Chapter 158 I can play whenever I want
Lu Yuan roughly knew what she wanted to do, "Tell me first."
Jiang Zhi looked at him and said, word by word, "I'm going to burn this village down."
Lu Yuan's brow twitched violently. "Are you sure? Doing this is too risky. If you get discovered in the end, you might not even be able to get out yourself."
"Lord Lu, I'd like to give it a try."
Her stubborn expression made Lu Yuan frown deeply, but he ultimately did not refuse. "Alright. But I'll make it clear beforehand that if things don't go well, I'll take you away immediately, and we'll have to deal with the others later."
"Thank you, Lord Lu! I knew you would help me!" Jiang Zhi was right; Lu Yuan was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.
She looked into his bright, sparkling eyes, which were filled with light.
Infected by her, Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile.
Just then, a villager stumbled over, seemingly heading towards the stone chamber.
But when he saw Jiang Zhi, he immediately stopped in his tracks.
An unsettling, sticky gaze lingered over her, and when he smiled, he revealed a mouthful of yellow teeth. "I was just looking for a random woman to vent my frustrations on, but here's a fresh one right here."
Lu Yuan stepped forward, his tall figure shielding Jiang Zhi behind him, his voice as cold as a knife, "If you go back now, I can pretend you never said that."
But this only drew sneers from the other side: "Who do you think you are? Aren't all the women in this village for public use? I can play with them whenever I want. Even if you want to use them, you'd better get in line."
His lewd gaze kept darting around, and he reeked of alcohol. He slurred his words and reached out to grab Jiang Zhi's hand.
Before he could even touch the corner of her sleeve, he was grabbed.
With a "crack," a sharp pain shot through my wrist.
Before he could even cry out in pain, a cold glint flashed before his eyes, and he felt a chill on his neck.
His eyes widened in disbelief, and he soon died, collapsing to the ground.
Lu Yuan kicked his corpse, then delivered another blow to make sure he wouldn't come back to life before throwing him into a well not far away.
“See?” Lu Yuan wiped his knife, his voice cold and devoid of warmth. “If you fail to escape and remain in the village, you will suffer the same fate as those others.”
Jiang Zhi pursed her lips and remained silent.
Night had fallen, and I wondered how things were going with Shen Ci'an.
There was a gentle knock on Jiang Zhi's door. After confirming that the person outside was Lu Yuan, she carefully opened the door.
"Those people are already drunk."
Lu Yuan used the pretext of treating the guards to drinks to get them all drunk.
Jiang Zhi nodded, took the flint and tinder that Lu Yuan had taken from the kitchen, and split into two groups to start setting fire to the mountain stronghold under the cover of night.
The quiet, dark mountain village was soon filled with firelight.
What started as a warehouse fire roused the sleeping bandits, who rushed over in a flurry of activity. But just as they began to fight the fire, flames began to break out in other places as well.
"Holy crap, who did this?!"
The bandits cursed and swore, and could only scatter their forces to put out the fires in different places.
Chaos erupted in the village.
Jiang Zhi followed her memory from the daytime and returned to the stone room.
The noise and chaos outside seemed to have no effect on the people inside.
They remained silent and cold, indifferent to what was happening outside.
Jiang Zhi stood at the entrance of the stone chamber and said loudly, "The village is in chaos now, and the guards are lax. It's the best time to escape."
Her gaze swept over the people in the dark stone chamber. "Those of you who want to leave, come with me now."
However, the people inside remained unmoved.
Jiang Zhi gritted her teeth and reached out to remove the hairpin that held her hair in place.
Her long, flowing black hair cascaded down her back, and her voice carried a uniquely clear and gentle quality, "I am a woman just like you. There is no time to explain further right now. Just come out with me and you will see that what I said is true."
A few people glanced at her, slightly surprised that she, a woman, was unharmed, but they only looked once and then made no further move.
Jiang Zhi was anxious.
Time is of the essence; now is the best time to leave. If we wait any longer and the villagers come to their senses, no one will be able to leave.
"Tonight's opportunity is once in a lifetime. If you miss this chance and want to leave, you'll only be able to wait until the village is wiped out..."
"I'll go with you."
Before Jiang Zhi could finish speaking, a hoarse voice rang out.
Following the sound, I saw a woman in the corner.
She was also disheveled, her clothes barely covering her body, and her face was obscured in the darkness, only her cold eyes were visible.
When she stood up, Jiang Zhi noticed that her right leg was disabled. She was using a thick tree branch that she didn't know where it came from, and she was limping towards her.
"Your legs are..."
The woman's voice sounded like sandpaper, "Your escape attempt was interrupted last time, but I certainly won't hold you back."
Jiang Zhi felt a pang of sadness and asked the others in the stone chamber, "Is there anyone else who wants to come with us?"
Four more women stood up, trembling, and said they also wanted to leave.
Jiang Zhi nodded, "Then you all stay with me and don't wander off. Someone will come to pick us up later. Once we leave the village, we'll go down the mountain and find you a safe place to settle down for the time being."
She glanced at the other women in the stone chamber, then left without looking back.
She has always been selfish; this is the only kindness she has left, and that's all she has.
As soon as they stepped out of the stone chamber, they were met by Lu Yuan, who had rushed over.
Seeing the five women behind her, Lu Yuan didn't say anything, but said to Jiang Zhi, "The guards at the gate have been taken down, and the hunting dogs have also been killed to prevent them from being tracked. We should leave immediately, or we might be exposed if we delay any longer."
Jiang Zhi nodded. The five women behind her looked nervous, but they remained silent in tacit agreement.
Even the woman with the limp, whom Jiang Zhi was initially worried would not be able to keep up, walked very fast with the help of a tree branch, without falling behind at all.
When the group arrived at the entrance of the village, they indeed saw seven or eight guards lying there slumped over, unconscious.
Lu Yuan slashed through the copper lock on the village gate with a single stroke, and together with Jiang Zhi and the others, they opened the heavy gate. The sweet mountain air rushed in, and the full moon hung high, its gentle light shining on them, as if they were in another world.
Those who came out with Jiang Zhi were surprised by how smoothly things went, and their faces were filled with excitement, a far cry from the indifferent, zombie-like demeanor they had shown in the stone chamber.
"let's go."
Under the cover of night, the group, like weary birds, disappeared into the mountains and forests.
But they had only taken a few steps when they heard the chaotic sound of horses' hooves approaching.
Lu Yuan's expression darkened, and he reminded them in a low voice, "Tian Yan and the others are back."
"The boss is back. He must know we ran away and came to catch us. What should we do? What should we do..."
Having endured prolonged and inhuman torture, the women inside the stone chamber harbored an indelible fear of these bandits deep in their hearts.
Upon hearing that they were being taken back, they were immediately terrified and lost their composure; some of the more timid ones even burst into laughter and sobbing.
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