() The night is getting deeper, and there are no pedestrians on the streets out of the city. Occasionally, a group of city guards walks by holding torches, which causes the dogs of the residents to bark. There are still people on the distant city towers and walls.
They look heavily guarded. Although the Mogankun people have withdrawn from the Yan Kingdom border, as long as summer is not over, a new raiding team from Mogankun may appear at any time.
The Duanmu Mansion and the warehouse next to the mansion were shrouded in the vast night. There were handles of the Duanmu family's soldiers on and around the door of the warehouse, and there were also soldiers patrolling the mansion. It was also a heavily guarded scene.
"Damn, there are so many mosquitoes, and the master is so stingy that he didn't even want to give us a plate of mosquito coils and let us feed the mosquitoes here."
"No, there's no wine either. It would be nice if there was wine."
At the entrance of the warehouse, two soldiers were sitting on the front steps, chatting quietly.
"By the way, that girl from the Remu tribe still hasn't spoken. I wonder if the people from the Remu tribe will give her that thing in exchange." A soldier suddenly remembered something and said casually.
"Don't tell me, that girl is really stubborn. No matter how she interrogates her, she says she doesn't know. Tomorrow is the deadline. If the Remu clan members haven't given her anything in exchange for it after tomorrow, huh, huh,
I will definitely not let her go," another soldier said.
"Do you know what that thing is?"
"I don't know, what are our identities? I'm afraid those guys in the inner courtyard are not qualified to know about this." The soldier who spoke yawned and raised his eyes. He suddenly saw a tree perched on the roadside.
Holding a dark thing.
"What are you looking at?" asked another soldier.
"Then, then..." The yawning soldier pointed to a branch on the tree, looking flustered, "Is that a bat?"
"Is it an eagle? How can there be such a big bat?" Another soldier laughed: "Even if it is a bat, there is no need for you to be so panicked? You are too timid."
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldier who was laughing at his companion suddenly rolled down the steps. Once he fell to the ground, he never got up again.
The remaining soldier suddenly turned around, and when he saw it, the three souls were gone. Behind him, stood a bat that was a little bigger than an eagle, waiting to look at him with a pair of small blood-red eyes. That look
, monster, soul-stirring!
"Suck..." The huge bat opened its mouth and sucked hard, and a burst of bloody energy escaped from the body of the soldier and flew into its mouth.
In the blink of an eye, the soldier's body fell down the steps as if his bones had been taken away, and he never got up again.
The one who killed two people in a row was the leader of the soul-sucking bat. Its method of killing was to suck people's soul energy. This method of killing was silent and left no trace.
In fact, the two soldiers who had their soul energy sucked did not really die. Their bodies were still alive, and the various organs in their bodies were still working normally. They looked like they were asleep. But
, they will not wake up, they will not eat, their bodies will use up their stored energy, and they will slowly decay and die.
This kind of death is not actually a real death in the original world. As long as there is nutrient liquid to sustain life, these two soldiers will not die. But this is the mysterious world, and there are no nurses to infuse them with nutrient liquid.
So they will die in three to five days.
Luo Manduo ducked out from behind the tree, and then the tall and long-legged Mogankun slave girl Nightingale also walked out. She was wearing the soft animal skin armor Luo Manduo had bought for her, and a scimitar.
, looking particularly heroic.
"Okay, you can go in." Jin Ling'er's voice rang in Luo Manduo's cochlea, "The leader of the soul-sucking bats has told me that the people inside have also been cleared."
Luo Manduo didn't answer and strode towards the warehouse door. He found the key to the door on a soldier. He opened the door and said, "Nightingale, drag these two people in."
Nightingale glared at Luo Manduo, but did not disobey Luo Manduo's instructions. She grabbed a soldier's ankle with one hand and dragged the two soldiers into the warehouse like dragging two bundles of straw. Then, she
Closed the door.
The warehouse is not dark. Oil lamps are lit on the walls and pillars. Although the light is not strong, it is enough to illuminate all the spaces in the warehouse. The dazzling array of goods and the cages holding slaves are all the same as those in the daytime.
It's the same as what I saw there, no change.
The slaves in the cage were all asleep, and no one noticed anyone coming in.
Luo Manduo walked straight towards the innermost iron door of the warehouse. Before he got closer, he saw two Duanmu family soldiers lying on the ground from a distance, as well as a large group of soul-sucking bats hanging upside down from the beams.
"Who are you?" Nightingale couldn't help but asked.
Luo Manduo looked back at Nightingale, said nothing, and continued walking.
This is how the sense of mystery comes about. He wants Nightingale to feel that he has countless secrets, and he also wants to make him feel that he is a figure with a huge background. In this way, it will be much easier for him to control Nightingale. At least.
, he wants to make Nightingale believe that the "Saisei Pills" made of flour and swill that he fed to Nightingale during the day are real.
Nightingale is really convinced. In her opinion, no one can tame spiritual beasts except the noble Mogankun people, and these bats are obviously a kind of spiritual beast. Therefore, the emergence of soul-sucking bats
, she not only believed that Luo Manduo's "Death Pill" was real, she also felt a sense of awe towards Luo Manduo.
