Become a Knight Across the World

Chapter 306 I promise

"Quick! Get into the woods!" Yun Yi grabbed Xu Yun and ran as fast as he could. His lungs burned, his feet slipped on the muddy ground, and the shouts and footsteps behind them grew louder and louder! The other two girls were exhausted and gradually fell behind.

"Ah!" One of the girls slipped and fell to the ground!

"Don't worry about me! Run!" the girl cried out in despair.

Yun Yi's eyes were bloodshot! He suddenly stopped and pushed Xu Yun forward: "Xiao Yun! You run first! Hide! I'll go help them!" He couldn't let them fall into the clutches of evil again!

"No! Brother Yunyi!" Xu Yun turned around in horror.

But Yun Yi had already turned around and roared as he charged towards the pursuing thugs! He was unarmed, and with the blood and anger of a young man, he punched the face of the thug who was charging at the front! The man screamed and staggered back.

"You're asking for it!" Another thug swung a wooden stick at Yun Yi's head!

Yun Yi dodged awkwardly, narrowly avoiding the attack, but his shoulder was still grazed and stung painfully. He was no match for the thugs, and was quickly surrounded, his fists and feet raining down on him!

"Grab him! Break his legs!" Scarface grinned as he approached.

Yun Yi was knocked to the ground, protecting his head, curling up to endure the brutal beating. Excruciating pain coursed through his body, but only one thought occupied his mind: buy time for Xiao Yun!

In the chaos, he caught a glimpse of Xu Yun out of the corner of his eye. She hadn't run far, but was hiding behind a collapsed earthen wall, watching him being beaten with tears streaming down her face, her hands tightly covering her mouth.

The dark energy within her seemed to be agitated by extreme fear and anger. A faint black aura permeated her body, and a green light flashed in her eyes, but she forcibly suppressed it. Clearly, Lin Yue's words and her own fear were fiercely clashing.

"There she is! And a few more girls!" One of the thugs spotted Xu Yun!

"Damn it!" Yun Yi thought in alarm! He suddenly unleashed a burst of strength, shoved a thug aside, and scrambled toward the direction where Xu Yun was hiding!

"This way!" He pulled Xu Yun up, not caring about the direction, and saw a half-collapsed old house next to them that looked like an abandoned ancestral hall. There seemed to be an inconspicuous small door covered by weeds at the back!

"Go in!" Yun Yi used his last bit of strength to smash open the rotten wooden door, which looked like a storage room.

"Run inside!" He pushed a few girls inside first! Then he immediately braced his back against the door!

"Chase them!" Scarface Liu roared angrily, leading a few men to rush into the basement.

"No! That's where we store our 'goods'!" the tall, thin man shouted in terror.

But Scarface Liu didn't care about any of that. He shoved the tall, thin man aside and yelled, "Get out of my way! If they get away or the police come, we're all doomed!"

He led a few men, carrying flashlights, their footsteps and shouts growing closer! "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The thugs outside caught up and began frantically banging on the door! Wood chips flew everywhere, and the rotten door groaned under the weight!

"Hold on! Hold on!" Yun Yi gritted his teeth, his feet digging into the ground, all his strength pressing down on the door. Each impact felt like a hammer blow to his back, making his internal organs churn, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. But he couldn't back down! Behind him was Xiao Yun! He had promised to protect her!

"Open the door! You little brats! I'll skin you alive when I get in!" Scarface roared furiously from outside, his banging on the door growing stronger.

Xu Yun huddled in the corner behind Yun Yi, watching him desperately brace his frail body against the door, enduring the raging storm outside. She saw the blood trickling from his mouth, the reckless look in his eyes… A wave of immense pain and self-reproach tore at her heart. It was all because of her! It was all because of her, this jinx! It was all because of her that Yun Yi…

"Brother Yunyi... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." She sobbed uncontrollably, the dark power within her churning violently due to the intense emotional turmoil, almost breaking free of its restraints.

