Just as Ruan Shengpeng was coaxing his wife, Xiao Hai returned. Xiao Hai had been asked by Xiao Gengwu to follow a hooligan, thinking he would be back soon, but it turned out that the surveillance had taken several days.
As soon as he returned to the military region, he knocked on the door of the Ruan family's courtyard. When the guard came to report, Ruan Shengpeng hurriedly welcomed him into the study: "Is there any news?"
Xiao Hai nodded: "There's a big basement under that street. People go in and out of it, mostly at night. The entrance is in that hoodlum's house!"
How many people did you see going in and out?
"I saw three people going in and out, a man and a woman!"
Ruan Shengpeng's heart trembled. After so many years since the founding of the People's Republic, what were these people doing here? Regardless, arrest them first. Ruan Shengpeng checked the time and decided to call his superior to report.
When Old He received the call, his heart sank. This was his own capital city, and yet some people with ulterior motives had been hidden in the basement.
This is absolutely intolerable; they should be arrested immediately!
Upon hearing the order, Ruan Shengpeng immediately mobilized his troops and went there overnight. He himself couldn't sit still and went along as well. The night was so dark and so quiet.
To avoid alerting the enemy, the group stopped the car a long way off, found a place to drop off the 100 people, and then drove away!
A group of 100 people walked briskly through the quiet night, but their footsteps were barely audible as everyone tried their best to control their pace and avoid making too much noise.
They soon arrived at the place Xiao Hai had mentioned, but it wasn't good to have so many people standing on the street. Ruan Shengpeng remembered what Xiao Gengwu had said about two vacant houses, so he waved his hand and ordered them to be requisitioned.
It was past 2 a.m., a time when people are most tired, so Ruan Shengpeng sent three people, including Xiao Hai, to check on the basement.
A dozen minutes later, Xiao Hai returned: "Commander, the basement is very large, but there are only two or three people patrolling. Everyone else is asleep!"
Do they have weapons?
Xiao Hai nodded: "They have weapons, rifles, and they even carry them on their backs during training!"
Ruan Shengpeng took out a bag: "This contains sleeping pills, like mosquito coils. Light them and throw them down quietly. Go back to the ground first, and don't smell them. I don't have much antidote with me!"
Xiao Hai's eyes lit up. This place is full of residents. If gunshots are heard, it will definitely cause panic. Having the sleeping pills is great. They can solve the problem silently!
Xiao Hai grabbed the things, stood up, and ran off. Half an hour later, he returned excitedly: "Commander, it's done! It's done! Let's take the ropes and go tie people up!"
Ruan Shengpeng waved his hand, and everyone followed. This time, everyone had a backpack, which was almost full of ropes, and each person also had a flashlight!
The moon was shining brightly today, and they used the moonlight to their advantage. Xiao Hai led his men to Erliuzi's courtyard. The gate was already open, and they filed in.
Then came the scoundrel's bedroom, where the mat on the kang (a heated brick bed) had been lifted.
Approaching the kang (heated brick bed), I shone a flashlight down and saw a very deep hole at the head of the kang, large enough for only one person to go down into. Below it was a long, simple-looking wooden ladder.
Ruan Shengpeng shone his flashlight around and estimated that the hole was at least 3 meters deep. How much soil would be dug out of a 3-meter-deep hole? Did no one notice?
Ruan Shengpeng's feelings were truly complicated. When was this basement dug? If it was after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this oversight is quite significant!
Despite knowing that everyone in the basement had been drugged, the group of 100 people still quietly entered the basement, with Ruan Shengpeng being the fifth person to go down.
As soon as he came down and turned the corner, he saw the spacious basement. Xiao Hai had already lit all the torches, illuminating the entire basement.
This place looks really big, an endless open space, and then a separate house.
The houses all appeared to be separated by stones. As far as Ruan Shengpeng could see, there were at least 20 such houses, which was a lot. He stepped on the ground.
The ground is still made of stone. How were so many stones transported to such a large area?
One of the three patrolmen was asleep in a chair, another was slumped on the ground, and the third had apparently collapsed suddenly, hitting his head on a stone on the ground, with blood flowing from his head.
It seems this drug is very potent, otherwise the person wouldn't have woken up even after hitting their head and drawing blood!
The entire basement was very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of continuous breathing could be heard. Ruan Shengpeng pointed to the room, and then more than 20 soldiers carefully went to push the door open.
The door wasn't locked, and a gentle push revealed a crack in it. However, no one dared to open it directly; instead, they slowly slid the door open, and Ruan Shengpeng saw the room closest to him.
There were two beds in the room, and a greasy man was lying on them, with a woman in his arms! When the soldier lifted the blanket and shone a flashlight on them, he saw two naked bodies.
The young soldier was so frightened that he took a few steps back. He quickly turned off his flashlight. He wasn't married yet, and seeing a woman's body like this made him really uncomfortable.
But this time when they came out, there were definitely no women in the group! What could the soldiers do? They could only tie up the men first, and then, by the dim light, they simply put a piece of clothing on the woman before they could tie her up!
Several soldiers encountered the same situation, and they all gritted their teeth, tied up the people, and threw them out. As one person after another was thrown out, a cry of surprise was heard.
Ruan Shengpeng thought someone was awake, so he rushed over to take a look. The whole room was full of women. There were more than thirty women crammed into a small room.
These women had nowhere to sleep, so they could only sleep huddled together, their clothes in tatters.
The soldiers suddenly didn't know what to do. They looked at Ruan Shengpeng, who waved his hand and said, "Tie them all up!" At such a moment, it was better to tie up the wrong person than to let anyone go.
After everyone was tied up, Ruan Shengpeng saw several wooden ladders and asked the soldiers to go up and see where they all led.
There are still so many people; promoting them one by one would be a huge undertaking. Are there any other options?
Ruan Shengpeng and a dozen soldiers kept banging on the wall, and then accidentally triggered a mechanism. Everyone quickly dodged to the side.
Fortunately, only the door was open; no hidden weapons flew out. With Ruan Shengpeng's permission, Xiao Hai went in first. Seeing that there was no danger, he then invited everyone else to go in.
As soon as Ruan Shengpeng stepped inside, he saw stacks of boxes. What were these boxes filled with?
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