Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 563

Shen Lingjun didn't pay much attention to his reaction, she just took his hand.

"Let's go down the mountain. The fire is almost reaching the top. If we don't leave now, we'll be trapped here and roasted alive."

Mo Zhonggui was dizzy and didn't quite hear what Shen Lingjun was saying. All his senses were focused on the hand Shen Lingjun was holding.

He had touched Shen Lingjun countless times, but it felt like only now that he realized how soft, warm, and intoxicating her hands were.

Mo Zhonggui led Shen Lingjun down the mountain in a daze, feeling as if they were walking on clouds, their whole body light and airy.

By this time, the artillery fire in Naihe Mountain had mostly stopped, but the fires were still burning everywhere.

The people of "Naihe" were either killed or fled, leaving Naihe Mountain essentially as an empty shell.

The people from the Eastern Depot were still busy, some searching, others putting out fires.

As expected, a great deal was found inside Mount Naihe. In addition to a huge amount of gold and silver treasures, there were also a large quantity of weapons, hidden weapons, medicines, poisons, secret recipes, books, and so on, the value of which was incalculable.

The warehouses on Mount Naihe were all dug out from inside the mountain, so they were unaffected by the artillery fire, and all the items were well preserved. They were all searched and piled up in an open area behind the mountain, forming a small mountain.

A commander from the Eastern Depot stepped forward and said, "Chief Supervisor, almost everything of value we found in the mountains is here. There's just too much. I'll have someone take inventory and compile a list for you to review."

Mo Zhonggui's mind was completely occupied by Shen Lingjun at this moment, and her thoughts had not returned to this place at all. She just nodded absentmindedly.

"Show it to the madam first."

Then he said to Shen Lingjun, "Take whatever you like or need."

Shen Lingjun laughed and said, "Then I have quite a few to choose from."

"Naihe" is a top-tier assassin organization with decades of accumulated experience, and it has a lot of valuable resources, especially medicinal herbs, poisons, and secret formula books, which Shen Lingjun wants.

Shen Lingjun remembered something and quickly added, "There is a very deep and narrow valley behind Naihe Mountain. The entrance to the valley is sealed off with a large iron gate. There are many children inside. Let them all out."

Those children have been in there for less than a day, so they certainly haven't all died.

"Naihe" refers to these children who were recruited from various countries and regions. They come from diverse backgrounds, and it is not possible to send them all back to their original places. They can only be settled according to their individual circumstances.

Children who have experienced this, especially those who have killed, may never be able to go back to their original state, but it is still better than dying in that hellish valley or becoming a killing machine.

Mo Zhonggui had also heard of the mechanism by which "Naihe" selected and trained new assassins, and understood Shen Lingjun's meaning, so he replied, "I will have someone arrange suitable places for them."

By evening, the fire on Mount Naihe had been completely extinguished. Many corpses of people from the Naihe sect were found in the mountains, but Fu Shiyan was still missing, presumably having escaped Mount Naihe long ago.

Mo Zhonggui doesn't care about this anymore. Even if Fu Shiyan escapes to the heavens, he won't care at all.

On the mountain, only the courtyard of the Fu Shi Yan on the highest peak was not destroyed by the artillery fire and was still habitable, but Mo Zhonggui would never stay there with Shen Lingjun, not even for one night.

Shen Lingjun let him have his way, so Mo Zhonggui had his men set up a temporary shed in the mountains, just enough for him to have a place to spend the night.

Neither of them could sleep that night, and they each lay on their bamboo beds, gazing at the starry sky over the mountains.

It's early June now, and the weather in the mountains hasn't started to get hot yet; it's still warm, and the night breeze isn't cool at all. The sounds of insects chirping and frogs croaking fill the mountains, making the atmosphere even more tranquil.

Because there were few lights around, the night sky was crystal clear, filled with stars, and the Milky Way stretched from one side of the sky to the other like a long ribbon sprinkled with countless diamonds, flowing slowly.