If we don't use reverse psychology, Shui Yuntian will probably continue to dawdle there. If he stays any longer, the mechanism will restart, and the launch port might not be able to be blocked anymore.
Not long after entering the cave, a whooshing sound began to echo behind us.
Shui Yuntian stiffened, but then pressed himself even closer to Xiang Wan's back.
He wondered if, had he not stubbornly insisted on being carried by the monk, the monk would have left him there to be riddled with arrows.
He wanted to ask, but felt it was pretentious, so he simply kept quiet.
Inside the cave was a passageway, about two people wide.
After walking for about fifteen minutes, we came to a fork in the road.
The passageway was very dimly lit, with only a few luminous pearls, about the size of fireflies, emitting a soft blue glow.
After standing at the fork in the road and listening intently for a while, Xiang Wan headed towards the left passage.
Shui Yuntian's feelings were somewhat complicated, because he clearly heard a noise on the right, but the monk chose the left, and he didn't know why.
However, he was soon shocked by Xiang Wan's decision.
Because at the end of the downward passage lies an even more hidden secret room.
Xiang Wan fumbled along the wall for a while before opening the door to the secret room. Inside, the stench was overwhelming and the place was utterly filthy. On a brick bed against the wall, an old man lay dying, bound and gagged.
Turning around and closing the door to the secret room, a feeling of suffocation instantly washed over me.
Shui Yuntian was once again acupunctured by Xiang Wan, and squatted to the side, enduring the suffocating stench. Coupled with the excruciating pain in his feet, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger. However, he was so shocked by Xiang Wan's next words that he suppressed the anger.
"Your Majesty, this humble monk is late!"
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