Chapter Eighty-Five: The Secret Path

Looking at the Yongdao above his head, as well as the various statues carved in stone on both sides of the road, Lao Hu admired Yan Wenbin, otherwise Yan Wenbin would not have let people blow up the hall above, that would only be digging his own grave and trapping himself here.

"Okay, let's go up from here", and at the end of the road, there is a spacious stone chamber in front of it, and there are steps to go up.

Moreover, there are a lot of unusable grains on the ground of the stone chamber, which have been moldy for a long time, and are surrounded by tools that were excavated here, and the burning platform and living utensils are very complete.

"It seems that this used to be a place to store soldiers, which could accommodate one or two hundred people, and it can also be said that this is the place where those laborers lived in the past."

"This is where the slaves who used to build the tomb lived, you see this place should be to hold prisoners, all kinds of interrogation tools are still there, take a rest and we are going up, rest assured, you see so much dust here, but there is no sign of anyone appearing, it seems that the guardians did not find this place either, they saw An Shengzu's coffin, and thought that it was the last main tomb, that is, the last layer of the entire Nine Dragon Pit."

"Actually, who knows, there is a cave below, the entrance to the fifth floor is behind the statue of the King of Jizo, and it is very hidden, even if you stand behind the statue, you may not be able to find the location of the entrance" Yan Wenbin finished speaking, lying on the chair by himself.

When Yan Wenbin opened his eyes, he didn't know how long he had been sleeping in the chair, but none of Leng Bingyan's subordinates fell asleep, and they were all on high alert.

"Let's go up", Yan Wenbin watched everyone rest almost, although it was safe here, but the food they carried was limited, and it could only last for three days at most.

If they don't find their way out after three days, more than 30 people will all starve to death here, and there is no need to say that many people understand this.

Lao Hu was the first to walk up the steps, because Lao Hu had the greatest strength among this group of people, but Lao Hu walked to the top of the last step, bent his body and pressed against the stone slab, and pushed the stone slab away.

When Yan Wenbin saw the strength of Lao Hu's whole body, the blood vessels on his forehead bulged, and even his arms trembled because of the strength of his whole body, but he didn't push the stone slab away.

"Lao Hu, stick to the slate, move the slate around, see if the slate can be pushed, as far as Lao Hu's strength is concerned, he can't push it up, it can only be said that the way the slate is opened is not what they thought.

"Still not good", Lao Hu did what Yan Wenbin said, and the slate still didn't move.

"Take the jack here", Yan Wenbin didn't know why, since this is a dungeon, obviously the entrance is here.

In fact, they knew that this was an escape route built by the laborers privately, and in order not to let people find out about it, it was pressed by a lot of things, even if hundreds of people tried hard at the same time, it would be useless.

"Still no, Xiaogang, can we go up from somewhere else, it seems that maybe there has been a collapse on it, and the stone slabs are all pressed down by something, is this really the only passage?" Lao Hu looked at Yan Wenbin and said.

"I don't know if the people above have left, otherwise I can only use explosives to blow up this stone slab", Gang Wenbin actually thought of using explosives for a long time.

But Yan Wenbin was worried that the sound of the explosion would attract the attention of others, they didn't know anything about what was ahead, and they didn't dare to take risks easily, let alone reveal their location, which was no different from looking for death.

"It's two o'clock in the afternoon, otherwise we'll wait a little longer, and wait until the early hours of the morning to start moving, it is estimated that by that time, the people above have already left, and at three o'clock in the evening we will start to blow up this place."

Leng Bingyan also felt that they needed to take a break, during this time, everyone's spirits were highly tense, it was time to take a rest, although they had been in this place for half a day just now, but these people didn't dare to sleep at all, for fear that someone would suddenly appear.

"Young marshal, the spirit keeper has blown up the underground palace below, and the gold below, we have no way to get it for the time being", the warlord Wu tied the wound of the injured Liu Shaoshuai, and just now a bullet ran down Liu Shaoshuai's cheek, leaving a bloody wound on Liu Shaoshuai's face.

"Mobilize people to dig for me day and night, even if I arrest all the villagers, I have to dig out the gold below, anyway, the cold winter is coming, they have no food, and sooner or later they will be starved to death."

"But coming here to mine can give them food for the winter, and survive until the beginning of spring, but this secret must not be divulged, and after digging gold, everyone will have to ........"

After Liu Shaoshuai finished speaking, he gestured with his hand on his neck, and Commander Wu naturally understood what Liu Shaoshuai meant, but in doing so, all the coolies captured would be executed, so that although the secret of gold was preserved, all those unsuspecting laborers would all die, which Commander Wu did not want to see.

"Young Marshal, if this is the case, the secret below will be discovered, and then all the laborers will be killed, Commander Wu already knows that Young Marshal Liu has lost patience, and wants to arrest the laborers and start cleaning up all the gold below.

