C39 Catching a Turtle in a Jar Seeking His Own Death

Liu Zhao, who fell from the cellar, was still alive. There was a big bloody hole in his chest, but he was still rolling on the ground.

He rolled all the way to the corner before finally pressing down on his wound. Half lying on the ground, his life or death unknown.

I jumped in fright, and at the same time there was a burst of gunfire from the ground. Many bullets flew over my head, and some of them even jumped into the room. They brushed past me, causing me to panic.

Just as I finished locking the door, I heard Chi Lishu shout at me, "Come here!"

At first, I didn't understand what she meant. I was stunned for a moment before I subconsciously walked back. Just as I took two steps forward, I suddenly felt a rumbling sound of thunder above my head. With a boom, I felt the entire ground beneath my feet tremble. My eardrums started buzzing and I couldn't hear anything anymore.

After a few seconds, I felt a soft, slender hand grab me and tug me inside. I only reacted after four or five steps.

The explosion just now was nothing more than a grenade exploding at the mouth of the cellar.

This thing should have been thrown into the cellar, but because I closed the iron door at the entrance, I avoided a great disaster.

I coughed and felt a sweet sensation in my throat. However, a stream of blood flowed out, and just as my head was about to fall off, Chi Lishu, who was beside me, made her move. She lightly tapped on my chest and on my head a few times.

I subconsciously coughed twice before grabbing onto Chi Lishu's arm. With an anxious expression, I asked, "What do we do now? We've been discovered?"

At this moment, we were catching a turtle in a jar, but she wasn't as panicked as I had imagined. She said indifferently, "This is their base, so it's normal to be heavily guarded. Even though we avoided most of the sentries, we were still a bit careless."

When I heard that, I immediately became anxious. I said that since you clearly knew that you came here to die, then why did you still do it?

She looked at me blankly. Who told you it was suicide here?

When I saw that she didn't seem to care at all, I immediately became angry, but after thinking about it, I didn't argue with her. After all, I came here of my own free will.

Since it was voluntary, he couldn't blame anyone else.

Thinking this way, I stopped talking to her. I lowered my head and gritted my teeth.

She didn't pay any more attention to me. She walked to the corner, grabbed Liu Zhao's shoulder, and said that those people were coming in.

Liu Zhao's chest had a big hole. Blood was dripping all over and his body was covered in blood. Now that he was lifted up by Chi Lishu, he groaned in pain, as if he was going to die.

However, after staring at Chi Lishu for a while, he finally could not take it anymore and told her the truth, "There is, there is a reinforced steel plate specially designed for this purpose; as long as it is activated, it can seal the cellar entrance. Even with explosives, it will not be able to break it open."

After he finished speaking, I heard a loud crash from the iron door at the cellar entrance.

Bang, bang, bang …

This group of people seemed to have used fire axes, smashing the iron door until it was completely filled with axe marks. I didn't dare to hesitate anymore, taking a big stride towards the button Liu Zhao said, and without any hesitation, I directly slammed it down.

Pow!

As soon as the sound was heard, the thick steel plate slowly stretched out from the middle of the floor and tightly sealed the entrance of the cellar. The area was very large, and even if those people wanted to use their mind to move the mountain, they still might not be able to dig a tunnel in the next few days.

Boom!

Another sound echoed out. There was an explosion at the iron gate. However, it was blocked by the reinforced steel plate. It wasn't as shocking as the previous time.

When the reinforced steel finally blocked the exit, I sat down on the floor, panting.

From the current situation, we are basically safe.

However, the price for such safety was quite big. He lost his freedom and locked himself in the underground cage. He simply had no hope of escaping.

Those people don't even need to do anything. If they just block the entrance of the cave, we will starve to death.

Chi Lishu and I were not the only two people in the cellar. Including the scrawny boys and girls, there were more than forty people in total, along with the women who had been captured.

With so many people here, eating was a very important and troublesome matter.

However, how can we leave this place alive now that we have killed ourselves?

Did he have to live on eating human flesh?