"Don't...don't talk nonsense!" Yun Yi said with difficulty, his voice hoarse from the pain, "It's my fault...I didn't protect you well...Hold on...we...can definitely..." His words were interrupted by a more violent impact from outside the door, his body was thrown forward, and a crack appeared in the door panel!

Just then, Yun Yi's ears caught a very faint, suppressed sob coming from the dark room behind him.

more than one!

He turned around abruptly and, by the faint moonlight filtering through the crack in the door, saw the scene inside the room!

This wasn't a storage room at all! It was an entrance deep underground! The place they had just fallen into was merely a small platform above the entrance. And down a few broken stone steps was a huge, dark, and damp basement!

And right there in this basement, it was packed with people! All of them were girls!

Twenty or thirty, or even more! Their ages ranged from teenagers to their early twenties! They were ragged, disheveled, and covered in various scars and bruises.

Many people had empty, numb eyes, like soulless puppets, huddled on the cold, damp ground. In a corner, several girls who looked no more than thirteen or fourteen years old huddled together, trembling, their eyes filled with extreme fear.

What struck Yun Yi even more was that several girls had noticeably protruding bellies! They were curled up, their hands unconsciously protecting their lower abdomens, their faces showing pain, numbness, and deep despair.

The air was thick with the smells of mildew, sweat, blood, and a nauseating, despairing atmosphere.

This place... is hell!

Yun Yi's mind went blank! All sounds seemed to have faded away from him, leaving only the sound of his heart pounding wildly in his chest!

Rage! Like a volcano dormant for millennia, erupting in that instant! Blood rushed to his head, scorching his reason!

These scumbags! These beasts! They not only traffic people, but they also imprison them here as breeding machines! Those young girls… those pregnant women…

"Bang!!!" Another heavy impact! The crack in the door panel widened! The scarred man's ferocious face flashed past through the gap!

"Hahaha! Kid, can't take it anymore? Just wait to die!" came the arrogant shouts from outside.

Despair? Angry? Yun Yi felt it all. But at this moment, a stronger emotion overwhelmed the anger and despair—responsibility! To protect!

He remembered the day he became Kamen Rider "Ken Hopper" – it was to protect Jiang Feifei.

Knights are strictly forbidden from using lethal force against unarmed humans; violators will be automatically disqualified from transforming and their power will dissipate.

He always adhered to this rule. Because he was afraid of losing this power, and even more afraid of losing control.

but now……

He looked at the small, frightened figures in the corner of the basement, at the pure yearning for life and the fear of death in their eyes; he looked at the girls with protruding bellies and lifeless eyes; he felt Xu Yun's body trembling violently with fear behind him; he listened to the arrogant shouts of those beasts outside the door...

"Kamen Rider...cannot attack humans..." Yun Yi murmured to himself, his voice hoarse, yet carrying a strange calm. His gaze swept over every terrified, numb, and desperate face in the basement.

"If we don't even dare to stop the evil happening right before our eyes..."

"If we turn a deaf ear to the cries of these innocent people..."

"If you don't even have the courage to use your strength to protect the weak..."

"So……"

He suddenly straightened his body, which was in excruciating pain from the impact, and his eyes blazed with an unprecedented light, like a sharp sword piercing through the darkness!

"What meaning do these knightly powers, these so-called qualifications... still hold?!"

Protect! Protect these innocent lives before us! Protect their last hope! Even at any cost! Even if... we lose this power!

A scorching power instantly surged from his heart to his limbs and bones!

He no longer hesitated, no longer feared! Under Xu Yun's terrified gaze, amidst the maniacal laughter of the thugs about to break down the door, and under the bewildered stares of the desperate girls filling the basement—

Yun Yi suddenly took a step back, revealing the metal belt buckle he wore close to his body.

"Don't worry... I'll get you out of here..."

"I promise……"

"HENSHIN!"

"Change PunchHopper!"