"Damn it! Those wretched nobles."
As Ye Guyi entered the tunnel leading underground, the lamps burning on either side flickered, pointing toward the secrets buried below.
A pitiful figure came into her view.
It was a young girl, but her hands and feet were firmly shackled with heavy iron chains. Her wrists were covered in scars, perhaps from prolonged chafing against the chains, and she seemed to have suffered brutal torture as well. Her clothes were in tatters and even gave off a foul stench. Apparently, she had not been washed in a long time...
Ye Guyi stepped past her subordinates and crouched down first, checking the girl's injuries with some anxiety. Then she breathed a sigh of relief-there was still a pulse. She wasn't dead.
I can't imagine how much she's suffered. Ye Guyi's opinion of the men kneeling outside dropped another few notches.
"My lady, what should we do?" The guard beside her seemed unmoved, as though he had long grown accustomed to tragedies born of power.
Bang!
Ye Guyi smashed the heavy iron chains restraining the girl, then scooped the unconscious girl up in her arms. Showing not the slightest disgust at the stench coming from her, she instructed her subordinates, "Keep searching. See whether there are any other victims like her."
"Yes!"
As the guards answered, Ye Guyi dashed outside without looking back.
All she wanted was to get the girl settled first, then kick those impeccably dressed nobles-who merely looked human-to death.
The magnificent Duke's Mansion.
"My lord, I've been wronged..."
Robin'er saw Ye Guyi charge out of the Underground Cavern and head straight for him, looking as though the words "Rage +100" were written above her head. He hastily begged Xu Cheng and the others beside him for mercy.
But Xu Cheng merely