Chapter 156: A Narrow Encounter

Somewhere in Yun'an City, inside a mansion that has been renovated since last year.

In the courtyard of the mansion that was in the old age, there were piles of masonry, mud and wood, and several carpenters were beating on the beams, because the surrounding area was full of wealthy families, and a bamboo fence was specially erected on the courtyard wall to block the view, so as not to mess up the scene and provoke the criticism of the neighbors.

An ordinary domestic servant dressed up as Cao Aning, entered the house with a lunch box in his hand, and behind him was Xu Bailin and the white-robed old man who walked with his hands in his hands.

Cao Aning glanced at the back of the house a few times, and after making sure that nothing was unusual, he came to a half-rebuilt house, opened the floor covered with wooden boards, and went down the wooden stairs to an underground passage.

Both sides of the underground passage are bottomless, and the masonry is old, but the floating soil on it is new, and there are traces left by trampling back and forth.

The white-robed old man walked silently beside the two of them, looking at the authentic old bricks and stones, and was slightly surprised:

"This tunnel seems to have been built by the previous dynasty, how did you find this place?"

Cao Aning was quite respectful to the white-robed old man, after all, this old man was the teacher of Jiang Zahu, the overlord of Liangzhou, and he was also a heroic figure who once played the name of 'boxer' with his bare hands.

If it was placed thirty years ago, the name of the old man alone appeared in Yunzhou, which was enough to make the yamen of the capital rumored and like a great enemy.

Although the white-robed old man is over eighty years old now, he was also severely injured by the apprentice who was expelled from the division, and the first battle shattered the reputation he had accumulated for half a life, and he had to hide from XZ to survive.

But the characters who have climbed to the top of the mountain, for Cao Aning, who are still halfway through the road, are still legends of the rivers and lakes that can only be looked up to.

Hearing the white-robed old man's inquiry, Cao Aning responded:

"I've been in the palace for many years, and I didn't know that there was such a secret passage underground. His Royal Highness the Prince of the World has great powers, and he didn't know where to find the news, and he deduced that there was a tunnel down here, and sent people to secretly explore for a long time before he found this place. ”

"Where does the tunnel lead?"

"The Qingjiang River leading to the outside of the city at the other end has collapsed and blocked. The entrance may be in Miyagi, but it is too risky to verify. ”

After listening to the origin, the white-robed old man bowed his head slightly and sighed:

"It's a pity that I knew it too late, if the people in the rivers and lakes before Jiazi knew that there was still a tunnel to enter the palace, I am afraid that the current rivers and lakes will be a different situation."

Xu Bailin knew that the old man in the white robe was a person who had participated in the bloody battle in the capital in the last years of the previous dynasty, and asked:

"It is said that when Yun'an City was broken, most of the martial arts leaders came, and they fought in the palace to win the treasure, what was the specific situation at that time?"

The white-robed old man explained: "Emperor Yan Gong was poor and extravagant, and he lost the hearts of the people, and Fengguancheng was disheartened. The chief of the inner city and the national teacher in the imperial city were also restrained by the rebels, which led to the emptiness of the imperial city garrison, and the heroes of the world heard the wind and moved, and all came to Yun'an City to fish in troubled waters.

"At that time, not only did most of the Wu Kui of Dayan come, but also many masters came to Beiliang, some of them robbed the Ming Dragon Map, and there were also those who swore to protect the country and the heroes who helped the righteous army fight. The old man, Xuanyuan Chao and others, who were all in their teens and twenties at the time, only dared to watch from a distance in the city, and did not dare to approach the imperial city for half a step. ”

Xu Bailin could imagine the tragedy of that battle and asked:

"According to rumors in the rivers and lakes, the Ming Dragon Diagram was finally won by the Crazy Tooth, is this true?"

The white-robed old man thought for a while: "I don't know, but the old man saw with his own eyes that when the crazy tooth went out of the capital, he directly took off his clothes, only a knife on his body, and he didn't wear any pants." If it weren't for this, it would have been difficult to escape the pursuit of the heroes at that time. ”

Cao Aning said: "After the fact, the imperial court traced it, and the Minglong map collected by the previous dynasty lost four pieces. One may have been taken to Nanxiao Mountain, one was taken away by the Beiliang people, and the remaining two are missing. I guess Crazy Tooth still succeeded, he broke into the Cheng'an Hall at that time, and then fled all the way, probably hiding the Ming Dragon Diagram in the wound......"

