Cang Xuan was still dressed as a thug. The moment Wang Yue saw his figure, she stood up and blocked in front of Su Yuanyuan.
However, upon hearing the young girl's call, Wang Yue was taken aback.
Brother Yun Jian? Wang Yue was stunned. Wasn't this guy a lackey of the Wang Family's business firm? Could it be that this was Yuanbao's husband? And wasn't he afraid of being discovered by those people when he walked in so openly?
As if to confirm Wang Yue's speculation, Su Yuanyuan patted her on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Sister, don't be afraid. This is indeed my husband. He also disguised himself as a person from the Wang Family's business firm and sneaked in with us."
Cang Xuan threw a key at Wang Yue. Wang Yue caught it clumsily. Looking up, she saw Cang Xuan squatting down himself to unlock the shackles on Su Yuanyuan's feet.
Only then did Wang Yue know what the key in her hand was for. She also unlocked her own shackles.
After standing up, Wang Yue couldn't help asking, "Aren't we afraid of being discovered and caught like this?"
Su Yuanyuan said, "Since Brother Yun Jian can walk in here openly, it means that all the people outside have been under his control. This manor can be said to be in our pocket now."
"Sister, come on. Let's go save people."
Cang Xuan took Su Yuanyuan's hand, and the two walked out of the room together, heading in the direction of the dungeon as shown on the map.
As Su Yuanyuan had said, they would encounter a guard every now and then on the way, but those guards seemed not to see the three of them and walked past them without even a glance.
These two people, one with excellent medical skills and the other with such a superb disguise technique, could not only avoid the detection of the hunting dogs but also control all the guards in the manor. Their abilities were really remarkable!
Soon, they found the entrance to the dungeon. Before they got close, they could feel a cold wind blowing from inside.
Inside Su Yuanyuan's mind, Xiao Ba couldn't hide his excitement and said, [Little Yuanbao, Xiao Ba senses it. It's the master, the master's aura! The master is inside!]
Although Su Yuanyuan had been mentally prepared, when she really confirmed it from Xiao Ba, she still couldn't help taking a deep breath.
And when Cang Xuan thought that his biological mother was locked inside and he couldn't meet her since childhood, his jaw tightened unconsciously, and his breathing also became heavier involuntarily. Sensing his intense emotions, Su Yuanyuan held his hand back, sending him silent comfort.
There were still two guards guarding the entrance to the dungeon, but those two guards had also drunk the wine mixed with puppet silk, so they were indifferent to the arrival of the few people.
The sight darkened. The three of them carried torches and walked into the dungeon.
The dark dungeon was filled with an indescribable smell. Their footsteps echoed all around. All they could see were cages one after another. Inside those cages, it wasn't people but mountains of boxes. In some cages, there were directly many mechanisms, hidden weapons, and weapons. Cang Xuan was very familiar with those things. They were all placed in the Qianji Pavilion of the Prince of Cangjun's Mansion.
The deeper they went, the colder Cang Xuan's expression became.
Inside Su Yuanyuan's mind, Xiao Ba also kept saying, [Go forward, go forward. The master is in front.]
Just then, a woman's laughter came from the depths of the dungeon.
"Hahaha—"
The sudden laughter was a bit shrill, drowning out their footsteps and echoing in their ears. It was somehow creepy.
After the laughter, there came suppressed sobbing.
The sobbing was mournful and heart - rending, making people tremble involuntarily.
After sobbing for a while, the woman started singing. The whining song was very gentle, as if she was coaxing someone.
After turning the last corner, the situation in front of them came into view.
At the end of the dungeon was a very large cage. Inside the cage sat a woman with a thin figure and messy hair. Two thick iron chains could be seen extending from the wall to under her skirt.
At this time, she was lowering her head, gently patting the package in her arms and humming one nursery rhyme after another.
It was obvious to anyone that her state was different from that of a normal person. She would cry and laugh from time to time and also hum songs. Apparently, she had gone crazy.
Realizing this, Cang Xuan stopped in his tracks and raised his hand to press on his chest. There was a dense pain there, as if someone had tightly wrapped his heart with thorns full of sharp spines, making it bleed.
He could hardly stand steadily, and most of his body leaned on Su Yuanyuan.
He didn't dare to go any further.
At this moment, he would rather he had misrecognized the person. The woman locked inside wasn't his mother.
But inside Su Yuanyuan's mind, Xiao Ba said with absolute certainty, [Master, it's the master! After so many years, Xiao Ba has finally found you, master!]
I don't know if she had some kind of premonition, but the woman in the cage raised her head and looked in their direction.
The firelight on the side of the dungeon wall shone on her face, and finally they could see her appearance clearly.
A pair of glazed eyes as bright and gorgeous as gems, a face so pale that it was terrifying because of the lack of sunlight for many years. Although it had been eroded by years, that face was still so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off.
That face—was at least 80% similar to Cang Xuan's.
Seeing the three of them, the woman's eyes widened slightly. Then, showing a look of panic, she threw the thing in her arms on the ground, raised her hand to cover her shoulder, and screamed as she stepped back.
"Don't come closer, don't come closer. I'll be obedient!"
Her retreating movements tugged at the chains on both sides of the rock wall. Immediately, the screams of the woman and the sound of the chains rubbing echoed in the dungeon. And they clearly saw the thing that she had been holding in her arms just now. It was a package disguised as a baby. Just now, she had been holding this thing and coaxing...
At this point, Cang Xuan could no longer control himself. He rushed forward and tried to chop open the door of the cage with one palm.
But the cage was made of extremely hard iron. Not only was it not chopped open smoothly, but his hand was also shaken painfully. And his sudden rush forward even made the woman in the cage let out a more shrill scream and struggle more violently.
Su Yuanyuan quickly said to Wang Yue, "Sister, go quickly and find the key to open the cage."
After Wang Yue ran away, Su Yuanyuan stepped forward and hugged Cang Xuan from behind, saying continuously, "Brother Yun Jian, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry. We have the key and can open the cage door. Don't scare her."
The young girl's embrace somewhat soothed Cang Xuan's out - of - control emotions. He regained a little bit of his rationality and found that he had been crying without knowing when. And when Cang Xuan stopped trying to smash the door, the woman in the cage also became quiet.
"The key is here!" After a while, Wang Yue ran back out of breath with the key. Her hands were trembling when she used the key to open the cage.
Removing the chains and pushing open the cage door, Cang Xuan walked into the cage step by step with a pair of slightly trembling hands, walking towards his biological mother whom he had searched all over the Great Chu for ten years.
The woman in the cage had already become quiet.
No one noticed that she had already removed her defensive posture and was sitting there quietly, watching Cang Xuan approaching her.
She let out an extremely soft murmur, "Yun Jian? Yun... Jian?"