When I thought of this possibility, I immediately vomited in fright. I shook my head vigorously before finding Chi Lishu and asking her what we should do now.

She smiled and took out a small bag from her backpack before saying to me, "Why are you in such a hurry? Don't worry, I've already thought about it."

Saying that, she turned to Liu Zhao who was squatting in the corner and moaning, "When are you going to act? "If you're done, go get me some water from the vats. If you're not done, I'll help you make it real. What do you think?"

Hearing this, Liu Zhao, who was in extreme pain a moment ago quickly got up and obediently lowered his head to look at her, "Okay, I'll quickly get the water, so they won't break …"

He walked quickly to the corner, cleared away his companion's body, and got some large vats. Then he started to fetch the water.

When I followed him to his side, I discovered that blood was flowing out from the place where he was hit. However, it didn't smell like blood and was much thicker than before. I couldn't help but get angry, saying, "Why did you get hit just now?"

Liu Zhao chuckled at me, but didn't reply.

Chi Lishu walked up to me and told me, "Ignore him – he did get shot, but with his physique, let alone a bullet in his chest, even if it's in his heart, there might not be any injuries that he couldn't get out of bed with. "Let's not talk about this. Go and bring a bucket of water over, I have some use for it."

I followed her words and brought out a bucket of water. The moment I put it down, she took out the medicinal powder that she had prepared earlier and poured it into the bucket without any hesitation.

I was immediately astonished. This powder was prepared by us two days ago. Why would she pour it in?

I saw her stirring the bucket with a long spoon in her hand. After a while, the bucket started to emit heat and a strong sweet smell came out from the bucket. When I looked out, I realized that the water in the bucket had turned into porridge.

Wait, what's going on?

So the reason why we've been busy in the forest for so long is not to make poison, but to feed these hungry bandits who haven't eaten anything hot for so long?

Could it be that Chi Lishu had already predicted that we would be locked up here?

My mind was filled with questions. Chi Lishu, with the help of the French hostage Ai Ma, began to distribute food to the women who had been rescued, using the utensils of the people lying on the ground. Some of them couldn't even be put into bowls, and some could only be served with wine glasses.

The cellar, which had been incredibly intense just a moment ago, suddenly turned into the Ramadan Hall.

After a bowl of steaming hot meat entered their stomachs, those young women who had suffered through countless humiliations finally began to slowly regain their senses. After some people began to wake up and communicate with each other, they helped the sober people to feed the skinny boys and girls porridge.

This packet of powder contained a bucket of water. Even I was given a bowl of it. After drinking it, I felt warm all over.

During this period, the reinforced steel plate was constantly attacked, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get inside.

Chi Lishu got involved with the group of people and started talking and laughing with them. They seemed to have completely forgotten their own situation.

Time passed bit by bit. After eating two meals, everyone finally became more normal. Chi Lishu was in no hurry to leave. She actually found a small blackboard and taught them a lesson.

She spoke of hatred, cultivation, and revenge.

Everyone who sat was extremely serious. The reason why they were here was mostly because of their outstanding aptitude, or because they were born with the same origin. People like them were the easiest to walk the path of cultivation.

Chi Lishu was well-prepared. Nobody was in a hurry as long as they had enough food and drinks, and she taught these people and urged me to relax and study here.

However, he wasn't sure if it was just an illusion, but as time passed, the sound of the reinforced steel plate colliding with each other became smaller and smaller.

By the fourth day, she had finished eating the powder she brought.

After thinking for a moment, she suddenly said to me, "Alright, it's about time. Let's go open the steel plate …"

I was stunned and asked if there was someone guarding outside.

She smiled and shook her head. She said you should open it and take a look.

I remembered what happened to Liu Zhao. I pointed at that guy and said, "Let him go?" Chi Lishu shook her head and said, "No, I'll let you go."

She was insistent, and I didn't want to be ridiculed, so I forced myself to rip open the reinforced steel plate and opened the already deformed cellar entrance.

When I stretched my head out to face the danger of having the top of my head lifted off, I was shocked by the scene before me.