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Ru outside the house did not expect the goddess to do such an extraordinary thing.
Before this, she had always pretended to be indifferent and at the mercy of others.
As obedient as a puppet.
Lu's speculation about the goddess's possible betrayal only stayed on the surface level of her disobeying orders and trying to fight for power.
But he did not expect that the goddess would be so bold as to betray the Wu Mi people and try to escape.
How can such a wishful thinking be realized!
Now he even wants to threaten him with the death of the messenger.
Lu was so angry that his blood boiled. The mask on his face was as red as boiling water, and the finger pointing at the goddess was trembling.
"Look at you! You want to escape now? How is that possible?"
"You really don't consider the pavilion your territory? Have you forgotten that there are so many talisman arrays here to trap you?"
"How ridiculous..." Thinking of the several layers of overlapping talisman arrays in Zuihua Tower, which were specially arranged by the leader to hunt the goddess, the surging emotions in Lu's heart were instantly calmed.
He laughed again and took out a small whistle-like gadget from his pocket.
Seeing the goddess's gaze fall on this place, Lu also moved closer to the goddess with his face transformed into a sinister smile and whispered, "Do you know what this is?"
"If you have such wild ideas and want to escape from the Wu Mi people, I will make you live a life worse than death!"
Jiang Nian could only hear the sound but couldn't see what Lu was holding in his hand, so he moved slightly, bent down, and looked through the crack in the door.
Through the small keyhole, only a part of the scene inside the top pavilion can be seen.
Jiang Nian bent over and changed his position several times behind the door, and finally saw clearly what was in Lu's hand from a tricky angle.
There were no remote controls in this era. If someone wanted to detonate the tunnel, he could blow the whistle. The people guarding the tunnel would hear the command and light a fire, causing the tunnel to explode.
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Lu probably didn't know that the goddess had prepared a backup plan.
The strong shock wave might cause the floor of the fifth floor to collapse, and then the goddess could escape by simply going through the secret passage.
But it was a simple idea. Jiang Nian had no idea what would happen to the building when it actually exploded.
In modern times, such dangerous events were too far away from where she lived. She only occasionally saw areas with billowing smoke on the news, but had never seen them in person.
Thinking that the Zuihua Pavilion where she was currently was about to explode, she still felt a sense of unreality.
It's like there's a thin layer of glass covering it.
She looked through the transparent cover and watched the changes in the events here with cold eyes, without much empathy. Although her body was here, her soul was occupying a high position like a God's perspective.
Outside the compartment, the goddess' expression remained unchanged. The faint smile on her lips was fleeting, and now she had returned to her neutral state. It was as if she had ignored Lu's threat.
"That's fine, but if you light the tunnel with gunpowder, then you won't have to pray for blessings."
"Isn't this a good thing for us?"
Lu held the whistle, not knowing whether to blow it or to retract it, and felt a bit like he was shooting himself in the foot.
When he was laying out the tunnel, he never thought that the goddess would do such a "treasonous" thing, nor did he think that it would conflict with one of the links in his plan.
Anyway, he is just too arrogant and too lazy to make plans.
The goddess pretended too well. If it weren't for that little girl and You's recent actions, Lu would never have thought that this person who had been as well-behaved as a doll for the past five or six years would plan such things.
But at the moment, in order to gain more power, Lu had said countless good things to the envoy, but he did not predict that the envoy's self-defense ability was so fragile that he could be killed by the goddess.
...I guess he is not a real messenger.
He was just a pet sent by the leader to test their thoughts and could be abandoned at any time.
Ru's face turned pale, then red, then black, and the colors on the mask changed colorfully. Jiang Nian looked through the keyhole at the mask on Ru's face, which changed colors vividly, and was quite amazed for a moment.
The craftsmanship of the ancients was exquisite.
After a moment, Lu calmed down his boiling anger and continued, "If Zuihualou is blown up by this old man, I will collect your body and ask my followers to send it to Donglan!"
"By then, I will personally take charge of the arrangements for the epidemic and control its development. By then, I will have my own way of carrying out the plan!"
"It's just blowing up a building. It's not a big deal."
Lu muttered a few words to himself, turned around and walked out the door, trying to call a few men to tie up the goddess and throw her into the tunnel to be destroyed.
Jiang Nian suddenly stood up from behind the door, ready to push it open and hold the goddess forward, while he was about to pierce Lu's heart from behind with the blessing prop.
The maid's skirt was long and the situation was urgent. When she pushed the door open suddenly, Lu, who was walking out, suddenly thought of controlling the goddess first to prevent her from running away, so he turned around.
