"I……"
The man took a deep breath and calmed down a little. He opened his mouth, and then his face was filled with an expression of pain.
At this moment, Yan Bingyue was like a pure white baby swallow, her body light and landed beside Yang Dong.
She glanced at the body of the spy leader and frowned slightly.
"Senior brother, why are you..."
"He blew it up himself, it has nothing to do with me."
Yang Dong spread his hands, and then laid his eyes on the man again.
But the man looked at Yan Bingyue warily and said nothing.
Yang Dong could only explain:
"This is my junior sister, not a bad person. Just now this man and his accomplices planned to burn down Zhaoling Village, but it was my junior sister who took action to prevent Zhaoling Village from being burned to the ground."
When the man heard this, his cheeks were immediately filled with gratitude.
He bowed deeply towards Yan Bingyue, and then chanted repeatedly,
"Thank you to the heroine for taking action, thank you to the heroine..."
Yan Bingyue nodded slightly and asked:
"Where have all the people from Zhaoling Village gone?"
"Why are you the only one in the village?"
When the man heard this, a look of pain flashed in his eyes. He gritted his teeth and said:
"My name is Liu Erzhuang, and I am originally an ordinary citizen in Zhaoling Village."
"Our village has been the most honest people for generations. But I don't know why. Half a year ago, many officials came from the government. They said that people in our village had committed crimes and would be punished."
"The village chief was angry, so he asked them to argue. As a result, he was immediately detained by this group of people."
Having said this, he raised an arm, pointed at the body of the spy leader not far away, and said resentfully:
"it's him!"
"He was the leader at that time!"
"I remember very clearly that the officials at that time were very flattering towards this person. He seemed to be some great person."
"The village chief is so miserable. He was beaten severely by them for several days. His screams can be heard clearly at night..."
Yang Dong saw Liu Erzhuang recalling the scene at that time, and the blood jade on the back of his head began to shine, so he coughed lightly, interrupting his recollection, and then said:
"What happened next?"
"later……"
Liu Erzhuang seemed to have remembered something terrible, and his strong body trembled slightly.
"Then a bunch of guys in black robes showed up."
"They have knives in their hands, and each of them can fly over walls and walls, and is as strong as an ox!"
"There were several practitioners in our village who wanted to take the lead in resisting, but they were all killed by these men in black robes."
"We ordinary people have never seen such a scene. Everyone was so scared at the time. They listened to whatever they said and just wanted to save their own lives."
"It turns out... we were all wrong."
Speaking of this, Liu Erzhuang's tone was full of grief.
"We were taken to the mountains, surrounded by endless woods and various strange-shaped peaks."
Hearing this, Yang Dong hurriedly asked:
"Do you have any impressions of this place?"
"Also, how long did you walk to get here?"
There was a look of thinking on the man's honest and honest cheek.
He thought for a while and said with some uncertainty:
"At the beginning, they tied us all to the carriage, and then they seemed to use something, but everyone fell asleep anyway."
"It took about three to five days, maybe six or seven days. Anyway, it didn't take more than ten days, and we arrived in the mountains."
Yan Bingyue frowned and asked subconsciously:
"How did you determine that it would not exceed ten days?"
Hearing this, the man scratched the back of his head and said:
"I remember that before they took us away, it was exactly fifteen, and there was a full moon in the sky. But after we arrived in the mountains and forests, most of the moon was missing. So I estimate that we should not be on the carriage for more than ten days."
Yan Bingyue nodded, subconsciously took out the map from her arms and handed it to Yang Dong.
"Brother, here is a map of the nearby area. If the carriage travels continuously for ten days, the area will be quite large."
"Such as Anshan, Mingshan, and Zhiqiu Mountain, etc., all meet the scene he described. But these mountains are not in the same direction."
Yang Dong pressed his palms to signal Yan Bingyue to calm down. Then he looked at the man and continued to ask:
"What happened next?"
The man thought for a moment and continued:
"Then we were taken to a huge cave."
"For God's sake, I've never seen a cave that big in my life!"
"The cave is seven to eight feet high from top to bottom, and it is connected in all directions with countless smaller tunnels."
“What puzzles me the most is that these caves were dug by humans!”
"It would take tens of thousands of people to build such a large cave manually, and it would take more than ten years to build it."
When Yang Dong heard what he said, he frowned slightly again.
Logically speaking, it would be unrealistic to conceal such a large amount of work from others.
Apart from anything else, the daily consumption of one hundred thousand people just by eating horse chews is an astronomical figure.
In a place like the deep mountains, where supplies are so difficult and there is not even a decent road, how can logistics be ensured?
Therefore, the digging of these caves was most likely done by warriors.
Because only with the strength of a warrior can it be possible to dig out a cave without being discovered by others.
And according to Liu Erzhuang's description, this warrior, or the cultivation of these warriors, is at least above the level of a martial artist.
"Are you sure these caves are all dug by humans?"
Yang Dong stared at Liu Erzhuang seriously and asked.
"I am sure!"
Liu Erzhuang nodded firmly and said with a strange expression:
"Although I can't tell what kind of guy they used to dig the cave very flat."
"But it looks so flat, so it's obviously not natural."
Yang Dong nodded and gestured to Liu Erzhuang to continue.
Liu Erzhuang nodded and continued:
"After entering the cave, we were held separately."
"And it was at this time that I discovered that people from several villages around our Zhaoling Village also appeared here!"
"We were not abused or starved for the next few days."
"Those men in black robes were pretty good to us at that time. We had three meals a day and we were well fed."
At this point, Liu Erzhuang's eyes began to turn red.
"At that time, we all thought that these men in black robes might be rebels, and their purpose in catching us was just to work for them."
"But we were both wrong."
