Even on the wall they had just walked past, which was apparently empty, several lights appeared one after another.
The clever guard quickly turned around to check the wall lamp that appeared out of nowhere, and also checked the heavy door that looked particularly imposing and oppressive in the dim light.
But it obviously had no effect. After a moment, he ran back and shook his head in disappointment at Ye Xuwen.
Ye Xiuben didn't hold out much hope, so he glanced at the door again and told everyone to move on.
"Pay attention to the mechanism and move forward alternately."
Because of Mrs. Wu's strange behavior before, he had to be more careful.
If it was just a deliberate prank by Madam Wu, it would be best if the two princesses were safe; but if what Ke Ruo said was true, then they must first ensure their own safety, so that they can have the capital to ask for rescue.
He walked forward in silence for a while. Because the light was dim, Feng Xiyun, who was not used to walking in the dark, could not judge how far he had walked.
At this moment, two forks in the road suddenly appeared ahead.
"this?"
"Oh my god, who in the Wu family is this and what is he doing? They built a secret room in their own house and they have two ways to go!"
Feng Xiyun kicked the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"That's not right. We've been walking for so long, at least dozens of meters. The layout of the Wu family doesn't seem to be able to accommodate so much space."
Su Wei realized something was wrong.
"What the young marquis said makes sense, but the passage we just walked through is actually slowly descending, but the slope is very gentle, and it's dim, so the perception is not obvious. I judge that we are now underground."
Ye Xuwen raised his head and looked up. If he could really see through things, he would find that a group of strangers had appeared in the Wu Mansion.
"It's windy here!"
Tuanan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. He had been observing the dust kicked up by Feng Xiyun just now. It drifted crookedly towards the intersection on the left for a while before falling down. It was obvious that there was an external force acting on it.
Ye Xuwen's men had already conducted a simple search of the two roads.
"Captain, there's a new passageway behind both sides, about three meters long, and the end is a staircase leading down."
"Have you seen it down there?"
“Not yet.”
Ye Xuwen waved his hand, and the two men returned to their team. He himself looked at the passages on both sides worriedly, not knowing which way Feng Ming and the others were going.
"Want to go separately?"
Feng Xiyun looked around, feeling really conflicted.
Su Wei somehow recalled the settings in those horror movies and horror novels from his previous life - separation means suicide!
"Team one, you guys go to the left. Team two, follow me to the right."
While Su Wei was hesitating, Ye Xuwen had already given the order, and Ye Xuwen's subordinates had quickly completed the deployment, so he didn't say anything else.
"Be careful!"
Ye Xuwen didn't say much. Just giving a reminder was already his limit. Action was his style. He took the lead and walked towards the passage on the right.
Tunan Suwei naturally followed Ye Xuwen to the right, but Feng Xiyun hesitated and ran to the left.
"I'll go this way with them. What if my sister and the others are here?"
Feng Xiyun explained, and the other three did not stop him. After all, with the guards there, there shouldn't be any big problems.
And most importantly, they are not sure where it is.
"Okay, you must protect the little prince."
"yes!"
The guards answered in unison, and because of the echo in the small space, ten people shouted with the momentum of fifty people.
Feng Xiyun clenched his fists to cheer himself up. This was the first time he had acted alone since he was a child. In the past, Feng Ming usually accompanied him.
Feng Xiyun took the lead and walked to the left. The wall lamps in the passage were already lit, so walking was not difficult.
This time he paid special attention to the feeling under his feet, and there was indeed a slight downward arc.
When they reached the downward stairs that the pathfinder guards had mentioned, the guards no longer allowed Feng Xiyun to walk boldly in front. What a joke! They could not take the responsibility if anything happened to Feng Xiyun.
The stairs are spiral and about two meters high. After going down, you will enter an open room.
The guard found the wall lamp and lit it up. In an instant, the room was filled with light!
"Did it enter the vault?"
Feng Xiyun commented blankly, and the guards nodded in agreement.
I didn't notice it before because the lights were off, but now that the wall lamp is on, I can see that the whole room is full of gold bars.
The gold was just piled on the ground, without even a box, forming several small hills.
"Is the Wu family really that unpretentious, or do they just have too much money to care?"
Feng Xiyun looked around and checked, and it was really just gold.
"Write it down, take it out later, and give it to the emperor uncle as a birthday present."
Feng Xiyun waved his hand happily and gave the order. With such a large amount of gold sent over, his uncle would surely be satisfied. He might even fulfill his dream and issue an imperial edict to send him to the frontier.
But this room seems to be a closed warehouse.
"Is there no way out here?"
Feng Xiyun was a little disappointed. He thought there would be a big adventure, but who knew that he would choose a warehouse.
Feng Xiyun knocked around with a gold brick in his hand, but still couldn't find a door leading to other places. Very disappointed, he threw the gold brick and it hit a wall with a bang.
"There's a door this way!"
A guard spoke up. The door was very well hidden, behind the largest pile of gold. If Feng Xiyun hadn't knocked around with the gold bars for fun, the guard wouldn't have heard the hollow sound. Only after a careful inspection did he discover the secret door.
"Open it and let's go!"
After the vault door opened, there was another corridor, but this corridor was very narrow, only allowing two people to pass side by side.
The ten-man guard team was divided into five groups, with three in front and two in the back, guarding the Feng Xi in the middle.
I walked the first half of the journey and it was the same as before, with no problems at all.
"That Madam Wu must be out of her mind. She's deliberately speaking in a dangerous manner, but she's so calm."
Feng Xiyun couldn't help but yawn, and took down a wall lamp to play with it in his hand.
Crunch...
"What's that sound?"
"Protect the young prince!"
Suddenly, a sound of gears rubbing came from deep in the wall. The guards' already tense nerves immediately entered a high-energy protective state. They drew their knives and looked around vigilantly.
…
Quiet
After waiting for a long time, the sound of mechanical gears rubbing against each other continued, but nothing unusual happened.
"What are you doing? Are you kidding me? Shouldn't a dense rain of arrows come out at a time like this? What's the point of just making noise? It's just thunder without rain."
Feng Xiyun was originally very excited, waiting for the scene in the storybook to appear, but who knew that nothing happened at all. He really couldn't help but complain.
But what he didn't know was that on the other side of the wall separated from them, Ye Xuwen, who was leading the team with Tunan Suwei, was struggling to block the arrows!
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