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Outside the railing was an empty space. By the candlelight around her, she could see the steep mountain walls all around. It was so wide that she couldn't see the other side at a glance.

Looking up along the mountain wall, the view narrows as you go, converging at the very top, leaving only a basin-sized opening from Fan Liuer's perspective.

But she knew that the opening was definitely bigger than a basin; for such bright moonlight to shine through, the opening must be very large.

She feels small because she is in a very deep place.

This tomb is not underground like ordinary cemeteries, but beneath the mountain.

In a place like this, if these people don't let her go, even a god couldn't save her.

She looked down again, and what lay below was even more terrifying. In the candlelight and moonlight, she could see several meters down, but even then, she couldn't see the ground; it was pitch black below, like an abyss.

"Is it pretty?" Wei Nian leaned closer, her head touching hers, and looked down with her.

Fan Liuer swallowed hard and said truthfully, "It's terrifying."

Wei Nian chuckled, "Actually, it's not bad. As long as you don't fall, it's not scary."

"You'd better be careful not to fall. Someone fell down before and landed on a protruding cliff below. His head was smashed open, completely blown apart, and he was covered in blood and gore."

Fan Liuer frowned upon hearing this and turned to look at her. "Did you bring me here just to scare me? You don't need to do this. I wouldn't dare to run away if you didn't scare me."

Wei Nian laughed even harder, leaned close to her ear, and whispered, "You have to run, otherwise God won't accept kind-hearted people."

As she spoke, she stepped aside, pulled Fan Liuer inside, and said, "Come on, let me take you to get something to eat."

"Sister Liu'er." Siqing moved closer to Fan Liu'er, took her other hand, and looked at Wei Nian with a strange look in her eyes.

She found this person very strange. Although she was a woman, she acted like a rogue and took advantage of Fan Liuer at every turn.

Fan Liuer squeezed Si Qing's hand and looked thoughtfully at the back of Wei Nian's head.

Wei Nian led the two to a slightly larger stone chamber, which looked like a kitchen with a stove, pots, pans and bowls.

Judging from the number of bowls and chopsticks, there should be no fewer than twenty people below.

Wei Nian lifted the lid of the steamer on the stove, took out three or four steamed buns, put them on a plate, placed them on the table next to him, and then scooped out two bowls of water.

Seeing that Fan Liuer and the other person were standing still, she gestured with her chin, "Sit down and eat."

"Don't worry, it's not poisonous." With that, she took a steamed bun and took a bite herself.

Fan Liuer and Siqing then sat down and started eating the steamed buns.

They were really hungry, so they ate rather quickly.

Wei Nian smiled at the two of them, "Eat slowly, there's still some left in the pot."

After the two had eaten their fill, Wei Nian took them to bathe in a naturally formed pool with water flowing down from it.

Wei Nian gave each of them a set of plain white clothes. "The water is a bit cold, you can just wash yourself casually." After saying that, she glanced at Fan Liuer and added, "You don't have to wash yourself, just change into these clothes."

Fan Liuer finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Why do we need to change clothes? Isn't it true that my husband will let us go as long as he pays us?"

Wei Nian crossed his arms, looked at her, and still had a grin on his face. "Don't worry, I said I would let you go, and I will. But you have to do as I say, or you won't be able to leave."

"What do you want us to do?" Fan Liuer asked warily.

"Now, change your clothes first, and then go rest."

"this one?"

"That's it."

Seeing that she didn't intend to say anything more, Fan Liuer suppressed her curiosity and changed into the plain white clothes as she was told.

Wei Nian avoided watching them change clothes.

As Siqing changed, she said, "Sister Liu'er, why does this dress look so much like mourning clothes?"

Fan Liuer had just mentioned it; the plain white dress, made of linen, was similar to the mourning clothes worn when someone in the family died.

She recalled the stone coffin she had seen in the main hall below, and a sense of foreboding welled up inside her.

Could it be that she's going to be forced to commit suicide with Siqing?

"Don't be afraid, she said she would let us go, let's listen to her first." She comforted Siqing, and also comforted herself.

After the two changed their clothes, Wei Nian led them back the way they came. When they passed the main hall again, the white-haired old man from before was no longer there.

Fan Liuer glanced at the stone coffin again; it was very large, big enough for three people to lie side by side.

A series of frightening thoughts flashed through her mind, and she quickly looked away.

Wei Nian led them back to the stone chamber they had just been in, but this time he lit a lamp for them. "You two rest now. I'll come and call you again for breakfast tomorrow morning."

"There's a toilet over there. Use the toilet if you need to relieve yourself."

After explaining these things, she left, and the stone chamber was closed.

There was only a stone bed and a toilet in the corner of the stone chamber, nothing else. Fan Liuer and Siqing snuggled at the foot of the bed, waiting for the next day to arrive.

Outside the tomb, Feng Ji, along with Qi Weiming, followed the instructions left by Li Qiuping and found their way there, eventually meeting up with Li Chenbi.

Upon seeing Li Chenbi, Qi Weiming immediately rushed forward to grab his collar, but was blocked by Li Qiuping. "Lord Qi, what are you doing!"

Qi Weiming pointed at Li Chenbi, furious. "Li Chenbi, every time I entrust her to you, something bad happens! Aren't you supposed to be so capable? How come you can't even protect one person!"

"Who exactly are those people? Did you recruit them?"

Li Chenbi's expression was no better than Qi Weiming's. He initially thought these people were after him, but since he and Li Qiuping had been chasing after them for so long, no one had made a move against them. Clearly, these people's target had been Fan Liuer and her friend from the very beginning.

Bandits kidnap people either for money or for sex. For the former, at least someone would come to negotiate with them, but these people were well hidden, giving them no chance to catch up, so it was clear that they weren't after money.

Then... it can only be color.

Taking a deep breath to suppress his panic, he looked at Qi Weiming: "Is this the time to tell me this? The person has been kidnapped for six hours. Send your men to find them now!"

Qi Weiming knew that the most urgent task was to find the person. Suppressing his anger, he said to the men he had brought with him, "Go, search every mountain around here. Find the person."

The crowd dispersed immediately, and torches moved through the mountains and forests, quickly illuminating a large area of ​​the forest.

The search lasted another three hours, until dawn.

The soldier searching for the person reported, "Sir, we've searched all the hills around here, but we haven't found anywhere to hide. There isn't even a dilapidated temple around here."

Qi Weiming frowned. "What? Could these bandits have come from somewhere else?"

Li Chenbi frowned and shook his head. "That's not right."