"Guards, guards!"
"Damn it, kill them quickly."
Wildcat and Mr. Shi roared menacingly.
Rows of soldiers rushed in, quickly surrounding Ye Zixiao and Tang Keke. Countless gun muzzles were aimed at them, but no one dared to fire because the commander and Mr. Shi were being held hostage!
"Kill them!"
"Go on, shoot!"
"You useless freaks."
The inhumane rich men all shouted loudly, ordering the soldiers to take down Ye Zixiao and Tang Keke, but the soldiers wouldn't attack; they only followed the commander's orders.
"Who dares to mess around?"
Ye Zixiao roared furiously.
He stabbed Wildcat multiple times.
"If you want him dead, then shoot!"
Tang Keke was quite vicious. She didn't attack Mr. Shi fiercely but carved the characters "Wang Ba" (idiot/turtle) onto both of Mr. Shi's cheeks to express her deep hatred.
The rich men were stunned!
The soldiers were also flustered!
They didn't know what to do!
"Kill me if you dare,"
The semi-mutated Wildcat's expression was extremely ferocious.
"You mongrel, don't be impatient."
Ye Zixiao held Wildcat by the neck and pushed him forward a couple of steps. With a sudden kick, he smashed through the thick, solid glass window, creating a large hole.
Tang Keke also kicked through the glass.
Glass shards from the third floor rained down onto the first floor. On the first floor, countless machine gunners had already surrounded thousands of laborers, waiting for orders to slaughter them.
Glass fragments fell violently.
A series of gasps erupted from the first floor.
"What's going on?"
"What happened on the third floor?"
"Oh my god, the commander is being held hostage!"
"Mr. Shi has also been captured!"
The officers and soldiers on the first floor were in a panic.
As for the laborers, a flicker of hope suddenly appeared in their previously helpless eyes. They didn't know what had happened, but they saw that Wildcat was being held.
"Let them go."
Ye Zixiao on the third floor said firmly.
"Ye Zixiao, you wish."
Wildcat seemed completely unafraid of death.
"Let them go!"
On the side, Tang Keke roared, and at the same time, she pointed her knife tip at Mr. Shi's eyeballs. If her hand trembled, this international magnate would instantly become a one-eyed man.
"Okay, okay, okay, don't do anything."
Mr. Shi capitulated under duress.
He was a wicked man, an ambitious man, but ultimately, he was just a businessman. Even though he was working for the Allied forces, he had no faith, and he certainly didn't want to die!
"Wildcat, let them go."
Mr. Shi turned and shouted at Wildcat.
"Can't let them go, what nonsense!"
Wildcat still appeared very tough.
"Wildcat, you idiot, are you trying to get me killed? You know that a hundred of your lives aren't worth one of my arms. Let them go, you disgusting dog."
"You damn..."
"If you don't let them go, you'll be turned to dust!"
Mr. Shi roared menacingly.
For some reason, Wildcat, who had been so tough he didn't fear death, instantly trembled upon hearing the words "turned to dust." Then, he waved his hand towards the first floor.
The first floor suddenly became quiet.
The officers and soldiers were baffled.
The laborers held their breath!
"Xiao Leng, Xiao Shan, go!"
Ye Zixiao on the third floor shouted.
"Yes."
"Received."
Leng Shao and Shan Ge, who had been inactive, received the command and jumped down through the broken glass window. They didn't rush to attack the soldiers but instead surged into the crowd of laborers.
"Labor brothers, charge with me!"
"Fight desperately, let's go home together!"
Leng Shao and Shan Ge raised their sabers and roared.
No reaction!
The officers and soldiers were stunned, and the laborers were all dazed. The event had happened too suddenly, leaving these thousands of laborers unable to comprehend it, disbelieving that all of this was real!
"We are people of Longguo."
"We are here to save you."
"Charge, fight our way out!"
"Go home, go home, go home!"
Leng Shao and Shan Ge shouted again.
At the same time, these two reckless fellows, brandishing their sabers, charged towards several machine gunners. Before the machine gunners could react, heads rolled onto the ground.
Third floor.
Ye Zixiao roared, "Go home!"
Ye Zixiao's shout.
Could be heard throughout the entire vast hive.
Everyone on the first floor was galvanized!
Ten seconds later, a few team leaders among the laborers were the first to react. They excitedly looked up, confirmed repeatedly that Wildcat and Mr. Shi were being held hostage, and finally let out soul-stirring cries.
"Someone's come to save us!"
"Charge, carve out a bloody path!"
"Follow me, we're going home!"
"Home, let's go home together!"
Each piercing cry struck the nerves of the labor brothers. These wretched souls, who had already despaired, had their spirits awakened at this moment.
"Follow me."
"Charge out."
Leng Shao and Shan Ge led the charge.
"Follow me."
"The exit is this way."
"Run, hurry, run..."
The team leaders shouted themselves hoarse.
Thousands of laborers transformed into fierce tigers, exerting all their strength, following Leng Shao and Shan Ge in a desperate sprint. They didn't attack the soldiers; their sole focus was on surviving and getting out.
The machine gunners were at a loss?
The officers looked up at the third floor?
"Damn it, it's ruined!"
Wildcat muttered dejectedly.
"Let them go, let them go."
Mr. Shi became increasingly agitated, pointing downwards with his remaining left finger and shouting at the officers, "Don't open fire anymore. Let them all go. You dogs, I'll chop off anyone who dares to shoot."
No soldiers fired.
Nor did any soldiers object.
At this moment, perhaps these soldiers, who had committed so much bloodshed, regained a sliver of conscience. Since their superiors had given the order, they were no longer willing to slaughter and chose to make way.
Finally...
Incited by Leng Shao and Shan Ge, and guided by a few team leaders, the last over five thousand laborers, after more than an hour of running, escaped Dahei Mountain through a valley.
Along the way.
Leng Shao and Shan Ge were dumbfounded!
Why?
Because the valley through which they escaped was filled with countless pits dug by humans, each pit piled high with corpses, most of which had already decomposed. The scene was terrifying and tragic, making one hesitant to look.
They remembered that in Da Wucheng, Lord Gou had mentioned patients who claimed to have escaped from the "Dead Men's Cave." Later, Ye Zixiao believed that the so-called Burial Ridge was the Dead Men's Cave, also known as the Dead Men's Ravine.
Now, it seemed.
Ye Zixiao had guessed wrong!
This secret underground project, this unknown hive base, had not only persecuted the nearby villages but was also far beyond the twenty thousand people captured that the women had spoken of.
The corpses in the Burial Ridge.
Could not compare to those in the Dead Men's Cave.
Throughout the escape, Leng Shao and Shan Ge roughly estimated that the corpses in the Dead Men's Cave, if added together, numbered at least eighty to ninety thousand. They came from all over the world, though the majority were from Wuguo.
"Inhumane!"
"Worse than beasts!"
Shan Ge and Leng Shao both shed tears.
Thousands of escaped laborers collapsed on the ground, gasping for air. Some numbly got up, slapped their foreheads hard, and only then confirmed that they had truly escaped alive.
"Ahhh, ahhh!"
"I'm not dead, I'm not dead!"
"I want to go home, home..."
Thousands of laborers cried out heart-wrenchingly.
"I'll take you home."
"Let's go, let's go home."
Leng Shao and Shan Ge's eyes became even more determined.