“A-choo!”
At the same time, in the dark and damp secret passage, Qi Che sneezed heavily.
He looked at the secret passage that was about to end, and ordered his servants to work hard overnight and complete it before the end of the month, otherwise they would not get a penny.
The servants who worked there were all slaves he bought from the slave market, most of whom were prisoners who had committed crimes and were exiled outside the Great Wall.
He had someone dig this secret passage for more than two months, which is dozens of miles long, all for the purpose of finding a suitable opportunity one day to feed Chu Qingluan the love potion and take her away.
"Faster!" he urged.
Glancing at the time on the clepsydra watch, he realized it was almost time to leave, so he put down the drawings in his hand and turned to leave.
However, when he returned home, he found the door ajar and a familiar fragrance wafted faintly from the yard.
Qi Che twitched his nose, and suddenly thought of something, thinking to himself that this was not good -
However, the moment he pushed open the door, the scene in the yard made his blood freeze instantly!
The two guards in charge of guarding had long disappeared, and two mummies appeared under the big tree in the yard. The identities of the two men could only be barely identified from their clothes and weapons.
“Damn it!”
Qi Che cursed inwardly and ran to the secret room in the backyard. He found that the door of the secret room had been opened long ago, and there was blood on the broken door hinge.
Qi Che held up the lantern and shone it inside. When he saw the scene inside, his stomach suddenly churned.
The ten rough men he had found had all turned into mummies exactly like the guards, piled up in the middle of the secret room with their limbs twisted into strange arcs.
The walls were covered with deep scratches and dark red bloodstains, extending from the ground to the corners.
Qi Che felt as if struck by lightning, and his body began to tremble subconsciously.
how so?
Why did Gu Yanran suddenly run out?
This iron door is extremely strong and can only be opened from the outside, so how did she escape?
Thinking of this, he was overwhelmed by fear and anger at the same time.
Because he suddenly thought that Gu Yanran, a weak woman, would never have such great strength to break the iron door, unless -
These men did not die in the fight at all, but were used as "medicine" by her.
Damn woman!
What kind of evil skill did she practice?
Qi Che could no longer care about anything else and hurriedly ran out, but when he was halfway through, he suddenly remembered something and turned back.
The strange signs at the scene were too obvious, he had to clean them up.
…
An hour later, Qi Che closed the door of the house and moved into the inn.
This commotion soon alarmed the guards arranged by the Li family in the surrounding area, and soon, Li Yao and Zhixia received the news.
Li Yao always liked to join in the fun, so he and Zhixia brought a group of people to Qi Che's previous courtyard.
When the guard in front kicked open the gate of the mansion, a sickeningly sweet aroma wafted into his face.
Zhixia frowned and looked up to signal the guards behind him to cover their mouths and noses.
"search!"
Zhixia ordered coldly, "Don't let go of any clues!"
Li Yao followed closely behind him, shielding his nose with a folding fan, and bent down to pick up a broken piece of porcelain on the ground.
There was a strange white powder on the porcelain piece, which glowed like pearls in the sunlight.
"Cousin, come and look at this!"
Although Zhixia repeatedly emphasized that she should not be called cousin, Li Yaoquan turned a deaf ear to her and called her cousin whenever necessary, which sounded very smooth.
At first, Zhixia would argue with him, but after realizing how shameless this man was, she gave up correcting him.
Therefore, Li Yao now directly calls Zhixia his cousin. The main point is to be persistent.
Zhixia squatted down following his gaze, staring at the translucent white lotus mark on the bluestone floor.
"It looks like... it was stepped on by someone?"
And it was stepped out by phosphorescent feet.
She reached out and touched it, and a little phosphorus powder came onto her fingertips, and she immediately felt a burning pain.
"This is... 'Natural Charm'! A kind of charm technique from the Western Regions!"
Zhixia stood up suddenly, her beautiful eyes suddenly turned cold, and murderous aura emanated from her whole body.
"It's Gu Yanran! She's been here!"
Soon after, the guards also found the small secret room. The heavy iron door seemed to be broken open by some huge force, and there were several clear fingerprints on the copper ring of the door lock. Judging from the size, it looked like a woman's palm.
"this……"
Li Yao used his folding fan to flick the marks on the iron door, and the fan immediately emitted a puff of green smoke with a "hiss" sound.
Li Yao took a few steps back in shock, covering his chest with his hands in fear!
"What a domineering technique!"
Zhixia drew out the soft sword and stepped into the secret room cautiously.
As the candlelight shone, the entire interior structure of the secret room became apparent.
I saw scratches of varying depths all over the airtight wall. Some seemed to have been left a long time ago, while others seemed to have been made recently. However, the new scratches were obviously much deeper in mark and depth than the previous ones.
I think as someone's skills improve, the scratches left behind become more obvious.
In the corner, there were some residual bloodstains, which were dark red in color, with tiny golden particles floating on the surface.
"vomit!"
At this moment, Li Yao suddenly leaned against the wall and started to dry heave.
Everyone followed his gaze and saw a few strands of long hair stuck to the ceiling, with the ends of the hair still connected to... the scalp.
Seeing this scene, even these experienced men could not help but feel their scalps tingling and their bodies stiffening!
Some of the timid ones even started to tremble.
Zhixia suppressed her nausea and picked up a strand of hair with her sword, "This hair is..."
"They belong to the slaves." After vomiting for a while, Li Yao calmed down a little and pointed at the hair.
"This is a man's hair. I recognize it."
At that time, the Yun family's servants brought back ten strong men from the Red Mansion. He remembered that some of them had hair about this length.
"If nothing unexpected happens, those ten strong men should all die here."
This guess immediately made Zhixia tremble all over!
So, Gu Yanran actually cultivated an evil skill, and treated all those men as discarded cauldrons, killing them all after use?
“Swish!”
Zhixia slashed the wall of the secret room with a sword, and sparks flew from the tip of the sword.
"Search for me! Even if we have to dig three feet into the ground, we must find that evil woman!"
However, just as Zhixia gave the order, a guard suddenly rushed in from outside the door. When he saw Zhixia, he hurriedly reported:
"It's bad, Miss Zhixia! A thief broke into the inn and tried to assassinate the princess——"
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