Chapter 357: True or False?
"How does this story end?" Zhao Lingxi watched the girl's gaze gradually change, and her tone became meaningful, "I think you should know the ending of the story, even if the ending hasn't happened yet!" β
He thought to himself that since it was Ling Wanrou who asked the girl to find him, it meant that Ling Wanrou had predicted the final outcome of the matter by relying on divination, so she would let the girl bring the ending to make a deal with him.
"Commander Zhao is really an understanding person," the girl smiled lightly, and said unhurriedly: "One cannot accommodate two souls, Miss Wei will live if Miss Wei dies, Xiao Guifei will live, and Miss Xiao Guifei will die if Miss Wei dies, so the final outcome isββ"
"What is it?" Zhao Lingxi asked eagerly.
The girl replied, "Concubine Xiao is alive, and Miss Wei is dead." β
Zhao Lingxi subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this ending - fortunately, it was Xiao Guifei who was alive!
It's just that he is suspicious by nature, and although he vaguely guessed the girl's intention to come to him, he still slowly regained his composure and deliberately said nonchalantly: "It's just a story." β
"Whether it's a story or not, Commander Zhao should know very well in his heart." The girl was still smiling, and said to Zhao Lingxi unhurriedly: "Whether I am talking about the story or not, Commander Zhao will know as long as he goes to the underground palace in the story." β
After she finished speaking, she said goodbye to Zhao Lingxi with a smile, and after walking a few steps, she suddenly turned back to Zhao Lingxi and said, "Commander Zhao, the person you have been looking for is in the underground palace, don't you want to meet her?" β
Don't you want to meet her?
This sentence circled in Zhao Lingxi's mind like a magic spell, making him enter the palace by ghost, all the way to the entrance to the underground palace in the back garden.
He looked at the hidden underground palace in a daze, and his thoughts returned to the day of the palace change......
On that day, the Eighth Prince and others suddenly launched a palace mutiny, and because the situation was critical, he urgently needed to ask for help from the outside, and as a close confidant of Emperor Wu, he got a strange token.
The token is not the same as the various tokens commonly used in the palace, with a hundred birds engraved on the front and a phoenix in the center, and a phoenix flying in the fire on the reverse.
Emperor Wu solemnly handed him the token and told him a secret entrance hidden in the Imperial Garden.
Emperor Wu asked him to enter through the secret entrance with a token in hand, go to a dungeon hidden under the palace, and quietly leave the palace from the secret passage leading to the outside of the imperial city from the dungeon, and go to the Fengtai camp for help.
At that time, Emperor Wu drew a simple road map for him, and asked him to press the token on the groove of the secret door of the underground palace first, and if the token and the groove match, the secret door will be opened smoothly, otherwise the mechanism will be activated!
Emperor Wu instructed him to enter the labyrinth, go straight to the first three forks, choose the rightmost fork, and then go straight all the way to the end to get out of the palace.
Zhao Lingxi remembered that Emperor Wu had vaguely warned him at that time, telling him to only take the rightmost road, and not to take the other two roads, otherwise he would see things that he shouldn't see, know secrets that he shouldn't know, and even probably die in the underground palace!
Zhao Lingxi is not a curious person, he never explores things that have nothing to do with him, and he has always been meticulous in implementing Emperor Wu's will to the end.
Therefore, although he was able to enter the underground palace that day, he acted according to Emperor Wu's instructions all the way, and he didn't even look carefully at the underground palace that obviously hid secrets.
Now that he learned that the person he had been looking for was likely to be trapped in the dungeon, he couldn't help but regret that he didn't take the opportunity to investigate when he entered the dungeon that day, even if he took a closer look, he was likely to find some clues!
Zhao Lingxi's gaze at the entrance of the underground palace was heavy and floating, and many thoughts flashed in his heart - was the story that Ling Wanrou sent someone to tell him really true?
Is Ziling really trapped in this dungeon?
How many secrets does this dungeon hide?
After thinking about it a few times, Zhao Lingxi's gaze gradually became firm - he decided to find a way to enter the underground palace again!
He has always said to do it, made up his mind to go out of the palace and return to the house immediately, after recalling it carefully, he took a pen and paper, carefully depicted the appearance of the token, and then modified it little by little, and finally changed it to be almost the same as the real thing in his memory.
After checking the drawings carefully, he went to find a trustworthy jade carver and asked him to help him carve an identical token according to the pattern!
The token was quickly ready, and Zhao Lingxi carried it into the palace again, and came to the hidden entrance of the imperial garden.
He took advantage of the fact that when there was no one around, he dodged into the gap of the rockery hiding the entrance, and when he took out the jade card, his hand trembled slightly, and his mood was both heavy and full of expectation, which was exactly the same as the mood when he first climbed the Liuhe Tower!
He took a deep breath, focused his attention on the token and the groove, silently recalled the method that Emperor Wu had taught him, and then pressed the token into the groove hard......
The moment the token fell into the groove, Zhao Lingxi subconsciously held his breath - will the secret door be opened by him?
One breath, two breaths......
Time passed little by little, but the secret door at the entrance of the dungeon still did not open.
Zhao Lingxi was suddenly full of disappointment, thinking that there was something hidden on the token, so even if someone had seen the token, it would not be able to forge it!
He could only abandon this path and find another way to enter the underground palace.
But apart from this method, what other way can he use to enter the underground palace?
Stealing Emperor Wu's real token?
Zhao Lingxi frowned and pondered other methods, and at the same time casually broke the token out of the groove, who would have thought that he only broke it twice, and the secret door slowly opened without warning!
He was overjoyed, and immediately flashed into the underground palace, and walked all the way with his memory, and soon came to the three-way crossing.
He hesitated for a moment at the three-way intersection, and finally walked into the middle road without hesitation, and cautiously groped his way forward!
Zhao Lingxi walked along the middle road for less than a cup of tea, and found that this road was completely different from the road he took for the first time - the road he took for the first time was straight, and he could see the exit all the way to the end, and he went outside the palace when he got out of the exit.
However, the middle road he walked today was going around and around, and there were many forks along the way, which seemed to lead to different places
He walked a little further, but every time he thought he had reached the end of the secret passage, he turned a new one, and it seemed that the path would never end!
Zhao Lingxi suddenly stopped, looked around with his eyebrows locked, took out the dagger he carried with him, carved a mark on the inconspicuous place on the wall, carved the mark and then continued to walk down!
This time, he began to explore purposefully, choosing the left road every time he encountered a fork in the road, and when he encountered a road that had left a mark, he would not take it again, but took another road.
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