Gu Nanxun opened his eyes, his eyes gleaming with wisdom. He smiled and said, "I'm fine. This jade pendant contains the legacy of Senior Gu An. Now I have inherited his memories and cultivation techniques."
"Memories and cultivation techniques? Does Senior Gu have any memories about why my elder brother and the others disappeared?"
Gu Nanxun smiled and nodded, "Yes, they should all be trapped in the dark room."
"darkroom?"
Lin Qing asked, puzzled.
"The dark room is used to trap people who break in without permission. People who accidentally break in would normally be able to escape by following the formation."
However, as too much time passed, the spiritual energy of the formation diminished, and it lost its original function. As a result, they were directly led into the dark room.
"Then how do we get to the dark room?"
Lin Qing pressed on with more questions.
"I'll take you there in a bit. Let's put these things away for now!"
Gu Nanxun looked at the treasure in the secret room and said with a smile.
The two put away all the boxes in the secret room, and then Gu Nanxun led Lin Qing through the winding underground for a while before arriving at a stone wall.
There was still a groove in the very center of the entire stone wall. Gu Nanxun stepped forward and placed the jade pendant directly into it.
The stone wall slowly moved to both sides, revealing the people inside.
The people in the dark room sat there, dejected and waiting for death to come. Lin Qing's elder brother, Lin Hongzhi, lay weakly on the ground, his eyes filled with despair.
In the dark room, besides Lin Qing's elder brother Lin Hongzhi, there were more than 100 soldiers and a pile of white bones.
Suddenly, the stone wall moved to both sides. Everyone looked excitedly in the direction of the stone wall upon hearing the sound. As the stone wall moved to both sides, Lin Qing and Gu Nanxun were slowly revealed on the other side of the stone wall.
Lin Qing and Gu Nanxun's eyes lit up when they saw the people in the dark room, and they hurriedly went in.
The room was dimly lit, with only a few faint rays of light filtering through the cracks in the stone. The people inside looked somewhat tired, but when they saw them enter, a spark of hope immediately ignited in their eyes.
"Qingqing, Nanxun?"
Suddenly a faint voice rang out.
"Big brother?"
Lin Qing looked in the direction of the sound and saw her elder brother, Lin Hongzhi, lying weakly on the ground, looking at her and Gu Nanxun with a surprised expression.
"Big brother, how are you?"
Lin Qing reached out and helped Lin Hongzhi up, looked her older brother up and down, and then placed her hand on her brother's pulse to take it.
"Thank goodness... thank goodness my brother only lost a little blood."
Lin Qing breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"Brother, eat the ginseng pills first!" Lin Qing took out the ginseng pills from the bundle and handed them to her brother's mouth.
Without saying a word, Lin Hongzhi opened his mouth and swallowed the ginseng pill. He was able to survive until now thanks to his sister's ginseng pill. If it weren't for the ginseng pill, he probably would have died from blood loss long ago, and he probably wouldn't be able to wait for his sister's rescue now.
"Qingqing, Nanxun, what brings you here?"
After taking the ginseng pills, Lin Hongzhi immediately felt that he had regained his strength, so he continued to ask questions.
“My sister-in-law called to say you were missing. Dad was very worried, so he asked Brother Nanxun to look for you. Brother Nanxun and I were worried, so we came over here ourselves.”
Lin Qing took out some food from her backpack and handed it to her older brother, then shared some with the soldiers around her.
Food was scarce, so the soldiers distributed it to those who needed it most.
"Nanxun, Qingqing, how did you find this place?"
While eating his food, Lin Hongzhi asked curiously, "Everyone else, including myself, fell in suddenly. Only my sister and brother-in-law came in from the outside by opening the stone wall."
"We stumbled upon a secret passage leading underground, and Qingqing and I followed it to this place."
Gu Nanxun explained.
"Everyone, eat quickly, and then we'll leave."
"Can we really get out of here? Aren't we going to avoid dying?"
A young soldier suddenly burst into tears.
He wasn't afraid of death, but he didn't want to die so pathetically, trapped in this dark and gloomy place, starving to death, dying without any value. The bones scattered all over the ground were probably the remains of people who died while trapped here.
"Yes, we're rescued, we can get out now."
The soldier next to him reached out and patted the crying little soldier hard, though his own eyes were also red.
"Alright, everyone, calm down and let's go outside and talk."
Gu Nanxun said.
Next, Gu Nanxun and Lin Qing helped Lin Hongzhi walk in front, with the other soldiers following closely behind.
Everyone followed Gu Nanxun and Lin Qing out of the secret room. As soon as they emerged, they all took a deep breath. Gu Nanxun led them around the original secret room and back into the cave.
"Young Master Gu, Miss Lin, you've finally come out!"
As soon as Gu Nanxun and Lin Qing led everyone out of the cave, Zhang Shu hurriedly went to greet them.
According to the original agreement, if Lin Qing and Gu Nanxun did not come out within a day, they would have to leave.
However, Uncle Zhang was still worried about the two of them. When the time came, he sent some people to leave and go back to contact the head of the family, while he and his men continued to guard the place.
"Uncle Zhang, why haven't you gone back yet?" Lin Qing asked in surprise.
They didn't know how long they had been underground, but it must have been at least a day.
"I'm worried you might want to wait a little longer!"
Uncle Zhang said with a smile that when he saw the two of them come out and then saw the group of people following behind them, he couldn't help but smile with delight.
"Uncle Zhang, how long have we been inside?"
Gu Nanxun inquired.
"It's been three days already."
Gu Nanxun and Lin Qing exchanged a glance upon hearing this, and breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, they had come out in the end.
...
At this moment, Gu Zichen and Gu Ziyao were crying uncontrollably in Chaoyang Brigade.
Zhao Xuan and Lin Yunfeng tried everything they could, but they couldn't appease the two of them.
"I miss my mom and dad, I want my mom and dad."
...
Gu Zichen and Gu Ziyao kept crying, while Gu Yichen sobbed beside them.
Gu Shulan sat quietly to the side, her brows furrowed with worry.
He overheard his uncle and grandmother's conversation and learned what his mother and father had been doing. Ever since he heard their conversation, Gu Shulan couldn't help but worry.
"Knock knock knock..."
Aunt Zhao, are you there?
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, followed by Wang Dongsheng's voice coming in from outside.
Lin Yunfeng stepped forward and opened the door from the inside: "Dongzi, what brings you here?"
"I've come to deliver a message to you!"
Wang Dongsheng walked in from outside as he answered.
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