Chapter 9 Underground Secrets
The three of them looked at each other, and Qingsheng took the lead in walking into the entrance of the cave. There was a stone staircase downwards. The three of them walked down in the dark, and soon they saw the hazy lights.
After seeing the lights, the three of them were in a state of energy and the steps were completed. There was a staircase that was one and a half tall and about two people in parallel. There were short torches inserted on the wall of the staircase. The leaping fire on the torches pulled the three of them into a strange way. The gloomy surroundings made the three of them feel a little accelerating their heartbeat.
The three of them walked with their own thoughts without guarding the way. Soon, the three of them slowly widened, and finally saw the exit after the three of them walked for a quarter of an hour. As they approached the exit, the three of them finally heard other sounds besides their footsteps. The sound was not loud, just like the sound of insects and ants eating grass and trees.
Xu Mo leaned against the wall of the exit and looked inward. He saw that after Handao went out, there was an empty circular space, about ten times the size of an ordinary room. It was better to say that it was a room. The cave was surrounded by not walls, but a prison door, and the shadows inside the prison door were surrounded by many prisoners. There were three forks of dark corridors opposite the Handao, and I didn't know where to lead.
There were not many guards in the cave, only five or six people, wearing big black robes, black cloth, and carrying a sickle-shaped scimitar that a farmer used to harvest wheat. However, the three of them did not focus on the cell and the guards, but looked at a large pool in the center of the cave in surprise.
The big pool is like the public bath in Xu Mo's real-world sauna. It is made of black stones and is made into a circular large pool with a diameter of about five meters and a height of about one meter. In the center of the pool, there is a long sword hanging by an iron chain. Half of the sword's body is soaked in the pool water. The hilt of the sword is like a dragon head, and two bright red gems are inlaid in the longan, which shines under the illumination of torches around it.
However, Xu Mo and the other two were not focused on this sword, but on the pool water soaked in the sword. The pool water was very thick, and the breeze blowing through the channel could not stir up the pool water slightly. The pool water was dark red, and there were a few small red bubbles on the surface. The strong fishy smell made the three people more than ten meters away from the pool cover their noses.
The color is dark red, the texture is dense, and the smell is fishy. Among the familiar liquids of the three, there is only one kind of water and blood in front of them! This big pool in the cave is like a pool of blood!
While the three of them were looking at each other in surprise, some changes occurred in the calm cave. One of the guards made a few gestures to the other guards, and two guards walked towards the cells around the cave.
After only a few low sobs, the two black-robed guards raised two prisoners from a cell. Because the cell was far away from the hidden channel of the three and the lights were dim, the three of them did not see clearly the appearance of the two prisoners at the beginning.
When the two prisoners were brought to the edge of the blood pool, the three of them finally saw the appearance of the two prisoners and were immediately shocked. The two prisoners were wearing wide linen prison clothes, barefoots, and their hair covered their faces. They snuggled up to each other and sobbed quietly.
If the gray prison jacket was worn on someone of Xu Mo's figure, it would be said that it fits just right, but wearing these two prisoners, it really looks extremely wide. It is so wide that an ordinary-sized prison jacket covers the prisoner's knees. With the prisoner's exposed delicate limbs, Xu Mo and the other two couldn't see their faces clearly, but they could know that these were two underage boys!
At this time, the two guards lifted the child next to the blood pool, and the other guard pinched the child's chin with his hands, forced his little head up, and placed the sickle-shaped short scimitar under his neck.
"Rats, dare you!"
"You dare!"
"Stay someone under the knife!"
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When Xu Mo and the other two saw this, they didn't understand where the blood in the blood pool came from. Originally, the three of them thought it was the blood of livestock, but now it seems that the blood in this blood pool is completely all in these cells, and it is very likely that the blood of young children or teenagers who are not as good as the ones.
Among the three, Gao Jian, the one who rushed out of the letter, jumped out with asymmetric agility, but Qingsheng, the first person to rescue the child, was the one who saved the child.
I saw that this young man who was usually like a gentle scholar, like a falcon, jumped to the blood pool with a leap. He stretched out his palm and grabbed the black-robed guard's arm holding the knife. Then, a cold light flashed from Qingsheng's wide sleeves, and the black-robed guard immediately stood there. Qingsheng let go of the guard and pulled the child to his side.
After the boy left the guard's control, the guard's mouth made a few "clogs". Then a blood mark slowly appeared in his throat, and then the blood mark broke into a big hole, and the blood fountain splashed out like a fountain of blood. The staggered body fell softly to the ground, and his eyes lost their focal length.
Qingsheng's wide sleeves actually had a sharp weapon. The moment he grabbed the guard, he killed him in a flash with lightning speed.
