Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Ye Ge and the others followed Liang Kuan to a dark and damp dungeon.

There are about thirty cells in the dungeon. To Ye Ge's surprise, as he passed by the cell doors, he could see that most of the prisoners in each cell were a group of dark races, including Nightmares, Succubi, Werewolves, Vampires... and some other monsters.

On the wall at the corner of the cell, there was a very large werewolf skin, which covered almost the entire wall when it was spread out. Two huge werewolf claws had been removed and nailed to the wall with two nails.

Those two werewolf claws were thicker than an adult's waist, and judging from the size of that werewolf hide, Ye Ge estimated that it was at least a werewolf warrior at the Thousand Soul Realm!

Ye Ge glanced at them briefly: "It seems you've fought quite a few battles with the dark races over the years and acquired quite a few spoils?"

“Surviving in the wilderness inevitably leads to conflicts with the dark races. There are still too many gaps in the first and second walls of defense, and the dark races often break into human territory,” Liang Kuan said. “Over the years, we have killed no fewer dark races than the Night’s Watch.”

Upon hearing this, Nangong Qiuyue asked nervously, "That big guy with the broadsword said you captured quite a few Night's Watchmen? Are they locked up here too? And you even severed their tendons and ligaments?"

"Heh, that's just some madman bragging to scare you." Liang Kuan chuckled. "At most, we'll just rob them of their goods and money, or use the prisoners we capture to extort some ransom from the Night's Watch. The boss keeps so many dark races locked up here to obtain experimental samples from them, and breaking the arms and legs of one Night's Watchman is pointless and would only enrage all the Night's Watchmen."

Nangong Qiuyue breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

Liang Kuan led Ye Ge and the others to a prison cell.

Ye Ge saw several familiar faces.

Inside the dungeon, Jiang Xiaoming leaned against a corner, looking dejected. With him were several other students from the War Academy, as well as a burly male instructor with numerous wounds.

Ye Ge also recognized that male teacher—he was Scarface Tiger, their instructor during the second round of assessments for both inner and outer sect members.

Ye Ge was stunned.

Such a coincidence?

This squad is actually Jiang Xiaoming's team?

"Jiang Xiaoming?" Xia Xiyao asked suspiciously.

"Huh?" Jiang Xiaoming looked up when he heard someone call his name. He was immediately surprised to see Ye Ge and the others. "Ye Ge? Xue'er? Xia Xiyao? What are you all doing here...?"

He glanced at Ye Ge and the others, then at Liang Kuan beside Ye Ge, and exclaimed in horror, "Holy crap?! Are you guys with these thugs?!"

Night Song: "?"

Xia Xiyao: "?"

Gao Shenxue: "..."

Jiang Xiaoming, trembling with indignation, exclaimed, "You bastard Ye Ge... I originally thought that scoundrels like you were destined to be the main characters, and only someone like me was destined to be a sycophantic extra... I never expected that you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, would become a traitor! And you even corrupted my goddess and Xia Xiyao!"

Everyone: "..."

Ye Ge, Gao Shenxue, and Xia Xiyao exchanged glances.

“I’ve checked, the intelligence score is 2,” Gao Shenxue said.

Xia Xiyao nodded: "Yes, that makes sense."

Jiang Xiaoming: "...What are you talking about?"

"Young Master Yege, do you know this person?" Liang Kuan asked.

"Well, I'd say we know each other. Although knowing this guy is pretty embarrassing." Ye Ge looked at him and said, "Could you do me the favor and let him go?"

“Of course we can. We don’t really need him anyway. At most, we can just ask the War Academy for some ransom,” Liang Kuan said. “But before they leave, we need to give them some memory-erasing drugs.”

Night Song: "Okay."

"Ka"

Liang Kuan used the key to unlock the iron cage door and open the cell.

Jiang Xiaoming and the others in the cell were completely bewildered, not knowing what was going on.

Instructor Scarface was the first to realize that Night Song had come to rescue them, and immediately stood up while holding onto the wall next to him.

After leaving the dungeon, Jiang Xiaoming seemed to have finally figured things out. He leaned close to Ye Ge and asked, "Hey, you really came to rescue us?"

Ye Ge rolled her eyes at him: "What else?"

"Phew...that's good..." Jiang Xiaoming glanced cautiously at Liang Kuan in front of him, then whispered, "But how did you end up with this group of bandits?"

Ye Ge was too lazy to pay any attention to him anymore.

Scarface, the instructor, was following behind them when he suddenly snorted and stumbled, almost falling to the ground. He gritted his teeth, seemingly enduring something, but eventually lost consciousness.

Long Ying turned to check on his condition, then said to Ye Ge, "He is seriously injured and has fainted from blood loss."

A girl next to Jiang Xiaoming said with great guilt, "When Instructor Scarface led us to escort supplies through the Hundred Souls Forest, we were ambushed by those bandits. Instructor Scarface was so badly injured protecting us..."

Liang Kuan also came over to check on him, then cast a healing spell on Scarface and said, "Fortunately, there are no fatal injuries. I'll have a few people take him to the infirmary to rest." With that, he waved his hand and called over a few people to carry Scarface away.

Ye Ge then looked at Liang Kuan and said, "What about that big iron box that their team was escorting before?"

"It's right here, please follow me."

Liang Kuan led everyone to a storage room.

The large iron box is placed here.

It looks exactly like the large iron box that Ye Ge and the others were escorting, and it is also sealed with level nine runes.

The outer chains and combination locks had already been destroyed by Bao Bingqing and his group, but they were unable to open the level nine rune seal.

"Young Master Yege, I have something else to attend to," Liang Kuan said. "If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving now."

Ye Ge waved her hand: "Okay, you can go ahead and get busy."

After Liang Kuan left, Jiang Xiaoming and his teammates finally relaxed.

Jiang Xiaoming remained persistently curious and wanted to ask Ye Ge and the others how they had gotten involved with these bandits.

"What exactly is your relationship with these thugs?" Jiang Xiaoming asked curiously. "Why does that leader seem to listen to you so obediently? And why is he so respectful towards you?"

Long Ying gave Ye Ge a deep look.

In fact, not only Jiang Xiaoming, but even her teammates didn't know why.

What exactly did Bao Bingqing and Ye Ge talk about in the study just now?

Could it be...