After midnight

Shangguan Can walked behind Lin Nuan and thought of Zhao Yunshuang for no reason. In this long and dark place, he could only see Lin Nuan's blurry and thin figure. Perhaps it was this similar figure that reminded Shangguan Can of her. He shouldn't have thought of her. The war was imminent and he needed to be on high alert at all times, but at this time, he thought of her.

After Zhao Yunqi passed away, they came to Xindu. She stayed by his side, watching him join the revolutionary army and start over, and he stayed by her side to comfort her. They spent this cold, long, dark winter together. Thinking of this, Shangguan Can's heart was filled with great joy and warmth.

"Is she okay?"

"Who?"

"Yun Shuang."

She called her Yun Shuang, but he had never heard Yun Shuang mention Lin Nuan. However, Shangguan Can still answered honestly: "Not bad."

Shangguan Can finished speaking and waited for a moment before hearing Lin Nuan say, "That's good. Treat her well."

"Of course, she's great." Shangguan Can answered without thinking too much. Because in his eyes, Yun Shuang was great in every way.

After Shangguan Can finished speaking, the two returned to their initial silence. Shangguan Can followed Lin Nuan, walking forward carefully. Inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of Lin Nuan's slender arms and hands resting on the rock wall. Yes, Lin Nuan was the only girl in their team. Not only that, she was also the heir of the Lin family and the young lady of the Lu family. She couldn't stay at home like Yun Shuang and wait for him to come back. She had to stand here.

Shangguan Can felt a sudden surge of admiration and followed Lin Nuan. He couldn't afford to be outdone by a girl.

After seeing a glimmer of light ahead, Lin Nuan breathed a sigh of relief and then a breath of relief. She didn't know how things were going inside, or if everything was going smoothly. As she walked closer, she found that the rock wall had a gap just like the entrance, so she quickly slipped into it.

Then she ran quickly to the corner on the left, where two children were curled up on a pile of wet rice.

Lin Nuan panicked and shook them, trying to wake them up, but they didn't respond. When Lin Nuan was about to check their breath, the door creaked open. Lin Nuan squatted there and stared at the gap, her heart beating in her throat.

"Lin Nuan! Shangguan Can!" Zhou Chen called out.

"Zhou Chen, what's going on?" Great, it's Zhou Chen, Lin Nuan asked hurriedly.

"Come with me first." Zhou Chen put the little girl in his arms next to the two children and turned back. Lin Nuan and Shangguan Can quickly followed. Zhou Chen hurriedly explained to the two as they walked. "This is the seventh floor of the entire dungeon. Everyone has been dealt with. There are about 20 to 30 children on the sixth floor. They are all unconscious in the same room. No matter how much we call, they can't be awakened."

When they passed through the lobby on the seventh floor and were about to go up the stairs, a man in a white coat came down with a child in his arms and another on his back.

"Who?" Zhou Chen quickly raised his right arm.

"It's me. My name is Song Yuan. Don't worry. I am a retainer of Young Master Xinjun. I have been imprisoned here for twenty years and I had no choice. Now I want to rescue these children just like you." Song Yuan quickly explained everything.

“Shangguan Can, you follow him. Zhou Chen, let’s go up quickly.” Lin Nuan made arrangements quickly, and Zhou Chen and Shangguan Can did as they were told.

After going up the stairs and passing through the secret door at the corner, Lin Nuan followed Zhou Chen all the way to where the children were sleeping. The door of the room was wide open, and the temperature was as cold as outside. Under the white blankets, there were dozens of small bodies of children. Lin Nuan took a breath of cold air.

"Where is Song Xinjun?" she asked.

"He left this place to me and went upstairs alone." Zhou Chen did not dare to stop what he was doing. He picked up another child and prepared to go out.

Watching Zhou Chen's actions and the unconscious children here, Lin Nuan made a decision. "Song Xinjun can't do it alone, and this place can't go on like this. Zhou Chen, I have to go up."

"You are right, little girl. There are still children trapped upstairs. I have told Master Xinjun how to get help, but someone has to go and help him." At this time, Shangguan Can and Song Yuan happened to come back.

The anxious look on Song Yuan's face didn't seem fake. Lin Nuan looked at him. Perhaps because he was a little old, he was a little out of breath after the back and forth trip, but he still stood straight and spoke calmly, trying not to lose his demeanor.

"Your name is Song Yuan?"

"Yes."

"Did Song Xinjun ask you to help us?"

"Correct."

Song Yuan calmly welcomed Lin Nuan's gaze. He already knew that among these people, this little girl was the one who had the final say.

