Chapter 410 Exploration
Chen Xing signaled Feng Jing to take the Shadow Chaser back and started to hit that place hard.
I don't know if it was because the position was right, the force was right, or the number of knocks was enough, but anyway, I heard a muffled "boom" sound coming from the mountain, and the mountain wall actually opened inward, revealing the dark inside.
The two of them gasped in shock; there actually was a mechanism.
Chen Xing held up the pearl and shone it inside, and found a staircase leading downwards.
"Why is it going down?" Feng Jing came closer, craning his neck to look. According to his and Chen Xing's speculation, the mechanism behind the cliff should lead to the top of the cliff, so why would it lead down?
The two looked at each other, and the hazy pearl light illuminated the eagerness in their eyes.
Feng Jing: "Tantan?"
Chen Xing: "Tan Tan!"
The two thieves boldly hit it off immediately. Chen Xing stretched out his hand: "Flame."
Feng Jing reached into his cloth pocket and took out the whistle used by the secret guards to communicate and gave it to her.
When they were climbing the mountain earlier, Chen Xing was worried that everyone would be separated by the formation, so she gave each team leader a whistle arrow. Her own arrow was soaked in water and unusable, but Feng Jing's arrow had been kept in his cloth bag and had never been soaked in water.
The rocket flew into the sky, and a golden firework exploded in the dark blue night sky with a "bang".
"General, look!" The soldier who was lowering the rope exclaimed, pointing at the golden fireworks in the sky and calling Huang Qian.
Huang Qian was delighted, thinking that being able to fire a flare proved that the person was still alive.
Feng Jing is a miracle doctor and must have life-saving medicine on him that can buy them time.
He ordered the soldiers to continue lowering the ropes and rescue the people as soon as possible.
At the same time, the secret guards on duty at the military camp also saw the fireworks blooming in the sky.
Xiao Da ordered the clever Xiao Shiyi to check it out, while he went to report to Xiao Jingfan.
Stepping on branches and leaves, the black shadow flew through the forest like a nimble swallow, and reached the mountainside at the fastest speed.
Suddenly, a man in black appeared beside him, and the soldier was so frightened that he almost fell off the cliff. Xiao Shiyi grabbed him in time, pulled him away from the edge of the cliff, and leaned over to look down.
"They are the secret guards protecting His Majesty, one of us." Huang Qian comforted everyone and quickly explained the situation when Xiao Shiyi turned around to look.
After listening, Xiao Shiyi took out a small notebook from his pocket, quickly drew a few pages, tore them off and stuffed them into Huang Qian's pockets: "Pass them on to the master."
Huang Qian was stunned, only to see Xiao Shiyi leap up and fall headfirst.
Huang Qian:!!!
Everyone:!!!
Everyone rushed to the edge of the cliff and looked down.
Under the moonlight, the clouds and mist were like smoke and silk, floating quietly. Where was Xiao Shiyi's figure?
Are these secret guards addicted to jumping off cliffs?
Huang Qian's face twitched, and he raised his hand to wipe it hard before he regained his composure. He glanced at the several drawings of little people that Xiao Shiyi had stuffed into his hands, but he couldn't quite understand them. Just in case, he ran to the military camp in person.
Hearing that Feng Jing had fallen off a cliff, and that his own secret guards had also jumped off the cliff one after another, even Xiao Jingfan was not calm. After looking at the little figure painting that Xiao Shiyi had asked Huang Qian to pass on, he thought for a moment and decided to go up the mountain himself to take a look.
Suddenly, Eunuch Zhou's face turned as bitter as a bitter gourd, wrinkled with worry, and he stared at Huang Qian with resentment in his eyes.
Huang Qian: ???
It wasn't him who advised Your Majesty to go up the mountain!
Half an hour later, a fire suddenly broke out on the top of the thousand-foot cliff. The wind fanned the flames, and in the blink of an eye, the fire became one piece, illuminating half the sky red.
What was strange was that there was no sound of shouting like "Fire!" or "Fire!"
Chu Liuzheng, the instigator of all this, had no idea the fire had been set in advance. She was in the underground palace, pushing the coffin lid with all her might, and commanding the two unfortunate souls she had just rescued from the coffin: "Master Zhang, Master Jiang, please use some strength! His Royal Highness Prince Rui is still waiting for you to save him."
