"Great hero, I've told you everything I know, please spare me!"
The gang leader writhed on the ground like an earthworm, wailing in pain, "We're just following orders from our superiors, running errands for them. We're all pitiful people. I promise I'll never do it again. Please, have mercy on me this time!"
"How do you usually keep in touch? Besides the child in the carriage, where are the other children hidden?"
The gang leader wailed, "That's all. We only took these children."
Lu Shiyan sneered, placing his foot on the man's chest, and said lightly, "You know what will happen if I step on him, right?"
Thinking of his terrifying strength, the gang leader shuddered and said repeatedly, "Warrior, I'll talk, I'll talk. The children we usually find are locked in caves. Once we have enough, we send them all to Fengyue Manor."
But we don't usually contact the manor; we just send the children directly to Fengyue Manor and hand them over to Steward Qi. We can't see anyone from above, really, I'm not lying to you.”
Lu Shiyan asked coldly, "Which cave?"
The gang leader stammered and refused to speak.
"Do you know?" Lu Shiyan didn't waste any more words with him, and looked at Xiao Hei. "Only one of you can live. Whoever leads me to the child, I will spare his life."
Xiao Hei hurriedly said, "I'll talk, I'll talk. He's locked up in a cave in Sanchagou. People outside say that place is haunted, and nobody dares to go there."
Actually, the ditch wasn't haunted at all. It was just that they had their eye on that place, so they created some strange things that scared the local residents into thinking it was haunted, and they were all too afraid to go there.
After the disasters of the past two years, the villagers in the vicinity all fled, and no one knew the extent of the dangers inside.
This also made it easier for them to hide children.
The gang leader was so angry that he fainted when he saw that his loyal follower, who always bowed and scraped behind his back, had betrayed him without batting an eye.
Lu Shiyan asked again how they contacted other people in the Changping Marquis's residence, and where other human traffickers had detained people they had abducted.
Xiao Hei and the gang leader gave similar answers, saying that they were in competition with other groups and did not usually associate with them.
Seeing that he couldn't get any more information out of him, Lu Shiyan flipped his longsword and delivered a final blow to the unconscious gang leader.
Then he turned to Xiao Hei and said, "Bury them all."
He threatened in a flat tone, "Don't try to run away. You know what will happen if I catch you."
Xiao Hei trembled and said repeatedly, "Big brother is joking. How could I dare? I will listen to you from now on. Whatever you say goes."
He really didn't dare.
He really misjudged the situation today.
I initially thought he was just a pretty boy, but it turns out he's a demon from hell.
He was too ruthless.
Without even blinking, they slaughtered everyone on the ground.
With his skills, he worried that he would be caught and killed before he could run more than a few steps.
Little Black, dragging his injured leg, shakily went to dig a hole to bury his companion.
Lu Shiyan ignored Xiao Hei, straightened his clothes, and only after seeing that there was no blood on him did he turn around and go back to his room, where he lowered Jiang Tangtang down from the roof beam.
Although Jiang Tangtang didn't go out from the roof beam, she had a pretty good understanding of the situation outside.
"Husband, shall we go and rescue those children soon?"
Lu Shiyan nodded and asked, "How are you feeling? Does it still hurt?"
Jiang Tangtang held his hand and smiled, "Husband, you feel much better after the warming. I'll ask you to warm me up again tonight."
Lu Shiyan: "..."
Are you coming again?
The spiritual energy he had painstakingly accumulated was being drained dry.
"Let's go." Jiang Tangtang, completely oblivious to his complicated feelings, pulled him outside and said, "Let's go see the children outside."
Thinking about what those people had told her about the fate of these children if they went to the Prince Duan's mansion, Jiang Tangtang felt a tightness in her chest.
For the first time, she felt an urge to not be a couch potato, but to strive upwards and stand at the top of the pyramid.
She wanted to wipe out that damned Prince Duan, that damned Marquis Changping, and all the scum in the world who had filthy thoughts and reached out to harm children.
Five or six children were crammed into the dilapidated carriage, their hands and feet bound and their mouths gagged.
Fang Mingming squeezed among the children and immediately showed a look of surprise when she saw Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan.
He struggled desperately, making whimpering sounds.
Jiang Tangtang rolled her eyes in disgust, but still reached out to remove the rag from his mouth and untie the ropes binding him.
As soon as the rag was brought over, Fang Mingming excitedly asked, "Cousin and cousin-in-law, did my mother send you to rescue me? I'm so hungry, do you have anything to eat?"
Jiang Tangtang, unusually good-natured, asked, "Didn't those people feed you?"
"No, not only did they not give us food, they also beat us." Fang Mingming thought about the past few days. He looked at Jiang Tangtang carefully, afraid that he would anger her and the two of them would abandon him.
After Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan untied the ropes from the children in the carriage, they checked each of them to make sure they were healthy.
They found that although the child had many bruises, no bones were broken, so they did not do anything further.
Lu Shiyan turned around and went back into the house, took out all the food that Xiao Hei had prepared earlier, and distributed it to the children.
After the children finished eating, Xiao Hei hastily buried their bodies outside.
Lu Shiyan sat on the front carriage shaft with Xiao Hei, asking him to guide them to rescue the children in the cave.
He originally intended to feed the children so they could go back to find their parents. But some of the children had already lost their parents, and others had no idea where their parents were.
In the end, the two had no choice but to bring all the children with them.
This carriage was probably specially prepared for kidnapping children; although it was dilapidated, the carriage inside was quite large.
Jiang Tangtang and the other children were able to squeeze into the carriage without any problems.
The carriage traveled for more than three hours before arriving at the Sanchagou mentioned by Xiao Hei.
Along the way, Xiao Hei discovered that the man in front of him was incredibly skilled. He didn't dare to play any tricks and honestly said, "The carriage can't go in. We usually park the carriage on the hillside, go down from there, and walk into the cave."
Lu Shiyan handed the wooden amulet he had carved earlier to Jiang Tangtang, saying, "You and the children wait here for me. I'll go in with him to take a look."
"What's this?"
Jiang Tangtang curiously fiddled with the sign in her hand, feeling that it had many strange symbols on it.
Thinking about his true identity, her eyes shone brightly.
Could this be some kind of legendary talisman?
Lu Shiyan braided a rope from tree bark, strung the wooden plaques together, and hung it around her neck, saying, "Amulet."
Just a talisman?
Jiang Tangtang was a little disappointed. She thought it would be like in the TV shows, where it could be used as a weapon!
Lu Shiyan couldn't help but laugh when he saw her momentarily disappointed expression.
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