“Lin Nuan, he ran back right after he put the child down, so there shouldn’t be any problem.” Shangguan Can interrupted at the right time.

“Okay, then you guys be careful, Shangguan Can, you stay too.” Lin Nuan gave instructions and strode away.

Zhou Chen carried the child away, and Shangguan Can and Song Yuan also hurried into the house to continue this huge project. In between picking up a child, Song Yuan asked Shangguan Can, "Is the girl's surname Lin?"

"Yes, Lin Nuan from the Lin family." Shangguan Can answered.

In this question and answer, Lin Nuan quickly found the stairs leading to the fifth floor, and then she walked up.

Song Xinjun listened to Song Yuan's suggestion and first pried open the door of Room 505. This room was still locked, so it seemed that Song Yuan's suggestion was somewhat reasonable. Song Xinjun pried open the lock and went in.

From the moment he entered here, pale lights were everywhere, in the kitchen, hall, laboratory, and those narrow corridors. But only here, this room was completely dark. After Song Xinjun came in, he leaned against the closed iron door and did not dare to move for a while. He stood quietly for a while, and his eyes could barely distinguish the layout of this place.

Across the empty space in front of him, the double beds were lined up against the wall. He was about to move closer to see the people Song Yuan was talking about when a beam of light shot towards his face.

"Who are you? I've never seen outsiders here."

Song Xinjun blocked the light with his hand and turned his head away in horror. The light came from the left side of his body.

After getting the reaction, the light no longer shone on him, but on the ceiling. Song Xinjun put down his arm and saw a middle-aged man with dark yellow skin, with his arms crossed and his legs stretched out in the quilt, sitting on the upper bunk of the bed at the door, looking at him calmly.

"I'll wake up as soon as you move the lock outside," the man continued, without any fear.

"Where's Song Yuan? You've seen Song Yuan, right? You can't be the one coming down from above."

"If you don't speak up, they will wake up." As if to verify this statement, the rustling sounds of beds turning and snoring were suddenly heard in the room.

"Song Yuan went downstairs. I'm here to take you away."

"Impossible, who are you? Song Yuan actually listened to you. Could it be that you killed him?"

"Absolutely not. What I said is true."

"Hmph." The man snorted and got out of bed, and the corner of the blue-gray quilt fell out of the bed.

Not knowing what this person was going to do, Song Xinjun took a step back unconsciously, but he only saw him wake up the guy sleeping in the bunk below him, and then whispered softly. Then, the person who woke up also turned on the light, turned over and got out of bed calmly, without any panic. But what surprised Song Xinjun even more was that the person who just woke up only glanced at him and then started to call the other sleeping people.

This happened to everyone who was awakened. They turned on the dim lights and gathered together in a well-trained manner within two minutes, all looking at him.

Each weak light shone towards the ceiling, and then shone on everyone. Song Xinjun was stunned, and then he felt infinite sorrow from the bottom of his heart. He asked in a hoarse voice: "How long have you been here?"

This sentence has no subject and its direction is unclear. Everyone looked at each other in silence, and then a voice emerged.

"Twenty years."

Twenty years have passed, just like the Song and Yuan dynasties. A simple sentence represents the tragic life of so many people.

Song Xinjun couldn't bear to think about it any further, so he mustered the courage he should have.

"Everyone, I believe that everyone here is like Song Yuan, suffering from the torment of conscience, doing things against your will, being tortured in this dark place, unable to escape. But is this right? No, your knowledge and your talent should not be wasted on such evil and unjust things. You should have sunshine, spring breeze and freedom like me and everyone in this world, just like you were 20 years ago. You should be reunited with the people who love you, instead of dying miserably in such an abyss, cursed and unknown by everyone."

Song Xinjun was very nervous after he finished speaking. He didn't know how much they would listen to his words and whether they would come to help him. But after seeing them, he was sincere and he really wanted to say these words, so he continued without thinking.

"In the past twenty years, this may be the first time you have seen someone like me. But I want to make it clear that I am not just myself. Behind me are the Revolutionary Army, the Son of God, the Lin family, the Lu family, and all of us who came here to face death. And behind us is a broader hope, everyone. Everyone, we came here for nothing else but to end this place, to destroy it. And I believe we will only succeed, not fail."

Song Xinjun's blood boiled as he spoke, because this was exactly what he believed in. "So, please believe me. Get out from behind me, and then use your own actions to control your own destiny again."

"Young man, what's your name?"

"Song Xinjun." Wang Hai finally laughed after hearing this. He was the first person to wake up.

"Anyone who can be trusted by Song Yuan must not be an ordinary person. Tell me, what do you need us to do?" he said.