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Chapter 64 Processing and Waves

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

……

The iron lock opened and the chain hit the iron cage, making a clanging sound.

Faced with the open iron gate, the six children huddled in the corner farthest from the gate, and none of them dared to go out.

Without any lighting, in the extremely dim environment, they could only see a vague human outline at best.

Although they didn't know what had happened, the various abnormalities that happened today were enough to make them imagine.

They were all terrified, not knowing what they would face next.

The human figure seemed to be a little impatient with their slowness, and suddenly there was something in his hand.

"Snapped!"

He just swung his whip lightly, and a crisp whip sound rang out in the air.

When the six children heard the voice, they all trembled.

After these days of "taming", this sound has been deeply imprinted into their behavioral instincts.

"come out!"

A deep voice sounded.

The six children did not dare to hesitate any longer, and one by one they crawled out of the iron cage on all fours.

"Come this way!"

Soon, guided by brief instructions and the sound of whips, the six children arrived at the entrance of the tunnel leading to the peddler's study.

"Don't stop, keep running!"

By this time, the six children had realized something.

Without any hesitation, they immediately ran forward in the dim tunnel.

Because they ran too fast and their vision was too blurry, almost all the children fell down while running, but they immediately got up and continued to run forward.

The sound of the whip followed them all the time.

Until they saw steps appearing in front of them.

Standing in front of the stairs, they didn't dare to take the first step. The domestication during these days had alienated and distorted their minds. They could no longer, and dared not, think like normal children.

"Get up!"

The low command voice behind them helped them make a choice again.

They no longer hesitated and quickly went up the stairs.

Because Geng Xuan had opened the cover above in advance, they went directly through the stairs and came to the study in the peddler's courtyard.

After staying in the dim underground for a long time, the six children became a little dazed when they stood in the well-lit study on the ground floor again.

They seemed completely unresponsive to the fact that they were back in the light so easily.

Until deep in the dark cave below, the low voice reached my ears again.

"I can only help you up to this point. Whether you can truly escape depends on your performance in the future."

"Don't waste time, get out now, turn right, and run straight along the alley to the Changjie Market, to the place with the most people, and shout for help.

Don't stop on the way and don't ask anyone for help!

Whether you live or die depends on your own luck."

The six children were still in a daze after hearing this when suddenly a crisp whip sound was heard, accompanied by a cold shout.

"run!"

The sound of the whip that penetrated their souls at this moment made their bodies shudder. They ran outside immediately as if they were wound up, and soon ran out of the peddler's yard.

As soon as they left the yard, they ran into another group of children.

Among this group of children, there was a fat little boy who had twenty copper coins in his pocket but had no place to spend them.

The group of children looked at them in surprise because they looked so shabby.

They themselves don't realize that they have become dirty and smelly because they eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep in the same cage.

"Why do you stink so bad?"

"How did you get out of here?"

"Did you steal something?"

"..."

The children asked questions one after another.

Faced with the greetings from their peers, the six children didn't even bother to respond or even glance at them.

The first thing they did was to turn right, and then run forward as fast as they could.

Only these words echoed in their hearts.

"Go to the most crowded part of the Changjie Market... Don't stop along the way, and don't ask anyone for help..."

Another group of neatly dressed children, who had found the peddler's residence and had lost much fun because the peddler did not set up his stall today, looked at each other in bewilderment. One of them suddenly said, "Let's go and take a look!"

Soon, they all followed suit.

They just wanted to see what those six kids were up to.

……

Underground tunnel.

Geng Xuan returned to the area where the iron cages were placed.

He just glanced at the six empty iron cages and ignored them, throwing the four bodies into an extinguished campfire in the middle.

He poured half a bucket of lamp oil he had found at the ground base on them, then threw a burning torch on them.

In an instant, raging flames rose up.

The originally dim underground space became as bright as day under the illumination of the bonfire made of a mixture of wood and four corpses.

Geng Xuan took one last look at the fire, then quickly disappeared into the dark tunnel.

Yes, there were not two bodies burning in the fire, but four.

In addition to the ugly beggar with deformed legs and the one-eyed man, there were also the peddler and the thin man who had been "properly" buried deep by him.

The reason why he wanted to dig them out again was very simple -

Avoid the situation where “no one sees the person alive and no one sees the body dead”.

The reason he took the time to bury the bodies deep was because he wanted to paralyze people like the ugly beggar with deformed legs and not let them notice from any clues that the two men were dead.

But now, his purpose is just the opposite. He wants people to know clearly that the peddler and the thin man are both dead.

I don't want anyone to cause any trouble in the attempt to find the whereabouts of these two people.

There are two purposes for adding fuel to the fire of these four people.

One is to cover up the differences in the time of death of the peddler, the thin man and other people.

The second reason was to cover up the fact that the peddler, the thin man, and the ugly beggar with deformed legs were poisoned before their death.

This was not the most "excessive" thing. Before Geng Xuan opened the iron cage and released the six children, the most "excessive" thing he did was to once again endure the disgusting stench and enter the "pit", carry out Su Ruiliang's body, and then find a hidden place to bury it deeply again.

It cannot be said that Geng Xuan was negligent. When he was dealing with Su Ruiliang's body, he did not expect that subsequent events would develop to this point.

If the matter had not become so serious, in a few days, Su Ruiliang's body would have rotted beyond recognition in an environment like the "accumulation pit", and no one would be able to see his true appearance.

But now, even though Geng Xuan had already displayed all the bodies of the group of ugly beggars with deformed legs in plain sight, he had already taken the initiative to save others from the possibility of claiming the bodies from the "pit".

But now that the matter has become so serious, Geng Xuan is not sure whether anyone will go to the "pit" to look for clues.

In order to avoid the worst situation, Geng Xuan, who had already thought of this hidden danger in advance, suppressed his nausea and took out Su Ruiliang's body for separate disposal.

Geng Xuan completed all these tasks before opening the iron cage and letting the six children out.

After lighting a bonfire of wood and corpses, Geng Xuan left without stopping.

In order to cut off his own traces as much as possible, he even resealed the hole he had dug with his own hands.

……

Just as Geng Xuan left the tunnel network under Kangleji and sealed the hole he had dug himself.

Kangleji, the long street market, has been completely boiling over because of the appearance of six sloppy kids who exude a foul smell.

And this excitement was not limited to this corner, but spread to the entire Kangleji at an extremely fast speed.

The masters who had come out together that day because one of the children was missing also learned about the incident at the first time.

Knowing this, they did not come to the Changjie market to join in the fun, but instead came to the base of Dingxing Hall in Wuyou Palace one after another.

As soon as they entered, they were stunned by the mess and blood splattered everywhere.

When they pushed open the tightly closed door of the hall and saw a dozen headless corpses and scattered heads thrown randomly inside, everyone fell silent.

They found the entrance to the underground tunnel.

……

Looking at the four bodies in the fire that were almost completely burned to charcoal, there seemed to be flames burning in the eyes of the museum owners.

"How to do?"

"What can we do? This is none of our business!"

"But this happened on our territory, and the Wuyou Palace has always acted in a domineering manner..."

"Do they want us to kowtow to them and confess our guilt?
...Isn't Xu Xiangfeng's lesson enough? !

Facing these evil wolves, blindly compromising and being weak will not end well. We must show our attitude and stand! "

"…Who could have done such a big thing? Do you want to investigate?"

"Investigate? Investigate what? What does this have to do with us?"

"I just took a look and there is one who should be one of ours."

"…That's just bad luck for him."

(End of this chapter)