Chapter 22 Chapter 22 Seven parts coaxing, three parts threatening. ...
There are many people who have taken refuge and settled in Qiliang Mountain, so a large amount of fruits and vegetables are planted on the mountain for supply.
Simple thatched huts and stone houses are everywhere. Compared with other places, the officials here are quite capable and have protected the local people.
But in troubled times, with various forces mixed together, it is inevitable that people with ulterior motives will take advantage of the situation and do evil everywhere.
Jiang Daiyi also followed Yun Qin to Qiliang Mountain, and found out that although this place was safer than other places, the living conditions of the people were extremely harsh.
The Yun family's influence is distributed everywhere, including in Qiliang Mountain.
So Yun Qin arranged secret guards dressed as ordinary people and told them to take care of Jiang Daiyi. Then he took people to find the tomb of Prince Li.
After searching for several days, the exact location of the tomb was finally determined.
The hut was simple, and the secret guards were afraid that the girl, who had been raised in pampering by a young master, would not be used to it, so they found many folk toys for Jiang Daiyi to play with to entertain herself.
And because she was afraid of the dark, I bought a lot of candles from the town and lit them.
In the eyes of the local people, this caused a lot of gossip.
The sky outside the window was still dark, the crows were cawing hoarsely, and the days of late spring were particularly damp and cold.
Jiang Daiyi calculated the time, trying to figure out whether Yun Qin was about to enter the tomb.
The secret guards stood guard outside, not daring to leave. Suddenly, they heard a clear and gentle voice from inside the house: "Could you please help me find a wooden barrel?"
The secret guard asked, "What does the girl want the barrel for?"
Jiang Daiyi: "I haven't bathed in the past few days. There are many mosquitoes in the mountains, and I have many bites. I happened to bring medicine with me. Please boil some hot water for me to take a medicinal bath."
The insects and ants in the mountains are indeed more poisonous, and these secret guards are often bitten all over their bodies, and the itching is unbearable.
Besides, Master Yunqin had asked them to take good care of the girl before he left, so they naturally wouldn't refuse.
After arranging everything, Jiang Daiyi warned before closing the door: "I will take a longer bath. No one is allowed to come in until I come out."
Even if Jiang Daiyi didn't say it, the secret guards didn't have the courage to do it.
After Jiang Daiyi closed the door, she took off her outer robe. She walked to the bamboo bed and groped under the bed board. In a moment, a black robe appeared in her sight.
The secret guard was standing at the door when he suddenly felt a breeze blowing by.
They looked up and saw only a white moon in the sky and a gentle spring breeze, so they looked away and continued to watch.
But there was no movement in the house at that moment, and the secret guard suddenly reacted.
The secret guard knocked on the door and asked, "Miss?"
There was no movement in the room. The secret guard decisively kicked the door open, but there was no one inside.
The moonlight is bright, and there is the tomb of Prince Li.
The secret guards blew open the stone door of the mausoleum. Just as Yun Qin was about to step in, a dark shadow suddenly entered first.
The secret guard drew his sword and stood alert.
Yunqin looked at the figure in front of him and felt that he looked familiar.
Jiang Daiyi's face was hidden under a black veil, and she was deliberately disguised. Even if Yun Qin felt that her figure was familiar, he would not recognize her.
Before Yunqin could react, she casually pressed down a stone, and with a loud bang, another new stone door suddenly fell.
The secret guard hurriedly flew up and tried to hold up the stone door, but it was too late.
Yun Qin frowned. Is this person so familiar with Prince Li’s tomb?
The secret guard came to ask: "Sir, what should we do now?"
Inside the mausoleum.
Waves of yin energy pounced on people, the ground was covered with moss, and water droplets from the stone walls dripped onto the gray stone slabs on the ground.
Jiang Daiyi took out a fire starter from her sleeve and lit the candlesticks on both sides.
The tomb was well ventilated, so the candle lit easily.
She followed the route she remembered and walked deeper into the mausoleum.
Jiang Daiyi didn't stop until a light brighter than the one in the tomb passage appeared.
Many tomb keepers suddenly appeared in front of several luxurious coffins.
They were all old, weak, women and children who were powerless and were also the hostages captured by Tianque to threaten the assassins.
They looked towards the figure that suddenly appeared, and when they saw the familiar black robe, they exclaimed in surprise, "Miss Jiang!"
The people who were originally kneeling on the ground stood up.
"Kneel down! Who told you to get up? Hurry up..."
Several stern-eyed Que disciples spoke impatiently. Before they finished speaking, they saw an extra figure and hurriedly saluted: "Miss Jiang!"
Jiang Daiyi ignored Que Tu and noticed that someone was missing from the hostages. She asked, "Why is there someone missing?"
Of course, there were occasional assassins who died, and the families here heard the news and tried to escape, but were killed by them.
Now that the assassins are dead, there is no point in keeping the hostages.
No one dared to speak, but their expressions said it all.
Jiang Dai looked towards those Que disciples.
Que Tu knelt down in panic: "It was Young Master Qian Xiang who asked me to do this. Miss, please spare me!"
Outside the mausoleum.
The secret guard took the explosives he had retrieved at great speed and blew open the door again.
Yunqin went in with the secret guards.
There are mysteries hidden in the tomb. It must have been carefully built by a sorcerer proficient in mechanical engineering. Even Yun Qin, who is very smart, had to make many mistakes before he passed the first level.
