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On Zisu Mountain, Yun Duoduo followed the wolf king toward the place where explosions frequently occurred, with a group of wolf cubs following behind them.
This is it.
The wolf king stopped in front of a barren hill.
[This is where the explosion injured several wolf cubs.]
Yun Duoduo nodded: "Okay, so this is the place."
“There doesn’t seem to be anything unusual. I’ll look around here. You take everyone and leave.”
The wolf king hesitated, seemingly worried that Yun Duoduo might be in danger.
Don't worry.
"Even if I'm in danger, if it explodes inside, you can't help me."
"Go quickly, that's an order."
Yun Duoduo raised her hand to touch the wolf king's head, but as soon as her hand was in the air, she felt something was amiss and lowered it again.
The wolf king paused, seeing Yun Duoduo's determined look, then roared at the sky. In an instant, the wolf pack followed the wolf king's steps and ran to various parts of the mountain.
In the blink of an eye, the wolf pack disappeared before Yun Duoduo's eyes.
Yun Duoduo carefully observed the place in front of her. It looked like a small hill, with nothing unusual about it.
Suddenly, she noticed something dark under her feet.
She squatted down, dipped her finger into the dark substance on the ground, and smelled it.
"Is this charcoal?"
Her expression became alert as she noticed yellow sand in the gaps between the stones.
"And sulfur and saltpeter?"
After smelling the odor, Yun Duoduo confirmed that it seemed to be involved in such an illegal activity.
Good heavens, this is illegal gunpowder manufacturing!
"We need to find out where this powder of charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter came from."
Where will the entrance be?
Yun Duoduo took two steps back and looked at the small hill in front of her that was three times her height.
There doesn't seem to be any opening.
Yun Duoduo walked around the hill once, and then she noticed another small hill on the opposite side.
She pushed the rocks on the hill, and suddenly, one of the large rocks became loose.
[Huh? This looks promising.]
It was nighttime, and the surroundings were very quiet. The sound of stones scraping against the ground was extremely grating.
Afraid of making too much noise, Yun Duoduo gently and slowly pushed the stone aside, just enough for her small body to squeeze in.
She looked back and saw that the mountain was deserted in the moonlight.
She went into the cave; it was dark and damp inside.
She ventured inside, head down, her steps light.
The deeper you go, the stronger the smell of saltpeter and sulfur becomes.
"Get the hell out of here! If you don't finish this by dawn, I'll kill you all!"
An angry command came from inside.
Yun Duoduo paused in her steps.
Is someone inside?
Yes, if it's illegal to manufacture such explosives, it violates the laws of Nanyang, so they would definitely choose to commit the crime in the dead of night.
[This place is really deep; these people are quite skilled, managing to dig such a place out of the foot of the mountain.]
She hesitated whether to continue walking inside.
[Should we check what's inside, or prioritize survival and escape now?]
Yun Duoduo gritted her teeth and decided that she still had to get to the bottom of this matter.
She continued to walk slowly inside, her steps very light, carefully watching her step to avoid stepping on anything that might make a sound.
She remembered watching TV dramas in her past life, where anyone who eavesdropped would always be discovered, so she was very careful.
However, the sounds of gunpowder being built inside were extremely loud, including the sounds of boilers being lit, materials being mixed, and the foreman yelling.
Clanging and rumbling.
Even the foreman had to shout to speak, let alone hear any noise outside.
"This is a munitions shipment ordered by His Highness the Crown Prince. If anything goes wrong, neither of us will escape unscathed!"
[The Crown Prince?]
Could this be related to Xijing again?
What on earth is this crazy drama queen trying to do?!
Yun Duoduo walked to the innermost part, stood against the wall in the shadows, and looked at what was happening inside.
Inside, dozens of middle-aged men dressed in tattered gray-brown linen clothes were seen wearily mixing materials. A foreman-like figure was arbitrarily beating and scolding them with a leather whip.
On the open ground to the side, there were piles of black powder weighing several hundred kilograms, as well as piles of saltpeter, charcoal, gold and silver powder, and sulfur.
These are all materials used to make explosives.
[Such a large quantity of gunpowder, if it were to explode, would not only level Zisu Mountain in front of us, but also severely damage and injure the Cuixiang Tower and its inhabitants within a 100-meter radius.]
Those damned bastards.
"Boss, have a bowl of water!"
A servant brought over a bowl of water.
"Are you trying to kill me?! How many times have I told you, you can't light an open flame! Are you trying to die holding up a tinderbox?"
The foreman took the bowl of water and lashed the man with a whip.
"You just ignored everything I said?!"
"I deserve to die, I deserve to die."
The servant quickly extinguished the fire in his hand.
Yun Duoduo had seen enough and was preparing to go back and ask her father to send men to wipe out the stronghold.
[But this gunpowder...]
We can't leave it like this.
This is Zisu Mountain. Further ahead, near Cuixiang Tower, there are ponds...
Yun Duoduo had a sudden inspiration. She tiptoed outside and finally reached the cave entrance safely.
Great, we weren't caught eavesdropping!
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