Chapter 36: Bait
Suddenly, someone opened the door, and with the light of the fire that lit up the room, someone put a bowl of gruel and a dried steamed bun in front of me. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info"Eat, there's a task in a moment." "Because of the backlight, I couldn't see the person clearly, and I could tell it was a woman from the voice.
She lifted me up, untied the rope, and sat down in her chair to stare at me. The vision was slightly adjusted to the light of the fire, and I could see the emaciated woman sitting in her chair, also dressed in straw sandals, with patches piled up on her dress, but cleanly washed.
On the thin face, a pair of eyes were guarded: "Hurry up and eat, otherwise wait for the deputy hall master to come and pick up people, you will have bad things if you don't have the strength." She urged me unnaturally.
I rubbed my stiff and numb hands and feet, leaving purple strangulation marks where the rope had been tied. Picking up the bowl of gruel, which had already cooled, my hands trembled unconsciously, I don't know if it was because I had been tied up for too long, or because of the "task" in this woman's mouth.
Are they going to kill me? After swallowing the porridge, I took the steamed buns and gnawed them, and the dry and hard steamed buns were hard to swallow. But the hunger in my stomach doesn't allow me to be picky about food, so it's good to fill my stomach, and if I live for a while, I have more hope of being saved.
When she saw that I had finished eating the steamed buns, the woman immediately brought a rope and tied me up. I tried my best to resist, but she was easily subdued, and this time she only tied my hands.
After that, two young men with knives came in and escorted me out of the room. The cool breeze of the night made me shrink back, and in front of me stood a man in rattan armor, standing there with his hands behind his back, looking like he was in his thirties, with sharp eyes and an eagle nose, and a loose beard hanging from the chin to the collar.
Although this formation is terrifying, I didn't see Wei Fox, it seems that he hasn't been caught yet.
"Let's go!" he glanced at me, his sharp gaze threatening. The two men holding torches who were originally standing behind him immediately walked in front, and at this time, someone rushed out from the side: "Deputy hall master, do we have to wait for the hall master to come back?"
"No, it's important to make a decision right now. The hall master is commanding a major mission, and we must not let him have any worries. Tell me to go down and do what is arranged!"
"Yes!" the man hurriedly stepped back. The vice-hall master strode away, and I was shoved forward, they didn't blindfold me, and I took the opportunity to peek around. It's like a village, but it's not like a normal village.
The children were playing on the ground, and the women were sewing something in groups of three or five, and I couldn't see what it was from a distance away. In my memory, the women of Dragon City used to do what they used to do when they got together was to gossip or eat snacks, which was very different from the one here.
Moreover, there are guards and patrols in this place!
"Hurry up!" someone pushed me so hard that I didn't have time to look more closely before I stepped into the woods. It's a undulating path, and the light from the torch jumps makes it difficult to walk. The sounds of various night birds and wild dogs are constantly ringing around, and it is terrifying to hear.
When I was forced to stop, it was already the meadow of the day. There were a lot of people gathered here, and the fire was shining brightly, and I recognized this place at a glance, but what did they bring me here for?
As I was thinking, the deputy hall master at the front glanced at the person behind me. They carried me to the center, and all the torches shone in this direction, and the blinding light made me have to close my eyes.
At this time, the vice-hall master spoke: "Come out! Otherwise, I will use this sword to cut off the flesh of this little girl!"
I raised my eyelids, and my squinted gaze was the short sword I had taken from Wei Jingyuan. In the light of the fire, the blade of the dagger shone through my messy hair, and my face was unusually pale. "This uncle...... Oh no, this hero?"
He squinted at me, his eyes displeased. I looked at the rattan armor on his body and thought that he might not like the title "hero", so I immediately changed my words: "This strong man, how did you deduce that I still have accomplices?"
As soon as he finished speaking, I could clearly feel the corners of his mouth twitch and even his beard tremble.
"Little girl, this sword in your hand is not a weapon that women can use...... the blade of the sword has moved to the side of my ear, a deflection, and the green silk in the ear has dropped a poke, "Hmph! still refuse to come out? The next sword is the ear......"
The second half of his words were spoken towards the surrounding mountains and jungles.
I stood stunned, crying aggrieved in my heart. The sharp blade was on my ear, trying to escape and struggle, but I was afraid that if I moved, they would cut off my ear before they could cut it. But Wei Fox was wounded by an arrow and was still lying in the cave, his life and death were unknown, how could he hear this deputy hall master doing this?
What the hell are these people doing with such a mess, I am just a weak woman who suddenly fell into the water, but they are indiscriminately caught and closed, and now they are still being tortured, and the whole process has never given me a chance to speak.
Now, I don't even dare to say that I am the lord of this dragon city.
"You're going to cut it!" a sudden voice stopped the blade's movement, and a blaze appeared at the hole above the waterfall. My sharp, shallow breathing finally calmed down, but the temples on my head still jumped suddenly.
I saw Wei Jingyuan, who walked out indifferently with a torch in one hand, as if he was deflated, and his legs were limp and did not obey the call. I still borrowed the strength of the two people who were holding me, and I barely managed to stand firm. There was a slight pain at the base of my ear under my temple, and the blood was slowly flowing down, and I could feel where it was going--the deputy hall master really wanted to cut off my ear! Although the result was only a flesh wound, if Wei Jing came far too late, even for a moment, my ear might really be gone......
"Catch him! You guys go inside and see if there's anyone else. The deputy hall master withdrew his sword, and the tone of his hurried command was obviously more panicked than when he hadn't been here just now. What is he afraid of?
A question flashed through his mind, but was interrupted by Wei Jingyuan's words: "No need! He walked down the path on the stone wall with a torch, and as I approached I saw that his face was no longer pale, and even a little red, and he must have been angry.
His gaze turned to his injured arm, the sleeve of his coat severed from his shoulder, and his entire arm was exposed bare, except where the wound was bandaged. Patches of bruises were clearly visible on my skin, which must have been hit when I fell.
As soon as Wei Jingyuan approached, four sharp spear heads immediately pressed against his chest and the back of his head.