In the narrow and endless tunnel, a sudden sound made the three of them freeze in place. They all listened attentively. They only heard the sound coming from behind them, and they couldn't tell how far away it was. The echoes were intertwined, and the noise was getting louder and louder.
King Lian was the first to get scared, and asked tremblingly, "What, what's the noise?"
Feng Yuheng followed Banzou and the two looked at each other, and both saw a message in each other's eyes. After a long while, Feng Yuheng finally spoke calmly, but the words she said made people feel uneasy. She said: "Avalanche."
"What?" King Lian's face turned pale. Having grown up in a country of ice and snow for many years, how could she not understand the meaning of an avalanche? Moreover, in such a space, if an avalanche occurred above, wouldn't they be buried alive?
"Hurry up." Feng Yuheng was the first to react and started running. Just as she started running, there was a "boom" and the noise behind her got closer.
Ban Zou was not far behind and was about to run, but was grabbed by Lian Wang, "Wait a minute, wait for me." He couldn't get rid of him, so he could only drag Lian Wang along with him to escape.
The three of them were like walking on a broken bridge. With every step they took, the noise behind them became louder. Gradually, they could feel rocks breaking above their heads. Dust began to spread throughout the tunnel, making their escape much more difficult.
"Cough cough!" King Lian began to cough. The air in the tunnel was closed, and the dust raised by the stones accumulated more and more, and the air quality dropped to an extremely poor level.
Ban Zou said to Feng Yuheng as he ran: "Something is not right."
Feng Yuheng nodded, "This collapse seems to be man-made, and it may not be a real avalanche. It seems that someone is smashing the ground along this tunnel." She turned her head to look at the Lotus King who was following closely behind Ban Zou by the arm, and frowned, "They said this place is absolutely reliable. Now it seems that Duanmu Anguo has obviously discovered the secret of the tunnel. He has used this tunnel for many years. We are just walking into a trap if we foolishly come in like this."
King Lian coughed and gasped, covering half of his face with his sleeves, but his eyes flashed with fierceness without disguising: "Duanmu Anguo, sooner or later I will tear him into pieces!"
Ban Zou frowned and asked, "What's your grudge against him?"
King Lian said coldly, "Irreconcilable hatred." As soon as she finished speaking, she tripped over a protruding stone and fell forward. Feng Yuheng and Ban Zou happened to be avoiding the bumps under their feet and failed to catch her. The next moment, the woman fell to the ground with her arms and legs spread out. She screamed in shock, and her bones hurt. The hand that had been holding Ban Zou's arm had to let go and fell to the ground, rubbing a piece of skin on her palm.
The two people in front quickly stopped and wanted to help her up, but Ban Zou had no choice but to carry her on his back and continued to move forward with difficulty.
The more Feng Yuheng ran, the stronger her sense of danger became. Her intuition told her that if she continued walking, even if she reached the exit, she would only face death. She looked up and asked the Lotus King, "How deep is this tunnel? How many feet is it from here to the top?"
The Lotus King thought for a moment and said, "About fifteen feet." She paused and asked uncertainly, "What for? Do you want to dig higher?"
Feng Yuheng rolled her eyes at her and said nothing, but she had already calculated it in her mind. Fifteen feet is almost five meters, which is a bit high. The height of the first floor of the pharmacy is two meters and eighty. If they want to pass through these five meters, they must climb to the roof of the second floor.
After walking about fifty steps forward, the three of them ran to a fork in the road. As soon as the Lotus King stretched out his hand and pointed to one of the roads, a burning smell suddenly came from that direction. Ban Zou subconsciously pulled Feng Yuheng back a step and said in a hurry, "There is smoke." The end of the fork that was not pointed at also began to collapse. Large pieces of stone and wood fell down, and in just a short while, the road was completely blocked.
Feng Yuheng shook his head. "The Qianzhou tunnel is also a shoddy project!"
The smoke became thicker and thicker, and the choking smell forced them to step back.
Ban Zou said, "It seems that it's not just the fire that's burning, it's the charcoal as well. If we don't find a solution, I'm afraid we'll suffocate to death soon."
Lian Wang's face turned pale with fear, and she kept emphasizing that she was still young and didn't want to die, but the smoke and dust entered her nose and lungs, and in the end, she coughed so hard that she couldn't even utter a complete sentence. Ban Zou stopped arguing with her, and held her close to his back, trying to block some of the smoke and dust with his body.
Feng Yuheng sighed softly. She knew that if she didn't leave now, she might not be able to leave. So she made a prompt decision and directly took out two eye masks that she used to sleep in the past from the space. She put one on Lian Fei and one on Ban Zou. Then she grabbed Ban Zou's wrist with her left hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't be afraid. Listen to me. You must not take off the coverings on your eyes. Follow me. You can walk as I tell you to."
King Lian was a little scared. The feeling of being blindfolded and losing the ability to see was particularly bad. She subconsciously hugged Ban Zou's neck tighter.
