Chapter 115 You almost died of fright, you don't know what's going on...
Ye Lan paused in her action of pulling the rope, turned her head and looked over, a hint of doubt in her eyes.
Fu Yun walked to the well and explained calmly, "He's too slow. I'm a pretty good swimmer. Let him come up, and I'll go down and check the situation."
Ye Lan's eyes widened slightly, her expression quite shocked. She turned to look at the Empress, casting a questioning glance at her.
The Empress nodded slightly, indicating that she would listen to him.
"This..." Ye Lan hesitated slightly: "Master, please forgive my bluntness, but this matter is extremely dangerous. It may not be appropriate to send Young Master Su down."
The Empress's expression remained calm: "No need for further words, just do as he says."
"Yes." Ye Lan dared not say anything more, glancing at Fu Jun with a hint of worry in her eyes.
Fu Jun gently shook his head, indicating that she didn't need to worry and that nothing would happen.
He bent slightly forward, looking down into the unfathomable well water, and asked, "Could you help me find a lotus leaf tube?"
September is still the season when lotus leaves are in bloom, so it's not difficult to find lotus leaf tubes.
The Empress understood Fu Yun's intention in an instant, a hint of a smile appeared in her eyes, and she turned her gaze to Ye Lan.
Ye Lan's expression shifted slightly, indicating that he already knew, and he sincerely praised, "Young Master Su is wise."
Fu Yun smiled but remained silent.
Ye Lan glanced at Liu Lan, who was waiting to the side, and whispered, "Go find what Young Master Su wants."
Liu Lan bowed her head and accepted the order. She then quickly walked to the four bound people, kicked the young woman, and said coldly, "You, bring me the lotus leaf tubes that have never been used in the house."
The young woman at the head of the group trembled slightly, stood up unsteadily, and, under Liu Lan's swaying, entered the house in a panic.
A short while later, Liu Lan pulled the young woman out of the house by one of her arms.
Liu Lan held two familiar lotus leaf tubes in her hand; they were the disposable lotus leaf tubes that the tea shop gave to customers to take away.
Fu Jun was both amused and exasperated. These tubes were specially processed and were shorter than those from real wild lotus leaves, making them not very practical.
However, something is better than nothing. He took the lotus leaf tube from Liu Lan's hand and said, "Thank you for your trouble."
While Liu Lan went to retrieve the lotus leaf tube, Ye Lan had already pulled the young man up from the well.
She looked at Fu Yun with a serious expression and reminded him, "Young Master Su, please be careful. If you see anything unusual, pull the rope immediately and I will pull you up."
Fu Yun nodded, her expression becoming more serious: "Let me make this clear in advance: don't pull me up easily before I pull the rope. If I haven't given you a hint after half an incense stick's time, then you can pull me up."
Night Blue's pupils contracted slightly, clearly shocked: "So long? Are you out of your mind?"
Fu Yun waved his hand without offering any further explanation. He then tied the rope around his waist using a modern high-altitude rescue rope technique. Under everyone's astonished gaze, he slowly entered the well along the edge.
"Su Zixin, remember that your own safety is the most important thing. If you do not find anything, do not be reckless and turn back immediately."
The Empress had somehow appeared above the well. Although her voice was cold and unreadable, Fu Yun could still sense the worry in her heart.
Fu Jun's heart softened a little: "I understand, I'll be careful."
Ye Lan, still worried, warned, "Young Master Su, what the master said is true. You must not take any chances. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about Young Master Lu. If something happens to you, he will not be at peace either."
Fu Jun felt a pang of sadness: "So, you're not worried about my safety, but about Lu Zhisheng's sadness."
"Ahem~" Ye Lan turned her face away, feeling a little guilty: "Of course I'm worried about your safety, but that young master Lu values you very much. If anything happens to you, he will definitely be unable to sleep at night."
"Tsk~" Fu Yun chuckled and said quietly, "An explanation is just a cover-up, and a cover-up is the truth."
Ye Lan's eyes flickered slightly, a hint of unease and annoyance flashing across them: "Fine, say what you want."
