Chapter 385 There is an ambush!
Meng Pei turned around with an angry look on his face.
Sang Zhixia said expressionlessly: "Just walk in the middle and point out the right direction."
"The rest of the people formed the front and the back, tore off a piece of their clothes and tied it into long strips, then held the strips and led them inwards one by one."
In a passage with dim lighting, whether lighting a fire stick or a torch, it is likely to bring new risks.
When the vision is blurred, the continuous strips of cloth in the hands can better stabilize the situation and can also know the movements ahead one step faster than sound.
With Sang Zhixia's words, the people who followed him quickly tore open their clothes.
The strip of cloth took shape, and Sang Zhixia made a sharp downward gesture with her palm: "Down!"
In the narrow and dark tunnel, adults can only move forward with their backs bent.
Sang Zhixia walked in the middle of the team entering one after another. The one in front of her was Meng Pei, who was pointing the direction in the middle.
Before coming in to witness it, Sang Zhixia mistakenly thought that the passage Meng Pei mentioned was straight. However, after walking in for a while, he discovered that there was another secret inside.
Meng Pei's voice came back muffled from the front: "I remember there were six turns in this passage, each leading to a different direction."
"Those ahead, remember not to go astray, otherwise if you climb out you might end up back at the gorge."
Sang Zhixia was slightly shorter, so bending down was less of an effort. While secretly noting the route he had taken, he marveled, "The ground rats of Huwei Mountain are indeed worthy of their reputation."
This group of people really worked hard to carve out such a tortuous and bizarre passage along this natural cave using hammers and chisels.
Meng Pei said in a strange tone after hearing this: "If you're not digging holes like a mouse, why are you waiting on the mountain for the King of Hell?"
The salt administration in Shu was harsh, leaving no room for survival.
If you don't want to risk your life in such a harsh environment, you can only go up the mountain and become a bandit.
But if you become a bandit, you will die.
Perhaps it was the darkness and narrowness of the passage that temporarily soothed the restlessness in his heart. Meng Pei spoke more unexpectedly: "You are outsiders, how can you understand the hardships of Shu?"
"Year after year, the government forces innocent people to work as salt workers, and year after year, they organize bandit suppression campaigns under the pretext of safeguarding the people's livelihood."
"The ground beneath the sun can't sustain the rotten lives of low-level bugs like us. If we want to survive, we have no choice but to roll up our sleeves and burrow into the shameful underground."
If you can live a decent life, who would want to be a notorious rat?
Sang Zhixia's eyes dimmed, and she said without being able to discern her emotions: "Sorry, I didn't mean it."
Meng Pei was somewhat surprised that Sang Zhixia could still come up with such nice words. He paused and said delicately, "If the suffering in Shu has nothing to do with you, then there's no need for you to apologize for just a few words."
"Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its owner. Whoever owes it what it deserves will owe it."
Sang Zhixia couldn't respond to this. Meng Pei said to himself, "I don't know what's going on between Shen Anzhu and you guys. She didn't tell me in the letter."
"But if I can see her safe and sound this time, and after clarifying the whole story, it's my fault, I will kowtow and apologize for my previous offense. But if she was forced to compromise, that's another matter."
Sang Zhixia's eagerness to save people did not seem fake, and he did not dodge at all when talking about Chen Anzhu.
Perhaps it was the intuition of walking on the edge of life and death for many years, Meng Pei inexplicably felt that this person might really have no ill will towards him.
As long as they are not enemies, everything is fine.
Sang Zhixia raised her eyebrows silently without saying anything. After a while, she whispered, "How long will it take before we can get out?"
"Not long."
Without even turning back, Meng Pei said, "Turn the big bend ahead, go through the exit on the side, and walk forward for about an incense stick's worth of time."
The bend in front of me is bigger than the ones I passed before. It is a huge and abrupt turn, and the front and back are almost completely disconnected.
Sang Zhixia subconsciously turned back to remind: "Tell the people behind to be careful and hold on to the cloth belt tightly so as not to get lost."
