The mansion of the Gan family is a "concave" type building, covering a large area, with a high wall, there is a wall behind the gate, behind the wall is a chic courtyard, that is, the piece of the "concave" word recessed, the area is not large, but the garden is full of spring, green and eye-catching. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The zigzag path divides the courtyard into four pieces, the path connects the courtyard gate, the main building and the side buildings on both sides, there is an octagonal pavilion at the center point, a lantern is hung on the tip of each eaves, and it is also hung behind the wall and at the door of the building, illuminating the courtyard, and there are two guards sitting in the octagonal pavilion, and you can see what is going on in the yard.

Chen Zhen crouched on the roof, observing the surrounding environment, he learned about the situation of the Gan family from the Zou family sisters and brothers, the head of the Gan family is named Gan Chunlin, after receiving part of the pillow family's industry, the person in charge was replaced by several brothers of Gan Chunlin, although he had met Gan Hongyi, although he was also surnamed Gan, but only a side blood relative, followed by rubbing the soup to drink, mixed with a light job.

The Gan family lives in this place, and Gan Hongyi is the same, but Chen Zhen didn't come to him, and it was impossible for Gan Chunlin to let him know about things related to Mrs. Pillow.

Chen Zhen's main purpose tonight is only to observe, and he will only take action if he is sure that it is safe, in his "previous life", it is common to spend two months observing, and it is common to carry out two-minute assassinations, and impatient killers are either sunk underwater, buried in the ground, or placed in urns.

His head protruded a little from the inner corner of the roof, his black hair and blindfold blending in with the night sky, making it difficult to see anything even if he stared at it.

At three o'clock in the morning, the nursing home in the octagonal pavilion was already drowsy, and someone came out of the side building wearing a thick coat, checked the candle flame of the lantern, and went back after replacing the shorter candles.

At four o'clock in the morning, Chen Zhen inspected the situation of each room from the window outside the building for the third time, and determined that the Gan family's precautions against their own house were relatively lax, only the courtyard was guarded, and the inside of the building was only lit with candles in the corridor, without any guards.

At five o'clock in the morning, the night nursing home shift, the servants woke up one after another, the sound of washing came from the side building, the kitchen was lit up by fire, and then a thin layer of fog was covered on the window pane.

At five thirty o'clock, the sky will be bright, Chen Zhen is also about to leave, after dawn someone may come up to the roof of the nearby building, you can see him at a glance, he still climbed down from the back of the building, landed on the wall, just about to jump out, suddenly froze again, look back.

There was a light in one room.

He remembered that it was a larger study, most likely Gan Chunlin's office, no matter how diligent Gan Chunlin was, there was no need to get up before dawn to work, probably not that someone couldn't sleep and got up early in the morning to find a book to read, this light was a little weird.

There is also the light is relatively dull, and it does not beat, Chen Zhen hung upside down on the wall, looked in from the gap at the top of the curtain, and sure enough, he saw the lantern.

There is no wind in the room, it is better to hold a candlestick than a lantern, it is easy to place, the lantern is a middle-aged man, the other hand is carrying a box, after closing the door, he walked to a bookcase, I don't know what mechanism was moved, the bookcase opened outward, revealing a very narrow space, like a very narrow alley, with a downward staircase.

The man pulled up the bookcase, and the room was plunged into darkness again.

The sky had turned gray and was about to light up soon, Chen Zhen immediately left the courtyard and stayed in an alley until there were more people on the road, then he came out and walked back to Zou Ping's house.

"Aren't you afraid that we'll run away with your money and let the soldiers lie in ambush here waiting for you to come back?" Zou Jin opened the door and asked with a smile, she was already familiar with Chen Zhen, and occasionally joked, and she never understood why Zou Ping was afraid of Chen Zhen.

It's just a guy with a strange personality.

Zou Ping was having breakfast, and with Chen Zhen's 10,000 lion coins, their living conditions had improved to a certain extent.

"You don't want to make a feud with me." Chen Zhen said as he sat down at the table and began to enjoy his breakfast.

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After sleeping for a day, Chen Zhen returned to Ganfu that night, and when it was three o'clock, he climbed through the window of a storage room, walked through the empty corridor, and returned to the study.

When the man opened the bookcase door, the lantern he was carrying blocked Chen Zhen's vision, and he didn't know what mechanism he had moved, but he was standing in front of the bookcase anyway.

After fumbling for a while, he found the button located under a hard-cover book.

Pressing the button and immediately returning the same way, Chen Zhen came to the outside of the house and looked inside through the gap in the curtain again, he was worried that after the bookcase was opened, there would be a synchronous warning device below.

After waiting for half an hour, but still no one appeared, he returned to the study, entered the extremely narrow secret room, closed the bookcase, and walked down.

Even if you observe this place for a year, you can't see any doorways, so you can only come down and explore it yourself.

The stairs were not long, and there was no turn, about five meters underground, Chen Zhen came to a rectangular room, the stench was strong, there was no furniture in the room, only a row of cages, and there was not a single guard.

