At that moment, while Chen Mo was fighting the man in the cloak, the entire valley did not contain only the two of them.
Especially after Chen Mo rescued some of the people in the dungeon and directed them toward another route. Some guards were still stationed along that route, so when they fled, they alerted the guards, who immediately shouted warnings and tried to stop them.
When they could not stop them, they opened fire, directly sending some of them off to receive their lunchboxes.
The gunshots also woke the other people resting in the stronghold.
After all, the guards on duty were only a small portion of the stronghold's personnel. The other members of the stronghold were all resting.
Still, although stronghold members could not sleep with weapons at their sides every night, it was common for them to keep weapons nearby while they slept.
Therefore, the moment they heard the gunfire, these people immediately got up, grabbed their weapons, and rushed out.
However, by the time they came out, the people who had escaped from the dungeon had mostly either received their lunchboxes or, if they were lucky, fled straight into the forest.
On the other side, since the guards and patrolmen had already been sent off to receive their lunchboxes by Chen Mo, the few people he had rescued picked up weapons from the ground and safely ran out.
As for whether they could safely rendezvous with Shao Jie, that was no longer Chen Mo's concern.
Meanwhile, all the stronghold members rushed to where the gunfire had erupted, only to discover that prisoners from the dungeon had escaped.
Some began organizing people to inspect the dungeon, while others ran to find General Jialin and report what had happened.
Since the dungeon was used to imprison people,