In the early morning, the Nihuang Palace was still shrouded in haze.

At the main entrance, patrol officer Zhang Quan leaned against the big red iron gate, and pulled the hem of his shirt down with both hands, barely covering the cold air in early autumn.

He stood outside the palace gate all night and did not return home.

Last night, the prince was furious when he returned from the artisan ghetto, and the commander and assistant minister who came back with the prince have not left the palace until now.

Hearing from the doorman that the prince wanted to refine something and needed the help of the missing girl, but he didn't find anyone for a long time, the prince was very angry!

That's what he's responsible for.

Regarding this matter, he has some thoughts recently, and he was going to report to the palace last night, but it happened that the prince was making a big fuss about this matter, and he was afraid that he would touch his head, so he stayed outside the palace and struggled.

Seeing that it was dawn, he whispered to the doorman behind the crack in the door, "Is Your Highness still angry?"

Squeak!

The iron door slammed inward!

"Your Highness!?"

Zhang Quan's eyes were wide and red, the person who came was His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, and he hurriedly knelt down and saluted!

"Okay, okay, you are not allowed to kneel again when you see this king in the future!" Yang Yan motioned for Zhang Quan to get up and said jokingly, "What are you doing outside the palace gate early in the morning, preparing to steal this king's palace maid?"

"Your Highness is discerning, this turtle grandson is here to steal the palace maid!"

Behind Yang Yan, Cheng Han flashed out laughing, he and Zhang Quan had drunk a few times recently, they were quite familiar with each other, and they spoke freely.

Zhang Quan got up in embarrassment, raised his hand and touched his messy hair, and then saluted Ji Huaan, who was fierce and sleepy-eyed, one by one.

"Your Highness, there will be a report to you about Miss Mo's situation at the end. ”

"Really!?"

Zhang Quan could see that the prince was extremely concerned about this matter, and he suddenly became nervous.

Since receiving the task of finding the goddess Mo Xiaobei, it has been the seventh day now, and he has been doing his best to take people to look through the border countryside, but he has not found any clues.

Just when he was desperate, he heard a rumor in the palace that there was a dry well in the side hall, and a woman's cry came from the fifteenth day of the moon.

He thought, Miss Mo lives here, will there be a relationship between the two?

With this in mind, he asked the hunter Motus to help investigate the dry well in the side hall.

Motus accepted the prince's invitation a few days ago, and was ordered to enter the palace to thoroughly investigate the people who were spying on the prince, and stayed in the palace almost every day.

The night before happened to be the fifteenth day of the month, and Zhang Quan learned from Motus that the dry well in the side hall did make strange noises.

But contrary to the rumors, Motus believes that the sound is more like the creak of opening and closing a door.

As for what's in the well, Motus doesn't know.

Zhang Quan thought about it for two days, thinking of the identity of Mo Xiaobei's goddess, he had a strong intuition that the dry well in the side hall had a lot to do with Mo Xiaobei's disappearance!

He spoke them all.

Yang Yan realized that he had ignored this stubble.

He turned to look at Ji Huaan, "Old thing, you go to the Beishan Coal Mine on my behalf and find out what happened to me! Pay attention to your own safety!"

Ji Hua'an was sleepy, and when he heard the prince's concern, he woke up a little sleepy, and bowed down energetically to retire.

Last night, there was a report from the Beishan Coal Mine that there was an abnormality in the mine and the excavation progress was stagnant.

This mine is the largest financial revenue project in the border township, and there is no room for any mistakes, so Yang Yan is ready to deal with it this morning.

But after learning the news of Mo Xiaobei, after weighing it, Yang Yan decided to let Ji Huaan, who took care of the Beishan Coal Mine part-time, go.

Mo Xiaobei is too important to him, it can be said that it is very important to the entire border countryside, only her blue flame can help him burn cement!

When he returned to the palace last night, he immediately set about burning cement.

The cement firing process is very simple, and it can be summed up as two grinding and one burning.

He could grind the raw material with a stone, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't achieve the high temperature required to calcine the cement.

1,400 degrees Celsius, this is a cut, he can't cross it!

Without this temperature, there would be no cement, the construction of the city walls would be empty talk, and the law of protecting the border countryside would become impractical!

Last night, he lost his temper all night, didn't target anyone, and was simply disappointed in himself.

When I came to the side hall, it was still quiet.

The dry well is made of a wooden pavilion in the center, the wellhead is round, made of dark gray stone, more than a foot above the ground, and about two feet in diameter.

Looking down from the wellhead, it was dark and dark, and Yang Yan didn't see anything.

He ordered a long rope to be found and tied to him.

He's going down the well to see.

Cheng Han did not agree with him to go down to take risks, and Zhang Quan also said on the side that he could do it for him.

But Yang Yancai will not let people go down instead of herself, Mo Xiaobei trained on the day of her disappearance, and if she was in the well, she would probably be naked.

He thought that Mo Xiaobei's nakedness could only be seen by him alone, because he was her prince, and he paid the gold coins!

sat at the mouth of the well and lit the torch, and ordered the two to slowly put the rope.

At the beginning, the speed at which the two of them released the rope was like a snail strolling, and the angry Yang Yan reprimanded the entrance of the cave, and the descent speed was accelerated.

As the depth of the fall progresses, the wall changes from dry to wet, and the space becomes larger.

By about fifty meters, the space was large enough to fit into a house.

At this time, the fire could not reach the bottom of the well.

But in the shadowy firelight, dense murals of skulls and human heads appeared on the walls of the well.

How to look at how cautious people!

After descending another fifty meters, Cheng Han above began to urge him to go up, but Yang Yan didn't listen to it, and ordered to continue to put the rope.

At this time, the bottom of the well can already be faintly seen.

Fortunately, the rope he found was long enough, and after a while, Yang Yan landed safely at the bottom of the well.

There was no water where he stood, it was full of skeletal heads, and these skulls were piled up I don't know how thick, and they looked like they had grown moss for some years.

He patrolled around with torches, but found nothing but a dense mass of skulls.

The torch light source was too weak to illuminate the entire bottom of the well, and it was impossible to know how wide it was.

Yang Yan raised his head and shouted, signaling Cheng Han and the two to wait, he wanted to go around the wall of the well, and after leaving a fire at the rope, he headed in one direction.

It took me a quarter of an hour to reach the wall of the well.

After walking along the wall of the well for at least an hour, he found a door-shaped hole more than three meters high.

After a moment's hesitation, he walked in.

The hole was very straight, and the ground was full of skulls, Yang Yan walked for two minutes, and a brown wooden door appeared in front of him.

This gate is two meters high and one meter wide, and it looks very simple.

The door was covered with moss, it must have been some years.

From a distance, there was a skull on the door, which was made of blood, unlike the one on the wall of the well.

The blood has not dried up, it is still flowing.

Getting closer, Yang Yan even smelled the strong smell of blood, and also saw a white body lying in front of the door.

It's Mo Xiaobei!