It was time to switch shifts again. Rubbing his eyes, Wen Le was reluctant to leave the warmth of his bed. He saw that Zhou Quan had already put on his coat and left the heated bed reluctantly.
“Awake now?” Xiao Wen saw Zhou Quan come out for the shift change and noticed Wen Le’s unhappy expression as he followed him. He couldn’t help but laugh.
“In the future, we’ll live in a place with a heated bed like this!” Wen Le pouted and clung to Xiao Wen’s side.
Han Ya and Zhou Quan couldn’t help but smile at each other.
This boy is addicted to sleep!
“Good! We’ll sleep on a warm heated bed every day in the future!” Xiao Wen comforted Wen Le by patting his head and softly coaxing him until he was fully awake before discussing the plan.
Wen Le then learned that the brother of the earth-based superpower had already come and listened carefully to Xiao Wen’s plan, nodding in agreement. He was only concerned with rescuing people, and it was up to Xiao Wen and Han Ya to decide whether or not they should join their team.
After discussing the plan, Xiao Wen took Wen Le and headed towards the place where the superpower was being held captive once again. Wen Le imitated Huang Tao’s movements and lightly knocked on the door. The woman inside had been leaning against the back door since they left, and was startled awake when Wen Le knocked.
“… Brother?”
“No, we were entrusted by your brother to take you away.” Wen Le said softly.
Huang Yao couldn’t believe it when she heard it. Did her brother go to beg those people?
“Are you really taking me away? I… I…”
“Don’t talk now, we’ll talk after we leave here,” Wen Le interrupted the woman and took out a thin wire, gently inserting it into the lock.
With his psychic power, Wen Le could easily see the internal structure of the lock. He turned the wire and the lock opened.
Wen Le was glad that this village still used the oldest type of big padlock. If it was like the anti-theft doors in the city, he would probably not know how to open it even if he could see the structure!
As he thought this, Wen Le and Xiao Wen carefully opened the door. Wen Le helped the woman inside to lie on Xiao Wen’s back. Worried that Xiao Wen might run too fast and the woman might fall, Wen Le tied them together with a rope.
After tying them up, Xiao Wen didn’t say a word and ran back to their lodging with the woman on his back.
Wen Le carefully closed the door and locked it with the padlock. As soon as he finished locking it, he saw Xiao Wen coming back to get him.
Jumping on Xiao Wen’s back, the two ran towards the ancestral hall, following Huang Tao’s instructions.
When they were close to the ancestral hall, Wen Le discovered that there were two people inside.
The two of them became even more careful, afraid of alarming anyone inside.
Wen Le crouched and led Xiao Wen to circle around the ancestral hall. There was no other choice as the ancestral hall was too large for Wen Le’s mental power to cover.
They had circled around for quite some time and only when they reached the northeast corner did Wen Le sense the presence of a child. No wonder Huang Tao couldn’t find the child when he came to look during the day, it turned out that the child was hidden in the cellar under the ancestral hall.
Wen Le slowly wrote his discovery in Xiao Wen’s palm and asked what to do.
If they wanted to bring the child out, they had to go down to the cellar. But going into the cellar would definitely alarm the two people guarding inside.
Xiao Wen thought about it but couldn’t come up with a solution, so they had no choice but to retreat.
Xiao Wen handed Huang Yao over to Han Ya and Zhou Quan, but before Huang Yao could thank him, he disappeared. Zhou Quan quickly gave her a simple checkup and found that, apart from some bone fractures in her right leg, the rest were just skin injuries caused by things hitting her, and there was nothing serious.
The two of them helped Huang Yao up onto the heated bed. Uncle Mo and Mo Yan, who were still sleeping, were startled awake. They had rested early the day before, so they were not sleepy now. Only Yin Chengyang was still snoring loudly.
Uncle Mo lit several more candles as he got up from bed, instantly brightening up the room.
At that moment, Wen Le and Xiao Wen returned empty-handed.
Seeing the two of them return without the child, Han Ya raised an eyebrow and looked at Xiao Wen.
“There are people guarding the ancestral hall. The child is locked in the cellar under the ancestral hall. If we want to rescue the child, we will alarm the villagers,” Xiao Wen said.
Hearing this, Huang Yao, who had just lain down, sat up directly.
“Are you talking about Yan Yan?” she asked.
Xiao Wen didn’t hide anything and nodded. After all, Huang Yao was also a villager, and she might have another way to get into the cellar.
And Xiao Wen was right.
“According to the older generation, during the revolution, in order to escape, the villagers dug a tunnel under the ancestral hall leading to the mountains behind the village. But after so many years, few people remember where the exit of the tunnel was,” Huang Yao said anxiously, tears streaming down her face.
Not even she knew where the entrance to the tunnel was, let alone this group of people. How could the villagers be so heartless in such freezing weather? Yan Yan was not even five years old yet, how could he bear being locked up in a cold and damp cellar?!
