I really don't want to take shortcuts anymore

"Have you forgotten that guy?" Another person yawned. "It took more than a dozen good fighters to capture him. If he were to step over the plate and slip away, we would all be dead when the imperial army arrives."

"That person is really a tough one. He has endured till now without saying a word." The man said: "Isn't it said that the young lady is not from a high family? How can she be surrounded by such a person?"

"There are many capable people in the market." The man behind said, and suddenly laughed: "I heard that Xiang Hou is a cripple, and he married a beautiful young lady but couldn't use her... So I guess, maybe the one today is the young lady's lover?"

The man from before also laughed: "You are so good, Zhao Laowu, you have so many tricks up your sleeve, and you can actually think of this - but what you said does make sense."

The two laughed for a while, and the one in front said, "In the final analysis, it's all Zhao Mazi's fault for being careless. He went out to do such a simple errand and came back with nothing. He even had the nerve to take the first-class guard's money and food. Now he's been beaten half to death by the adults, he deserves it!"

The two of them were talking as they walked, and they had already arrived in front of Luo Qianhuai. They suddenly discovered that there was a person standing at the corner, and they were shocked.

The system moved quickly and lightly. Before the two could open their mouths, it patted each of them, muting their unspoken cries.

The system stepped on the bodies of the two and walked over calmly. Going further ahead, it was the miners' residence.

Eight or nine mines were dug out on both sides of the wall. The ground was covered with a layer of straw of unknown color, and people were lying on it in all directions. The snoring was loud, and the smell was not pleasant.

From the perspective of the soul, Luo Qianhuai couldn't even hold his breath, and could only endure it all the way, while roughly calculating the number of people.

One mine cave can accommodate about twenty people. There are nine mine caves in total, with about two hundred miners.

The amount of money required to feed so many people is not a small amount, and I don’t know how they have been able to operate secretly until now.

After the system dealt with several patrollers again, it stood in front of a three-way intersection. It chose the right side without hesitation, but Luo Qianhuai heard clearly that there was a intermittent panting sound coming from the depths of the left fork.

That was the sound of someone experiencing great pain and trying hard to endure it, and after enduring the severe pain, there was deep and rapid breathing.

Combining the words of the first two patrolmen he met, Luo Qianhuai easily determined the man's identity.

"Stop the system! Let's go save Wei Ji first, and it won't be too late to find out the truth later!"

"We are currently under enforcement and have no time to provide other services!" The system refused flatly.

Even without considering the injuries, based on Wei Ji's current breathing rate, if the treatment is delayed any further it may cause hypoxemia and respiratory alkalosis. There is no time to delay.

He is not even eighteen years old yet, and in Luo Qianhuai's eyes, he is still a half-grown child. He simply cannot bear to leave him alone.

"It's just a detour to save people first. It won't delay the main business." Luo Qianhuai persuaded: "I can promise you, if you are willing to change the route to save people, in the next month, I can guarantee to submit at least two mission applications..."

When she said this, she was holding out for a glimmer of hope, but she didn't expect that the system, which had never been kind to her, would actually stop, turn around, exit the passage, and turn into the one on the left.

Luo Qianhuai was filled with emotion. If she had known that she could use this to bargain with the system, why would she have been so messy again and again?

But on second thought, two missions also represent two unknown rewards, and the uncontrollable actions they bring.

If during these actions, you encounter similar incidents again and continue to submit similar applications to the system... then the debt you owe to the system will only accumulate like a snowball.

So no matter how you look at it, the system is a huge profit, and you are the fool who has to praise the other party after being sold and help them count the money.

Thinking of this, the words of thanks got stuck in my throat and I couldn't say them anymore.

The system received her assurance and was obviously in a very good mood. It walked briskly to the outside of the torture chamber at the end of the corridor and knocked down the solid wooden door covered with iron sheets with a casual palm.

"Hiss!!!" Luo Qianhuai felt that her metacarpal bones were about to be broken, and she frowned and cried out in pain. But at this moment, the scene in the torture chamber came into her eyes, and she could no longer care about the pain, her heart was filled with anger.

Wei Ji hung limply on the rack, with his head hanging low.

He was covered with wounds. Apart from the turned-out flesh and the burnt red marks, there was not a single intact spot on his body.

In front of him, a sturdy man with a long scar on his face was holding up a red-hot iron with a grin on his face, gesturing in front of Wei Ji. When the door panel was suddenly kicked to the ground, his smile froze on his face.

The system walked in expressionlessly. The scarred man used the pinewood torch on the wall to see her clearly, and his frozen expression suddenly changed into another one.

It's hard to be wary of such a beautiful and tender young lady. The scarred man had an obscene smile on his face:

"Young lady, why are you here so late? Could it be..."

He only uttered these few words before the system casually slapped him away. When he landed, the red-hot iron that was emitting blue smoke hit him directly in the face, and a crackling sound was heard instantly.

The man's face was twisted and trembling in pain, but no sound came out of his mouth. "

Luo Qianhuai ignored him and watched the system easily break the iron chain that bound the guard halberd. It then picked out several suitable medicines from Luo Qianhuai's sleeve pocket and fed them into his body by pinching his chin.

"Husband, Madam...Don't worry about me." Wei Ji tried hard to open his eyes that were swollen from being beaten into a slit, and recognized her identity: "Go quickly..."

Before he could finish, the system tapped several acupuncture points. Luo Qianhuai could see clearly that they were all major acupuncture points that could stop pain and cause unconsciousness. Wei Ji's body, which had been trembling due to the severe pain, relaxed and he fell into a deep sleep.

The system lifted Wei Ji by his collar and carried him onto its shoulder easily, like catching a chicken.

This is not the time to worry about dirt. Luo Qianhuai reminded the system: "We have already consumed a lot of energy, we have to leave quickly."

Probably because there were expected results for two tasks this month, the system obeyed her orders and actually sped up the process.

Before returning to the previous entrance, Luo Qianhuai had already heard the chaotic footsteps and breathing sounds.

"They discovered us!" Luo Qianhuai made up his mind: "Don't worry about the truth, let's rush out!"

More and more torches were lit, illuminating the entrance of the passage.

More than twenty men in blue were quietly blocking outside, each holding a large ring-handled sword in their arms, staring at her and Wei Ji with scorching eyes.