I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 227 - 223 Ambushed

Chapter 227: Chapter 223: Ambushed Chapter 227 -223: Ambushed “Princess Your Highness, are you tired?”

Tom asked caringly as he looked at Fang Xiaocao.

“I’m okay, I can still hold on!”

Fang Xiaocao smiled and responded.

Tom nodded and said no more.

Given the enemy was hidden and they were exposed, it was still not the time to rest. They needed to reach a relatively safe place first and then arrange to rest, which was the smart move.

After walking for another half-hour, Taotie, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped, made a cautious gesture to those behind, and crouched in the bushes.

Seeing Taotie’s gesture, Fang Xiaocao had yet to react when the quick-witted Tom pulled her down beside a tree.

Tom instructed Fang Xiaocao to stay close to the tree trunk, while he himself crouched on the outside of her, using his tall body as a shield to protect her from any harm that might come their way.

Fang Xiaocao looked at Tom who was crouched beside her, pulling a dagger from his waist with one hand, while in the other, he held a metallic-looking small sphere.

Fang Xiaocao was curious about the small sphere in Tom’s hand, but she knew now wasn’t the time to ask about it.

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Fang Xiaocao, following the lead of Tom and Taotie, drew her own black dagger as well, but instead of grabbing a gun with her other hand, she took out two steel nails.

Compared to guns, Fang Xiaocao trusted steel nails more.

After all, she had learned how to throw Flying Daggers.

Fang Xiaocao had no idea what was happening.

All she could do was crouch behind the tree, like a quail.

Fang Xiaocao looked towards Tom beside her.

She could clearly feel that Tom’s muscles were tensed, his eyes sharp with the watchfulness of a wild beast, intensely scanning the gloomy forest under the night sky.

Fang Xiaocao blinked and looked in the same direction.

It was pitch-black, and she couldn’t see anything. Resigned, Fang Xiaocao turned her gaze away.

Compared to Tom and Taotie, Fang Xiaocao felt like a complete fool who was both blind and deaf.

Taotie, ahead, was lying low.

Still as a statue.

So was Tom beside her.

How helpless Fang Xiaocao felt!

She was the only one unaware of anything.

Suddenly!

Taotie moved!

Like a hunting tiger, Taotie’s movements were incredibly swift. With a ‘swoosh’, he leaped out, leaving Fang Xiaocao to only catch a glimpse of his afterimage.

No sooner had Taotie bolted than a gunshot ‘bang’ echoed from the darkness of the woods ahead.

Fang Xiaocao was startled.

She instinctively shrank her neck.

And hid further behind the tree.

There really were people up ahead!

And they had guns!

As the gun sounded, a burst of light flared up amid the trees in front.

Fang Xiaocao knew it was caused by the shooting.

At the same time, Tom beside Fang Xiaocao also moved. He squeezed the metallic sphere he held, and immediately a “beeping” sound came from it.

Hearing this sound, Fang Xiaocao was startled.

Wasn’t that the countdown sound of a bomb?

No wonder he was Shen Mengxi from the national server; he casually fished out a bomb.

Tom aimed at the direction from which the gunshot had come and flung the metallic sphere in his hand towards it with force.

The metallic sphere ‘whizzed’ through the air.

Meanwhile, Tom pulled Fang Xiaocao.

“Princess Your Highness, let’s go!”

Tom said in a deep voice.

“Ah—”

“Okay!”

Fang Xiaocao agreed absentmindedly.

She obediently let Tom pull her as they ran toward the dark forest.

“Tom, what about Taotie?”

Seeing the direction Tom was heading, which was opposite to Taotie, she asked in panic,

“Don’t worry about him!”

“The number of enemies is unknown; we need to break out first.”

Despite being incredibly busy, Tom answered without turning his head.

Xiaocao blinked and said no more.

She knew that in such dark conditions, she was essentially blind and of no help at all; she was actually a burden.

Tom aimed to assist Taotie, but first, he needed to make sure she was safe before providing support.

To bring her along to aid Taotie would be akin to handing over their heads to the enemy; it would distract both Taotie and Tom, as they would have to split their focus to protect her.

Tom pulled Xiaocao as they weaved through the trees.

She stumbled after him, her footing uneven.

Repeatedly, Xiaocao nearly fell.

If Tom hadn’t been pulling her firmly, she probably would have hit the ground face-first.

Comparing herself to Tom made Xiaocao feel even more useless.

It was truly disheartening to compare oneself to others!

Tom kept his eyes fixed ahead, not looking at his feet.

Yet he ran smoothly and steadily.

Just as Xiaocao was lost in her thoughts, Tom, who was leading the way, suddenly paused in his stride.

The next second!

Tom snapped back to awareness, grabbing Xiaocao.

He rolled to the side with her in his arms.

At the same time!

Panicked, Xiaocao heard “bang, bang, bang,” gunfire that sounded like firecrackers coming from ahead.

The ground where they had been standing moments before erupted in dirt and debris.

Even the tree trunks nearby were split by the bullet impacts.

Tom, holding Xiaocao, fell to the ground.

Upon landing, Tom forcefully twisted his body to cushion her fall with his own.

Nonetheless, Xiaocao still hit the ground hard, her head buzzing, utterly bewildered.

This experience was somewhat thrilling!

Overly thrilling!

Had Tom been even a fraction slower, they would both have lost their lives, riddled with bullets like a sieve.

“Princess Your Highness, are you alright?”

Tom asked in a deep voice.

“No… no problem…”

Xiaocao stammered in response.

“That’s good.”

Tom nodded and retrieved two metal balls from his pocket. He squeezed them hard to activate the timer and hurled them toward where the bullets were coming from.

Recognizing Tom’s metal balls, Xiaocao suddenly realized that when they had started running, Tom had thrown one of these metal balls, but she hadn’t heard any explosion.

Thinking of this, Xiaocao looked toward the direction the metal balls were flying and saw two of them hit the ground, spinning rapidly, and releasing a large cloud of white smoke.

“Smoke Grenades!”

Realizing what they were, Xiaocao belatedly understood that Tom hadn’t thrown bombs but smoke grenades.

She turned her head to look in the direction they had come from and indeed saw vast swathes of white fog spreading under the cover of night.

“Princess Your Highness, take this gun and hide here. I’m going out to deal with the enemies trying to ambush us. Protect yourself.”

Tom told her in a low voice.

Xiaocao nodded understandingly and took out her gun.

She chambered a round and switched off the safety.

Hunkering down in a little nest of grass.

Tom nodded with approval. He was already skillfully handling his dagger with one hand, readying his gun with the other—safety off and loaded in one fluid, impressive motion.

With a tactical roll, Tom dashed into the white fog and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Xiaocao crouched in her grassy refuge, eyes intently fixed on the white smoke. Soon, gunshots and pained screams began to emanate from within the fog, “bang, bang, bang.”