Elder brother's garrison

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In the deep of night, a loud "boom" suddenly came from a distant direction.

The source of the sound seemed far away, and the sound was powerful but not real. Then, someone in the darkness began to shout loudly.

"Fire!!"

With that shout, a bright, burning sound seemed to echo in my ears.

The sound of footsteps, sometimes scattered and sometimes dense, rang out, and the shouts of men trying to put out the fire began to echo throughout the night.

It was as if hundreds or thousands of people were shouting loudly, the deep cries fading into the faint sounds of barking dogs and crowing roosters. Houses collapsed with a crackling sound, flames burst and exploded on the buildings, and a fierce wind rushed into the structures, creating a deafening roar. Hundreds of sounds seemed to rise up at once: men shouting "Fire!" "Fire!" in unison, a cacophony of shouts, cries for help, curses, splashing water, the sound of collapsing buildings, and the pitiful cries of livestock...

The whole night seemed to boil over at that moment.

Xiaobai, who was in the double office, slowly got up when she heard the sound. She looked at the surrounding walls with a puzzled expression.

"Huh... these sounds..."

It's so lively tonight!

...Did the campus catch fire?

As Xiaobai was thinking, another series of footsteps echoed in the corridor outside the door.

"You all better stay put in the hallway and don't you dare run around like that!!! Do you hear me?!"

The dormitory supervisor seemed to be cracking a whip and yelling angrily down the entire corridor outside the door. As he passed the classrooms, he kicked the doors around the room several times, followed by the sound of an iron lock locking the doors.

The classrooms on both sides, which had been somewhat noisy due to the fire, became silent.

Finally, the dormitory supervisor hurled a few more angry threats before the footsteps faded into the distance.

Xiaobai propped herself up on the bed, lost in thought. Just then, she felt someone gently tug at her collar from below.

Xiao Bai looked down and saw that Miao Yan, who was lying in his arms, had opened her eyes.

In the night, Miao Yan's gaze was exceptionally clear, her dark eyes brimming with an unwavering determination.

"There's a fire," Miao Yan said to Xiao Bai.

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

"Was it done by the people who came to rescue you?" Miao Yan asked again.

"I don't know..." Xiaobai glanced at the wall a few times and said softly.

Actually, Xiaobai can use the Admiral Network to explore the surrounding environment.

Logically speaking, the ship girls from Xiaobai's family would most likely remain inactive before receiving Xiaobai's orders. However, in this small village of human traffickers, besides the ship girls from Xiaobai's family, there are several other top ten admirals.

Not many of the top ten admirals knew much about Shiro's background. In the eyes of many of them, Shiro, despite being the world's number one admiral, was just a weak human girl.

It is indeed a very worrying thing that a vulnerable young girl has fallen into the hands of an evil criminal gang.

If the goal was to rescue Xiaobai and divert the attention of the criminal gang, deliberately setting fire to cause a disturbance might be a less conventional approach.

Xiaobai wasn't sure if the fire was related to them.

After listening to Xiaobai's words, a complicated look flashed in Miao Yan's eyes, but this complicated look was quickly replaced by determination.

Miao Yan grabbed Xiao Bai's collar and tugged at her.

"...I, let's go out."

"Hmm? Go out? Now?"

To Xiaobai's surprise, Miao Yan gritted her teeth and got up from Xiaobai's arms. She bent down, stepped on the floor under the bed, and stood up.

Xiao Bai got out of bed with Miao Yan. Looking at Miao Yan's furrowed brows, she asked, "Are you feeling alright?"

"Hmm... much better... thank you." Miao Yan's brows relaxed, and she turned to Xiaobai, giving it a bitter smile. "My arms and back are a little sore, but I can move around without any problems..."

"oh oh……"

Xiao Bai watched as Miao Yan walked to the door. She first leaned over the door to listen to the sounds outside for a while, then reached out and grabbed the doorknob.

