Chapter 110 I'm here to rescue you!

Shen Qing stood there, frowning slightly.

When his eyes fell on Xiao Qihao in the corner, the emotions surging in his eyes finally settled into an inextricable helplessness.

Xiao Qihao huddled in a corner, his back tense and his shoulders trembling uncontrollably, like a young animal drenched by a rainstorm.

The pair of eyes that were always amazingly bright were now half-closed, with an abnormal red tinge at the corners of the eyes.

His face was so pale that it was almost transparent, and even his lips had lost their color.

The man who was always full of vigor and seemed to have endless energy seemed to have all his strength drained away.

Only a withered, lifeless shell remained.

Shen Qingze did not rush to speak, but just stood there quietly looking at him.

He knew that asking further questions now would only backfire, so it would be better to wait until he recovered from the shock.

There was an oppressive silence in the air; only Xiao Qihao's slightly rapid breathing was particularly clear in the empty room.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Qihao seemed to have finally gathered enough strength and slowly stood up.

He raised his head and looked at Shen Qingze, a smile uglier than crying appeared on the corner of his mouth, his voice was very hoarse,

"Teacher Shen...am I... particularly embarrassed now?"

The self-mockery and fragility in that smile pricked Shen Qingze like a fine needle.

He didn't respond, but asked in a deep voice,

"What are the conditions Ye Xiang mentioned?"

The smile on Xiao Qihao's face suddenly froze, and then deflated like a balloon that had been punctured.

He lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes casting a small shadow on his pale face, and his voice was as light as a sigh.

"He said... let me voluntarily open my legs and be his lover..."

"Otherwise... just kill all those people..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to have lost the last bit of his strength and leaned back against the wall.

He looked ahead with empty eyes and spoke slowly.

"I harmed them..."

Those deliberately suppressed fragments of humiliation and fear finally rolled out of his throat little by little with a trembling voice.

Ye Xiang's aggressive eyes and undisguised threats in her words,

And how I clenched my fists tightly, but couldn't even say a complete refusal...

Every word seemed to be rolling over his heart again and again.

Xiao Qihao closed his eyes, and those images that had been deliberately suppressed deep in his memory rushed out like damp mold spots.

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Ye Xiang finally relented and allowed him to walk outside the room.

The condition is that he must always be accompanied by two expressionless guards.

In the first few days, Xiao Qihao behaved like a tamed pet.

During the day, he would walk around aimlessly in the designated area, with slow steps and blank eyes, as if he had really accepted this cage-like life.

At night, facing Ye Xiang's touch, he was even more docile and almost numb. He responded to everything the other party said without even frowning.

From time to time, I would take the initiative to play some new tricks with him.

Ye Xiang was obviously very satisfied with his "peace of mind", and there was always a relaxed smile in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

Occasionally, when she was in a good mood, she would even respond to his insignificant requests - buying him a new book, or putting a pot of brightly blooming flowers on the path he took.

The guards around him also gradually relaxed, no longer following him closely, and sometimes even chatting with him from a distance.

No one noticed that his seemingly empty eyes were gradually sketching out a route map inside the base.

He had already described those corners, iron gates, and gaps between patrol shifts thousands of times in his mind.

On that afternoon when everyone had let down their guard against him, Xiao Qihao went out for a walk as usual.

When he passed the side door leading to the slave yard, he took advantage of the moment when the guard turned his head to light a cigarette and turned into a small path where miscellaneous items were piled up.

There was a subtle looseness in the iron fence at the end of the trail, which he had specially noted when he was "strolling" a few days ago.

He held his breath, and quickly opened the lock of the fence with the thin wire hidden in his sleeve, and slid in almost along the wall.

This was the secret passage he had discovered after observing for a long time. It should be the shortcut that the group of managers used to secretly go to the slave farm.

The slave farm was filled with a strong smell of stench and despair.

It seems that because the platform of the gods was about to be built, there was no need for so many free-roaming slaves, so many iron cages were added to imprison the slaves.

The iron cages were stacked in rows, and the figures inside were mostly curled up, lifeless.

Xiao Qihao's heart was pounding as he shuttled between the cages according to the route he had planned before, his eyes anxiously scanning every face - the old man he was looking for,

The old man who had slipped him something was not here.

As his heart sank, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the short cage in the corner. The iron bars of the cage were rusted black, and inside it huddled a thin figure, the girl he was looking for.

Xiao Qihao's throat tightened, and he was about to call her, but he saw the girl suddenly raised her head.

Her eyes were large but empty like two dry wells, and her face was stained with dried stains.

There was a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, and he kept muttering discordant syllables.

When someone walked past the cage, she suddenly screamed and rushed over, scratching the iron bars with her nails frantically. There was no fear or sadness in her eyes, only a chaotic madness.

Like a porcelain doll that was completely broken into pieces and then haphazardly pieced together, it no longer had even a shred of its former clarity.

Xiao Qihao's heart was beating like a drum in his chest.

He stared at the guard's back as he walked away until he turned the corner at the end of the iron cage, then he suddenly lowered his body and walked quickly forward.

The girl in the corner was still scratching the cage wall unconsciously. The sound of her nails scraping against rusty iron was so harsh that it made people's scalps numb.

He held his breath and stood there, waiting for about half a minute. When he saw her movements gradually slow down and the madness in her eyes faded a little, he took two tentative steps towards the cage.

"Shh-"

As soon as he approached, the girl raised her head alertly. Her chaotic eyes instantly turned violent again. She let out a threatening whimper from her throat and was about to scream again.

Xiao Qihao quickly stretched out his hand, gently pressed his palm down towards her, and spoke in a very low voice with a barely perceptible tremor.

"Don't scream, girl! I'm here to save you."

The girl's movements suddenly stopped.

She stared blankly at the strange man in front of her. She had never seen such a clean and respectable man in the slave farm. Even the tone of his voice was completely different from those who beat and scolded her.

It was as if a stone was thrown into the chaotic bottom of my eyes, creating ripples, and a faint clarity slowly emerged.

She opened her mouth, and her cracked lips moved for a long time before she uttered a hoarse, broken sound.

"Save... me?"

"Yes, I'll take you out."

Xiao Qihao nodded, his fingertips touching the simple lock on the cage door. Just as he was groping for a way to unlock it, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

It was a chilling feeling, like being stared at by a poisonous snake.