Yu Yi couldn’t bear to look and ran back up the stairs, stopping only when she reached the hidden room above. She gasped for breath.
She couldn’t rescue them, at least not now. If she freed them, Tu Feibai would immediately suspect something. Having just arrived at this mansion, she would be the first suspect, and she hadn’t yet found Tu Feibai’s weakness. Her mission would fail!
Yu Yi repeatedly told herself that she had no choice; her mission this time was to eliminate the warlord force of Tu Feibai, not Tu Feibai himself. Once she found Tu Feibai’s weakness or leverage, she would rescue these children at the first opportunity.
However, she couldn’t move her steps. She couldn’t walk to the secret room’s door and pull the mechanism, pretending she had seen nothing and returning to the second floor. She couldn’t do it.
It was just a mission failure, nothing serious.
Yu Yi turned and ran down the stairs, opening the iron chains binding their hands and feet: “Can you walk by yourselves?”
Chapter 24 Warlords of the Republic of China (6)
There were four children in total.
The one-eyed child’s iron cage mask was not locked but welded shut. Yu Yi couldn’t remove it and could only rescue them first and find a way to remove it later.
One child was severely injured and couldn’t even stand. Yu Yi found a thin blanket in the secret room and carefully wrapped him, holding him horizontally. The sour, rotten smell from his body made her heart ache.
Two other children could walk. Yu Yi told them to stay close to her. The one-eyed child was tall, walking with a limp but trying hard to keep up with her pace.
Yu Yi carefully restored the secret room to its original state. Peeking out of the study, she saw the living room was quiet and empty. She carried the severely injured child out of the study first, signaling the other three to follow quickly, then locked the study door behind them.
