Everyone held their breath and clenched the blood-stained blades in their hands, and the masked leader listened attentively. It wasn't until there were a few dull sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground in the stone prison that he smiled with satisfaction.

After some time, after the foul smell of the stone prison had cleared, the group of uninvited guests cautiously walked down the steps. Zhong Ziyuan followed closely behind the masked leader, looking carefully as he walked.

The stone dungeon was very large, and it was lit only by two butter lamps, and the light was very dim. Through this dim light, you can see that on the ground of the stone prison, there are seven or eight dark guards in a coma lying on the steps.

There is also Duan Ling, who is firmly chained to the stone pillar, scarred and without a piece of good meat. He hung his head and didn't move, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Seeing Duan Ling, the masked leader's gaze suddenly froze. Zhong Ziyuan immediately stepped forward, stretched out two fingers and pressed down on the side of his blood-stained neck, and after feeling the subtle and vague pulsation under the skin, she said in surprise: "He's still alive!" Immediately, two people stepped forward and carefully untied Duan Ling from the chain.

While they were rescuing Duan Ling, the rest of the masked men were not idle. They came to those unconscious and powerless guards, and with a flick of the steel knife in their hands, they sent these guards to the western sky.

This was a silent killing, and Zhong Ziyuan, as the initiator, although he was sad in his heart, he closed his lips tightly and did not say a word. Once the success is complete, she already has a deep understanding of this sentence.

"There's another awake one here!" Suddenly, a masked man whispered roughly.

The masked leader followed the prestige, and saw the torturer leaning limply against the stone wall next to the steps. It seems that when he was about to greet Zhu Yi in person, he was suddenly fascinated. He barely raised his head, the corners of his eyes twitching. There was still a trace of blood left on the side of his mouth. It seems that he bit the tip of his tongue, and it was only by the intense pain that he kept a trace of clarity.

Unfortunately, that's all, he tried several times to stand up against the wall, but he fell back hard. A hint of despair could not help but appear in his usually cold eyes. Several masked men looked at him with fierce eyes, and they stood in front of him and raised their steel knives at the same time.

The masked leader suddenly stretched out his hand to block Zhong Ziyuan's eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Don't look! Zhong Ziyuan closed her eyes silently, finally. Two lines of warm tears rolled down his palms.

Xingda stared at the blood-red eyes and fell down unwillingly, and Cai Yin shuddered. Urging in a low voice; "Move quickly, if we are discovered by the people in the palace, we won't be able to leave!"

The masked leader nodded, at his signal. One of his subordinates carried the unconscious Duan Ling on his shoulder. A few people walked down the steps to the door of the stone prison. One of them pulled the ring on the stone wall, and as the gears rolled, the stone door was slowly opened again. More than a dozen palace guards dressed in soft armor, expressionless, with bows and arrows drawn, appeared in front of them.

Zhu Yi's eyes narrowed, and he shouted: "Release the arrow!" A dense rain of arrows rang out, shooting the first two people out into hedgehogs.

The masked leader and Zhong Ziyuan happened to walk to the stone gate one after the other. In a hurry, he pulled Zhong Ziyuan behind him, and then waved the steel knife in his hand again and again. Separated several oncoming arrows that glowed with cold light. The rest were shocked. hurriedly hid in the stone prison to avoid this deadly rain of arrows.

Accompanied by this rain of arrows and Zhu Yi's cold voice: "Since you are here, don't hide your head and tail, come out!" ”

"Oops!" Cai Yin's thin back was clinging to the stone wall, and she said in surprise: "How did he wake up so quickly!" ”

I heard Zhu Yi outside laugh fiercely: "Since you don't come out, don't blame this king for being ruthless!" "Does he want to attack? Everyone trapped in the stone prison silently clenched the steel knife in their hands.

"Hold the exit and act when the opportunity comes!" The masked leader whispered. He quietly stretched out his left hand and held Zhong Ziyuan's palm tightly, Zhong Ziyuan could feel his palm a ****, which showed that he was not so calm.

Everyone tensed their nerves and quietly waited for this fierce battle of nine deaths. Cai Yin also picked up a steel knife from the ground and held it sideways in front of him vigilantly. Fortunately, the entrance is extremely narrow and only one person is allowed to pass through at a time. It is really a fortress that cannot be opened, and there are thousands of troops and horses outside, as long as the only entrance is guarded, it can be temporarily safe.

