Before Wei Ping and Cai Xian could even give the order to apprehend these men, Huo Ying and Wei Shouyi, who had arrived later but surged ahead, had already drawn their blades and charged into the fray.
Ah! These two have no regard for martial etiquette! Wei Ping and Cai Xian could only reach out helplessly in their minds, like a classic meme.
The two men charged in, directly intercepting Yue Fuguang's intended retreat path, instantly surrounding the dozen or so who were still resisting. In moments, they were all subdued.
Watching from across the crowd of panicked people they couldn't push through, Wei Ping and Cai Xian were fuming. Damn it! The credit for 'rescuing the imperial envoy' right under their noses was snatched by these two. How infuriating!
Ignoring the resentment from Wei Ping and Cai Xian, the two quickly scanned the crowd. Aside from a few guards from the Yu residence who suffered minor wounds, the Junior Mentor protected at the center didn't have a single hair out of place. They felt somewhat relieved.
But Huo Ying still asked anxiously, "Junior Mentor, are you unharmed? We arrived late to your aid, we beg your forgiveness!"
Yue Fuguang waved a dismissive hand. "I'm fine. How did you get here so quickly?"
Huo Ying's heart stirred, and he quickly replied, "It was a coincidence. Chancellor Ling captured several child traffickers. After interrogation by Lord Wei, we discovered they were part of an organized operation.
Moreover, they had over thirty children in their custody. We were thus ordered by His Majesty to assist in apprehending the criminals."
Wei Shouyi added, "We were just on our way to Chongming Temple, as there's reportedly a stronghold there. We happened to be passing by when we heard there was an assassination attempt on the Junior Mentor here, so we brought men over immediately."
[Master, what a fortunate coincidence indeed. Otherwise, we would have had to wait a while longer for rescue.]
"Since you have a mission to attend to, you should hurry along. I should be safe here now, no need to worry."
Apprehending the people at Chongming Temple was important—those were all her points! Not a single one could be allowed to escape!
Seeing Yue Fuguang's insistence, the two finally left ten men behind to protect her safety.
Next came Cai Xian and Wei Ping, who finally broke through the encirclement. Seeing Yue Fuguang was unharmed, their hearts, which had been in their throats, finally settled. Yue Fuguang urged them to hurry and capture the criminals. Unable to refuse, they each also left some of their men to ensure her safety.
Yue Fuguang's guard detail suddenly swelled in number.
This series of events, from the arrival of these officials to their departure, left all members of the Yu family—except for Yu Qingyu who had some idea of the situation—utterly stunned.
From the masters to the guards, everyone knew their Little Seven / Seventh Young Miss was the Junior Mentor of Dayan, a proper official with a court rank who attended morning audiences.
But she wasn't the only one in their family who attended court. However, to command the kind of presence just witnessed? That was unique to the person before them.
Even if their grandfather / the family head were here, these two Ministers, one Chief Minister, and one General wouldn't be this deferential and courteous!
Their grandfather's superior, Lord Lu Qi, was only of equal rank to Ministers Cai and Huo.
Yet, officials of such high standing showed such enthusiastic courtesy to their Little Seven / Seventh Young Miss. Watching it filled them with pride, the shock of the assassination attempt nearly drowned out by an inexplicable excitement.
Though they didn't fully understand why their family member seemed to hold a status even higher than their grandfather / the family head, a glimmer of realization dawned on everyone. With her here, the Yu residence was poised to soar!
It was also at this moment that the younger generation of the Yu family truly saw the difference between themselves and this sister/cousin.
Even the most resentful Yu Ningrong had to tuck away her competitive thoughts. She couldn't even compare to Second Branch's Yu Ningxuan, let alone this one!
Everyone finally began to grasp, just a little, why she was considered the treasure of the Yu household.
Yue Fuguang paid no mind to what Yu Ningrong or other members of the Yu family thought. Everything she did was for the points, after all.
Before leaving, Yue Fuguang glanced at the people on the street and said to the steward who had hurried over, "Steward Fu, ensure all the injured here receive proper treatment. I'll cover all expenses."
Yu Youfu smiled and said, "The Master has already instructed that medical expenses will be covered from the household's public funds. There's no need for you to pay, Young Miss.
Please hurry back to the residence with the young masters and young misses. The Master and the Old Madam are terribly worried."
He joked lightly, "If the family hadn't held him back, the Master would have come with this old servant."
Before he finished speaking, they saw Yu Chongshan in the distance, accompanied by Yu Zhongchun and his three brothers, walking hurriedly towards them with anxious expressions on their faces.
...
[Host, stop sleeping! Get up and look, something major has happened!]
Yue Fuguang shifted in her warm blankets. "System, I don't have court today! As long as I'm not late for work, what major event could possibly concern me?"
Even if she were late for court, the system wouldn't need to make such a fuss. Who were they, after all? If she were late, could Emperor Mingxi really dock her salary?
Come to think of it, after working for so long, she hadn't personally collected her salary yet. How much was a Junior Mentor's salary anyway...
[Host, I'm not lying. You really need to check. Something major has truly happened!]
The system's voice, anxious to the point of distortion, echoed in her mind, making Yue Fuguang shake her head involuntarily.
She played along verbally, "What is it, what is it? What major event?"
Swallowing a yawn, her large eyes brimming with sleepy tears, she kept asking, giving the system all the emotional support it could want.
[The Main System... the Main System is under attack?!]
The Main System is under attack? What does that mean? Judging by the system's tone full of question marks, it didn't seem very sure either.
If she remembered correctly, the Main System was like the king in the kingdom of systems.
Their king was under attack...
"The Main System is attacked, is the system kingdom going bankrupt... no, going to fall?"
Was the system going to lose its home before Dayan even fell?
[Well... it's probably not that bad!]
"Then why are you so panicked? The emperor isn't worried, but the eunuch is?"
Yue Fuguang relaxed. If the system was fine, she was fine.
[Hmph, I'm not like that old Qian Gui!]
"How does a crippled... little system like you know the Main System is under attack? Did it issue a system-wide announcement?"
Yue Fuguang wanted to say that you and Qian Gui were both incomplete entities, neither should look down on the other.
Qian Gui: Is this the legendary being implicated for no reason?
[No, not that. I sensed it myself. I felt the Main System come under a powerful attack from some force!]
Yue Fuguang narrowed her eyes. How could her crippled system sense the Main System being attacked?
Weren't they in different dimensions?
"Did only you sense it, or did other systems sense it too?"
[I don't know if other systems sensed it. I just felt the force of this attack was very strong, and it was filled with malice.
It must have been those Black Systems!]
Black Systems? The antagonists in the system world? Yue Fuguang wanted to ask, but felt this wasn't the right moment.
So she followed the system's line of thought. "Will this attack affect us, our mission?"
[The Main System is very powerful. These attacks probably won't harm it, but system data transmission will likely be affected!]
"What part of system transmission affects us? Mission completion evaluation or point calculation and distribution?"
Those were the most important things to her.
[It will affect the System Mall. The data transmission interruption will halt item delivery.]
[Oh my god! Why didn't you say so earlier!]
