Chapter 574 The Person Who Left Important Information
The space inside the crevice was barely enough for a person to lie down. Ran Qingxuan felt that even a person with a strong willpower would not be able to hold on for more than ten years.
After looking around, Ran Qingxuan felt that Gu Yanchen's father might have been ill for a long time. If he didn't find someone to treat him, he might...
"I guess those Yigui people won't find a place to hide people on the island. If the people have been taken away from the island, then let's look for other clues first."
The three of them were in a bad mood. They had clearly arrived right there, but the person was taken away.
Ran Qingxuan couldn't find any words of comfort for a moment, so he had to release Yuanbao and let it lead the way.
"When I came here just now, I saw a hole in the stone wall. Let's go in and have a look. Maybe we can find something."
Gu Yanjing patted Gu Yanchen on the shoulder and comforted him, "What my sister-in-law said is right. I think those Yigui people left in a hurry. Let's look for them. Maybe we can find out where Dad was taken!"
Gu Yanchen forced himself to cheer up and walked into the cave first. Ran Qingxuan followed in the middle, with Gu Yanjing covering the rear.
After knowing that the Yigui people had left, several people used flashlights without hiding anything.
After passing through another long and narrow passage, Yuanbao, who was running in the front, let out a low whimper.
Under the illumination of a strong flashlight, the few people could see clearly that there was a naturally formed space in front of them. Stone chambers of varying sizes were scattered around it. When they shone the light, they could see signs of human life.
There were a lot of clothes and quilts scattered around in the nearest stone chambers, as well as animal oil for burning. It looked like they had left in a hurry.
After a long search, the three people found nothing. Apart from the clothes and quilts left behind, there was not even a clue.
"How about we go back the way we came and look for it up there?"
Ran Qingxuan shook his head and said with some difficulty: "There is only one boat, and the paddle is broken."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yanjing sighed, walked to a farther location, and tried to look for it again.
"Can't you buy it again?" Gu Yanchen knew that she had a tablet for shopping.
Ran Qingxuan shook his head: "Half of the money was used to buy the yacht, and the remaining half was used to buy food. The money has been given out, and the remaining bits and pieces are only enough to buy that small boat..."
There were a few thousand left, but they couldn't even buy an engine with those thousand, and the bow of the small boat had been damaged. So, they could only find the exit where the Yigui people evacuated.
"Sixth brother's wife, Yuanbao seems to have discovered something."
A hundred meters away, Gu Yanjing poked his head out of a stone chamber and greeted the two of them.
Gu Yanchen's eyes lit up and he quickly pulled Ran Qingxuan over.
After entering, Yuanbao had already dug a big hole in the wall. Ran Qingxuan thought she was just playing around, and was about to scold her when he saw her stretching out her claws and scratching it.
"There seems to be something inside this wall."
Gu Yanchen took a few steps forward and squatted. Ran Qingxuan held Yuanbao and stepped back a few steps, then saw Gu Yanchen pull out a few pieces of folded cowhide.
"This is..."
Gu Yanjing stepped forward and shone the flashlight, and Gu Yanchen put it farther away before daring to turn it on.
But after seeing the words written on it, Gu Yanchen's expression suddenly became a little strange.
"Qingxuan, I think you should take a look..."
Ran Qingxuan was a little confused, but when she took the sheets and unfolded them one by one, she was so excited that she was shaking after seeing what was written on them.
[The person detained is Northern Qi's Zhenxi Marquis Gu Feng. If you find this route map, please submit it to Zhenbei Marquis Duan Yinghe. 】
"This is Zheng Borui's handwriting. It's Zheng Borui!"
Ran Qingxuan said excitedly: "This records the places where Dad has been imprisoned over the years, and even the route landmarks are clearly marked."
"Who is Zheng Borui? Does Sixth Brother's wife know this Yigui man?"
Gu Yanchen explained, "Zheng Borui is not a Yigui. He is from the same sect as Qu Feng and Qing Xuan. He followed my second brother to guard outside Hancheng. When the snow collapsed on Hanshan Mountain, Zheng Borui was abducted by the Yigui while trying to save people."
"I didn't expect that after all this time, the person is still alive and even left such crucial information."
Gu Yanjing was very excited when he heard this, and asked anxiously, "Does it say on the cowhide where Dad will be taken?"
Ran Qingxuan found one of the pictures and pointed to the black circle at the top and asked, "What is this place?"
Gu Yanchen recognized it at the first sight.
"This is the place where the Yigui people pray for blessings. It is called the Black Water Pond. Except for people of the Yigui royal bloodline, anyone who approaches will be killed on the spot."
"Zheng Borui left a date, which was seven days ago. It seems that they moved their position on the day they were exposed, and they planned to take the people to the Black Water Pond to detain them again."
"Again? What does that mean?"
Gu Yanchen was a little puzzled. Ran Qingxuan took a deep breath and pointed at each sheet that had been completed, and indicated the ones that had not been completed.
"This positive, and the unfinished positive next to the Black Water Pond, each stroke represents a detention. Dad was taken away for eleven years and was detained in seven places during those eleven years."
"The numbers right below record the duration of each detention. I looked and found that each detention time was no more than three months, but they were detained in these seven locations."
"The Black Water Pond is where Dad will be imprisoned this time."
The more the two brothers listened, the more they couldn't suppress their anger. It wasn't eleven months, it was eleven years!
In these eleven years, how much suffering did their father have to go through to survive till now...
Gu Yanchen could no longer control the grief in his heart, and a low roar came from his throat.
"I am so unfilial. Why didn't I look for it carefully on the battlefield back then? It was so far away. I should have thought it was a trick of the Yigui people..."
At this moment, Gu Yanjing felt no better than Gu Yanchen. After muttering for a while, he raised his hands to cover his eyes and wished he could bang his head against the wall and die.
"Sixth brother was only twelve at the time, and I, as the elder brother, was already twenty. If anyone is to blame, it should be Third brother's stupidity. He believed that the person being tortured to death was our father, which led to..."
Now that things have come to this, Ran Qingxuan feels that it is not the time to blame himself.
"Husband, Third Brother, you should cheer up now. Dad is still alive, this is a good thing."
After waiting for the two brothers to calm down, Ran Qingxuan continued.
"Zheng Borui left such crucial information behind, probably because he thought someone would come looking for him after he was exposed. Since we already know where Dad will be taken, let's go straight to Huanglong and rescue him!"
Ran Qingxuan's determination gave the two brothers renewed hope, so the three of them decided not to stay any longer.
"Yuanbao, find the way out. If you find it, you will be rewarded with two fat chickens."
Animals have a very sensitive sense of smell, so letting Yuanbao find the exit is simply twice the result with half the effort.
But when Yuanbao brought them to a dead end, Ran Qingxuan's face turned green. What's the difference between this and slapping her in the face...
"Why are we at a dead end? Find the exit, I want to get out..."
“No, Sixth Sister-in-law, why don’t you come and take a look before scolding Yuanbao?”
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