The two crouched in the darkness, aiming their sniper rifles at the guards.
"Li'er, the elite guards in the Dark Night Pavilion have a fatal weakness above their necks. Let's aim for their heads."
"Okay, we need to be quick with our shots. Let's try to eliminate all these guards before they can react."
Leng Ruo Li's lips curved slightly, and her sharp, cold eyes revealed a hint of cunning as she looked at the guards.
"One, two, three, fire!"
Leng Ruo Li counted softly. She and Jun Mo Han worked seamlessly together, firing simultaneously. In a short time, they had eliminated more than half of the guards. The remaining few guards, seeing their companions fall, had just realized they were under attack when Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han took them down.
In short, this operation was smooth sailing for the Cold King and his consort, with no major incidents.
However, it left Night Shadow and the other guards stunned.
My heavens!
What kind of hidden weapons were their King and Queen holding, these two iron lumps? Their power was too immense! In a blink, they had taken down over twenty guards from the Dark Night Pavilion, without them even needing to lift a finger.
If this was the case, would they ever have a chance to display their martial arts when following the King and Queen out?
"Let's go and open that door to see what secrets are hidden within this forbidden area of the Dark Night Pavilion," Leng Ruo Li said with curiosity.
Jun Mo Han nodded slightly.
The two led the way to the entrance of the forbidden area, searching for the door's mechanism.
They examined the stone door carefully. Apart from a majestic lion's head carved on it, there was nothing else.
Leng Ruo Li touched the carved lion on the door.
"Huh? Jun Mo Han, the lion's eyeballs can roll!"
Leng Ruo Li's heart leaped with joy.
Then, she tried to turn the lion's eyeballs in different directions with her hand, but the door remained unmoved. Leng Ruo Li felt a bit disheartened.
Jun Mo Han also reached out to manipulate the lion's eyes, but it didn't open. However, his fingertip accidentally tapped one of the lion's eyeballs, and it actually receded inwards.
Immediately, he and Leng Ruo Li exchanged a look of surprise. Jun Mo Han then tapped the other lion's eyeball, and it also receded. Then, the stone door slowly lowered from the top.
Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han, along with Night Shadow and the others, stepped inside.
The corridor of this forbidden area was very wide. On both sides of the stone walls, small oil lamps were placed every two to three meters. Although the light here was still dim, it wasn't so dark that they couldn't see their surroundings.
As they took a few steps into the corridor, they were hit by a nauseating, pungent odor. Leng Ruo Li quickly took out several small oxygen tanks from her sleeve pocket, distributed them to Jun Mo Han and the others, and taught them how to wear them. A minute later, Leng Ruo Li and the others emerged from the corridor into a very spacious hall.
As they opened their eyes, they saw a scene that chilled everyone to the bone. The hall was packed with dozens of large black vats, filled with dark liquid. In each large medicinal vat, a child, not quite grown, was immersed. The children's faces were dark and contorted, suggesting they had suffered greatly while being soaked in these vats.
Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han walked over and felt for the breathing of a few children, only to discover that all the children were no longer alive.
"Heavens! Who on earth did this heinous deed? This person is too wicked, to use these children for experiments! What are they trying to achieve?"
Leng Ruo Li's face turned ashen with rage, her eyes wide with fury. She looked like a roaring tiger, ready to devour someone.
Jun Mo Han and the others were equally furious. Seeing their attire, they should all be children from the Tian Wu Kingdom, both boys and girls, aged between six and twelve years old.
However, for so many children to go missing in the Tian Wu Kingdom, and he had never heard of any local officials reporting it to the court, made him extremely indignant.
"Li'er, may I borrow your high-definition camera? I want to record every scene here and show it to Father Emperor," Jun Mo Han said in a clear, cold voice.
"Okay!"
Leng Ruo Li readily agreed, forgetting that Night Shadow and the others were still present. She took a camera from her wide sleeve and handed it to Jun Mo Han.
However, even if Night Shadow and the others discovered her secret, they wouldn't leak it. Jun Mo Han's subordinates were very reliable; they knew what to say and what not to say.
After receiving the camera from Leng Ruo Li, Jun Mo Han began filming skillfully.
He had practically tried out all the fun items in his consort's spatial dimension. This camera was no exception. At the time, Li'er had taught him how to shoot videos twice in her system space, and he had learned it immediately. Now, he used it with great ease.
After Jun Mo Han finished filming, as they were about to leave, they suddenly heard a faint voice calling from a corner.
"Save, save... me!"
Leng Ruo Li and the others immediately stopped.
"There's still someone alive!"
Leng Ruo Li exclaimed in shock.
Then, Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han quickly spread out, using their fingers to check the breathing of these children one by one.
"Child, where are you? If you can hear me, make a sound, and I'll come to save you," Leng Ruo Li called out loudly towards the hall.
"Sister, Sister, I, I... am, here!" the little girl managed to say in a hoarse, dry voice, trying her best to open her mouth.
The little girl's voice was still very weak this time, but Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han could finally hear her clearly and pinpoint her location.
"Consort, she's in the fifth large medicinal vat in the second row, to your upper left."
Because the little girl's fingers were trembling, Night Shadow had already spotted her location.
Leng Ruo Li hurried over and saw that the little girl was half-submerged in the vat. The dark medicinal liquid had already covered her chest. Her hands were tightly gripping the sides of the vat, and her entire face was soaked black by the medicinal water, leaving only her large eyes visible.
Night Shadow and a guard reached out to lift the little girl out of the vat, but to their astonishment, a large stone was tied around her waist.
Night Shadow untied the stone from her waist before lifting the little girl out.
Leng Ruo Li carefully checked the little girl's pulse. Her pulse was very weak, her lips were cracked and dry, and she was barely breathing. If she didn't receive treatment tonight, she probably wouldn't survive until tomorrow.
Leng Ruo Li immediately took a bottle of nutritional fluid from her sleeve pocket and gave it to the little girl to drink, then gave her a piece of thousand-year-old ginseng to hold in her mouth.
Afterward, Leng Ruo Li asked Jun Mo Han and the others to turn around and took out a set of clean clothes from her spatial dimension, quickly changing the little girl's clothes that were soaked in medicinal water.