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The other end.

Under the leadership of Xue Youli, Xuan Ming and a group of secret guards walked around for a long time and finally arrived at the entrance of the cellar.

"It's here." Xue Youli stopped and nodded his chin at the wooden board under his feet that was more than one person high.

Xuan Ming nodded at her, raised his hand and made a gesture. All the secret guards were neatly divided into two rows and stood against the wall.

"Ada, prepare your hidden weapons!"

"Yes!" Ada responded, raised his sleeve arrow and aimed it at the entrance of the cellar, ready to attack from a distance at any time.

Xuan Ming squatted down and lifted up the huge wooden board on the ground, revealing a bottomless passage.

The passage was extremely dark. As soon as you approached the entrance, you could smell a foul smell mixed with decay and dampness.

Even though Xuan Ming was the best secret guard, he almost vomited due to nausea when he smelled the odor coming towards him.

His brows furrowed, he turned his head and took a deep breath, "Your Majesty, I will go down and investigate the situation first. The rest of you will stay here and wait!"

"I'll go down with you!"

After Xue Youli finished speaking, she followed Xuan Ming and walked along the narrow passage into the depths of the cellar.

Xuan Ming led the way in front, and with every step he took inside, his hatred for Xunhuan Tower grew a little more.

As a man who had experienced many hardships, he felt uncomfortable the moment he entered the cellar. How could those captured children endure being locked up in such a dark place for a long time?

Xue Youli's stomach was already churning when she smelled the pungent smell.

She had only walked a few yards when she felt she couldn't stand it anymore.

What about the children locked in the cellar?

They live in such a harsh environment every day, with no one to help them. How painful and desperate must they be?

Xuan Ming walked for a while and found that the light ahead was much brighter than that in the passage.

As Xue Youli walked forward, he was still paying attention to the navigation in the Book of Heavenly Secrets.

When she saw two black spots walking towards the passage, she immediately grabbed Xuan Ming and gestured to remind him.

Xuan Ming understood what she meant and drew out a dagger.

He looked at the shadow approaching slowly on the ground, and suddenly moved. Before the two sentries could make a move, he swung his dagger and directly cut the necks of the two sentries.

The noise of knocking them down was so loud that it alarmed the last secret sentry.

The man pulled the sword from the table and rushed towards the entrance!

Xuan Ming sensed a figure flying towards him and slashed with his sword.

The sentry's body stiffened. He looked at the dagger that was deeply stuck in his heart. He opened his mouth, but before he could make a sound, he fell to the ground and died.

Xue Youli looked at Xuan Ming's quick and decisive hand extension and couldn't help but marvel at him. He was indeed the emperor's most capable right-hand man, so powerful!

After Xuan Ming had dealt with all the secret sentries, she did not delay and rushed out quickly.

However, when she looked at the group of little boys huddled on the straw mats, their naked bodies and frightened expressions, her heart felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, causing a dull pain.

"No, don't kill me... I won't run away again..."

A little boy saw Xue Youli approaching, knelt down in her direction, and kowtowed repeatedly, "I don't want to be hung up... Wuuuuu... Please don't kill me..."

The other children on the mat had empty and numb eyes. They looked at Xue Youli expressionlessly, then looked at the boy begging for mercy, then closed their eyes and continued to sleep.

In the cellar, the drama of escaping and being caught happens every day, and they have long been accustomed to it.

Looking at this scene, Xue Youli wished he could capture Murong Ye immediately and lock him up in the cellar for the rest of his life, making his life a living hell!

"My lady, please look at this child! He is badly injured!"

Xue Youli turned her head and saw a boy hanging in mid-air, tied with four iron chains, diagonally opposite the straw mat where the children were sleeping.

His tattered clothes were stained dark red with blood.

At this moment, blood was still flowing from his body, dripping onto the ground along his fingertips.

Xue Youli hurried forward, "Xuanming, can you break the chain?"

Xuan Ming nodded, turned around, picked up the sentry's sword, and chopped it down hard at the chain.

However, the chain was too thick and did not break even after one strike of the sword.

The harder he cuts the chain, the more the child hanging on it will be injured again.

Xue Youli saw that the child's wound was bleeding more and more, and hurriedly stopped Xuan Ming, "Don't cut it! Forcibly cutting the chain will only make the child more injured."

Xuan Ming's gaze shifted, and when he caught sight of the lock on the chain, he immediately said, "When I was fighting with the sentry just now, I heard the sound of a key jiggle. I'm going to go find the key!"

He walked up to the body of the sentry and quickly touched the key hanging on the sentry's waist.

Then he used the key to open the iron lock and carefully carried the unconscious boy down.

Except for his face, the boy has no healthy skin left that is exposed to the air.

Some of the whip marks, big and small, have already scabbed over, while others are still bleeding. New wounds are connected to old wounds, and even after the blood from the wounds has coagulated, the flesh and blood are tightly stuck to the clothes, which is heartbreaking to look at.

No wonder Wang Dali was willing to be disfigured and go out to work as a security guard. The children locked up here are so miserable!

If your mind isn't strong enough, you'll go crazy sooner or later!

Xue Youli stepped forward to stop the child's bleeding, then briefly treated his wounds. "He only has superficial injuries. It seems Xunhuanlou wanted to use them to make money, so they didn't hurt his vital parts. But he's lost too much blood, so he needs to be sent out for treatment as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

Xuan Ming shouted towards the entrance, "Someone come down immediately!"

Not long after, a secret guard came in.

"He's seriously injured, send him out for treatment!"

"Yes!" The man took the child and went into the cellar immediately without any delay.

During this period, Xue Youli had already revealed her identity to the boy on the straw mat.

"We've rescued the other children. Everyone, get up quickly. We'll take you home!"

"Let's go! Everyone, let's go!"

The little boy who had just been kneeling on the ground begging for mercy was the first to stand up.

He didn't care whether Xue Youli was good or bad, as long as he could get him out of the cellar, he would be willing to work like a slave after he got out!

So, at his call, the other children also got up from the straw mats and followed them out of the cellar.

They had been tortured for so long that their brains seemed to have lost the ability to think and their expressions were blank.

However, when they walked out of the cellar, breathed the free air outside, and felt the free night breeze, the children's dull expressions finally changed.

It is said that men don't shed tears easily. When several boys saw the starry night sky, they burst into tears.

The other children also started crying, but their cries were different from the suppressed and fearful cries Chu Xinyue heard last night.

This time, they cried much more wildly, as if they wanted to release the pain that had been suppressed in their hearts for many days with their tears.

Xue Youli looked at them crying loudly and did not stop them.

If you keep negative emotions in your heart, it is easy to have mental problems.

It’s nice to be able to release it all at once.

Xuan Ming watched his men take the children away from the backyard and asked Xue Youli for permission, "My Queen, now that all the children have been moved, can we leave now?"

Xue Youli replied, "Let me confirm the number of people."

Chu Xinyue heard this and turned to look at the young man who was still watching, "Wang Dali!"

"Here we go!"

Wang Dali rushed to her and asked, "Sister, do you have any instructions?"

"Ninety-four people were rescued. Is that correct?"

Wang Dali frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head and said, "There's still one missing!"

Chu Xinyue replied, "Did you forget to count yourself?"

"no!"

Wang Dali said with certainty. After thinking for a moment, he simply counted on his fingers and showed her, "There are a total of one hundred children who were captured here. Ninety-four have escaped, and the auction took four away. Including me, there are only ninety-nine left. One more missing!"

Chu Xinyue patted Wang Dali's shoulder and said, "Ali, how about this? You take Dali and go first. I'll go find the child who was left behind!"