"Master, what do we do next? Do we just charge in?"
"Of course not. We are here to rescue those children. If it were one or two, it would be fine, but there will probably be a dozen children. We must rescue the children without harm while the enemy is unprepared. First, we need to find the location of these children, and second, we need to protect these children as they come out. This is not easy."
Before entering, Niu Zida and his two maids began to discuss strategy. From the uncle, they roughly knew that eighteen children had been abducted this time. It seemed that to rescue these children, they first needed to ascertain their whereabouts.
After finding the children, Niu Zida decided to have Misato Shizuku take them away, while he himself would not show his face. After all, as a Goblin, if he suddenly appeared in front of the children, they probably wouldn't trust him. In the lair, he wouldn't have time to explain to the children how he was entrusted by Aponia to rescue them.
However, if it were Misato Shizuku, her beauty would surely make the children trust her. After all, children naturally have a good impression of pretty girls. As for why not Yor, it was naturally because Yor was meant for him to ride into battle, leaving her hands full.
The battle plan was then decided: Yor would use her stealth skill to enter first, and Misato Shizuku would follow her in. Yor would do most of the attacking, trying not to alert anyone.
After waiting a while longer, Niu Zida saw that the bandit sentries outside were already yawning. So, he lay on Yor's beautiful back, his feet in the stirrups attached to Yor's leather waist harness, letting Yor carry him in. Yor's stealth skill was indeed very powerful; she approached the cave without even alerting the sentries. Yor quickly took down one person with her kunai dagger, then held it to another's throat and whispered:
"Don't shout. Answer my questions honestly, or I'll kill you."
"I... I understand...?"
"Where are the children you kidnapped being held?"
"At the very back of the cave. Go in, turn left, and keep walking, and you'll get there."
The bandit sentry answered the questions obediently. After the questioning, Yor, for safety, silently dealt with the sentry. When executing missions, Yor was never merciful.
After clarifying the path, Yor continued forward, with Misato Shizuku following behind. On the way, Niu Zida and his group were still a bit nervous. After all, the biggest problems with this mission were, first, how to find the children without being discovered, and second, how to take the children away without being discovered.
The cave was much larger than Niu Zida had imagined. Yor slowly walked along the cave. Fortunately, the structure here was not complicated, and unlike the Goblin's cave, since it was inhabited by humans, there was still some firelight for illumination. According to the information the sentry had given earlier, Yor quickly found the place where the children were held.
Perhaps these bandits had just returned, and since these were just children, their surveillance was not strict. There were only 3 bandits guarding them, and these three were all lazily sitting there, chatting and warming themselves by the fire, completely ignoring the children. After all, they wouldn't worry that the village, full of uncles and aunties, would send people to rescue these children, would they?
Seeing this, Niu Zida looked around at the nearby terrain and found that this was the deepest part of the cave. If they walked out, it would be different from when he came in, and they would definitely encounter other people. If it was one child, it would be fine to just pick them up and leave, but with so many children, even if Misato Shizuku protected them, it would be difficult to protect them thoroughly if they encountered an attack, and there would likely be casualties.
After some thought, Niu Zida decided to have Misato Shizuku ambush here first. He would ride Yor out to create chaos, diverting the bandits' attention so they would have a chance to move the children out.
After formulating the battle strategy, Yor first went to a place far from where the children were held. This cave was quite large, but he had previously learned that this group had several hundred people. Were they all in this cave? However, he couldn't worry about that much for now. Niu Zida decided to rescue the children first. After returning to the village, he would discuss with Aponia how to deal with these bandits.
Yor then began to indiscriminately attack the bandits in the cave, deliberately slowing down her movements to make the attacked bandits scream and alert their companions. Soon, screams rose one after another in the cave. At first, they were sporadic, but as Yor's movements sped up, the screams became more frequent, and the increasing number of victims plunged the cave into a noisy and chaotic state. Moreover, after each attack, Yor would deliberately extinguish the surrounding firelight as much as possible, deepening the chaos with darkness, which also helped Yor better conceal her presence and facilitated Misato Shizuku's departure with the children after the chaos.
As expected, under the shadow of death, the cave gradually became chaotic. At first, the bandits thought it was some enemy entering the cave to attack, but they couldn't find an opponent, yet the attacks continued. In their fear, many bandits even began to kill each other. As Niu Zida predicted, the cave was now in complete chaos.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the cave, Misato Shizuku also suddenly attacked the bandits guarding the children. The three of them were naturally no match for Misato Shizuku and were killed instantly. In fact, even if Misato Shizuku hadn't attacked these three, due to the immense chaos in the cave, the three of them would not have had the mind to guard the children.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."
The children were a bit panicked, but seeing a tall, black-haired beautiful girl appear before them, the children calmed down. As Niu Zida had judged, humans are indeed creatures of appearance. Rather than painstakingly explaining, it was better to have a beautiful girl like Misato Shizuku appear, as she could naturally gain trust.
"Now, follow big sister out. No matter what happens on the way, don't make a sound, understand? Hold each other's hands, don't let go, and then close your eyes. The first one holds big sister's hand. As long as you do these things, big sister will take you out of here to see your parents."
"Understood, big sister, you're so pretty, you must be a good person."
Hearing the child's naive and adorable reply, Misato Shizuku didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Children's sense of good and evil was really direct, but this saved her trouble. She quickly pulled the children, making them follow her one by one. Of course, before setting off, she also counted the children, asking if anyone was left behind. After confirming that every kidnapped child was present, Misato Shizuku quickly left with the children.
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