Chapter 259: The Underground Secret Passage
"Why did the Zhang family suddenly disappear?Even if such a big family moves overnight, there will be some movement, are you really not aware at all?Where will they go?" Gu Yue asked the old man in front of him with some eagerness.
"I don't know. The old man shook his head: "I really didn't hear any movement at all, I usually sleep lightly, and any sound will wake me up." But that night I slept so deeply that I didn't hear a sound. I remember the night before I sent a few jars of my own wine to their house, and they were very happy to have dinner with me, but when I woke up the next morning and passed by his door, I found that the door of his house was wide open, and there was no one in the building, and even some valuable things in the house had been removed. ”
"How many people were in their family at the time?"
"There are a total of twenty-three people, including the old and the young, and the Zhang family has prospered for so many years. ”
"Are the Zhang family all married girls from their own village? They disappeared together, didn't the mother's family come to look for them?"
"No, none of the Zhang family is from this village, their family often goes out from time to time for a period of time, all the Zhang family's daughters-in-law are married back from outside, and we have not seen the maiden family of these girls. ”
"Don't you think it's strange that such a large family suddenly disappeared so inexplicably, and no one thought to call the police to look for them?"
"No, we were also very worried about what would happen, but then the village chief came and said that the Zhang family had told him in advance that they would move, but we didn't expect it to be so sudden. In addition, we see that there are no traces of fighting in this house, and it does not look like it was taken captively. Later, I went home and carefully calculated the date my grandfather told me, and the Zhang family started counting on the day Zhang Xiaohu entered the village, and it was exactly a hundred years to the day he suddenly disappeared, and it was not bad for a day. Since their house is so magical, it is not surprising that it suddenly disappeared, so we didn't think about calling the police. ”
"Village chief, does he know the truth about the Zhang family's departure overnight?"
"No, the village chief doesn't know, but half a month before they left, the Zhang family had mentioned to the village chief that they were going to move out recently, hoping that if there was no one at home, the village chief could help guard the house for a period of time, don't let anyone touch the things in this house, don't step into the Zhang family, if the Zhang family hasn't come back in three years, this house will be at the disposal of the village chief. It's just that they didn't want to say why they moved away, and the village chief didn't take it to heart as a joke. ”
"I see, thank you, uncle, we're going to leave too. Since he couldn't get any useful clues here, Gu Yue got up and said goodbye.
Gu Yue and Bai Lao were worried about causing a misunderstanding during the day, so they didn't dare to make any moves, but hid in a hidden place outside the village. It wasn't until the evening that the two came back and sneaked into the Zhang family compound to investigate, the two walked in the courtyard with their hidden figures, searched every room in the compound and found no valuable clues, until finally found some clues in a hidden corner of the backyard.
As soon as Gu Yue entered this room, he found something unusual, this room looked like an ancestral hall, and there was a table in it, and there were some tributes and incense ashes on the table. Gu Yue didn't know what was enshrined, because everything else had been removed, but there was a slight energy fluctuation on the ground in this room.
This energy fluctuation is slight and almost undetectable, if it weren't for Gu Yue's high mind and delicate thoughts, this would have been missed.
After seeing this slight energy fluctuation, Gu Yue stepped forward curiously to check it. Finding that it came out under the floor, Gu Yue hurriedly turned the energy in his body into a knife to pry the floor up, and found that there was an underground entrance below. But it was blocked by a seal.
"Hehe, fortunately, I was curious to lift the floor and take a look, otherwise I would have been deceived by you. Do you still want to stump me with this little seal?" Gu Yue suddenly smiled when he saw this seal and muttered to himself.
I saw Gu Yue stretch out his hand into a claw-shaped, and five subtle energy came out of Gu Yue's fingers and passed into the five directions of the seal, he controlled these energies to move carefully on the seal, and found five weak points respectively, and then the five points suddenly broke out at the same time, and the seal exploded at once.
Now Gu Yue in this realm has reached the point of great ingenuity, no longer need to be as careful as others to find the crack point and break the seal little by little, with the strength of his energy, the profundity of the realm, has reached the level of direct brute force cracking, Gu Yue can completely guarantee that he will only destroy the seal and not destroy anywhere else.
"What's the matter!?" Bai Lao searched in other rooms, and was alarmed by the sudden sound of energy explosion from Gu Yue's place, and hurriedly ran over to check.
"Nothing, just a secret passage. Gu Yue smiled lightly and said to Bai Lao.
"Oh, is there such a thing, go down and see it?" Bai Lao asked in surprise.
"No, isn't there a seal that has just been broken? Let's go down and have a look. Gu Yue said that he jumped down the secret passage first, and Bai Lao followed closely behind.
This is the so-called art master boldness, and I am afraid that ordinary people will be in danger of going down. will leave someone to answer on it, and with the strength of Bai Lao and Gu Yue, it is impossible for anyone in the entire Yellowstone Continent to beat these two together, so the two of them are not afraid of anything and enter the secret passage together.
The two of them walked through this three-meter-high underground passage, and they didn't feel depressed at all, but they could imagine how big this place was. As the secret passage zigzagged and extended, the two of them walked far before their eyes suddenly became clear.
There are countless lamps on the walls on both sides of this underground passage, and the lights illuminate the place as if it were daytime. Just as Gu Yue and Bai Lao walked around a corner, a huge space suddenly appeared in front of them.
I saw that this was a cylindrical space with a diameter of several tens of meters. The two of them were on the wall of the cylindrical space, this space extended more than ten kilometers downward, and there was a circle of stairs around the cylindrical outer wall, and there were countless passages and entrances on the huge wall of this cylindrical space, and they didn't know where they led.
"I'm afraid it's not as simple as we think. Gu Yue looked at Bai Lao with wide eyes. Both of them couldn't hide the shock on their faces, it seemed that an underground fortress of this scale was definitely not something that twenty-three people could complete, it seemed that there was a huge secret hidden behind this Zhang family!