Chapter 126: Ambush "Him"
The rain started to fall at 10:30 in the middle of the night. At first, it was just tiny raindrops scattered here and there. Within half an hour, it gradually became heavier. Then the raindrops changed from the size of embroidery needles to huge lumps of water as big as pebbles, hitting the roof with a "crackling" sound.
It seemed the flowers in the garden were doomed to die. Linlang and Vinayun watched the heavy rain pouring outside in silence, neither saying a word, but both sharing the same thought.
However, Luo Mei knew nothing about the heavy rain above. He just felt that the air in the secret passage was much more humid than before, and the fishy smell was slightly stronger.
"It's been so long, the people up there shouldn't be any movement, right?" asked a Cao Gang brother nearby.
"Don't be careless, you never know when they will take action!" Luo Mei glared at him and warned him.
As soon as she finished speaking, they heard a slight "creaking" sound coming from the end of the secret passage. The three of them quickly shrank their bodies and hid behind the wall of the secret passage, concentrating their attention and looking in the direction where the sound came from.
Suddenly, a thin crack appeared in the wall at the end of the passage. Then, it expanded upwards and downwards, and after reaching a certain distance, it continued in the same direction, gradually widening. A door had opened!
"Someone is coming out!" a Cao Gang brother whispered.
"Shut up! I saw it!" Luo Mei glared at him and told him not to alarm the other party.
After all the secret doors opened, five or six people emerged one after another. They were all wearing black hooded cloaks and ghost masks. Each of them carried a sack half the length of a person on their shoulders. When they all emerged, Clark and two masked followers emerged from the back. Judging by their figures, they were the two who had accompanied Clark in the standoff with Du Yunzhang and Yin Chuan at the church entrance not long ago.
Clark whispered a few words to the ghost-faced men in English, as if he was arranging them to carry out certain tasks. The ghost-faced men nodded one after another, and then walked along the secret passage towards the direction where Luo Mei was hiding.
Luo Mei felt a little uneasy. She looked at the two Cao Gang brothers next to her. They were also looking at her nervously, as if asking: What should we do now?
Luo Mei kept Yin Chuan's instructions in mind and acted according to his plan, which would definitely make the other party reveal his true intentions!
She gestured to the two of them to raise her hand, and they understood what she meant and started to act as soon as her hand dropped.
The ghost-faced men filed in one after another. The one in front passed by Luo Mei, but due to the dim light, he didn't notice the other person beside him. The same was true for the others behind him.
When the last one passed by, Luo Mei lowered his hands to the other two. They immediately jumped up at lightning speed, and with a sweeping kick and a sky-high cannon, they knocked down the four people walking in front in the blink of an eye.
Luo Mei was also decisive, quickly defeating the last two. These three men were indeed very skilled, and in just a moment they had rendered the six ghost-faced men powerless.
Clark and his two followers, who had just emerged from the secret door, were immediately terrified. Clark shouted a few words in foreign language to the two men and then retreated toward the door behind him. Luo Mei and his two followers were quick to catch him.
In such a chaotic scene, with several ghost-faced men and sacks rolling on the ground, Luo Mei and the other two were not as efficient as they had been in the initial raid. Just as they were about to catch up with Clark, the secret door leading directly to the church was suddenly closed from the inside, blocking the three of them outside.
"What should we do?"
"Are you going to pry the door open and get in like you did before?"
Luo Mei waved his hand and said, "First tie up these six people and let the higher-ups decide their fate."
The two nodded in agreement and quickly tied up the six ghost-faced men. Then one of them returned along the original route to deliver the letter to Yin Chuan.
Luo Mei took off the masks of several people and saw that they were all blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners. They all had drooping heads and fear in their eyes.
"Miss Luo! Look!" The Cao Gang brothers who stayed here suddenly exclaimed, and Luo Mei turned around to look.
The Cao Gang brother was just opening the sack carried by the ghost-faced man, and inside was revealed a child's face. The face was bluish-gray, like a lifeless corpse.
The two men quickly opened several other sacks, all of which were filled with the bodies of children, both boys and girls, the oldest no more than twelve or thirteen years old, the youngest only seven or eight.
"Beast!" Luo Mei cursed harshly.
"These foreign devils are simply not human!" The Cao Gang brother was also filled with righteous indignation and kicked the tied foreigner hard.
Luo Mei grabbed a foreigner lying on the ground by the collar and pointed at the dead children, asking, "Tell me! Why did you kill so many children? Where are you sending their bodies?"
The foreigner looked at a loss, kept shaking his head and chattering in a lot of foreign words. Luo Mei had no idea what he was saying.
"Miss Luo, these people deserve to be hacked into pieces! Wait until the order comes down from above, and I'll be the first to execute them!"
Luo Mei let out a long sigh, was silent for a moment, and then said, "Don't worry, there are still some things to deal with here."
After saying that, she walked to the door at the end of the secret passage that led to the church. The Cao Gang brothers thought she was going to pry open the door and break into the church, but unexpectedly, Luo Mei turned around and faced the wall opposite the door, as if she was looking for something special.
"What's wrong?"
Luo Mei patted the wall and asked, "Did you notice that when the leading foreigner retreated back into the door, did his entourage also retreat with him?"
"Huh? I was just following you at the time, and I also had to take care of the people lying on the ground to prevent them from tripping, so I didn't notice a few people retreating back through the door."
"If Yin Chuan's prediction is correct, the 'he' we are talking about has probably taken the bait!"
"What do you mean?"
Luo Mei didn't answer, but instead groped his way down the wall. Sure enough, he found a very hidden groove at the bottom. With a slight pressure of his finger, he triggered a mechanism, and a crack immediately appeared in the wall. It was completely hidden in the shadows, so if you didn't concentrate, you wouldn't be able to see it at all.
"This...is there a secret passage here?"
Luo Mei turned around and said to the Cao Gang brother, "You stay here and watch over these foreign devils and the people in the church. When the people from above come, tell them that I'm going to chase them and you don't need to follow me."
"But...are you alone?"
Luo Mei waved at him without turning back, indicating that he didn't need to worry, then curled up and went into the secret door.
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