This aura is deadly

Seeing Chen Ke running out of the room, Xu Jing quickly followed, her blue eyes instantly catching the figure of a man.

There were crisp footsteps in the quiet corridor, and at the same time, they also heard the heavy swing of the heavy chain.

"Listen, what was pulled up?" Xu Jing said without stopping.

Chen Ke didn't know what the guards were doing, but judging from the way everyone on the other side was retreating, their countermeasures should be about to begin.

It is not difficult to understand if there are underground structures under this bottom layer. After all, if humans want to hide something, burying it is a very common idea.

While talking, the man stopped running and stopped in a certain room.

Chen Ke pushed open the door and looked at the man in the room. Sure enough, it was Jacob.

Xu Jing came in from another door, one behind the other, blocking all Jacob's escape routes.

As soon as he entered the room, an unpleasant smell of medicine hit his nostrils. Jacob stood beside a bed and crossed himself on his chest, as if praying for someone.

I wanted to question Jacob, but when Chen Ke entered the room, he found that there were more beds in this room than in other rooms, and they were smaller.

He opened the quilt on the bed next to him, and the body of a child came into view. The child was malnourished and as thin as a little monkey.

A blood collection tube was inserted into the swollen pustule on his chest, but the other end was not connected to the bottle. It seemed that the blood collection had ended and the bottle had been taken away.

Except for Jacob, no other human figure could be seen in the whole room, because they were all dead.

"I told you, don't play tricks." Xu Jing said to Jacob.

"We came too late." Jacob whispered, he was not in a good mood.

"This room is full of children, all dead." Chen Ke said. He looked around again with his spiritual vision. There were no humanoid outlines in the surrounding rooms.

Just now, I was just looking at Jacob and didn't notice anything strange about this room. Besides, under spiritual vision, all the outlines of human figures overlapped each other, so it was normal to see clearly.

"Many children are missing. It turns out that they were all sent here." Jacob shook his head.

"You know what's down here. If you tell us from the beginning, maybe we can help you." Xu Jing said coldly.

"You don't look like people you can trust." Jacob said.

"The same goes for you, and we gave you a chance." Xu Jing said.

Jacob looked at the gun in Xu Jing's hand. He had never seen that kind of thing, but he also knew that it must be a dangerous weapon.

"Jacob, tell me what you know about this place." Chen Ke said.

"Then I can die, right?" Jacob asked.

"If the information you said is very useful, we may let you go." Xu Jing said, looking at Chen Ke, the meaning in her eyes was "Kill him after finishing speaking."

"If I find that you are stalling for time, I may shoot you to death while you are talking." Chen Ke said.

Jacob spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry that I took advantage of you, but I wouldn't have been able to come in here without you as bait."

He briefly stated his purpose. It turned out that Jacob was the leader of a gang of thieves in Longton City. He had been secretly helping the poor workers who were oppressed by factory owners.

As we all know, workers had no rights at all in 19th-century Longton.

Tired to death on the assembly line, working in front of the boiler machine without any safety protection, resulting in work-related injuries and disabilities, and then being abandoned by the factory. The daily salary was only enough to cover the expenses of the next day. Working more than 10 hours a day was the fate of workers in the 19th century.

Among them, child labor is even more miserable. In order to solve the livelihood problem of the whole family, some families push them to factories, where they can only receive a quarter of the salary and have to do the work of adults at a young age.

Not only that, factory owners will also send people on the streets to lure orphans to work as free child labor in their factories. They are locked up in the factories without receiving wages, but work up to 12 hours.

Jacob's gang attacked factories where orphans were imprisoned, and rescued many orphans and recruited them into the gang.

"But these children were disappearing mysteriously. I traced them for a long time and found out that they were brought into the academy." Jacob said.

"So you don't know what's going on down here?" Xu Jing asked.

"I don't care what they want to do. I just want to destroy them." Jacob said.

"This is a change that affects the entire world. We will eventually enter a new era. Langdon is the center of this change. Jacob, your gang can't defeat them..." Chen Ke shook his head.

He has seen the future more than 100 years in the future, which is no more decent than Longton in the 19th century.

"I don't understand what you are saying, but under the hidden sword, all living beings are equal." Jacob said.

It would be simple if killing a few capitalists could change the times, but that's not how the world works.

At this time, the sound of rolling thick iron chains came again. Chen Ke could feel that the sound came from the top of his head and his feet. It seemed that some kind of transmission mechanism was buried in the wall of this space, and power was transmitted through the iron chains.

"I've finished my work down here. If there's nothing else..." Jacob slowly moved towards the door.

Xu Jing glanced at Chen Ke. She seemed to have changed her mind, so she turned slightly sideways and let Jacob leave the room.

After Jacob left, Chen Ke spread his hands and asked, "Why do you suddenly want to let him go?"

"We can't kill him. He has touched the extraordinary..." Xu Jing replied.

Chen Ke understood what Xu Jing meant. Jacob had seen what was underneath the academy, and what he did in the future might be an important part of extraordinary history.

"Do you think he has something to do with the Seancer sect?" Chen Ke asked.

"There is no seance sect in this reality yet, but I don't think Jacob will touch the origin of this organization, but I believe he will have his own position in the future. Let's continue to take a closer look." Xu Jing said.

Chen Ke was noncommittal. Whatever Xu Jing said, he was just here to help. He just wanted to end the trip quickly and get what he wanted.

The two walked out of the room. I don't know if it was an illusion, but the already quiet environment became quieter and quieter.

"Let's go in the direction where they escaped and see what's going on." Xu Jing whispered, as if to cater to the change in the environment.

Chen Ke nodded, and the two of them moved deeper into the underground space. The sound of their footsteps bounced off the wall, making it too noisy.

The underground space was larger than expected. The two walked for a long time and finally saw a double wooden door at the end.

The door was not closed tightly, and a wisp of wind blew out from the crack, ruffling Xu Jing's long hair, and an old voice floated out from inside.

"Come in, come in quickly, you must have many questions."