As Zhou Chu spoke, he opened the cage door and said, "Come out, you're free."
"Go ahead, open all the cage doors!"
Hearing this, the junior members of the Fishing Guild opened all the cage doors, each of them utterly shocked. They were known for their ruthlessness in the Jianghu, yet not even in their darkest actions had they resorted to treating humans like animals, locking them in cages.
Not to mention stripping them of their clothes and dignity, leaving them utterly degraded.
Even with the cages open, the children inside dared not come out.
They had seen with their own eyes what happened to someone who tried to escape—the cruel keeper outside had caught the escapee, and then, in front of all the other children, severed their arms, legs, eyes, tongue, and ears, tossing the mangled body before their cages as a gruesome warning.
Now, even with the cages open, no one dared step out.
