Chapter 222: Fighting the Trap
Because Bai Yu is still "injured", his merits and demerits and punishments will be calculated after he recovers.
During this period, the escort agency invited doctors to check his injuries three times, and the conclusion they came to was "the lungs are severely injured. Even if the injuries are healed, there will be traces of damage to the body, and there is a fear of death."
Bai Yu instantly gained a wave of sympathy.
By the time he seemed to have recovered, it was already summer.
During this period, the city of Xindu was not very peaceful, and troubles happened from time to time.
First, during the New Year's Day, someone stole the red underwear of the Xindu prefect and hung it on the gate of the yamen.
In February, the commander of the city patrol had his official hat stolen and used to take a night-time bath.
In early March, the young man from the mansion of a wealthy family who bullied men and women was stripped naked and thrown at the dock in the city.
In April, the government warehouse was robbed, in May, the city's engineering works caught fire, and in June, the letters between the head of the wealthy Cen family and others who were plotting to suppress their peers were posted all over the streets and walls.
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For a time, rumors were rampant in Xindu, and the people exchanged news with each other after dinner to see which prominent family had suffered the disaster.
The powerful and wealthy in each city were even more panicked, and the number of guards in their mansions was increased again and again.
Bai Yu lay sick in bed every day to "recuperate", relying on these little gossips to stay alive.
In the narrow courtyard in the northwest corner of the escort agency, the light in the small room inside was a little dim.
The June day was bright, but little light could penetrate the room.
Bai Yu sat on the edge of the bed, eating the food brought by his sister personally, his eyes bright.
"The old man's internal damage pills are really good. The effect of one pill lasts for more than three months before it wears off." He lowered his voice and laughed muffledly when he thought of the diagnoses given by those doctors. "Jiu'er, do they know that they are quacks?"
Tian Bao sat on the other side of the bedside table, his hands on his chin, bored, "Be careful, there are ears on the other side of the wall."
"With you here, if someone still listens to what I said, how long must their ears be?"
Doesn’t he know that Tianbao has excellent hearing?
If others want to eavesdrop on what he is saying, they need to have hearing ability that can hear from ten feet away, or have ears that are ten feet long.
"Someone's coming." Tian Bao rolled her eyes at him. "Your injuries have healed. Miao Zheng should send an order soon."
Bai Yu stopped talking and buried his head in eating. After he finished the remaining half bowl of rice, the "someone" that Tianbao mentioned walked to his door.
Sure enough, he came to summon them to the front yard hall.
It was noon now, and all the managers and staff of the escort agency gathered in the hall.
The head Boss Miao Zheng sat at the top, with people sitting on both sides below. When they saw the brother and sister walk in, everyone looked at them with sharp scrutiny.
Miao Qingyi was also there, standing behind her father. The look she gave the two of them was the most different, full of hatred.
"Shiyu, Jiu'er, you two should know why I summoned you here," Miao Zheng said in a cold voice. "This is your first time escorting an escort since joining the escort agency. It was supposed to be a training trip, but you two ruined the mission and caused the agency to suffer huge losses. Do you admit your mistake?"
Shi Yu and Tian Bao lowered their heads and said, "Boss, my brother and I are also very upset about this matter and feel extremely ashamed."
"I'm very pleased that you two have such a heart. However, merits are merits and faults are faults, and they cannot be completely offset. Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to the other escorts. Therefore, after consultation among the escort agency managers, we have made the following decision. If you two can pass the escort agency's Nine Palace Formation, your previous mistakes will be forgiven. Do you dare to break through the formation?"
The brother and sister looked up, their eyes determined, "Dare!"
After the two finished speaking, Miao Qingyi smiled sarcastically, "You really don't know how high the heavens are! Since you are so brave, I wish you a successful return!"
The brother and sister lowered their heads again, as if they didn't hear her words, and didn't let her see any of their reactions, which made Miao Qingyi so angry that she gritted her teeth.
Gao Chong personally led the way and brought the two to Jiugong Garden to the east of the escort agency and opened the gate of the garden.
He glanced at the brother and sister and said, "The moment you step through the door, the formation will be activated immediately. You can only get out alive if you pass it. If you know you can't pass it, you can ask for help along the way. I'll be right outside. But if you ask for help, you can no longer stay in the escort agency."
Tianbao and Bai Yu looked at each other, thanked Gao Chong in unison, and then stepped into the garden gate.
As they walked in, the gate at the back of the garden closed immediately.
Bai Yu's shoulders trembled slightly, and he glanced at Tian Bao and suppressed a smile.
Even Tianbao's mouth corners curved slightly.
Nine Palace Formation?
What a coincidence, the first magic trick godfather taught them was the Nine Palace Formation.
It was the first time for the two of them to come into contact with a formation, and they were troubled for a whole month before they finally broke the formation.
Memories last forever.
The punishment the escort agency gave them now was to make them break through the Nine Palace Formation. What was the difference between that and simply exempting them from punishment?
Separated by a door, the two of them wandered around inside as if they were playing.
As the name suggests, the Nine Palaces Formation is composed of nine small formations and is shaped like a maze.
The small formations need to be revealed in order. If you take a wrong step, you will be attacked by the mechanisms built into the formations.
After easily solving the first level, Bai Yu stood in front of the destroyed mechanism with his arms folded, raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "Jiu'er, how long should we stay in there before we can leave?"
Tian Bao was not idle. She took out a powder box from the space and began to apply fake scars on the hands and faces of the two men. "It usually takes an hour for someone who knows the formation to pass it. The two of us cannot understand the formation, so let's go out in half an hour."
Bai Yu, "???"
"There are only two of us left in the escort agency now. If we die, they will have no one to send to Guiyi Pavilion this year. Godfather has the information he found out, which records that Guiyi Pavilion has given mandatory tasks to each of its secret bases, and each base must select at least two new people to send there every year. That's why they let us break through the formation, and their purpose is definitely not to kill us, otherwise they will be in trouble. I guess if we make it through, we can go directly to Guiyi Pavilion next." After the little girl healed her wound, she directly pulled the iron handle on the mechanism and smashed it violently at the formation.
"..." Bai Yu silently searched for weapons at the scene and followed the violence.
Gao Chong, who was waiting outside the door, heard the bang-bang-bang, dong-dong-dong, and clang-dang-dang sounds coming from inside. His eyebrows jumped and he shouted, "Shiyu, Jiuer, are you two going through the level? Why is it so noisy?"
After a while, someone inside the door responded breathlessly, "Captain Escort! We're breaking in!"
"What's that noise in there?"
"We're attacking the trap! Jiu'er, be careful! Get out of the way! Bang!"
"Brother, be careful! There are hidden weapons! Dangdang--!"
Gao Chong, “…”
When someone breaks into the Jiugong Garden, the gate cannot be opened at will. Once the gate is opened, all the formations inside will stop. Otherwise, he would not be able to help but open the door to take a look.
Attack the mechanism?
No one in Xinyuan Escort Agency has ever broken through in this way!
How dare they!
How does the brain grow?
What happened to the mechanism inside?
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