A similar situation occurred between the palace gate and the harem, and the important ministers who were usually trusted by the emperor were taken hostage by the guards, either resisted or captured, and then fell to the ground in a coma like Barnett, and were sent to a remote palace.

The nobles who remained in the previous palace waiting for the audience still did not know what was happening outside, and waited with excitement for the emperor's reception.

In a deep dark room, most of the man's face is submerged in shadows, a concave line in the middle of the man's chin outlines a rigid line, and the wall in front of him flickeres with light and shadow, showing the scenes that are happening in all corners of the court.

After a long time, the man's thin lips exposed in the light moved, and the slightly gloomy low male voice said coldly:

"Heh, the show is about to begin."

After a pause, he tilted his head, "Did you say yes, Father?" ”

"Humph!"

An old man's angry snort came from the shadows.

……

The secret passage is very long, and the trend is generally horizontal and slightly downward, which is different from the upward trend of the upper secret passage along the mountain of Gyonomiya.

He didn't encounter traps all the way, and Lin An understood when he thought about it, if the upper secret passage was an emergency refuge secret passage known to the royal family, then this more secret passage was undoubtedly a spare secret passage that only a few people knew, and this was also the reason why Lin An agreed to take this secret passage:

In comparison, this level is undoubtedly less likely to encounter danger and is more likely to lead to an exit.

After walking for a while, the front suddenly opened up, and it turned out that I had come to a dark room.

The Shadow Lynx looked up and sniffed, and pounced jubilantly into the open space, and followed cheerfully, seemingly calmly.

The unsuspecting attitude of the two made Lin An very relieved, and his eyes wandered and found that it was a rectangular dark room.

In one corner of the dark room was a stone bed, on which there was no bedding, but a few bottles and a dusty bag.

After Lin An's application was tested and there was no poison. After checking the contents of the table, I found that it was mainly some food pills and healing potions, and there were more such bottles in a storage bag placed next to it, which was probably enough for four or five people to eat for a month or two.

In addition to the food balls, there were also some dried dried meat, and the Shadow Lynx and Titi happily shared the food. Lin An rejected Titi's kindness, and Lancet's save was undoubtedly ignored by the two.

See such a rudimentary reserve. Lin Anxin thought that his previous guess was right, this is indeed a spare secret passage unknown to the secret passage system, and it may even be known only to the emperor himself, so the secret passage has no traps and other lines of defense, after all, if this kind of thing exists, it is difficult to say whether it will protect or harm the aging emperor after he dies after fleeing and panicking.

Judging from the preparation in the dark room, the emperor didn't seem to think that it was very possible to use the backup secret passage, after all, if he wanted to use this secret passage to escape. It shows that it has fallen into a desperate situation.

But for Lin An, this is good news, which means that even if they can't find the exit for a while, they are still safe in this secret passage, so Lin An put his mind at ease and continued to move forward.

The secret passage and the dark room are in the "medium" shape, and the three people and one beast continue to walk along the secret passage. Along the way, two similar chambers were encountered.

At this time, Lin An and Lanster's sense of orientation was a little blurred, and they could no longer determine their location, so they could only estimate that the two of them were roughly at the height of the halfway up the mountain of the palace.

There is another dark room, which is basically the same as the previous encounter, but and the Shadow Lynx have lost interest in dried meat, and the Shadow Lynx has turned things around with their claws and left them uninterested.

Lin An and Lancet inertly inspected the dark room and were about to leave. A slightly cool air flow on the left side blew through Lin An's sideburns, and Lin An suddenly stopped and sensed it sideways.

"No, there's a vent here." She said to Ranster in the middle of the voice.

Ranster stopped and sniffed with his snort, "That's right, the air in this darkroom is fresher and more moisture. "He cultivates the fighting qi related to water, and he is more sensitive to this.

It's just that this difference is not big, especially the dark room is the same as the dark room, and this difference is weakened even more, if Lin An doesn't feel the air flow, he won't notice the abnormality.

"Detect the trap."

Several spells flashed, one of which flickered as it touched the stone bed in the corner of the dark room, revealing a square slab of stone that was almost perfectly aligned with the wall near the head of the bed.

No abnormalities were found in the previous few dark rooms, and then there was no more spell detection after that, not because Lin An was careless, but because he was worried that the fluctuation of spell casting would be noticed, after all, although the probability of someone in this secret passage is not large, it is not that there will be no one in the secret passage.

Lin An and Lancet glanced at each other, searched near the head of the bed for a moment, and found a slight friction mark on the part where the stone bed connected to the floor.

"It shouldn't be a trigger trap." Ranster said.

Lin An nodded, signaling Titi and the Shadow Lynx to retreat, Lin An protected himself and Lancet by casting spells, and a layer of blue protective fighting aura also appeared on Lancet's body.

He then pressed the mechanism on the side wall, and the stone bed made a slight grinding sound and slid along the wall to one side, revealing a square depression hidden under the stone bed.

