Although the tall slave trader was reluctant to serve the six girls on the ground, he had to do so because he was afraid of Xia Qiu's strength. Three girls regained consciousness after a few sips of water, while the other three remained unconscious.

But the slave trader had a calculation in his heart, he felt that if he really waited for Xia Qiu's companions to arrive, he would probably be thrown into prison, and it was better to escape now than to be caught and tortured by them.

He used to hide a knife in his left shoe, and taking the opportunity to feed the girls they had captured, he quietly took the knife out of the shoe, put it against the neck of a girl, and threatened: "Don't move, if you dare to move, this girl will die!" Also, I lost the knife in your hand! ”

"Good!" Xia Qiu had no choice but to obediently throw Mei Jian to the ground, and then persuaded him, "Don't hurt her!" ”

By this time, the snow rabbit had regained some strength, because the slave trader's attention was almost all on Xia Qiu's body, so he didn't notice that she would make any moves on the side. She exhaled softly from her mouth, and the knife in the slave trader's hand was tightly wrapped in a thick layer of ice. Not reluctantly, he slashed the girl's neck twice with the knife, and the round icicles did not hurt at all.

"Damn, this little girl is a snow girl," he scolded. Seeing that the dagger in his hand had lost its attack power, he had no choice but to give up his plan to escape.

"What is this place?" The girl who had just been pressed by his neck sat up from the ground and asked them, her eyes still looking misty.

"This is supposed to be a human trafficker's lair, do you remember how you got caught by him?" Xia Qiu asked her rhetorically.

"I came to Wangcheng to find something to do and make some money. Because the other hotels in Wangcheng were more expensive, I stayed at the relatively cheap Sparrow Hotel. As soon as I got there, the hotel guy accosted me very warmly, not only inviting me to dinner, but also saying that they might need someone in the back kitchen, and I can't remember anything after that. The girl replied as she recalled the scene she had had been stunned a few days ago, and then her eyes fell to the slave trader who had fallen to her death, pretending to be a fellow, and let out an exclamation, "Ah! Isn't that him?! ”

"Tell me where we are?!" Xia Qiu was a little curious about why Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others couldn't find her and the snow rabbit for so long.

"Isn't this the underground warehouse of the Sparrow Hotel?" As he spoke, the slave trader pointed to his dead companion on the ground, and continued, "He stumbled upon a secret passage in this storehouse that led directly out of the city, just enough to take the kidnapped girl out of the city. ”

Xia Qiu asked with some curiosity: "Passage?" Where is the entrance? ”

The slave trader raised his hand to convince Xia Qiu and Snow Hare, and then walked over to a piece of floor tiles as he counted. He looked at the dagger that had frozen in his hand and said, "Trouble to restore it, I can't pry it open without its help." ”

Xia Qiu ignored his pleas, because she couldn't believe that the slave trader would not continue to look for an opportunity to escape or hurt the few of them. She plunged her plum blade into the gap between the tile that the slave trader had shown her and the next one, and pried it vigorously. After a muffled sound, she pried the floor tile open. The floor tiles were heavy, and it took her a lot of effort to turn them open, and underneath that, an entrance that could only be passed through by one person was revealed.

"There's really an entrance!" Snow Rabbit sighed, and she looked down, and although the light below was dim, she could faintly see the staircase slowly extending downward.

The door of the warehouse was pushed open from the outside, Xia Qiu and Snow Rabbit turned their faces almost at the same time, and Ouyang Xiaoleng rushed in, followed by Qian Qi and Ling Yu, as well as the donkey-faced boss.

"Xia Qiu, Snow Rabbit, are you all right?!" Ouyang Xiaoleng checked the situation of the two of them separately, and after making sure that they were not injured, he found the body lying on the ground.

"I'll just say, how can they be my sister Xia's opponents?!" Lingyu said that he wanted to run over and hug Xia Qiu, but he almost fell into the passage on the ground.

According to him, this secret passage leads to the outside of the city. By the way, how did you find us? Xia Qiu stretched out his hand and helped Ling Yu and asked.

"We analyzed it, and since they often choose single girls staying in hotels, they will definitely hide these girls in the neighborhood in order to hide their eyes." Ouyang Xiaoleng explained.

After discovering that he had lost Xia Qiu, he searched for a while, but the elusive slave trader didn't know how to take Xia Qiu and disappeared without a trace. He had no choice but to meet up with Qianqi and Lingyu first, and on the way analyze the possible hiding place of the slave traders, and then he thought that maybe they were somewhere near the Sparrow Inn, and did not go far.

So the three of them returned to the Sparrow Hotel again, and after asking the boss, they found that the hotel really had a very hidden underground warehouse. Because the warehouse is full of old things and miscellaneous items, few people usually notice this place, and no one enters the warehouse all year round.

Ouyang Xiaoleng wasn't sure if she would appear here a second before he saw Xia Qiu with his own eyes, no matter what, he didn't want to lose her news again, if she suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes, what a terrible thing it would be. Fortunately, as he expected, he found Snow Rabbit and Xia Qiu.

