Chapter 173: Inside the Pavilion

Shen Yu saw Ying Shiqi's figure only when he got closer. He was squatting on a huge rock next to him. When he saw Shen Yu, he made a gesture towards him.

Shen Yu nodded. He had already changed into the uniform of a secret guard before going out, and now he followed Ying Shiqi tactfully.

Ying Shiqi jumped off the boulder. Shen Yu raised his eyes and looked at him. He paused, then returned to normal after a few seconds.

"Your clothes...are from Mu Yuyi?"

Ying Shiqi walked in front with his hands behind his back. His breath was sharp as he walked. At this time, he deliberately straightened his body, revealing the posture of a 70% dusk rain ivy.

"How can I fool those secret guards if I don't do this? I don't have clothes made of good materials like Commander Mu to cover myself up." Ying Shiqi pressed the mask on his face. As he spoke, he changed his voice to be similar to Mu Yuyi's. "How is it?"

Shen Yu listened to his voice carefully and said, "It's quite similar."

"That's fine." Ying Shiqi walked in front. They turned two or three corners and approached the pond with a clear purpose.

Shen Yu sensed the secret guards watching from the gaps in the woods. He lowered his head and asked Ying Shiqi in a low voice, "How is Mu Yuyi? You took his identity, he won't let it go."

"I knocked him out, tied him up, and drugged him, but with his skills, I estimate he'll wake up within half an hour." Ying Shiqi kept his pace and emphasized, "We only have this much time now. If we can't rescue him by then, let's just leave and don't risk our lives."

"As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood." Ying Shiqi was quite open-minded. "Don't you agree, brother?"

Shen Yu: “…”

He didn't know why Ying Shiqi called him that. He looked mentally unstable. Shen Yu didn't ask any more questions. He just hummed and continued to follow Ying Shiqi forward with his head down.

When they reached the edge of the pond, a team of secret guards came out from the dense forest nearby. Shen Yu secretly looked at their attire and guessed that there might be shadows from the photo studio among them.

Ying Shiqi's tone changed, and he said, "Your Majesty has decreed that the criminal slaves in Tianshu Pavilion be tried again tonight and unlocked."

"Yes." Upon hearing this, the secret guards separated into two rows and stepped aside.

Ying Shiqi took two steps forward and walked to a stone bench built beside the pond. He fumbled around the edge of the old stone bench for a while and found a hidden protrusion.

Ying Shiqi inserted the key into it, and after a "click" sound, a slight vibration was heard in the pond. Shen Yu still stood behind Ying Shiqi. He looked forward with residual light and saw that the water surface in the middle of the pond had cracked, and a thin bridge made of iron chains slowly emerged from it.

Ying Shiqi took out the key again, walked onto the iron chain bridge, and went straight to the pavilion in the middle of the pond.

Shen Yu followed closely behind him. He stepped onto the iron chain bridge and felt the dampness and roughness after just a few steps. This so-called bridge was just made up of three iron chains. If you didn't have any skills or your martial arts skills were shallow, it would be difficult to walk on it normally.

Shen Yu frowned slightly. He walked on the iron chain for nearly a minute. After landing, he smelled the strong aroma of incense coming from the attic.

This fragrance is strong and covering. Mixed with the scent of flowers and trees that occasionally blows through the pond, it perfectly conceals the dead air and blood in the prison.

"You stay here and guard, and the rest of you come in with me." Ying Shiqi gave orders to the secret guards at the bottom of the attic. After he finished speaking, he walked up the stairs and led several secret guards behind him to the highest point of the attic.

The higher you go, the more polluted the air in the attic becomes, as if sewage has been mixed with decaying dead things, the stench is irritating and irritating.

Shen Yu's expression remained unchanged. He walked through several floors and stopped at the highest point. The number of secret guards guarding the attic on the highest floor was more than twice that of the lower floors. They stood in front of the door without moving, looking forward with dark eyes.

Ying Shiqi had expected this. He took out the token in his hand, which was engraved with the seal of the emperor's personal pass: "Bring them all out."

The secret guards stepped aside when they saw the token. Shen Yu and Ying Shiqi exchanged the secret signal and were the first to walk into the attic on the top floor.

There is a hidden huge prison in the high-rise building. All the people who committed serious crimes in Vietnam and were sentenced to death were imprisoned here. Xuan Lin might have done it on purpose. He imprisoned these death row prisoners in Kunning Palace and used their screams to threaten Wen Yu.

Shen Yu walked through the cells one by one and saw the iron hooks and crosses hanging in the back. A corpse of an unknown person was hanging above, covered in blood. The executioner was putting the corpse down and instructing the others to take it away and throw it into the water.

Shen Yu slowly looked at the criminals who had collapsed in the cell. Their prison uniforms were torn, and their foreheads were all engraved with the words "death row". Their rotten and necrotic limbs hung on the straw. They leaned against the wall with their dying breath, their hair was dry and their lips were cracked.

As if they heard footsteps in the corridor, these people did not move their bodies, but their pupils moved like rusty machines.

Shen Yu's eyes swept across them. He didn't stay there for long, and met the gazes of several people hiding in the corner of the wall.

The eye contact was almost fleeting, and Shen Yu froze. Those faces that had long been dead in his memory appeared again, not as bright as before, full of scars and even unable to speak because of the molten iron.

The skin on their faces was all wrinkled and wrinkled. Although they were about the same age as Shen Yu, they looked hunched over, tired and lifeless.

"Little Junior Brother, let's go together!"

"Junior brother, do you want to have a drink? Don't worry, I won't tell Master..."

"You will teach him bad things! Suoyu, don't listen to your senior brother, he is just greedy... He got drunk and made mistakes, don't fool our junior brother..."

Shen Yu could no longer remember the relatively peaceful days on Chengyuan Mountain in his previous life. What was deeply engraved in his mind and which he would never forget were the evil things.

Now seeing them again, Shen Yu could barely recall some of his previous life.

How difficult it was. Two lifetimes apart, Shen Yu died twice.

Shen Yu's throat rolled. He looked away and said to the guards behind him, "Bring out all the prisoners on death row in Chengyuan Mountain and take them to the new prison set up by His Majesty."

"Yes." The secret guards in the attic received the order, unlocked the iron locks on the prison, and escorted the people inside out.

Shen Yu stood aside, watching these people stagger past him, and roughly counted the number of Chengyuanshan death row prisoners who were still left in the attic.

There were no more than thirteen or fourteen of them.

Shen Yu lowered his eyes and followed the team. As he got closer, he suddenly met the eyes of one of the death row prisoners.

The person's hair was disheveled, and there were cracks around her eye sockets. Perhaps because she had not received treatment for a long time, the wounds had worsened and even the whites of her eyes were bleeding.

Shen Yu looked at her silently, his eyes were calm and there was no emotion in them. The female prisoner stared at him for two or three seconds, then she turned her head and was held back by the secret guards behind her as she walked out.