When he heard Huang Yao’s words, Wen Le’s eyes lit up. Just because others couldn’t find it didn’t mean he couldn’t. He had only been thinking about finding the child earlier and hadn’t paid attention to anything else. It wasn’t realistic to search for the entrance all over the mountains, but if they started searching from the cellar of the ancestral hall, they would definitely find the exit.
He didn’t believe that the tunnel they dug back then could be more than twenty meters underground.
Thinking about it, Wen Le didn’t bother explaining and just pulled Xiao Wen and headed out.
Returning to the outside of the ancestral hall, Wen Le squatted at the northeast corner and began searching for the cellar of the ancestral hall. With a target in mind, Wen Le didn’t have to put in much effort to find the tunnel Huang Yao had mentioned. Wen Le gave directions to Xiao Wen, and the two of them crawled up the mountain through the underground tunnel. The entrance to the tunnel was already blocked by a large stone, and the two of them tried but couldn’t move it at all. Wen Le muttered that if Yin Chengyang were here, maybe they could move it. But they couldn’t just call Yin Chengyang down here now, could they?
There was no other way, so Wen Le could only take out two military shovels from his space. If the entrance was blocked, couldn’t they just dig another one themselves?!
Anyway, by the time the villagers found out, they would have already disappeared.
After almost an hour of struggling, the two of them finally dug out an entrance that only one person could crawl into. Leaving Xiao Wen to guard outside, Wen Le bent over and crawled inside.
Perhaps because it was so dry here, after so many years, aside from the loose dirt that had fallen off, the entire tunnel was still very well preserved. Following the tunnel, Wen Le soon returned to the cellar of the ancestral hall, where he had observed before with his spiritual power and found many sacks of grain piled up in the place where the cellar and the tunnel were connected. Wen Le reached out and collected all the sacks that were blocking the way into his space.
After dealing with the obstacle, Wen Le walked quietly to the child’s side and lifted him up. The moment he held the child in his arms, Wen Le was almost so angry he could swear.
The child in his arms was burning hot, and despite being so sick, he was tightly bound with rope by these people.
Untying the rope that bound the child, Wen Le took off his down jacket that had his body temperature, wrapped the child tightly, leaving only his nose exposed to breathe.
Returning to the tunnel, Wen Le stacked the sacks of grain back to their original position, and then turned and ran towards the exit.
By the time they brought the child back to their dwelling, it was already getting light outside.
Huang Tao has come over and is comforting his sister while seeing Wen Le and the others come back with the child in their arms. He is excited to approach them, but is stopped by Xiao Wen.
Wen Le is too busy checking on the child with Zhou Quan, ignoring the two people. Luckily, they discovered the situation in time and Zhou Quan said that there would be no major problems after taking the medicine. The adults finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Huang Yao hugged the child tightly. If it weren’t for Uncle Mo holding her back, she would have dragged her injured leg to kowtow to these lifesaving benefactors.
Huang Tao gritted his teeth. He really didn’t expect the villagers to be so heartless. Yan Yan had grown up in front of them. Although he was not well-received by the villagers because of his background, he was still just a child after all!
Wen Le sat on the edge of the heated bed , watching the sleeping child who had finally breathed a sigh of relief after taking the medicine. The guilt in his heart that had been hidden deep down also disappeared. Originally, he was a little reluctant to take away the supernatural person. The future of the village would be worrying without them. But now, it seems that even if they didn’t take Huang Yao and the others away, they wouldn’t have long to live with these ignorant villagers being so heartless towards a child.
The sky outside was already bright, and you could vaguely hear the early villagers getting up to cook. Uncle Mo poured the soup he had been brewing into two large bowls, leaving some for drinking in the morning and putting the rest away for Wen Le.
Just after finishing breakfast, someone from the village came to ask when they were leaving. Han Ya stopped the person in the courtyard and said with a smile that they would leave in a while, and then sent them away.
Joking aside, not only were there three people who couldn’t be seen, but the smell of lamb in the room had not dissipated yet!
Before leaving, Wen Le was relieved to see Yin Chengyang wrap the people in blankets and put them in the mountaineering bag he was carrying, leaving some breathable space.
This was such foresight! They wouldn’t have been able to fit these three big people in a slightly smaller mountaineering bag!
Yin Chengyang carried the bag with Huang Yao and the child, and Mo Yan carried Huang Tao’s bag. The rest of their belongings were collected by Wen Le. The group left the village as they came in, swaggering out.
Although they had grievances against the villagers’ ignorance, when they saw the village chief and others who enthusiastically sent them off at the door, Wen Le had a hard time holding back his laughter.
It wasn’t until they couldn’t see the village entrance that Wen Le thought of letting the people out of the bag. But suddenly, he heard a shout from the direction of the village. Although he couldn’t hear the specific words, the voice was enough to tell them that the villagers had discovered that the people were missing. Mo Yan hit the gas and flew out, although it was a dirt road, the speed was almost as fast as racing.
Wen Le and Xiao Wen were jolted around, and it was difficult for them to open the two bags. The two adults inside were almost dizzy from being shaken.
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