During their conversation, Fu Yun had already descended to the surface of the well water. He curled the corners of his lips, said no more, bit the lotus leaf tube, and then dived into the water.
Fu Jun swam back and forth in the water, quickly scanning the area, but did not see anything unusual.
But Fu Jun knew in his heart that the entrance would not be so easy for him to find, otherwise Ye Lan and Qian Qingling would not have searched for so long without finding it.
What he can think of, others can naturally guess as well.
Therefore, we can conclude that there must be a hidden mechanism at the bottom of this well.
"Xiao Ba, is there any way for me to see the layout around the bottom of the well?"
Of course, it's a small matter.
As soon as Xiao Ba finished speaking, Fu Yun felt as if her eyes had been put on night vision glasses, and everything underwater was clearly visible.
He dived into the water and searched back and forth for a full ten minutes, and sure enough, he spotted a clue among the many gray bricks.
You can vaguely see that near the bottom of the well, one of the gray bricks is lighter in color than the others, and its edges show some signs of wear.
This indicates that the brick was frequently moved around.
Fu Yun took a deep breath and immediately dived to the bottom of the well. He pressed his finger in, and the gray brick popped out an inch.
Fu Yun pulled out the brick, reached inside and felt around, and found a raised button. He pressed it without hesitation.
The sound of bricks rubbing against each other rang out, and then a gap slowly appeared, until a black hole large enough for an adult's shoulder to pass through was revealed.
Suddenly, the rope around her waist started to tug. Fu Yun realized that Zhi Lan and Ye Lan were worried about her safety.
He didn't pull on the rope in response, otherwise they would have mistakenly thought he wanted to be pulled up.
Without hesitation, Fu Jun crawled into the dark hole, determined to find the entrance to the secret passage as soon as possible.
The water at the bottom of the well is quite deep, and the pipe used for drinking is too short; it won't be enough to go inside the black hole.
But it doesn't matter. As long as you're human, you need to breathe. No matter how good a swimmer is at this secret passage, they can't exceed the breathing range that a normal person needs.
After Fu Yun went in, she swam for two minutes and noticed the difference. The water level on both sides was obviously decreasing slowly, which proved that the channel extended upwards. In other words, if she swam for a while longer, she would be able to swim out of the water.
As he expected, after swimming for about four minutes, the space suddenly became much larger, and steps appeared in front of him. After going up a dozen or so steps, there was a small stone door.
Fu Yun swam over quickly and surfaced the next moment.
After catching his breath and regaining some strength, he stepped onto the stairs.
When he was two meters away from the stone gate, he encountered resistance around his waist. He moved forward a little, and the resistance on the rope increased, indicating that the rope was not long enough.
Fu Yun: "..." It's not short either, but it's short at this time.
After a moment's thought, he reached out and untied the rope.
Since we're already here, it would be a shame to go back without finding out the details.
At the very least, we need to figure out whether the other side of the stone gate is actually a passage leading to other wells.
Once I confirm, I'll quickly return; it shouldn't take too long.
Now that he knows the location, he can swim back even without a rope. He can just have Ye Lan throw the rope down.
Fu Jun searched around the stone gate for a while, but apart from a wall lamp decoration hanging on the stone wall, he found no other mechanisms or devices.
He tried holding the wall lamp and swaying it left and right, and felt that turning it to the right was much smoother than turning it to the left.
He turned the stone door to the right with force, and with a "screech," the door slowly opened.
As he expected, there was a fairly large open space outside the stone gate, with a stone table placed on it and long stone benches around it, clearly a place for people to talk and rest.
There are stone steps leading down to the bottom of the water in front of the stone table, and these steps must be the well of another house.
Everything he saw proved his guess was correct; the well was indeed a secret passage for the spies to communicate with each other.
There was another world beneath the well; all the foreigners who had avoided the hiding places that Zhilan and her group had searched were actually at the bottom of the well.
No wonder Zhilan and the others searched for more than a month and only found the cellar, but couldn't find the mechanism that led the cellar to other places.
It turned out that those cellars were just a smokescreen set up by spies to mislead Zhilan and her team about their search.
