"Please atone for your sins, Your Highness!" Seeing Mo Haoning wake up, Qiao San knelt in front of Mo Haoning's window.

"What a crime." Mo Haoning lay on the bed, angry like a gossamer.

"If it weren't for the grass people throwing that dart at him, His Highness wouldn't have been so badly injured." Qiao San looked remorseful.

"He's an outlaw, and without your darts, he'll find a way to get other weapons and open a bloody path for himself." Mo Haoning took a few breaths, "Fortunately, it's a dart, if it's something else, maybe I'll die." ”

"Your Highness, drink some water." Seeing that Mo Haoning was struggling to speak, Qiao Xiya handed a warm cup of tea to Mo Haoning's mouth.

Mo Haoning drank the tea from Qiao Xiya's hand, and when he looked up and saw Qiao San still kneeling there, Mo Haoning couldn't help laughing: "Get up, the world is unpredictable, you didn't mean it, what is the crime." Mo Haoning paused, as if he remembered something, "What about Yao Mingxi?" ”

"Little incompetence, no ...... Didn't catch up" Chu Yun scratched the back of his head, his face full of guilt.

"That's it, even if you catch up, you can't take him." Mo Haoning sighed softly, "How long have I been asleep?" ”

"It's been almost a day." Chu Yun helped Mo Haoning up and let him lean on himself.

"That is, General Su has been waiting for almost two days." Mo Haoning muttered, "Chu Yun, bring the scales." We'll go into the mountains early tomorrow morning. ”

In the early morning of the next day, Mo Haoning, who had recovered most of his injuries, led everyone to the back mountain of Huimeng County again.

The back mountain of Huimeng County was surrounded by the forbidden army at this time, and Qiao Xiya only listened to "Boom!" With a bang, a feather arrow broke through the air and plunged directly into Mo Haoning's feet. Then came a warning: "Prince Hao's forbidden land, trespassers, kill!"

"Prince Hao is here!" Chu Yun hurriedly showed the gold medal and shouted.

After a while, there was a sound of rustling, and I saw a silver helmet and silver armor, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a person who looked like a general walked towards everyone in the morning light. walked in front of Mo Haoning, knelt on one knee, clenched his fists and arched his hands: "The last general, Su Huaizuo, will see Prince Hao!"

"General Su, please get up." Mo Haoning nodded, "It's all here?" ”

"It's coming. The last general has ordered people to surround the mountain, and not a single fly can fly out. ”

"Okay." Mo Haoning glanced at Qiao Xiya and took a deep breath, "Let's go up the mountain." ”

The road up the mountain is no longer so unfamiliar, there are forbidden troops guarding along the way, Mo Haoning, with the support of Chu Yun, led everyone and followed Su Huaizuo to the cave that made him feel frightened again.

At this time, the cave was already illuminated by countless torches, and the scene in the cave stunned everyone. It was only at this time that Qiao Xiya really understood what her father was referring to when he wrote the "mermaid case" on the first page of the dossier.

The cave is densely packed with countless huge water tanks, each of which has a woman lying almost naked on the edge of the tank, and the lower half of the woman's body soaked in the water is a fishtail with a strange luster. Countless mermaids appeared in front of everyone's eyes in such a strange manner.

Qiao Xiya endured the fear in her heart, helped Chunling, and followed Mo Haoning towards the depths of the cave, and when she passed by a water tank, Mo Haoning suddenly stopped. He broke free from Chu Yun's support, staggered and pounced, stretched out his hand, stroked the long hair of the woman in the tank, his pale fingers trembled slightly, stroked the woman's forehead, and slowly slid down after a short pause, closing the woman's unwilling eyes.

Mo Haoning stood by the cylinder in a daze for a long time. It wasn't until the torches on the cave wall crackled that Mo Haoning came back to his senses: "Chuyun." Mo Haoning's slightly hoarse voice made people feel distressed. He closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look at him anymore, "Take Ling'er out and bury her mother with Hu." ”

"General Su." Mo Haoning propped his hands on the edge of Ling'er's water tank, and called Su Huaizuo, the general of the forbidden army, to cheer up, "Someone made a portrait of the women in these tanks, and then transported these tanks out of the mountain and placed them in the yamen of Huimeng County." Miss Qiao, let's take a look at the back. ”

"Your Highness, why don't you rest first." Looking at Mo Haoning's pale face, Qiao Xiya felt a touch of distress in her heart.

"It doesn't matter." Mo Haoning shook his head, "If you solve the case one day earlier, you can save your father one day earlier, and Ling'er and Mother Hu can rest in peace one day earlier." With that, Mo Haoning helped Chu Yun and slowly walked towards the depths of the cave.

After passing by hundreds of water tanks, everyone finally walked to the innermost part of the cave, but there was nothing here except for the seven water tanks placed according to the Big Dipper.

These seven water tanks are different from the outside, and each tank has a long iron rod, and when you look along the iron rod, you seem to be able to see the sunlight faintly.

"Chuyun, go up and have a look." Mo Haoning slowly sat on the ground holding the water tank.

When Chu Yun heard this, he didn't say a word, he climbed up along the iron rod, and reached the top in only three or five steps: "Master, this iron rod leads to the outside."

"Leads to the outside......" Mo Haoning glanced at Qiao Xiya suspiciously.

Qiao Xiya shook her head: "I haven't seen this either."

"Master!" Hatsuyun shouted loudly from above, "There's a glowing water stain on the ground!" ”

"Glossy water stains?" Mo Haoning frowned and looked at the ground, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see the glowing water stains that Chu Yun said, "Where do the water stains lead?" ”

Chu Yun put up a pergola with his hand, and after looking hard, he pointed to the cave wall on Mo Haoning's left hand side and said, "Master, look at the shape of the water stains, it's going over there."

Everyone walked to the cave wall on the left, and under the guidance of Chu Yun, a stone wall without any special sense was presented in front of everyone.

Mo Haoning endured the pain in his lower back and groped on the stone wall. The wet and slippery moss stuck to the fingertips, making people's scalp tingle, and just when Mo Haoning wanted to say that he didn't find anything, a strange feeling made Mo Haoning tense his nerves again.

Seeing this, Qiao Xiya took the torch in Chunling's hand and walked over, only to see Mo Haoning holding half a piece of residual cloth in his hand, and he was stunned. The other half of the scrap was firmly clamped in the stone wall.

"Secret door?" Qiao Xiya said softly.

"Find out if there's a mechanism." Mo Haoning nodded, loosened the cloth and stood up, ordering the forbidden army following behind him to look around.

Qiao Xiya and Chunling also groped around along the location where they found the cloth, the slippery moss crushed on their fingertips, the smell of grass wrapped around the humid air and burrowed into the pores, Qiao Xiya had the illusion that she was about to drown.

"Girl, this place is different from other places." Chunling's voice was remembered in time when Qiao Xiya was about to despair. Qiao Xiya leaned over and looked at the position of Chunling's finger, it was a square stone wall, so conspicuous because in the moss-covered cave, only this one had no moss at all, only a little water stain.

"General Su, let's do it." Mo Haoning, who was sitting on the side to rest, heard that he had found the location of the organ, so he did not hesitate to call Su Huai to do it.

Su Huai pushed the palm-sized stone wall to the left, but he didn't move. Su Huai got up on the left, took two steps back, ran and jumped, and kicked his feet on the stone wall at the same time.

"Kalala......" A sound sounded in his ears, and the stone wall in front of him roared, opening a gap between the two of them outward.