Don't pretend, everyone knows you're the villain!

Zhai Mingxu thought he should discuss it with Shen Yi in advance.

Turning around, I found that Shen Yi had already disappeared.

Have you seen Shen Yi?

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang looked around. Shen Yi's height was very noticeable among the women, but after looking around, he clearly couldn't find her here.

Lu Yang was puzzled, "It was just here a moment ago, how could it have disappeared in the blink of an eye? Could it have vanished suddenly like last night?"

"Never mind that, let's find someone first."

After Zhai Mingxu finished speaking, she lifted her skirt and looked for someone. Lu Yang didn't dare to be alone, so he followed closely behind Zhai Mingxu.

Over there, Xi Mingzhu, who was listening to the news, suddenly appeared inside a square cage covered with a black cloth. He was being pushed around...

Is this another forced progression of the storyline?

Because he was with Lu Yang and Zhai Mingxu, and the two of them, despite holding the title of Duchess, did not cause any trouble, they could not continue. So they put him in this dark cage and then transported him there.

Not knowing where they were going, Xi Mingzhu was considering whether to find a way out when he suddenly heard Jiang Yuzhou's voice.

"Pushing a cart covered with a black cloth, are they getting ready to serve the main course?"

Lu Tiannan also noticed the NPCs pushing the cart. Ever since they arrived here, this godforsaken place has been bustling with activity.

An auction was being held, and the transaction was not conducted in currency, but in the form of fiefdoms and land.

What surprised the three of them even more was that the five dukes sitting at the head of the table included the two from Lu Tiannan and Gu Junbai's identity cards.

A group of masked NPCs are engaging in illicit sex transactions. The first few buyers and sellers are sex slaves from various countries, both male and female.

The appetizers were generally inexpensive, and the three players, disguised and wearing masks, sneaked in. They found the obedient NPC slaves in cages backstage, and their feelings were complicated.

Lu Tiannan felt his phone vibrate and, without any hesitation, took it out to look at it after the NPC pushing the cart had passed by.

Brother: [In the cage.]

Lu Tiannan suddenly looked at the cart that had been pushed onto the stage and rushed up without saying a word.

"?" Jiang Yuzhou watched as Lu Tiannan ran towards the stage, and without thinking of anything else, he followed.

Gu Junbo didn't move, standing backstage looking at the large bunch of keys displayed in the open.

Amid cheers, the black cloth was lifted.

Lu Tiannan saw that the person in the cage was... the real Countess Campbell, whom he and his brother had both met before.

The revelry tore away the hypocritical masks worn by the nobles in the audience.

She was wearing the same dress as her brother when she left. Where is her brother?

Lu Tiannan paused, and all his messages to Shen Yi went unanswered.

This bidding process was different from the previous ones. Each time a bidder raised the price, a servant would use scissors to cut off a piece of cloth that the bidder wanted to cut off from the caged animal being auctioned.

The bidding was fierce, and the scissors rose and fell.

The first thing to be cut was the fabric at the front; the emptiness and numbness in Countess Campbell's eyes were undeniable.

The noise and commotion had nothing to do with her.

Her calmness was more like the broken despair of someone who had been swallowed up to bone fragments.

“Lu Tiannan, you…” Jiang Yuzhou approached Lu Tiannan, who was standing on the edge of the platform, and wanted to ask why he had suddenly run away, but found that Lu Tiannan was staring at the cage with a dark face.

The woman in the cage had her clothes torn to shreds, her once magnificent long dress now reduced to a series of disjointed pieces.

The marks on his body were shocking.

"She's saved."

Jiang Yuzhou looked at the woman in the cage. She was quite beautiful, with an impeccable figure and other qualities.

Only those lifeless eyes...

It must be admitted that some people come into this world to suffer.

"you know?"

Lu Tiannan pressed his knuckles, his only clue pointing to the cage. Where had the person inside gone? Perhaps the answer lay with Countess Campbell.

"It's Countess Campbell."

Jiang Yuzhou looked at the nobles below the stage who were bidding frantically, completely devoid of any human dignity.

"How can we save them? Didn't we say we couldn't kill them? With so many people, there's no way we can escape unscathed."

"Wait."

As soon as Lu Tiannan said this, Jiang Yuzhou understood that the other party did not intend to force the issue, or at least had not gone mad.

Pieces of fabric fluttered onto the stage, revealing not the naked body of Countess Campbell, but the most primal desires of those below.

Just when everyone thought the auction would end with the winner being decided, an unexpected sound rang out, pushing the auction to a fever pitch.

— "The highest bidder wins, and so on."

Jiang Yuzhou's expression changed upon hearing this.

"Damn, they're really scum. There are at least a hundred of them down there, are they planning to kill us?"

Everyone wanted to be the first, and the bidding was fierce.

The highest price was for Russell.

Lu Tiannan stared at the naked woman in the cage, fragmented images flashing before his eyes.

It's Russell's cage... and the dead Shen Yi.

Russell met Shen Yi.

To speculate is one thing, to see it with one's own eyes is another.

His knuckles cracked as he pressed them together, and the veins on Lu Tiannan's forehead bulged.

"How can we save her? She won't survive until the auction is over." Jiang Yuzhou wanted to discuss it with Lu Tiannan, but the people around him ran to take off a trench coat to cover the lady in the cage, then tore off the red veil, jumped off the stage and ran directly towards Duke Russell, who was wearing a mask.

They pinned the person to the ground and hammered them.

Jiang Yuzhou was too stunned to react; he controlled as many as his talent allowed.

Gu Junbai, who was backstage, opened some of the cages, and the trembling slaves dared not escape.

Gu Junbo didn't expect them to escape; he just felt he should do something to give them a chance.

Before he could open all the cages, the commotion at the front desk made Gu Junbo forget about continuing.

Gu Junbai felt a chill run down his spine upon seeing the scene.

A group of NPCs surrounded Lu Tiannan, and Jiang Yuzhou was still trying his best to control some of them.

Gu Junbo, unaware of the situation, jumped off the stage to join the fight. This one-sided, exhausting effort was ultimately futile.

Zhai Mingxu and Lu Yang heard about the commotion while searching for someone, and were completely baffled by the chaotic scene they witnessed upon arrival.

It's crystal clear who to help; once the aperture is opened, it finally gives people a chance to breathe.

Zhai Mingxu asked Gu Junbai, "Why did they start fighting? Shen Yi is missing, and we can't find her."

There wasn't a trace of a smile in Jiang Yuzhou's peach blossom eyes.

"They started fighting because we weren't watching them closely enough."

Everyone knew that Lu Tiannan was the one who started the uprising.

Lu Tiannan grabbed Russell and beat him mercilessly, not even noticing that his own fists were bleeding.

Lu Yang shrank his neck and cautiously began to speak: "Shen Yi wouldn't... again..."

Gu Junbo shook his head, "We didn't see Shen Yi."

Receiving such a reply was at least a relief; if Shen Yi had died, they might have been buried with him. Lu Yang decided to avoid trouble once he left, and would directly eliminate Lu Tiannan if he brought people into the dungeon again.

It was indeed Shen Yi who was originally in the cage, but Countess Campbell made a deal with Shen Yi.

The transaction period ends when the auction concludes.

She and Xi Mingzhu switched timelines, and she helped Xi Mingzhu return to the ball of that year. In exchange, Xi Mingzhu had to help her successfully burn down the castle, something she had failed to do back then.

0561 followed Xi Mingzhu and floated around.

The true face of this ball is—sacrifices and wolves and tigers.