I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

"Are you okay? You're right, this matter should be handed over to the authorities."

Zhao Chuyi had been staring at Li Mu's face, seeing that his face was sometimes confused, sometimes lonely, and now suddenly crazy. For some reason, she felt a dull pain in her heart, so she carefully spoke to comfort him.

Li Mu was choked by his own saliva and coughed twice. His face looked a little embarrassed, but he soon recovered and looked at Xu Doudou, slightly bowed his body, and said:

"Li Mu, thank you Miss Doudou."

The two girls' eyes flashed with surprise at the same time. Xu Doudou naturally knew that the name Li Mu had mentioned before was false. After hearing Li Mu's words, she subconsciously spoke.

"Your last name is Li!"

Li Mu waved his hand, his face serious, and said:

"There is no time to lose. We must find that rapist first."

A hint of murderous intent flashed across Li Mu's eyes.

"What I hate most in my life is 'human traffickers'!"

"You have a solution!"

Hearing this, the two girls no longer bothered about Li Mu's last name and said in unison.

Li Mu took out some silver from his waist and looked at Xu Doudou with a look of confidence never seen before.

"I'm just looking for someone. Everyone, get out of the way. I'm going to tell you a divination!"

However, the fork was not yet fully loaded. Li Mu looked at the silver ingot in his hand, repeatedly muttering the explanation of the hexagram on the bamboo slips, his brows slowly furrowed.

"It's true that you only regret not having read enough books when you need them. What do you mean? Forget it, there is another way."

Thinking of this, Li Mu decided not to bother himself with the hexagram that he did not understand at all. He put the silver ingot back to his waist and took out a steamed bun from his chest.

At this time, Zhao Chuyi, who heard Li Mu muttering, suddenly brightened up and said:

"You mean the man is underground? The way to life is related to fire?"

Hearing Zhao Chuyi's words, Li Mu thought to himself,

"Is this what you mean?"

Then a lot of information flooded into my mind instantly.

"Kun is the lower part, Li is fire, and the lower hexagram can represent the near. What this girl said makes sense. Oh my god, how did I suddenly understand it?"

Li Mu looked at Zhao Chuyi in surprise, and guessed in his heart,

"Perhaps those words that are difficult for me to understand are not unfamiliar to the people in this world. Once I know their meaning, I will instantly understand. Oh my god, this is also possible."

What he didn't know was that the method of interpreting the hexagrams recorded on the bamboo slips was almost as easy to understand as plain language for people in this world as long as they had read a little. However, Li Mu had only read some history books and poetry collections at the time, so he couldn't understand it at all.

However, after hearing this, Xu Doudou looked at Li Mu with an even weirder look.

"Taoism? Li Mu?"

"Let's go and look for it."

Zhao Chuyi was the first to break the silence, and the three of them walked towards the house where the man in black disappeared, each with their own thoughts.

Then, Zhao Chuyi went into the kitchen, Xu Doudou climbed up the chimney on the roof, and Li Mu stared at an oil lamp hanging on the wall, thinking to himself,

"According to the plot in the movie, this might not be the switch of the secret passage."

Thinking in his mind, Li Mu reached out and tried to turn the oil lamp. He heard the sound of the machine being triggered, and the bed behind him bounced up, revealing a secret passage leading to an unknown place.

Li Mu's mouth twitched, thinking,

"That's it! I don't even need fortune-telling to solve this. With my many years of experience in escaping secret rooms, I can solve this in a matter of minutes."

The movement in the room instantly attracted the two women who were searching elsewhere.

Zhao Chuyi saw the secret passage under the bed, her eyes glowed with gold, her eyelashes fluttering as she looked at Li Mu.

"I told you that you must have a way."

Li Mu smiled awkwardly. He was too embarrassed to pretend to be so good. It was too low-level. Seeing the two girls coming over, he picked up the oil lamp on the table and walked into the secret passage first.

The secret passage was very deep, and it took the three of them about a cup of tea to reach the bottom.

Under the secret passage, however, was not the place where the missing woman was imprisoned as Li Mu had imagined, but another connected tunnel with no end in sight.

"Why are you staring at the candle flame?"

Zhao Chuyi saw that it was pitch black around her and subconsciously moved closer to Li Mu, then asked while pretending to be calm.

Li Mu did not answer Zhao Chuyi's question. He observed for a moment and saw that the candlelight did not change. Then he turned to the two girls and said:

"Next, follow closely."

The three of them walked deeper into the tunnel.

The tunnel was extremely quiet, with only the sound of three people's footsteps. Under the dim candlelight, the atmosphere became particularly depressing.

"You seem to be a little different."

Zhao Chuyi's hands had unconsciously grasped the hem of Li Mu's clothes tightly. She glanced around from time to time and asked Li Mu in a tentative tone.

Li Mu realized that the little girl must be scared, so he smiled and said:

"Really? What's different?"

Zhao Chuyi frowned, as if thinking, and spoke after a long time:

"I can't really explain it, but I just felt something was different from a while ago."

Xu Doudou, who was walking at the end, was not interested in such meaningless topics as the two of them were talking about, and did not say a word along the way.

Soon, a faint light appeared in the distance and Li Mu suddenly stopped.

Zhao Chuyi behind him didn't notice it in time, and bumped into Li Mu's back with a cry.

Just when he was about to lose his temper, he found that his hand was tightly grasped by Li Mu. His anger instantly turned into shame, and he swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Li Mu calmly let go of Zhao Chuyi's hand and said in a low voice:

"You stay here. You probably don't want to see the next scene."

Xu Doudou was about to speak, but then seemed to have thought of something. After thinking for a moment, although he was a little reluctant, he still nodded.

Zhao Chuyi didn't think about anything, and didn't know why, she just felt that she should do whatever Li Mu said. She said "yes" very obediently, then drew the soft sword from her waist and handed it to Li Mu.

Seeing that the two girls agreed, Li Mu handed the candlestick to Zhao Chuyi and walked towards the light alone.

As he got closer and closer to the light, Li Mu's pace gradually slowed down and he slowly closed his eyes. In order to avoid such a bloody plot as taking hostages, Li Mu carefully listened to the sounds in front of him.

But the woman's strange screams and cries made him unable to calm down.

The hand holding the sword trembled slightly.

"There are nine people in total. The four closest to the tunnel entrance are the easiest to identify. The three on the right are breathing weakly. They should be the imprisoned women. The left should be in another room."

Then Li Mu opened his eyes and found himself standing at the end of the tunnel, with a dilapidated wooden door in front of him.

The light came through the wooden door, and Li Mu looked inside through the gap.

Anger instantly rushed to Li Mu's crown.

Li Mu originally thought that he had already seen such things frequently from the movies and books before he traveled through time, and that it would not have any impact on him.

However, the scene before him still made Li Mu unable to remain calm as he had imagined.

There were indeed two men in the room, holding two naked women under them. The women had empty eyes, did not utter a word, and their bodies were covered with horrific scars.

Li Mu clearly saw that one of the women had a wound on her arm that was so deep that the bone was visible. The wound had already rotted away, and something was faintly moving under the bloody wound.