Chapter 156 One child is missing!

the other end.

Under the leadership of Xue Youli, Xuan Ming and a group of secret guards walked around for a long time and finally arrived at the entrance of the cellar.

"It's right here." Xue Youli stopped and nodded his chin towards the wooden board that was more than a person's height below his feet.

Xuan Ming nodded at her, raised his hand and made a gesture, and all the secret guards were neatly divided into two rows and stood against the wall.

"Ada, prepare your hidden weapons!"

"Yes!" Ah Da responded, raised his sleeve arrow and aimed it at the entrance of the cellar, ready to launch a long-range attack at any time.

Xuan Ming squatted down and lifted up the huge wooden board on the ground, revealing a bottomless passage.

The passage was extremely dark. As soon as one approached the entrance, one could smell a foul odor mixed with decay and dampness.

Even though Xuan Ming was the best secret guard, he almost vomited in disgust when he smelled the odor coming towards him.

His brows were furrowed, and he turned his head to take a deep breath, "My queen, I will go down to investigate the situation first, and the rest of you stay here and wait!"

"I'll go down with you!"

After Xue Youli finished speaking, he followed Xuan Ming and walked along the narrow passage into the depths of the cellar.

Xuan Ming led the way in front, and with every step he took inside, he hated the Pleasure House a little more.

As a man who had experienced many hardships, he felt uncomfortable when he entered the cellar. How could those captured children endure being locked up in such a dark place for a long time?

Xue Youli's stomach started churning as she smelled the pungent odor.

She had only walked a few yards when she felt she couldn't stand it anymore.

What about those children locked in the cellar?

They live in such a terrible environment every day, with no one to turn to for help. How miserable and hopeless must they be?

Xuanming walked for a while and found that the light ahead was much brighter than that in the passage.

As Xue Youli walked forward, he was still paying attention to the navigation on the Book of Heaven's Secrets.

When she saw two black spots coming towards the passage, she immediately grabbed Xuan Ming and gestured to remind him.

Xuan Ming understood what she meant and pulled out a dagger.

He looked at the shadow approaching on the ground and moved suddenly. Before the two sentries could make a move, he swung his dagger and directly cut the necks of the two sentries.

The noise caused by knocking them down was so loud that it alarmed the last secret sentry.

The man pulled the sword from the table and rushed towards the entrance!

Xuan Ming noticed the figure flying towards him and swung his sword.

The sentry's body froze, and he looked at the dagger that was deeply inserted into his heart. He opened his mouth, but before he could utter a word, he fell to the ground and died.

Xue Youli looked at Xuan Ming's quick and decisive hand extension and could not help but sigh in amazement. He was indeed the emperor's most capable right-hand man, so powerful!

After Xuan Ming had dealt with all the secret sentries, she did not delay and rushed out quickly.

However, when she looked at the group of little boys huddled on the straw mats, their naked bodies and frightened expressions, her heart felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, causing a dull pain.

"No, don't kill me... I won't run away again..."

A little boy saw Xue Youli approaching, knelt down in her direction, and kowtowed repeatedly, "I don't want to be hung up... Wuwuwu... Please don't kill me..."

The other children on the mat had empty and numb eyes. They looked at Xue Youli expressionlessly, then looked at the boy begging for mercy, then closed their eyes and continued to sleep.

In the cellar, escapes and recaptures were a daily occurrence, and they were used to it.

Looking at this scene, Xue Youli wished he could capture Murong Ye immediately and lock him up in the cellar for the rest of his life, making his life a living hell!

"My lady, please look at this child! He is badly injured!"

Xue Youli turned her head and saw a boy hanging in mid-air, tied with four iron chains, diagonally opposite the straw mats where the children were sleeping.

His tattered clothes had been stained dark red by blood.

At this moment, blood was still flowing from his body, dripping onto the ground along his fingertips.

Xue Youli stepped forward quickly, "Xuanming, can you break the chain?"

Xuan Ming nodded, turned around, picked up the sentry's sword, aimed at the iron chain and chopped it down hard.

However, the chain was too thick and did not break after the sword struck it.

The harder he cuts the chain, the more the child hanging on the chain will be injured again.

Xue Youli saw that the child's wound was bleeding more and more, and hurriedly stopped Xuan Ming, "Don't cut it! Forcibly cutting the iron chain will only make the child more injured."

Xuan Ming turned his gaze and caught a glimpse of the lock on the iron chain. He immediately said, "When I was fighting with the sentry just now, I heard the sound of a key. I'm going to find the key!"

He walked up to the body of the sentry and quickly found the key hanging on the sentry's waist.

Then he used a key to open the iron lock and carefully carried the unconscious boy down.

Except for his face, the boy has no healthy skin anywhere that is exposed to the air.

Some of the large and small whip marks have scabbed over, and some are still bleeding. The new wounds are connected to the old wounds. Even after the blood from the wounds solidifies, the flesh and blood stick tightly to the clothes, which is heartbreaking to look at.

No wonder Wang Dali was determined to work as a security guard even at the risk of disfigurement. The children locked up here are so miserable!

If you don't have a strong mind, you will go crazy sooner or later!

Xue Youli stepped forward to stop the child's bleeding, and then simply treated the wounds on his body. "He only has superficial wounds. It seems that the brothel wants to use them to make money, so they didn't hurt his vital parts. But he lost too much blood, so he must be sent out for treatment as soon as possible!"

"yes!"

Xuan Ming shouted towards the entrance, "Someone come down immediately!"

Not long after, a secret guard came in.

"He's seriously injured. Send him to the hospital for treatment!"

"Yes!" The man took the child and went to the cellar immediately without any delay.

During this period, Xue Youli had already revealed her identity to the boy on the straw mat.

"We have rescued the other children. Everyone, get up quickly. We will take you home!"

"Let's go! Let's go!"

The little boy who had just been kneeling on the ground begging for mercy was the first to stand up.

He didn't care whether Xue Youli was good or bad, as long as he could get him out of the cellar, he would be willing to be treated like a slave after he got out!

So, at his call, the other children also got up from the straw mats and followed them out of the cellar.

They had been tortured for so long that their brains seemed to have lost the ability to think and their expressions were blank.

However, when they walked out of the cellar, breathed the free air outside, and felt the free night breeze, the children's dull expressions finally changed.

It is said that men don't shed tears easily. When several boys saw the starry night sky, they burst into tears.

The other children also started crying, but their cries were different from the suppressed and fearful cries Chu Xinyue heard last night.

This time, they cried much louder, as if they wanted to let out with their tears the pain that had been suppressed in their hearts for days.

Xue Youli looked at them crying loudly and did not stop them.

If you keep negative emotions in your heart for a long time, it is easy to have mental problems.

It’s nice to be able to release it all at once.

Xuan Ming watched his men take the children away from the backyard and asked Xue Youli, "My queen, now that all the children have been moved, can we leave now?"

Xue Youli replied, "Wait for me to confirm the number of people."

Chu Xinyue heard this and turned to look at the young man who was still watching, "Wang Dali!"

"Here we go!"

Wang Dali ran to her and asked, "Sister, do you have any instructions?"

"Ninety-four people were rescued. Is that correct?"

Wang Dali frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head and said, "There is still one missing!"

Chu Xinyue replied, "Did you forget to count yourself?"

"no!"

Wang Dali said with certainty, thinking for a moment, and simply counted on his fingers to show her, "There are a total of one hundred children who were captured here, ninety-four of them left, four were taken away at the auction, and including me, there are only ninety-nine, one short!"

Chu Xinyue patted Wang Dali on the shoulder and said, "Ali, how about this, you take Dali and go first, I'll go find the child who was left behind!"