Chapter 421: The Palace is Secret
It is not the first time that Xiao Yao has visited King Miao Xingyuan at night, but this is the first time to go deep into King Miao Palace, which is not at all like Qincha Xingyuan, which is just transformed from a row of bamboo buildings.
King Miao's palace is built on the mountain, and the whole palace is in the deepest part of the line, and it is also the highest point of the line. The more important the part, the more it extends towards the top of the mountain, Xiao Yao has been to this palace a few times before, but it is confined to a certain area, and he has never penetrated into the palace.
This side courtyard is almost on the edge of the palace, and then out is the barren mountain that has not yet been cultivated, the courtyard is surrounded by a bamboo fence, and every thirty paces around the perimeter, a simple sentry is set up, and from time to time there are guards patrolling around with torches.
In the dark, Xiao Yao has found no less than five secret sentinels, hidden in the corner of the bamboo building in the courtyard, full of Miao soldiers dressed in black. Such a warning of Cheng dù, even in the main hall of King Miao, is not so exaggerated, so it shows that the secret hidden here must be extremely important to King Miao.
After carefully observing the surrounding patrols and secret sentinels, Xiao Yao quietly went around to the side of the courtyard near the inside of the palace, these Miao soldiers obviously strengthened the patrol at the border between the side courtyard and the surrounding wasteland, so as to prevent outsiders from breaking in, but they were obviously much lax on the side of the Miao Palace.
Time is limited, Xiao Yao can't wait for the opportunity slowly, this place is dangerous after all, the eldest lady and Hu Yiyi are still waiting for him to go back in the firewood room.
Taking advantage of the moment the patrolling soldiers turned around, Xiao Yao immediately dodged and rolled over from a bamboo fence, and then hid next to a bamboo building.
Since falling into the realm, Xiao Yao has become more and more cautious, and after encountering many half-step transformation realm masters, he feels that there must be many unknown masters hidden in Miao Jiang. The Zhong family has a half-step transformation realm master, then the Wei family and the Wu family may also have it, and the Witch God Temple, which is more powerful than the Ghost Dao, is only afraid that it will be better in terms of the number of masters.
Ghost Face once said to himself that the Witch Clothes Sect does not have a master of the half-step transformation realm, even if it is a master who has entered the gathering of qi into a blade, but the Poison Dragon Sect, as the number one faction in Miao Jiang, may not have a master of the half-step transformation realm, but it is not convenient for him to ask Hu Yiyi directly.
On the other hand, Miao Wang and others, who are the four major toasts, are also very likely to have masters like zài around them. At this moment, this place is heavily guarded, and maybe there will be a half-step transformation realm master sitting in charge.
Xiao Yao carefully calculated the time of the changing of the guard of the patrol soldiers, and looked around, looking for other opportunities to further penetrate into the courtyard.
After evading several patrol soldiers, Xiao Yao sneaked into the backyard.
This side courtyard was originally a three-way courtyard, Xiao Yao had quietly come to the middle courtyard at this time, near the edge of the innermost fence, the outer two layers of the courtyard were mainly these patrol soldiers, and no other special groups of people were seen, and Miao Wang actually arranged nearly three hundred soldiers around the two layers of courtyards.
It seems that his goal is in the innermost courtyard.
Creeping in the dark corner, Xiao Yao had already sensed a familiar aura.
This last courtyard is not very large, only about ten zhang square, and in the middle is a black tiled house, which looks like it is some years old.
The four sides of the surrounding city are surrounded by a circle of bamboo buildings in all directions, these bamboo buildings are very simple, the first floor is mostly hollowed, and the second floor is used for guard, some soldiers are stationed on it, but these people did not light any torches, they are all with the help of moonlight and starlight to discern the surrounding situation.
Outside the bamboo building is the fence of the last courtyard, and there are nearly fifty guards standing around the bamboo building, these people are just guarding the place, but no one is walking around and patrolling, all of them are facing the outside, and no one looks at the tiled house inside.
Tong Guò observed that even when the soldiers were tired, they rested on the pillars, and no one walked in the direction of the tiled houses inside the bamboo building, and no one came out of the tiled houses.
If the Divine Doctor had been here, he would have only been in the tiled house in the middle. It's just that there are so many soldiers guarding it, what is the secret inside? Xiao Yao carefully observed the distribution of soldiers while thinking about countermeasures.
A feudal lord like King Miao, Xiao Yao never believed that he would be a clean old man, many bloody scenes could happen in this world, and King Miao, the old fox, was definitely not a benevolent lord.
Xiao Yao's patient waiting finally came to an opportunity.
A black cloud blocked the crescent moon, and the surroundings were instantly pitch black, and the five fingers could not be seen. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiao Yao floated like a ghost through the hollow under the bamboo building and took refuge outside the tiled house.
Xiao Yao almost raised his speed to the extreme, from breaking through the fence, to rushing through the bamboo building, and then to the outside of the tiled wall, almost in one go, in an instant, without making any sound, let alone any pause.
Outside the tiled walls, the figure was hidden in the darkness, but the familiar aura became more and more obvious.
