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Except for Zhu Xue, who complained that it was too dirty here, the others didn't say anything, and they stepped through the mud and jumped down to the entrance of the cave.

Zhu Xue originally dragged her and refused to leave, but a guard didn't care about her emperor's favorite concubine, and walked over directly and threw her down.

Under the entrance of the cave, there was a thick thatch, and it was not very high, and everyone fell into good trouble.

The stone walls of the cave are also inlaid with several night pearls, although the light emitted is not bright, but it can barely let everyone see the surrounding environment clearly.

Autumn Nightstring took out the spare clothes from the box in the corner and threw them to everyone: "Change them immediately." ”

After everyone had picked out suitable civilian clothes and changed them, Qiu Yexian ordered: "Take off the night pearl on the wall and take it away for lighting." ”

After the guards pried more than a dozen night pearls, two one-person-high passages suddenly appeared on the east and west sides of the stone wall, and at the same time, the hole above their heads was also closed, and everyone could faintly feel that the pond above seemed to be flooded again.

After staring at the east and west passages for a while, Qiu Yexian said to Heyuan: "You go to the east, if there is no problem, come back in half an hour." ”

He Yuan knew that the emperor was going to explore his own way.

He was uneasy about the unknown tunnels, and he didn't know what traps and traps were waiting for him, but he couldn't refuse.

So he respectfully answered "yes", took a night pearl, and went to the east passage.

He had just entered a short time before he was gone, which showed that the passage was curved, otherwise everyone would not have lost sight of the light of the Night Pearl so soon.

Time passed, and there was silence in the cave.

Half an hour passed quickly, and he was far from returning, and there was no movement in the eastern passage.

Autumn Night String stood up: "Go this way." ”

Although he has a detailed map and mechanism description of this tunnel, who knows if the Black family has ever tampered with this place or the design map?

- He doesn't trust the black family so much anymore.

As soon as everyone had entered the passage to the west, he burned the thatch from the cave and walked through it.

Along the way, there were indeed many traps and secret passages, and he asked the guards to crack them one by one according to the instructions on the design drawings.

Basically, the blueprints are accurate, but there are a few organs that have not been able to crack down because of the damage caused by age, and several guards have been injured.

Qiu Yexian felt that he really couldn't trust this design too much.

Turning around in the tunnel, it was impossible to judge the direction and distance, and everyone felt that they seemed to have walked a long, long way, and it seemed that they had not walked long and far.

Finally, after getting dizzy and dizzy, there were two intersections on the left and one on the right.

This is the second threshold of life and death.

According to the design drawing, once you set foot on these two intersections, you can only advance but not retreat, if you retreat, it will definitely cause all the traps and traps to start at the same time, and the intruder will definitely die, only by keeping moving forward, will not trigger any traps and traps.

However, of these two paths, one leads to life and the other leads to death.

Of course, the design drawings also use red lines and black lines to clearly indicate the way of life and the way of death, but Qiu Yexian hesitated.

Both of these roads are long, and once you set foot on them, you can't turn back, what if—what if the blueprint is wrong?

Because it took a long time to build this underground labyrinth, it was not officially repaired until more than a year ago, and he only got this map not long ago, and he has not been able to carefully check all the maps and mazes.

And more than a year ago, the black family was no longer so honest and reliable.

Especially the large number of machine weapons developed in the past six months, more or less out of order, which made his soldiers and horses suffer a lot, so can he really fully trust the black family and the black family's map?

Can he really give his life to the Black Family?

He hesitated.

These two forks in the road, but there is no turning back, once you make a mistake, you can't turn back, you can only die on the road.

What to do?

Zhu Xue began to complain again: "Your Majesty, Xue'er doesn't like it here, and besides, Xue'er is so sleepy, Xue'er wants to go back to Qiongxue Palace to sleep......"

She leaned on Qiu Yexian's arms: "Your Majesty, Xue'er is so tired, Xue'er can't walk, can you walk on Xue'er's back?" ”

Qiu Yexian was not in the mood to mess with her, so he raised his hand, knocked her unconscious, and said to the guards beside him: "Carry her." ”

Without saying a word, the guard picked up Zhu Xue and threw it on his shoulder.

After Qiu Yexian was interrupted by Zhu Xue, he made up his mind and said to Zhu You: "Zhu Guifei, you can calculate, which of these two roads is the way of life and which is the way of death." ”

Zhu You was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly in his heart.

Sure enough, the emperor will take her to abscond because she is still useful, otherwise where would she enjoy such treatment.

She didn't say anything, took a few steps forward, stood at the intersection of the two forks on the left and right, took out a copper plate, folded her hands, clamped the copper plate in the palm of her hand, and then knelt down, closed her eyes, and recited a strange incantation in her mouth.

After chanting a long incantation, she parted her palms and let the copper plate in her palm fall to the ground.

Only then did she open her eyes, staring at whether the upward side of the copper plate was positive or negative, and then pointed to the right: "The right side is the way to live." ”

Qiu Yexian smiled slightly: "That is the case, you go first." ”

Zhu You: "......"

After a moment of silence, she stood up, patted her black robe, and resolutely stepped onto the passage on the right.

After walking a few steps, she stopped, turned her head, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, this must be the way to live, and the concubine dares to guarantee with her life." ”

She didn't say it, just forget it, but when she said this, it strengthened Qiu Yexian's determination to go to the left.

Qiu Yexian smiled: "Since this is the case, please continue to move forward." ”

Zhu You retracted his head, and with the faint luster of the night pearl in his hand, he groped his way forward.

As she walked, she suddenly felt very quiet and lonely.

She turned her head and saw that there was no one in the black hole behind her.

She panicked, what about people? Where did the people go?

There are obviously dozens of people, why is she the only one left?

Could it be that those people didn't follow at all?

She subconsciously wanted to go back, but as soon as she turned around, a sense of foreboding came over her.

Don't turn back!

There must be no turning back - there was a voice in her heart warning her.

She felt the malice and danger coming from ahead!

She stood in the darkness and hesitated for a few moments before turning around and resolutely following her original route.

Although the previous two divinations were wrong, this time, she chose to believe her own divination.

She is the strongest witch and will definitely be responsible for her own divination, and if her divination is not accurate, then let her die in her own divination.

Narrow, long, dark, icy passages that seem to have no end.

She endured her fear and resigned herself to her fate in the tunnel, not feeling the passage of time or knowing if there was an end to it.

Eventually, she got the answer - there really was an end to the passage.

And she has reached the end.

At the end, there was an iron ladder.

At the top of the ladder, there is a slightly open space.

She climbed up and looked at the space, which turned out to be an ordinary cellar.

When she crawled out of the cellar, she found herself in an ordinary house.

At this time, the sky was hazy, the surroundings were quiet, there was no shouting and killing, and there was no figure.

But she knew that this place should be outside the palace, and she should be safe.