"Wait," Jiang Hua suddenly said, "If you want us to go with you, you can release her first."
"What if we don't want to?" the leader asked with a light laugh, showing no intention of letting go of Yang Tao.
"Then let's see if you can leave here."
Before the leading soldier could react, Qingling had already kicked him two meters away. The two soldiers with the rope rushed over and helped him up.
"I'll say it again, release her, and we'll go back with you." Qingling coldly looked at the group of people in front of her.
After some deliberation, the soldiers looked at Jiang Hua and Qing Ling warily. They had no other choice; if they didn't bring these two back today, they would lose their heads.
Jiang Hua had no choice but to order her men to release Yang Tao. After watching the two enter the house and a familiar white figure appear behind the door, she felt relieved and left with the group of soldiers.
Once they got into the carriage, they couldn't see the road anymore. The carriage was completely enclosed, with curtains and guards at the entrance, so they couldn't see anything outside. But one thing was certain: they weren't going to the prefect's residence.
They only left hastily after the soldiers led them into a room and locked the door.
Jiang Hua looked around the empty room. There was nothing inside, but a faint fragrance wafted in the air, a fragrance that was so familiar.
“If I’m not mistaken, this should be Yingchun Pavilion,” Jiang Hua guessed, and Qingling nodded slightly.
Just as the two were talking, wisps of smoke began to drift into the room through the window. Qingling immediately took out the antidote and swallowed it, and Jiang Hua also took the antidote that Qingling handed her.
Fifteen minutes later, the door was pushed open, and the madam walked in, covering her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. She looked at Jiang Hua and Qing Ling lying on the ground, kicked each of them, and when she found no reaction, she immediately ordered her thugs to tie them up.
"Tie them up and take them to the boat. Be careful not to let anyone find out."
That night, on the boundless sea, a ship was slowly leaving the area near Yangcheng. Not long after the large ship left, more than a dozen small boats quietly followed behind it.
After traveling for an hour, the madam who had come with them was already a little tired, but she still stood on the deck to count them. They were all girls who had been drugged and unconscious, a total of twenty, including Jiang Hua and the Qingling and Qingyue sisters.
After counting the girls on deck, the madam leisurely returned to her cabin to rest.
Just as the madam turned around, Jiang Hua and the other two opened their eyes. The ropes binding their hands and feet had been cut at some point.
"You two go and deal with the people inside. I'll save these girls and wake them up," Jiang Hua said to Qingling and Qingyue.
After feeding them the spiritual spring water from the space, the remaining seventeen girls slowly woke up. By then, the ship had already sailed quite a distance, and it was pitch black all around, with no shore in sight.
Just as a girl was about to scream, Jiang Hua covered her mouth: "No one is allowed to speak. Be careful. If you disturb the people on the ship, I can't guarantee where you'll be sent."
"Did you hear that?" Jiang Hua raised her voice slightly, and the girls nodded, promising not to make another sound.
Jiang Hua whistled, and more than a dozen people dressed in night clothes flew onto the ship.
"master!"
“Leave three people to guide them back to Yangcheng. When you arrive in Yangcheng, the Regent’s men will be waiting for you at the dock.”
Although the plan was rushed, it was thanks to Bai Heng's gyrfalcon that information could be relayed to Jiang Xingzhou in a timely manner.
Regent?
The girls looked at each other in unison, having only heard of the Regent from their parents or storytellers.
However, they didn't have much time to be excited yet, as Jiang Hua could already vaguely see the small island in front of them.
"Take them off the ship. The rest of the Dark Guard will follow my orders and take down the pirates on the island."
Jiang Hua gave an order to the men in black in front of her, and Jiang Xun, who was in the lead, immediately agreed.
When Jiang Hua reached the cabin, the madam and several thugs who were piloting the boat had already been tied up by Qing Ling and Qing Yue, and their mouths were gagged. When they saw Jiang Hua walk in, they could only glare at her desperately.
"Ready."
The boat gradually approached the shore, where a group of people were already waiting.
"Try to keep the leaders alive." Jiang Hua stood on the deck, looking at the people on the shore. She stretched her hand out of the ship and released the little white snake and the little black snake from her spatial storage.
"Why are there only two of you!" Hai Koumen scolded the three who calmly stepped off the ship. He quickly walked past them, wanting to board the ship to check, but unexpectedly, a sword pierced through his stomach and was quickly pulled out.
The pirate who was closest to Qingyue didn't even see how she made her move before he fell to the ground, his eyes wide open in death.
"It's just a few women causing trouble, brothers, don't be afraid, get them!" With that, he pulled out a signal flare from his waist and launched it into the sky. This startled all the pirates on Plum Blossom Island.
Jiang Xun and his secret guards also leaped off the ship and engaged in battle with the pirates in front of them.
Seeing this, Jiang Hua and the others also headed towards the wooden houses on the island, heading straight for the largest and most magnificent ones. There weren't many wooden houses on the island; Jiang Hua roughly estimated there to be thirty or forty.
Before they could even get close to the large wooden house, they were surrounded by layers of pirates wielding large swords.
"Make way, everyone! The island lord is here."
A voice came from behind the pirates, and the pirates wisely made way for them, allowing Jiang Hua to see the pirate leader's face clearly.
"Little beauty—!"
The next second, a gaping maw suddenly appeared and swallowed the pirates surrounding the pirate leader, along with the so-called island lord.
Before the other pirates present could react, they were pressed down by a black shadow. By the time they realized what was happening, they had already been swept to the ground by the giant python's tail.
"Holy crap! How did a giant python get here?!" Qingyue exclaimed in shock.
Qingling glanced thoughtfully at Jiang Hua, who was standing beside her in a daze.
However, Jiang Hua wasn't just stunned; she was using her mind to tell the little white snake to make the python spit the person out of her.
"vomit!"
The pirates and their leader, who had just been swallowed, were spat out by the giant python. Their bodies were covered in a sticky substance, and they made Jiang Hua's scalp tingle.
After vomiting the person out, the giant python swept nearly half of the wooden house with its tail before plunging into the sea and disappearing from sight.
Jiang Xun and the others who arrived later were stunned by what they saw, until Jiang Hua reminded them and they came to their senses.
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