Chapter 212 A Treasure Trove of Gold and Silver Piled Up Beneath the Stone Steps

Hearing the sound of the stone door opening, Lin Luoxi looked warily towards the doorway, fearing that the two guards outside might hear the commotion inside and break in.

They waited for a long time, and even after the stone door was fully opened, they still didn't see the two people outside come in.

Not wanting to waste time, Lin Luoxi first sprinkled a thick layer of sleeping potion at the door of the room before entering the newly opened stone door with peace of mind.

Upon entering the stone gate, the first thing you see is stone steps, but this time the steps lead down.

Lin Luoxi carefully stepped onto the stone steps, descending slowly, one step at a time.

After climbing about a hundred steps, I finally reached the ground floor.

This single-level apartment is huge, as big as a football field, and what's most shocking is that it's filled with Lin Luoxi's favorite treasures.

"Wow, how many people did they rob to amass such wealth?" Lin Luoxi's eyes lit up instantly when she saw the boxes of gold and the mountains of silver ingots.

The gold chests filled an entire wall; a rough estimate put the amount at over a thousand large chests.

The silver ingots were piled up like small mountains, and the copper coins piled up in the corners were too numerous to count. Such a huge fortune! They had really made a fortune.

With so much wealth, even the national treasury might not have that much.

Lin Luoxi has no regrets about conquering Bear Ridge today. With so much wealth, she wouldn't need to work hard in this life, or even for ten lifetimes.

He quickened his pace and reached out to touch the neatly stacked gold ingots and gold bricks inside the box.

"Hmm, something seems off." Lin Luoxi, a skilled physician, sniffed the air and immediately recognized that the gold surrounding the room was poison.

Moreover, it's the kind of poison that causes the skin to fester from the palm of the hand the moment it touches gold.

If it were someone else, not Lin Luoxi, who is here today, they probably wouldn't be able to enjoy such a large sum of money.

But today it's her who's showing up, so this little bit of poison is nothing to her.

Reaching out, he put all the boxes filled with the old items into his space, and filled up most of the gold on a large wall, leaving only half of it in place.

He then went to the place piled high with silver ingots and began to collect them in large quantities. He only stopped when he saw that he had collected enough.

Although she had already collected a considerable amount of gold and silver ingots, Lin Luoxi did not miss out on the copper coins.

Spending gold and silver ingots would arouse suspicion, but copper coins are different; it's perfectly normal for ordinary people to use copper coins.

Thinking of this, Lin Luoxi didn't stand on ceremony and started collecting the scattered copper coins on the ground.

Lin Luoxi stopped when there was no more room left and planned to return the way she came.

"Clang, clang..." Just as Lin Luoxi was about to leave, she suddenly heard the sound of metal clanging.

Lin Luoxi's ears twitched, and she immediately pinpointed the location of the sound of metal clashing.

He carefully walked over, pressed his face against the cave wall, and listened attentively.

"It sounds like someone is hammering metal inside," Lin Luoxi heard a clear, melodious, and sustained sound coming from inside, which didn't sound like the sound of blacksmithing at all.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced again at the area with the pile of gold boxes and wondered: Could there be a gold mine here, and people are mining it?

Thinking of this, Lin Luoxi's heart pounded as she guessed the answer, the sound of it echoing loudly in the quiet space.

Lin Luoxi began to feel around on the cave wall, trying to find the mechanism leading inside.

"Strange, how could it not be there?" After searching for a long time, Lin Luoxi still couldn't find the mechanism, and the people inside had stopped pounding.

Fearing being discovered by others, Lin Luoxi stopped searching for the mechanism and quickly slipped out of the underground treasure vault.

After restoring the stone gate, he looked at the golden horse made of gold and left with a pained expression.

After coming out, just as I was about to go back to find the bears, I heard the sound of women arguing.

"Someone's attacking from outside! Let's take this opportunity to escape!" A hurried female voice suddenly reached Lin Luoxi's ears.

"Really? Are you sure? If it's true, then let's go back and pack our things..." The other women were still a little incredulous.

However, if they could escape this awful place, they would be willing to live on the streets.

They were all abducted by bandits and lived a life worse than death every day. Now that they have finally been attacked, they must want to escape.

Upon hearing the woman say she wanted to escape, Lin Luoxi quickly stopped herself from flying away, turned a corner, and went to look for the women.

Lin Luoxi stopped on the rooftop where the women's voices were coming from and calmed herself down to observe them.

It was discovered that these women were not simply dressed, and their appearances were fresh, refined, and delicate, indicating that the bandit leader had robbed these women from wealthy families.

However, Lin Luoxi noticed with her sharp eyes that the women in this courtyard were probably not doing well. Some had sallow complexions, some were so thin they looked unrecognizable, and some had rosy complexions but looked like they were several months pregnant.

Upon hearing that an attack had been launched, the women's faces lit up with hope, and they all went back into their houses to pack their belongings.

Just as everyone was preparing to return to their own rooms to pack their things, a sudden, sharp female voice rang out.

"I'm not leaving. If you want to leave, then you leave. I'm fine here." A heavily pregnant woman said, indicating that she did not want to leave.

When she was tied up at Bear Ridge, she hoped that her family could bring soldiers to rescue her.

However, she waited month after month, but her family still didn't come to rescue her, so she knew that her family had abandoned her.

So in this bandit's den, she desperately tried to please the leader, who looked like a bear, and desperately tried to secure her position.

Now that she has finally made it through and is living a good life, she doesn't want to go back to that cold-blooded and heartless home.

These innocent young women, kidnapped by bandits and taken to the mountains, even if they were rescued, what good life could they possibly have?

Families who care about their reputation will surely give them a white silk ribbon to end their own lives, so as not to offend their eyes.

Even family members who love their daughters dearly may be constrained by societal norms and send their daughters to temples to spend their lives with the ancient Buddha and the dim lamp.

Rather than doing that, it's better to stay here and fulfill her role as her concubine.

"Wang Shuya, this is a bandit's den. Do you really want to stay here for the rest of your life?" A woman with a gentle appearance couldn't understand Wang Shuya's thoughts.

"Then do you think that if a young woman like us is abducted to the mountains and then returns to the secular world, your family will accept a girl whose purity has been defiled by bandits?" Wang Shuya retorted hoarsely.