It took endurance to descend the canyon by only pulling on a hemp rope. Shi Mingyue knew her own limitations, so this time she didn't ask to follow them down, but stayed up there and waited.
A few people went down first. Fu Yueli held her shoulder and said, "Wait for me up there. Don't go anywhere. Be careful."
Shi Mingyue nodded, and Gao Siqi said, "Don't worry, I will take good care of Yue'er."
After descending for about a quarter of an hour, they finally reached the bottom of the canyon, and sure enough, they found traces of Fu Baiheng and others' movements there.
At the bottom of the canyon lay a clear pool, and a waterfall cascading down from above landed in the pool, a scene of flying pearls and splashing jade. Fu Yueli and the others explored for a long time and found a strange place. There was something strange about it. The lush green vines clinging to the canyon wall showed signs of being disturbed. When they pushed aside the vines, they were surprised to find a cave hidden behind them.
Looking in from the outside, the cave was pitch black.
One person asked, "Isn't His Royal Highness Prince Xiang inside?"
The others all agreed, and Fu Yueli also felt that there must be something unusual in this cave. They lit the tinder and walked in cautiously.
The cave was wet, and drops of water kept falling from top to bottom, landing on people's heads and necks, making people feel very uncomfortable.
The ground seemed to be covered with slippery moss because it was too wet. You had to be careful when walking, otherwise you might slip.
Using a tinder to illuminate the scene in the cave, they indeed discovered human footprints on the moss on the ground, crisscrossing each other, as if many people had walked through.
They continued walking inside, but there seemed to be no one inside. It was silent, save for the sound of dripping water. Fu Yueli, who had poor eyesight in the past, had developed excellent hearing. The tunnel ahead had reached its end. He raised his hand to stop the people behind him from moving forward and extinguished the tinder.
When the others saw him carefully extinguish the tinder, they thought he might have discovered something, so they all extinguished their tinder.
In fact, Fu Yueli did find something unusual. At the end of the tunnel was a cliff, and below this cliff, there were a few faint lights. Fu Yueli listened carefully and heard intermittent human voices coming from below.
There were people down there. Before Fu Yueli put out the fire, he saw a rope tied to a large rock nearby. He fumbled for the rope and told someone to remain absolutely silent and follow him down.
Those who came down with him were all Gao Siyuan's subordinates. They were all quite skilled and absolutely obeyed orders. Without making the slightest sound, they quietly descended to the bottom of the cliff.
Fu Yueli had long been accustomed to traveling in the dark, so he did not light a fire, but asked those people to hold hands and he led them along.
He saw those few bright lights and heard voices, but they didn't sound like Fu Baiheng's people. Their speech was indescribably artificial, as if they were acting like a spoiled child. People in some parts of Yunzhou did speak like this, as did the people of Nanyue.
"It's so annoying. How long will it take to get out?" Someone's complaining voice came from afar.
"You have the most to do with it!" another person's voice was a little sharp.
Fu Yueli turned around and gently pinched Gao Siyuan's arm. Gao Siyuan understood that they were quietly surrounding the direction of the light.
After a while, the three people were captured by them. Gao Siyuan had been in Xinjiang for a long time, so he could recognize whether a person was from the Nanyue or Yunzhou ethnic minority at first sight.
These three people were clearly from the Nanyue Kingdom. Gao Siyuan asked sternly, "What are you doing in Yunzhou?"
The three South Vietnamese people never thought that they would be ambushed. They were spineless and confessed after two or three moves, saying that they came in with others to look for Ganoderma lucidum.
Gao Siyuan asked again who they came with, and the three replied that it was Gu Fuli, the general of the Nanyue Kingdom.
Gu Fuli was a female general of the Nanyue Kingdom. She was heroic, courageous and resolute. Gao Siyuan had met her several times.
One person was sent to watch the three people, while Fu Yueli and Gao Siyuan continued to move forward with the rest of the people.
Apparently, the Emperor of Nanyue wanted to obtain Lugu Chiyouxia, so he sent his subordinate Gu Fuli, but unexpectedly, Fu Baiheng also arrived there. The two parties met, and perhaps a conflict occurred, which is why Fu Baiheng did not come out for a long time.
They continued walking and, as expected, saw several dead bodies lying on the ground.
Walking further in, I saw Fu Baiheng, Gu Fuli and everyone else fainted on the ground.
Is he dead? Fu Yueli walked over and checked Fu Baiheng's breath, only to find that he had just fainted and was not in danger of death.
What was going on? After looking at everyone present, Fu Yueli noticed something strange: Xu Ziling wasn't there. She had clearly followed Fu Baiheng into the misty forest, so why wasn't she here now?
"They seem to have been drugged." said a military doctor brought by Gao Siyuan.
Fu Yueli also guessed this possibility. This was an open and flat place. People from both groups fainted on the ground, and only Xu Ziling disappeared. Could it be that she wanted to take Green Valley and Chi Youxia for herself?
There was another way, but Fu Yueli didn't let anyone follow him and went into the narrow tunnel by himself.
Not far away, he saw two people sitting on the ground with their eyes closed.
One was Xu Ziling, the other looked completely unfamiliar. Xu Ziling was hugging a rock, and a red mushroom lay quietly on the ground beside him.
Is that Lugu Chiyouxia? Why didn't they take the Ganoderma lucidum, and why did Xu Ziling hold a stone instead? What was the secret behind that stone?
Fu Yueli walked over and unexpectedly felt sleepy. He immediately woke up. Could there be something strange that could make people sleepy and fall into a coma? Otherwise, why would Xu Ziling and that person be sitting on the ground with their eyes closed, motionless?
There happened to be a stone in front of his feet. He kicked it hard and the stone hit the stranger's forehead. He suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were full of clarity.
That look was very familiar. Fu Yueli felt that she must have seen him before. He was He Jun!
The strange man looked up at him without much surprise and bumped into the person next to him. Xu Ziling woke up quickly and was not surprised when she saw Fu Yueli.
"What's going on?" Fu Yueli looked at the two of them. "If I'm not mistaken, He Jun, it's you."
"It's me." He Jun admitted straightforwardly.
Fu Yueli looked at the stone in Xu Ziling's arms and suddenly felt that it was not a good thing: "What is that?"
He Jun said: "This is something I discovered a hundred years ago, a meteorite that fell from the sky."
"Were you the one who spread the rumor about Midoriya Akagi?" Fu Yueli thought of the rumor that had been circulating for a long time.
He Jun said: "Not bad."
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