The lock on the door to the double room where Xiaobai and Miaoyan lived had been removed. So, although they couldn't lock the door to get absolute privacy, people outside usually wouldn't lock the room completely with chains or anything like that.

Xiao Bai and Miao Yan walked into the corridor, which was completely dark. Only the faint sounds of fire, wind, and cries for help could be heard from the far end.

Xiaobai and Miaoyan went to the window in the corridor and looked out.

Through the glass windows, one can see the villages below the campus.

The campus was still shrouded in darkness, but in the villages connected to the campus, raging flames were rising, the flames like crimson snakes leaping among the houses. Men carrying buckets of water moved back and forth among these burning houses, layer upon layer, like a swarm of ants dancing around a campfire.

"It turns out it wasn't the school campus that was on fire, it was the village," Xiaobai said, looking out the window.

"Hmm..." Miao Yan's gaze didn't linger on the window for long. She immediately grabbed Xiao Bai's hand and ran towards the other end of the corridor. "Come, come with me!"

Xiao Bai let Miao Yan pull her towards the end of the corridor.

Perhaps because the village was really on fire, the dormitory supervisors who were patrolling at night had disappeared. Xiaobai and Miaoyan ran smoothly all the way, passing several classrooms that were locked with iron locks, and successfully arrived at the hall.

The hall was quiet, but men could be seen running outside the main entrance.

Miao Yan gasped for breath, pressed herself against the wall, trying to avoid being seen by people outside.

"Go, go over there..."

Miao Yan didn't pull Xiao Bai out of the front door. Instead, she grabbed Xiao Bai's hand and headed straight for the second floor.

Second floor...

Xiao Bai followed Miao Yan silently, her gaze drifting thoughtfully up the stairs.

The second floor... seems to be where Aunt Mei and some of the management of human trafficking gangs are located?

Miao Yan used to seem like she'd been thoroughly reprimanded by the people at the human trafficking base, so she shouldn't have violated any of the base's rules. It was really strange that she suddenly brought me out tonight, and even ran towards the floor where Aunt Mei's office was located…

Well……

Could it be that she was just pretending to be obedient all along?

Xiao Bai seemed to recall some things Miao Yan had told her before, and she seemed to understand something all of a sudden, but she remained silent.

The fire outside the campus didn't seem to be going to be extinguished anytime soon. After Xiaobai and Miaoyan went up to the second floor, they found that there was no one patrolling there, and the place was still deserted.

Miao Yan seemed to know the layout of the second floor. She almost pulled Xiao Bai straight in one direction. After walking for half a minute, Xiao Bai saw a room called "Principal's Office" at the edge of the corridor.

It seems this is the place Miao Yan brought Xiaobai to.

As Xiaobai watched the principal's office draw closer, she whispered a question to Miao Yan beside her.

"Isn't Aunt Mei inside?"

“No…” Miao Yan shook her head. She didn’t turn around, still looking into the distance, and said to Xiao Bai, “Everything in this village belongs to Aunt Mei. Her home isn’t here…”

"I see."

After a brief conversation, Miao Yan and Xiao Bai arrived at Aunt Mei's office, which was in front of the principal's office.

Panting, Miao Yan reached out and grasped the door to Aunt Mei's principal's office, gently turning it.

The door couldn't be turned at all because the principal's office door was locked.

This is probably the only room in this human trafficking base equipped with a security lock.

Miao Yan looked at the door, a troubled expression on her face.

"The door is locked..."

"Yes, the door is locked."

"Wait, wait for me..."

Miao Yan took a deep breath, let go of Xiao Bai's hand, looked around, and then ran to another ordinary office next door.

The ordinary office next door is connected to the principal's office.

After Miao Yan entered the ordinary office, she heard a climbing sound coming from inside. The climbing sound came from near and far, and then somehow it suddenly came into the principal's office.

Xiao Bai heard footsteps approaching, and then the principal's office door creaked open.

Miao Yan's face was covered in dust. She was panting, gripping the inside doorknob, and looking at Xiao Bai.

"Quick, come in..."

