Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

Chapter 361 The Rescuer and the Rescued

Strange, why does my head feel dizzy...

Mo Yan covered his head with his hands, the world spinning in his eyes. After Kailin fell unconscious on his chest with a "thump", he also completely lost consciousness.

……

After an unknown amount of time, when Mo Yan opened his eyes again, the scene before him had completely changed.

He was sitting against the wall with his hands tied behind his back, and Karen was also unconscious and tied to his shoulders. They were in a dark and damp underground secret room. There was a faint fire burning around, illuminating the room, and the air was filled with the smell of decay and blood.

"here it is……"

He was about to speak when footsteps suddenly sounded from the corridor outside the door. Then, a burly man with his upper body almost naked came up to him.

"Awake?" He said in a hoarse voice, then squatted in front of him.

"Who are you? Where is this place? How did we get here?" Mo Yan looked at the man in front of him warily.

“So many questions.”

The man smiled wickedly, his rough fingers gripping Mo Yan's chin and forcing him to look up. Firelight flickered across his scarred face, and the mechanical prosthetic eye in his right eye glowed crimson.

"Listen carefully. We are what you call the barbarians, and this is where we gather in secret. As for why we are here, I think you should know better than us, right?"

Mo Yan shook his head violently and broke free from his hand. He then frowned and said sternly, "So you're the accomplices of the Fallen Angel Brigade that secretly infiltrated Linglang! You sent people to frame us, and then brought us here. What's your conspiracy?"

The man simply chuckled. "Let me correct you. We only have a cooperative relationship with the Fallen Angel Troupe. As for why I brought you here, it's to testify that you are the spies sent into the city by the Troupe."

At this moment, Kailin beside her also opened her eyes dazedly. When she saw the scene in front of her, she instantly woke up: "What's going on? Where is this place?"

"Hey, it seems your friend is awake too." The man looked at Kailin and smiled.

"He is a barbarian. He was the one who framed us. I don't know how he brought us here." Mo Yan turned around and explained.

Upon hearing this, Kailin was instantly enraged: "What? So it was you who had someone falsely accuse us!"

"So what? But when you are 'rescued', the charge will be established." The man smiled again.

Mo Yan frowned and asked, "Since you want to make us traitors, why don't you just kill us in jail? That would save you a lot of trouble."

The man suddenly laughed, his mechanical eye making a harsh clicking sound. "Because that way, there would be no evidence, and it would also make it easy for those guys to identify us. Wouldn't that be more trouble than it's worth? So we used some of our old tricks. We took advantage of our proximity to the jailer and added some magic to your juice. That way, we could catch them off guard and quietly get you out of the cell."

"Juice?" Mo Yan was stunned.

If he remembered correctly, he had checked the food very carefully, and there should be no problem at all. And shouldn't the knockout drug have an immediate effect? ​​He drank a lot at the time, but the drug still didn't work for a long time.

"Could it be Zhao Heng and the others?"

Hearing this, Kailin was a little confused: "That's not right. Even if the jailer is here, it shouldn't be that easy if you want to take us away from the prison."

The man nodded. "Smart! That's what we were thinking, too. But when we were about to raid the cell, the jailer fell asleep. He was holding a half-filled pot of wine, so he must have been drunk. That saved us a lot of trouble."

Mo Yan's pupils shrank upon hearing this. A drunken jailer? That couldn't be further from the truth. The jailer who'd been on shift change had said that Linglang Siji treated every soldier very harshly, and that even accepting two raw stones would result in a death sentence. How could such dereliction of duty actually occur? It was absolutely impossible!

At this moment, Kailin gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Humph, don't be too proud too soon, our companions will definitely come to rescue us!"

"Companions? Hahaha!" The man suddenly laughed. "Don't have any illusions. You don't even know whether your two friends are dead or alive!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Mo Yan and Kailin's expressions changed at the same time.

"What do you mean?" Kailin asked loudly.

"Do you think that once you escape from the prison and leave the cell, your companions will be safe? On the contrary, they will be the first suspects. And I just went with the flow and made them accomplices of 'assisting the fugitive'." The man stood up with a grin, his mechanical prosthetic eyes flashing a dangerous red light.

"What on earth did you do to them!" Karen yelled angrily and tried to get up, but she was pulled back by the chain behind her just when she was halfway up.

"Hahaha~ Don't worry. You'll be able to meet them soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, two people wearing cloaks and masks suddenly came behind the man.

"You're back pretty quickly." Hearing the voice, the man slowly turned his head. "Is everything settled?"

"Of course," the masked woman said in a deliberately raspy voice. "According to the doctor's instructions, we lured them out of the hotel under the guise of military personnel. The bodies have already been buried. I believe that by tomorrow, news will spread throughout the city that the foreign traveler, acting as a traitor within the brigade, escaped with the help of his companions."

"These are their personal belongings." Another masked male threw two long sticks on the ground. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be Zhao Heng's spear and Zi Xuan's staff.

"Haha, well done! It seems the Fallen Angel Troupe does have some capable people under their command!" the man laughed.

Looking at the weapons on the ground, Mo Yan's heart sank suddenly at this moment. However, when he looked at the two masked men again, they were secretly making gestures to him.

"I see..." Mo Yan smiled barely perceptible.

When Kailin heard this, she looked confused.

"So what should we do with these two people next?" asked the masked man.

"Let's get rid of them. They are of no use anyway." The man smiled slightly and made a gesture of slashing his neck with a knife, then turned around and prepared to leave.

However, not long after, he suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, don't do it here, otherwise the smell will be too strong."

"clear."

The two nodded and bowed slightly, then came behind Mo Yan and Kailin respectively.

The masked man removed the shackles on their hands that were connected to the iron chains on the wall, and then escorted them out of the house. During the process, Karen still struggled from time to time.

At this moment, the masked woman suddenly lowered her voice: "Linlin, it's us!"