Carefully climbing over the wall, Iyascha walked silently into the back garden of the villa, and found an entrance covered by bushes according to the instructions on the map.
There was a lot of dirt on the entrance cover. It could be cleaned with a light sweep. When it was opened, the passage was a staircase leading straight downwards.
Taking out the prepared magic lamp, Iyas tiptoed into the basement of the villa.
On the wall of this staircase, the words "Safety Passage" are written from bottom to top. It is the passage for emergency escape.
For Iyas, this is a perfect infiltration channel.
Seeing the light at the end of the passage, Iyas stuck to the wall, pricked up her ears, alert to see if anyone was approaching, while opening the intelligence map she had obtained and writing down the personnel distribution and patrol range on it.
In order to avoid being exposed as much as possible, Iyas did not intend to kill anyone.
When returning, Iyas also wanted to return along the original route as quietly as possible.
The later others discover the slave is missing, the better it is for her actions.
As long as Iyas can successfully rescue Hake and escape from Hildela, it will be a victory.
After re-determining the strategy in her mind, Iyas took a deep breath, stuffed the intelligence map into her gauntlet, and continued to sneak in stealthily.
The slave auction house of Chaoyang Chamber of Commerce is roughly divided into three parts.
The first part is the luxurious villa above, which is used to cover up the slave auction house and entertain guests.
The second part is the first underground floor where the actual auction takes place. It is large enough to accommodate a thousand people bidding at the same time and can be reached directly through a special passage in the villa.
The third part is the second underground floor with complex functions, which is used to imprison various slaves, take care of their daily lives, implement various educations, and enhance their value.
Except for the slaves who had just been captured and those who were determined to be auctioned off immediately, most slaves would receive education from the auction house so that they could be sold for a good price among dignitaries.
After being sent here, Iyas and Hake basically received no education.
Iyas's memory is filled with bad memories of staying in a dark cage.
For the auction house, Iyas herself is an excellent commodity and can be sold quickly. There is no need to invest too much time and energy in training her. She only needs to be given the minimum amount of water and food.
Unfortunately, slaves who cannot be sold cannot continue to receive education at the auction house and enjoy the same preferential treatment as ordinary people.
After being trained and educated, if a slave is not sold after two or three attempts, the auction house will determine that the slave is not as valuable as imagined, and will only give him life-sustaining food and water, and then put him in storage.
Incredibly, the slaves who were treated like this did not resist at all. Instead, they subconsciously believed that if they continued to sink into this state, they would only be thrown into a corner to die, or sold to some ungentlemen and live a miserable life.
Therefore, after being treated indifferently for a period of time, the trained slaves will actually try their best to show their charm and let the people present buy them as much as possible.
Most of these purchased slaves would become loyal slaves and serve their masters wholeheartedly.
Some people also like to buy this kind of slaves specifically.
They would shout out the lowest price at the last second when no one bids and the auction hammer is about to fall, and auction off such slaves.
The mental satisfaction that comes from "Without me, she will spend her whole life in a cage" is like a poison, paralyzing their nerves and making them enjoy it endlessly.
Even if they owned mountains of slaves, they still enjoyed this feeling.
Iyas didn't know the operating mechanism and rules and regulations of the auction house, nor did she know what the notes on the map meant, but she knew that Huck was where the slaves were kept, and she could find Huck there.
However, this auction house has two places for slaves, one for uneducated and undisciplined slaves, and the other for disciplined slaves.
Passing through the dim passage, Iyas was heading to the room where the slaves who had not been trained were placed.
The reason she chose that place was simply because it was closer to where she came in.
Going down the stairs, Iyas carefully avoided everyone on patrol.
Just as the information dealer said, the situation here is really lax. Inspectors often end their patrols by yawning and return to the same place. It is easy to avoid their sight.
This allowed Iyas to reach her destination smoothly.
It was a slightly worn wooden door. Behind the door was where her brother was. Iyas stood in front of the door with a lot of emotions in her mind.
The time had finally come for her to meet her brother, but she was hesitant to open the door.
Iyas didn't know what happened to Huck now, nor did she know if Huck would complain to her for not coming to save him earlier when he saw his sister.
Perhaps, after staying in the cage for a long time, Huck had already lost hope of escaping and became unwilling to leave the cage.
When the time comes, how can I convince him to follow my footsteps and leave this auction house
No matter what, if you stop moving forward because of fear, nothing will be achieved.
Iyas wanted to see her brother even a moment earlier.
A moment earlier, perhaps, a moment earlier could have prevented Ha Ke from falling, so she appeared here against Yang Yu's orders.
Iyas would never allow herself to stop moving forward because of the fear in her heart.
Grasping her left wrist with her right hand, Iyas took a firm step forward and pushed open the door of the room. Cages covered with black cloth came into her sight.
The dim light in the room made Iyas dizzy. The memory of being locked in a cage as a slave came back to her mind. The scenery here was no different from then.
The creaking sound of the door closing brought Iyas's consciousness back to the present from the painful memories. She could no longer control her legs and quickly moved between the cages, looking for the petite figure in her memory through the part not covered by the black cloth.
"Huck! Huck, where are you
It's me, your sister, Iyas, I'm here to save you!
Huck, where the hell are you
Passing through cage after cage, no one responded to Iyas.
And she did not find the petite figure in her memory in the cage.
Most of the cages were empty, and the cages that contained slaves mostly contained strong men.
Suddenly, Iyas noticed something strange.
She stopped walking between the cages, turned around and looked at the cage behind her, cold sweat oozing out of her forehead.
Iyas's intuition told her that the people in the cages were not slaves at all.
(End of this chapter)