"Everyone, don't eat!"
Following Shan Zuo's exclamation, Xia Qingyi also shouted.
Although she didn't know why the boy wanted to stop everyone from eating buns, Xia Qingyi knew that he would not do it without a purpose.
As Xia Qingyi finished speaking, the children who were originally skeptical of Shan Zuo's words all threw the buns in their hands back into the big wooden barrel.
Although these children came from all over the place, over the past two or three days, while being transported together to the capital, they had developed a strong sense of trust in Xia Qingyi, who was calm and composed, often soothing everyone's emotions and encouraging everyone not to give up hope.
"What are you two little bastards yelling about?"
To make the process of refining the "alchemy ingredients" smoother, the fat Taoist priest had the buns sprinkled with knockout drugs. Seeing that all the children refused to eat the buns because of Shan Zuo and Xia Qingyi's words, the fat Taoist priest's face, which was already covered with flesh, suddenly became even more ferocious.
Although he didn't know how many people were outside, the only people inside the secret room at that moment were the fat Taoist priest and two other Taoist priests working in the kitchen. Shan Zuo glanced at the children around him, mentally calculating his chances of winning against three people at once without harming any innocent people...
After a brief observation, Dan Zuo estimated that, aside from the fat Taoist priest, the other two Taoist priests' combat power wasn't very high. As the saying goes, "Catch the leader first." As long as he could take down the fat Taoist priest, the other two wouldn't be a threat at all.
Just as the fat Taoist priest stretched out his fat palm to slap Shan Zuo in the face, Xia Qingyi had already hugged the fat Taoist priest's arm tightly and bit his wrist hard.
“Ah~”
Although the fat Taoist priest had thick skin and flesh, Xia Qingyi bit him with almost all her strength. The fat Taoist priest grimaced in pain, then he shook his arm away and pushed Xia Qingyi to the ground.
"Raised by my dog dad!"
The fat Taoist priest looked at the deep teeth marks on his wrist, his eyes widened with anger, and cursed immediately, then raised his foot to kick Xia Qingyi in the chest.
Xia Qingyi, pushed to the ground by the fat Taoist priest, closed her eyes in pain. However, the expected pain did not come. Shan Zuo, who was standing by, had already seized the opportunity the moment the fat Taoist priest raised his foot and kicked him hard in the crotch.
When Shan Zuo was training his kicking power in the Dark Guard Camp, the standard was to break five bricks with one kick. He had used his full strength in the kick just now, so you can imagine the effect...
“Ahhh…”
The fat Taoist priest's pig-slaughtering howl suddenly rang out in the secret room. He actually jumped up in pain, then covered his lower body with a painful expression, and collapsed to the ground wailing.
However, the underground secret room was very soundproof, and no matter how he shouted, no one outside could hear him.
"Brother Qiming, are you okay?"
"Brother, are you okay?"
Dongsheng and Rilu on the side were completely confused by this sudden situation. When did these children, who had always been like sheep at the mercy of others, become as unruly as wolf cubs?
“Ouch~”
"Grandpa... Grandpa, you bear!"
"Are they all...dead?"
"They're not...dead yet, so...quickly teach them a lesson!"
The fat Taoist priest squatted on the ground unable to move due to the pain, wailing and cursing Dongsheng and Riyue who were stuck like two logs.
“Here…here!”
Dongsheng and Riyue, having regained their composure, approached Shan Zuo from the left and right, swinging their fists at him. Shan Zuo, using his petite figure to dodge left and right, dealt with the two Taoists with ease.
Glancing at the one-on-two battle between Shan Zuo and Xia Qingyi, she stood up with a glint of hope in her eyes. Then she shouted to the children in the secret room, "Everyone over ten, stand up! Come on! Some of us will help Shan Zuo, and the rest of us will beat up the fat Taoist priest! As long as they're all killed, we can get out!"
"Yes, we have so many people, why should we be afraid of them? Besides, the fat Taoist priest has been beaten so badly by Shan Zuo that he can't get up. We need revenge now!"
This group of children already had a strong sense of trust in Xia Qingyi, and coupled with their desire to survive, as soon as Xia Qingyi finished speaking, some in the crowd immediately echoed her. Soon, thirty or forty children over ten years old, both boys and girls, emerged.
"Bang"!
"Bang"!
When all the children Xia Qingyi called came out, Shan Zuo had already knocked Dongsheng and Rilu to the ground.
"Everyone, come on!" Xia Qingyi shouted while punching and kicking the fat Taoist priest on the ground.
“Hit them!”
"What a bunch of inhumane villains!"
…
Although the children's strength was limited, they were no match for their sheer numbers; even a swarm of ants could kill an elephant. They gave the three Taoists lying on the ground a good beating, venting all their frustrations and fears over the past few days on them.
"Okay, that's enough!"
After the children had been beating the three Taoists for nearly quarter of an hour, Shan Zuo saw that the man with a bruised face and nose was lying on the ground, unable to move, and had no breathing or heartbeat, so he called for everyone to stop.
"Shan Zuo, can we...really...really get out?" Xia Qingyi excitedly grabbed Shan Zuo's arm tightly, tears streaming down her face.
"Um."
Shan Zuo nodded at Xia Qingyi, then turned to the children in the secret room and said loudly, "Everyone, listen carefully. I am the helper that Ermao found after he escaped. I just came in first to serve as an insider. Her Highness has already ambushed many soldiers outside Xiangyang Temple. As long as we can hold out until they arrive, we can all survive!"
"Your Highness? Shan Zuo, is this...is this true? Am I dreaming?" Xia Qingyi said in shock.
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