Clouds and Moon Shadow

They would soon see the broken-down cell. As Gu Qingyue ran, she sensed the surroundings. Not far away, she found a stone door. There was no sign of anyone inside. Gu Qingyue took a few steps forward, rubbed against the door for a while, and touched a protruding stone. With a gentle press, the stone door popped open.

Gu Qingyue, carrying Liu Feng on her back, immediately darted to the side and pressed herself against the stone wall. After waiting a few moments and finding no hidden weapons or traps, Gu Qingyue slipped inside.

As soon as you enter, the stone door slowly closes behind you.

Gu Qingyue looked around. This should be a room where miscellaneous items were piled up. Around the stone wall, there were hundreds of shovels and some baskets of various sizes standing against the wall.

A shovel? Is this a mining operation? Thinking of the shouts outside just now, Gu Qingyue immediately made a bold guess.

This must be a private mine, and the young men outside are likely miners who have been forced to work in the illegal mine!

Thinking of this, Gu Qingyue's expression became serious. This place might not just be a gathering place for ordinary bandits, but very likely a real illegal mine!

A chill ran down Gu Qingyue's back; this place was extremely dangerous!

Gu Qingyue turned around and put Liu Feng on the ground. It seemed that she had to wake him up as soon as possible. If they couldn't get out tonight, or if the people outside couldn't take down this bandit den, then their situation would be very precarious.

Raising her hand to feel Liu Feng's pulse, which had stabilized slightly, Gu Qingyue raised her hand again and used healing energy to cleanse all the wounds one by one until the whip marks had healed slightly. Then she took out silver needles and inserted them into several major acupoints, gently twisting them.

A series of noisy sounds came from the cave entrance in the distance. It was clear that the prison doors had been broken open and the bandits had begun to drive the miners away. Gu Qingyue was extremely anxious, but she forced herself to calm down and give Liu Feng acupuncture.

Time passed slowly. Gu Qingyue pressed her ear against the stone door, listening intently to the sounds outside. She only regretted that the range of her mental energy was still too small. If she could extend it to a hundred meters, she could see the situation on the other side of the cliff right now.

When Liu Feng slowly opened his eyes, this was the scene he saw by the faint light of the torch on the wall.

"Cough cough..."

"Qingyue, what are you doing?" Liu Feng was still a little confused. He looked around and didn't know where he was.

Hearing the noise, Gu Qingyue turned around and saw Liu Feng, who was leaning against the wall, trying to stand up.

She quickly stepped forward, took Liu Feng's arm, and checked his pulse.

After carefully sensing it, it seems that the healing energy is very useful, especially for treating external injuries, where it has a miraculous effect.

However, fearing that Liu Feng might notice something amiss, since the wounds were healing too quickly, Gu Qingyue had already applied medicine and bandaged the larger wounds after giving him acupuncture. He probably wouldn't be able to tell anything was wrong through the strips of cloth, right?

The pulse was good, and Gu Qingyue was relieved.

"I've come to rescue you. I couldn't find you in the mountains, so I followed you here."

Gu Qingyue thought for a moment and quickly changed the subject.

"Let's hurry up and leave, the stronghold is in chaos," Gu Qingyue said, feeling around by the stone gate for a switch and pressing it gently.

Stepping out of the stone chamber, Gu Qingyue found the prison cliff silent. She hurried over and discovered that the cells where the young men had been imprisoned were now empty.

Further on, they found a cell with two elderly people with gray hair lying inside. Gu Qingyue and Liu Feng hurried forward and found that the cell door was open. Gu Qingyue touched the neck of each of them and found that the old man was completely silent. She estimated that he had been dead for at least half a day.

Gu Qingyue's eyes were bloodshot, meaning that she had died before she arrived at the prison cliff, and the obvious causes of death were hunger and severe whip marks.

Bang! Liu Feng behind him clenched his fist and punched the cell door. He gritted his teeth but couldn't utter a word. His wounds burst open again, and blood seeped out instantly, but he felt no pain.

Further on, they arrived at the cell where the boys were being held. Four boys were lying motionless on the ground, with serious external injuries on their bodies and legs. Gu Qingyue quickly squatted down and checked them. Fortunately, they still had a faint breath.

Gu Qingyue gritted her teeth, exchanged a glance with Liu Feng, and quickly moved the four boys to the stone chamber they had just been in.

After carefully examining each of them, Gu Qingyue discovered that the four boys were so hungry that they could no longer walk, and were also covered in injuries from being abused, which was why they were abandoned in the prison cliff. It seemed that the bandits were in a great panic and anxious to move them away.

They didn't even search for Liu Feng when he disappeared.

In other words, the situation outside is very unfavorable for the bandits, so their chance to escape has arrived.

Gu Qingyue followed the passage forward, searching for about fifteen minutes before returning with some food and water. Upon returning to the stone chamber, she immediately cleaned and bandaged the wounds of the boys. From an angle where Liu Feng could not see, she gently used her healing energy to treat the boys.

Of course, she couldn't care less about her dwindling mental energy and her increasingly dizzy head, but she had to persevere. As long as she didn't faint, she had to save people.

After resting for half an hour, the two discussed it and Gu Qingyue decided to go out and check the situation, while Liu Feng stayed in the stone chamber with the other teenagers to wait for an opportunity.

The sounds of fighting in the distance had gradually subsided. She crouched on a large tree, and by the light of the scattered torches in the distance, she could tell that the approaching soldiers were government troops, and they were present in every courtyard.

There were quite a few of them, some fighting with bandits, others searching around with weapons.

In particular, she saw several men in full armor, loudly directing the soldiers to guard the prisoners. They must have been the leaders of this group of officers and soldiers, and they all looked very brave and extraordinary.

Suddenly, among the group, there was a man in silver armor who gave Gu Qingyue a strange sense of familiarity. He was talking to a tall officer next to him.

"Mu Xiaoqi!" Gu Qingyue murmured.

It was him! So, he was also a soldier in the Lizhou military camp? No wonder he was always the one arresting bad guys, not someone from the county government! How could she not have thought of that?!

That guy! If I had just told her he was also a soldier stationed at Liquan Pass, would she have eaten him alive?

After a moment's thought, Gu Qingyue took off running towards the group of people.

Before she even got close to the entrance of the courtyard, she was blocked by a thick, long arm. Gu Qingyue was startled and looked at the owner of the arm.

Unsurprisingly, she saw the young bandit from before. Her lips twitched. "Brother, aren't you going to run away? Why are you brazenly showing up here? Are you here to die?"

"Why are you still here?" Gu Qingyue lowered her voice, kindly reminding her, "Shouldn't you be running away now? Go as far away as you can?"

Gu Chao's lips twitched, and his eyebrows rose. This young man still cared about his life or death; he hadn't helped him for nothing.

"You don't need to worry about me. Where are you going? It's dangerous here. Once you find your companion, take him away immediately!"

"Found it. I'm going to see an old friend. Get out of the way and leave here quickly," Gu Qingyue said, then walked quickly past Gu Chaochao's courtyard.

Gu Chao was left standing there, stunned. Was there someone she knew in this place? And what kind of footwork did this kid use just now? How come he didn't stop him?