Chapter 147: Murder
Heavily armed Praetorian Guard soldiers surrounded the two, and Julian drew his sword at his waist.
Shi Zhengyang looked around, observing the movements of the enemies in the hall, and secretly gathered the internal force into his hands, and the situation was extremely tense at this time.
"Lay down your arms!" The commander of the soldiers said coldly: "Your Royal Highness, please do not disobey the king's orders!" ”
"The King's Command?" Julian sneered, "Where did the king come from?" The one sitting on the chair? ”
"It's still hard to die!" As he spoke, the regent laughed: "Lay down your arms, maybe I will spare your life, and since the people like you so much, show them your guilt, and the perfect image you have so hard built will collapse." ”
"If you are engaged in a public trial, you traitor who colluded with the barbarians will be infamous for ten thousand years...... A prince would collude with a barbarian, hahaha....... The Lord Regent laughed, and his beard began to shake.
"Mu Lan and the others are also besieged, so we can only rely on ourselves." Shi Zhengyang was on guard against the approaching soldiers, and whispered to Julian.
Compared with Shi Zhengyang's nervous expression, Julian was much calmer, and he said softly: "You will come with me in a while......"
"Catch what you can live." The Lord Regent said, "Do it! ”
As soon as the regent's words fell, the soldiers rushed up, Shi Zhengyang reacted faster, he used his concentrated qi punch to directly release the internal force in his body, and swept down several soldiers in front of him with one punch, Julian took the opportunity to run to the edge of the wall and touched it on the velvet.
Even if it wasn't in its heyday, Shi Zhengyang was not something that these Praetorian Guard soldiers could match, and the biggest threat was the royal mage group, these magicians began to chant incantations, and in a moment several magic attacks attacked Shi Zhengyang.
Shi Zhengyang had no choice but to use Tiangang Righteous Qi to block it, but the attack of several magic missiles was too violent, and he heard a crisp click on his body.
didn't have time to think about what was going on, Shi Zhengyang barely survived this round of attacks, he looked back at Julian, and said eagerly: "How is it!" ”
Because Shi Zhengyang blocked in front of Julian and attracted all the firepower, there was no one on Julian's side to attack, but he didn't help but did very strange actions.
"What is he doing?" The regent muttered to himself in confusion.
Julian crouched down and touched the velvet on the wall, along the east side to the west side, behaving in a particularly strange manner, and the regent first wondered and then thought of something, and said loudly: "He's looking for the basement, stop him!" ”
Julian suddenly felt a tiny bump and couldn't help but smile, "This is it!" ”
Hercules Palace was one of his favorite rooms as a child, with its soft velvet walls and oil portraits of his most admired ancestors, the heroic demeanor of galloping horses has always attracted him as a child, and finding the secret mechanism to open the underground bunker is also one of his childhood memories.
Boys at that age always had a particularly strong desire for adventure, and this dark and endless underground passage was naturally engraved in his heart.
The underground passages below the palace were particularly complex, and only the old king had complete structural drawings, and it was clear that the regent was unaware of the secret passages in Hercules Hall.
With a thud, a crack opened in the velvet-covered wall, followed by the sound of machinery and gears turning, and the wall slowly opened, revealing Julian's childhood memories of the dark underground passageway.
"Captain Stone!" Julian shouted back.
"Come now!" Shi Zhengyang was using the corpse of the Praetorian Guard to block the magic attack, and when he heard Julian's voice, he immediately turned around and ran backwards, jumping into the secret passage the moment Julian closed the switch.
"You bunch of shit!" The regent scolded angrily, pointing to the wall and roaring, "Go and chase me!" Julian must be caught! ”
The royal mage group didn't expect the boiled duck to fly away, so they cursed secretly, and then rushed to the edge of the wall, groping for the mechanism to open the secret passage.
Fortunately, they didn't look for too long, and Julian's actions just now couldn't be hidden, so after a while, someone found a hidden bulge under a corner, and then pressed it gently, and the secret door of the secret passage slowly opened again, and two looming fires flickered in the dark passage.
"That's a torch! Where are they! The leader of the royal mage group was an old man, and he pointed to the dark passage, and the rest of the mages swarmed in.
"Chase!"
A chase ensued between the Royal Mages and Julian, an underground passage interspersed with countless passages, and the distant glow of fire undoubtedly provided a target for those who tracked it.
Julian didn't know much about the secret passage, he had been lost in it when he was a child, and his father Layton II sent troops to search him and finally found him, and after being punished, he naturally didn't dare to enter again, so he ran in it almost aimlessly.
The footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, and Julian had to force himself to speed up, but with the old man's magic concussion, the entire secret passage trembled like an earthquake, and he was knocked to the ground by a force.
This rudimentary magic wasn't very lethal, but it worked in this kind of scene, and Julian just wanted to get up and continue to run when he found that the pursuers behind him had already approached him.
Several magicians surrounded Julian, seeing that they chanted spells and wanted to continue the attack, Julian knew that there was no way to dodge, and shrugged helplessly, signaling that he would not resist anymore.
"Stop!" The old man immediately spoke, and the magicians stopped the magic release, and the Praetorian Guard soldiers surrounded him, and they tied Julian with ropes.
"Now it's time to make a difference." The old man breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw that the second prince had stopped resisting, he looked into the depths of the secret passage again, "That guard of his is gone?" ”
In the depths of the secret passage, he couldn't see his five fingers, and Shi Zhengyang's figure had long since disappeared, but the old man didn't care, the regent's goal was only one, that is, this second prince who was tied up.
"Oh?" When the regent saw Julian who was escorted out, he couldn't contain the smile on the corner of his mouth, and waved his hand: "Don't care about the rest of you, just continue to send troops to search for it." ”
"You're still the same as when you were a kid."
The Lord Regent looked at Julian, who had fallen to his knees under the stairs, and he did not even lift his head now, perhaps in shame or daring to look at him.
The regent was in a good mood, and with an inexplicable smile, he walked up to Julian, patted him on the shoulder with a victorious gesture, and said, "Little Julian, who has not grown up, still run away when something happens,"
Julian turned his head to the side in disdain, and as if he did not admit defeat, the regent Wan'er summoned the attendant and ordered, "Take it to prison." ”