After a long time, there were not countless guards rushing in, but a billowing smoke mixed with the smell of burnt fire poured in from the entrance. "It's hot!" A masked man with his cheek pressed against the stone wall to listen to the movement outside suddenly screamed.

"Oh no, Zhu Yi is already crazy, he actually set fire to us outside, trying to burn us all to death!" Zhong Ziyuan exclaimed.

As if to confirm her words, after a few "puffy" sounds outside, the fire burst out. The soaring orange flames were frantically ****ing the heavy stone door, and at the same time illuminating the dull, frightened, and desperate eyes in the stone prison.

The masked leader stepped forward and slashed the iron chain behind the stone door that pulled the gears and rotated, losing the power of the iron chain, and the stone door "creaked" and slowly closed again, temporarily blocking the choking black smoke and flickering fire.

The atmosphere that was originally tense and about to erupt eased. The mechanism of the stone gate has been destroyed, and it is no longer possible to open it from the outside, and the people inside have been temporarily safe, and everyone can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhong Ziyuan breathed a long sigh of relief, turned her beautiful eyes and quietly looked at the masked leader. saw that his thick eyebrows were frowning tightly, and his expression seemed to be more nervous than before.

"My lord, what should we do next?" Everyone turned their hopeful eyes on the masked leader.

"What else can I do?" The masked leader smiled bitterly and said, "Hurry up and find the second exit, otherwise in an hour, we will all become roast suckling pigs in Piaoxianglou!" ”

"What!" The people who had just breathed a sigh of relief instantly tensed up, and they really felt that the temperature in the stone room was slowly rising, and everyone suddenly became in turmoil.

Seeing this, the masked leader immediately raised his voice and said, "Don't panic. Although the air in this stone prison is stagnant, it is not suffocating, so it can be seen that there is another way out, and it must lead to the outside of the mansion. You may wish to search carefully. As long as we find a way out, we can escape. ”

He didn't need to emphasize it a second time, and everyone rushed to the stone walls and began to search for the second passage in the leader's mouth. For a while, all kinds of "knock knock" knocking sounds rose and fell in the stone prison, so lively.

As time passed, the temperature in the stone dungeon became higher and higher. The people who were trapped were all sweating, anxious, and complaining.

"Damn! Rather than the sac being slowly roasted to death. It's better to rush out and fight, and you can die a happy death! "Someone couldn't stand the pressure and started complaining loudly.

"There's no second exit, let's stay on. It's dead! ”

"Your Excellency. We can't die like this, let's kill it together! ”

"Yes, let's protect you and your wife and kill them together!"

The rising temperature made everyone feel uneasy, and every breath could burn their throats. Their clothes and pants were soaked with sweat and dried by the scorching heat, and their texture became like thin and brittle butterfly wings. It shatters at the slightest touch.

The masked leader has turned a deaf ear to these loud complaints. He was still very patient. Tapping the knife in his hand on each stone wall, and then listening carefully to the echo of each blow.

Zhong Ziyuan's cheeks were also roasted red, like dried shrimp just out of the pot. She still followed him quietly, and when the beads of sweat on his forehead blurred his vision, she would reach out and gently wipe away the disobedient sweat with her sleeve.

The two would occasionally exchange a knowing smile, as if this life-and-death situation was not enough to make them flustered. It is an innate demeanor that only a true fearless person possesses.

It's strange that the two of them are so unhurried and relaxed, and they seem to have infected the emotions of the people around them. The originally restless crowd seemed to have calmed down a lot.

When he hit the leftmost stone wall on the east side of the stone prison, the masked leader's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said in a deep voice: "The temperature of the stone wall here is lower than elsewhere, and the echo when striking is different from other places, the exit must be here!" ”

Everyone rushed over in ecstasy when they heard this, and countless hands banged wildly on the stone wall. In the panic, I don't know who moved the mechanism, and there was a "creaking" sound when the chain pulled the gears, and a dark tunnel gradually appeared in front of everyone.

There was a cool, slightly humid air. "Great, finally able to leave this hellish place!" Everyone was smiling.

