"There are two places in the Snapdragon Society's secret prison, one is quiet, gloomy and damp, and the darkness is enough to make people mad here, and the other is ......"

The older guard thought for a while, and as soon as he spoke, Ruoxi hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Where is the other secret prison?"

"A... Places related to the murals. The older guard looked into her eyes and said mysteriously.

"Something to do with the mural?" Ruoxi frowned and repeated puzzled. Inadvertently, she turned her head outward, and by the dim light of the candle outside the prison door, she was immediately attracted by the huge relief shadow that loomed on the stone wall, and she hurriedly ran towards it.

When the older guard saw this, he reached out and picked up the oil lamp next to him, and followed him.

On the side, Wang Er, who had now recovered a lot of physical strength, hurriedly glanced around, and then walked quickly towards the place where there was a faint light in the distance.

"Where are you going? It's dangerous here, come back quickly! Seeing this, Lan Xiang helped Yan'er, who was still a little weak, and shouted at her back anxiously.

It didn't take long for him to find several oil lamps, and Wu handed one each to Yan'er and Lanxiang, and said angrily: "It turns the corner, and it is very brightly lit!" Isn't this lamp for the sake of light, but for the ghosts? ”

As he spoke, the three of them stepped forward to help.

With the sparks that gathered together, Ruoxi's surroundings were instantly lit up, and she saw clearly the strange environment around her.

It turned out that the bottom of the grotto was about a few zhang high from the ground where they had just slid down from the green bamboo forest in the back garden of the East Garden, and the stone pillars that supported the grotto were carved with the pattern of the flying dragon in the sky, showing the supreme and majestic. Coupled with the relief murals on the stone wall that appear in front of you at this moment, the underground prison built by this grotto is extremely mysterious.

Ruoxi looked around in the same place in surprise, and finally fixed her eyes on the mural in front of her to look at it carefully, but she couldn't help frowning instantly and stared at her with a pair of beautiful eyes, so she asked the elderly guard who was holding an oil lamp to come up to illuminate it: "What did you say... Is this the mural? ”

Before she could respond, she couldn't help but reach out with a trembling hand, and gently probed the cold, shocking and breathtaking relief painting inch by inch.

In the corner of this mural, a group of old and weak women and children are carved and curled up in a pile with their heads on their knees, looking dressed as neither eunuchs nor ordinary civilians, but they are all powerless. Among them, there is a young woman dressed as a maid holding a baby girl in her arms, still in swaddling clothes, sucking her chubby fingers. In front of them, there was a group of soldiers and fierce men wearing battle clothes and armor, with hideous faces, raising their swords and trying to put them on the top of their heads.

Seeing this, Ruoxi said angrily and puzzledly: "Who are these people?" It was so cruel that even these defenseless old and weak women and children were not spared

。 ”

The older guard didn't speak, just sighed, and then moved the oil lamp in his hand back, Ruoxi hurriedly leaned over, and saw that under the trampling of those horses' hooves, there were lying all over the ground or civilians, or the corpses of soldiers in their prime, and their deaths were different, which made people shudder for a while.

Ruoxi was shocked, she looked at the older guard beside her and was stunned for a moment, and she excitedly snatched the oil lamp in his hand, and looked at it one by one, but the more she looked down, the more confused she became, and she didn't know why.

Not far behind the majestic, high-spirited, brave and ferocious soldiers and horses, a majestic and tall city gate appeared. However, what was surprising was that the gate was left unguarded, and it was left open at will.

Through the murals, you can see that the whole city and outside the city obviously have thousands of miles of undulating rivers and mountains, and the vast rivers and lakes, but at this time, it seems to be an empty city, and there is no one everywhere, and there is a dead silence.

"Wait, what is this?" Just as she was wondering and about to move the oil lamp she was holding up in her hand to continue looking down, she suddenly seemed to have found something, so she hurriedly retreated and looked carefully into the city.

This time, she finally widened her eyes and saw the situation inside the city clearly. It turned out that what was rising was not the smoke of the cooking, but the billowing smoke that filled many places, and even mixed with some raging fires, and corpses that were not easy to detect in the faint light, but more of them looked like the tragic scene of starvation all over the ground. On the tall mast in front of the city gate, there were still a few unbelievable dried corpses.

Looking at all this, Ruoxi was stunned. I thought about it secretly, but all of them were puzzled, and it seemed that I couldn't explain anything, so I looked at the face of the older guard, and said with a very sad and indignant look:

"What the hell is going on in this city? Could it be that the group of trembling old and weak women and children outside the city, are they the only few people left who escaped from this city? And who are these soldiers? Is it from that empty city like these people? Or was it the other side that ransacked the city? And the city itself, which seems to be in good weather, but how can so many people starve to death? Everywhere is like a war-torn purgatory! ”

At this time, the elder guard took the oil lamp in Ruoxi's hand, shone it on the subject of the mural, and said, "Look at the title of this mural."

"Open the sky... Reclamation? Ruoxi then followed his instructions and looked over, and as soon as he saw the relief words of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing, he frowned deeply and said sarcastically: "It's ridiculous, I don't know why the person who made this mural would be so named, this is obviously it."