There were people in the cages, sitting on the ground, sleeping with their heads down, shackles and chains holding their hands to the railing against the wall, unable to move.

Ten cages, each half a meter apart, seven of them were holding people, three women and four men, as if they had just crawled out of the soil.

Chen Zhen guessed that the rumor that the Gan family had taken in Mrs. Pillow was an image project, so that they could take over the pillow family industry more smoothly, and the people of the pillow family were indeed in Gan Mansion, but they were locked up here, and the Gan family was not afraid of the Bai family's blame for doing such a thing, and it was probably the Bai family's idea.

I don't know if Mrs. Pillow is in it.

Walking to a cage, Chen Zhen squatted down, lit a random candle, and tapped the iron railing with the tip of his left finger.

All seven people woke up, squinted their eyes and looked up, and saw a person blindfolded with a black cloth, and the woman in the cage asked in a hoarse voice, "Who is it?" ”

"Isn't Mrs. Pillow here?" Chen Zhen looked at her and asked.

"Who are you?" The woman in the cage next to her spoke, her voice equally hoarse.

"The person who escaped from Liang Cheng, I'm looking for Qi Yunxiao, have you seen her?" Chen Zhen squatted in front of Mrs. Pillow's cage.

"Xiaoyun escaped? What about Qi Feng? Did he escape? Mrs. Pillow said something that Chen Zhen didn't want to hear.

"He's dead." Chen Zhen was not too disappointed, after knowing that Mrs. Pillow was locked up here, not taken in, he had a premonition of this result.

"Really...... Sure enough, he also ...... "When he learned of his brother's death, Mrs. Pillow's eyes became a little dim.

"Do you know where she's going?" Chen Zhen asked again, this is the reason why he woke up Mrs. Pillow, she can be regarded as watching Qi Yunxiao grow up, and must have a deep understanding of her.

Mrs. Pillow shook her head: "The first time she left Liangcheng was to come to Yicheng, outside of Liangcheng, she knew only me, but unfortunately I was locked in on the day of the incident, and I never knew what happened outside." ”

"What about Yang Yan, Zhou Ding, Qin Shan, Doctor Duan, and Sister Cong? Do you know where they might go? Chen Zhen asked again, this clue was broken, and he could only inquire about the whereabouts of the other people in Liangcheng, hoping that they could know Qi Yunxiao's whereabouts, this hope was very slim, and he didn't even know if those people had successfully escaped.

"Duan Zhengming." Mrs. Pillow's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said: "Duan Zhengming once saved a chapel, he was a stone hunter, their stronghold was on Chaoxia Road, that person's surname was Tong, artificial Tong (tong2, the same as "same"), he once said that no matter what difficulties Duan Zhengming had, he could go to him, he would definitely try his best to repay him, if Duan Zhengming escaped from Liangcheng, he should go to that person, I used to be Duan Zhengming's colleague, and I was also present at the time." ”

"Asaka Road?" Chen Zhen frowned slightly, there were countless ruins on the Pangu Continent, and it was really difficult to find a way.

"In the vicinity of Xucheng." An old man in the cage next to him replied.

"Thank you." Chen Zhen nodded at him.

Mrs. Pillow looked at Chen Zhen and asked, "Can you please kill us?" Our hamstrings have been broken, it is impossible to escape, we have suffered all the humiliation and torture of the Gan family, and we can't even die, please kill us. ”

The rest of the people also nodded weakly, begging Chen Zhen to kill them, but no one made additional requests, just bent on seeking death.

"I see." Chen Zhen stood up and stretched out his left hand to drag the first cage off the wall, but as soon as he dragged it out, he looked back at the stairs sharply.

There was a slight sound of the bookcase mechanism being pressed down on the stairs, but it was heard very clearly below.

Making a silent gesture, Chen Zhen pinched out the candle and walked to the wall at the staircase, there was no other room in this dungeon, and every corner could be lit up by a single light.

The light of the lantern shone down from above, and there was the sound of talking.

"How can there be a voice? In the middle of the night, a few half-dead people sat in the cage and chatted? ”

"My window is above the vent, and it's not sleepwalking when I get up to pee, I hear it clearly, even if I hear it wrong, it's always right to come down and take a look."

"You're the one who has the most."

The two men went down to the room as they spoke, lifted the lantern and shone it into the dungeon, and when they saw that all the prisoners were bowing their heads, the man who spoke first said to his companion: "Look, let me say, you are clearly in a daze, and you hear yourself grinding your teeth and insist on others to speak, and besides, what can they do even if they speak?" Can you still escape from here? ”

"Strange." The other scratched the back of his head, glanced at the dungeon, and turned to go up the stairs, only to look up in a daze.

The darkness covered the two of them, and even the light of the lantern was covered in it, and Chen Jin, who was clinging to the corner of the wall, fell, killing the two in extreme darkness and in a space where sound could not be transmitted, and then the darkness was put away.

But he jerked his head up the stairs and saw a third man with a lantern, looking down in amazement.

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