Surviving In Another World With My Three Cups!-Chapter 182 -

Who is Mo Sheng’s real father?" Lin Xu asked

Her voice was calm.

Her eyes were serious

San Na froze.

"Lady Lin, what is the meaning of that?" she said sharply. "Mo Sheng’s father is General Mo Ying. Who else could it be? If you came here to talk nonsense, please leave."

She stood and pointed to the tent entrance.

But Lin Xu didn’t move.

She calmly crossed her legs, relaxed, stubborn.

"I’m not going anywhere," she said softly. "Not until you answer me honestly."

Her tone was gentle but unshakable.

Lin Xu lifted her hands slightly, as if to show she meant no harm.

"Come now, San Na. Why get so nervous? It’s just one question. Answer me, and I’ll leave quietly. No drama."

San Na said nothing.

She watched Lin Xu closely, trying to understand why she was asking this... and how much she already knew.

One thought kept echoing in her mind

Lin Xu knows.

San Na slowly sat back down, but her body stayed tense.

"What are you trying to say?" she asked in a low voice. "Speak clearly."

Lin Xu leaned forward slightly.

"I know you’re from the Ning Empire," she said quietly. "And everyone knows what Ning is famous for... strange medicines, charms, witchcraft." Her gaze sharpened. "So I started to think. How could a man forget ever touching a woman even if he was drunk? That kind of memory doesn’t just disappear."

San Na’s face went pale.

Lin Xu continued, her voice steady but firm.

"You used something on Mo Ying that night, didn’t you? You wanted a child. You wanted a tie to him. But when he didn’t fall in love with you, you lied and said the child was his. You thought no one would dare question it."

San Na stood up in anger.

"Enough! You know nothing! Stop acting like you understand my life!"

"I understand more than you think," Lin Xu replied. "You were desperate. But that doesn’t make it right especially when you’re using a child as a shield."

Finally, Lin Xu’s voice softened, but her eyes stayed cold.

"If Mo Sheng is not Mo Ying’s child, then you need to tell him. Yourself. Because if you don’t..." she paused, "...I will."

San Na’s breath trembled, anger and fear mixing in her eyes.

Lin Xu stood to leave.

But the moment she turned toward the tent entrance, a strange dizziness washed over her. The ground seemed to tilt. Shapes blurred. Voices faded.

Her last clear sight was of San Na’s maid standing behind her... holding a cloth.

Then everything went dark.

Lin Xu collapsed.

And the tent fell silent.

The maid stared down at Lin Xu’s unconscious body on the floor. The cloth in her hand still carried the faint scent of the drug.

She looked at San Na nervously.

"Madam... if we let her leave like this, she will expose everything. She already knows. We have to do something. If she talks, your plan, your life will be ruined."

San Na closed her eyes for a moment.

Her chest tightened.

She didn’t answer right away.

The tent felt small. Suffocating.

Finally, she let out a slow breath.

"...I know.

Her voice was quiet. Tired.

The maid stepped closer.

"Then we must get rid of her before General Mo returns. If she wakes up and tells him—"

San Na raised a hand.

"Enough."

There was no anger in her tone only exhaustion.

For a long moment, she simply looked at Lin Xu.

"Prepare some men," she said at last. "We need to move her out of camp. Tonight."

The maid bowed quickly.

"Yes.

"And make arrangements," San Na added coldly. "I’m leaving this place. I’ll go back to the Mo estate, take Mo Sheng, and return to the Ning Empire before anyone can stop us."

The maid nodded and hurried out

Soon, two servant girls slipped inside. They lifted Lin Xu’s limp form carefully, glancing around to make sure no one saw.

Under the cover of quiet pathways and shadows, they dragged her out of camp.

They took her to an old, abandoned shed far from the hunting grounds, a place forgotten by everyone. Dust clung to everything. Wind whistled through broken wood.

They laid Lin Xu on the cold floor.

She didn’t stir.

The servants left quickly, pretending nothing had happened.

San Na stood in the doorway for a moment, looking at her.

Then she turned away.

Time was running out.

She had to move before Mo Ying returned.

And before Lin Xu woke up.

But not everyone had been blind.

One palace maid had seen everything from the moment Lin Xu quietly followed San Na, to when the servants dragged an unconscious woman away.

Fear raced through her.

