My Promotion Story Through Time Travel

Chapter 140 Lightness Skill

"boom……"

Another loud bang was heard, followed by the tunnel shaking violently.

"Hurry up!" Lin Ziping said hurriedly as soon as the shaking stopped, and pulled the strip of cloth on his shoulder and hugged Hu Rongrong tightly.

Hu Rongrong nodded, then suddenly paused and turned around.

Seeing this, Lin Ziping looked behind him in confusion.

A dozen or so girls, supporting each other, followed. When they saw someone turn around, their faces showed varying degrees of unease.

The cloth that Lin Ziping had left behind was now divided into many pieces and draped over their bodies.

"Let's go." Lin Ziping said softly as he turned around, his expression calm, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

Finally, all the girls came out of the tunnel.

Hu Rongrong seemed to have gathered her strength, refused Lin Ziping's help, and staggered out of the collapsed watchtower alone. Her expression was relaxed, and she had a smile on her lips. Although the sky was overcast, she seemed to be bathed in sunlight.

The other women also came out of the watchtower, embracing each other tightly, some even covering their faces and weeping.

Lin Ziping stood aside, silently watching the scene unfold before him, a mixture of joy and worry welling up within him.

Just then, a soft whimper came from behind.

Lin Ziping realized that he was carrying a child on his back, so he quickly untied the cloth strip and put the child down.

"Whoosh—" The child's feet touched the ground and he ran to another watchtower.

"Watch out!" Lin Ziping instinctively warned as he saw the child running very fast.

The two watchtowers had collapsed severely after repeated tremors. The watchtower with the tunnel exit was in better condition; after two clearing operations, it was mostly cleared out with nothing hanging in the air. However, the other watchtower was almost completely collapsed, with broken walls and ruins piled up in one place, looking extremely dangerous.

Lin Ziping rushed over and saw that the child, taking advantage of his small size, had found a gap and squeezed in, hiding in a corner.

"Come out quickly," Lin Ziping said, squatting down on the ground and tilting his head.

Seeing that the child wouldn't come out, Lin Ziping carefully cleared away the collapsed rubble and broken wood, trying to bring him out.

"Let her be," said Hu Rongrong, who had walked over at some point.

Lin Ziping stopped what he was doing and said, "It's too dangerous for him inside."

“She’s been in that cage since birth; everything outside is dangerous for her,” Hu Rongrong sighed.

Upon hearing this, Lin Ziping crouched down and looked toward where the child was hiding. Perhaps his movements had disturbed the child, because he shrank back even further.

Ugh--

Lin Ziping stopped moving and decided to wait for him to come out on his own.

He stood up and looked at Hu Rongrong, asking, "What are your plans for the future?"

Hu Rongrong said nonchalantly, "My dad won't let me leave, so I'll just go home. Hehe, I wonder if he'll still let me leave now?"

First she was betrayed by a scumbag, then she fell into a wolf's den. Lin Ziping felt a pang of sympathy for Hu Rongrong when he thought of her experiences.

Seemingly sensing his sympathy, Hu Rongrong said self-deprecatingly, "There's no need to pity me; it was all my choice."

Lin Ziping was stunned. A figure flashed through his mind, curled up on the ground in pain, still forcefully hitting the wooden board with a stone.

I was being narrow-minded. Someone who doesn't give up on themselves in that situation doesn't need sympathy.

"Where are they?" Hu Rongrong asked, looking at the other dozen or so girls.

Lin Ziping opened his mouth, but didn't know how to start.

This is precisely what I'm worried about. If what happened to them had happened in my time, few people would have been able to accept it calmly, let alone in this era.

Seeing that Lin Ziping remained silent, Hu Rongrong sighed and said, "Just hand us over to the county government. What happens to us after that is up to fate."

Lin Ziping lowered his head and remained silent. He had brought them out of that cage, but it seemed he had brought them into another cage.

"It's windy outside, you should find a house to shelter from the wind," Lin Ziping changed the subject.

Hu Rongrong nodded, tightened her clothes, avoided Lin Ziping's attempt to help her, and slowly walked towards the group of girls.

"Lin Ziping—come quickly and help!" Old Huang's shout came from afar.

What happened?

"Hide quickly, protect yourselves, and don't come out!" Lin Ziping shouted urgently to the group of girls.

Without waiting for the child hiding in the corner to come out, he rushed towards Old Huang.

As they ran closer, they saw Old Huang holding a knife, confronting about ten people in a square not far from the tower.

Without saying a word, Lin Ziping drew his knife and joined the standoff between the two sides.

As Lin Ziping fought, he moved closer to Lao Huang, and the distance between them gradually decreased.

"What happened?" Lin Ziping asked.

"This group of people came out of that tower," Old Huang explained simply.

Now, anyone who emerges from underground and still has the ability to fight is the enemy.

Lin Ziping stopped wasting words, dodging and attacking as he went, slashing at the man's hands and feet with his knife.

"Mr. Lin."

Lin Ziping looked at the person he was fighting in front of him. Wasn't this the guy who had just arrived at Cat Cat Mountain and was training at the mountain stronghold? What was he doing here?

"What are you spacing out for? Don't get distracted!" Old Huang's voice came, and the man who had just called Lin Ziping "Mr. Lin" was already lying on the ground.

Lin Ziping glanced at the groaning man on the ground, kicked his weapon away, nodded, gripped his knife tightly, and continued fighting.

The more people on the other side recognized Lin Ziping, the more disbelief filled their eyes, and the fiercer their attacks became.

"kill--"

At that moment, a group of people rushed out from the houses surrounding the square.

Lin Ziping's heart skipped a beat. Another enemy?

When the group got closer, he breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, they were his own people.

These are the people who didn't go down the tunnel with Chen Feng and Magistrate Wei. Now that they've joined, the pressure has been greatly reduced.

Before long, Lin Ziping and his group subdued the dozen or so people on the other side.

Get it!

Lin Ziping wiped the sweat from his forehead. He knew he had to make sure he recovered properly when he got back; the past two weeks had been unbearable.

"call out--"

At that moment, an arrow shot straight towards the gate in the forest.

The scene was so familiar, it felt like I had just experienced it not long ago.

Lin Ziping stood there, stunned.

"call out--"

A stone hit Lin Ziping's knee.

It hurt so much that Lin Ziping's legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, just barely escaping the arrow.

Lin Ziping looked up at the spot where the arrow had been shot, at the tower in the center of the square. A face resembling Jiang Wanyu was visible where the arrow had been shot.

That's Jiang Xiaoba, who's standing next to Jiang Wanyu!

Lin Ziping pointed tremblingly towards the tower: "Quick, there are people there!"

A gust of wind swept past Lin Ziping, and in a few leaps, a figure approached the tower in the middle of the square.

Then several more figures flew out from the crowd and quickly attacked the tower.

"Stunned" is not just an adjective, but also vividly describes Lin Ziping's state of mind.

Family members, does anyone know this? I witnessed the legendary lightness skill with my own eyes!