Chapter 219: The Secret
Su Ying got off the tiger's back. The city wall in front of her was much higher than the wall of her border city in Chu State. It was almost impossible for ordinary people to break in with this wall.
Su Ying raised her leg and kicked Tiger on the butt. "How did you get in before?"
The tiger shook off its fur, came to the city wall and roared several times.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows. The city wall was so tightly closed that she didn't know where the door was.
Just as Su Ying was wondering, a long crack suddenly appeared on the wall in front of her, and then an entrance several meters long and wide appeared in front of her.
The tiger walked in very naturally.
Su Ying followed behind it with calm eyes.
What Su Ying didn't expect was that there was a forest with no end in sight, as if she had walked through a wall and entered a primeval forest.
When the wild animals in the forest saw the tiger returning, they all made way for it. This shows that the tiger usually has a certain status among these wild animals.
The tiger walked to a big tree and wanted to lie down. Su Ying coughed lightly, and the tiger, which was about to lie down, stood up suddenly.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows at it and motioned for it to lead the way.
The tiger had no choice but to turn around and continue walking forward.
During this period, many bold wild beasts came forward to smell Su Ying's scent, but after smelling it, they immediately retreated.
This further confirmed Su Ying's guess that these beasts were identifying the identities of the people here through the powder in the purses.
After Tiger led Su Ying out of the forest, Su Ying discovered that the forest was fenced off. However, she had been walking for at least half an hour, which showed how big this place was.
There was an iron gate under the wall. The tiger stood in front of the gate and looked back at Su Ying. Su Ying knew that was the exit of the forest.
When Su Ying arrived at the iron gate, she saw a black figure appear behind it.
Su Ying tentatively took out the token from her body. When the man in black behind the door saw it, he saluted him and opened the iron door.
Behind the iron gate was a dim corridor, which was very long. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Su Ying could vaguely see a beam of light in front of her.
Coming out of the corridor, Su Ying was completely stunned by the scene in front of her.
Behind the corridor was an open space so large that it seemed as if the edges of the space were almost endless. The open space was filled with people. They were not living freely like ordinary people, but were undergoing the cruelest and most rigorous training like soldiers.
Su Ying took a quick look and found that there were many children aged three or five among those receiving training.
"You useless piece of trash, you can't even lift a sandbag. Hurry up and get up! If you can't, I'll beat you to death!"
A loud shout caught Su Ying's attention. She looked around and saw a child about the same age as Dabao and the others falling to the ground. A man in black holding a long whip walked up and kicked the child.
How could the little child withstand a kick from a grown man? He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.
Even if Su Ying had seen this scene in the past, she might not have been able to bear it, let alone the fact that she now has a child.
But now she couldn't expose herself, so she secretly pointed the small light gun in her hand at the man in black and shot out the light needle silently.
"ah!"
The man in black was shot in the leg and fell to the ground in pain.
The light gun was painful but hardly fatal. After the man in black fell to the ground, other men in black came over and had him carried away. As for the child on the ground, they threw him aside like a rag.
The people practicing on the field were trembling with fear as they watched the child falling to the ground and his voice gradually becoming weaker, but no one dared to say a word.
Su Ying did not rush to move forward, but found a relatively secluded place to enter the space. Fortunately, she had made preparations before coming. They did not have gray cloth, but they still had some black cloth left over for making winter clothes. She immediately asked Mother Zhao and others to help her make a black dress that was the same as the red one.
After she changed into black clothes, she came out of the space.
She just observed that there were people in black guarding the side, so she found a place with the best view and stood there watching the people training on the field.
These people include both men and women, but most of them are men.
The youngest is three or four years old, and the oldest is only about ten years old.
Compared to the younger children, those in their teens looked much more numb.
Su Ying was sure that she was not mistaken. It was numbness. Those people had dull eyes, just like... a clockwork machine, without any emotion.
Judging from the skills they practice, people in each echelon are somewhat different.
After observing for a while, she discovered that the skills they were practicing were related to the color of the clothes they were wearing. The more conspicuous the color, the more advanced the skills they were practicing.
She said that people here use colors to distinguish levels.
The youngest children seemed to have just arrived in this place and had not yet adapted to this kind of life. This made her think of the Qinglong Camp that was massacred before. Looking back, it seemed that not many children's bodies were found in the Qinglong Camp at that time.
It's very likely that those children were brought back to this damn place.
Su Ying looked at the sun in the sky. It was already scorching hot. Although it was not hot in winter, it was still so hot that people could not open their eyes. However, there was no sign of stopping the training.
Su Ying had to admit that these people were more ruthless than her. When she was training No. 1 and the others, they had three meals a day on time without any delay. Even so, some of them couldn't stand it, let alone these pale and skinny children.
In just one morning, I don’t know how many children fell down.
To deal with the children who fell down, the men in black either whipped them or poured cold water on them to wake them up. If they couldn't wake up, they would simply pick them up and throw them aside.
"Shh!"
A shrill whistle sounded and everyone stopped what they were doing. After the whistle stopped, those on the training ground sat down on the ground. The whistle meant that they could rest.
The men in black would not give them any water to drink. When they were thirsty, they would just grab a handful of ice cubes and put them in their mouths to chew.
Then several men in black came over with a cart, threw the children who had fallen to the ground onto the cart, and pushed it towards the corridor.
Su Ying narrowed her eyes. Behind the corridor was the place where the wild beasts were kept. She didn't think that these men in black would be kind enough to push these children there to rest and treat their illnesses!
Su Ying followed the cart calmly.
The car stopped outside the corridor and they each carried two children and walked into the corridor.
Su Ying followed with the two children in her arms. When she saw them reach the other side of the corridor, she threw the children into the woods and then turned and left.
(End of this chapter)
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