My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 285: Turmoil in Xiulan

Chapter 285: Turmoil in Xiulan

The following morning, after Melina and I took all of the slaves we could find in the city to Yuandu, we slept for a few hours before Mei Ling woke us up.

We only got like two hours of sleep, so we were feeling a bit groggy. Still, Mei Ling kept asking where we had been the entire night.

I rubbed my eyes and yawned while Melina kept acting as if she wasn’t listening to sleep a little more, contrasting with the slight panic that Mei Ling was going through.

During the night, Melina and I flew all over the city, looking for enslaved villagers and teleporting them to Yuandu. We freed a little over 500 people, so it wasn’t all of them, but it was a really big portion.

"The guards have been scouting the city fully alert since early in the morning. What did you guys do?" Ling asked.

I was feeling a bit more awake, but before I could answer, someone knocked on the door asking for Mei Ling.

It was another noblewoman who was staying at the inn and went to Ling’s room to ask if her slaves had also disappeared.

"Uhh, no, no. They are still here..." Ling replied.

"I see. It seems like other families lost their slaves, too. Could they have escaped?" the noblewoman pondered out loud.

"That would be quite hard. Don’t you think someone would have noticed all those people leaving the city?" said Ling.

"Ah, they must be hiding somewhere in the city then. I’ll tell that to the guards!" said the noblewoman before leaving.

Mei Ling slowly closed the door and stayed silent for a moment without looking at us.

"It was you, wasn’t it?" she asked, her face still directed at the door.

"Yup," I replied as I took out a few fruits from my void pocket to eat for breakfast.

That day became very tense in the city as all of the guards had been given the duty to look for the missing slaves.

We were watching the whole ordeal from the window of the inn’s room since Mei Ling didn’t want to go out, but we wanted to gather more intel, so we needed her to go out with us.

Mei Ling told us that she didn’t know how to feel. She felt happy and relieved that all of those people had been freed, but she couldn’t shake the feeling of someone else paying for their crimes.

"Now that nobles know that their slaves can escape, they are probably going to put more measures into preventing it from happening..." Ling explained.

She had a point. We couldn’t free all of the slaves in the city in a single night. Honestly, we were fast, but not enough to visit thousands of houses in the span of a few hours.

This meant that the slaves we couldn’t free would probably suffer more. Still, Melina and I had already decided to liberate everyone. We just needed to wait for nighttime again.

It took the guards a few hours, but eventually, the news about the disappearance of the three nobles that we kidnapped started to become public.

Yoru sent me a message using telepathy, saying that a group of guards had entered the Zhao’s residence to look for the noblewoman, but Yoru hid everyone inside his shadow, so they weren’t able to find them.

Nonetheless, he told me that one of the guards was talking about the broken window in the Guo’s residence, so they were already suspecting that the nobles were kidnapped or killed.

The more time passed throughout the day, the more the nobles’ and guards’ frustration rose.

The slave auction had been canceled. Instead, the nobles wanted to hold a meeting at the theater to discuss the events, and we thought it would be the perfect opportunity for us to know more.

Mei Ling was thinking of skipping the meeting, saying that even if she attended, Melina and I wouldn’t be able to walk in.

"That won’t be a problem. Look..." I said, taking a brooch that she had pinned on her dress.

Using sound magic, I was able to create a quick enchantment that would detect and send me all of the sounds that it picked up directly to my ear, like a hidden microphone.

Melina didn’t want to be left out, so she added her own magic into the enchantment, making it so that she could also hear the nobles’ meeting.

We promised Mei Ling that we wouldn’t let anything happen to her, and once she was convinced, she began getting ready for the meeting.

It was the perfect opportunity for us to see what kind of measure the nobles were going to take. But apart from that, most of the nobles in the city were going to be in one place, so we could use that time to free even more slaves without them noticing.

Slaves weren’t allowed to go inside the meeting, which would only make it easier for us to get them out of there.

Seeing that the city that day was in a bit of turmoil, we stayed in the inn’s room until the sun started to set, marking our signal to start walking to the theater.

When we arrived at the venue, we noticed how all of the nobles had chained their slaves by the wrists of their necks.

It wasn’t a new thing, but after the disappearance of half of the slaves in the city, the nobles got nervous and took their own preventive measures so they wouldn’t leave their sight.

When the nobles got to the entrance, they showed their identification tablets to the guards and were allowed inside. Meanwhile, if they had any slaves accompanying them, they were sent to a different building that looked like a horse stable right next to the theater.

Once Mei Ling showed her tablet, she was escorted inside by a guard while we were taken to the building with the other slaves.

The inside of the stable was dark, and there were at least 15 slaves inside when we got in.

They placed four guards outside to watch over the place, which didn’t make us feel threatened as we could easily knock them out without them even noticing what happened.

Still, we patiently waited for all of the nobles to arrive to make sure that all of the accompanying slaves were there with us by the time we freed them all.

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