Chapter 108 They Are Not Dead
After Ling Chan used the black box, she seemed to have found her direction.
Xiao Jin figured out that the box was used to find people.
Ling Chan brought Xiao Jin to the ground where the statue was, "See if there's a cave or a secret door."
Xiao Jin separated from her and they both acted separately.
Ling Chan took out a luminous bottle and used the light of the luminous powder inside to find the cave and the secret door.
In fact, there is a flashlight in her space, but once that kind of flashlight is turned on, the entire city will be as bright as day, which is equivalent to telling others that someone is here, so she can only make this night light herself.
The light was dim, but her glasses had night vision capabilities, and with the two combined, she could see everything around her clearly.
She didn't stand and search, but focused on the ground.
The grass here is dense and the soil is slippery. Anyone who walks here will definitely leave traces.
After searching for a while, she actually found traces of footsteps. They were not obvious, but were the kind of handmade, encrypted thousand-layer prints.
Ling Chan continued to search forward, slowly following the footprints...
Until she stood in front of a mountain wall. The mountain wall was covered with vines, so densely layered that at first glance, it was really impossible to tell that there was an entrance here.
But if you look closely, you can see that these vines avoid an arched area.
The arch is only half a person's height...the entrance shown by the drone is here.
Ling Chan stretched out her hand, ready to press on the arch, but stopped just a second before she touched it.
She couldn't touch it. She didn't know what was inside. If she touched it... it would leave a mark and Gongzhou would find out.
Just as she was hesitating, her glasses indicated that someone had broken into the area behind the mountain.
Ling Chan quickly left where she was and found Xiao Jin, "Someone is coming, let's go separately."
Xiao Jin wanted to say, let's go together so that they can take care of each other if they encounter danger, but before he could say anything, Ling Chan disappeared.
"Running so fast?" Xiao Jin muttered.
In fact, Ling Chan entered the space after running three meters.
Apart from her and Xiao Jin, the person who could come into the back mountain at this time...was most likely Gong Zhou.
She suspected that it was because she came here during the day that Gongzhou became alert, so she came to take a look.
Then she must seize this opportunity... and go and take a look.
She entered the space and found an invisibility cloak.
More than two hundred years ago, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had already achieved 'invisibility' using an optical material and demonstrated it at a press conference.
At that time, the lower half of the academician's body was made invisible through a panel, and the stage scene behind him could be seen.
What the academician said, 'Invisibility cloaks will become an everyday item in wardrobes'...was also accomplished in the 23rd century where Ling Chan was.
Except... it was in the agent's closet.
Ling Chan put on the invisibility cloak and looked at herself in the pool. As expected, she could not see her own reflection.
After leaving the space, Ling Chan flew back to where she was just now, floating quietly above the arched secret door.
After a while, a figure came from not far away.
Just by looking at the way he walked, Ling Chan recognized him. It was Gong Zhou. She was not wrong.
Gongzhou came to the secret door, but did not rush to open it. Instead, he looked around. Fortunately, he did not look down.
Not hearing any unusual sounds, Gongzhou raised his foot and stepped into the grass on the side.
The archway moved, moving a few centimeters outward.
Gongzhou moved the door to the side, revealing the passage.
He walked in with his back bent. Ling Chan saw the opportunity and came down, following him in.
Gong Zhou had his back to the door and did not see Ling Chan. When he turned around and was about to close the door, Ling Chan slipped past him.
He closed the door and continued walking inside.
Ling Chan followed behind him... Her footsteps were light, but Gongzhou was also a martial artist and had amazing hearing.
He looked back many times with a puzzled expression.
Every time he turned around, Ling Chan stood still. Although she was wearing an invisibility cloak, the cloak still had flaws. When she moved, bugs might appear on the edges of the clothes.
Gongzhou confirmed again and again that there was still no one there. He suspected that he was too nervous, which was why he was hallucinating.
"Ah...ah..." The roar that Ling Chan heard during the day appeared again.
This time, because I was close, I could clearly hear the painful roar of a person.
This voice made Gongzhou temporarily put aside his doubts and continue walking forward.
There was a spiral tunnel in the secret passage, slowly extending underground... The roars of people became clearer and clearer, and the pain in their voices became more and more obvious.
Who is this person? He is imprisoned in this place by Gongzhou...
It's dark, damp, and without sunlight. How long has he been locked up there?
Time passed slowly, and by the time Gongzhou stopped, it was already a cup of tea later.
Ling Chan stopped about seven or eight meters away from Gong Zhou. Through Gong Zhou's shoulder, she saw two cages with two people in them.
These two people... she could only see them as human beings through the thermal imaging. If she saw them directly, Ling Chan would only think they were two beasts.
Their upper bodies were covered in thick, tangled hair, covered in dirt and mud, their eyes were invisible, their clothes were tattered, their pants only covered below the knees, and their legs were covered with scars and stains.
They clung to the cage, their hands covered with calluses and wounds, their nails very long and broken, and the shoes on their feet had rotted away, exposing most of their toes.
What Ling Chan couldn't accept was the smell. The smell inside was foul, a mixture of dirt, sweat, and feces, which was pungent and unbearable.
Who are they? Ling Chan was really curious, who would be imprisoned here in Gongzhou?
Their skin was a dirty grey, disgusting colour...it was hard to imagine how long they had been imprisoned.
"Gong Taining! Gong Yi!" Gong Zhou called out their names to the two of them.
Ling Chan was stunned from eight meters away. Gong Taining? Gong Yi? She had seen these two names before in the Gong family ancestral hall.
Gong Taining is her grandfather, and Gong Yi is her eldest uncle.
They didn't die? Instead, they were imprisoned here in Gongzhou?
"Ahh..." one of them roared at Gongzhou.
Gongzhou walked to the shelf next to him and took down a whip. He weighed the whip in his hand and suddenly whipped the man with it.
"Gong Yi, what do you want to say?" Gong Zhou paced back and forth in front of his cage, slowly putting away the whip in his hand. "Weren't you quite talkative in the past?"
"He relied on the fact that he was the eldest son of the Gong family and had the opportunity to take over the Gong family, so he targeted me and my mother everywhere..."
"In order to prevent me from inheriting the Gong family, I went to investigate my mother's background..."
"What's there to check? Can't you just ask your father?"
"He is right next to you now, just ask him!"
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