Chapter 42: The Chamber of Secrets
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This downward staircase is not straight but rotated, so it is not clear where it leads underneath, Han Yue took out the dagger in his boot and held it with one hand, and walked into the doorway with a small oil lamp in the other hand, after entering, he did not feel obvious breathlessness or suffocation, there should be a vent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After taking two steps and preparing to go down the steps, he suddenly remembered that the bookshelf had not yet been closed, Han Yue found a small copper ring on the wall on the side of the doorway, and gently pulled it, and the bookshelves on both sides slowly closed behind him, and suddenly only the dim light of the small oil lamp was left in the doorway.
Han Yue strengthened his courage and began to carefully descend to the first step, without triggering any mechanism, but he did not dare to be careless, and every step he must carry a small oil lamp to carefully observe the ground and walls, lest he suddenly fly out of the knife and arrow or step on the air and burp on the spot.
It took a long time for Han Yue to complete the more than fifty steps of the spiral staircase, and made a preliminary estimate that the current location was about two zhang underground.
At the end of the spiral staircase was a stone door, the stone door was ajar, and Han Yue could clearly see the light flickering inside the stone door, it should be the light source emitted by the lantern in the woman's hand just now, or there was a light inside, but the light was a little dazzling.
Han Yue knew that the woman should be inside, maybe her movements had disturbed the other party, she already knew that someone was following her, but it was impossible to turn back at this point, Han Yue blew out the small oil lamp in his hand and put it aside, holding the dagger and slowly approaching the direction of the stone gate.
The more you enter, the more dazzling the light that shines inside, as if something shiny is reflecting, not the brightness that a paper lantern can emit.
Leaning on the side of the stone door, Han Yue did not enter it immediately, but adjusted his breathing while keeping his ears close to the stone door that was not fully opened and listened to the sound inside.
Unfortunately, it was very quiet inside, unusually quiet.
The more this was the case, the more Han Yue didn't dare to be careless.
It was like this for a while, and there was still no reaction inside, Han Yue knew that he couldn't wait any longer, the longer the time dragged on, the more likely he was to be discovered, in case Cui Zuyao entered the study in the middle of the night and went down to this secret room, then it would really be difficult to fly.
He took a breath and activated the qi in his body.
Han Yue rushed in from the open half of the stone gate, but as soon as he entered the stone gate, he was short, curled up in a ball, and a rolling dragon crossed the stone gate.
As soon as he entered the door, he felt a dizziness in his vision, and the harsh light made his eyes uncomfortable for a long time in the dark.
But he didn't have time to adjust to the light inside, so he quickly pulled out his dagger and stabbed it to the left side inside the stone door.
Empty!
Quickly adjust the direction and stab towards the right side of the stone door.
It's still empty!
The series of actions just now were between lightning and flint, and the reason why Han Yue was so judged was that if the woman inside was really waiting for Han Yue to go in and sneak attack him, then it was most likely to hide on both sides and attack his left and right sides when his eyes were forced to open by the dazzling light.
However, Han Yue's judgment ultimately failed.
Because there was no one on the left and right who were ambushing him.
Han Yue immediately leaned down and held the dagger horizontally in front of him to make a defensive posture, then squinted his eyes and slowly opened them to adjust to the sudden glare of light.
When he got used to opening his eyes completely, he was stunned by the scene in front of him!
This is a stone secret room of about a dozen square meters, Han Yue who is squatting in front of the stone door has an unobstructed view, the secret room does not have any windows, there are no other back doors, only a few dark vents on the side walls, and there are two oil lamps on the left and right walls of the secret room, which are not the lanterns that Han Yue judged before.
And it wasn't the oil lamps that gave those glare lights.
It's glittering gold!
There were no ornaments in the stone chamber, only a few large and small chests, and one of the slightly smaller chests that had been opened was filled with golden nudes!
It's shocking.
Although the box containing gold is not as big as the boxes closed next to it, Han Yue estimates that there are at least about 3,000 taels of gold in such a box.
Han Yue, who had never seen so much gold, was suddenly stupid, the 50 taels of gold that Yuan Chonghuan rewarded him a few days ago had already made him lose sleep for a night, and the visual impact of 3,000 taels of gold piled up together was definitely ten times that of 50 taels, no, it should be a hundred times.
Han Yue, who had come back to his senses with difficulty, subconsciously slid his Adam's apple, but he did not forget the original intention and potential danger of his coming in, he restrained his heart with strength, and then began to look for the woman who came in earlier.
There was no doubt that the woman must have been hiding in this room, for it was a secret room, and there was no exit except for the spiral staircase in which it had entered, unless the woman could turn into a fly and fly out of the small vents.
Han Yue's gaze stayed on the large closed boxes, and he could be 100% sure that the woman must be hiding in one of the boxes.
Now Han Yue didn't have any fear in his heart, but he was still a little hesitant, he really didn't want to kill people, especially innocent people, just now when he rolled in, he even stabbed left and right twice just in case he forced the other party back or stabbed the other party, but he knew that he had no choice.
He is not a Holy Father and a, but he is not 100% integrated into this era as a soul of the future, at least there is a line engraved in his heart, and his conscience cannot pass.
I'm not Zuo Liangyu, and I can't do Shi Kefa
In this life, only those who should be killed are killed.
In this life, only those who should be saved are saved.
Han Yue comforted himself like this and admonished himself.
Anyway, force this woman out first and then see the opportunity to act.
In addition to the box full of gold that was opened, there were four other large boxes in the secret room that were closed, but they were not locked, and it was obvious that Cui Zuyao often came down to check them.
Han Yue held the dagger and walked vigilantly to the first box, adjusted his breathing and strength, gently approached the lid with his toes, and then kicked it hard, and with a bang~~~, the lid of the box was kicked open.
No one, but there was a whole box of silver inside!
Han Yue tried his best to hold his breath and concentrate on not being distracted by the whole box of gold and silver, he had really experienced too many things that frightened him today.
The second crate kicked open in the same way, and there was still no one, still a whole crate of silver.
In front of the third box, Han Yue was about to kick open the lid of the box, and before he could lift his feet, suddenly the lid of the box popped open, and then the light flashed, and an unknown object smashed towards him, Han Yue subconsciously waved the dagger to block, and snap~~ The unknown object was suddenly cut and scattered to the ground.
It turned out to be a lantern.
Looking into the box again, she saw a woman with a beautiful face holding a knife in both hands towards Han Yue, but the woman's frightened eyes and rapid breathing betrayed her fear.
"Who are you?"
"Who are you?"
The two asked almost at the same time.