Chapter 3710 Falling into the trap

Miao Yan is quite skilled in her work...

After Xiaobai entered the principal's office, he looked up and around.

The principal's office was quite well-decorated, with bookshelves filled with all kinds of books, a coffee table and sofa for guests, a desk and an office chair. There were two doors in the room, one of which Xiaobai had just walked through, and the other was on the opposite wall. Behind the desk and office chair, things were dilapidated and rusty. This kind of layout looked a bit strange.

It seems that Miao Yan must have climbed out of the window of the next office, crossed to the other side, and then opened the unlocked door to enter the principal's office.

"This isn't your first time here, is it?"

After Xiaobai entered the principal's office, he asked Miao Yan, who opened the door.

“…Hmm…” Miao Yan pulled the door shut, her head down, her voice weak.

"Has someone brought you here before?" Xiaobai asked again.

“…Hmm…” Miao Yan responded again, her mood low.

"..." Xiao Bai looked at Miao Yan's disappointed expression and didn't say anything more, but just smiled slightly at her.

Miao Yan seemed grateful that Xiao Bai didn't press the matter further. She closed the principal's office door, then walked alone to the principal's desk and squatted down in front of it.

The principal's office chair was made of genuine leather. Miao Yan ran her fingers over the leather cushion and found a hidden tear on the back. She then poked at the tear with her fingers.

Xiao Bai watched Miao Yan fidgeting on the cushion of her office chair. She stood to the side, her gaze fixed on another door behind the desk.

Miao Yan seemed to be busy for a while, so Xiao Bai could only look at other things.

For example, the second door inside the principal's office.

This door... really caught Xiaobai's attention.

Xiaobai arrived at the door, reached out and gently grasped the doorknob, then pulled it open.

This door was a rusty iron door, not the brand-new, secure security door that Xiaobai had passed through when he arrived. Moreover, this iron door seemed to be completely unlocked; Xiaobai simply gave it a gentle pull, and the iron door creaked open.

As soon as the door opened, a cool breeze carrying a familiar chill blew into the room.

Xiao Bai's eyes widened slightly.

The scene that came into view behind the door was... an artificial lake.

Xiao Bai stood by the door and looked to the side of the door.

The other side of the principal's office connects to the outside. Below the door is a simple open-air platform made of iron plates and steel bars. The platform is equipped with a staircase leading down to damp land. In front of the land is a vast artificial lake with lush vegetation along its banks. The lake water gleams like viscous oil under the moonlight.

The principal's office is located on the second floor of the entire campus building. There is no map of this campus, and Xiaobai has never been to most of the area and does not know its structure. However, based on Xiaobai's experience over the past few days, the campus seems to be a circular, closed-loop building.

It seems that this so-called central area of ​​the campus is not actually a building area.

Xiao Bai frowned, raised her hand, and waved the cool breeze blowing towards her.

Sure enough...

As the iron gate opened, the concentration of the deep-sea scent in the air noticeably increased.

The vast lake beneath the moon appeared to Xiaobai as the primary source of the deep-sea atmosphere.

"found it!"

Just then, Miao Yan's voice came from behind Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai turned her head to look behind her and saw Miao Yan kneeling on the ground. Her hands had been digging into the cushion of the leather office chair for a while, and finally, following a tear, she pulled out a small piece of paper package that was only one centimeter in size when laid flat.

Miao Yan unfolded the paper package in front of Xiao Bai, then swallowed hard and nervously took out a small, cube-shaped old-fashioned phone card from inside.

"I found it...this is it..."

Miao Yan stared at the phone card in her palm, murmuring softly, her gaze slightly unfocused.

"It's not lost, it...it's still here..."

Miao Yan murmured a few words, then suddenly shuddered, before her eyes cleared and she looked at Xiaobai.

When Miao Yan saw Xiao Bai open the iron gate leading to the other side and stand right in front of it, her eyes widened suddenly, and a look of fear appeared on her face.

"No, don't go there!"

Miao Yan reached out to Xiao Bai in a daze.