Although the masked leader was ecstatic in his heart, his face remained calm. Then he commanded in a deep voice, "You two take the lamp and lead the way." The two of you will carry Duan Ling on their backs, and after the rest of the people are broken, let's set off. ”

In the dim light, the group groped their way forward. The tunnel is not very spacious, but it is not a problem for an adult to walk upright in it.

Under the tunnel are also neat bluestone slabs, Zhong Ziyuan walked and marveled in his heart, such a delicate and huge project is definitely not something that can be completed in one or two years. It seems that Zhu Yi's usurpation heart is really firm.

I don't know how long they walked, but the more they walked, the more they felt that the air became humid and cool. After a long time, the heat of being scorched by the fire has been swept away, and it has been replaced by a biting cold.

Finally, after walking through the long tunnel, a huge underground cavern appeared in front of everyone. The cave was full of those columnar stalagmites, and from time to time droplets of water dripped from them. A rushing underground river flowed happily in the cavern, and the sound of the rushing water could be heard incessantly.

After carefully observing the flow of the underground river, the masked leader said with great certainty: "This underground river is connected to the canal, we want to follow it, and we can see the light of day again!" ”

Everyone was relieved and couldn't help cheering loudly. Cai Yin, who had long been exhausted, sat on the ground with a fart, panting. When they were in the stone prison, everyone was roasted and their mouths were dry, and now when they saw this rushing underground river, some people couldn't help but step forward, pick up the cold river water and send it to their mouths.

"Wait! This water cannot be drunk! Seeing this, Zhong Ziyuan hurriedly stopped it loudly. She remembered in her previous life that she had been to a very famous cave when she was participating in a tour organized by the school. There is also a deep and long underground river, and you can also take a boat ride in it. I remember that the tour guide at that time said that the underground river looked crystal clear, but the mineral content in the water was seriously exceeded, and it was not drinkable at all.

Although the river in front of her was not the underground river she had visited in the previous life, more than one thing was better than one less. After all, everyone is running for their lives now, and it's always right to be vigilant.

Someone had already put the water to his mouth, and after hesitating for a moment, he poured it out. Some people didn't care, and said with a big grin: "Madam is too careful, just drink a few sips of water, it's okay!" He gulped down a lot of money.

Zhong Ziyuan shook her head helplessly, she also squatted down by the river, took out a piece of brocade and dipped it in the cold river water, came to Duan Ling's side, and carefully wiped the dirty blood stains on his face for him.

Stimulated by the icy river water, Duan Ling, who had been in a coma, gradually regained a trace of clarity. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw Zhong Ziyuan with a worried face. His eyes lit up, his throat gurgled for a while, and then he coughed violently.

Zhong Ziyuan hurriedly helped him up, patted him on the back, and comforted him softly: "Don't worry, don't worry, you are safe now!" The masked leader heard the movement and hurried over.

Under Zhong Ziyuan's comfort, Duan Ling's mood gradually calmed down. His eyes began to roll around, and when he met the masked leader's eyes as deep as night, he was stunned at first, and then his eyes lit up.

The masked leader leaned down and said in a deep voice, "Do you have something to say to me?" ”

Duan Ling's expression suddenly became excited, his lips squirmed, and he "babbled" and uttered a few meaningless syllables. The masked leader and Zhong Ziyuan couldn't help but look at each other, and they couldn't understand what he wanted to express at all.

Duan Ling's eyes couldn't help but darken when he saw the doubts on their faces, and then he slowly opened his lips covered with dried blood blisters, revealing the root of his tongue that was half-cut in his mouth and frozen like a puddle of rotten meat.

Zhong Ziyuan and the masked leader couldn't help but gasp, and Zhong Ziyuan muttered: "He's crazy, he's really crazy, and he can't kill people." But he tortured people like this, he was an out-and-out madman! The thought that she had just escaped from the hands of such a madman made her feel secretly afraid.

The masked leader was silent for a moment, put his hand on his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Since you can't say it, use it!" You've been holding out for so long, it's enough, I'll take care of the rest! ”

Duan Ling's dim eyes couldn't help but light up, and he began to move his fingers with difficulty, writing stroke by stroke in the palm of the masked leader. (To be continued.) )