The snow rabbit kept his head down and didn't speak, firstly, because his impulse caused a lot of trouble to others; Another reason was that when she faced them again, she still felt a little embarrassed in her heart, and she didn't know if her mother Miao Xue Yu had confessed her crime to them, so she decided not to take the initiative to bring up the topic.

"Let's go back to Chenji Palace together, everyone is worried about you, especially Mochizuki and your mother, Grandpa Yong is also waiting for news!" Ouyang Xiaoleng said to the snow rabbit in the tone of a brother.

"Hmm!" She nodded, then suddenly remembered the girls on the ground, "But what about these girls?" ”

"Just trouble this boss to take care of them first, if they need anything, just come to Chenji Palace to find us!" Ouyang Xiaoleng turned to the donkey-faced boss standing at the door and said.

When the donkey-faced boss heard that it was the Demon King Fox who had explained, he immediately responded happily: "Yes, yes, leave it to me!" This time, I also blame me for not using people well! ”

"Has this secret passage been here all along?" Ouyang Xiaoleng suddenly remembered the matter of the secret passage, so he continued to ask.

"What passage?!" The boss walked over and looked at it, shook his head and replied, "It's the first time I've known that there is such a secret passage here, and I didn't know that this brick could move before." ”

"When did this inn open? Are you the first boss? Ouyang Xiaoleng continued to ask.

"No, I took over here, the previous boss here was called Madame Lan, she was the first boss, I bought this place more than ten years ago." The donkey-faced boss replied truthfully.

"Madame Blue?" Ouyang Xiaoleng repeated thoughtfully.

He suddenly remembered that Ouyang Yong and Ouyang Hongye had told him that on Chinese New Year's Eve sixteen years ago, many of Qingyun's subordinates suddenly appeared in the royal city, taking his father's army by surprise. Could they have used this secret passage at the time? Or maybe there's more than one secret passage like this. He felt that he had to find out all these secret passages and destroy them, so as not to give him a chance to fight Qingyun again.

At the mention of Mrs. Lan, the donkey-faced boss was angry and complained: "That old monster is very clever, and I was so coaxed that I spent a lot of money to buy this hotel, but business has been very poor, that is, it has gradually improved in the past few years." ”

"Let's tie this slave trader back to Chenji Palace first." Ouyang Xiaoleng proposed to the others.

"Let's go!" Qian Qi answered, and then patted Ling Yu, "The difficult task of tying him up will be handed over to you!" ”

The five teenagers returned to the Chenji Palace, and happened to meet Mochizuki and Ouyang Hongye head-on. Mochizuki saw the snow rabbit from a distance, and ran over in three or two steps, intending to raise his hand and slap the little girl to teach her a lesson, but although his hand was raised, he couldn't do it in the end.

The snow rabbit knew that Mochizuki might hit him, but instead of dodging, he closed his eyes and met his face, and after waiting for a few seconds, he turned to crying. She couldn't remember the last time she cried like a child, and her heart was loaded with too much at this moment.

"Don't cry, your body hasn't healed yet, it's not good to cry like this!" Mochizuki stroked her hair distressedly and persuaded.

But Snow Rabbit's tears couldn't be stopped at all, and she plunged into Mochizuki's arms, crying like a storm took away the remaining strength in her body, and also temporarily isolated the things she was worried about.

"What to do with this guy?" Lingyu asked as he pulled the rope from the slave trader who was tied up.

"I'll lock him up first, I want to talk to Grandpa Yong about the secret passage in the Sparrow Hotel." After Ouyang Xiaoleng finished speaking, he remembered that it was late, and he looked very tired when he looked at Xia Qiu, so he asked her, "Do you want to go home?" Or stay here? ”

"I think someone might know something about Lady Blue and the Secret Passage." Xia Qiu said that he did not answer what he asked.

"Yes, I also have to discuss that person's affairs with Grandpa Yong and Momiji." Ouyang Xiaoleng then responded, and when she reminded him like this, he remembered that because of the incident that Miao Xueyou was a traitor, he actually made him forget about the black fall.

"Who are you two talking about?" Senki asked with a wink of surprise at the two of them.

"You'll find out in a moment." Ouyang Xiaoleng also sold Guanzi.

"It looks like I can't go back today." Xia Qiu didn't have the strength to return to the world again, so he decided to stay in the Chenji Palace to rest.

Ling Yu, who was still in women's clothes, said charmingly: "Great, Sister Xia, you can sleep in the same room with me." ”

"It's been a long time since I've seen the finch girl!" Xia Qiu was amused by his appearance and quipped.

"That's right!" The snow rabbit also burst into tears and laughed.

Recalling when Ling Yu first arrived in the royal city, it seemed like it had only happened yesterday when they were wandering around the shopping street together. But in the blink of an eye, everything is different.