"Crown Prince, you should go." Jun Ning was not an ordinary child under three years old. She understood the Crown Prince’s words and his concerns. "If something really happens to me here, you can just say I sneaked in by myself, and it has nothing to do with you."
Jun Ning sighed. "This way, Father won’t do anything to you."
"I would like that too, but, but..." The Crown Prince hesitated for a long time, then suddenly lifted Jun Ning in his arms. As if making a decision, he firmly said, "But you are my sister! My only sister, how could I just watch you be in danger and do nothing?"
"Enough, enough." The Crown Prince admitted defeat, "Going out to handle business and running into you is my calamity. I am destined to have this disaster, I can’t avoid it, so I have to endure it."
He snorted arrogantly, cleared his throat, and helped Jun Ning shout: "Run quickly, the officials are coming to catch people."
In his heart, the Crown Prince acknowledged Jun Ning’s method of shouting.
But he felt it wasn’t playing by the rules and was too risky.
"Your voice isn’t loud enough, louder," Jun Ning reminded.
The Crown Prince then shouted a few more times with increased volume.
An adult’s voice, no matter what, is louder and heavier than a child’s, and can travel to a much wider area.
Especially the Crown Prince’s voice, deliberately loud, on top of being a martial artist, he was full of energy, so his shout was very powerful.
Compared to Jun Ning’s earlier call, they were worlds apart.
Jun Ning was very close to the Crown Prince’s mouth and felt it most distinctly.
At this moment, her whole head was buzzing.
She couldn’t help but be impressed, that loud voice was something!
The people in the haunted house must have heard it.
They indeed heard it.
The group guarding the haunted house immediately panicked.
"What, the officials are here?"
"Everyone quickly pack up, take the kids and run."
"Our lives are the priority, we mustn’t fall into the hands of those officials, or we’ll surely die."
The people guarding the haunted house knew they were doing shady business, so they arranged their people nearby to keep watch.
If the officials ever came, they were to shout loudly to inform them.
So when they heard someone shouting that the officials came, no one doubted, and quickly packed their things to flee.
The group hurriedly gathered some important documents, then carried the six bound children and retreated, hurrying to retreat.
But halfway through their retreat, they found that each holding a child was retreating too slowly.
Because these children were around seven or eight years old and quite heavy.
Escaping with them would surely fail.
After some consideration, the men in black decided to leave the six children behind, thinking they could catch six more tomorrow, to count, and discarded their burdens to save their own lives.
If the green hills last, there will always be wood to burn.
The Crown Prince, holding Jun Ning, cautiously searched for a long time before finally finding those six children and rescuing them.
The two untied the bindings from the six children and led them outside.
These children, after being captured, were passed around many people and were really frightened.
They walked behind the Crown Prince and Jun Ning, terrified, not daring to say much.
Whatever the Crown Prince and Jun Ning told them to do, they did.
Jun Ning told them, "Don’t be afraid, we’re here to rescue you. and you’ll surely get out of here and back to your parents."
Hearing this, the children still cautiously watched the pair, one big one small.
They were abducted through sweet words.
They dared not trust others again.
"We’re good people," the Crown Prince said, "Trust us, okay?"
The six children nodded.
But if the Crown Prince got closer and observed carefully, he would see their unwillingness on their faces.
The Crown Prince held Jun Ning and continued forward.
They just needed to move forward another two or three hundred meters until they reached the haystack where they were chased by men in black, and they wouldn’t have to fear those who abandoned the six children catching up. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ novel※fire.net
They would be out of danger and safe.
The children were also saved.
With victory in sight, the Crown Prince and Jun Ning exchanged a smile.
But accidents happen so suddenly, catching people off guard, even unexpected.
As they passed a house with some light, the six children, seemingly in agreement, suddenly shouted loudly, the Crown Prince had no time to stop them.
"Someone help, save us."
"There are bad people trying to catch us and use us to make medicine."
A single child’s call might not attract much attention, but the shouts of six children were deafening.
Soon, they attracted the people inside the house.
And the people in the house were not good citizens; they were the lookouts arranged by those from the haunted house.
The Crown Prince’s sudden shout had already puzzled them; clearly, no officials were nearby, who was shouting?
Now hearing the children’s cries for help, they finally understood.
Earlier it was someone trying to rescue these children by impersonating their call.
But the children, biting the hand that fed them like Lv Dongbin, didn’t recognize good intentions, and wanted to escape from the rescuers’ hands? Still pinning hopes on them?
Children are just children, lacking basic discernment.
How sad and lamentable!
"I’d like to see which scoundrel dares to ruin our business?"
"Brothers, hurry and get the weapons. Tonight, we must take down these scoundrels and use them along with those children to make medicine."
"Those who ruin our big business will surely die."
The five or six people in the house, angry, quickly picked up their weapons and walked in the direction of the sound.
The Crown Prince saw those coming out with large knives and took a sharp breath, incredulously glancing at the six children, tightening his grip on Jun Ning.
Jun Ning was also visibly stunned.
They were trying to save them.
But they? They were rushing to their deaths, and wanted to take them with them?
The six children thought the people in the house were their saviors, as long as they shouted hard, they would be saved.
But seeing the ones coming out carrying large knives, dressed just like those from the haunted house, and holding the same knives, they suddenly realized they were wrong.
These people were clearly all together.
Only this tall man and the miraculous little dog in his arms really wanted to save them.
But what had they done?
At a young age, the six children experienced what it felt like to destroy their own hope of survival, harm those who wanted to save them, and feel deeply ashamed.