Chapter Twenty-Eight: Trapped in the Sea of Fire
"Quick, pile up over here! Pour pine oil! Outside the side hall, Su Xue'er was directing the palace maid guards to move Chai He, preparing to burn Xue Lingxiao and Qin Zixin to death in the side hall.
"I hope nothing happens to you."
Qin Zixin looked at Xue Lingxiao, who was sweating profusely, and after quickly pulling out the dagger, Qin Zixin pressed the folded sleeves against Xue Lingxiao's wound, and then tied them with strips of cloth.
"Miss Qin, all the doors and windows are sealed, and they can't be opened."
Zhou Ping turned around and found that he couldn't get out of here.
"Ignition."
After giving an order, Su Xue'er led a group of people to walk towards the Vermilion Bird Gate, where she was going to greet Xue Lingjing.
The fire engulfed the entire side hall in an instant along the pine oil poured firewood, and the flames penetrated through the cracks in the doors and windows, like red lotuses in full bloom, enchanting and deadly.
"How's that for good? Come on, open the door! The emperor is inside! ”
Zhou Ping kicked and pounded on the locked door like crazy, looking at the raging flames, Zhou Ping's eyes gradually welled up with despair.
"This time, I really can't escape."
Qin Zixin sat next to Xue Lingxiao weakly, and the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion were all dead, and he would not be lonely when he went underground.
"Miss Qin, wait until the wood of the doors and windows is burned to brittle, I will slam the door open with my body, and you will escape with the emperor." Zhou Ping looked at Qin Zixin quietly with eyes as if he was dying.
"The doors and windows are burned to brittle, will there be a whole thing in this house?" Qin Zixin said lightly, the fire had already burned into the side hall.
Flames danced in Qin Zixin's black pupils, as if they were about to burn her to the ground.
"Miss Qin, are you going to give up?" Zhou Ping also came to Xue Lingxiao's side and sat down, helplessly watching the fire spread.
"I don't want to give up, I also want to kill Su Yuan and Xue Lingjing with my own hands! However, we can't get out, no matter how unwilling we are, what can we do. ”
Qin Zixin clenched his fists tightly, could it really be that he could only wait for the next life to avenge the Prime Minister's Mansion?
"Secret passages, vases."
Xue Lingxiao slowly regained a little consciousness under the scorching heat of the growing fire, he looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the secret passage in this side hall mentioned in the composition of the palace that was stolen along with the defense map.
"Your Majesty, what did you say? What secret passage? After Zhou Ping heard Xue Lingxiao's whisper, hope appeared in his eyes.
"Your Majesty?" Qin Zixin looked at Xue Lingxiao, who knew that he fainted again.
"Zhou Ping, do you know any clues?" Qin Zixin turned to ask Zhou Ping on the side.
"I don't know that I have been on duty by the emperor's side for a long time, but I have never heard of any secret passages or vases." The fire is getting bigger and bigger, Zhou Ping said while protecting Xue Lingxiao.
"It seems that you can only rely on yourself next, Zhou Ping, you take care of the emperor." Qin Zixin said and began to move the ceramic vases in the room one by one.
"It's hot!" Under the scorching heat, the vases became extremely hot, and Qin Zixin wrapped his hands in his long sleeves and continued to move the vase.
"Miss Qin, be careful!" With Zhou Ping's exclamation, a pillar burned and fell, just crushing Qin Zixin's dress.
"Ahh Qin Zixin fell to the ground due to inertia when she was dodging, and her skirt was also torn from her knees.
Qin Zixin grabbed the vase beside him, but the vase did not leave the cabinet, but turned around with Qin Zixin's movements, and the floor tiles next to the bed also moved to both sides, and a blue brick staircase was exposed.
"Found it!" Qin Zixin and Zhou Ping exclaimed at the same time, and Zhou Ping walked down the stairs together with Xue Lingxiao and Qin Zixin on his back.
Turn the vase under the stairs again, and the floor tiles keep the fire out. On the wall next to the stairs, every ten meters away, there is a night pearl that glows warmly.
"It's like an underground palace." Qin Zixin and Zhou Ping came to the end of the stairs, a spacious underground palace.
"I think it was built by the first emperor, or the emperor for emergencies." Zhou Ping put Xue Lingxiao on the tiger skin cushion on the side.
"Miss Qin, you are looking at the emperor here, and you will try to find out if there is any medicine to cure the wounds." Zhou Ping looked at Qin Zixin, who was in a mess, and said, even the injuries on her own body were not healed.
"It's really the way to go." Qin Zixin couldn't help but tremble when she remembered the scene just now, what was the relationship between Su Xue'er and Xue Lingjing, and what happened in the palace?
"Miss Qin, it turns out that there is another world in this underground palace." Zhou Ping walked over with a bunch of medicine bottles and began to help Xue Lingxiao, who had fainted due to excessive blood loss, to take medicine.
"How so?" Qin Zixin was also interested, after all, the walls of the dungeon where they were located were inlaid with a lot of night pearls.
"Out of where my door is, there is another large stone chamber, and there are eight doors in the wall of the stone chamber, and we have nine here." Zhou Ping handed a Night Pearl to Qin Zixin and motioned for her to take it above the wound.