Jiang Yimian immediately frowned, took out her dagger, and swung it directly at the arrow that was attacking her.
Lu Cijian, who was standing to the side, also quickly brandished his long sword, trying to shoot down the arrows flying towards the two of them.
The two stood back to back, constantly waving their weapons, knocking all the arrows and hidden weapons to the ground.
For a moment, the dense barrage of arrows and hidden weapons failed to penetrate their bodies.
Seeing that the first wave of attacks from the hole was about to subside, Xue Lingyu was furious and, disregarding everything else, immediately pressed down on the wall again.
In an instant, with a loud "boom," the wall behind Xue Lingyu slowly moved and turned into a door, which opened from the inside. She quickly hid inside.
The door that suddenly appeared closed in an instant, and all the mechanisms in the passage seemed to be activated.
Suddenly, numerous holes appeared on the walls beside them and above their heads, as if the projectiles were tirelessly shooting at the two of them.
The already dense barrage of arrows and hidden weapons suddenly multiplied, leaving Jiang Yimian and her companion struggling to cope.
It was clear that if they continued to hold on, the two would soon be riddled with arrows and hidden weapons.
Jiang Yimian was about to pull Lu Cijian to hide in the space when, unexpectedly, she stepped on something.
With a soft "click," the ground beneath their feet suddenly opened up to the sides without warning, and the two, caught off guard, fell directly into the dark underground.
Seeing this, Lu Cijian immediately pulled the person into his arms as they fell, and together they plummeted into the dark depths of the earth.
Xue Lingyu waited behind the door for a long time, but apart from hearing the "whoosh whoosh whoosh" sound, she didn't hear anything else.
She was momentarily smug, as she had discovered the secret room by accident.
Fortunately, she secretly saw the people next to Li Kunge pressing down on the irregular protrusions on the wall and learned the function of some of them. Otherwise, she might have been tricked by those two bastards today.
She had thought that the person who looked so much like Jiang Yimian was just her imagination, but now it seems that it must have been Jiang Yimian herself.
It's unclear what these two are planning to do upon suddenly arriving in Tuyuhun.
Once they are killed by hidden weapons from outside, she will inform the guards of Likun Mansion and expose their identities.
If Likunge knew that she was the one who discovered these two scoundrels who intended to harm Tuyuhun and even killed them, she would surely love her even more.
I just don't know when Likunge will be back.
It's a pity she's not of high enough status, otherwise she could have gone along today to celebrate Li Kunge's birthday.
However, her stay at the mansion today was not entirely fruitless.
At least killing those two bastards, Jiang Yimian and Lu Cijian, can be considered revenge for the Xue family.
The more she thought about it, the smuger she became, and the hatred that had been building up in her heart vanished in an instant.
After today, no one will be able to threaten her.
She was finally going to live the life she had always dreamed of.
Thinking of this, she became smug, and her smile grew even brighter. She wanted to see with her own eyes how those two bastards would die a horrible death.
Then, using that fresh corpse to make human skin lanterns would be very interesting.
Only after the "whooshing" sound outside gradually disappeared did she reach out and open the door in front of her.
She thought she would be greeted by two corpses pierced by hidden weapons and arrows.
To my surprise, the outside was completely empty.
Apart from arrows and hidden weapons scattered all over the ground, there was nothing else.
There was no blood, no body pierced by arrows.
Xue Lingyu was in disbelief, and the smile on her face froze on the spot.
She looked around tentatively and said cautiously, "Jiang Yimian, don't hide, I see you."
"I know where you're hiding. Don't even think about escaping. This is Likun Prefecture; you can't get out."
However, there was nothing in the empty passage except her echo.
She then realized something was amiss, and immediately took a few steps forward, holding the lantern, and looked around the corner.
However, the two people from before were not there.
Jiang Yimian and Lu Cijian seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace of them in the dungeon.
She found it strange and, carrying the lantern, continued walking inside.
However, she had only taken a few steps when the scene before her startled her.
The swarm of rats was moving rapidly through the cell, so frightening that her legs went weak and she dropped the lantern she was holding.
She didn't bother picking up the lantern and quickly ran outside.
In her panicked steps, she didn't know what she stepped on. She felt her feet sink into the ground and plummet downwards. The intense feeling of weightlessness made her scream, and she lost consciousness.
Jiang Yimian could only hear the sound of the wind generated by the rapid descent. Just when she felt that the height of the ground from the ground was exceeding the two people's tolerance.
With a "thud," she fell onto Lu Cijian.
Lu Cijian let out a muffled groan, the pain in his back causing him to frown.
Jiang Yimian quickly got up from him and helped him up from the ground, anxiously asking, "How are you? Are you hurt?"
Lu Cijian shook his head, but realized that in this dark place, the other party could not see his movements.
He only spoke, suppressing his discomfort, and calmly said, "I'm fine."
The distance wasn't too high, and he had intentionally created a buffer zone, so he wouldn't get hurt.
Jiang Yimian breathed a sigh of relief, but frowned as she looked at the dark surroundings. "I didn't expect there to be such a large space underground."
She could faintly hear the echoes coming from the surroundings.
Lu Cijian took out a flashlight from his pocket and illuminated the surroundings.
The ground beneath my feet was soft, damp soil, and beside me stood a mottled stone wall, with occasional water droplets sliding down its surface.
There's nothing particularly special about this place. Rather than calling this underground space a secret room, it's more accurate to call it a cave.
He looked up at the spot where the two of them had just landed.
All that could be seen was the dark stone wall, and the open space on it had closed again.
Jiang Yimian looked at the slippery stone walls around her and said, "It seems that we can't get out of here. We need to find another way out."
Lu Cijian nodded and looked around again.
You can only walk on the left; the right side is a stone wall.
The two walked along the cave on the left, and apart from feeling that the ground was too damp and cold, they didn't make any special discoveries along the way.
Jiang Yimian looked around in the light of her flashlight and felt that the underground space was unusually large.
The two had been walking for a quarter of an hour, but the cave ahead seemed endless, with the same environment all the time.
The ground was wet, and a few rats darted by, though not as many as in the prison cell.
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