Suddenly, police sirens sounded in the village.
We all went to the cave entrance, filled with excitement and relief.
The police were here!
We could finally leave this godforsaken place!
The two girls began crying again in their excitement.
We left the cave in high spirits and headed toward the village, carrying the newborn Xiuzhu.
Once people let their guard down, mental exhaustion hit them hard.
When we finally made it back to the village, seeing the police cars and those uniforms was like seeing angels.
How they would handle things here and how many people they would arrest no longer had anything to do with us.
We just wanted to get off the mountain, have a proper rest, eat a good meal, and get some sleep.
Soon enough.
We made our way down the mountain.
There was simply no way to drive up here. Even the police had climbed up, so we had to walk back down.
It was absolutely the most agonizing stretch of walking I had ever done.
Only Seventh Master had people taking turns carrying him down, perhaps because the police saw how old he was.
We were all young, and although we were utterly exhausted, we were too embarrassed to ask anyone to carry us.
Once we reached somewhere accessible by car, we all collapsed into the vehicles, and the police first took us to the county hospital.
We had all suffered injuries to some degree, especially Liang Qianqian... She needed a medical examination to document her injuries, then to preserve the evidence and bring charges against the people who had hurt her.
There was also Xiuzhu. She had only just been born and had endured a jostling journey, so we were all worried about her condition.
But after examining her, even the doctors