The secret guard's forehead was covered in cold sweat. "Sir, this place is too weird, like a ghost wall. If we continue like this, we're afraid we'll be attacked from both sides by these mechanical devices and those who come after us."
Yunqin recalled the figure who had slipped in without hesitation. Although that person had deliberately worn high-heeled boots and several layers of clothes to confuse others, Yunqin still saw that it was a woman.
The secret guard dissuaded Yun Qin: "Sir, there are many forces fighting for this treasure. Why don't we retreat and hide in the dark. When others take the treasure out, we will reap the benefits."
The secret guards that Yun Qin brought with him on this trip were all elites carefully trained by the Yun family. The mausoleum was too dangerous. If they rushed in rashly, they would only lose the secret guards, which would be detrimental and would do no good.
"Get out first."
The gray stone slabs in the mausoleum were stained with blood.
Jiang Daiyi waited quietly until the parents who lost their children successfully avenged themselves, and then she stood up again.
She would not sympathize with the murdered Que disciples. They had lost all their humanity. Some of the assassins in Tianque would choose to kill people wantonly for fun even if they were not controlled by Que Lord and Qian Xiang.
"Let's go, get out."
"Miss Jiang, can we leave now? If we are discovered by the Lord..."
Jiang Daiyi comforted them, "Tianque is in a difficult situation right now, and the Que Master doesn't know that the Que disciples guarding here have been silenced. He has no time to take care of this place, so he won't be discovered."
"But our relatives are still being controlled by Lord Que. What if he finds out we've escaped?"
Jiang Daiyi comforted her, "If I can save you, I can also save your family. Besides, you all worked together to save me back then. I won't let them hurt you."
Back then in the mausoleum, Jiang Daiyi was injured by the mechanism in the tomb and was only left with one breath. It was these tomb keepers who were held hostage who hid Jiang Daiyi, so that she escaped the disaster and was not killed by Que Tu.
As for the treasure in the tomb.
If there were treasures in the mausoleum, Tianque would have taken them all long ago, leaving no room for others to share. Jiang Daiyi thought of Yunqin's face. She had escaped without telling Yunqin. Presumably, by now, the secret guards had already sent an urgent message to inform Yunqin that she was missing.
With Yunqin's quick mind, it wouldn't take long for him to realize that the person who just sneaked into the mausoleum was her.
Sure enough, when Yun Qin received the news from the secret guard that Jiang Daiyi disappeared in the house out of thin air, he had already guessed that Jiang Daiyi had entered the mausoleum.
The secret guard was shocked: "Ms. Yunyi? The black-robed man just now was Miss Yunyi? But that man looked so strong and sturdy, like a man."
Yun Qin's smile didn't reach his eyes: "If you want, you can also shrink and pretend to be a woman."
Secret Guard: "Then let me go in first and bring Miss Yunyi out?"
Yun Qin said, "You stay here. If any other forces try to come in, stop them. I will go in and look for her myself."
The secret guard said: "Sir, you can't do that. The mausoleum is extremely dangerous. It would be dangerous for you to go in alone."
Yun Qin said: "It's okay, you guys stay here."
Without waiting for the secret guard to continue dissuading him, Yun Qin had already stepped in.
The first door had been blown open, and Yun Qin and the secret guard had just passed through the mechanism behind the first door, so it didn't take much effort to enter the second time.
Yun Qin found the mechanism of the second stone door, but before he entered, he felt a bone-chilling chill.
And the next moment Yun Qin stepped into the second door, the stone door had already fallen heavily behind him.
The extremely cold and chilly air penetrated deep into his bones. Warm mist appeared on Yun Qin's lips, and his eyes were cold as he observed the empty tomb.
Over there, Jiang Daiyi and a group of people were moving forward slowly.
The majority of them are elderly, weak, women and children. Although Jiang Daiyi is very familiar with the mechanisms here, most of them do not know martial arts, and she needs to lead them there again and again, which consumes a lot of time.
"Miss Jiang, this isn't a solution. I'm afraid someone will catch up with us."
"Nothing. I guess it's busy outside the mausoleum right now, so they can't come in so quickly."
Jiang Daiyi deliberately changed the mechanisms of the first ten stone doors, making them more difficult to overcome.
Even if Qian Xiang came, it would take a lot of effort. Besides, Qian Xiang and Que Zhu should be on their way now, so they won't arrive so soon.
She had been planning this for so long just to provoke a fight between Yunqin and Tianque, and these people in the mausoleum were the real purpose of her trip.
She had already buried explosives under the last stone gate of the mausoleum. As long as she could successfully lead these people through the mausoleum's mechanism and then detonate the explosives under the last stone gate, they could successfully leave the mausoleum.
Without the threat of hostages, the assassins will all turn against the Lord and join forces to fight against him.
If all the forces knew that the treasure in the mausoleum was a scam, they would definitely vent their anger on Tianque who was the first to release the news.
Even if Tianque does not suffer serious damage this time, its strength will be reduced.
She adjusted the mechanisms in the mausoleum to be more dangerous. Once someone experienced the first mechanism, they would immediately withdraw and find another way.
But Jiang Daiyi never guessed that Yunqin would come in alone for her.
As she led people through the mechanisms of the last few stone doors, Qingjun's voice echoed in the stone chamber.
"younger sister."
The sudden sound disrupted Jiang Daiyi's thoughts. She was distracted and could not avoid the flames that were coming towards her.
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