In the dimly lit room, light streamed in after she opened the door, illuminating the scene inside.
There were several large cages inside the room, all of which were made of wood.
There were people locked in all three cages.
At this moment, the people in the cage huddled together, some nervously looking towards the door, while others fearfully hid their faces.
"Yuan Pingping! It's you?" a voice suddenly exclaimed in surprise.
Upon hearing this, everyone else looked up at the doorway.
Yuan Mengge walked in, took the key she had taken from the gatekeeper, unlocked the cage door, and said to them, "Come out, all of you."
As soon as she unlocked the cage, someone crawled out.
"Why did you come back... Didn't you run away? You've already escaped, why are you coming back..." Lin Manyue asked her in surprise.
"Did you call the police? Where are the police?!" the others immediately shouted at her.
"Are we really okay coming out like this? What about those people outside? What if they find out we're trying to escape? They might shoot us dead."
"Yeah...can we really escape?"
After a group of people came out of the cage, they began to hesitate and be timid again.
Yuan Mengge said, "We called the police, but they don't have that many resources... By the time they mobilized and sent officers to rescue you, you would have already been moved away."
"What do we do now? Let's get out of here quickly..." Lin Manyue walked to the door and carefully looked outside, only to find the two guards lying on the ground, fast asleep.
She immediately fell silent, staring at the two men without daring to utter a sound.
Yuan Mengge walked to her side and said to the others, "Anyway, I've already released you all. You're all free now. Whether you stay or leave is up to you."
Then she said to Lin Manyue and Wang Hong, "You two, come with me, I'll take you back."
Lin Manyue and the other person immediately shushed her: "Shh..."
Yuan Mengge: "No need to shush them. You could knock a gong in their ear and they wouldn't wake up. Let's go."
She walked out as she spoke.
"What?... What happened to them?" Wang Hong asked her curiously, looking at the two people on the ground.
Yuan Mengge said, "I gave them sleeping pills, otherwise would I have been able to release you so quietly?"
The three of them came out, and the rest of the people looked at each other, hesitated for two seconds, and decided they didn't want to stay there any longer, so they quickly followed them out.
But after being locked up for a day and two nights, they were on the verge of a mental breakdown and, feeling lost, subconsciously followed behind Yuan Mengge and the other two.
When everyone came out, they found the village completely silent, with people occasionally lying down on the ground.
At that moment, a figure walked out from the side, startling everyone.
"Someone's there!"
Yuan Mengge calmly replied, "They are allies, so there's nothing to be afraid of."
She said to Cheng Hao, who had come out, "Take them out first. If we're lucky, we might run into the police who are looking for us. I don't know if they'll be quick enough."
Cheng Hao nodded and said to the girls with a blank expression, "Come with me. Without a guide, it will be difficult for you to get out of this mountain."
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the edge of the village.
Yuan Mengge said to Lin Manyue and the other girl, "You two go out with him first, I'll go find those boys."
Upon hearing this, Lin Manyue and the other woman looked at her in surprise: "Aren't you coming out with us? You're going to look for them? Where are you going to look? Do you even know where they are?"
Yuan Mengge turned and walked to the other side, saying as she went, "You guys hurry up and leave, don't ask so many questions."
Seeing that she was really about to leave, Lin Manyue and the other person were still hesitating, while the others had already followed Cheng Hao.
"Lin Manyue, are you two coming or not?" The last girl saw Lin Manyue and her companion still standing there and immediately turned around and called out to them.
The two immediately turned around and followed them away.
Yuan Mengge turned and moved in the other direction of the mountain.
Deeper into the mountains from this village, in a bamboo forest, there are several bamboo houses and a large bamboo building constructed primarily of bamboo.
Although it's called a factory, there's no electricity here, and the workers do everything by hand.
Because they are producing prohibited substances, workers are easily poisoned, and their working hours are not long; their bodies are quickly ruined by the toxins.
Therefore, the factory needs countless workers to continue operating.
The environment and conditions here are much simpler than in the village where the girl was imprisoned.
But there are many people here, more than a hundred criminals, who control more than two hundred workers.
These workers work in two shifts, day and night, working more than ten hours a day and only having seven or eight hours to rest.
When Yuan Mengge found this place, she hid behind a nearby rock and quietly observed.
Just like Cheng Hao said, the new male students are all sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys, and they will all obey after being beaten up.
After Yuan Mengge walked around, she would occasionally hear screams coming from a bamboo house.
Around the factory, many guards patrolled and stood watch.
At this moment, the workers in the factory all had blank expressions and were working mechanically.
There was no life on their faces; they looked like puppets.
In another room, Yuan Mengge and the boys from the car were being held captive. Most of them had already been taken to the factory.
"Behave yourselves! You think you're tough? Let's see just how tough you really are." A man stood by the door and beckoned to his two henchmen.
The two henchmen immediately stepped forward and gave the students a brutal beating.
"Ugh—" These students who were beaten were the troublemakers in the class, the ones who liked to joke around with the teacher and had the worst grades.
"Go ahead and kill me if you dare!" Wu Bohao, who usually loved to fight the most in the class, had injuries on his face, but he gritted his teeth and stared fiercely at the other party, saying this.
"You want me to work for you? No way! If you've got the guts, let me go, and we'll fight one-on-one! I'll beat you bastards to death! Uh—um—" Before he could finish speaking, he was punched several times.
The man who attacked them sneered, "Do you think we're stupid? Let us go? Trying to run away!"
Seeing that the other party had seen through his thoughts, Wu Bohao did not panic. He simply said, "So you're happy just beating people who can't fight back like this?"
The other party sneered and said, "What? We're not hitting you for fun, we're hitting you to make you obey! Hit him! What are you standing there for? Keep hitting him!"
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