The Imperial Guards actually took his words to heart and were actually carrying them out. This almost made Rong Chengxuan think that he wasn't the traitor that half of the court wanted to kill.
"I'm going down only when I'm absolutely sure I can get up safely. What about you? How sure are you? If you go down like this rashly, I'm afraid you won't even get to the first floor. You might even die the moment you get down there."
Rong Chengxuan's words made the leader of the Imperial Guard think twice. The brothers of the Imperial Guard were not born out of thin air. They also had parents to support at home, and many of them were already married with wives and children.
If the place down there was really as dangerous as Rong Chengxuan said, the brothers who followed him would have lost their lives. Their family would have lost a pillar of support, and they might even be unable to make a living. In that case, he would have become the sinner of his family.
At this time, Ye Lan also returned with a tinderbox. Rong Chengxuan instructed, "Just stay up there and support us." He calculated the time and added, "If we haven't come up from below by noon tomorrow, send someone down to look for us. If they don't find us within an hour, you can go up."
To the leader of the Imperial Guards, Rong Chengxuan's words sounded like his last words, but Rong Chengxuan had already made up his mind. Even Qin Ziyi couldn't stop him from leaving the city. As a small leader of the Imperial Guards, he certainly couldn't stop Rong Chengxuan from taking his men down to check it out himself.
Rong Chengxuan stepped on the broken bricks on the ground and led the crowd to the place where he had just smashed something with bricks, and walked towards the only remaining half of the corner of the ancient tomb.
That was the first place that was shaken out when the ground collapsed. If you want to go down, going down from here should be the fastest way to reach the entrance.
Yun Wanwan walked to the edge of the tunnel and looked down. She found that the height of twenty meters was neither high nor low, but her feet were shaking as she looked at it. She asked Rong Chengxuan in a trembling voice, "What's the situation down there? Do you have any idea?"
Rong Chengxuan nodded and said, "I just checked the terrain and it's not complicated. It's just that the hexagram you just calculated is quite strange. According to the hexagram and this strange-looking ancient tomb, it seems impossible to solve it.
"Absolutely impossible?" Yun Wanwan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she immediately said, "Why don't we hurry up? Rong Chengxuan, let's go down quickly!" When she heard that it was a formation that even she might not be able to break, Yun Wanwan immediately became motivated and pulled Rong Chengxuan to go down.
Seeing her so excited, Rong Chengxuan looked at her silently. Suddenly, he wanted to scare her and said, "It's very dangerous down there. If you're not careful, you might not be able to come up. Are you willing to go down with me?"
"No matter how dangerous the formation is, someone has to break it. It's almost dark. Am I going to stay up all night just to follow you to this deserted, dark place to see the scenery? Or am I going to turn around and run back when I heard it's an unbreakable formation? Is that okay?" Yun Wanwan raised her eyebrows and said loudly, "Besides, you just promised to take me down with you. Rong Chengxuan, please don't go back on your word, or I'll beat you to death."
Before Rong Chengxuan could speak, Yun Wanwan asked again, "What do you think of this underground space? Is it big? How many people can it accommodate? Can you calculate?"
Rong Chengxuan was almost laughing out loud at Yun Wanwan's serious questions. "My dear aunt, do you think you can figure out the answers to these questions?"
Yun Wanwan thought about it, and finally decided to be honest. She shook her head at Rong Chengxuan, "I'm asking you because I can't figure it out. After all, His Royal Highness Prince An said that your metaphysics is superior to mine."
Rong Chengxuan looked at Yun Wanwan, who was looking at him with a smirk on her face, shrugged his shoulders, and imitated Yun Wanwan's honesty, "I can't calculate it, but according to common sense, we shouldn't be able to let too many people in."
"That's right." Yun Wanwan squatted at the tunnel entrance and took a look. "That's for sure. I'm mainly worried that if something happens to us down there, the Imperial Guards might not be able to get back in after just two or three of them go down. That would greatly reduce our work efficiency."
"If there really is only room for three or four people, they'll be able to see us there as soon as they come in."
Rong Chengxuan took off his outer robe, revealing a black, tight-fitting outfit underneath. It was clear he'd come prepared. Yun Wanwan had always thought Rong Chengxuan was thin when he was dressed, but now that he'd taken off the outer robe, she realized he was the type of person who looked thin in clothes but muscular when he was undressed.
After his men tied a rope around his waist, he began to descend the steep slope. When he reached the cave, he looked back at Yun Wanwan and said, "I'll go down first. You follow me later. Don't be afraid. I'll catch you when we get to the bottom of the cave."
Ye Lan also tied the rope. He walked up to Rong Chengxuan and looked at the cave that seemed to have no end. He asked, "Master, how about you and Miss Yun wait up there for a while, and let me go down and explore the way first?"
Rong Chengxuan rejected Ye Lan's suggestion and still wanted to go down and explore the way by himself.
Rong Chengxuan jumped down without looking back, and Yun Wanwan followed him down. However, because it was too dark, she didn't see the bricks on the ground, tripped, and stumbled into the crack in the ground.
When she was going down, because she didn't find the right direction, her forehead hit the wall hard. Before she felt the pain, her whole body suddenly lost weight and she fell a vertical distance of at least two or three meters.
With a thud, she fell heavily onto a protruding rock. Before she could feel the pain, she was caught in Rong Chengxuan's arms. In Rong Chengxuan's arms, she finally realized the pain, grimacing in pain. Ye Lan asked from above, "Master, are you and Miss Yun okay? How are you down there?"
Rong Chengxuan held Yun Wanwan in his arms, raised his head, and visually estimated the distance from here to the cave entrance. He shouted to Ye Lan, "When you come down later, let out a little more rope!"
When Yun Wanwan was put on the ground by Rong Chengxuan, she gasped in pain.
Rong Chengxuan heard Yun Wanwan's cry and subconsciously frowned, "Are you hurt?"
Yun Wanwan shook her head, but then she thought about how dark it was down there and Rong Chengxuan couldn't see what she was doing.
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