Ye Jinghong tossed something to one side, making a noise. At once, the blond, blue-eyed men all turned toward where the sound had come from.
One of them tilted his head, and his two companions cautiously headed toward the source of the noise nearby.
He said to the other two, "Don't let your guard down. Watch out for a feint." He spoke in a foreign language. Although my foreign language skills were not particularly good, I could still understand some simpler conversations.
After all, it had not been long since I left school, and I had studied fairly hard back then. I was no top student, but I was not terrible either.
As those two men moved away, their formation was no longer so tight. I carefully slipped through the gap between two of them. Ye Jinghong followed me, while A Tai did not move. He told us to go up while he stayed below to keep watch for us.
Ye Jinghong and I made it upstairs smoothly. Nothing we had been worried about happened.
But once we got upstairs, I realized something was wrong. The guards on the upper floors were clearly much weaker. They had been replaced by people from Great Xia, and judging by their appearance, they were even less capable than the guards outside patrolling with wolfdogs.
I lightly nudged Ye Jinghong. She whispered, "Something's wrong. The people we're looking for probably aren't upstairs."
If they were not upstairs, then they could only be below. This little building only had four floors. We went up another level, but did not see a single guard. The next floor up was the same.
I said to Ye Jinghong, "Looks like they hid them underground. There must be a basement." Ye Jinghong agreed. "Did you notice earlier? Aside from