Chapter 1045: 504 Perfectly Resolved (Second Update) Chapter 1045: 504 Perfectly Resolved (Second Update) “You’re insane! They won’t let us talk to people outside, nor let us open the door for them, or else they’ll kill us!”

“What difference does it make if we just wait to die here? Besides, she killed that man, she must be here to help us!”

“How would you know!”

“I don’t care, I’m going to escape anyway!”

After saying this, the young man came out with a shovel.

He handed the shovel to Gu Jiao, “Here.”

Just as Gu Jiao was about to take it, he thought of something, quickly took back the shovel, and stepped back, saying to Gu Jiao, “We’re infected with the plague, be careful of getting infected.”

“I know.” Gu Jiao stepped forward and took the shovel from his hand, “Thanks.”

“Hey–” The young man wanted to say something more, but Gu Jiao had already turned around and left.

Gu Jiao dug a pit at the back of the fortress, and halfway through, the young man came over, “Are you digging a pit? Let me help you.”

“No need.” Gu Jiao said.

Though he was rejected, the young man still slid into the pit with another shovel.

Gu Jiao glanced at him but said nothing more.

The work of two was much faster than one, and soon a big pit was dug. Gu Jiao climbed up and pulled him up as well.

The young man hesitated at first, but seeing she was wearing gloves, which seemed to mean no skin contact, he handed his hand to Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao dragged over the body of the dead soldier, threw it into the pit with some firewood, and set it on fire.

The young man swallowed hard, looking both scared and curious, “Did you really kill him?”

He had said that to his roommate earlier to calm his roommate’s nerves, but he found it a little hard to believe himself.

This was a skilled fighter!

“Mm.” Gu Jiao hummed in affirmation.

The young man asked in confusion, “Who are you? Why did you kill him? Were your relatives also captured by them?”

Reaching this point, he scratched his head and said sheepishly, “Ah, did I ask too many questions? You don’t have to answer! You killed him, you’re a good person!”

Gu Jiao’s expression didn’t change much, and she asked, “What kind of people are they keeping here?”

The young man said, “All kinds of people, peddlers, servants, gentry, and landlords.”

Gu Jiao asked, “Not the villagers who lived here?”

The young man said with regret, “The villagers here were killed by them long ago, we were all captured later, and our families were also taken by them. If we don’t obey, they will torture our families, or, send our families here to wait for death.”

Gu Jiao looked at him, “What about you? Why aren’t you obeying?”

“I have no family.” The young man’s mood fell, his family had all died, killed by those remnants of the previous dynasty.

So that was it.

Gu Jiao paused for a moment, then said, “Do those soldiers only come to deliver food every day, or do they do something else, like checking on you?”

The young man shook his head, “No, they don’t dare to come close, you’re the first one. Honestly, aren’t you afraid of getting infected? Or… have you already been infected?”

“I’m not infected.” Gu Jiao said.

The young man hurriedly said, “Then you should leave here quickly! In a little more than two hours, they’ll come to deliver dinner, and if they find you here and discover you’ve killed one of their men, they won’t let you off!”

Gu Jiao, “What’s your name?”

The young man said, “My name is Shen Xuan, my parents called me Little Shitou.”

Gu Jiao looked firmly at him, “Little Shitou, can I trust you?”

…

It was an hour after they left Lingguan City when Gu Changqing and Gu Jiao found the forest where they had hidden their horses, and they led the two horses out.

“Are you really okay?” Gu Changqing asked.

He was asking about her physical condition.

However, Gu Jiao misunderstood, thinking he was worried about the situation in the fortress.

She said, “Those soldiers just drop off the food and leave, they don’t enter to check if the people inside are still there or not. In the morning, the dead soldier would knock on his own door board, that was the signal he was still alive. As long as the soldiers know he’s alive, they won’t question the situation inside the fortress. Little Shitou has moved to the dead soldier’s room, from now on, he will be the one knocking on the door board.”

Gu Changqing said again, “What about the rest? Will they betray him?”

Gu Jiao said, “If they want themselves and their families to live, they won’t.”

She had promised to rescue their families and left enough medicine; as long as they took the medicine diligently and on time, they wouldn’t die from the plague.