While the three of them were chatting, they walked out of the tunnel for a long time, and a light appeared in front of them.

A few oil lamps hung on the walls of the tunnel, along the walls were two tables with drawings and pen and ink, and there were more than thirty wooden barrels piled up on the opposite side of the wall.

Four or five men sat against the wall, with hoes, shovels and other tools beside them, and when they saw Cao Aning coming, they hurriedly got up to greet them:

"Lord Cao."

"Keep resting, just come and see ......"

In the middle of the wall, a horizontal hole was opened, revealing the earth, supported by wooden planks to prevent collapse, and oil lamps hung along the way, extending to the end of the field of vision.

Cao Aning came to the entrance of the newly dug passage and signaled inside:

"I have dug in front of the foundation, as long as I know the location of the bearing point, pour the molten oil on it, and soak it for two days to complete. But the Night Terror Hall is too calculating, and I don't dare to act rashly in the city......"

As soon as he was halfway through his words, the white-robed old man next to him raised his hand, turned his head to the deeper darkness, and frowned:

"Are you still over there?"

Cao Aning turned his eyes to look at the depths of the tunnel, slightly puzzled:

"If you go further, you will be near the imperial city, and you don't dare to set foot rashly, it has been sealed. Moving? ”

The white-robed old man listened attentively, then turned around and walked into the depths of the tunnel......

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The two palace lanterns were ten steps apart from each other, moving forward in the long tunnel.

The tunnel was so quiet that you could even hear each other's heartbeats when you pressed down your steps.

Plop ~ Plop ~

Night Terror walked ahead with a knife, carefully examining the details of the ground, and always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

Dongfang Liren carried the palace lamp, hugged the shoulders of the Queen Mother, and walked slowly behind, probably infected by the increasingly cautious appearance of the Night Terror, without words, just carefully looking around.

The Queen Mother was a little nervous by the two, because she walked too deep, and the unknown horror haunted her heart, which made her want to retreat a little, but it was not easy to say clearly, so she could only hold on to her sleeves and look left and right.

After walking like this, Night Terror suddenly stopped and raised his hand.

Dongfang Liren and the Queen Mother both breathed and asked in a low voice:

"What's wrong?"

Night Terror Hall frowned, half-squatted down, and illuminated the stone bricks on the ground with palace lamps, and some traces of soil could be seen on the stone bricks, although they had been dried and hard, but they were definitely not two hundred years old.

"There's something wrong with this place, someone else has been here recently."

"Huh?"

When the two women heard this, they naturally became nervous, and the Queen Mother asked:

"Is it a human or a ghost?"

Dongfang Liren felt that people were more terrible than ghosts, and raised his hand slightly;

"Shh~"

Night Terror Hall frowned, and there was a suspicion in his heart, but it was not very strange to think about it.

He found "The Secret History of Cleopatra" from King Wu's study, and King Wu looked at the content of digging tunnels, if someone has been here recently, then this person and King Wu are likely to have nothing to do with him.

Night Terror Hall thought about it slightly, looked ahead of the palace lamp, and after only a few steps, he found a brick wall blocking the tunnel.

The brick walls are freshly built, there are noticeable differences in color materials and authentic masonry, judging by the traces for a maximum of several months.

Dongfang Liren came to him with the Queen Mother in his arms, and his eyes became serious:

"Someone has found a tunnel, why is it blocking it here?"

"There is a high probability that the other party's target is not in the palace, but just borrowing this tunnel to approach a certain place in the city. I didn't dare to go forward when I walked here, I was afraid that I knew that the tunnel would enter the imperial city, and I was afraid of being exposed. ”

Night Terror said as he pulled out his knife and silently stabbed into the crack of the brick wall:

"It should be two walls, with straw, quilts and other things in between, so as not to make the sound over there too far and be detected by people in the direction of Miyagi."