Their real meeting place was in the passage at the bottom of the well. The place was so well hidden that it would be strange if Ye Lan and her companions didn't run into obstacles when they tried to explore it.
Fortunately, the people in the nearby houses were controlled by Night Blue's men. Otherwise, it would have been too dangerous to have a face-to-face confrontation with them here, and there would have been nowhere to escape.
All I can say is, thank goodness! Thank goodness!
After figuring out everything, Fu Yun didn't linger and quickly turned back the way she came.
He had just arrived at the mechanism at the bottom of the well when he heard a noisy commotion.
"Master, you mustn't! You're not good at swimming, you can't go down."
"Don't say anything more. I know what's going on. He hasn't come up for so long, something must have happened. I have to find him."
"Then why don't you come up here and let me go find it?"
Zhilan said coldly, "No need."
Upon hearing this, Fu Yun immediately swam out of the passage. The moment he surfaced, he looked up and met the eyes of Zhi Lan, who was coming down.
Zhilan's pupils dilated, her descent halted, and she stared at Fu Jun for a long time without uttering a sound.
Seeing the obvious anxiety in her eyes, Fu Yun felt a warmth in her heart and gently reassured her, "I'm fine, we've found the passage."
The Empress tilted her head back, closed her eyes, then exhaled and threw down the other rope in her hand, her voice slightly hoarse: "Wait."
Fu Jun took the rope and carefully tied it around her waist.
After throwing the rope, Zhilan increased her descent speed and soon arrived in front of Fu Jun.
Before Fu Yun could even speak, the Empress embraced him tightly.
She hugged Fu Jun tightly, with such force that it seemed she wanted to press the person in front of her into her very bones.
Fu Yun was deeply moved and felt quite sorry for Zhi Lan, realizing she had worried her. She should have been faster just now.
He gently patted Zhilan's back, his voice soft: "It's alright, I just untied it because the rope was a little short."
Zhilan took a deep breath and slowly relaxed after a moment: "It's good that you're alright. Don't be so reckless next time."
Fu Yun naturally assured him repeatedly, "No, I don't want you to take risks for me."
"By the way, I just found out that there is indeed something else under the wells. Each well has a passage leading to a stone door, and at the junction of each passage are resting spots for people to plot secrets."
A cold glint flashed in Zhilan's eyes: "So that's how it is. No wonder we couldn't find the entrance to the secret passage. Only they could come up with such an unexpected place. They're really cunning."
Fu Yun agreed: "Indeed cunning, they actually hid the secret passage in the well."
Zhilan chuckled softly and released Fu Jun: "The water's cold, let's go up first."
Fu Jun nodded, naturally having no objections.
Zhilan looked up and shouted, "Ye Lan, pull us up!"
Ye Lan quickly replied, "Yes."
Soon, the two were pulled up one after the other.
Ye Lan glared at Fu Jun, quite annoyed: "Why did you untie the rope for no reason? We thought something had happened to you, we were almost scared to death."
Fu Yun apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it really wasn't intentional. I just got to an important area and found that the rope was too short, so I had to untie it temporarily."
Ye Lan's anger lessened slightly, but she was still somewhat annoyed: "You can't be so willful next time. You don't know what happened to Master just now..."
"Hmm~" Zhilan cleared her throat and gave Yelan a warning look.
Ye Lan immediately fell silent, glared at Fu Jun, pouted in dissatisfaction, and dared not say anything more.
Zhilan said, "Send people to block the entrances to all the wells in the city, and we'll catch them in the well."
Upon hearing this, Ye Lan immediately perked up, her eyes shining: "Yes! I will arrange it immediately."
Ye Lan led Liu Lan aside to discuss how to arrange personnel and begin the arrest.
Zhilan gazed at Fu Jun, her delicate brows relaxing, her eyes filled with tenderness: "We really owe you a lot this time, otherwise we don't know how much manpower we would have wasted. Tell me, what reward do you want?"
Fu Yun had an idea in mind: "The reward is fine, but I have a request that I hope you can grant."
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