The spider-web-like tunnels are interconnected, deep and long.
Without anyone to guide you, once you get lost here, it will be very difficult to find the exit on your own.
The words were passed back one by one. Meng Pei took the lead and pulled the cloth belt in his hand to signal Sang Zhixia to follow closely.
Just as Sang Zhixia disappeared around the corner, a cry of surprise suddenly erupted from the dark and quiet passage: "Boss!"
“Hmm!”
"There's an ambush!"
"There are other people here!"
"Boss, be careful!"
The explosions came without warning, filling the corridor with thick smoke and countless coughs and cries of surprise.
Sang Zhixia felt his feet suddenly tilt, and was pushed by a sudden force, and fell uncontrollably to the left!
On the left is the sixth exit that Meng Pei mentioned earlier.
Sang Zhixia lost control and rolled in without time to react. He felt a sudden pain in the back of his neck, his vision went black, and he fell to the ground with a bang. Meng Pei and a secret guard who rolled in right after Sang Zhixia also fainted on the ground in the thick smoke.
Someone lowered his voice and shouted, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
"Hurry up and blow up the exit to block it! Take the people away quickly!"
The extra footsteps were mixed with urgent urging, and someone asked, "Where are these two? The second leader..."
"Stop talking nonsense! Take them all away!"
The leader waved his arms and growled, "We finally got the fat sheep into our mouths. This piece of meat is destined to be a treat for us at Huwei Mountain!"
"Take that Meng back. He'll be tied up and used as a sacrifice to the village chief! Let's go!"
As soon as the urging voice fell, the gunpowder prepared in advance made a loud bang.
The narrow passage was instantly blown to the point of collapse, and the entrance where Sang Zhixia disappeared was completely covered by rocks, and no figure could be seen anymore.
Amidst the deafening roar, the leader of the secret guards stumbled to his feet, his eyes wide open as he said, "Young Madam!"
"Those who can still breathe, hurry up and chase after them!"
"Follow the exit of the passage we passed before and chase them immediately!"
"quick!"
The originally quiet passage was thrown into complete chaos. The secret guards, whose ears and noses were still bleeding, had gloomy faces and could not even straighten their backs, but they moved very fast and soon disappeared in batches into the holes at various corners.
At the same time, Xu Yu, who was in a dishevel, wiped the mud off his face and looked at the cracked rocks not far away with mixed feelings.
Just a little bit.
He almost fell off the cliff with the rocks rolling down.
If he hadn't reacted quickly enough to grab the fallen tree trunk and leap onto a higher tree before a small landslide occurred, he would probably be a pile of meat patties now.
This kind of situation has happened many times in the past two days.
Every time is like passing by the King of Hell.
Xu Yu couldn't explain his feelings, from the initial fear to the current numbness.
but……
No matter what, this mountain must be climbed over.
Xu Yu brought three people on this trip. Before deciding to take the risk and set off for Ancheng, the three of them, including Song Liu, all stayed with Zhao Zhongquan.
Zhao Zhongquan was convinced that Xu Yu was going to die by jumping over the mountain, and he cried out like a pig, but he failed to stop him.
Thinking of what Zhao Zhongquan had asked him before he left, Xu Yu raised his hand to wipe the scratch on his forehead, muttering unconsciously: "I don't know what I'm worried about..."
But it's just inexplicable.
Even though he knew that Sang Zhixia had a lot of people around him and that there wouldn't be much trouble in Ancheng, the unexplained uneasiness kept lingering in his heart.
He couldn't sit still for a moment until he saw with his own eyes that Sang Zhixia was safe and sound.
Xu Yu took a deep breath, cleared his mind, and stuffed a dry bun that had long been soaked by the rain into his mouth. When he was about to continue feeling his way forward, he suddenly heard a voice that seemed to be someone talking in front of him.
For some unknown reason, Xu Yu suddenly stopped moving.
It was a desolate mountain, and when a flash flood was raging, how could there be people on the top of the mountain?
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