Seeing Yan Yu missing, the opponents managed to keep their composure and dispatched someone to scout behind the house, which inevitably caused some panic among the girls.
Fortunately, the distance was quite far, so there was no need to worry about their facial expressions being discovered; they all just waited for Chen Lingyun to adjust their tactics.
Chen Lingyun, however, was composed as she asked over the channel:
"Tao Xingyuan is circling from the right for reconnaissance. Yan Yu, can you hide?"
Without any hesitation, Yan Yu replied, "I can."
Similarly, there were no trees behind the thatched cottage, but there was a small sword-casting workshop with a forge for melting metal, an anvil for shaping sword blanks, and a water trough for quenching.
The water trough was low and shallow, and the anvil was small, neither large enough to conceal a grown man,