”

“No way!” Xiao Xiao shouted, “If I wasn’t holding you, you’d be dead already! Don’t worry, basically all the attacks coming at us have been ‘Shifted Blame’ away!”

“All shifted away… then why do I still hurt so much?” Han Yimo asked.

“Oh, that’s because my ‘Shifting Blame’ doesn’t activate one hundred percent of the time. The success rate is about sixty percent. You feel pain probably because the other forty percent of attacks are still landing on you.” Xiao Xiao explained seriously while running.

Han Yimo raised his hand to protect his head while blocking attacks, filled with admiration.

If sixty percent had already been shifted away and it still hurt this much, it could only mean the actual attacks were even more numerous than what he was experiencing. But he still felt he’d never hurt this much in his entire life, as if every bone in his body had been broken.

The numerous pursuers discovered that all attacks landing on Xiao Xiao couldn’t slow her pace at all. The leader quickly understood: “She has an ‘Echo’! Don’t hit her! Hit the ones in front!”

The people behind, hearing this, didn’t understand whether “she” referred to the person running or the person being carried on the shoulder. They only heard “hit the ones in front,” then quickened their pace to bypass Xiao Xiao and Han Yimo, instantly surrounding Doctor Zhao and Lin Qin.

Before the two could even react to what was happening, they saw wooden clubs and iron rods already flying toward them.

Once hit once, they would be hit a second time. Under this kind of encirclement, ordinary people had no way to break through.

At this critical moment, the two felt a flash before their eyes as a young man instantly appeared in front of them.

His appearance was without warning, as if he had squeezed through the air in front and suddenly descended, or as if he had been standing there all along but had simply kept his form hidden until now.

“Oh, that lively?” A youthful, clean voice rang out, startling the nearby crowd.

“Eh?!” Doctor Zhao instantly recognized the person before him, “Kim Wonhoon…!!”

The suddenly appearing youth made the surrounding encirclement pause momentarily, and the attacks in their hands also stopped for an instant.

“Don’t talk yet, come with me.” Kim Wonhoon reached out to grab the two’s arms, then all three disappeared from their spot together.

At this time, the man who had escaped earlier—the one who could phase his body—pushed through the crowd to come forward. Discovering that Lin Qin and Doctor Zhao had disappeared, he instantly thought of something: “They said they had teammates! Their teammates must have come to support them!”

“Damn…” another man said, “These ‘Rebels’ disrupting order should all be beaten to death!”

The crowd turned around to discover that Lin Qin and Doctor Zhao had merely been transported to an open space just a few steps away. It seemed that youth’s suddenly disappearing “Echo” wasn’t very powerful after all.

“Beat them to death!” The crowd became chaotic again.

But at almost the same moment, an explosive sound suddenly appeared from within the crowd on the other side, as if some missile had landed on the ground.

Everyone raised their eyes to look, only to see several “Supporters” actually being launched into the sky by a burly man. The numerous “Supporters” in front of that burly man, seeing such a terrifying scene, all retreated, leaving a small open space.

“Damn… it’s so chaotic, I didn’t hit the wrong people, did I?” Zhang Shan’s rough voice rang out.

Lin Qin looked carefully to see Zhang Shan followed by a team of people—over twenty in total. Among these people were a pile of familiar faces.

Even if they didn’t recognize these people’s faces, the numerous “Supporters” felt that this team’s aura seemed quite unusual.

Chu Tianqiu, wearing an outer coat, walked forward with an understated expression: “Zhang Shan, don’t you need more rest?”

“Damn, do I need rest? I just feel like it’s early morning right now—refreshed and clear-headed.” Zhang Shan said, “But what exactly is that ‘Cangjie Chess’ you mentioned earlier…? I only have a very vague impression, but I can’t remember the specific details at all.”

After hearing this, Chu Tianqiu smiled lightly: “If we can survive today, I’ll bring two cans of beer and tell you while we drink.”

“Haha, good.” Zhang Shan nodded.

Zhang Shan stepped aside to make way, and Chu Tianqiu walked forward. As he moved, everyone behind him followed his advance.

This group’s enormous presence forced the numerous “Supporters” to retreat continuously.

Yun Yao followed beside him, looking impatiently around while sighing: “Chu Tianqiu, let me make this clear first—I’m not a person from ‘Heaven’s Mouth.’ I’m just here to find Tiantian. Once I find her, I’m leaving immediately.”

“No problem.” Chu Tianqiu nodded, then turned back to say, “Li Xiangling, you and Zhang Shan clear the path ahead. We need to rendezvous with the leaders of this rebellion as soon as possible.”

“As you command!” A dark-skinned, handsome young girl flashed out from behind Chu Tianqiu, holding a long staff in her hand. “This is too simple.”

Chu Tianqiu turned his head again to look at Kim Wonhoon: “You’ll be responsible for leading Doctor Zhao to the destination. I can roughly guess what ‘Extreme Path’ is trying to do.”

“Okay, bro.”

Lin Qin looked at the scene before her somewhat puzzled… Although the other party had saved her life, what did this matter have to do with “Heaven’s Mouth”?

The numerous members of “Heaven’s Mouth” before her had all rushed over to provide support, including Xu Liunian, Little Glasses, Wen Qiaoyun, and even Yun Yao, who had long declared her withdrawal from “Heaven’s Mouth.”

“Chu Tianqiu…” Lin Qin asked cautiously, “Is there something here that attracts you?”

“Attracts me?” Chu Tianqiu looked at Lin Qin with a smile, “Why do you say that?”

“I just don’t quite understand your motive for coming here.”

“Then don’t think too much about it.” Chu Tianqiu passed by Lin Qin shoulder to shoulder, then said indifferently, “I came to repay Yan Zhichun for a debt of two ‘characters’ worth of gratitude.”