CHAPTER XXIV

Ma Yun looked at the hand that broke free, and suddenly remembered something. With shackles, he gently walked to the entrance of the cave where everyone was being held, and touched the fence door as thick as an arm's arm at the entrance of the cave.

The door was opened with a mechanism, and every time it was opened, the sound of a reed came from inside the stone wall. "It's hard to get out of this door, so let's find another way. ”

During the mining break on the second day, Ma Yun secretly told Qin Ming that he would hide in the mine at night and not go out, and if an acquaintance asked, he would say that he had been taken away. Anyway, there are new arrivals and deaths here every day, and one less person will rarely notice. Qin Ming was very worried about him and warned him to be careful.

When the gong for the evening rest sounded, everyone rushed out, and while the guards were not looking, he got into the crevice dug in advance. Not all places in the mine have ore, some places only have stones, people give up halfway through digging and find that there is no ore, leaving some large stones and gaps, he has long seen an abandoned hidden mine crevice, and deliberately went over to dig that gap a little bigger. Sure enough, the guards simply glanced at the mine and left.

Ma Yun rested in the gap for an hour, estimating that the sky was already dark, and then he walked out of the gap, broke free from the shackles on his body, held his breath, and listened to the movement outside. The torches in the mine were all extinguished at this time, and it was pitch black, but he could actually see in the dark, although it was not as far and clear as in the daytime, but everything within a radius of more than ten meters could be seen approximately.

"I wiped it, I can see in the dark, if I practice the 'rejuvenation technique' completely, wouldn't it be a perspective eye, when the time comes, you can see through people's clothes at will, wouldn't it be cool and crooked to meet a girl! Amitabha, sins and sins, color is emptiness, emptiness is color! The body is just a skin, the good-looking skin is the same, and the interesting soul is one in a thousand. Ma Yun, your consciousness still needs to be improved!" I walked to the entrance of the mine in the dark, but I didn't hear any abnormal sounds.

In these days, Ma Yun has long figured out the rules of the guards, and at night, the guards and sentry are concentrated in the cave where they are resting, and only one team will pass through the cave when patrolling in the mine. Sure enough, after waiting for a while, a group of patrolling guards passed by the doorway, and he hurried out of the hole, and now his speed was not only fast, but also very light, and he landed almost silently. Soon rushed to a dark corner.

After looking around the corner and confirming the location of the guards, he quickly figured out a path to the iron basket. There was a stone chamber in the iron gondola, and he clearly remembered that the shackles were taken out of it, and if there was a key, it was probably hidden in the stone chamber. Ma Yun listened cautiously, listening as he walked, his keen hearing helped even more in the dark night, he could even hear the guard's breathing and heartbeat, and then sneaked quietly past the guard.

Soon he reached the outside of the stone room, and by the faint light of the fire around him, he could see through the window of the stone chamber. There were many sets of shackles on the floor of the stone chamber, and two black-clad guards were sleeping on their beds. He gently pushed down the door of the stone chamber, and the door opened.

Ma Yun was overjoyed, and slowly pushed the door open and sneaked in. There was no light in the stone room, but it was fainter than in the mine, and he could see everything in the room clearly. When he saw a few sets of clothes from Heifeng Village on the ground, he took one and put it in his arms. The main purpose of this trip was to find the key, but unfortunately he searched all over the stone chamber and did not find a key, even touching the sleeping guard's body.

"It seems that the key is no longer here, two or three hundred sets of shackles, and the key must be two or three hundred, if it is here, it should be easy to find, or it is hidden in the secret pavilion mechanism, then it will be even more difficult to find. Exiting the stone chamber, he searched several other places in the valley, but found nothing, and then returned to the mine.

"That's all for tonight, and to-morrow evening we'll explore the stockade above the valley. He hid the stolen clothes in a crack in the stone and began to practice the "Rejuvenation Technique". Ma Yun didn't have the slightest clue how to cultivate this "rejuvenation technique" next, he tried to practice another route directly, but the effect was the same as when he first cultivated, almost an inch was difficult. If he directly followed the route that had already been cultivated, he felt that the mysterious energy seemed to have increased every Sunday, but the time was too short, and he couldn't tell if his feelings were wrong.

While he was cultivating, Ma Yun heard footsteps outside the mine, he smiled slightly and got into the stone crevice, and soon the torches in the mine were lit and he started a new day's work. Qin Ming was very worried about Ma Yun, and was the first to rush into the mine, came to the stone crevice, pretended to mine, and saw his smiling face, so he was relieved. Ma Yun took advantage of people's inattention to drill out of the stone cracks, and planned a new plan while mining.

Another night came, Ma Yun came out of the crack in the stone and changed into the clothes of Black Wind Village. This time his goal was to explore the valley. When he was hanging in an iron hanging basket, he found that the buildings of the Black Wind Village were all built around this valley, and the iron hanging basket was the only way to enter and exit this circular valley normally. But for Ma Yun today, it is easy to climb the cliffs fifty or sixty meters high on both sides of the valley.