What surprised Xiao Yao even more was that he felt that there seemed to be a voice calling for him in this tiled house, and the qi and blood on his body seemed to have become much more active.
This inexplicable familiarity and excitement made Xiao Yao more careful. I know this is not a good place.
To be precise, this is not an ordinary tiled house. There were only walls and roofs around the house, not even windows, and the place where the door was left was also empty, with only one door frame.
The house looked to be hundreds of years old, the walls had begun to peel off, there were many cracks, and there was a faint green glow in the room, almost the only light in the room.
The light was so dim that it was almost impossible to illuminate with it.
Could it be that the miracle doctor is here?
However, there is one thing that strengthens Xiao Yao's judgment. At this time, the faint smell of blood emanating from the tiled house could be faintly smelled.
This is the place that attracted Hu Yiyi's black Gu worms to fly, even if there was no miracle doctor, Xiao Yao couldn't help but go in and take a look.
Settle your mind and silently run a little Zhou Tian's carefree heart method, and the qi and blood that were a little excited just now immediately stabilized.
Xiao Yao quietly walked around to the location of the door, there was obviously a wooden door here before, because of the age, the wooden door has rotted, and now only this rotten door frame remains.
What surprised Xiao Yao in his heart was that in such a heavily guarded place, King Miao didn't even repair a wooden door? There's got to be weird!
The room was very quiet, there was no unusual sound, just standing at the door, I felt that the smell of blood was stronger.
Xiao Yao dodged and entered the room.
The room was empty, the surrounding walls were so dark that it was impossible to see the exact appearance, and in the center of the room was a square table, and under the table was a stone platform, from which a faint green light shone out. After careful identification, it was also found that the smell of blood in the air was also emanating from this stone platform.
This stone platform immediately attracted Xiao Yao's attention, and the familiar feeling still seemed to come from this.
Walking to the square table, Xiao Yao finally saw the scene in front of him.
Under the square table is not a stone platform at all, but a well.
The square table was just above the wellhead, and there was a circular notch in the center of the table, but it was covered with a piece of linen.
Xiao Yao carefully looked around again, and his left hand had just reached above the wellhead, when he suddenly stretched out a hand from the darkness on the opposite side, grabbing Xiao Yao's arm like an iron pincer.
Xiao Yao was shocked from the bottom of his heart.
I had carefully inspected this room twice before, and it was clear that there was no one, and now I still couldn't see any figure on the opposite side of me, but at this moment, I stretched out this abrupt arm out of thin air to hold myself!
Xiao Yao withdrew his left hand with force, but easily broke free from the restraints of that arm. And when Xiao Yao withdrew his left hand, that arm magically disappeared like a ghost.
Xiao Yao really felt the feeling of being caught by the ghost hand just now, although the light in the room was too dim to see the specific situation, but at this time, the "ghost hand" disappeared out of thin air, which shocked Xiao Yao again.
This is almost the weirdest situation Xiao Yao has encountered so far, but Xiao Yao doesn't want to leave like this, the "master" of that hand obviously has no intention of arresting him, and he didn't even shout loudly to inform the guards outside, then he still has a chance to find out this qiē!
Xiao Yao carefully looked at the surrounding situation again, but still didn't find anything, 'Huh? It's really evil! Then try again! Xiao Yao stretched out his left hand again, this time preparing to uncover the sackcloth, and sure enough, just like just now, the "ghost hand" once again stretched out opposite him like a ghost, holding Xiao Yao's wrist, the speed was very fast, Xiao Yao didn't have any time to dodge.
And Xiao Yao immediately stretched out his right hand, wanting to grab the "ghost hand".
However, Xiao Yao's idea fell through again. The other hand held Xiao Yao's right hand again.
Xiao Yao tried to move his hands, but found that he couldn't move at all, and tried to withdraw again, but there was still no obstacle.
Weird!
The creature didn't attack himself or try to catch him, but only prevented himself from touching the burlap or the well under the square table.
Curiosity once again drove Xiao Yao to decide to make a third attempt!
This time, Xiao Yao took off the folding fan from his waist, held it in his hand, and then walked towards the linen.
The ghost hand immediately appeared out of thin air again, grasping the folding fan.
Seeing this, Xiao Yao quickly reached out with his left hand and stretched it forward. Sure enough, another ghost hand appeared again and grabbed Xiao Yao's left hand.
At this time, Xiao Yao really let go of his right hand holding the folding fan, took advantage of the situation, pinched the corner of the linen, and pulled it away from the well.
Hmph, Xiao Yao chuckled in his heart, I really thought you had three heads and six arms.
And at the moment when Xiao Yao pulled out the sackcloth, the two ghost hands suddenly let go of Xiao Yao and disappeared into the darkness out of thin air. The folding fan fell directly from the wellhead.
Xiao Yao was about to grab the folding fan, but suddenly found that one end of the folding fan had fallen into the wellhead, while the other end was still leaking outside and no longer falling. It seems to be holding on to something, but it doesn't fall upright, which is really strange.
At this time, Xiao Yao finally understood the reason why the soldiers outside never paid attention to the inside of this tiled house.
Xiao Yao saw the scene inside the wellhead thoroughly.