"Who are you?"
"Elisha?"
Although the light here was a little dim, it was enough for Elisha to recognize the old man.
He was an old clerk in the Hebron City Library. After David took over Hebron, he often went in and out of the city lord's mansion to organize some documents and files.
Elisha remembered him clearly. He always wore a grayish-white robe, had a hunched back, and would cough slightly every few steps.
David had told him many times to go back home and rest, but he just wouldn't listen to David.
"Grandpa! It's you!"
"Why are you here? You also..."
Elisha called out in a low voice so that the guards wouldn't hear.
The old man shuddered when he heard this. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and said, "Elisha? Is it really you?"
The two approached carefully, walked through the numb crowd, and sat down in a corner of the stone chamber.
The old man's hands trembled with excitement: "Thank God, you are still alive!"
"We heard that the City Lord's Mansion was breached, and we thought you and City Lord David were..."
When Elisha heard this, his voice choked a little.
"In order to save me, City Lord David hid me in the house and fought with them."
"He did this so that I could escape successfully."
"It's a pity that I ended up..."
Samuel just shook his head regretfully: "Our City Lord David is truly a great man."
"Then he..."
Elisha interrupted him by asking softly, "Grandpa, how did you get caught here?"
The old man sighed: "Ah!"
"I hid in the cellar on the day the city fell. I thought I had escaped."
"But the next morning, the barbarians pried open the cellar door."
"They were going to kill me to silence me, but luckily I spotted them in time and pretended to be dead, so I barely escaped."
"But only in the afternoon, I was captured by another group and sent here."
"These guys are so crazy that they want to plunder multiple times in a row. They are like crazy."
He pointed to the prisoners around him: "Most of the people here are like this. They luckily escaped the initial massacre, but were arrested in the days that followed."
The old man asked with concern, "What about you, Elisha? How did you fall into their hands?"
Elisha briefly recounted how he escaped from the city lord's palace under David's arrangement, and how he was captured on the way to find reinforcements.
He deliberately downplayed his predicament so as not to worry the old man too much.
However, his words attracted the attention of many people nearby, and they began to listen carefully to Elisha's words.
Samuel's eyes finally lit up.
"Lord David asked you to go find reinforcements? So, you know where Lord David is now?"
The other captives in the stone chamber pricked up their ears when they heard this conversation.
Someone approached stealthily and asked in a low voice, "Is it true? City Lord David is still alive? Where did he go to find reinforcements?"
Elisha looked around and saw everyone's expectant eyes. He felt reluctant, but he had to tell them the cruel truth.
"Mr. David... he couldn't leave, he..."
Elisha choked up and continued, "He stayed in the city lord's mansion. When I escaped, the city lord's mansion had already been breached."
"He was taken away, he..."
"He died."
Elisha originally wanted to tell everyone about the scene at the city gate, but he felt that it would drive many people crazy immediately.
This news was like a bomb exploding in the stone chamber.
The captives who were previously full of hope suddenly looked gloomy, and some even began to sob silently.
"It's over... everything is over..."
"We're all going to die here..."
"No one will come to save us..."
Low groans echoed in the stone chamber, and everyone's face showed a look of loss of hope.
The old man sat on the ground weakly and remained silent for a long time.
"Elisha, is David the city lord really that?"
"Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Elisha nodded. "When I escaped, I saw a lot of heads hanging in front of the city lord's mansion."
"Among them, there is..."
At this point, Elisha himself couldn't help but shed tears.
As expected, when people heard this, some of them cried bitterly, some curled up into a ball, and some muttered to themselves as if they had gone crazy.
The collective atmosphere of sadness almost overwhelmed Elisha.
In this depressing atmosphere, the iron gate suddenly opened with a creak.
Two burly guards came in and roughly inspected the captives in the stone chamber.
"Whose turn is it today?"
One of the guards said, his face showing a morbid excitement.
"That woman, the new one."
Another guard pointed to a young woman in the corner and said, "She's pretty good-looking. Let's take her."
Elisha looked in the direction of his gesture and saw a girl about eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a tattered shawl and shivering.
She sensed the guards' gazes and instinctively shrank back, but was ruthlessly pushed away by the other prisoners.
"No... please..."
The girl pleaded weakly, but no one paid any attention to her pleas.
The guard strode over, grabbed the girl by the hair, and dragged her towards the door.
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