Chapter 90: Dig, dig her out for me!
"If you leave me behind, you can survive with your ability; but if you take me with you, neither of us will survive." Xie Yanyan looked at him calmly, "Go out and find someone else to dig..."
"Have you finished speaking?" Zhou Shaoyu yelled, "Aren't you a talkative person? Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
"Are you not afraid of death?"
"Who doesn't cherish life? But I'm more afraid of your death! If you die, there will be no Xie Yanyan in this world anymore. If you die..." Zhou Shaoyu's eyes turned red with anxiety, "I have to take emergency measures. I didn't mean to offend you!"
Okay then, I get it!
"Just wait for me a moment, it will be ready soon."
Since it has been confirmed that "The Moon is Brightest in My Hometown" is a time traveler, then since he was able to build three floors, he must have built steps.
When Xie Yanyan's mental power scanned the surroundings, he discovered that there was a long staircase more than one meter wide on the wall near the stone gate at the exit, leading directly from the bottom of the cave to the stone gate, which was blocked by dust, debris, and collapsed bricks and stones.
She wanted to lure Zhou Shaoyu over there.
Among the treasures collected on the second floor just now, I found a cat's eye stone and went to that staircase.
"There's a glowing thing over there." She pointed to the cat's eye stone embedded in the messy earth wall. Fearing that Zhou Shaoyu would not go, she added, "It looks like a priceless cat's eye stone. I want to go and take a look."
Zhou Shaoyu: "Xie Yanyan, let's go out and I'll find you the best cat's eye stone in the world, okay?"
It's already this time, and you still want to look at cat's eye?
Xie Yanyan held up the flashlight and said firmly, "I want cat's eye."
Zhou Shaoyu made up his mind and without asking her opinion, he picked the person up, stepped on the broken bricks and rocks on both sides, and jumped up with all his strength.
His breathing was a little heavy, and the hot air hit her face. Xie Yanyan tugged at his clothes and said stubbornly: "I want cat's eye."
Zhou Shaoyu slipped several times on the gravel, but he still put her on a high shelf, which he had shaken before and found to be very sturdy.
"Don't move here. I'll get you the cat's eye stone. No matter what happens, don't move."
Turn around, jump down, and after a few ups and downs, you will reach the cat's eye stone.
Without thinking, Zhou Shaoyu reached out and grabbed the cat's eye stone and was about to leave, but it was like triggering a domino effect, and the soil, bricks and stones against the wall... all fell down.
Dust flew up and he quickly stepped back and jumped out.
Xie Yanyan took this opportunity to move away the rice bags and other debris that were pressing on the steps, clearing out a long blue brick staircase.
The entire wall, including the stone gate, was cleared away, and brick and stone debris and broken bags fell down, revealing a mottled blue brick wall.
The lowest few steps were already submerged in water.
Zhou Shaoyu shone the flashlight at the top of the stairs, which led directly to the stone door of the exit.
He said excitedly: "The stone door to get out is at the top of the stairs. Thank you Yanyan, we are saved."
He swung the flashlight to show her.
"This must have been designed by a master of mechanisms. I didn't expect that everything was tied to a small cat's eye stone." Zhou Shaoyu exclaimed, looking at her with shining eyes, "Xie Yanyan, you are a lucky bag. If it weren't for you, we would have missed the way out."
"You took away the cat's eye." Xie Yanyan praised in disguise, "I just like cat's eye."
"It's a good thing you insisted on the cat's eye. I never thought of touching a cat's eye."
Zhou Shaoyu spoke very sincerely.
The water level at the bottom of the cave is slowly rising.
Zhou Shaoyu, holding a flashlight, jumped over, picked up Xie Yanyan from the high shelf, carried her to the steps, looked at the gradually rising water, and said, "Let's go."
The two of them quickly reached the top of the stairs. Seeing that the stone gate was just around the corner, Zhou Shaoyu asked Xie Yanyan to stand on the stairs and lean against the iron frame embedded in the blue brick wall.
He handed the flashlight to Xie Yanyan.
"Hold on to the iron frame and don't fall down. Give me some light, and I'll find a way to open the stone door."
Zhou Shaoyu walked to the big stone gate, picked the gap between the blue bricks with his hand, and slowly moved to the side of the stone gate. There was only half of the blue brick under the stone gate that he could step on.
Because of the collapse, the stone gate now looks like it is embedded in the cliff.
It's really too dangerous.
Xie Yanyan looked at the stone door, exploring the possibility of picking it off.
After the scan, I didn’t dare move.
This stone door is a mechanism!
If she moved the stone forcibly, she would trigger the mechanism.
She tried to move the stone door slightly, and saw black liquid dripping from the top of the treasure cave above the stone door.
Only then did I see that the black liquid came from a circle of grooves, and the grooves were full of flowing black liquid.
Could this be the legendary mercury?
Can't move.
Absolutely not moving.
Otherwise, not only would she and Zhou Shaoyu be poisoned, but the entire Yingyue River and Yingyue Lake would be polluted if they were connected to this cave.
While the two were struggling to find a way out inside, there was an uproar outside.
A deafening sound came from the Baisha Embankment on the shore of Yingyue Lake. No one knew what had happened, but they saw the lake water, which had been quiet until now, swirling and sinking rapidly.
Xu Wenrong dealt with those assassins who were still determined to do evil, and asked Zhou Jin to ride back to Gucheng immediately to report to the prince.
The situation is critical. The prince and his sister may be in great danger. They definitely can't do it alone.
Soon, there was a commotion in the valley city. The city gates opened and a team rushed out quickly. Torches were like a river of stars, flags were fluttering, and the black masses of horses and men came at lightning speed.
The pursuers immediately dodged, and a skylark flew away chirping.
Soon, a large number of troops arrived at Baisha Dike.
Martial law is imposed within a three-mile radius.
The prince was protected by Dong Liu and others. He followed Xu Wenrong and Zhou Jin to the marked place, dismounted, and countless torches lit up the place.
"Find him. Make sure to find him." The prince's hands were shaking a little.
He drank and chatted happily with officials in the evening, and was extremely tired from the journey, so he fell asleep with his head against the pillow. He was sleeping soundly when Liu Qi woke him up and said that Prince Zhou and Miss Xie had gone out to play, but were chased on the way back, so they had to jump into the lake and disappeared.
He was so scared that he broke out in a sweat and stood up immediately.
Zhou Jin explained the situation, and the prince's first impression was anger. How could anyone dare to touch his people!
The second thing was anger. Jingchen was too unreasonable. She had said that she didn't want to entertain officials, so she let him do it. But she didn't expect him to take Miss Xie to see a temple in the middle of the night!
Have you never seen a temple or something?
But something happened, so he had to cheer up, quickly notify the county magistrate and the commander-in-chief, and lead troops to rescue them.
He left the carriage and rode quickly over on horseback.
Zhou Shaoyu must not get into trouble, otherwise, he could guess how serious the consequences would be. The King of Nanhai only had this one legitimate son, if he died on his way to disaster relief, the King of Nanhai would dare to rebel.
Xie Yanyan couldn't get into trouble, because she was the one who was saving the locusts. As for Zhou Shaoyu, he didn't count on him. Zhou Shaoyu had only known how to fight and make trouble since he was a child. How could he be responsible for saving the locusts?
They searched the levee for a long time with torches but found nothing. Even the stone gate that Xu Wenrong and Zhou Jin had mentioned could not be found.
(End of this chapter)
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