"Oh no, Wu Lianlian must have pressed some kind of mechanism; the door to the secret room can't be opened," Zhu Qingruo said, frowning.
Zhu Changge was silent for a moment, then pushed his junior sister aside, saying, "Junior sister, you should stay out of the way. I'm going to break open the door to the secret chamber."
The sword alone could not cut through it, but with her internal energy, she was 80% confident.
"Senior sister, let me assist you." The two of them working together would increase their chances of winning.
So the two sword energies slashed straight at the stone door. When the two withdrew their inner force, they immediately retreated. Then they heard the sound of the stone door cracking.
"Boom." Success! The stone door collapsed, and the two walked out through it.
The place where the jewels were hidden was quite far from the outside, requiring passage through four stone gates. Each time they broke through a stone gate, they had to consume 30% of their internal energy. After breaking through three stone gates, the two of them gradually became unable to hold on.
Zhu Qingruo felt her internal organs churning, and then she spat out a mouthful of blood. Zhu Changge quickly supported her. Zhu Changge herself was also in bad shape, feeling her internal organs churning upwards, but she managed to suppress the blood pressure with her internal strength.
"I wonder if Junior Brother and Fifth Junior Brother have arrived at the Gu residence yet, and whether they have discovered that we are trapped in the secret room and surrounded by black poison smoke?" Wu Lianlian is too cunning and despicable. They underestimated her. They didn't expect that woman to have such methods.
"Senior sister, I can't hold on much longer. Try to get out of here first, and then ask Fifth Senior Brother and Junior Brother to come and save me." Zhu Qingruo leaned weakly against the wall and gradually slid to the ground.
Zhu Changge took out a short flute, preparing to transmit the sound so that his junior brothers could hear it.
At that moment, "Bang bang bang!" The last stone door was cleaved open from the outside; it was Zhu Yueran who used her internal energy to break it.
Before losing consciousness, Zhu Qingruo saw Zhu Yueran rush in and pick her up, and she closed her eyes in peace.
"Why haven't Second Senior Sister and Little Senior Sister woken up yet? They've been asleep for three days!" Xingxing paced back and forth by the bed with her hands behind her back, looking worried.
"After being poisoned, she used her internal energy, which caused some serious internal injuries, but the poison has been neutralized. Don't worry, she should wake up soon." Zhou Wufu looked at the little girl's pretentious mature demeanor with amusement.
"It's all that wicked prefect's fault! He's in cahoots with Wu Lianlian. If the government hadn't intervened, we wouldn't have been harmed so badly." Xingxing finished cursing and ran out.
The room next door held the captured prefect. He had been imprisoned in the Gu residence for three days, still wearing the undergarment he had worn when he was captured that night. He was tied up and only ate one meal a day, and had become very thin from hunger.
"Hurry up and tell me honestly where you hid that wicked woman Wu Lianlian. If you don't tell me, I'll let Tangguo beat you up." Although Tangguo's internal injuries had not yet healed, she was strong and her beatings were very painful. The prefect had experienced the pain of being beaten by Tangguo.
That big, silly girl punched him twice on the back yesterday, almost killing him. She punched him so hard he vomited blood, and his chest is still aching. It's an internal injury, definitely an internal injury.
To think that he, the dignified prefect of Quanshui Prefecture, was kidnapped by a group of unruly people, not only starving every day but also being beaten, was simply not treated as a human being. He would not accept his ancestral surname if he did not avenge this.
"Wu Lianlian has fled to Pingzhou Prefecture, and she doesn't care whether that corrupt official lives or dies," Zhu Yueran reported to Zhu Lin after receiving the news.
"Hand him over to the Pingzhou Prefecture Inspector, and let the Governor handle the capture of the rebels. Also, the silver mine in Shanquan Village—I believe the Imperial Court will send people over soon." Zhu Lin spoke calmly, not wanting to get involved in these troublesome matters anymore.
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