45. Sole Choice

The cave is dimly lit. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Thomas couldn't see the face of the person who saved him. It can only be inferred from the figure and voice that this is a young girl.

This must be an angel. Thomas watched the majestic Sonia effortlessly lift the stone slab that he couldn't move even with all his might, even though he knew that there were no gods in this world, he still felt that Sonia must be the messenger of the gods.

Sonia grabbed Thomas by the collar and tried to pull the fat man out of the pit. But halfway through, there was an overwhelmed tearing sound from Thomas's collar, causing the fat man to fall into the pit again.

Sonia closed her eyes and slapped her forehead. She had to grab Thomas's greasy, thick neck and pull him out of the pit like a turnip. She used her dagger to cut the ropes from Thomas's hands and threw him to the ground. Thomas, whose neck was stuck and rolling his eyes, began to cough violently as soon as he reached the ground.

When he finally took a breath and looked up, he saw that Sonia had lifted three more stone slabs and rescued the three victims from the pit. The girl quickly cut the rope that was tied to the rescued people's hands and said to them, "Take a break, move your body, and help me save people immediately." We're going to get everyone out. ”

For each slab removed, Sonya's helper added one. Most of the people in the pit were arrested by the cultists in the past two days, and most of them still have good physical strength. They were all very excited when they were rescued, and they were very grateful to Sonia. Some even knelt down to him and kissed the dirt under her feet with the same courtesy as they did to a king.

Thomas's arm was numb and aching from the long bondage, and with a little movement, he began to move the slabs in desperation. He was tired and sweaty, but like everyone else, there were no complaints and laziness. Every time he lifted a stone slab, he wished that his family was below. But he soon discovers that the cave he is in is full of men.

"Daddy!" a voice sounded behind him.

"Ahh

The father and son hugged each other and burst into tears. Such scenes have happened many times, and most of these arrested people are relatives and neighbors in the same place, and they are the most familiar people.

"Dad, Tom is dead. "Thomas's second son was a stocky young man of eighteen or nineteen, with strong muscles in his arms. The young man burst into tears as he talked about his best playmate in town, who had been found dead in a filthy dirt pit.

Tom was the young man who broke his head when the car overturned. Thomas thought he might not be able to do it. He hurriedly hugged his son and said to him, "Go and save your son." We're going to make those guys pay. ”

"Everyone gathered the injured and couldn't move to take care of them, and the others went to other caves with me to save people. Seeing that all the stone slabs in this cave had been opened, Sonia immediately decided to organize the manpower here, whether it was to continue to save people or organize the retreat of the people, the strong men here were indispensable.

Unlike Sonya, Esther did not rush to save people, but quickly searched every cavern in the deep valley. He quickly gathered the cultists' weapons and picked out the ones with sharp edges and brought them to his body. Then he found the place where the cultists had stored food and water, and quickly cooked a large pot of chowder porridge from the cooking utensils they had left.

By the time he had done all this work, many people had already been rescued by Sonya. Esther organized the men into small groups, and gave sharp weapons to the oldest or strongest men in each group. He let everyone eat a bowl of porridge and then went to save people. For this reason, many women were specially found to make food constantly.

Watching the imprisoned civilians in the caves being rescued one after another, Easter's brow jumped. The number of people rescued from this deep valley far exceeded his estimates. Not two or three hundred, as he had estimated at the beginning, but five or six hundred young men alone, plus women, the elderly, minors, and the sick and wounded, totaling more than eight hundred.

All of these young men were captured by the cultists in the past two days, and they did not know where they were. The light in the valley was not sufficient, and at first they thought it was nighttime outside. It wasn't until Sonia and Esther explained the situation that they learned that they had been caught in the horrific underground by the infamous Green Cross cult.

The news caused quite a stir in the crowd at first. But soon the crowd fell silent, and they looked at Sonya, who was standing on a high place, and shouted, "Noble lady, please help us." What should we do?"

Sonia was never afraid to speak in front of a large crowd. It seemed to her that they should all retreat at once, and escape underground by boat from the same way she and Esther had come from. The number of civilians here has exceeded the maximum number of civilians she and Esther can protect. If reinforcements from the Green Cross Cultists arrive (as Esther had already told her about the Flower), the people here will suffer a great loss. But she couldn't say that.

