It Won’t Hurt Anymore
For a time, the people who had been doing their jobs rushed towards Jiang Yimian and the others. Those patrolling other areas outside the cave, hearing the horn, also quickly ran towards the iron smelting cave.
Lu Cijian and Jiang Yimian, seeing the crowd wielding various weapons, immediately stopped, and charged into the crowd to fight with them.
Fortunately, although the people inside the cave were strong, most were iron smelting masters, unskilled in martial arts, relying entirely on brute force and weapons to fight.
Except for the sheer number of people, one after another rushing forward to obstruct, Jiang Yimian and the other person found it relatively easy to deal with them.
Zhao Xiaonian and Wang Jinbao were in a dire situation. The two ran outward, but before taking a few steps, they were caught up by a man.
The man, wielding a broadsword, swung it at Zhao Xiaonian and the other person.
Zhao Xiaonian cried out in fright. He barely dodged the broadsword swung at him, his legs went weak, the large stone he had used for self-defense was gone, and he could only flee in panic.
Fortunately, he was nimble, and the man couldn’t catch him for a while.
Seeing his agility, and unable to strike him, the man angrily shouted and swung his broadsword at Wang Jinbao.
Wang Jinbao was already carrying someone, and his movements were slow. He was terrified by the scene, running outward in a panic, completely ignoring the broadsword swinging behind him.
Seeing the broadsword about to fall, Zhao Xiaonian screamed in fright, rushed over, hugged the man’s waist, and shouted, “Quickly, quickly take Uncle Jiang away.”
Wang Jinbao was startled by the scene, unable to imagine what would have happened to him and Jiang Dazhuang without Zhao Xiaonian.
At the moment, he didn’t bother to say anything, without much thought, carrying the person, he quickly ran towards the light.
Zhao Xiaonian held the man’s waist tightly, refusing to let go no matter how hard the man struggled, only the pain made him wince.
It hurt so much, it hurt more than being whipped. This person was hitting him too hard.
Seeing Wang Jinbao run away, the man’s eyes reddened with anger, he became ruthless, cursed loudly, “Brat, ruining my good deed, since you want to die so much, I’ll grant you, I’ll chop you up first, then chop those two together.”
Having said that, he raised his broadsword high and swung it straight at Zhao Xiaonian.
Zhao Xiaonian was so scared that he closed his eyes, his body trembling uncontrollably.
He had been afraid of pain since he was a child, but since coming to the mine, he had been beaten every day, his body was covered in injuries. If it weren’t for Uncle Jiang and Uncle Liu, he would have suffered even more.
Now, Uncle Liu was gone, and Uncle Jiang was unconscious due to injury. He couldn’t let anything happen to Uncle Jiang.
Let it hurt, after this pain, it should be over, and it won’t hurt anymore.
However, after a long while, the expected pain did not come. He felt the person he was holding suddenly lose strength and fall forward.
Frightened, he quickly let go, and opened his eyes to see the man lying on the ground, a dagger stuck in his head, his eyes wide open in death.
Zhao Xiaonian was startled and looked at the two who were fighting the crowd, stunned.
Seeing him stunned, Jiang Yimian said impatiently, “Don’t you run? Are you waiting to die here?”
This guy seems pretty smart, yet he dared to rush towards the man with the knife, wasn’t that suicidal?
Zhao Xiaonian came to his senses, responded quickly, and chased after Wang Jinbao to run outward.
Seeing that both of them had left, Jiang Yimian breathed a sigh of relief, frowned at the people continuously entering from outside, and felt a headache.
There were indeed many people on the mountain. Fighting like this, she and Lu Cijian would be exhausted first.
Thinking this, she grabbed Lu Cijian, threw a large bag of white powder into the crowd, kicked over several smelting furnaces, and quickly ran outside with the others.
Instantly, the white powder filled the cave, and everyone was blinded by the sudden powder, losing their direction.
Before they could find their way in the powder-filled cave, the burning charcoal in the smelting furnaces ignited the powder, an explosion immediately rang out, accompanied by the wails of the crowd.
Lu Cijian was startled by the huge explosion behind him, and curiously asked, “What kind of powder was that? It can explode?”
He had never heard of it before.
Jiang Yimian said, “Flour.”
She deliberately spread the large bag of flour next to the furnaces. The dust content in the air was extremely high. Once ignited by the flames, it would definitely explode.
Lu Cijian was stunned, a little unresponsive.
Rarely seeing him with this expression, Jiang Yimian smiled, “I’ll explain to you when we get out.”
However, the next second, her smile froze on her face.
A group of people at the corner were blocking their way with broadswords, as if they had been waiting for them for a long time.
Zhao Xiaonian and Wang Jinbao also had broadswords pressed against their necks, their faces filled with fear, and they didn’t dare to say a word.
Leading Zhang looked at the two with ferocity, his tone full of disdain, “I thought some powerful figures had infiltrated, but it was just you two little mice.
You two think you can escape? Do you think this mine is a brothel?
Come and go as you please.
Tell me, who sent you?”
To be so bold as to cause trouble, and to enter the stone gate undetected, these two must have been planted by some force.
Jiang Yimian didn’t speak, only looking at the natural light coming from a distance, it looked much brighter, the exit should be ahead.
As long as Zhao Xiaonian ran out and lit the bamboo tube, Song Er and the others would surely come quickly.
Thinking this, she didn’t waste any words, exchanged a glance with Lu Cijian, and attacked Leading Zhang directly.
Leading Zhang was clearly startled, obviously not expecting the two to be so bold as to attack first, he sneered and shouted, “You’re asking for death!”
He swung his broadsword at Jiang Yimian.
Seeing this, others quickly came to help.
For a moment, everyone’s line of sight was focused on Jiang Yimian.
Lu Cijian quickly acted, taking down the people around Zhao Xiaonian and Wang Jinbao, and whispered, “Go light the bamboo tube.”
Zhao Xiaonian quickly responded, took the small bamboo tube, and quickly ran towards the exit.
Wang Jinbao, carrying the person, quickly followed.
By the time others reacted, the two had already run far away. With Lu Cijian and Jiang Yimian obstructing, no one caught up.
Leading Zhang was furious, his eyes glared fiercely at the people in front of him, his broadsword waving faster, “I underestimated you.”
He thought they were just insignificant little mice, but now it seemed that they were not to be underestimated. This woman could withstand so many of his attacks.
And the man single-handedly blocked more than ten people.
Others might not know, but he did. Several of his subordinates were experts, individually not as strong as him, but attacking together, they were stronger than him, far beyond ordinary people.
Yet that man blocked them, whether it was a strenuous block or otherwise, he blocked them.
Since these two could block them, they were definitely not ordinary people.
A sense of crisis arose in his heart.