At this time, Gao Jian also rushed to another black-robed guard holding a boy, and his big hand like a palm fan pressed on the guard's face wearing a black cloth. The thick man with his five fingers closed, and the guard's head was like a pinched tomato, and red and white objects gushed out from Gao Jian's fingers.
Looking at the two people in front of him, Xu Mo smiled helplessly and turned around and rushed towards the other remaining guards.
In a moment, the few guards in the cave had all become corpses. In addition to the bloodstains in the vital parts, the guards killed by Qingsheng could basically keep the entire body. The guards killed by Gao Jian or Xu Mo were much more miserable. They either had their limbs twisted into shapes that ordinary people could not make, or their heads were broken like rotten fruits.
It's strange that although these black-robed guards were attacked and killed, none of them asked for help loudly. However, after their black cloth covering their faces was lifted up, Xu Mo and the other two knew why they didn't ask for help. The faces of these black-robed guards were festered, their faces were completely destroyed, and their tongues had been pulled out, and they were all disfigured mutes.
The three of them were in a dark and gloomy underground cave. Looking at the disfigured black-robed guards, they couldn't help but feel creepy. After calming down slightly, Xu Mo began to look for the keys to the prison cells on these guards, while Qingsheng comforted the two frightened and sobbing children.
Two young children, one boy and the other girl, looked carefully and looked at them only seven or eight years old. They may have been imprisoned for a long time. Both of them looked a little confused and stared at the three of them at a loss.
After Xu Mo found the key to the prison door, he and Gao Jian opened the cell one by one. It turned out that there were all boys and girls in the cell, with a total of thirty-six people. These boys looked at Xu Mo and Gao Jian in fear, but did not resist. The two of them carried them out of the cell one by one and concentrated them in the open space in the cave.
These children were dressed in ragged prison uniforms, thin and gray, with dull eyes. After being rescued from the cell, they were at a loss. The boys of their age should have acted coquettishly and enjoyed their parents, but at this moment they were raised like livestock in such a gloomy and terrifying underground cell, and finally slaughtered and bleeded like chickens.
Looking at the miserable appearance of these children, at this moment, whether it was Qingsheng, Gao Jian, or Xu Mo, who was a reincarnation, the faces of the three of them were gloomy as if water was about to drip into them, and an irresistible anger rose from the bottom of the three of them.
After a long silence, Qingsheng took the lead and said, "It is not advisable to stay here for a long time! We must make a decision early!"
"This matter is probably inseparable from the Yang royal family, but I just don't know if the teacher knows it?" Gao Jian said in a hoarse voice.
"Yang Ye brought us and the other three into this mansion in the morning without being stopped. He must know this!" Xu Mo looked up at the two of them and said coldly.
Seeing Qingsheng and Gao Jian silent, Xu Mo continued to say coldly:
"You are Yang Ye's disciples. If you continue to interfere in this matter, you will be a rebel. Nie Li is just a disciple. Besides, the bellows map has already paid his gratitude. Nie Li wants to save these innocent boys. If you want to obstruct them, you can do it!"
"Although I'm just a reckless man, I know that a real man has something to do and not do anything. If Yang Ye is really related to this matter, he will rebel against his master. Even if it is a thousand men's fingers, he will not regret it!" Gao Jian shook his head and smiled bitterly. He was rough and delicate, so how could he not have thought that Yang Ye was definitely related to this matter and no longer called him a teacher.
When Xu Mo saw Gao Jian reply, he felt relieved, and then turned to look at Qingsheng, with a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes. Qingsheng saw that both of them looked at him and spoke loudly:
"Reading the Book of Saints well will also stop the chivalrous actions of the two virtuous brothers. I was just thinking about this sword in the pool!"
The two of them were startled and turned their heads to look at the dragon-handled sword in the blood pool. Qingsheng's next words came from behind:
"Sheng once saw this kind of blood refining method of swords in an ancient book. It is to collect the blood of virgins of boys and girls, soak them for three years. During this period, fresh human blood is injected into it uninterruptedly every day. When the sword is completed, it is probably to have seized the vitality of more than a thousand children, and it is called the Blood Demon Sword!"
"This blood demon sword is extremely powerful and cannot be used by mortals. Only some evil sword immortals will use this method that harms the world and refine their own swords. As far as I know, there is probably only one person in Qiuchi City who can have such ability!"
"Qingsheng is saying...he?" Hearing Qingsheng's words, the cold light in Gao Jian's eyes skyrocketed.
A cold light flashed in Xu Mo's eyes. Qingsheng's words made him understand many things, not only about the owner of the Blood Demon Sword, but also...
Chapter completed!