Chapter 57 Dungeon
After a moment of silence in the darkness, the two saw a figure in the distance.
Lin Qian and Lin Shuo looked at each other and began to move closer.
In a corner not far from them, four or five children about the same age as them were lying on the ground.
There were both men and women, but they were all very thin and lying weakly on the ground. Lin Qian was still on them and smelled the smell of blood.
"Sister, they won't die, right?" Lin Shuo asked.
Lin Qian squatted down and felt their carotid arteries: "They are all still alive."
After saying that, Lin Qian went to check their pulses again. When she reached out her hand, she didn't feel their pulses, but felt a cloth-like texture.
Looking down carefully, Lin Qian discovered that the wrists of these children were all wrapped in bandages, and blood was oozing out of them.
It seems that the bloody smell that Lin Qian just smelled came from here.
Looking at them one by one, Lin Qian found that both wrists of each child were like this.
"They all have deep wounds on their wrists. They must have been bled out." Lin Qian leaned over to take a look at their faces. Every child had a pale face and no trace of blood on their lips. It was obvious that it was caused by excessive blood loss.
"Bleeding? Were all those children captured there to be bled? What exactly do those who captured these children want? What's the point of having human blood?" Lin Shuo asked. He really couldn't understand. Selling blood didn't exist in ancient times, so what was the point of having so much blood? To drink?
Lin Qian frowned and stood up, looking into the distance. She took out a fire starter from the space and slowly walked over. Lin Shuo protected Lin Qian and followed.
After a while, Lin Qian and Lin Shuo came back with two little girls, looking pale. After putting the girls on the ground, the two of them couldn't help but lie on the ground and retched.
In the darkness in the distance, there were more than ten dead bodies lying there. They were all children, with many wounds on their bodies, but there was no blood at all.
Each corpse had been drained of blood to death. Judging from the time of death, it should not have been long. There were only three or two corpses, and they emitted a slight corpse odor.
After retching for a while, the brother and sister stood up again and continued searching for the living child.
In the end, only eight children were still alive, five boys and three girls, and the rest had died.
Lin Qian counted the dead children, a total of twenty-one, all aged between five and twelve.
Lin Shuo looked at the children who were still alive but about to die. He pounded the ground hard and said angrily, "What the hell is going on? Don't let me know who captured us, otherwise I will skin them alive."
"Don't say so much, just give them some cold spring water and save their lives first.
And judging by the severity of their injuries, I think someone will be coming to collect their blood soon," Lin Qian said.
Knowing that someone was coming soon, the two of them naturally had to make preparations first.
After feeding the children cold spring water and seeing that their breathing had become a little stronger, the two of them felt relieved.
Lin Qian and Lin Shuo returned to their previous seats and sat down, holding the daggers placed in the space in their hands, waiting for someone to come and take their blood.
What Lin Qian said was indeed true. After a while, the brother and sister suddenly heard the sound of an iron gate opening.
The light came on immediately.
Lin Qian and Lin Shuo then saw clearly that they were not in a cave at all, but in a dungeon.
The two remained silent and continued to pretend to be unconscious.
There were two footsteps, followed by the sound of chains. It should be the dungeon door being opened.
"Tsk, children are so weak. After just a few bloodlettings, more than half of them died."
"That's right, no children dare to go out in Yongping Town anymore. I was lucky yesterday and only met two children from other places.
Otherwise, if the blood is cut off and Master gets angry, we will all die."
"Who says it's not? Let's let the brother and sister bleed today. Let these children recover first and then we can bleed them next time."
"OK."
The two men complained and gradually walked towards Lin Qian and Lin Shuo.
The two men, one on the left and one on the right, grabbed Lin Qian and the other grabbed Lin Shuo, and were about to cut the carotid arteries on their wrists with daggers.
At this moment, the brother and sister moved, and two sharp daggers stabbed into the chests of the two men.
"You, um!" The two looked at the brother and sister in shock, but Lin Qian and Lin Shuo quickly covered their mouths, and the two gradually lost their breath.
This was not the first time that Lin Qian and Lin Shuo had killed someone. This time, they were very familiar with the process and dealt with the two men in black very cleanly and efficiently.
"Let's go out and see where this place is." Lin Qian lowered her voice and said to Lin Shuo.
Lin Shuo nodded, and the two of them tiptoed and slowly approached the exit.
There was no one guarding the exit, so Lin Qian and Lin Shuo ran out smoothly.
As soon as they ran out, they jumped onto the eaves and looked around.
This place should still be in Yongping Town, but it is a bit remote. The house they live in is quite large. It is a luxurious house with five courtyards, pavilions, towers, rockery and flowing water.
Lin Shuo pointed to the front yard and said, "Let's go to the main courtyard and see who the owner of this house is."
Lin Qian nodded.
The dungeon they escaped from was in the most remote corner of the entire house. The two of them climbed over several courtyards forward. The closer they got to the main courtyard, the stronger the smell of herbs Lin Qian smelled.
Lin Qian stopped halfway through the walk.
"Sister? Why don't you leave?" Lin Shuo asked.
Lin Qian sniffed the air and said, "There's a strong smell of medicine coming from there. I want to go check it out first. Maybe it's related to the blood of those children."
"What are we waiting for? Let's go." Lin Shuo said immediately.
The brother and sister flew back and forth on the eaves, and then quietly came to the outside of a house.
As they approached, Lin Qian and Lin Shuo heard an old, hoarse voice, and the tone sounded very angry: "Why haven't those two come back yet? They are such losers! They are so slow to draw blood!"
Another voice sounded, smiling and saying, "Don't be angry, sir. I'll go and urge them right away."
The brother and sister immediately turned over and jumped onto the roof. After a middle-aged man walked out of the room, they jumped down again.
Looking inside through the crack in the door, the two found a strange old man wearing a cloak and a hat in the house.
He was standing in front of a big pot that was bubbling loudly, and the smell of medicine that was strong in the air came from the pot.
"Sister, what medicine is he making?" Lin Shuo asked with a frown.
Lin Qian shook her head and said, "I don't know. There are too many herbs and they are too mixed for me to distinguish them. That person should have gone to the dungeon. We will find those two men dead soon. Let's go in and deal with this weird old man first."
Lin Shuo nodded, then kicked the door open. The old man looked up in horror, but before he could see who it was, he was knocked unconscious by Lin Shuo's punch.
Lin Qian gave Lin Shuo a thumbs up, and then began to look for a rope to tie up the strange old man. There were many herbal medicine cabinets in the room, but no rope.
In the end, Lin Shuo pulled down the curtain hanging on the wall and used it as a rope.
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