After the "rejuvenation technique" is practiced, the body has changed a lot, before jumping two meters high, now a light jump is five or six meters high, and you can stabilize the body by grabbing something. He had already looked at a cliff during the day, and there were many small trees growing in the cracks, and it only took a few borrowed forces to climb up from that cliff, and on top of that cliff was a big tree, and the lush canopy could be seen from below, which was definitely a good hiding place.

Everything was as he had planned, and with a few attempts he climbed to the edge of the cliff, stopped to listen, and after making sure that there was no one, he climbed up the cliff and jumped up and down into the tree. Through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the big trees, Ma Yun saw the general layout of the Black Wind Village clearly.

The top of the cliff was still a circular valley, and the surrounding peaks were undulating, and many houses were built against the mountain walls, and under the highest peak there was a clearing of five or six acres, and many fires were built in the clearing, and from time to time people passed by the clearing, and went into a large hole under the peak. The figures in the cave swayed, and it seemed that there were many people inside.

At the same time, Ma Yun noticed another clearing, facing the highest mountain, also several acres in size, with several tall pillars erected in the clearing, and a few iron cages, which was the place where he woke up and was tortured. Dozens of meters in front of that clearing is the huge gate of Heifeng Village, the gate is built according to the mountain, both sides are built on the mountainside, a platform is built on the top, there is a big fire on the platform, many people eat and drink around the fire, and get up from time to time to check around.

In addition to this, two teams patrolled back and forth around the stockade.

After seeing everything, he began to search the nearest room. Most of these houses are houses, and snoring can be heard from time to time, and a few rooms are full of debris, and a search is useless. searched until I found a room with a large façade, which was still crowded with people at this time, and the tempting aroma wafted out of the room, which made the greedy worms in Ma Yun's stomach restless.

Looking through the window, the room turned out to be a kitchen, with all kinds of meat hanging on the walls, and the pot was still steaming. "Ma Dan, Lao Tzu eats bran and drinks thin below, and they are all rancid, you have big fish and big meat here, what is the reason of heaven. Perhaps it was a spirit from heaven, and he suddenly noticed a sausage hanging outside the window, and without saying a word, he took a bite of it, and stuffed the rest into his arms.

Bypassing the kitchen, there was a clearing beneath the largest mountain, and there was a fire everywhere, except for one place next to the mountain wall that was pitch black, and everyone who came and went deliberately avoided it. Jack Ma was about to dive into the darkness, but after thinking about it, he stopped, and listened to the place with bated breath.

"I'm rubbing, there's something in that place!" he heard a heavy gasp and a low roar, and there was supposed to be a beast hiding in that place. "Ah Fu?" he suddenly remembered what two minions had said before: feed him Ah Fu.

"It seems that it is impossible to go any further, the perception of animals is far better than that of humans, so it is better not to take this risk and go back and explore in the other direction!"

Just as he was about to leave, he saw a small figure come out of the cave and run towards the kitchen. "Ling'er!" Ma Yun was very excited, these months had passed, and he was finally relieved to see that Ling'er was fine.

In the firelight, the tears on Ling'er's face were faintly visible, and she struggled in her heart, and decided not to meet Ling'er first, since she had been fine for a few months, Ling'er should not have an accident in the short term. I saw Ling'er walk into the kitchen, and then walked back to the cave with a large pot of meat, and he was distressed when he saw Ling'er's struggling appearance.

Soon he returned to the big tree, searched in another direction, and searched until he reached the gate of the village, but still found no useful finds. "Just go back, no, you have to go around the gate and take a look over there. ”

After some careful observation, he found that occasionally one or two people would pass by the open space in front of the gate, and the people on the gate would not look at them. "Fight, just try it!" Ma Yun walked out of the hiding place, walked to the open space in front of the walled gate, and then swaggered across the clearing, sure enough, there was nothing at all, he even waved his hand to the people on the walled gate, but no one paid attention to him at all. Twenty or thirty meters away, who can see him clearly!

"Low-key, low-key, luck, luck, or to be vigilant. As soon as he passed through the clearing, he was once again invisible into the darkness.

"What a mess this room is. "For there was only a heap of things in the room, bows and arrows, broadswords, swords, axes, halberds, iron rods, maces, meteor hammers, darts, knives, and all these things were piled up haphazardly. He once searched a room where weapons were stored, and the weapons in it were neatly arranged on shelves, how could they be discarded so casually like this room. "Darts!" Ma Yun suddenly had an idea, pushed open the door of the room and sneaked in, carefully looking through the pile of things. "Sure enough, it's here!" he could no longer control the excitement in his heart when he saw the short sword buried at the bottom. Hurriedly picked up the short sword, pulled it out of the holster, and gently stroked the blade. "It's up to you whether you can save everyone or not!"