Ban walked over with absolute trust in Feng Yuheng. He also knew that his master had some extraordinary abilities, so he didn't ask anything and just nodded: "I understand."
"Okay." Feng Yuheng took a deep breath, and just as a wave of heat hit him in the thick smoke, he moved his mind, and in the blink of an eye he brought the two of them into the pharmacy space.
"Huh?" The Lotus Queen cried out in surprise. She had been so hot just now that her face was burning. She was about to cover her face with her hands when the temperature suddenly calmed down. It was no longer hot, nor cold. There was no more choking smoke, and no more rumbling sounds of collapse. Everything seemed to be still. It was so quiet that she thought she was back in the Lotus Queen's Palace, as if nothing had happened before.
However, Feng Yuheng's voice immediately brought her thoughts back to reality. She said to Ban Zou, "Follow me, turn left three steps, walk forward six steps, go up eight steps, turn left one step, and go up eight steps again."
Ban nodded, "I'll make a note of it."
Feng Yuheng's left hand was always holding Ban Zou's wrist, and Ban Zou held Lian Wang with one hand from behind, and the three of them went up to the second floor of the pharmacy. Feng Yuheng found an open space, calculated the position, and then said: "I will count one, two, three, you will use Qinggong to take the two of us up together. Remember, jump as high as you can, understand?"
"Don't worry." Ban Zou took a deep breath. Although he didn't understand where he was and what Feng Yuheng's intention was, his long experience told him that it was right to listen to his master.
Feng Zhaolian was completely confused at this moment. There were no steps in her tunnel. There were sixteen steps in total. How high could she get? The entire tunnel was not that high. It must be almost on the ground, right? How did she get up? She couldn't help wanting to take off the blindfold, but Feng Yuheng's warning came into her ears. She said, "If you take it off, I'll leave you here and you'll never see the sun again."
King Lian shuddered and dropped his hand.
Feng Yuheng said coldly: "Get ready, one, two, three!" As soon as she said "three", Ban Zou suddenly jumped up, with an extremely fast speed and strong momentum. She quickly raised her head and saw that the tops of the three of them were about to hit the ceiling of the pharmacy. She immediately stroked her left wrist, moved her mind, and instantly returned to reality from the space.
The moment he came out, a strong gust of cold air hit him in the face. The wind and snow scraped on his face like a knife, making Feng Yuheng unable to open his eyes.
Ban Zou jumped much higher than the ground. As he was falling, a sudden cry from below startled the three of them—"There's someone in the sky!"
Feng Yuheng's tightly closed eyes opened instantly, and several silver needles were thrown out in his hand at the same time, but he heard a few "thump thump" sounds below, and the shouting stopped immediately.
Ban Zou quickly took off his blindfold after landing, and when he saw the current situation clearly, a long sword slashed in the air in front of him. The three of them had not even had time to catch their breath before they started fighting. Feng Yuheng drew out his saber and followed Ban Zou, slashing at each enemy with a knife, and it was quite enjoyable.
During the fight, she saw countless wooden stakes, hammers and other tools scattered on the ground. She thought they were prepared to destroy the icy ground above the tunnel. It was obvious that the landslide below was indeed man-made, and these people knew the direction of the tunnel very clearly.
Lian Wang had already slid off Ban Zou's back. In order to show that he was not a burden, he decisively picked up two stones from the ground and held them in his hands. Although he had not killed anyone so far, at least he had given himself courage.
Ban Zou protected the two men as they fought and retreated, and at the same time he did not forget to tease King Lian: "It seems that Duanmu Anguo not only knows the entrance and exit of this tunnel very well, but also knows the direction of the journey very clearly. I really don't know where you get the confidence from to dare to think that place is safe."
King Lian's face turned red and white because of his smothering, but he knew he was in the wrong so he simply didn't argue.
Feng Yuheng didn't blame her, but just asked: "You are from here after all, you should be familiar with the terrain, right? Where should we run now?"
King Lian said, "Of course, go southwest. Your army is stationed there. You have to run there to have a chance of survival."
Ban Zou frowned: "How do you know our army is stationed in the southwest?" His words were quite cautious.
Prince Lian glared at him, "What do you mean? Everyone in the world knows that Dashun is going to attack Qianzhou. Everyone in the world knows that Dashun's soldiers are already stationed in the northern border! Why? There are so many of them gathered there. Do you think it can be a secret? Go out and ask around. Even a three-year-old child knows that there are soldiers there. I am the Prince of Qianzhou. What's wrong with me knowing some information? What's wrong?"
Feng Yuheng reluctantly stopped the two from arguing, and made a decisive decision: "Go southwest and seek refuge in Qianli." After saying that, she casually took out a compass from her sleeve. Damn, it was really not easy for her to tell the direction in this snowy day.
But before she could take a step forward, the Lotus King gently pulled her sleeve. She turned her head and asked with a questioning look, and then she heard the Lotus King say, "Yaya, you guys go, I... won't see you off."
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