Lei An immediately sent men to go over the cellar inch by inch.

Ning Chen waited quietly. He was in no hurry.

In this freezing cold, two bullets and an arrow would kill the man in white if they weren't treated soon, master above the ranks altogether or not.

And right now there were no doctors in the city, only the army surgeons Ning Chen had brought.

Army surgeons spent their lives around wounded soldiers. They could spot a blade wound or an arrow wound at a glance.

So the man in white would never dare risk going to an army surgeon... unless he knew medicine himself.

Suddenly Ning Chen's eyes narrowed sharply.

Xiao Yanxi knew medicine. If the man in white really was her teacher, might he know medicine too?

"Somebody."

"Your orders, my lord prince!"

Ning Chen said, "Go find Miss Xiao and ask her whether her teacher knows medicine. Be quick about it."

"Right away!"

The Ning'an Army soldier took the order and galloped off.

Xiao Yanxi had heard the gunfire earlier.

But she hadn't rushed over to see what was going on. She was afraid she'd only get in the way, so she'd gone straight back to the city lord's residence.

While Ning Chen waited, Lei An came over with an odd look on his face. "My lord prince, the cellar has no secret passage. There's only an air hole, and no grown man could ever squeeze out through it. But there's blood on the sides of the hole, and we found more blood outside it too."

Ning Chen frowned. "What are you getting at?"

Lei An said, "You'd better take a look yourself, my lord prince."

"Lead the way!"

Lei An took Ning Chen to a spot some sixty-odd feet behind the collapsed house, where there was a hole in the ground.

Ning Chen looked down at it for a while. "You're telling me the man in white got away through this?"

Lei An nodded.

Ning Chen frowned. "Are you kidding me? A kid would have trouble crawling out of that hole, never mind a…