236 THE BURNING CARRIAGE

To feel his arms around her waist, Senja's tension finally a little bit relaxed. Xiao Tianyao could feel the girl trembling body under his embraced, however he didn't say anything except hugged her body tighter.

The man with the whip looked like he was their leader as the other men in red robe have been trying to protect him every time Xiao Tianyao managed to get close to him.

This battle didn't seem would end soon.

Right at that time, their attention was distracted to one of the burning carriages not too far from them. Didn't know what they had done until that carriage caught in fire. The horses that tied on it were going berserk.

The horses ran around and raised their front legs in attempt to release themselves from their bearing strap in order to avoid the fire.

"There are children inside." Senja meekly said.

The feeling from all of those children inside the burning carriage overwhelmed her, she felt like she was the one that being burn. This thing suffocated her.

Xiao Tianyao who didn't know about what Senja was sensing only assumed that the girl just shocked from the previous murdered attempt, that was why she looked pale.

Actually, Senja wasn't that weak. She was still able to hold herself together if there wasn't any negative feeling that crept in her own emotion. This intense emotion of someone else has been sucked her energy dry. She would never get used with this.

Xiao Tianyao leapt high and fast with Senja, in another second they landed at the near a burning carriage. He raised his sword and sliced the rope that tied to the horses. Afterwards, a dozen of horses scattered in all direction, leaving the burning carriage behind.

Senja wriggled free from Xiao Tianyao embraced, but the man didn't release her. "I will try to open the carriage." Senja told him her intention. Aside from her aggravate feeling, she couldn't stand on the side and let the fire burn the children inside the carriage, right? Now, Senja even could hear the sound of those children were crying from inside.

However, after Senja short explanation Xiao Tianyao still didn't release her. Xiao Tianyao walked to the door of burning carriage and put Senja slightly behind him as he slashed the padlock on the carriage door.

In one attempt the padlock was cut into two as the door flung open.

Inside the carriage there were around 10 children. All of them gather together in the corner as they were hugging each other while crying.

And there he was. The kid from her second vision with blood trickle down from his forehead, maybe he bumped into something inside the carriage when the horses went berserk in order to avoid the fire. He looked pale, his rag like clothes wrapped his tinny body.

And two things happened almost simultaneously. Xiao Tianyao pulled Senja aside and a whip hit the ground where Senja stood before.

"Stay here." Xiao Tianyao warned her as he moved forward to face the man with whip and the other men in red robes that they had left behind before.

While Xiao Tianyao was engaging himself with them, Senja stumbled to the front of the open door of the carriage carefully so the fire wouldn't touch her dress and open her arms. "Come here." Senja exclaimed to get the children attention.

The older among them raised his small head and shook his head in fear. The flame was almost burn the entrance of the carriage. "Come here." Senja desperately called them again.

No one from the children brave enough to move from their spot and its frustrated Senja further. How she could coax them to get down? Due to her dress she couldn't enter without getting burn as well, it same like suicide for her if she insisted to get inside the carriage.