Four figures could be seen huddled in a corner, hiding from a group of passing guards…
"Lei Yu, are you sure we shouldn't be escaping?" Zhang Mei questioned in a hush. They had managed to escape due to a miracle.
Zhao Mei hadn't been drugged like the rest. Instead, she had been knocked right out, so after a few hours she naturally came to. But she was smart enough not to expose herself, as scholars came over occasionally to draw blood samples from her and her fellow disciples. She didn't dare flinch.
She waited patiently like that for days, monitoring the daily routines of the scholars, and finally, when she was confident enough, she took her chance. In a brief moment of reprieve when a scholar had come alone to extract blood, she acted.
The scholar was a mortal after all, so even restrained as an essence weaver, even though she was a non-combatant, killing him without causing any commotion only took extra concentration.
