Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

Yu Yaqing pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Alright, let's go to the basement again."

The six women finished lunch, tidied up, and went to the basement together.

The manor's basement had no lights.

Each of them took a candlestick for illumination. Once they were down there, they used the candlelight to light the torches hanging on the walls.

The basement was gloomy and cold. One side was a damp, icy stone wall, and the other side was a row of iron cages.

It was unknown what had been imprisoned in the cages, perhaps people, perhaps livestock. Some dry straw was scattered inside, but other than that, there was nothing.

Outside the iron bars of the cages, however, a lot of things were placed. Just as Yu Yaqing had said, there were empty wine bottles, broken tin cans, and rotten wooden boxes. When opened, a strong smell of mildew and dust rushed out, choking people.

They continued to walk along the row of cages.

They reached the end.

Bai Youwei stopped in front of the last cage and said, "Someone, try to see if you can open it."

Su Man stepped forward and tugged at the lock on the door, looking up at them, "It's locked."

Although the cages in front were also closed, they were not locked. They were simply loosely hung on the door with the iron chains, and they would open with a push.

Unexpectedly, the last one was actually locked.

Yu Yaqing widened her eyes in surprise and subconsciously looked at Hu Ya and Cheng Qian beside her.

Hu Ya and Cheng Qian also looked astonished, muttering, "We clearly checked everything…"

When Yu Yaqing brought people down, they did carefully search each cell at the beginning. However, when they searched the later cells, they would glance over some of them, after all, even without going inside, the situation inside could be clearly seen from outside the iron bars.

In addition, the dim light and gloomy environment, coupled with more than a hundred cages, intensified their psychological fatigue and tension—

For various reasons, they failed to notice the abnormality of the last cage.

Yu Yaqing couldn't help but ask Bai Youwei, "How are you so sure there's a problem with this cage?"

Bai Youwei had been sitting in a wheelchair all along, without even touching the cages. Why did she discover the anomaly faster than them?

"Because this is the 129th cage." Bai Youwei explained indifferently, "I've been counting since I came in. The extra cage must have a problem, but it's not necessarily the last one. We're lucky to have found it now."

Luck?

Yu Yaqing never believed in luck. She only believed in strength.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at Bai Youwei in the wheelchair, and said, "You've played a lot of games."

Her tone was certain.

Bai Youwei glanced at her and did not deny it, "Yes, I've played a lot, so I'm more familiar with some of the tricks in games than you are."

No boasting, no showing off, purely stating the facts.

Everyone didn't know what to say.

The silence lasted for a while, and Yu Yaqing said, "I hope you're right."

She turned to leave, and at the same time called out, "Hu Ya, come with me to find something to open the lock."

Hu Ya, holding a candlestick, hurriedly followed Yu Yaqing.

—Upstairs, there was a room displaying various weapons and collections, saddles, armor, swords, bows, crossbows, everything.

The two found some broadswords and axes and returned to the basement to open the lock.

The six women walked in.

…

The last cage was the same as the other cages.

Besides the messy straw on the ground, there was nothing.

"What a… acting all high and mighty, turns out she guessed wrong, making us work for nothing." Hu Ya complained in a low voice.

She didn't like Bai Youwei. Clearly, she was a cripple who needed to rely on others to survive, but she didn't understand how to read people's faces at all, putting on a haughty air, not bothering with anyone.

She was not as good as Cheng Qian.

At least Cheng Qian knew that things were different now, and she was honest and obedient in her words and actions.

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