Opening the iron door, a large group of soul-sucking bats flew in like ghosts. Then, there was a muffled sound of human bodies falling to the ground.
After getting down from the dungeon, Luo Manduo saw that there were at least ten soldiers of the Duanmu family lying on the ground, and they were all soldiers wearing fine chainmails and high-quality weapons. Their strength was obviously better than those outside.
The soldiers guarding the gate are much stronger.
"Fortunately, there are soul-sucking bats to help. Otherwise, with my current strength, I would be asking for death if I broke into the Duanmu family's dungeon to rescue people. Moreover, with Jin Linger's command, those soul-sucking bats will not kill people indiscriminately.
I won't hurt those poor slaves." Luo Manduo thought secretly in his heart.
The dungeon does not see sunlight all year round, and the air is very humid, with a faint musty smell, which is very unpleasant. However, the light is very bright, and there are enough oil lamps and torches to illuminate the dungeon as bright as day.
A two-hundred-meter-long passage extends straight forward. There are many prison cells on both sides of the passage, where dangerous slaves and prisoners are imprisoned. There are also some rooms that are torture chambers and rooms for storing sundries.
A sturdy prisoner suddenly rushed to the iron fence and stretched out his hand to catch Luo Manduo. Nightingale's scimitar came out of its sheath with a clang, and the silver blade flashed, and then pierced into the iron fence, hitting the iron fence.
On the prisoner's neck. She said coldly: "Be honest, if you move again, I will slit your throat!"
"You, you... you broke into the dungeon of the Duanmu family, I am not your enemy, I just want to escape, save me, save me... After I get out, I will work hard to repay you, Young Master!
Say something!" The prisoner did not dare to provoke the nightingale, but he begged Luo Mando.
"I will let you go later, but not now." Luo Manduo left a message and continued to move forward.
Nightingale put away her scimitar and followed Luo Mando forward.
Soon, the two of them walked to a cell.
There was a woman in the cell, her hair was disheveled, her clothes were in tatters, and there were signs of being whipped. She was lying on a pile of straw, and her long hair hanging down from her forehead covered her cheeks.
She was nowhere to be seen. She didn't move when she heard footsteps, so she didn't know whether she was awake or asleep. She was tortured both physically and mentally in this dungeon, so her condition must be very bad.
"Is it her?" Luo Manduo asked in a low voice.
Nightingale said: "That's her, I'm talking about her. The key to this prison is not on the guard, but in Duanmu Heng's hand. I don't know if my knife can split the iron lock."
The key to this prison was held by Duanmu Heng, which actually revealed the identity of the woman in the cell. At the beginning of the operation, Luo Manduo originally planned to ask Jin Ling'er or Duanmu Houtu to follow him, but he was worried
After the operation was exposed, the grandfather and grandson could not escape. And once a battle broke out, Zhamu Houtu and Zhamu Ningcui would not only be of little help, but would become a burden to him, so he gave up the idea of bringing Zhamu Houtu or Zhamu Ningcui.
He wanted to come to the dungeon with Zhamu Ningcui. However, in order to ensure that he would not save the wrong person, he still carefully asked about the characteristics of the Huadie clan leader and kept it firmly in his mind.
The characteristics that Zhamu Ningcui told her were very secret, and he could not see them through a fence. Whether it was to check the characteristics or to save people, this iron fence became a trouble that had to be solved.
Before Luo Manduo could agree, Nightingale pulled out her scimitar again.
"No, chopping with a knife will make a loud noise. Just look at me while I unlock the door." Luo Manduo stopped the nightingale, then took out a thin wire from his pocket and inserted it.
The iron ropes of the prison were slowly turning.
Nightingale looked at Luo Manduo in surprise, "Can you still do this?"
With a click, the strong iron lock popped open and opened.
Luo Manduo put the wire into his pocket, opened the door and walked in. He didn't bother to answer the nightingale's question. In the original world, he was obsessed with machinery and had extremely high attainments. If the structure of this simple iron lock could even stump him
If so, then he would just find a piece of tofu and hit him to death.
The female prisoner lying on the straw pile still didn't move.
Luo Manduo smelled a faint smell of blood, and when he got closer, he saw some fresh marks of being whipped on her back. The blood had dried up soon and stuck the cloth and the wound together. He frowned and reached out to lift
After opening the female prisoner's back collar, a pink butterfly-shaped birthmark was revealed under her snow-white neck.
This pink butterfly-shaped birthmark is the characteristic of Patriarch Huadie. According to Zhamu Ningcui, the name of Patriarch Huadie is actually derived from this birthmark.
"That's her, take her away," Luo Manduo said.
Nightingale picked up the Huadie Clan leader, then put it on her shoulder, and walked out carrying the Huadie Clan leader.
Luo Manduo found a bunch of keys from a soldier of the Duanmu family, and then opened the prison doors one by one.
The prisoners and slaves who were imprisoned in the cells came out one after another, and even those who were sleeping were awakened by their companions in distress and fled for their lives.
That night, the Duanmu family suffered heavy losses because the escaped prisoners and slaves escaped from the Duanmu family's warehouse.