In the basement of a residential building in Heaven Dou City.
A tall, slender woman lay on the floor, trussed up tightly. She wore a fitted white outfit with silver trim, and her long, wavy pinkish-blue hair was wrapped in a cloth. When loose, it could cover her entire back and reach all the way to her hips.
"Mmm!"
Wang Qiu'er opened her eyes groggily. The back of her head still throbbed faintly, and after spending so long unconscious, her mind remained completely blank.
"Ow!"
Wang Qiu'er instinctively tried to raise a hand to rub the back of her head. Only then did she belatedly discover that she had been tied up, with heavy iron shackles around her wrists and lower legs. Clearly, whoever had bound her did not trust her to stay put.
"I... how did I end up here? I clearly remember being at the Sky-Blasting Gang, sleeping perfectly well!"
Wang Qiu'er looked around in bewilderment. The dim basement did nothing to hinder her sight. A faint light shone in her beautiful eyes, making them seem like two searchlights in the darkness as she took in everything around her.
The room was neither particularly large nor small, measuring roughly sixty square meters. Perhaps because it was rarely used, there was no furniture or any instrument of torture—nothing but four bare walls. A cobweb hung in a corner, and a thin layer of dust covered the floor, revealing traces of footprints.
"I've been kidnapped!"
Only now did the disconnected string in Wang Qiu'er's head finally reconnect, allowing her to understand her predicament.
She struggled, trying to free herself from the ropes.
Unfortunately, every attempt failed.
The circulation of Soul Power within her body had been sealed, leaving her unable to draw on any of it.
After struggling for a