Chapter 61 Sweeping the Huainan King's Mountain
Qin Zhi followed them into another cave. This cave should be their resting place. There was a bunk bed made of straw on the ground.
The whole cave was smelly and dark. As soon as they entered, they lay down on the straw and fell asleep.
Qin Zhi also lay down on the straw, but her mind was full of thoughts about how to play a trick on King Huainan, so she tossed and turned.
"Were you arrested as well?" the man next to him asked when he saw that he was not sleeping.
Qin Zhi nodded randomly, feeling something was a little strange, and asked, "Were all of you arrested?"
The man nodded and said, "We are all from Qiliu Village. Suddenly one day, soldiers said that someone in our village had smallpox, so they locked us all up in the village. A few days later, they brought us here and put us under house arrest. We had to work as ironworkers every day."
Qiliu Village? No wonder the King of Huainan transported so many gold ingots to Qiliu Village. Qiliu Village is now an empty village, just right for their secret base.
"What about the others? The elderly, women and children?" Qin Zhi asked.
"On the day we were locked up in the village, they killed 156 elderly people in the village in public. The whole village was flooded with blood that day. We rushed over to resist, and they killed more than 20 young people who led the group. These beasts have no humanity at all?" The man said, wiping his eyes with his hand, his eyes were hazy but full of hatred.
The man continued, "Our wives and children are also under house arrest. We are only allowed to see them once a month. If we don't obey, our wives and children will suffer."
"Do you want to escape?" Qin Zhi asked.
"Who doesn't want to escape, but our wives and children are still in their hands. A few months ago, Liu Sheng, an orphan in our village, had no weakness in their hands. He escaped at night and was caught. Those beasts hung him at the entrance of this cave. We could see it every day. He was not dragged away until his body started to stink." The man's face was full of pain.
"I have a way to let you escape, do you dare?" Qin Zhi tried his best to let these people escape. If the people in Huainan Palace discovered that the weapons were missing tomorrow, these laborers would not escape punishment.
"But what about our wives and children?" The person sleeping next to them woke up. He had been listening to their conversation and now couldn't help but ask.
"Of course we go together." Qin Zhi sat up.
"Why should you make us trust you? If you lie to us, we and our wives and children will be doomed." asked a man who seemed to have some appeal.
"We just met by chance, so I really can't be trusted by you. So you should think it over carefully. If you are willing to take the risk, follow me. I won't force you." Qin Zhi replied calmly.
"I'm willing to give it a try," someone suddenly shouted.
"I would like that too."
"I would like that too."
Echoes came and went.
"Okay, I'll open your shackles first, and then I'll use drugs to knock out the guards outside, and you can take us to rescue your wives and children." Qin Zhi said as he used his sleeves to cover the space to take out a thin wire, and fiddled with the lock of the shackles twice, and the shackles were opened. Qin Zhi did it one by one, and it took almost half an hour to open the shackles of the two hundred and fifty-six people.
There were two people guarding outside the cave, but it was late at night and the two were sleeping soundly against the cave entrance, so Qin Zhi knocked them out easily.
"Come on, follow me to save the women and children, and walk quietly." Qin Zhi was like a leader, leading everyone to quickly leave the cave.
The men brought Qin Zhi to the cave where their wives and children were imprisoned. Qin Zhi quickly dealt with the two people guarding outside the cave. The children cried from inside the cave. Most people were awake. The children cried because of hunger. The women were also hungry and could only drink a bowl of porridge every day.
The men rushed in to find their wives and children and quickly explained the current situation to them. Fortunately, everyone was willing to give it a try; they could no longer endure this dark day.
Qin Zhi said hello and went out for a while, putting on a ghost mask.
This hilltop is where the King of Huainan privately made weapons, so there shouldn't be so few people guarding it. There must be other places that we haven't found.
Qin Zhi released her night vision drone and discovered that there were six caves of different sizes in the southwest direction of the mountain. Each cave was heavily guarded, but fortunately they were not far away.
Qin Zhi planned to break through them one by one. The first cave was quite secretive, but there were about a dozen people guarding inside and outside.
Qin Zhi searched online and found a kind of smoke bomb similar to tear gas, so she ordered a few. She lit it and threw it directly into the cave entrance, and thick smoke billowed out. The guards had never seen such a scene before, and they ran out screaming and holding their heads.
When they came closer, Qin Zhi sprinkled some sleeping pills on them, and the dozen people fell to the ground in unison.
It was not until we entered the cave that we realized how big it was. It was many times bigger than the previous cave where weapons were stored. It was filled with food, all white rice. Qin Zhi smacked his lips. He wondered who had exploited this. This amount could feed so many people. I'm afraid it would be more than enough to pay the annual military pay for the entire Xiao Dynasty.
There are even more guards in the remaining five caves, with almost two hundred people in each cave.
This time Qin Zhi released her good friend, the snow wolf.
The snow wolves have been in space for such a long time, it's time to let them out for a walk.
The snow wolves surrounded the guards and forced them into the cave. Qin Zhi put on a gas mask and sprinkled a strong drug inside, which would allow them to sleep for three to five days without any problem.
When the two hundred people fell to the ground, Qin Zhi visited the big cave. Compared with the previous two, this cave was not big, about the size of ten football fields, and it was full of sophisticated weapons, which Qin Zhi put into his pocket without mercy.
Follow the same steps in the next four caves to knock down the guards and take away the weapons.
It was a great harvest tonight, and Qin Zhi was really happy.
The guards patrolling the road and the guards at the entrance to the foot of the mountain were also easily dealt with. The entire mountain fell into a deathly silence. If the King of Huainan knew that he had just left and the entire mountain was taken down, what expression would he have?
Qin Zhi felt happy just thinking about it.
When Qin Zhi came back, he had already placed an order for a batch of steamed buns in the space. As soon as he entered the cave, Qin Zhi took out the steamed buns and made an excuse that he had stolen them from the kitchen.
The man who had questioned Qin Zhi just now took the initiative to help distribute the steamed buns. There were more than 500 men, women and children in total, and each of them was given a white flour bun and a meat bun, which were still steaming.
Qin Zhi told them to eat quickly and not to hold any food left, as eating well would give them the strength to escape later.