Chapter 207 The Missing Person

Listening to the suppressed painful voices of countless women, Yun Chen immediately knew where this place was.

Military brothel camp.

The hot-blooded men of their youth went out to fight. The life in the army was boring and monotonous, and the gap between the battle on the battlefield and the return to peace was too strong, which made the men's sexual desire surge.

Human nature cannot be suppressed. There are also women in the Lion Army. Many of them are wives who accompanied their husbands from Zhao Kingdom and work in the army on a daily basis.

Most of them were legally registered prostitutes, some were women who had already been engaged in the prostitution business, and some were the families of criminals who were exiled...

Huo Gannian is one of the few generals in this absurd and crazy world who respects women and is willing to spend extremely high military funds to improve the treatment of camp prostitutes.

The prostitutes of the Lion Power Army entertained soldiers for three hours every day, had seven days off a month, and were paid three taels of silver a month, which was higher than the monthly salary of many ordinary soldiers.

Soldiers were not allowed to mistreat or force prostitutes into camps, and they had to pay extra silver each time before they could have sex with them.

Even so, as a woman, Yun Chen was still unwilling to talk to Huo Gannian about such a heavy and undignified topic as camp prostitutes.

Every time Huo Gannian dealt with matters concerning the prostitutes in the Shiwei Military Camp, he would choose a time when Yun Chen and Zhi Luo were not around.

But the Black Scale Cavalry obviously did not regard the "military prostitutes" as human beings.

It was late at night, but there was still a long queue at the door of each tent in the military brothel camp.

The tent curtains rose and fell, and all that flashed by were the numb faces of the women. From many tents even came the screams of women.

A Black Scale Cavalryman who was queuing said to the person next to him with a smile:

"I killed twenty-five Nanguo soldiers last time, and now I've killed over eighty in total. I've finally got enough, so I can have some fun!"

The person next to him said, "Just be happy. Many people haven't eaten meat for months because they haven't killed enough people."

Not only did they not treat military prostitutes as human beings, they were also treated as rewards to encourage killing the enemy.

Yun Chen felt a strong discomfort in his heart. Carrying the toilet for a whole day seemed not as disgusting as the scene in front of him.

She tried to calm herself down, passed through the military brothel camp, and continued walking forward, but she saw a crowd of people complaining in front of a tent with the longest queue.

A man dressed like an officer loudly ordered the soldiers in line to leave and roughly lifted the curtain.

A soldier then hurriedly walked out of the tent with his trousers in his hand, complained a few words in dissatisfaction, and was immediately slapped in the face.

The officer-looking man yelled, "Get out of here! The general is waiting!" Then he changed his tone to a more polite command and said to the people in the tent:

"Pick it up, the general is in a bad mood and is waiting!"

Yun Chen pretended not to see anything and continued pushing the cart. However, the officer noticed something was wrong:

"Stop there! Why aren't you wearing your errand uniform?"

Yun Chen quickly gestured that he was mute, which made the officer even more suspicious. He was about to order someone to arrest Yun Chen for investigation, when a beautiful figure walked out of the tent and said in surprise:

"Ah! Isn't this the mute boy from the Liu family, Liu Ergou? He's lucky enough to be doing odd jobs?"

The officer looked Yun Chen up and down. "Are you from Yancheng? Of course you don't have menial uniforms. No need to check. Get lost!"

Yun Chen acted extremely frightened, nodding and bowing repeatedly. When he was leaving, she turned her head and looked—

Dan Kou was walking away with the officer and looked back.

Just by looking at each other, Yun Chen trembled all over and felt as if his heart was being cut by a knife.

There were tears in Dankou's eyes, a look of surprise and pleading, fatigue from being tortured day and night, and bottomless despair and fear.

The beautiful girl who would lean on Yun Chen and laugh with a voice as sweet as a silver bell, has become like yesterday's flower, with only her face withered and trembling like a frightened bird.

