Fourteen minutes ago.
Hearing the heavy footsteps outside the door, Lu Cijian reached out to open it.
Jiang Yimian grabbed him.
The next second, a terrified scream rang out from inside the tunnel, "Help! Help! Murder! Someone's gone mad!"
The chaotic footsteps immediately changed direction and ran towards the source of the sound, and in an instant, more than half of the people in the tunnel disappeared.
Jiang Yimian and Lu Cijian also took the opportunity to escape from the shadows where they had been hiding and headed towards the exit of the tunnel.
However, the tunnel was in complete chaos at this time.
Outside a secluded and cramped room, a number of people were currently crammed together.
There were patrolling guards and many onlookers, almost all of whom were from Xiliang, making the two people standing in the very center all too conspicuous.
The young boy covered the eyes of the little girl in his arms, his whole body trembling, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing was real.
The crowd watching the spectacle around them had various expressions as they looked at the people inside the house, some with disdain, others with excitement.
"Hey, these guys have been holding back for too long, they can't even tell their own people apart, they're just playing around like this."
"What, are you envious? If so, join us now, hahaha."
"Tsk, did you see that? That person in the very middle seems to be the leader who was transferred from the advance team. I really wonder if these people will go crazy if they wake up and find out what they did today."
The mocking voices rose and fell, but no one stepped forward to stop the people inside. For a moment, the only sounds in the tunnel were the laughter of the crowd and the ambiguous sounds.
It's really ridiculous to see several grown men doing this kind of thing together.
The commotion was only interrupted when another patrol of guards hurriedly arrived.
The crowd, who had initially been watching the spectacle, bowed their heads and saluted upon recognizing the leader, saying, "Lord Bamo."
The bearded man, seeing the crowded scene before him, coldly said, "Get out of my way."
The crowded people immediately dispersed, making way for one person to pass through.
Bamo walked toward the narrow room, but before he got close, he heard a heavy panting coming from inside. He immediately frowned.
Upon approaching and seeing the several naked men inside, he roared angrily, "You bastards, wake up these good-for-nothings! Is this a place for them to indulge themselves?"
The guard beside him responded and hurriedly went into the house.
However, before they could even get close, the men suddenly convulsed, collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and became completely still.
Everyone who saw this was shocked and gasped in disbelief.
One of them tentatively asked, "He...they...is he about to have a stroke?"
Upon hearing this, Bamo rushed into the house, shoved aside the servant who had entered earlier, and reached out to probe the noses of the people on the ground.
There was no breathing there, and even the body temperature of the people there was gradually fading; they were indeed dead.
He immediately looked at the people outside, narrowed his eyes, and asked, "Why are these good-for-nothings here all of a sudden? And who noticed their strange behavior?"
Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at the young boy in the center of the crowd.
Bamo sized up the other man and immediately said with displeasure, "You're a Xia slave, why are you here instead of carrying goods?"
The boy, trembling, said, "I... I just wanted to ask the leader for help. My sister is sick, and I want to get her medical treatment."
Nobody knows where the leader is. I... I found my way here with them.
He cautiously pointed to the patrol team behind him.
The young man in the lead nodded. "He wasn't lying. We discovered someone was missing, and seeing that he was also looking for Leader Ge and his group, we joined in the search around there."
Only after hearing the noise did I realize what those people were doing inside the house.
Bamo frowned, staring intently at the young boy without saying a word.
People living in the tunnels, having never seen the light of day, often experience a degree of depression.
As the person in charge of this place, he naturally knew that one of the ways these people relieved their emotions was by lighting aphrodisiac incense and looking for women.
His gaze fell on the little girl in the boy's arms, and he immediately understood a lot.
Those men who were about to fall ill must have intended to harm the little girl, but the young boy led them away and escaped.
Those people ended up in their current state because the aphrodisiac incense in the room was too strong.
It sounded like there was no problem, but he felt the truth was not so simple.
First of all, each leader in the tunnel has their own responsibilities, and no matter how much trouble their subordinates cause, they will not join in their misbehavior.
Not to mention that it was led by Ge.
This guy used to be a soldier in the vanguard of Xiliang, and a top-ranking one at that. It's really unlikely that someone who could reach that level would leave his post for a little girl.
As for the marks inside the tunnel, although it's uncertain whether they were left by Leader Ge, what is certain is that outsiders must have infiltrated the tunnel today.
The two things happening together are hard to ignore.
There's something fishy about this; he must report it to the Khan again.
It's not as simple as just someone sneaking into the tunnels.
Thinking this, he looked at the young boy and was about to order someone to take them away when he heard an dissatisfied voice, "Well, I was wondering where you secretly ran off to. So you came here to slack off. Now get back and help transport the goods."
Go collect your punishment in a bit.
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