"We tried our best." Zhang Qian and Jiang Zhou's faces flushed red, but they had been hungry for too long, so their hands and legs were weak, and their strength was even weaker than that of Chu Liuzheng, a weak woman.
The three of them pushed for a long time, but the coffin lid didn't move at all.
Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang, but the combined strength of three weaklings is not even as strong as half a strongman.
Chu Liuzheng sat on the ground exhausted, sweat dripping down his temples. He was too tired to talk.
[Wow~ This achievement is so damn hard to earn! ]
"This is not a solution. The sarcophagus is not airtight. His Royal Highness Prince Rui will suffocate to death." Zhang Qian raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat off his face. Because his sleeve was covered with dust, his face suddenly became gray and black. Combined with his extremely thin cheeks and his messy hair caused by Chu Liuzheng pulling hard to save him, it did not feel out of place for him to disappear among the beggars.
Jiang Zhou was also very tired. He leaned against the stone coffin and fanned himself with his sleeves. As he fanned himself, he asked, "Miss Chu, how did you rescue me and Master Zhang just now?"
"Use a crowbar." Chu Liuzheng swallowed hard. It had been so long since she'd had any water, and her throat felt like it was filled with burning coals. Or maybe it was because she had a fever, but she felt like sparks were flying off her lips. "Your coffins aren't this heavy."
Zhang Qian suggested, "Why don't we get three crowbars and use them together?"
"No." Chu Liuzheng pointed to the broken wooden stick on the ground. "This is what I brought with me for self-defense. There's nothing else in the underground palace except gold and silver items and a bunch of coffins that may or may not contain corpses."
Gold and silver items are soft and cannot be used as crowbars even if they are flattened.
Jiang Zhou asked something off topic: "Miss Chu, if you want to protect yourself, why don't you bring a knife?" A knife is a sharp weapon, it is definitely better than a stick, right?
[Haha, I don't know if a knife is better than a stick. The problem is that I only dare to hit people with a stick, not chop them with a knife.]
Chu Liuzheng: "I believe in Buddhism and I don't kill."
Jiang Zhou: “…”
Zhang Qian: “…”
The silence between the two was deafening in the quiet underground palace.
Jiang Zhou: "Let's rescue His Royal Highness Prince Rui quickly."
Zhang Qian: "Yes, that's right. I suddenly feel stronger."
"Come on." Chu Liuzheng supported himself on the sarcophagus and stood up. He blinked hard to try to clear away the flickering double image before his eyes. "Try again."
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"Should we go left or right?" In the dim underground palace, two figures stood at the fork in the road, feeling hesitant.
Feng Jing: "On the right."
Chen Xing: “Yeah.”
Walk decisively to the left.
Feng Jing: “…”
"You chose twice, and there were traps both times." Chen Xing asked him to follow, his steps staggering a little.
Feng Jing chased after her and helped her up. His movements were gentle, but he kept saying, "The one you chose also has a mechanism."
"At least it's not fatal." Chen Xing looked around vigilantly.
Just as they were walking down the path Feng Jing had chosen, a huge rock suddenly rolled over with a rumble. If she hadn't reacted quickly and pushed Feng Jing into the stone chamber next to them, it would have been more than just a scratch on their legs. The two of them would have been crushed into a pulp long ago.
Feng Jing glanced at her pale profile and muttered softly, "If I had known, I wouldn't have come in."
I thought it was just a simple secret room, but the more I walked, the more winding it became, and I encountered a mechanism.
The two of them realized something was wrong and immediately returned the same way they came, but the stone door they came in from was closed for some reason, and even the stone blocks that Chen Xing had specially placed to prevent the door from closing were useless.
The two searched for a long time but couldn't find the mechanism to open the door. After some discussion, they decided to continue exploring, hoping they would discover some big secret.
But the two thieves soon regretted their boldness.
This damn thing is not a secret room at all, but a complex underground palace full of traps!
It was too late to go back the same way, so I had to continue walking based on my feelings.
"Wait!" Chen Xing paused and listened carefully, "There seems to be voices."
(End of this chapter)
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