As the chase went on, the bloodstain suddenly stopped in the passage, and a rushing stream blocked Longde's way.
Looking in the direction of the water flow, Longde frowned as he saw the dark sewer pipe that seemed to have no end.
Some of the city's sewers are connected to a tributary of the Xingyue Gonghui River. Engineers have diverted part of that tributary into the sewers and used the flowing water to flush away waste, saving most of the cost of manual cleaning.
The master who designed the auction house had considered the possibility of accidental death of slaves. In order to facilitate the disposal of corpses, he deliberately chose a main road with fast-flowing water and built a secret passage to transport the corpses.
Unfortunately, no matter how thoughtful, wise and capable the master designer was, he could never have imagined that his work of art would be smashed to pieces by his own people, who would open another path to the sewer without their permission.
"Hei Yao should have seen the situation here. The woman has been seriously injured. She won't last long in such turbulent water. In order to avoid drowning, she will definitely rest on the side. As long as we follow the current, we will definitely find her."
Following the direction of the water flow, Longde chased it all the way.
The sewer pipes are interconnected in all directions. In order to completely drain the accumulated water in the city, each section has one or two drainage pipes that are directly connected to the city roads, and their size is only large enough for one person to pass through while lying down.
That is also a rare clean pipe.
Hearing the footsteps gradually fading away, Iyas breathed a sigh of relief and jumped out of a pipe carefully.
The bloodstains were just bait. She was injured and didn't want to jump into the rushing water mixed with all kinds of sewage.
Putting aside whether the wound would get infected, after jumping into the water, the only options available were drowning or being captured by Lund.
So, Iyas first dragged her bloody feet to the water flow, then immediately tore off some clothes to bandage her wounds, crawled backwards into the relatively clean pipe, and barely escaped the disaster.
Dragging her body with a limp, Ias limped in the opposite direction of the footprints.
She had learned about sewers in the Library of Everything.
In addition to the outlet that flows into the river, the sewer also has a ladder covered by a manhole cover for easy maintenance. As long as you can find the ladder, you can escape from the sewer.
Treat the wound, change clothes, etc. after escaping from the sewer.
Enduring the occasional pungent smell coming from the sewer, holy light bloomed from Iyas's hands. While dragging her injured foot, she looked around for a vertical ladder.
But before Iyas could walk for long, noisy footsteps sounded from behind her.
With the instruction from Granny Pomegranate, Obsidian knows how to use some magic. He watched the entire battle between Iyas and Londe through surveillance magic.
He also had never expected that Iyas would use that method to escape from the slave auction house. Her mind was completely unlike that of the crazy woman who hijacked their carriage.
Lund followed him, but the sewers were complicated.
Being able to calmly deceive Lund under such circumstances, Obsidian has every reason to believe that Ias will use the same trick again to deceive Lund.
Just as Hei Yao was thinking about what to do next, the underground bounty hunters who were working with them heard a loud noise and gathered around him.
Hei Yao simply fabricated a lie that Yang Yu and his men had sneaked in, and then took advantage of the explosion to escape into the sewer, in order to drive the underground bounty hunters into action.
When the underground bounty hunters heard that Yang Yu and his men had escaped to the sewer, they lit torches and jumped into the sewer without hesitation.
At first, the bounty hunters, like Lund, mistakenly thought that Ias had jumped into the fast-flowing water.
However, someone soon noticed two rows of footprints in completely different directions. One row was the footprints left by Lund as he drifted down the water, and the other row was the footprints left by Iyas.
The people present had different opinions on this. What they accepted most was that Iyas and Yang Yu and their group reunited and then acted separately.
After reaching a consensus to catch them all in one fell swoop, the underground bounty hunters immediately split into two groups, one group followed the footprints left by Lund, and the other group followed the footprints left by Iyas.
Because of her injuries, Iyas couldn't walk fast, and the bounty hunters soon caught up with her.
When others saw that it was the elf girl who was wanted, their enthusiasm was reduced a little. But when they saw that Iyas was injured, they shouted "How nice!" again.
The injured Iyas was a spent force for them, so they were overjoyed to have such a good job as bending down to pick up money.
Moreover, the ball of light in Iyas's hand outlined her dishevelled and miserable appearance, which was really forcing people to commit a crime.
Anyway, it was in the pitch-black sewer, with no lights on, and as long as they communicated well and kept the secrets from each other, no one would know what they did.
Just as they all had lewd smiles on their faces, Iyas completely extinguished the ball of light in her hand, pulled the bow, and with a "swoosh", an arrow shot at a person standing in front. Then a ghost arrow appeared on the arrow and pierced through the bodies of the two people behind that person.
The three of them covered their injured parts and wailed at the same time, but before they could catch their breath, new attacks came.
A bounty hunter who survived the attack drew his sword and tried to block the arrow, but because he failed to see the arrow's trajectory in time, Ias's arrow pierced his shoulder.
The bounty hunters with torches became Iyas's best targets at this moment.
"Don't stop! The other party is already injured. As long as we get close, she won't be able to make any waves."
Several bounty hunters activated skills that could resist ranged attacks and rushed towards Ias.
However, because the arrows were hidden in the darkness, they were always unable to grasp the right timing when using their skills, and were shot all over the face by Ias.
After a lot of effort, a few people got close to her, and a sacred light burst out from Iyas' body again. A ripple appeared with her as the center, and she instantly repelled the few people who were approaching, causing them to stumble and fall with the team behind.
The long and narrow passage can only accommodate three people walking side by side, so Iyas has ample space to perform. She is like a warrior who is ready to die, and she can hold her own against ten thousand.
Iyas's arrows pierced his body again and again, knocking down several underground bounty hunters in a row. The bounty hunters who were advancing in a staggered manner suddenly wanted to retreat.
They had no way to deal with Iyas unless there was someone stronger than Iyas who could block all attacks and get close to Iyas.
But there were no such people on their side. Those who still had a few breaths left turned around and ran away, thinking that as long as the mountains are alive, there is nothing to fear.
Iyas did not pursue, as the high-intensity attack consumed a lot of her hard-earned physical strength.
Seeing this group of people, Iyas had a premonition that the troublesome guy would appear again. She had to hurry to find the ladder and leave here without wasting any more energy.
(End of this chapter)