Just when Qin Tai was disappointed, Qin Tai inadvertently touched a pattern, could this be some kind of important map? Qin Tai groped carefully and found that this pattern was not a map, it seemed to be a complex pattern. Qin Tai thought it was strange, but he didn't know what it was for, could it be the family emblem of a certain worker's family? It is said that the descendants of some large families have their own family crest patterns, which are not only printed on the body of the descendants, but also engraved in important places. Could this family coat of arms have been left by a worker? Is it to miss your ancestors and family? Or maybe it's something else?

At this time, Zhan Xiaoxiao, who was guarding outside, rushed in, although she couldn't see the layout inside, but she felt where her husband Qin Tai was. This is the unique ability of martial arts practitioners, and it is also the delicacy that only women have, and it is also because Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao are a tacit couple.

Zhan Xiaoxiao told her husband Qin Tai that not only did several people come outside, but they were also breathing heavily. Based on Zhan's experience, these people not only have the strength to handle them, but they are also equipped with weapons, which are very likely to be lethal weapons at medium and long distances. Zhan Xiaoxiao guessed that the other party was holding a bow and arrow, and wanted to shoot Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao here. In the face of an enemy with a terrain advantage, the best and most direct way is to use a bow and arrow to shoot Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao. Not to mention Qin Tai, who has almost no strength, even Zhan Xiaoxiao, who is strong in kung fu, cannot 100% dodge the bow and arrow that comes from the shot. Zhan Xiaoxiao can get some bows and arrows in a familiar environment and if he is prepared, but if the opponent has a large number of people or shoots together, Zhan Xiaoxiao must not be able to dodge.

As Zhan Xiao spoke, a torch was thrown in from outside. The people on the other side were not kind enough to illuminate Qin Taihe Zhanxiao, but to see Qin Taihe Zhanxiao's appearance clearly, so that everyone could think of Qin Taihe Zhan's small shot. Zhan Xiaoxiao extinguished the fire on the torch the moment it landed. The other party was not given a chance to shoot their husband and wife. But immediately another torch was thrown into the secret room, and Zhan Xiaoxiao did not have time to extinguish it, and after a while the bow and arrow came in. Zhan Xiaoxiao hurriedly pulled away her husband Qin Tai, lest Qin Tai be shot by random arrows.

Just when Zhan Xiaoxiao was worried about the safety of her husband Qin Tai, Zhan Xiaoxiao found that her husband Qin Tai was a little wrong. Zhan Xiaoxiao thought that her husband had been hit by an arrow or was injured, so she hurriedly came up to check Qin Tai's body. Qin Tai didn't say anything, grabbed his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao, and approached the corner of the secret room.

It turned out that Qin Tai finally remembered the true meaning of the pattern he touched, no wonder Qin Tai felt a little familiar. It turned out that when Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao entered the secret passage, they seemed to have seen such a pattern on it. Qin Tai couldn't remember it, but the light of the torch shining on the wall immediately reminded Qin Tai of this strange mark. It turned out that this was not a family emblem, but a mark for the entrance and exit of a secret passage. In this way, there is an unknown secret passage entrance and exit in the corner of this secret room, which can enter the more secret secret passage.

Qin Tai's conjecture was not wrong, this mark was not only a mark of the entrance and exit of the secret passage, but also a family emblem of the foreman back then. This foreman was a former big family, and their ancestor was a palace construction supervisor in the Northern Song Dynasty, because the Song Dynasty palace was built to open the Fengfu, and was named a famous family by Emperor Zhao and Song. After years of war, the foreman's family had been defeated, and in order not to build a big project for Yuanmeng, their family fled to Jiangnan. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved to build a big project, and the foreman wanted to build the palace, but he didn't expect to be arranged here to build a prison for the Criminal Department. While the foreman was working helplessly, he kept an eye on it, worried that the court would poison everyone. Because the foreman has good skills and a group of good subordinates, everyone is secretly building a secret passage.

When the secret passage was about to run up and down, the foreman felt something strange. For this reason, the foreman hurriedly asked his people to speed up the progress and open up all the channels. It's a pity that a worker's mistake did not dig through the passage leading to the outside of the prison of the Punishment Department, but instead dug a more slender secret passage on the edge of the secret passage. In order to prevent everyone from discovering this secret, the foreman did not dig two secret passages directly, and a stone wall was used to block them between them. The connection is marked by the family logo of the foreman, a secret that only the foreman knows.

In order to dig through the passage from the prison of the Criminal Department to the outer burial, the foreman did not leave the construction site in time and was blocked by the officers and soldiers, and everyone was trapped in the prison of the Criminal Department. On the one hand, the foreman asked someone to arrange for everyone to hide in the secret passage, and on the other hand, he led a very small number of cronies to continue digging the passage secretly. However, due to various reasons, the progress has not gone up, not to mention, and there are internal problems. The foreman was worried that everyone would not only not be able to get out, but would also get lost in the prison of the Criminal Department, so the family emblem was engraved at the entrance and exit of each secret passage. As long as your own people see this family emblem, they will know that this is a way to live, not a dead end.

