Chapter 178: Rescue

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“In- in the innermost room…” The person’s eyes bulged as he struggled to finish the sentence.

With that last word, the man snapped his neck.

He threw the person aside and walked in without looking at him.

The guards who initially wanted to attack him stopped in their tracks.

When he reached the far end, he saw the petite figure curled up in a ball. The man paused, and his eyes slowly turned scarlet.

He took a few steps forward and cut off the lock on the iron cage. He squatted down and hugged her with trembling hands. “Jiajia, I’m here.”

Perhaps because she felt the heat source, Shen Yijia subconsciously snuggled into his arms. After that, she felt that something was wrong. She opened her eyes warily and saw a familiar face.

She was stunned for a moment, thinking that she was hallucinating. She muttered weakly, “Shen- Shenzhi…”

“I’m here.” Song Jingchen closed his eyes and suppressed the anger in his body, afraid that he would scare Shen Yijia.

It was not an illusion. Shen Yijia widened her eyes in disbelief and asked anxiously, “Hubby, why are you here?”

After asking, she seemed to react. She puffed up her cheeks angrily and muttered to herself, “Did they capture you too? Don’t be afraid. I’ll recover soon. When I recover… I’ll bring you out… I’ll protect you… Don’t be afraid…”

Towards the end, her voice trailed off and dissipated.

Shen Yijia’s eyelids drooped uncontrollably, but her small hand grabbed Song Jingchen’s sleeve tightly.

Song Jingchen’s eyes turned red with anger again. He comforted her softly with a trembling voice, “Sleep. I’ll bring you home. In the future, it’s my turn to protect you.”

He took off his robe and draped it over Shen Yijia. He carefully picked her up. Even now, her brows were still tightly furrowed.

Song Jingchen’s heart ached when he saw this. It was as if a sharp knife had stabbed into his heart, making him almost unable to breathe.

After walking out of the cage, Song Jingchen was about to leave.

Seeing that he was about to leave, the others panicked and quickly said, “Wait, can you bring us along?”

Song Jingchen paused and glanced coldly at the person who spoke. “Why?”

The man who had exchanged glances with Shen Yijia just now said, “We have the same enemy as you. We can take revenge with you.”

Looking at how much this man cared about that woman, he knew that this person would definitely not let Magistrate Cao off.

The man in the cage was especially thin, like a monkey, but his eyes were especially shrewd.

Song Jingchen sneered, “I’m enough to deal with him.”

With that, Song Jingchen turned to leave.

The man said anxiously, “As long as you’re willing to save me, I can serve you as my master in the future. I won’t betray you.”

Song Jingchen frowned and slashed at the lock with his dagger. With a clang, the lock on the iron cage broke.

The man was delighted. He had made the right bet.

Song Jingchen’s indifferent voice sounded. “Remember what you said. Otherwise, I’ll make you regret following me out of this door.”

With that, Song Jingchen ignored him.

When the others heard this, about half of them decided not to follow him out. However, there were also many people like that shrewd man who had no family or friends. They wanted to leave this godforsaken place. If they didn’t, who knew what Magistrate Cao would do to them?

Song Jingchen glanced at the skinny man. The latter immediately understood and let out whatever he wanted.

When they reached the door, there were already more than ten people behind Song Jingchen.

When Manager Feng heard the report, he rushed over with his men. The two parties bumped into each other.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Song Jingchen, who was walking at the front. When he saw that face, his heart skipped a beat and he glanced at his legs casually.

He was even more shocked.

He quietly took a few steps back and ordered sternly, “Catch these people. Don’t let a single one of them escape. Otherwise, you’ll have to take the blame.”

With that, he wanted to back off. Song Jingchen saw the change in his expression and sneered.

He kicked one of the men who was charging at him. The man’s sword fell to the ground.

Song Jingchen kicked the sword towards Manager Feng’s back.

The sound of the sword entering flesh was especially ear-piercing.

Manager Feng turned around and looked at Song Jingchen in disbelief. Blood slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth. He raised his finger and pointed at him. “You-”

Before he could finish, he collapsed.

All the victims who were caged here had been tricked into coming here after showing their talents in the arena. They already hated these people to the core. Now that they were about to escape, they felt even more murderous.

There was no need for Song Jingchen to attack. The prisoners killed everyone.

Song Jingchen walked at the front expressionlessly. Suddenly, he felt someone tugging at his sleeve.

He paused and looked down at the person in his arms, and saw that she had woken up.

Although her face was still pale, her eyes were sparkling. Song Jingchen’s expression couldn’t help but soften as he asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Key, throw it to them!” Perhaps it was because she had not drank water for a long time and Shen Yijia had been forcefully splashed with hot and cold water, but she felt that her throat was about to burn up. Her voice was hoarse and unpleasant.

She remembered what the nasty officer had said about sending people away. The enemy of an enemy was a friend.

Even if they weren’t friends, she wanted to ruin the official’s plans.

How dare he treat her like this? Her revenge would be sweet.

With that, Shen Yijia pointed somewhere before she fell asleep again.

Song Jingchen looked in the direction she was pointing. Manager Feng’s corpse was lying there.

There was a large ring of keys hanging from his waist. Song Jingchen knew what they were for.

He glanced at the skinny man, who was following him. The latter immediately went over to pick up the key. Since Shen Yijia asked him to throw it to them, that was exactly what he did.

Seeing that Shen Yijia had fainted again, Song Jingchen hugged her tightly.

After leaving the dungeon, there were two secret passages. The exit of the secret passage was at the foot of the barren mountain where Shen Yijia had found Lin Shao. It was usually used to send the imprisoned people out.

That was where Song Jingchen came in.

If Song Jingchen wasn’t wrong, the other path should lead to the underground arena. Most of these people had been captured from the arena and transported in.

As soon as Song Jingchen came out, Furball wanted to pounce on him, but Song Jingchen stopped it with a look.

The skinny man and the others, who had come out together, were shocked when they saw Furball. The skinny man subconsciously wanted to use his body to block Song Jingchen, but he stopped when he saw Furball stop.

Song Jingchen glanced at him, internally giving the man the nickname of “Skinny Monkey”. He turned to look at the people who had followed him out. He said coldly, “If you really want to stay, stay. If not, you can leave on your own. I’ll only give you one chance to choose.”

As soon as Song Jingchen finished speaking, everyone looked at each other for a while. If they hadn’t followed him earlier, they wouldn’t be able to leave that damn place.

Now that they had a chance to choose, many people stood up and cupped their hands at Song Jingchen before leaving.