"ah!"
She had never seen such a bizarre and terrifying scene in her life. Su Xiaoning screamed and her legs went weak as she was about to fall, but Su Qingcai, who had just heard the noise, caught her.
Su Qingcai pulled Su Xiaoning into his arms, frowned, glanced at the scene before him, and said sternly, "Who are you? Why are you playing tricks here?!"
The person who had been holding Su Xiaoning's hand trembled at the loud question, withdrew his hand, and two lines of tears fell from his withered face.
"We didn't mean to play tricks. The master of the Gu family captured us. Please, have mercy and rescue us, or we'll be killed soon..."
"Was it Lord Gu who arrested you?" Su Xiaoning was taken aback. After calming herself down, she carefully examined the living people in the cages.
Calling them "living people" isn't quite accurate; these people were more like walking corpses, each one emaciated, skin and bones, their clothes tattered and stained with blood. Each face wore a deathly expression, their eyes bulging out, bloodshot, looking as if they were about to fall to the ground.
These people all looked like they were suffering terribly, and Su Xiaoning couldn't bear to watch any longer.
She lowered her head and sighed, then squatted down and asked the people in the cage, "Explain yourself clearly. How did you get captured by Lord Gu? What is he planning to do with you? How... how did you end up like this?"
The person in the cage wore a sorrowful expression, but their eyes were filled with resentment.
"What Lord Gu... He's a devil! To make an antidote for his daughter, he kidnaps innocent people like us to test the medicine. What did we do wrong to deserve this? So many people have died, yet he still won't stop. Heaven has no eyes..."
"Hasn't Miss Gu already recovered? Why does she still need you to test the medicine?" Su Qingcai suddenly remembered the medicinal soup that Gu Zeyin had to take every day. Could it be that these medicines were made at the cost of human lives?
"Gu Zeyin's illness is far from cured! She's always been sickly!" The person in the cage clenched their fists. "The master of the Gu family specifically captures living people to test medicines, using our blood as a medicinal ingredient. You may have already found out about the flowers he grows. To obtain the satisfactory medicinal ingredient, he didn't hesitate to poison everyone in Ye City, and the entire city's plague started because of this..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Xiaoning and Su Qingcai both fell silent.
So this is the truth behind the plague in Ye City! That Gu father is truly a demon; he loves his daughter but doesn't care about the lives of these people...
"No!" Su Xiaoning gritted her teeth and pulled out the hairpin from her hair, trying to unlock it. "This place is hell. I can't watch these innocent people suffer here. I have to release them all!"
Su Qingcai was initially worried that letting the blind man release the person might be too reckless, but since Su Xiaoning had already taken action, he knew her personality and didn't say anything more, directly helping her unlock the door.
The two of them worked together to open all the cages in the secret room one after another. The living people in the cages were extremely grateful and all escaped.
After escorting these people safely out of the Gu residence, Su Xiaoning finally breathed a sigh of relief. Together with Su Qingcai, she cleaned up all the traces they had left in the secret room before returning to her own room with peace of mind.
...
The people used to test the medicine in the secret room all disappeared overnight. Father Gu was furious and ordered a search, but they found nothing.
Those people escaped, and Gu Zeyin lost her medicinal ingredients. She stopped taking her medicine for a few days, and as time went on, she gradually developed symptoms of the epidemic, lying in bed every day with a persistent high fever.
Father Gu was frantic with worry, but had no other choice. Seeing Gu Zeyin growing weaker day by day, in this dire situation, Father Gu finally set his sights on Su Xiaoning.
Su Xiaoning is also a "patient," so using her blood as a medicinal ingredient is not something that can't be tried.
Gu's father acted decisively, increasing the dosage of poison in the food he sent to Su Xiaoning that very night. After eating it, Su Xiaoning would definitely fall into a coma, and even if she woke up, she would become mentally impaired, making it easier for him to harm her.
To his surprise, Su Xiaoning did not show any signs of worsening after one night. Although she looked sickly, she was no different from usual.
It was at this moment that a startling idea popped into Gu's father's mind.
Could it be that Su Xiaoning is actually immune to all poisons, and that her current behavior is all an act of feigning illness?!
The more Gu's father thought about it, the more likely this idea seemed. To verify his conjecture, he put different poisons into Su Xiaoning's food for three consecutive days, and the result was as he expected. Su Xiaoning showed no abnormalities whatsoever; she maintained her initial pretense and was unaffected by any of the poisons.
Sure enough, she was immune to all poisons! My daughter is finally saved!
Mr. Gu was extremely excited and planned to make a move against Su Xiaoning.
Two days later, he quietly came to Su Xiaoning's room, knocked out the horrified Su Xiaoning, and quietly took her away.
No sooner had Gu's father left than Su Qingcai arrived.
He had only come to visit Su Xiaoning as usual, but when he saw that Su Xiaoning's bed was empty, Su Qingcai's expression changed and he rushed out of the room.
Oh no! Su Xiaoning has disappeared; it's most likely Gu's father who did it!
Su Qingcai had a bad feeling. He searched every corner of the Gu residence in the shortest amount of time, but he couldn't find Su Xiaoning, and Gu's father was nowhere to be found either.
Just when he was at his wit's end, Su Qingcai suddenly had a flash of inspiration. His heart pounded, and he turned and ran toward the entrance to the underground chamber.
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