The father and daughter duo calmly soothed the twelve children while untying them. Mo Yan checked on each child and found that they were only frightened, suffering no other harm, and couldn't help but sigh with relief.
While it was wrong for these children to run off to the mountain against their parents' advice, the terror they felt from being kidnapped by the bandits outside was undeniably connected to her. Now that they were safe, her underlying worry had finally dissipated.
What came next clearly wasn't for the children to witness, lest they be scared again. So Mo Yan left them in the care of her father inside the tent, while she went outside and ordered Red Python to drag the bandits together for an interrogation about the mastermind behind the operation.
They didn't manage to find out who was pulling the strings, but they did learn that these men were the same two groups of mountain bandits who had ambushed them on their way back from Phoenix Mountain that night.
