Upon hearing this, Qin Qianlu frowned, thought for a moment, and asked, "What's your name?"
The man, his leg trembling, stammered, "My name is Li Tieniu... I'm a villager from Yongle Village up ahead..."
After 001 glanced at his face and indicated that he had seen the information, he struck the man on the back of the head with the hilt of his knife, and the man passed out.
Qin Qianluo picked up the baby from the man's arms and entered the space. Upon closer inspection, she saw that it was another newborn baby about to be abandoned. Anger surged in her eyes. She went to Xuan Mei's room and knocked on the door.
Everyone woke up as soon as 001 spoke. Xuanmei heard the knocking, got up and opened the door. She saw Princess Qingyun holding an infant whose body was still stained with the mother's blood and quickly reached out to take it.
Following her strength, Qin Qianlu handed the child to her, explained the situation, and then asked her to clean up. She went back to her room, washed up, and changed her clothes.
After everything was settled, Qin Qianluo leaned back on the soft couch and asked 001, "How was it? What did the documents say?"
001, speechless with shock at the man's information, was somewhat bewildered. Even though it was just a string of data, it felt that they were really cruel. Such a small baby, just abandoned like that.
It sorted out the information and said, "Luo Bao, Li Tie Niu is a man who specializes in charging money to throw newborn female infants into the tower. He charges 40 coins per time. This is how it is done in the small villages around here, and he is not the only one."
People here generally consider baby girls to be a financial burden, and they don't want to raise them. Some families already have two or three baby girls, while others have none at all, and they throw them into the tower after birth.
Leaning against the wall, Qin Qianlu nodded. "I expected this outcome. After all, I had heard of this before, but this is the first time I've seen it here."
001 had also read a lot of information and naturally knew about the Baby Tower, but hearing about it was one thing and seeing it with one's own eyes was another.
It asked, "Luo Bao, what are you planning to do about this?"
Qin Qianluo sighed, "There's nothing we can do. We can only wait until we conquer the entire Xuanyuan Kingdom before we have the right to address this issue. Right now, we can't do anything; any major actions would easily expose us."
001 thought so too. This was still Xuanyuan Kingdom, not Tianxuan. Things were never so easy here. Moreover, Luobao was being pursued by enemies, so they couldn't take any risks. They thought that what they had done today would make those families who abandoned their babies more restrained.
After all, the belief in ghosts and gods is still very popular nowadays, and ordinary people still dare not confront ghosts and gods. Hopefully, this sense of awe can last until Tianxuan attacks.
After resting for a while, Qin Qianluo lay back down on the bed and went to sleep. She needed to hurry. This feeling of wanting to save people but being powerless made her feel somewhat frustrated.
Two months later, Qin Qianluo only had the county closest to Tianxuan left to investigate. However, since she had entered from there, she had a map without even going inside.
Upon arriving at the outskirts of the county, he first entered the space with Ling Xue, took out the floor plan that 001 had printed out when he first arrived, and carefully studied where to sneak in so that he could avoid being discovered by Youming and the others and leave successfully.
Progress was not as smooth as before. Almost every place was not a weak point, and the possibility of infiltrating on my own was relatively small, unless the people guarding each checkpoint were ordinary soldiers, not experts.
Unfortunately, this was just a hypothetical scenario. He had seen fully armed soldiers patrolling outside the county, so there was no way that was possible. There must have been a tight net set up inside, just waiting for his arrival.
Youming was currently in a border county, waiting for someone to walk into his trap. He was very satisfied with his plan; not even a fly could get past him. Qin Qianluo would be caught sooner or later.
The other experts were also stationed at various checkpoints, waiting for Qin Qianluo's arrival. They were not as angry as Youming, but they were still angry that so many people had been mobilized but they couldn't capture a little girl.
If they fail to capture her this time, they will lose all face. Therefore, they must capture her, even if it means staying here until Qin Qianlu appears.
Qin Qianlu looked at the distant city gate through the light screen, frowning in thought. Why not just attack and take over this county? After all, there are firearms in the space, and her specialty is field artillery. A few shells would wipe out half of the enemy.
As she pondered whether to use the light or heavy machine gun after firing the shell, 001 suddenly called out, "Luo Bao, I need to upgrade!"
Qin Qianluo was taken aback. 001 hadn't leveled up in a long time. It had leveled up twice in a short period of time before, and it had been almost half a year. Was it finally going to level up to level three?
She nodded and asked, "How long will it take to upgrade this time?"
001 glanced at the progress bar and estimated it, saying, "Luo Bao, this time it will take at least three days to upgrade. Luo Bao, don't go to the county yet. Wait until I've upgraded before going. This upgrade will activate the protection mechanism."
After thinking it over, Qin Qianluo did not object. Even if they used firearms, it would still be impossible to avoid injuries to some of their people. If they could safely bring their people back to Tianxuan, she did not necessarily have to use firearms.
All that's needed for this border county is a map. When the two countries are at war, the defenses of the border county will definitely be strengthened, so recording it won't be accurate.
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