"Let our soldiers follow, they will be responsible for cleaning up all the stones and river sand, and tell the public that we have found minerals and need laborers to open the mine, remember not to leak the news, otherwise I want the laborers to go back, and I don't want to kill all the laborers."

"If the news leaks, it will be extremely unfavorable to my father, outsiders know that my father robbed the tomb, and my father is going to be scolded by someone pointing at his backbone, for the sake of my father's reputation, I can only confiscate all the captured laborers into the army or secretly execute them."

Although many warlords robbed the tombs, no one dared to make it public, otherwise it would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and a large amount of gold had been found below, even if the mountain was hollowed out, Liu Shaoshuai and they would not hesitate.

If we don't let our soldiers come, arresting the laborers now will definitely cause a lot of trouble, and it is easy to leak the rumors, there are a lot of statues below, and the laborers will understand what kind of place this place is when they see the statues, and when the time comes, there will be the most crowded, and there will definitely be some rumors."

"But let our people dig, it's too late", originally Commander Wu knew that once the laborers were caught here, they would be executed, but now he has no better way, because Liu Shaoshuai will not stay here for too long, and the longer the time, the easier it will be to be discovered here.

This is Guang Sanye's sphere of influence, Guang Sanye has 300,000 bandits under him, even if they send more people, they won't be able to defend this place, so much gold, anyone who sees it will be red-eyed, and even occupy this place at any cost.

"Otherwise, we will say that we are going to build an arsenal here, and the laborers will be arrested overnight, and they will not be able to see the light," and Commander Wu could only do it.

"Let people stay here, act tonight, let the brothers put on the clothes of Guang Sanye's men, just say that the bandits go down the mountain to rob, but only arrest people, if anyone touches the people's things and kills people easily, I will never spare it", Commander Wu can only take this method now to reduce the losses of the nearby people.

These soldiers are no different from bandits, they rob supplies everywhere when there is no food, Liu Dashuai does not do this once or twice, these soldiers are used to it, so every time they go to the countryside, they will rob a lot of property, and even harm those girls by the way, which is also a sign of frequent occurrence.

"Commander Wu, you see how many people we want to arrest, I have a budget, we can't take all the labor force here, our military food and personnel are still supplied by the people, if all the people are arrested, who will grow food to feed us next year."

"But I promise you, the captured people have a bag of food for their families, so that their wives and children can survive the cold winter, and I will release those people when it is almost over, and I will not kill people easily."

Young Marshal Liu knew that Commander Wu was a person in this vicinity, and the surrounding ten miles and eight towns were all taken care of by Commander Wu, although Commander Wu did not give them more visible things, but every year to collect food and catch soldiers, it was Commander Wu who came forward, and this place was also a paradise under the control of the warlords.

"At least two thousand people, young marshal, two thousand people can clean up the collapsed tomb in three days, this is indeed a suitable place for soldiers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, after cleaning up, we can let some soldiers guard here."

"This place is good, suitable for building an arsenal, it is very hidden, the Shuixi family did not leak any rumors when they built here, and there is a unique superiority here."

"Tonight's operation, I personally supervised, during this time, Commander Wu also shared my worries, Commander Wu still went back with me to tell my father about the situation here", although Liu Shaoshuai is a warlord, he is also a good person among warlords.

did not condone his subordinates to burn and loot everywhere, in fact, many of the Liu family's bad reputations were given by Guang Sanye, but this time the situation was different, how could Liu Shaoshuai obey Commander Wu's wishes.

At three o'clock in the morning, Leng Bingyan and all of them looked at the front intently, because according to the structure here, they planted a lot of explosives, and Liu Shaoshuai took the soldiers to the nearby countryside to arrest people, leaving a few soldiers to guard on the ground.

Coupled with the thunderstorm outside, many soldiers hid in their tents and fell asleep, during this time they were trapped in the corridor, there was time tonight, plus the bad weather and heavy rain, there were no soldiers to keep vigil.

It's rare to meet a single person in this barren mountain for a hundred years, plus those are all veterans, with the mentality that no one will find out here, all of them hide in tents.

There was a loud bang, and the powerful explosive force of the gunpowder blew up the things piled up on the stone slab, and a hole appeared in the ground that was blown open, and the dust dispersed, and Yan Wenbin also got up from the ground, ready to start moving, and walked up along the exploded stone slab.

When he reached the upper floor, Yan Wenbin found that this was a large hall, and there were many tables in the main hall, but many people's corpses were covered with different shapes.

Some of these bodies were sleeping on the table, some were lying on the ground, some were sitting on chairs, and there were many cutlery on the table, and the cutlery was moldy food for a long time, causing the hall to be covered with cobwebs and thick dust.