Standing before the estate, Xia Qingtian took a deep breath.
She was truly insane.
As the system had said, the mission to bring Xia Qingyu away tonight was too dangerous. She couldn't possibly drag anyone else along and could only try to act alone as much as possible.
The others were easier to deal with; she could always send them away.
Avoiding Gu Yaoyang had taken a significant effort. In the end, she could only provide a different time and location, hoping she could bring Xia Qingyu out before then.
And then, she could make it to the rendezvous point in time.
Fortunately, to distract the watchers, they had been operating separately these past few days. Shifting their escape routes and schedules now wouldn't raise any suspicions.
Xia Qingtian nimbly scaled the high wall, evading surveillance cameras and infrared sensors.
Only after successfully infiltrating the villa did Xia Qingtian let out a sigh of relief.
Without the cat mimicry prop she had obtained from the system earlier, she wouldn't have been this successful.
Silently ascending the stairs, the dark rooms were still clear in her cat mimicry eyes.
Her nostrils flared slightly, and Xia Qingtian smelled Xia Qingyu's scent in the air.
"A cat's sense of smell is forty times stronger than a human's… it truly is amazing…" Xia Qingtian murmured to herself and immediately headed towards Xia Qingyu's room. "The single-use effect is only five minutes in total, I need to be quick…"
Reaching the door, Xia Qingtian's ears twitched as she heard footsteps inside. There weren't many, likely only one person pacing, and Xia Qingyu's voice could be heard, tinged with a hint of crying.
"Sister… what should I do…"
Xia Qingtian immediately pushed the door open and sneaked in, whispering, "Qingyu!"
In almost an instant, a large net appeared above Xia Qingtian. She敏锐ly dodged it. At this moment, all the lights in the room turned on. Xia Qingtian's eyes were suddenly blinded. She instinctively closed them, and before she could reopen them, she was kicked hard in the chest. A dull ache surged through her, and a prompt sounded in her mind.
[Cat Mimicry experience has expired.]
"Use the Valkyrie 150-minute experience card," Xia Qingtian commanded in her mind immediately.
[Understood. The Valkyrie 150-minute experience card has been activated.]
Xia Qingtian immediately felt her senses sharpen. Just as she was about to get up and resist, a cold, hard object pressed against her brow.
"Oh my~" a playful female voice chimed in. "Isn't this the good sister that Xia Qingyu always talks about?"
As Xia Qingtian opened her eyes, she met Sif's pretty face. "It's you?"
Xia Qingtian immediately scanned the room, realizing that over a dozen people had suddenly appeared. Xia Qingyu was not among them.
"Where is Qingyu?" Xia Qingtian immediately pressed.
"Don't worry, I'll take you to her later," Sif smiled. "But for now, you should worry about yourself."
As soon as she finished speaking, Sif directly smashed the butt of her gun into Xia Qingtian's left shoulder joint.
The sound of a bone cracking came along with sharp pain. Xia Qingtian gritted her teeth, unable to suppress a cry of pain.
Activating the Valkyrie experience had sharpened all her senses, including her perception of pain, making it incredibly vivid.
"Hahaha!" Sif's eyes lit up as she saw Xia Qingtian in so much pain, her entire demeanor becoming excited, dispelling her previous gloom. "What expression do you think Xia Qingyu will have if she sees you like this?"
Sif reached out and tilted Xia Qingtian's chin, saying with a light smile, "I'll take you to see her now."
Hearing that Sif was going to take her to see Xia Qingyu, Xia Qingtian endured the pain through gritted teeth.
"But before that, there are a few things to do." Sif stood up and fired two shots at Xia Qingtian. "You'd better stay alive until then~"
Xia Qingtian had avoided vital areas, but the burning pain from the bullets and gunpowder, the penetration, was real.
"Stop her bleeding and prepare the car," Sif said, tossing the gun to a subordinate. She then tossed her hair back, revealing a cruel yet bright smile. "Take her to her adoptive father now. Let him know how Xia Qingyu has betrayed him and colluded with the enemy. I can't wait to see Xia Qingyu's expression~"
Sif was extremely excited.
She had initially thought that Xia Qingyu's strong reluctance to leave was to wait for Lei Xirui.
She hadn't expected it to be to wait for Xia Qingtian!
If it had been Lei Xirui who came, she wouldn't have dared to be too rough, considering her cooperation with the Third Young Master Lei.
But it being Xia Qingtian made all the difference.
With Xia Qingyu's collusion with Xia Qingtian confirmed here, as long as she left Xia Qingtian with a breath of life, Xia Qingyu wouldn't be able to escape either.
Torturing the person Xia Qingyu cared about most was far more interesting than torturing Xia Qingyu herself.
The pent-up frustration and unhappiness of the past few days were relieved after those two shots.
If her adoptive father were to kill Xia Qingyu, the traitor, she hoped to be the one to carry out the execution.
That bitch deserved to die!
After simple bandaging, Xia Qingtian was thrown into a car. After the car started, Sif took out a handkerchief and said, "Ah… I'm so conflicted. If I don't give you a sedative, I'll be breaking the rules. But if I use a sedative, you'll be comfortable all the way…
Never mind, consider this my humanitarian care before your death."
Saying that, Sif extended the handkerchief, soaked with sedative, towards Xia Qingtian's mouth and nose.
[System, use the universal antidote.] Xia Qingtian was trembling from the pain.
[But Host, wouldn't it be better for you to be unconscious in this situation…] the system hesitated.
[Use the universal antidote!] Xia Qingtian commanded through gritted teeth.
[Alright, Host…] The system could only comply. [Universal antidote activated.]
Sif covered Xia Qingtian's mouth and nose with the handkerchief. As she did so, she felt an urge to just suffocate Xia Qingtian to death.
Seeing Xia Qingtian's already pale face turn even more unsightly, as if she were about to be suffocated alive, Sif moved her hand away with a sneer. "Killing you like this would be too easy for you."
Xia Qingtian, feigning unconsciousness, gritted her teeth to endure the pain and continued to command in her mind, [System, display the three-dimensional map and mark the current route.]
[Understood, Host.] The system immediately complied, and a clear three-dimensional route map was displayed in Xia Qingtian's mind. A conspicuous red dot indicated the route of the car she was in.
Each jolt of the bumpy road made Xia Qingtian think, [I'd rather have been suffocated to death earlier].
[Host, how about using a calming agent? There's still one left~] The system, sensing the pain Xia Qingtian was enduring, cautiously suggested.
[A calming agent makes one sleepy, and slows nerve conduction. I can't use it when I need to save Qingyu later.]
[Host, there's a half-hour best state experience card that could make you feel a bit better right now.] the system continued to suggest.
[That experience card is unique and has an expiration date,] Xia Qingtian felt a bit frustrated with her luck. She had drawn quite a few items, but most of them were useless, like a ten-million contract or a five-million bonus.
What she needed now was not money at all!
The truly useful props were very few, and they were all single-use experience cards with limited duration.
Had her luck stopped here?
She hoped not…