The change in front of him happened too suddenly. Jiang Nian's heart tightened. Just as he was about to bend down to hide his body, the hem of his skirt reached the ground before his feet. Before his right foot reached the ground, he was tripped by the skirt that was circled like a mask.
She moved too quickly, and there was nothing nearby to hold onto. The goddess was also standing quite far away from her. Leaning forward, she lost her balance. Jiang Nian stared at the ground rapidly approaching her face, her mind blank for a moment. The next second, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground resounded clearly in the pavilion.
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Compared to the goddess's gaze that was as cold as water, Lu's gaze, even through the mask, could not hide his shock and confusion.
It wasn't until he looked up and saw the partition door, which was the same color as the wall and almost invisible without careful observation, that he knew everything.
Jiang Nian had no time to resent himself for doing such a clumsy thing. The goddess reacted faster than Lu. The next second, the blessing tool in her hand immediately pierced into his heart.
A little higher up.
Before danger strikes, no matter how surprised you are, muscle memory will react instantly.
Jiang Nian quickly got up from the ground and helped the goddess hold down Ru who was about to jump up from the ground. Relying on his memory, he poked several acupuncture points on Ru's body. While Ru was still shaking and stiff on the ground, the goddess pulled out the whistle in his hand and blew it hard.
A long, sharp whistle then resounded throughout the entire building.
The layout of Zuihualou was deliberately arranged by Shouzan. Perhaps it was because of Shouzan's design that Ru chose to use a whistle to notify the people downstairs.
There was no time to check whether Lu was still alive. In the chaos, Jiang Nian immediately snatched the blessing prop from the goddess's hand, stabbed Wang Lu's heart two or three more times to prevent him from "coming back to life" later, and immediately reached out to grab the goddess' wrist, and ran up the stairs five steps at a time as if he was familiar with the route, and then ran into the secret passage leading to the underground on the fourth floor.
The time from the tunnel explosion to the ignition was not long, barely enough for the two of them to enter the secret passage.
Jiang Nian had just pushed the goddess into the secret passage and turned around to close the door of the secret passage when the ground of Zuihualou swayed left and right like a building block.
The solid sense of security that one usually feels when standing on the ground is gone in an instant. These buildings made of wood and cement are far less solid than modern buildings. The frequency of their left and right swaying is naturally much higher than that of modern buildings. It is completely impossible to stand steadily. People are even more fragile in these buildings that are about to collapse.
Jiang Nian raised her hand and tightly grasped the wooden ladder. As the shockwaves below began to spread upwards, she did not dare to linger on the fourth floor any longer. She shouted to the goddess below, "Hurry down! The fourth floor is very dangerous!"
When Shouzan designed this pavilion, did he follow the standards of modern earthquake-resistant buildings?
At this moment, Jiang Nian sincerely hoped that this pavilion could be restored one-to-one to a modern earthquake-resistant building, just like the sect that could cure all diseases.
Even though the goddess had instructed that the secret passage be reinforced during construction, the walls could not withstand the shock wave and began to crack in the cement, leaving fine and dense lines.
Some debris fell from the ceiling as they ran past, hitting their heads, shoulders and arms.
Jiang Nian raised her hands, shielding her head with them, and asked the goddess to do the same. The building was shaking so much that she could barely make out the steps leading down.
Perhaps this secret passage was very close to where some maids and attendants were doing their duties. While running downwards in the darkness, Jiang Nian heard many shrill screams and groans coming from all directions, as well as muffled groans from being hit by heavy objects.
Water began to emerge from nowhere, flowing on the wooden floor outside, and seeping into the cracked walls drop by drop.
Jiang Nian was trembling with fear with every step he took, fearing that he might not step firmly and twist his ankle, and then be knocked to the ground by the violent shaking.
Fortunately, she was wearing light clothes without many decorations, so she was only hit hard, causing her cheeks, arms and legs to be rubbed raw and bleeding, and probably with some bruises.
It's just a superficial injury after all.
The goddess's condition was not so good.
She was also wearing an elaborate long dress used for praying, an extremely heavy and clanking headdress on her head, and shoes on her feet that made it difficult to move.
Normally, she needed someone to pat her when she walked slowly in Zuihualou. Now, how could she be unharmed after being hit by the extremely shocking aftermath of the explosion?
Jiang Nian paid attention to the steps under his feet, holding the handrail and falling down, while glancing at the location of the goddess.
But even if she wanted the goddess to keep up with her pace, Jiang Nian's body was at most that of a young girl, and could not bear the weight of the goddess, who was an adult and had many clothes on.
After going down the spiral staircase several times, Jiang Nian squinted his eyes and looked back, but the goddess was no longer there.
But before she could think about it, she smelled an extremely unpleasant and dizzying odor.
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The poisonous gas in the tunnel began to dissipate.
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