Chapter 149 - 147. Enraged II

Third person POV

Meiyun handed Hong er a paper scroll that contains information regarding the case. Hong er unrolled the scroll, the whole scroll was filled with names, places, etc. While Hong er was reading, Meiyun added a few things that Ah Tong and Ah Xi mentioned to her.

Meiyun: " Senior Tong and Senior Xi investigated that these case were originated from neighboring country that allowed slavery. Usually they took the children from the slums to lower the risk of being noticed. But they had took most of the children in the slums in their territory and now they tried to spread their territory wider. But since the village is located in area that both countries fought for its ownership, the villagers became one of their target."

Hong er: "Continue."

Meiyun: " Yes. Their prime victim is children underage. The younger it is, the better it is."

Hong er: " Why?"

Hong er's voice got colder and colder at the mention of victim was underage children. Meiyun gritted her teeth in anger as she knew what happened to those children, she was afraid that she would go berserk if she said it with her own mouth.

Knowing that her sister was struggling at holding her own anger, Huayun step up and spoke on behalf of her sister. She herself despised them as much as Meiyun did, but she had a better control of her anger.

Huayun: "They sell the children to those nobles that particularly like children in a s.e.x.u.a.l way."

Hong er gripped on the scroll tightly.

Huayun: "The price of each children was based on their appearance and power. The normal ones would just be sold in a lower price, the more special ones would be auctioned. The more beautiful and stronger the child is, the more expensive they would be sold."

Huayun stopped for a while and took a deep breath before she continued again.

Huayun: "The ending of the children were too tragic. Most of them died and the cause of their death varies. Some of them were forced in until they die, some of them committed suicide, but the most common case was their blood being drained and drank by their buyer."

Hong er's eyes widened in shock. She knew exactly how that felt as she had experienced her blood being drained. Bai Huiqing had researched this drinking blood practice and indeed it was proven that it could transfer some of the Qi to the drinker.

The effect of drinking the blood depends on the power of the owner. Like how she had light magic that could heal people, they could heal themselves if they drank her blood. If water magic user drank wind magic user's blood then it wouldn't take any effect except Hong er's light magic.

Hong er rolled back the scroll and passed it to Huayun.

Hong er: "Everything is ready?"

Meiyun: "Yes, Your Majesty Empress. Senior Tong and half of the elite forces are waiting at the side gate while Senior Xi and the rest are at the dock keeping an eye on the ship that held the victims."

Hong er: "Good. Set out without delay."

Meiyun & Huayun: "Yes, Your Majesty Empress."

Hong er came out from her dressing room that connected to their bedroom and saw Weisheng was still sleeping peacefully on their bed. She walked towards him and bent down, she kissed his lips before she left the room together with the Yun sisters.

Weisheng slowly opened his eyes when he couldn't feel Hong er's presence anymore. He turned over and vacantly looked at the spot where Hong er slept before.

Weisheng: "Be safe."

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Hong er arrived at the other dock where her ship waited for her. They get on board together with their horses as their magical beasts could be used to protect the children. The ship promptly set off after they saw Hong er on the ship.

Hong er dismounted from Xiao Bai and directly went to meeting room at lower floor. The meeting room was not big but it could fit in about 15 people. Meiyun took the map from Ah Tong's hand and spread it on the table in front of them.

Hong er: "Speak."

Ah Tong: "We pinpointed the locations where they would pass."

Ah Tong pointed at the red dots on the map and continued to explain.

Ah Tong: "The ship they used to transport the victims was average looking merchant ship, they take off from this dock. They purposely avoided Da Qi's sea territory as slave auction is illegal in Da Qi. Their ship will stop in an island about 10 km away from here, they moved the victims to a cruise ship where they held the auction. The clients used their own ship to go to that island and boarded the cruise ship.

They will only stop for about 15 minutes and set off again to the middle of the sea. In those times, they will held the auction and head back off only after the auction was done therefore we don't know the exact time when they will head back."

Hong er: "How many?"

Ah Tong: "50 guards, 86 shipcrews, and 26 children. They hired high leveled fighters as this auction was held for nobles from all countries. And that's not all, each client can bring 2 guards with them. Estimated that there will be about 15 clients."

Hong er: "How many do we got?"

Ah Tong: "We got 18 personnel here, including Your Majesty Empress. And 6 personnel in Ah Xi's group."

Considering how the enemy outnumbered them, they should be afraid now but no. What they were thinking was to capture all of clients without any of the children got injured. They must act fast but they shouldn't be impatient.

Hong er: "Any report from Ah Xi?"

Ah Tong: " Yes. They departed half an hour ago. With our speed, we can catch up to them in anytime."

Hong er: "Our destination is to the island but take an opposite route, don't be seen by them. We will attack at the time where they were distracted the most. Got it?"

Everyone: "Yes!"

Hong er: "Take the children to this ship first then we will do our business. 3 personnel stay here to protect the children, look out of the cruise too. Don't let anyone get away. The rest will follow me. I will give my further instruction when we are in action."

Everyone: "Yes!"