Seeing their reaction, Ye Feng was about to say more, but Minato Namikaze stopped him.
"It's no use. They've already lost all hope. Leave the rest to me."
Minato Namikaze formed hand seals, and countless enormous earth spikes shot out of the ground, launching all four walls and the roof into the air. The girls inside turned pale with fright and screamed repeatedly. Then the spikes withdrew into the ground, and the airborne pieces of the house crashed down heavily nearby.
Long after the dust had settled, the panicked girls finally came to their senses. They saw their surroundings, then the bandit corpses strewn across the ground behind Ye Feng and the others. Disbelief showed in their eyes, followed by tears that welled up and rolled down their cheeks. The girls began to sob softly, then broke into heart-wrenching wails. The little babies seemed frightened by everyone else's crying and cried incessantly too.
Hearing those sorrowful cries, Ye Feng and the other three did not want to disturb them. They had kept everything bottled up for too long, and letting it out would do them good. They would leave them be.
Minato Namikaze took Ye Feng and the other two to search the rooms for clean clothes. After all, the girls' clothes were no longer fit to wear. Fortunately, Black Wind Stockade had housed plenty of people, so finding clothes was not difficult, though most were too large and did not fit well.
By the time Minato Namikaze and the other three returned, the girls' crying had grown much quieter. The four handed out the clothes, then left to look for the valuables left behind in Black Wind Stockade. They also needed to dispose of the bodies. Besides, they were all male, so it would not be appropriate to linger