Among those rescued were quite a few young women, most of whom had been imprisoned by cultists for some time. During this time, they were all subjected to humiliation and abuse, and many were scarred and weakened. If they retreat with them, the speed of the team will be reduced to an unacceptable level, and they will be easily caught up and attacked by the cultists' pursuers. But what if you leave them behind?, Sonia told herself, it was impossible. She remembered the caves where the women were being held - naked women tied to two wooden pillars with their hands and feet tied in large characters, each with a wooden plug in their mouth, bruises all over their bodies, especially sensitive areas, and a mess between their legs. When Sonia split the fence and entered the particularly well-lit cave, few women didn't even have the strength to look up at her. It's as if this is a dying man in a cave.

It took a lot of effort for Sonia to let the women know that she was saved. But even then, few women were able to stand up on their own after Sonia cut the ropes that bound them.

In the end, Esther waited impatiently, and simply brought in a group of men and carried the poor, tortured women out of the cave. When confronted with a large group of naked women, many men are either unprepared or react obviously, while others are simply stunned. But these women seem to have lost the most basic female shame, allowing the men to look at their bodies and move them around, without any action to hide their shame.

Now the women are gathered in a clean cave where the cultists used to live. East specially found a few women who had just been caught, had not yet been violated, and were in good health to take care of them. After giving every woman a bowl of fragrant porridge, he finally saw a trace of life on the faces of these women.

A woman who had just finished drinking porridge and whose face had improved a little, and who was half-lying on the ground, suddenly grabbed one of Easter's boots.

East looked down at the woman. She was probably in her thirties, with delicate and beautiful features, but her face was pale and her body was emaciated, which showed that the cultists had never fed these poor people.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" Esther crouched down, gently reassuring the woman.

"Your Excellency. The woman spoke in a very low voice, and it was evident that she had no physical strength at all. "Whose subordinates are you?"

This question really surprised Easter. Because ordinary people will not know about the ownership of the armed forces at all.

"We are the City Guard. In order to appease the rescued people, Esther and Sonia have always claimed to be the vanguard scouting force of the City Guard. "I'm here to save you. ”

"Your Excellency, you're lying. The woman's voice was lowered. "The Count of Vantaa's city guard does not admit underage girls. ”

"You should just be brave adventurers. The woman continued. "This is the heart of Green Cross and there are a lot of them. But I think the two young ladies came at the right time. As if she had said too much at once, the woman coughed several times in a row. East hurriedly helped her stroke her chest and beat her back, and it took her a long time to change it.

"The last time I was fucked by those bastards, I heard them say that there were unbelievers attacking them. The battle was fierce. We're all going to join the fight after they're done. ”

The woman's words made Esther think of something immediately. "How many guards are there here?"

"I don't know. But I think there should be at least a hundred. But now they're all dead, right?" a cruel smile appeared on the woman's face.

"If there are a hundred people, then there must be some of them who have gone elsewhere. Today we only met about seventy guards here. Considering the small number of Cultists along the way, and the fact that he was a first-hand witness to the Battle of the Harbor Warehouse District, East could already guess that the Green Cross Cult must now face massive retribution from the kingdom's army and the Alchemists' Guild. Their team must have gone underground. That's why there are only a few cultists encountered along the way, and this deep valley prison is only guarded by a few miscellaneous fish!

Esther looked at the woman in front of him, "What's your name? You're not an ordinary civilian, are you?"

"Unless I'm sure you can keep me safe, I'd better keep my name anon," the woman smiled self-deprecatingly. "I've come to this point. Maybe those people thought I was dead!"

After the woman finished speaking, she closed her eyes and began to rest without saying a word. Easter didn't want to inquire about the tragic past of others. He heard the shouts of the crowd outside for Sonya, and immediately made up his mind.

Sonia looked at the faces below that were full of trust and expectation for her, and only felt a burst of pressure coming over her. He temporarily rescued them from their tragic encounters, but a great threat was still not far above them. She and Esther might not have suffered much from this level of threat, but what about these people? who had been rescued by themselves and trusted in them? what would be their end! How could I get them all out of here safely? Sonia was agonizing about it, and Esther suddenly walked past her, and he stopped Sonia behind her. Walk in front of everyone.

He looked around at the crowd gathered in the deep ravine, took a deep breath, and shouted to them at the highest volume: "Do you want to live, do you want to see your relatives again?"