The exit of the secret passage in Mu Wulin's room was under his bed. Shen Li and Han Yue had no choice but to crawl out from under it.
Without any hesitation, Shen Li grabbed Han Yue's hand and ran out of Mu Wulin's room.
Outside, it was in a bit of a commotion. From time to time, groups of men armed with weapons would run in one direction.
Seeing this, Shen Li guessed that they must be going to capture the intruder, so she deliberately walked in the opposite direction. But just as they took a few steps, they were called out.
A bearded man holding a big knife stopped them when he saw Shen Li and Han Yue. "Hey! You two! Where are you going? The guy fled this way! Come this way! Hurry up!"
Hearing this, Shen Li scanned the surrounding bandits standing guard in the stockade with her eyes, then lowered her head and replied gruffly, "Yes! Coming!" Then she followed up.
The man glanced back at them and then turned around and walked on.
Looking at the well - lit and bustling Panhu Stockade, Shen Li made up her mind that she must find an opportunity to run away with Han Yue later.
The two of them slowly followed the group forward. Along the way, they saw more and more people going in the same direction. They were secretly shocked. The Panhu Stockade seemed different from what she had imagined.
According to the information from the Night Shade Division, there were about a thousand bandits in the Panhu Stockade. But as they walked along, they had seen more than a dozen squads, and each squad had twenty or thirty people. Plus the people still standing guard in the stockade, the number was definitely more than a thousand.
The information from the Night Shade Division was updated regularly, so she didn't think the information was wrong.
In that case, the Panhu Stockade must have deliberately hidden its strength to make outsiders relax their vigilance.
As there were more and more people in front of them, Shen Li and Han Yue still couldn't find a suitable opportunity to leave. Instead, they saw a man surrounded by the people in the Panhu Stockade.
Shen Li was standing quite far away and couldn't see the man's face clearly. She could only see that he was wearing the same clothes as the bandits in the Panhu Stockade and holding a long sword in his hand. There were already more than a dozen corpses on the ground.
Besides, Shen Li immediately noticed two special men standing not far from them outside the crowd. One was a slender man in a cyan long robe, looking like a scholar, and the other was a strong man in black short - sleeved clothes.
These two were Zhuang Yusheng, the second leader of the Panhu Stockade, and Mu Wulin, the third leader of the Panhu Stockade, whose voices they had heard in the secret passage before.
"Second brother! Look, what do you think of this guy's skills? I told you he was no ordinary man!" Mu Wulin looked at the man surrounded by the crowd.
"His skills are indeed remarkable. If he didn't have some abilities, how could he dare to break into our Panhu Stockade?" Zhuang Yusheng watched as the man killed another one of their subordinates while they were talking. A look of displeasure gradually appeared on his face.
"Second brother! Let me go and fight him!" Mu Wulin was eager to try.
"Go! Be careful!"
Then two little minions fetched Mu Wulin's weapons. They were two specially - made scimitars. Maybe because they had been stained with too much blood, the whole blade glowed coldly in the dark.
Mu Wulin took the weapons and stepped forward. Originally, they had been using a wheel - fighting strategy, planning to wear down the man's strength and then capture him. But now that Mu Wulin had come over, all the bandits around stepped aside.
"Good boy, how dare you come to our Panhu Stockade to cause trouble. Today, I'll show you the power of our Panhu Stockade." As Mu Wulin said, he threw the scimitars in his hands into the air, switched them between his left and right hands, and then strode towards the man.
Shen Li tightened her hand that was hanging by her side. While Mu Wulin was entangled with that man, this was actually a good opportunity to escape.
Shen Li and Han Yue exchanged a look and then quietly stepped back. But they had just taken two steps backward when Shen Li felt her right side bump into someone.
Shen Li immediately froze and didn't dare to move. Suddenly, she felt a puff of hot air on her neck. "Follow me!"
Han Yue was standing on Shen Li's left - hand side. She noticed something was wrong with Shen Li and took a slanting glance behind her. She saw an unfamiliar man with dark and rough skin. An alarm bell rang in her heart.
Shen Li also didn't move. She had good hearing and could recognize the voices of people she had heard before, but she had never heard the voice of this person.
Both Shen Li and Han Yue stood still on the spot. At the same time, they both quietly felt for the daggers hidden in their sleeves.
Just then, the man leaned over to Shen Li's ear again and said in an intimate tone, "Hehe! Little thing, if you don't leave now, Xuanshu won't be able to hold on!"
Hearing this familiar address, Shen Li immediately felt relieved. When she turned around to look, she saw a completely unfamiliar face.
But thinking of the "little thing" just now, which was indeed the nickname given to her by that guy, Xuanyuan Jue, and Xuanshu was indeed Xuanyuan Jue's subordinate. With that guy's cunningness, it was not difficult for him to change his face.
Shen Li gave Han Yue a reassuring look and then followed Xuanyuan Jue out of the crowd without hesitation.
This Xuanyuan Jue was really capable. The path he took with Shen Li and Han Yue was basically empty all the way. Soon, they reached the gate of the Panhu Stockade.
On the other side, not long after Xuanyuan Jue led Shen Li and Han Yue away, Xuanshu, who was entangled with Mu Wulin, fought and retreated, gradually approaching the gate of the stockade.
Zhuang Yusheng stared at Xuanshu's figure with a gloomy look in his eyes. He already knew Xuanshu's intention very well. Immediately, he ordered several squads to closely follow Xuanshu.
The three of them, Xuanyuan Jue, escaped from the Panhu Stockade and disappeared into the forest.
Xuanyuan Jue took out a signal flare and lit it on the open ground.
The flare made a loud "bang" in the air, and a beam of fire burned up, then disappeared into the dark night.
Hearing the familiar signal, Xuanshu didn't hesitate. He dodged Mu Wulin's knife attack, took a step back, and then threw a round object on the ground.
Immediately, a puff of smoke with a strong pungent smell spread out from the round object. Everyone covered their noses. When the smoke cleared, they looked at the original place, and Xuanshu was already gone.
"Where is he!" Mu Wulin angrily looked at the empty ground and roared.
"Damn it! We've been tricked!" Zhuang Yusheng shouted when he saw the empty place.
"Second brother? What do you mean? What on earth is going on?"
Mu Wulin still looked confused.
Zhuang Yusheng said with a look of regret on his face, "We've fallen into their trap of luring the tiger away from its den! They've all escaped."