This depression was only a little bigger than the basin, less than calf deep, and the side walls on all sides were lined with dense copper pipe mouths, and there were forty-eight of them when counted, and the air flow that Lin An felt should have come from here.

Before he could check it carefully, one of the copper pipe mouths suddenly lit up, and a male voice came out of the copper pipe, and Lin An and Lanster shook slightly at the same time.

“…… It seems that the actors are already in place...... You see, these favored servants on whom you have relied have easily fallen into my trap. ”

"Humph! What the hell do you want me to see! An old man's cold voice came.

"What a scene...... Don't worry, there's still a long way to go. The deep male voice said lightly.

The voice in the brass echoed in the dark room, transmitting the conversation between the two people who did not know how far away into the dark room, and after a short conversation, the brass was quiet for a long time.

It wasn't until it was a little difficult to breathe that Lin An realized that she had been holding her breath for a long time, she took a long breath and glanced at Lancet, there was an unbelievable look on her handsome face, Lin An didn't know what her expression was at this time. But it is believed that it is not far from Ranster's:

Ever since they entered the secret passage and found that it had been changed, they had already been mentally prepared, and they would not be too surprised to meet the emperor or Odin.

But I found that the two were in the same room, and judging from the conversation, they were still safe for a while. This inevitably subverted the previous imagination of the two.

Lin Anxin was even more turbulent at this time!

Not to mention the destructive power of these powerful men who protected the Emperor and where the help Odin had found. And the Imperial Palace, which seems to be relatively quiet for the time being, the meaning behind this contradictory situation is inevitably shocking.

Just figuring out who had the upper hand between the emperor and Odin made Lin An's mind a mess:

It seems that Odin has the upper hand in the situation, otherwise he would be killing himself if he appeared here at this time;

Even if he has the upper hand now, it is still very dangerous to not only not leave the palace but rashly appear in front of the emperor. After all, Odin has hole cards, and the emperor will only have more hole cards - especially if Lin An guessed correctly, the most important hole card in the emperor's hand is enough to give him a chance to turn the situation around at any time.

In Lin An's view, even if Odin is crazy, he is also a very rational madman. Every step he made had his intentions, even if Lin Anxin hated him to the core, he would not lower his evaluation of Odin because of hatred.

As an heir who has been carefully cultivated by the emperor for many years, his understanding of the emperor will only be deeper than Lin An's, and he will not fully grasp the things that Lin An can speculate. At least it will be guarded against, the reason why Lin An was sure that Odin should have left the palace was based on this foundation.

After all, once this chess game comes to the time of the soldiers, the emperor will never show mercy, because the reason why this chess game has evolved into this situation is to fight quickly, the emperor seems to have been on the defensive of tolerance, but if he does not make a move, it will be an absolute thunderbolt, and he will not allow Odin to have any chance to turn over.

An unknown Odin, who can attack, retreat, or even go into exile abroad to raise a comeback, how good is it to hide his whereabouts, and how bad it is to expose his whereabouts.

But Lin An doesn't think that Odin is a fool, what she can think of, Odin won't not understand, but since he appeared, there must be some reason to drive him, or there is a way to eliminate the disadvantage of exposing his whereabouts.

"His Majesty seems to be constrained, as if he has some scruples." Lancet said to Lin An.

Lin An nodded, which could also be heard from the conversation just now, Odin seemed to be in control of the situation, and the emperor seemed to be passive.

Although after entering the secret passage, Lin An didn't know the situation on the ground, but it was obvious that something seemed to have changed above, but the copper pipe only had a sound and no effect, and they didn't even know the location of the emperor and Odin and how many people were around them, let alone know the situation on the ground.

The only thing to be thankful for is that no one should have discovered their existence yet, and they luckily discovered the position of the most critical two people in this chess game, Lin An simply suspected that he had been favored by the goddess of luck, and he planned to live up to this favor and wait for the opportunity to move.

Behind them, Titi and the Shadow Lynx were quiet all the time.

The Shadow Lynx was prostrate on the ground, its two front paws in front of it, its fluffy tail swaying leisurely, completely unaffected by the tense and solemn atmosphere of Lin An and Lancet.

Titi silently squatted behind Lin An to listen, his eyes flashed brightly, because of the soul contract, he had been intuitively receiving Lin An's emotional changes, and at this time, he seemed to be able to guess what Lin An wanted, the eyes exposed by the black armor mask suddenly lit up, and a beam of purple light hit the wall.

Then, Lin An and Lanster saw that the illuminated wall suddenly became transparent.

The thick walls of the cave seemed to become a transparent three-dimensional structural diagram, and the purple light zigzagged upwards with the copper pipe buried in the wall, extending deeper into the cave wall until it was connected to a dark chamber at the end of the copper pipe.

(To be continued)

ps：

Thank you Lei** Lei for the big pink ticket! o(n_n)o~

Regarding Odin and the emperor being together and being at peace for the time being, it will be explained later.

The current situation is roughly divided into three layers: one is the general situation on the ground, one layer is the emperor and Odin in the first layer of secret passages, and finally Lin An and Lancet are located in the lower layer.