The fourth day of the twelfth month, 2:15 PM.
The door of the sixteenth stone chamber on the right side of the secret passage leading to Xiangyang Temple in the direction of the underground palace.
Dan Zuo turned the eyeballs of the stone dragon on the door of the stone chamber counterclockwise. With a harsh sound of stone grinding, the door of the stone chamber slowly opened, and a dazzling light shone from inside.
"master!"
Shan Zuo stared in astonishment at the secret chamber before him, which was filled with more than a dozen large boxes. Furthermore, a night-shining pearl was embedded in each of the four corners of the stone chamber. These five night-shining pearls illuminated the entire chamber as brightly as day. When the stone chamber door had just opened, the dazzling light that shone from within was precisely from these night-shining pearls.
And the most important thing is that there was a dark green figure standing in front of the boxes. That person was the fake Taoist Wang Zhenyi who was shot in the wrist and calf by Hua Qingcheng's submachine gun.
"You...how come you are here?" Wang Zhenyi, who was hesitating about which box of treasure to take away, looked at Hua Qingcheng and Shan Zuo who suddenly appeared at the door of the treasure room with an expression of disbelief.
"Of course I came back to catch you!"
Hua Qingcheng didn't expect that this thief Taoist priest actually had so many treasures hidden, and his handsome eyebrows couldn't help but frown slightly.
The thief Taoist priest had injured his hands and legs, yet he had to run back to this secret room. Those big boxes must be filled with gold, silver, jewelry and other things. I don’t know how many children’s lives he had to pay for them...
"Bang"!
When Wang Zhenyi was about to use his intact left hand to fight Hua Qingcheng, Hua Qingcheng had already shot him in the left wrist.
Wang Zhenyi, this thief and Taoist priest, had lost all humanity and murdered so many children. Hua Qingcheng felt that simply shooting him dead would be too easy for him. So, after shooting Wang Zhenyi in the left wrist, Hua Qingcheng shot him once in each of his calves.
"Bang"!
Wang Zhenyi, who was shot several times but could not die immediately, fell heavily to the ground.
"You...what kind of hidden weapon is this that's so powerful?" Wang Zhenyi, who was spitting blood, looked at Hua Qingcheng with horror as she walked towards him step by step like a cold-faced evil god.
"Well..."
Hua Qingcheng raised the corners of his lips slightly, hooked his finger on the trigger of the pistol, and turned the pistol neatly, looking very cool and handsome.
"Of course it's...your death warrant!"
"Bang"!
Hua Qingcheng raised the gun again and shot Wang Zhenyi directly in the lower body.
“Ahhh…”
Wang Zhenyi's shrill screams, like a pig being slaughtered, suddenly rang out from the secret room.
Hua Qingcheng thought, since this thief Taoist priest was a fake Taoist priest, he might be full of female thieves and male prostitutes behind his back. No matter what, he should be eliminated first...
Dan Zuo, standing by, couldn't help but tighten his legs slightly upon seeing this. His master truly was...too cool (and cruel)! But when he used it on this thief, Dan Zuo didn't feel sorry for him at all. Instead, he thought his master could give him a few more kicks...
Then, Hua Qingcheng picked up Wang Zhenyi with one hand and dragged him out of the secret room.
"Zuo, look at him!"
"Yes, Master."
After instructing Shan Zuo to guard Wang Zhenyi at the door of the secret room, Hua Qingcheng turned into the secret room again.
“Patta, patta…”
Hua Qingcheng opened the dozen or so boxes in the secret room one by one. The gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, jade, poems, paintings by many famous artists, etc. in the boxes were then presented in front of Hua Qingcheng.
Looking at the priceless treasures piled in more than a dozen boxes, there was no trace of greed in Hua Qingcheng's eyes.
"Although I have never met you, I will avenge you. I will also put these things to good use. I hope your souls can rest in peace."
Hua Qingcheng spoke to the owners of these items from a distance. The owners of the gold, silver, and jewelry in the secret room must have been killed by the thief Taoist priest or his accomplices. The backs of all the items were stained with bright red blood.
After saying a few words to comfort the abducted and deceased souls, Hua Qingcheng immediately moved all the dozen or so boxes in the secret room into the utility room of the space villa.
After emptying the boxes of treasures, Hua Qingcheng retrieved a ladder from the space. She climbed up the ladder to the center of the secret room's roof and the four surrounding corners, where she dug out every one of the five night-shining pearls embedded there. Only after she had finished did she descend the ladder and place the night-shining pearls in the utility room of the space villa.
After dealing with the treasures looted by Wang Zhenyi, Hua Qingcheng left the secret room.
"master!"
"Zuo, let's go!"
Hua Qingcheng dragged Wang Zhenyi and continued to move forward in the secret room with Shan Zuo, heading towards the entrance of the secret passage, which was Wang Zhenyi's dormitory.
At the same time, the courtyard outside the Xiangyang Temple Wang Zhenyi's dormitory was surrounded by soldiers holding spears and shields.
"General Feng, Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess has not returned yet, and I don't know if something unexpected has happened. Should we send people to conduct a carpet search within the Xiangyang Temple?" Situ Ye asked worriedly.
"Yes, General Feng, we are here to watch over these children, so nothing will happen. Let's gather our forces to look for Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess and make sure she is safe." Seeing that Hua Qingcheng had not returned for a long time, Wu Chen also looked anxious.
Earlier, after Situ Ye and Wu Chen left the empty hall near the red rose field, they took more than a hundred children and detoured from the red rose field to the back door of Xiangyang Temple. They released flares to contact General Feng Cailan who was lying in ambush in the dense forest outside the temple.
After receiving the signal flare released by Situ Ye, Feng Cailan immediately led 3,000 soldiers to attack from the back door of Xiangyang Temple, and ordered another 3,000 soldiers to surround the gate of Xiangyang Temple to prevent the Taoists from escaping.
In less than half an hour, Feng Cailan had led the soldiers to control all the Taoists in the temple.
Furthermore, four young generals, Chen, Qin, Zhou, and Lu, each with 3,500 soldiers, were lying in ambush in the east, west, south, and north as reinforcements. These thieves from Xiangyang Temple couldn't escape even with wings.
Shortly after receiving Situ Ye's signal flare, another signal flare was sent from the sky above the mountain behind Xiangyang Temple. Feng Cailan immediately dispatched 3,000 men to patrol the mountain.
"Be patient!"
"Your Highness, she will be fine."
Worry leads to confusion. Seeing Situ Ye and Wu Chen looking anxious, Feng Cailan was also worried about Hua Qingcheng, but she knew that she had to stabilize the situation and not mess up the existing deployment.
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