Chapter 169 - Piece Of Cloth
The others were a little confused after hearing Hei Bao’s words and wanted a better explanation. Hei Bao too noticed their expression and knew what they were thinking.
"The blood splatter here is only concentrated around the shackles. Look around, there is none outside and neither is in any other rooms. It seems like the prisoners were treated rather well and were not unnecessarily harmed." Hei Bao explained.
The people looked around and indeed found Hei Bao’s assumption to be correct. There was no blood in any other rooms either. Even in the cages, only ten out of the nearly hundred cages even had any blood in them. And it did not look like it had been cleaned either.
"There is another thing." Hei Bao spoke and pointed at the furniture and items in the hall.
"These seem like they have been moved around in a rush. Some of these things are randomly strewn about, and even the food was left unattended." Hei Bao stated.
"That means..." A member of Hei corps spoke.
"Yes, they were taken away in a rush. My guess is that the beast attack probably made them scared. From what we saw before and what brother Lin Mu showed us, they even cleaned the traces of the attack and removed the wreckage of the broken carriage. They were trying to hide their tracks because they realized they were discovered." Hei Bao explained.
"Hmm, but this should be good for us." Teng Xiaolian added.N0v3lRealm was the platform where this chapter was initially revealed on N0v3l.B1n.
"How so leader?" One of his subordinates asked.
"Teng Xiaolian is right. Since the culprits left in a hurry, they should have definitely left some clues behind. From what we know, there were at least fifty or more mercenaries captured here. It would be a herculean task to transport them all to a different location in a short period of time and also erase all their traces." Hei Bao answered while looking closer at the blood splatter.
Hei Bao also felt a little impressed but Teng Xiaolian’s intellect and was now feeling good that he had allowed him to come with them.
"What does it say?" Lin Mu questioned with a straight face.
"This..." Hei Bao muttered.
~Gulp~
He couldn’t continue speaking and simply handed the piece of cloth to Lin Mu while he clutched his forehead in stress.
Lin Mu looked at the piece of cloth and tried to make out what was written on it. Five minutes later, even he had a grim expression on his face. The others were now getting tense, and a strange feeling of dread was rising from the bottom of their stomach.
Hong Luo perked up a bit of courage and spoke up.
"What does it say, Brother Lin Mu?"
"The culprits... they are capturing the mercenaries for a sacrifice. They need their blood for something. The mercenary who wrote this was able to hear some things from the culprits’ conversations and was able to secretly make this. Apparently, they had found out that they had been attacked by the beast and had decided to escape from here. The mercenary was barely able to mention that in here and the writing seems to have trailed off from there." Lin Mu answered with a heavy heart.
~Gulp~
A collective gulp was heard in the hall as the tense expression were now changed to dread.
"Why do they need the mercenaries’ blood though does it say that?" Teng Xiaolian questioned.
Lin Mu shook his head in response before speaking.
"It only says that their master had ordered them to do so, and they have been doing it for a few months now. Hundreds of mercenaries have already been captured and sent to their secret location. Apparently, this is not the only place they are capturing mercenaries from and it has been happing in the eastern, western and southern regions as well." Lin Mu answered.