Looking at these gray tents, these devil's dens that trapped thousands of decent women in Yancheng, Yun Chen clenched his fists secretly, almost biting his teeth.

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late at night.

The military brothel camp welcomed the only two hours of the day when it did not receive customers.

Dan Kou returned from Jiao Zuotai's place and walked into the quiet, messy tent. She blew out the candle and tentatively called out softly:

"Guardian Cloud...are you there?"

Yun Chen, who had been waiting outside the tent for a long time, immediately climbed in through the small window upon hearing the sound and stood in front of Dan Kou.

Looking at the familiar figure in the darkness, Dan Kou was stunned for a moment, her nose felt sore, and tears fell.

Yun Chen took two steps forward and silently held Dan Kou's shoulders.

"Guard Yun... they've captured so many civilians... so many... all the women have been taken as military prostitutes... those who resisted and refused to serve have all disappeared... I'm spineless, Guard Yun... I smiled at the beasts who killed the people of Yancheng, and tried to please them..."

Yun Chen wiped Dan Kou's tears with his stained sleeves. "Don't be silly. If it weren't for you, I would be in trouble today. Miss Dan Kou, my dear girl, tell me everything you know. I will draw a map of the Black Scale Cavalry's camp defenses. I will bring the Lion Army to kill these beasts! Trust me!"

Dan Kou nodded heavily, wiped away her tears, forced herself to cheer up, and began to tell Yun Chen everything she knew.

Yun Chen painted what he had seen in the past few days under the faint moonlight, and filled in the remaining parts according to Dan Kou's instructions.

Although it is less than one-third of the entire camp, it is already very valuable.

At least Yun Chen doesn’t have to go to the places that Dan Kou has seen.

"Miss Dankou, how did you recognize me?" Huo Gannian had spent a fortune on the mask, which was extremely thin and fitted the skin perfectly. Yun Chen thought his disguise was flawless, but he didn't expect Dankou to recognize him at first sight.

Dan Kou looked at the face in front of her with sparse eyebrows and freckles, and pointed at Yun Chen's eyes.

"Your eyes can't lie."

Yun Chen naturally didn't know what his eyes meant, but Dan Kou said seriously:

"Guard Yun, you don't know how to lie. Your eyes are so clear, every emotion is written in them. Anyone who has seen you before will never forget you and will recognize you at a glance. If you want to achieve great things this time, you must be careful in your disguise."

Yun Chen nodded, touched his eyes subconsciously, and kept Dan Kou's instructions in mind.

Fortunately, Dan Kou reminded him, otherwise Yun Chen might have been recognized as soon as he met Jiao Zuotai.

Yun Chen asked, "How is the security of Jiao Zuotai's tent? Does he always...specifically ask you to go?"

Dan Kou replied, "I've been there seven or eight times. His tent is very large, but there are only two people guarding it. It seems like he is annoyed by so many people around him."

Yun Chen thought there was a chance she could steal the most accurate and detailed defense map. If she couldn't, she could draw one herself, which would surely be useful.

Yun Chen then asked some more questions in detail. Dan Kou seemed extremely tired, her narration was a bit disorganized, and many of her words were very scattered, but Yun Chen sensitively grasped a very important piece of information from it.

"Miss Dankou, you said that among the captured Yancheng residents, some always go missing?"

"I'm not sure, it's just a feeling. The women who resisted are gone, and the people who clean the toilets, do odd jobs, and do hard labor are always changing." Dan Kou said, picking up a bowl of slightly cold soup from the table and sighing:

"Guardian Yun, don't mind me. I'm so hungry that I don't even have time to eat or breathe every day. Please allow me to eat something."

Dankou picked up the bowl, drank the soup in big gulps, and ate the only piece of meat in the bowl greedily.

Yun Chen stared with wide eyes at the pale pieces of meat and pale bones in the bowl, but he only felt an unprecedented fear.