A burly, middle-aged man emerged from the inner room, wearing an eye patch, with one eye and a fierce expression.
This man was none other than Uncle Yuan. He had been a bandit and had killed people before. There was nothing he wouldn't dare to do.
"Uncle Yuan, this is a really good piece of stuff, it's sure to fetch a good price... I've already got people keeping an eye on it, it won't get away..."
Wu Erzhuang followed him into the inner room...
...
The Imperial Palace.
It was already dusk.
After finishing his official duties, Emperor Jing prepared to have dinner with Jing Le, but when he arrived, he found no one there. He assumed that Jing Le had gone to Xuanhua Palace, so he turned around and headed towards the Imperial Concubine.
A quarter of an hour later, at Xuanhua Palace.
"You mean you haven't seen Lele all day, and the third and ninth brothers went to Lele's yard and haven't come back?"
The more Emperor Jing spoke, the more his brows furrowed.
If these people aren't in their own palace or with the Imperial Concubine, where else could they be?
The third prince hasn't moved out of the palace yet, so he has nowhere to live outside the palace. The ninth prince is even more out of the question. Could it be that he has encountered danger?
Thinking of this, Emperor Jing was completely distraught: "Yingyi, go and find out where Lele went this afternoon and who she came into contact with?"
"yes."
Yingyi responded and then vanished without a trace.
"Your Majesty, will Lele be alright?"
The Imperial Concubine also looked worried. How could someone just disappear like that? Could it be the Empress?
She dared not think any further.
At this moment, the two completely forgot about Jing Le's abilities; taking Jing Le's life wouldn't be so easy.
Meanwhile, the few people who were on the emperor's and imperial concubine's minds were being transported out of the city by a group of people and were heading towards the mountains not far away.
Half an hour ago, Jing Le had been dragging the Third Prince and others around the streets, actually waiting for that servant to make his move.
As darkness fell and the servant realized that if he didn't return to the palace soon, Emperor Jing and the others would worry, he made his move.
Jing Le deliberately chose an empty alley, and the Third Prince and the others overheard Jing Le's thoughts. Without Jing Le having to say anything, they each found an excuse to follow her.
As a result, the four of them were drugged, put in sacks, and kidnapped.
Of the four, only the Ninth Prince was truly unconscious. The Third Prince and Duan Feibai were half-conscious, but since they had learned some martial arts, they could withstand it to some extent, and it wasn't some kind of powerful sleeping potion.
The only one who was sober was Jing Le.
She clearly saw how the servants committed the crime, how they transported them out of the city, and how they were taken to the mountain and imprisoned in the dungeon.
They were imprisoned with a group of women and boys of all ages.
No fewer than a hundred people.
After those people left, Jing Le opened her eyes and saw that the Third Prince had also opened his eyes, but he was still very weak, so she knew that the effects of the medicine had not yet worn off.
Jing Le couldn't find the antidote pill in the space, so she went to the Merit Mall and finally found an antidote spray in a corner.
One bottle costs 10 merit points, so I bought two bottles.
[Ding, purchase successful. 20 merit points deducted, remaining merit points: 180.]
Two bottles of detox spray have appeared in my system inventory.
Jing Le took out a bottle and secretly sprayed a little on the noses of the three of them. The unconscious Ninth Prince instantly woke up, and the Third Prince and Duan Feibai also felt lighter and their weakness disappeared.
Third Prince: Is there anything my sister can't solve?!
Duan Feibai: There's one more thing to hide.
The Ninth Prince recognized Jing Le beside him and asked in confusion, "Sister, have we been captured?"
Then, looking at the other people huddled together, he continued, "They were also captured. Did we encounter human traffickers?"
Jing Le looked at the Ninth Prince's curious and slightly excited eyes and immediately understood.
The little guy was going crazy from being cooped up in the palace. He had never experienced anything like what happened today, and he was extremely excited about it.
"Congratulations, Ninth Brother, you guessed right, we are all kidnapped children."
After speaking, he looked around.
They were in a naturally formed cave that had been artificially converted into a dungeon.
All the children were locked together in a room with a thick, solid wooden door, tightly chained.
There is no other exit except for the cave at the entrance.
How do we get out?
After the Third Prince came to Jing Le's side and learned of Jing Le's capabilities, they formed a group centered around Jing Le, and everything depended on how Jing Le made arrangements.
No one could believe that the one who actually made the decisions among these four was a three-year-old child.
Why are there three pairs of eyes staring at me in the dim cave, creating a slightly eerie atmosphere?
Shaking off the strange thoughts in his mind, he said, "I want to rescue them and then blow this place up."
The casual words startled the group, but they also understood the deeper meaning behind them. If they could traffic so many people, this place was probably their base.
But how was this place blown up? And what was used to blow it up?
They didn't ask, but in their minds, Jing Le was very capable; if she said she could blow something up, she could.
"Then how do we get them out?"
After all, there's only one exit here.
"This is so simple. I'm at the early stage of the Golden Core realm now. I can just draw a teleportation array. But how do I explain it?"
"I do have a way, but..."
Jing Le racked his brains, trying hard to find an excuse.
The Third Prince and the others wanted to say, "Just tell us directly, we can accept it," but this wouldn't work. Wouldn't that expose the fact that they could hear each other's thoughts, and then they wouldn't be able to hear them anymore?
While the Third Prince and the Ninth Prince were trying to find a suitable reason for Jing Le's actions...
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