The Queen Mother didn't expect to bump into this kind of thing, and thought for a while:

"Isn't the other party plotting against the other side of the wall?"

Night Terror felt that there was a high probability, and there was probably someone on the other side of the wall, so he raised his hand slightly and motioned for the two women to step back slowly and not make a sound......

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on the other side of the wall.

The white-robed old man silently came to the blocked wall ten zhang away, squatted down with one hand on his knee, and touched the ground with his palm.

Cao Aning and Xu Bailin followed behind, holding back their breathing, and asked in a very low voice:

"Anyone?"

The white-robed old man sensed for a moment, and bowed slightly:

"Three. I've noticed something strange about this place and I'm on the run, what are you going to do? ”

Cao Aning didn't know who the other party was, but if he could come from that end, he must have something to do with the palace, if this place is exposed, all plans will fall short, and he thought about it:

"The tunnel has been discovered, and it is useless to kill people and extinguish the mouth, so we can only advance the plan. The other party rushed in from the other end and did not check the exit, so he must not know where to lead. Find a way to collapse and block the tunnel, so that they can't figure out the specific direction, and drag it out for a day or two. ”

Cao Aning said this and looked at Xu Bailin:

"There's no need to find the key point, let them just pour the oil on it."

Seeing this, Xu Bailin retreated silently.

The white-robed old man stood up, scanned the rock-solid tunnel, studied the structure, and then slashed his footsteps, raised his breath with both palms, and a breeze appeared in the deep tunnel.

Seeing this, Cao Aning slowly retreated and opened the distance.

Whew~~

The white-robed old man held his hands round, his robe moved without wind, and his hands wandered for a moment, so he handed out his palms and slapped them on the blocked brick wall.

Boom –

In the dead tunnel, there was a sudden thunderous explosion.

The other end.

Night Terror retreated cautiously, and when he heard a slight movement in the distance, his heart sank.

As soon as he tried to retreat, the brick wall a few feet away swelled into a semicircle, and then exploded, and the knife-like wind penetrated the tunnel in an instant, and thousands of broken bricks were like locusts, shooting towards the three of them.

Night Terror's face changed suddenly, behind him were King Jing and the Queen Mother, there was no way to dodge, and the long and narrow tunnel did not make room for it, gritted his teeth and flew back, the long knife in his hand spun like the wind, blocking the two women behind him with his body and knife light.

Ding Ding Bell –

The sudden explosion frightened the Queen Mother into an exclamation, and Dongfang Liren reacted more quickly, turning around with all his strength to hold the petite and delicate Queen Mother in her arms.

Click, Click, Click

However, in an instant, thousands of broken bricks roared past the three of them, and countless bricks and stones were stirred into powder by the sword light, and the dust instantly obscured the tunnel, and also smashed the crumbling palace lamp.

Night Terror Hall blocked with all his strength with a long knife, and his upper body was not hit, but the robes and shoes on his lower body were pierced by the galloping blade-like gravel, and blood marks appeared on his legs.

The same is true of the phoenix skirt of Dongfang Liren and the Queen Mother, but the situation is much better when the night terrors are blocked.

"Let's go!"

Although it was dim and could not see anything, he knew that the sudden and powerful opponent would inevitably follow the gravel, and before he could completely sweep away the rubble, he advanced forward with a knife in both hands.

Boom –

In the tunnel, where you can't see your fingers, there is a terrible scream of air and masonry being torn apart!

Although the sword light could not be seen, the piercing sound pierced the tunnel in an instant, like an invisible dark arrow, which shot out more than ten zhang in an instant, and the light movement had already caused tinnitus to the two women in the closed tunnel.

Dongfang didn't dare to stay for half a minute, endured the stinging pain in his legs, and flew back with the Queen Mother in his arms.

The Night Terror Hall is in a lightless tunnel, and his eyes can't see, but this knife is not a random slash.

TRW does not rely on its eyes to see things at all, but perceives subtle changes in the environment.

Although he didn't see anything ahead, Night Terror could still vaguely catch a figure in front of the tunnel, squeezing through the air flow and dust mist, and the speed was unbelievable.