I don't know if Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao are lucky, or Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao shouldn't die here, or if there is something that blesses Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao, anyway, Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao are really lucky, not only discovered this secret room, but also let Qin Tai discover this secret, which made this secret passage that no one has discovered for more than a hundred years be discovered. This also saved Qin Tai and Zhanxiao's lives, causing the other party's people to return in vain.

Qin Tai opened the entrance and exit of the second secret passage, and Zhan Xiaoxiao hurriedly picked up the torch on the ground and followed Qin Tai into the secret passage. Zhan Xiaoxiao closed the stone door with his backhand, and closed the passage inside, so that people from outside would rush in and continue to chase and kill Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao. I took the torch because I was worried that it would be too dark inside to walk, and I could light the torch to eliminate the dirty air in the secret passage. It looks like no one has been in this secret passage for a long time, so there may be some bad air inside. After lighting the torch, a lot of air can be burned inside, so that people will not be poisoned and sick by breathing bad air.

Compared to the first one, this one is even more difficult to walk. The first passage is a zigzag passage, which is not very spacious, but it is definitely not too crowded. However, this second passage is different, not only is it significantly smaller than the first, but it is almost a straight up and down passage. There are few turns in this secret passage, and it has a straight slope shape. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiao almost fell, and could only slide down slowly, almost unable to climb up in the opposite direction.

Not long after, Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao came to the bottom, according to Qin Tai's estimate of the prison of the Criminal Department, this should be below the fifth layer, and it is very likely that they will be near the entrance and exit of the sixth layer. Qin Tai is very interested in the sixth layer of this criminal prison, this sixth layer will hardly be known to outsiders, and it is very likely that there are some secrets hidden.

Qin Tai told his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao that if you want to go out, you must first find the mark that leads to the outside of the secret passage, and the place where there is a mark is the place where you can go out. After finding the entrance and exit, you can push open the stone door or secret passage and come to the real prison cell of the Criminal Department. However, Qin Tai was worried that there might be a crazy prisoner outside, or some kind of trap, so he asked his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao to be more careful.

After coming outside, Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao were really frightened by the scene in front of them again. There were no living people in this sixth level prison, only a layer of white bones, a layer of dead human bones with rather strange postures. These people are all head-down, digging down with their hands, as if they want to dig through the sixth layer of this prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

Qin Tai found some clues in these bones, although the people inside had all turned into white bones, they were not from the same era. It is very likely that it was a group of workers at the beginning, and a group of prisoners during the restoration period of Ming Yingzong, and everyone hoped to dig through this prison, can it really lead to the outside below? Among them were some female bones, and Qin Tai believed that one of them was the female prisoner of the county lord back then. No wonder they have no whereabouts, it turns out that they and they are all dead here, and they have not left the prison of the Criminal Department, and they cannot return to the prison of the Criminal Department.

Zhan Xiaoxiao saw that there was no danger here, so she let her husband move freely. Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao found that except for the secret passage they entered, the original passage had been closed, and of course the people inside could not leave here, so they had to wait for death inside. These people starved to death inside, and they did not give up the opportunity to leave here when they were dying, which shows that they all have a heart that hopes to leave the prison of the Criminal Department.

Qin Tai looked through it carefully and found a stone shard, on which he saw a person's last words. This stone tablet has two last words on it, both sides of the story, written by two people who used different purposes. The text on the front was written by a worker during the Ming Dynasty, and he explained the origin and secrets of the prison here. It turns out that this prison of the Ministry of Punishment really has an underground prison, which is located under the water prison and is a secret prison. It's just that at that time, the foreman kept an eye on the bottom of this underground prison and left a secret under it. Above the underground prison is several floors of prison, and there are iron walls on the left, right, front and back, which are made of cast iron, and there is absolutely no possibility of flaws. But there is a problem with the floor under your feet, not a whole piece of iron as required by the imperial court. The iron plates in the ground are not only put together one by one, but also the general soil layer underneath. The foreman decided to dig a secret passage to the outside here, which would be closed off in normal times to prevent accidents if necessary. I didn't expect the court to be really ruthless, and really wanted everyone to die in the prison of the Criminal Department in order to keep secrets. The foreman and everyone had no time to dig through the passage, so they had to delay everyone while continuing to dig the passage. I don't know who leaked the secret, but when everyone learned the news, they not only killed the foreman but also wanted to destroy it by force. In order to save the lives of their own people, and to avenge the foreman, they sealed the passage and prevented others from coming here. However, their miscalculations led to a severe shortage of food, and everyone starved to death here. Because everyone is a senior brother, and no one wants to eat the flesh of their brothers to live, the passage has not been opened, and no one can leave the prison of the Criminal Department alive.