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Chapter 3925 4.1525 Striking Contrast

Just as Yuan Qionger saw the crowd pouring out with the Old Master, she dared not say more. She was about to take a step when she was suddenly grabbed by the old wet nurse's iron-vice-like fingers.

"Concubine, you can't go, you can't go!" The old wet nurse clung to Yuan Qionger's hand as if mad, shrieking in alarm, "There are so many monsters outside, just one of them could eat us! It's safer here!"

"Don't go out, none of you go out." The old woman, in her fear, stretched out her hands to grab those around her.

"Everyone must be inspected after going out," Qiao Mu said coldly. "To check for any latent corpse puppets."

"Yes!" The Purple Forest Guards responded in unison.

The old wet nurse's expression shifted, then her screams grew louder.

"No, don't go out..."

"Are you an old fool?" Mu Dongni snapped, directly pushing away the old woman's grasping hand. "Are you going to live underground forever?"

"If you don't want to go out, stay here by yourself," Mu Dongni said impatiently.

She was certainly going out.

When Heavenly Fortune's people raided the Mu family at night, they were unprepared, resulting in countless casualties.

But the Mu family wasn't entirely made up of useless people who couldn't fight back; at least Mu Dongni wasn't.

Although Mu Dongni was naturally very casual and didn't have much sense of family honor, she understood one principle: if the enemy came knocking, the only option was to wait for death if you didn't fight back.

Yuan Qionger tugged at her wet nurse's hand. "Nanny, don't worry too much. Since the Crown Princess and her people came to rescue us, that means the monsters outside should have been cleared, right?"

The old wet nurse shrieked, "How could that be? So many of us from the Mu family were forced into this underground hole. How could they, with just a few people, clear out so many monsters outside??"

The words...

Everyone in the Mu family couldn't help but feel a wave of awkwardness.

Those didn't sound like compliments, did they?

Especially the Mu family elders, who had previously been severely reprimanded by Qiao Mu, now felt a stinging pain on their old faces.

No wonder the little Crown Princess completely looked down on their family. They really were as weak as chickens.

The little Crown Princess, with just a few people, could clear out all those corpse puppets outside, while they, over a thousand Mu family disciples, just knew to hide in this pit, cowering and afraid to go out.

The Crown Princess's disdain for them was not entirely baseless.

The tall, thin Elder Du had a gloomy expression on his old face. After a long pause, he said, "The three elders suffered minor injuries. Let's get out first."

The First Elder, Second Elder, and Third Elder had contributed greatly during the process of transferring all the Mu family disciples.

All the Mu family disciples felt grateful to them.

Qiao Mu turned back and glanced indifferently at Elder Du, growing even more disgusted with Yuan Qionger, the concubine.

The shrewish woman by her side was like a mad dog; she didn't want to leave herself, yet she begged others to stay with them. It was simply laughable.

Qiao Mu looked at the old woman, her gaze stopping. She looked at the faint, almost imperceptible complexion on her face, then glanced again.

She suddenly stopped, and the group following her naturally stopped as well.

Old Master Mu looked at her in confusion, about to ask what was wrong.

But then he saw the little Crown Princess walk past them, enter the stone chamber, and head straight for the old woman in the corner.

Yuan Qionger was just trying to comfort the old woman.