She didn’t hesitate.

She ran straight toward the Imperial tents.

She burst to her knees before Noble Consort Su.

"Your Ladyship! I–I saw something!"

Noble Consort Su looked up slowly, her eyes sharp.

"Speak."

The maid swallowed.

She told her everything

From beginning to end.

Silence filled the room.

Then—

A small, amused smile curved across Noble Consort Su’s lips.

"So," she murmured, "San Na wants Lin Xu gone as well."

Her fingers tapped lightly on the table.

"What a... convenient opportunity."

The maid trembled.

"Your Ladyship...?"

Noble Consort Su’s gaze darkened.

"Send word to my people. Tell them to capture Lin Xu from wherever San Na hid her. Take her to the slave mines at Yan Mountain."

Her smile turned cold.

"Make sure she never returns."

The maid bowed quickly and rushed out to get the job done.

....

The first thing Lin Xu felt was a dull ache at the back of her head.

Then came the cold floor beneath her cheek.

She slowly opened her eyes.

A dim wooden ceiling swam into view. Dust drifted lazily through the air. The place was old... abandoned.

She pushed herself up, wincing.

"...Where am I?"

Before panic could rise, a familiar chime echoed softly in her mind.

Susu appeared beside her, arms folded, floating calmly in the air.

"You finally woke up," she said. "I was starting to think you liked sleeping in dangerous places."

Lin Xu blinked.

Then everything returned at once.

San Na.

The drugged cloth.

Darkness.

Her expression hardened.

"So I really was dumped somewhere." Lin cut stared an susu who was in her human form

"Yes," Susu replied lightly. "And by the way... danger is coming. Fast."

Lin Xu didn’t gasp. She didn’t scream.

She simply sighed.

"Figures."

Susu tilted her head. "You don’t seem very worried."

Lin Xu shrugged slightly.

"Why should I be scared?" she said calmly. "I have a system."

Susu brightened.

"Now that’s the right mindset."

Lin Xu dusted dirt from her sleeves.

"I want to buy a weapon."

Susu snapped her fingers.

A translucent blue box appeared in front of Lin Xu, listing neat glowing text:

[ Available Modern Weapons ]

• Handgun — 4 bullets included ... Points: 300

• Extra bullet pack (4) ... Points: 120

• Silencer (optional) ... Points: 80

Lin Xu didn’t hesitate.

"I’ll take the handgun. With four bullets."

"Purchase confirmed," Susu said cheerfully.

A sleek black gun appeared in Lin Xu’s palm.

She took a slow breath, steadying herself.

Just then—

Footsteps.

Several of them.

Voices approached outside.

"She’s inside," a woman’s voice whispered — tense, excited. "The lady said not to leave a trace."

Noble Consort Su’s maid.

The door latch shifted.

Lin Xu moved instantly, pressing herself flat behind the wall beside the entrance.

The door creaked open.

Four men stepped in first, rough-looking and armed with sticks. The maid followed behind them, eyes searching the room.

But the floor was empty.

No Lin Xu.

One of the men frowned.

"Where is she?"

They walked further in.

The maid opened her mouth to speak—

CRACK—

One man dropped to the ground as Lin Xu slammed the back of his head with a broken wooden plank.

"Someone’s behind—!"

They spun around.

Lin Xu was already running.

"After her!"

They charged out of the shed.

Lin Xu sprinted across the rocky clearing, her breath steady, gun hidden in her sleeve.

"Stop!"

They didn’t.

She turned sharply, raising the gun.

"I’m warning you," she said, voice calm but sharp. "Don’t come any closer."

They paused.

Just for a second.

Then one scoffed.

"Scaring us with a black toy? Grab her—"

BANG.

The gunshot exploded through the air.

A man screamed and collapsed, clutching his leg as blood soaked through his trousers.

Everyone froze.

Even the maid.

Their eyes widened.

None of them had ever seen a weapon like that.

Not an arrow.

Not a blade.

Just thunder... from her hand.

Lin Xu’s gaze was cold now.

"I told you not to move."

The wind howled across the clearing.

And suddenly

They understood.

The harmless woman they thought they could easily handle...

was not so harmless after all.

"I promise you if you dare take a step near me again I would shoot every single one of you and even if you die nothing will happen to me, I bet with my life!"