Novel Full Chapter 1123: Rescuing Carrey
Chapter 1123: Rescuing Carrey
Eins took the lead for me and guided me towards a hidden staircase behind a bookshelf in one of the rooms.
Watching the bookshelf swing open to reveal the stairs, I couldn’t help but feel this was all too cliche.
Keeping my thoughts to myself, I descended the stairs behind Eins while my girls cleared out the rest of the building.
When we reached the bottom of the stairs, we stepped out into what looked like the classic dungeon with the jail cells and the slaves chained up inside them.
It also seems like we had arrived at a good time because a few men were currently in the midst of pulling a few slaves out of their cells.
No doubt, these guys must be moving the illegal slaves out from here like what Carrey had told us through her message.
And since I don’t see Carrey inside here, she must be somewhere deeper inside the dungeon.
The illegal slavers noticed me and immediately turned to growl at me.
“You… Who the fuck are you two?! How did you get in here?”
Hmm… I guess they still don’t know what’s happening upstairs? Heh… In that case…
I stepped forward, “Huh? Is that how you treat your customers? Some kind of establishment this is. Pathetic.”
The illegal slavers looked at each other in confusion, clearly not expecting such a response from who they thought was an intruder.
“Err… Did you hear anything about this?”
“How the heck would I hear anything about this? I’ve been here with you all this while right?”
“Someone upstairs must have showed them how to come in here… But I thought we were moving all our goods right now so they’re not for sale?”
“Maybe they’re here for one of the other slaves?”
“Then wouldn’t they just stay up–”
“Eins.”
My Shadow Guard moved the moment her name left my lips, her figure blurring towards the group of illegal slavers and striking them with her fists to send them flying away.
Unexpectedly, one of them actually managed to catch Eins’s fist, blocking her from punching him in the chin.
He growled at her, “What’s this? So you really were intruders after all? I guess I need to–”
He didn’t get to finish his words since Eins delivered a roundhouse kick to the side of his head and sent him crashing towards one of the jail cells, the guy hitting the metal bars with a resounding clang.
The slaves that the guys were trying to corral blinked at the defeated slavers before they turned their gaze towards me, clearly worried that we were not here to rescue them.
I cleared my throat, “Ahem… Don’t worry. We’re here with the knights after we heard this place was a hideout for an illegal slaver group. Could I ask that all of you cooperate and wait here while we check the rest of the dungeon before we bring you outside?”
The slaves immediately rushed towards me all of them crowding around me with grateful looks.
“Are you really here to save us?!”
“We’re going to be free right?”
“My son! Have you seen my son!”
“Please kill those slavers! They tormented us for so long!”
“Ahhh! I’ve fallen in love with you at first sight! Please go out with m– Bleeeurgh!”
Err… Eins, you don’t need to slap him just because he tried to confess to me you know… I wasn’t going to take him seriously anyway.
I waved my hands placatingly at them, “Please calm down. Don’t worry about it, these people will definitely face justice. We’ll just need you to wait in the corner over there while we free the rest of the slaves that they are keeping down here.”
The slaves didn’t look too convinced but I guess the sight of that guy being slapped by Eins made them go back into their fearful mode so they just nodded quickly and moved to the corner I pointed out.
Eins then went ahead to open the rest of the doors by literally pulling them off their hinges before directing all the other slaves to gather at the same place as well.
As we were still clearing this room, the door at the end of the room was shoved open and a large burly man stepped out while shouting at us.
“What is with all that ruckus?! Can’t you idiots even move some slaves quietly?! I can’t even hear– Huh?”
Eins immediately launched herself towards the guy and delivered a flying knee kick to the guy’s face, sending him flying back into the room.
Shouts of surprise and alarm came from within the room so that meant there were even more illegal slavers in there.
I charged in after her and… Hmm?
In the room, there was only a single cell and Carrey was held inside it. What made it weird was that there was a group of those illegal slavers that had been sitting in front of it and were currently in the midst of getting up after Eins kicked the guy back into the room.
“What the?! Who is…”
“What’s going on?!”
“Intruders?!”
“Mi… Mistress?!”
The last one was from Carrey who was gaping at me in surprise.
Why are you even surprised? Did you think I was going to abandon you or something? Or maybe she didn’t expect me to show up since she didn’t manage to get another message out before she got captured?
The slavers reacted to her words and turned back to me, their hostility suddenly dropping inexplicably.
“Ah… Ah! So you are Carrey’s owner? There seems to have been a misunderstanding! We didn’t capture her to sell her! We thought she was a runaway slave so we kept her here for safekeeping! You can take her with you right now! We’ll free her right away!”
I crossed my arms, “Save it. We already know that all of you are illegal slavers. You have the chance to surrender now and let yourselves be captured, or we’ll just beat all of you and capture you anyway.”
The slavers all looked at each other, then at Carrey before turning back to me.
I was worried that they might try to use Carrey as a hostage so I made sure to tell Funf who was still hiding in the dark corner of the room to protect her if they try to do that.
And sure enough, the illegal slavers all stood up and drew their weapons while a pair of them ran towards Carrey.
The guy at the front smirked at me, “Seems like you don’t understand what is happening here, miss. What are you going to do now that we have–”
I didn’t want to waste time hearing his monologue so I just pointed a finger at him and Eins immediately rushed forward, punching him in the face and breaking his nose.
She then leapt into the air and kicked out her legs, nailing two more of them to send them flying towards the sides of the room.
Two of the slavers opened the door to Carrey’s cell and she backed away from them, which didn’t get her far since the cell wasn’t even that big to begin with.
It looked like they would be able to grab her but Funf had already made her way above them and dropped down to smash both of them into the ground.
Seeing that their plan was foiled, they changed their target to me instead, probably thinking that I wouldn’t be able to protect myself.
I didn’t even need to do anything anyway since Eins immediately moved to protect me by smashing those slavers into the ground before they could even get close to me.
In just a few short seconds, all of them were knocked out cold, leaving only Eins, Funf, Carrey and myself standing.
I approached my Trasif slave, “Are you alright?”
“Ah… Yes, Mistress. They didn’t… They didn’t do anything to me.”
I nodded, “That’s good to hear. Are you hurt?”
“N… No, Mistress… But… Umm… May I ask how you knew I was here?”
I grinned mischievously at her, “Well, you’re not the only one with contacts around here~”
She paused before nodding in understanding, though I’m sure she was thinking about my contact being Unerolia instead.
I didn’t think telling her that I secretly made one of my Shadow Guards follow her was a good idea since she might take that as the wrong idea and think I didn’t trust her or something.
Anyway, Carrey secured! Time to round up the rest of the illegal slavers and then loot the place!
That’s right, I haven’t forgotten what Sister Rolia said about us keeping some of the money that we might find in here!
Just think of all the sweets I would be able to buy with the money!
Speaking of which… I wonder if the people upstairs are already done with the cleanup? I’m going to need them to round up all these slavers who are sprawled out around the room as well…