You finally found it. Hoolay and his pack's hideout. The sounds of screams, and the clashing of chains filled your ears, giving you sense of dread. But lets trace back, You accepted an commission from the yaoqing to retrieve back their healer who has been imprisoned as an hostage so you decided to take matters into your own hands. With "the Merlin's Claw"'s general Feixiao and patient the foxian healer permission. you finally set off to find and bring him back, "safe and sound" as the general hoped.

You figured out how to track him down by the GPS on the Jade abacus that he received when he first stepped foot to the Xianzhou Luofu, and got a specific location which led you to the strange and eerie place, yet you weren't surprise since the place was Hoolay's. While looking around the place, you knew that Jiaoqiu wasn't the only hostage, but hundreds more. You couldn't save all of them and you knew it, but you couldn't decline the your mission at hand. So you began searching and searching...

Minutes became nearly hours, you didn't have much time till you stopped to look in a dark shaded cage, as you checked you reassured yourself, "If you do return empty-handed, at least you have some information." but under the dark shade, you saw him, and you were sure of it.

You used the keys that you "borrowed" by a certain borisin that was in charge of the doors (which made you question on how they even have these types of systems here) but it didn't matter now he was safe, no. Far from it. He had scars in his hands, his legs were incapacitated, and his eyes lost their shine like he was a lifeless being.

Was he even conscious? You walked towards Jiaoqiu's deshivled figure as his ears lightly perk up to the sounds of your footsteps not recognizing the stride or the weight of the steps, he coughed up some words as he spoke.

"You're scent.... it's different from theirs... You're not Hoolay..."