Did the Seventh Prince attend court today?

With the full moon high in the sky, a group of people, in pairs, carrying torches and sacks, moved through the quiet mountain path.

The summer night air in the mountains was filled with the sounds of insects, occasionally interspersed with shouts.

"Hurry up, everyone. We need to meet with the people from the training center first thing tomorrow morning. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can get some rest!"

The short man had a high-pitched voice and ran back and forth between the two ends of the line, supervising his subordinates as they worked.

The mountain path was difficult to traverse. The burly man, carrying a sack on his back, wiped his sweat and grumbled, "The boss is always causing trouble, and the pay is getting less and less. Let whoever wants to do this work do it. After this job, I'm going back to my hometown to farm!"

The shorter man said, "Stop complaining. We caught some good stuff this time, so we'll definitely get our share."

Scar remained silent.

The Pixiu swaggered over the heads of the group, listening to every word they said.

It glanced at the hidden guards lurking in the tree, its eyes darting around, before turning to chase after the cargo ship from Texas.

Unfortunately, it arrived too late. The secret guards had already silently taken control of the ship and were interrogating the survivors.

The plan went smoothly. The Pixiu flew around the boat once and returned to the cave before the kidnappers.

[Boss! Boss! There's something new going on—]

Before we even entered the cave, the Pixiu started shouting, but its voice abruptly stopped halfway through.

Youlu lifted her head from Cang Shuyue's arms, lazily yawned, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "Is there any new information?"

My boyfriend's embrace was so comfortable that I started to feel sleepy after eating, and he almost fell asleep.

The Pixiu stared wide-eyed at the two embracing, "We're fighting bloody battles outside, and you're here being all lovey-dovey? Do you think you've done right by everyone's sacrifices?!"

"But I'm kidnapped right now, and my boyfriend is wounded. It seems like we can't do anything else besides offering advice from the rear, right?" Youlu spread her hands, speaking with conviction.

Upon hearing this, Cang Shuyue, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them and coughed twice.

Youlu immediately cried out anxiously, "Baby, are you alright? Please don't leave me, waaaaah..."

brave troops:【……】

Those two are such good actors.

No wonder they're my perfect match, they're such a good couple!

Pixiu said he was hooked, and the annoyance of working overtime late at night only to find his colleagues having fun vanished instantly.

It landed on the deer's leg, gesturing excitedly: "New intelligence! Tomorrow morning, the kidnappers are taking the people from Texas to some kind of 'training center,' and they have accomplices!"

You Lu revealed an expression that said, "I knew it."

This is a complete industry chain, from selecting targets to kidnapping, secretly transporting them to other regions, and finally training and selling them. Countless people are involved, and countless others profit from it. And this is only the seller; the buyers are not even involved yet.

It is clear that what they have discovered so far is only the tip of the iceberg of this dark industry.

Even if the Yi family falls, this industry chain will not disappear. Those who have tasted the benefits will only lie low for a while, then go their separate ways and form new trading networks. At that time, it will be even more difficult to eliminate these people.

A whole net is easy to catch, but scattered pieces of the net are hard to retrieve.

Youlu looked at Cang Shuyue and said, "Father and Mother are right. The Yi family cannot be touched yet."

Cang Shuyue had already told him the contents of the Crown Prince's letter. Although it was a pity that the poisoning incident had not completely brought down the Yi family, it was not all bad.

He told Cang Shuyue about the training center, saying, "The arrival of new people means that the previous batch of people who were arrested may be sold. I suspect they might conduct the transactions in that underground secret room. And the selling method will probably be bidding."

There are no auction houses in Dayong, but the auction method already exists and is called bidding.

Cang Shuyue nodded slightly. "I told my men to wait until the ship from Texas returned before making their move, because I wanted to see how the kidnappers would handle the hostages after they picked them up, and whether there were any other organizations behind them. It seems I was right."

"The entrances to the three secret rooms are all guarded. I will also send people to infiltrate the training workshop to search for evidence such as rosters and ledgers."

"As expected of my boyfriend, you're amazing!" Youlu smiled and rewarded him with a sweet kiss, then nuzzled against his chest. "You need to take good care of yourself too."

This sentence is like a switch, signifying that they are saying goodbye.

Cang Shuyue tightened her arms and murmured in a nasal voice, "I don't want to be separated from the baby."

"I can't bear to part with my precious one either." Youlu pouted and whimpered.

The Pixiu looked speechless. "Don't go too far! It's only been a few days!"

A bird call rang out from outside the cave; it was Yinwu's signal.

Cang Shuyue carried the deer back to its cage, reluctantly letting go of the person in his arms. After a pause, he took out a sock and helped the deer put it on, then kissed the corner of the deer's lips and said in a deep voice, "Wait for me."

Not daring to look any longer, he turned and fled from the cave.

As the deer watched his figure disappear into the night, it wiped its eyes and said urgently, "Quick, quick! The chain on this cage just broke! Get me a new one! And cover the bones in the corner with grass!"

Seeing the duck leg that had been gnawed clean in the corner, the Pixiu yelled: "You've been stealing food from me again!"

The man and the beast worked together for a while, managing to clean up the mess just before the kidnappers returned.

Youlu sat quietly in the cage, hugging his legs, watching the kidnappers busily carrying sacks into the cave. Inside the sacks were beautiful young girls, and among them a boy of about fourteen or fifteen.

As the kidnappers opened the cages one by one to lock the people inside, the deer and the pixiu held their breath.

The man and the beast exchanged a glance, secretly praying that the kidnappers wouldn't discover the broken chain.

In the heat of the moment, Pixiu swapped the broken chain on the deer cage with the chain in the next cage. If this is discovered, it will definitely arouse suspicion because the signs of human intervention are too obvious.

【Amitabha Buddha, may the Heavenly Venerable grant boundless blessings, Amen, please don't let us be discovered!】 Pixiu clasped his hands together, nervously staring at the group of kidnappers.

Fortunately, not many people were sent from Texas. It seemed that, in order to distinguish them from the animals with deer, the kidnappers locked the newcomers in cages on the opposite side, thus saving both the man and the animal from harm.

Only after the kidnappers had locked up the person and left did Youlu breathe a sigh of relief. The real thrill wasn't the secret meeting itself, but the aftermath.

The person sent from Texas showed no signs of waking up, apparently because they had been fed something. Yu Lu wanted to inquire about the situation in Texas, but seeing this, he had to give up on that idea.

My gaze inadvertently fell on the socks on my feet, and a sweet feeling welled up inside me. My boyfriend is so thoughtful; he not only brings me food but also clothes.

Then came the doubt.

Why did Cang Shuyue only bring one sock? Did he lose one halfway through?

Meanwhile, after Cang Shuyue met up with Yin Wu, who had arranged the operation, the two returned to the inn under the cover of night. Yin Wu began to report on tonight's operation and the subsequent arrangements.