182: There are also restrictions in the room

After toasting at the mixer, Chu Li, who had finally managed to escape, searched the crowd for Gu Xiaoyue's figure.

"He Zhichen, have you seen Xiao Yue?"

Chu Li grabbed He Zhichen, who had just extricated himself from a group of girls, and asked.

"Hmm? I just saw her and Duan Yao over there—"

He Zhichen gestured; he had indeed just seen Gu Xiaoyue and Duan Yao.

However, there were a few too many girls crowding around, and before he could find Gu Xiaoyue, they had disappeared.

They searched for a long time, but the mixer was coming to an end, and they still couldn't find Gu Xiaoyue.

Even Duan Yao was nowhere to be found.

He summoned his Fire Phoenix to try using his summoning skill, but there was no response.

It was impossible for Gu Xiaoyue to be more than 100,000 meters away from him, so there was only one possibility—the place where she was being held had been placed under restrictions!

Chu Li's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the Xiao Family had really taken action and kidnapped her?

Xiao Han had sent a message to Gu Xiaoyue telling her that the Xiao Family would make a move during the National Competition, a matter Chu Li was aware of.

However, he didn't have Xiao Han's contact information, so he had no choice but to—go find Shui Lingyu!

Although Gu Xiaoyue had gotten out of the sack, her hands and feet were still bound.

She hopped onto the pink double bed.

Since the captivity location prepared by the Xiao Family had decent conditions, she might as well enjoy it.

Duan Yao looked at Gu Xiaoyue's unceremonious behavior and simply lay down next to her.

She wasn't shedding tears anymore, but her voice still carried a hint of a sob.

"What do you think they'll do to us?"

Gu Xiaoyue didn't answer; she didn't know either.

Xiao Mingyan and Xiao Yun insisted that she had taken the immortal-rank pet egg, but they must not have any evidence, which was why they had used such methods to capture her.

As for Duan Yao, they had their eyes on her God-Rank Pet and wanted to seize it.

But they hadn't expected that all four of Duan Yao's pets were companion beasts.

Xiao Hongjun was probably finding it tricky now.

If they obtained the God-Rank Pet, even if the Duan Family traced it back to the Xiao Family in the future, they would have nothing to fear.

But in the current situation, Xiao Hongjun was also in a dilemma.

The person had already been tied up; if the pet couldn't be obtained, letting her go would also be troublesome.

Killing her outright would mean the grudge with the Duan Family could likely never be resolved.

Then, when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman gains.

After all, the Dragon Kingdom didn't just have the Duan and Xiao families; there were many second-tier noble families watching them day and night.

As for Gu Xiaoyue herself, the current strength of the Gu Family could barely squeeze into the third tier.

Compared to Duan Yao, her situation was even worse.

If she admitted to stealing the immortal-rank pet egg, wouldn't that prove the Xiao Family hadn't caught the wrong person, and she would be at their mercy?

If she didn't admit it, and they really killed her, wouldn't her pets and the many treasures in her Yu Beast Space just go to waste, benefiting this bunch of scoundrels in the Xiao Family!

However, the shadow guards Xiao Han had assigned to her should have already notified Xiao Han that she had been kidnapped.

She must be on her way.

And Chu Li, he would come looking for her once he realized she was missing.

Even if he couldn't contact Xiao Han, he would surely go find Shui Lingyu!

Thinking of Shui Lingyu, Gu Xiaoyue had a plan; he should be able to save her!

"I bet they won't do anything to us easily! Why don't we get some sleep first and recharge."

Gu Xiaoyue comforted Duan Yao softly and began to close her eyes to rest.

In fact, the chains binding her hands and feet couldn't stop her from summoning her pets at all.

She had long since stopped needing to draw magic circles to summon pets, but she would still pretend to draw them during official competitions.

This was just to guard against the possibility of being kidnapped one day and having restrictions placed on her.

Referring to Duan Yao, everyone knew she was powerful, and binding her hands and feet couldn't stop her from summoning pets, so they had directly placed restrictions on her.

The signals here were also blocked; neither of their brains had any signal, cutting off all their contact with the outside world.

Sunlight filtered through the pink curtains, slowly spreading into every corner of the room.

Gu Xiaoyue was woken up by the sunlight, and she stretched.

With her hands and feet tied, she hadn't slept very comfortably.

Duan Yao looked exhausted; she hadn't been able to sleep at all and could only lie there quietly.

"This restriction is so annoying. I tried all night to probe outside with my Mental Power, but there was absolutely no way!"

Seeing that Gu Xiaoyue had woken up, Duan Yao started complaining.

"I can't believe you were still able to sleep; you're really big-hearted!"

"Even without the restriction, you wouldn't be able to probe the situation outside."

Gu Xiaoyue twisted her neck again and said unhurriedly.

As soon as her words fell, Duan Yao's weary expression vanished, replaced by a nervous and serious look.

"Otherwise, why do you think they prepared such a nice room for us?"

That was right; superficially, it was decorated exquisitely, but in reality, this room itself came with restrictions.

Gu Xiaoyue had used her Mental Power to probe it last night, and even more so because she hadn't received any summons from the Fire Phoenix.

Since the chains on her hands and feet were useless, the problem was with this room!

"You too, to think you could try all night. For you, that's a double restriction! You should have slept more if you couldn't figure it out."

Now it was Gu Xiaoyue's turn to complain about Duan Yao.

"It's not like they are going to kill you, right? Wait, no, why were you caught too? Could it be—"

Duan Yao covered her mouth in surprise. Could it be that they also knew Gu Xiaoyue had a God-Rank Pet?

Gu Xiaoyue didn't know that Duan Yao already knew that the Hou was a God-Rank Pet.

She also didn't think about what Duan Yao's little head was imagining.

She simply told her everything, explaining clearly to Duan Yao all the mess, including how Xiao Yun kidnapped Ye Wanrou last year, how Xiao Mingyan set a trap to swallow her treasures, and how it later led to the loss of the Xiao Family's immortal-rank pet egg.

"Then, did you really steal those things from the auction?"

Duan Yao had just come down from the mountain and had never seen the crystal display stands, so she didn't know if her own Mental Power could also steal things from inside.

Gu Xiaoyue looked at her as if she were an idiot, her features almost scrunching together.

"Of course not! First, I don't have that ability. Second, I am such an upright person, how could I do such a thing!"

"Tch, I think you just don't have that ability! If it were me, I would have stolen them all! A bunch of unscrupulous bastards! Wanting to become stronger is human nature, if you don't have opportunities, don't you have money? If you want resources, just buy them. To actually use robbery!"

"This Xiao Family's hundred-year foundation, it seems it was all obtained through trickery and robbery! Ugh, what kind of people!"

Whenever Duan Yao thought of the unprovoked disaster she had suffered, she was so angry her teeth ached.

She didn't care if the room had surveillance; she started cursing directly!

Unfortunately, she didn't have many opportunities to argue with people on the mountain, and her vocabulary was limited.

After venting for a while, Duan Yao finally stopped, pouting and starting to sigh.

"Now I can only vent with words, sigh—"

"Speaking of which, you were cultivating quite well on the mountain, why did you suddenly come down?"

Gu Xiaoyue raised an eyebrow, a look of gossip appearing on her face.

From the first day she knew Duan Yao, she had wanted to know the reason for Duan Yao coming down the mountain.

If she had come down just to help Anhuai Academy get a ranking, that made no sense at all.

Duan Yao sighed deeply again, "My master told me to come down the mountain; he calculated that I would face a tribulation this year—"