Chapter 1122 There is always a way out
"Humph, resisting stubbornly!"
The captains pressed on step by step, and Jiang Xue's situation became more and more dangerous.
The towering trees around her seemed to laugh at her helplessness, and the cold air made her feel suffocated.
The cold air felt like a knife cutting her, and a feeling of despair began to spread, and Jiang Xue's eyes became blurry.
Just when she was about to give up, she suddenly felt a strange touch under her feet.
“This…what is this?”
Jiang Xue slipped and almost fell, but accidentally stepped on a piece of loose soil.
This soil feels different, drier and looser than the surrounding soil.
"Could it be..." A bold idea flashed through her mind.
She endured the severe pain in her shoulder, squatted down, and tentatively poked the loose soil with her hands.
Sure enough, there was an open space under the soil!
"Haha, there is always a way out!"
Jiang Xue was filled with joy. She picked up a sharp stone, aimed it at the loose soil, and smashed it down with all her strength.
"Bang!"
With a dull sound, the soil shattered, revealing a pitch-black hole.
"So that's how it is, there is actually a secret passage here!"
Jiang Xue entered the cave without hesitation and crawled quickly along the secret passage.
The secret passage was pitch black, with no sight of one’s hand in front of one’s face, and the air was filled with the smell of damp earth.
Her hand touched the wall of the secret passage, which felt rough and uneven, and covered with some slippery moss.
She crawled in the darkness, her heart filled with fear of the unknown and worry about whether she could escape. The dark passage was winding and tortuous, and no one knew where it led.
Jiang Xue walked for a long time before she finally saw a ray of light ahead. Although the light was faint, it brought her hope.
She quickened her pace, rushed out of the secret passage, and found herself in a hidden valley.
The valley is filled with birdsong and flowers, and the scenery is pleasant, which is completely different from the gloomy and terrifying atmosphere in the hunting ground. The cheerful singing of birds is crisp and pleasant to the ears, and the fragrance of flowers is fragrant to the nose.
"It feels so good to be saved from a desperate situation!"
She let out a long sigh and felt like she had been through the gates of hell.
Based on the clues she had obtained previously, Jiang Xue searched carefully in the valley and finally found a stone chamber hidden in a cave.
In the stone chamber was an ancient wooden box with intricate patterns carved on it.
She carefully opened the wooden box, revealing a stack of yellowed letters and an exquisite jade pendant.
"That's it!"
Jiang Xue was extremely excited. She picked up the letters and read them carefully, and found that these letters actually contained important information about the late queen's secrets!
The sunlight shone through the cracks in the cave onto Jiang Xue, as if celebrating for her.
The warm sunlight is soft and comfortable to the touch.
She put away the letter and jade pendant and left the valley.
When she returned to the edge of the hunting ground again, she was keenly aware that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at her from behind.
She didn't look back, but just quickened her pace, and her figure gradually disappeared at the edge of the hunting ground.
"The game has just begun!" she whispered to herself.
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As night fell, the Prime Minister's Mansion of Ganguly State had towering walls. In front of the gate stood two stone lions with ferocious faces, like a giant beast lurking in the dark night, crawling quietly in front of the vermilion lacquered gate.
Jiang Xue stood in the shadow at the corner and looked at the mansion, feeling a surge of pride in her heart.
Her purpose of coming to the Prime Minister's Mansion was to take the secrets of the late emperor that she had obtained after surviving a life-and-death experience in the hunting ground, to get to the heart of the matter, and then uncover all the truths that had been hidden for a long time!
The Prime Minister's Mansion was eerily quiet in the dark night, as if even the air around the Mansion was filled with a suffocating sense of tension.
This silence is not peaceful, but the calm before the storm, indicating that a bigger conspiracy is brewing.
Jiang Xue took a deep breath and hid the secret letter and jade pendant of the late queen tightly against her body. Her eyes were determined, like a bullet shot out of a gun, unstoppable.
She approached the palace wall quietly and was keenly aware that the guards tonight were stricter than usual.
On the walls of the mansion, patrolling guards walked back and forth, the torches in their hands flickering, stretching their shadows to appear longer and shorter, like ghosts.
There seemed to be secret sentries lurking in the shadows of the corners, with pairs of eyes vigilantly watching everything around them.
Jiang Xue couldn't help but sigh, this Prime Minister, maybe he turned the whole house into an "escape room" scene?
Relying on her previous knowledge of the Prime Minister's Mansion's terrain and her light-weight body skills, she cleverly avoided the guards in plain sight.
She moved among the shadows like a nimble cat, and each step she took was as light as a feather and made no sound at all.
Inside the Prime Minister's Mansion, the dim lights made the corridors dim and shadowy, like a maze.
Jiang Xue took every step very carefully, as if she was walking on the edge of a knife. Her heart was pounding and her palms were slightly sweaty.
Just as she was about to approach the study, a faint sound of footsteps came from the front.
She immediately held her breath and hid behind a rockery on the side.
With the cover of the rockery, she saw two men in black walking towards her with shining knives in their hands.
Jiang Xue secretly thought that something was wrong. It seemed that the Prime Minister's Mansion tonight was more dangerous than she had imagined.
"Who is it?" a man in black suddenly shouted.
Jiang Xue held her breath and dared not move.
The man in black looked around vigilantly, the knife in his hand reflecting a cold light in the dim light.
"Is it the sound of the wind?" asked another man in black suspiciously.
"Impossible, the sound of the wind is too regular." The man in black who spoke earlier said in a firm tone, obviously not believing his companion's explanation.
The two slowly approached the rockery, and Jiang Xue's heart was in her throat.
At the critical moment, a wild cat suddenly jumped down from the rockery and broke the tense silence with a "meow".
The two men in black were startled by the sudden noise and raised their knives to chop at the wild cat.
Jiang Xue took the opportunity to slip out from behind the rockery, and with a few leaps, she disappeared into the night.
She came to the door of the study and found it locked and heavily guarded.
It seems like it’s really impossible to escape from the Prime Minister’s Mansion tonight.
She was thinking about countermeasures when she suddenly heard a conversation coming from the study.
She quietly approached the window and through the gap saw the prime minister's adviser having a secret conversation with someone.
"Everything is ready, just waiting for the right time." The voice of the Prime Minister of Gan State's adviser was low and cold, like the tongue of a poisonous snake.
"Okay, this time we will make sure the Regent is doomed!" The other person's tone was harsh, revealing a strong murderous intent.
Jiang Xue was shocked. It seemed that they were plotting a bigger conspiracy.
She must get their plans and prevent this disaster from happening.
She looked around and spotted a loose brick beneath the study window.
She had an idea in her mind and came up with a plan.
She carefully removed the bricks and inserted a thin bamboo tube into the gap, blowing the smoke into the study.
After a while, a cough was heard in the study, and then there was no movement.
Jiang Xue seized the opportunity and broke into the house through the window.
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