This knife slashed at the neck of the person who came with it, and obviously shocked the opponent as well.

The white-robed old man blasted out the masonry with his palms, knocking out all the light, and he couldn't see anything, but he could accurately judge the opponent's movements by relying on his breathing, robe friction and other movements.

Finding that the other party started a knife, directly at the neck, the old man in the white robe was secretly shocked in his heart, and saw that the other party was by no means an ordinary person, so he immediately put his palms together, clamped the head knife of the dragon ring, and pulled it to the side with skillful unloading, and at the same time leaned on his shoulders and crashed into the arms of the comer.

Night Terror Hall attacked with all his strength, and was caught by the other party with an empty hand, and suspicion flashed in his heart, but he did not withdraw the knife, but started from the ground, his waist was straight, and he hit the shoulder of the person who came with a hard touch in the style of 'bear spirit hard leaning'.

Boom –

In the narrow tunnel, two surging breaths exploded.

The floor tiles on which the two of them stood shattered, and lightning-like cracks instantly spread in all directions, and the flying dust and mist were scattered by the qi at both ends, engulfing the flying Dongfang Liren and Cao Aning with terrifying eyes on the other end in the blink of an eye.

In the loud noise, the white-robed old man did not move, but his body was knocked out, and his feet rubbed out a groove on the floor tiles.

Wow –

Not long after the night terror hall fist and foot kung fu practice, the internal strength was indeed a few points stronger, but the boxing frame was not as immobile as the white-robed old man, and he was knocked back a few steps and smashed several floor tiles.

Pedal Pedal –

The white-robed old man keenly grasped this, and before the crack spread and the masonry was about to fall down, his body was like a tiger pounced, and his two palms collapsed towards the chest and abdomen of the Night Terror Hall with the momentum of a golden dragon.

Although the movements were fast and terrifying, the old man's moves did not bring any movement from beginning to end, and the energy of his whole body converged between his palms.

And Night Terror Hall also felt that the skills of the people who came were unbelievably strong, but they obviously lacked stamina, either the old man or had a secret injury.

Seeing that the other party still dared to exploit the loophole, the night terror hall stood firm for an instant, then pulled back with his right foot, slashed horizontally with a knife in his left hand, and stuck the position of the comer, and at the same time clenched his right fist, the muscles of his body were towering, and he punched out from the back to the front, like a giant cannon rushing into the city, and the front bombarded between the palms of the comer.

Boom –

This head-on hedge is far more powerful than Fang Cai's collision.

The broken bricks that had just fallen from above were shattered by the shock, scattering and smashing into the surrounding stone walls.

The white-robed old man combined his palms and bit his fists, his arms and sleeves shattered from the cuffs, and the energy poured into his chest and abdomen, and the back of the robe exploded directly, and the white hair that was tied up flew out.

Night Terror Hall punched the ground and rushed out, and the clothes on the right half of his body were shattered by the qi, revealing half of the silver soft armor, but this time the lower coil was extremely stable, and the right foot supporting the ground stepped on the broken stone bricks, but the body did not move at all.

And the white-robed old man couldn't stand up again this time, the surging fist entered through the body from both palms, and the old leg behind him finally didn't hold up, there was a bend, and then it was like a landslide, and the whole person was blown out by a punch and flew to the depths of the tunnel.

Boom Boom –

They fought each other twice, but the brick wall exploded in an instant.

The destroyed tunnels began to collapse from above, and then the masonry and earth fell down, blocking the middle.

Night Terror punched out, and the broken bricks and dirt had already smashed into his body, and he was afraid of being buried alive, so he immediately put away his knife and turned around and ran wildly.

Dongfang Liren was swept away by two consecutive waves of air blowing from the rear, and he didn't figure out what was happening, but he tried his best to protect the Queen Mother and ran wildly, and just ran out of two steps, his body was light, and he was stopped by his waist and hugged and caught under his armpit.

The Queen Mother was the same, because she couldn't see anything, she found that her body was out of balance, and hurriedly grabbed the man's arm......

(End of chapter)