Chapter 34: A Dead End
Rong Jingru looked through the faint light of the fire fold and found that there was a person in the team who fell into the black hole without knowing what was going on.
"Why didn't this happen when I first came here?" Rong Jingru was a little curious.
"It may be that Qi Yan has touched some mechanism." At that moment, one of the guards reached out and grabbed her, so that she didn't fall directly.
"It's so dangerous, but luckily you caught my hand, otherwise I might have fallen." Ding Qiyan still feels really scared for a while.
The guard just smiled and shook his head, and if everyone paid attention at this time, they would notice that the roots of his ears were slightly red.
However, in this way, it obstructs the course of the people behind them.
Seeing this, Rong Jingru walked over and looked at the black hole, and after confirming that there was no danger, she decided to go down from the black hole.
"When you go down, be careful not to get separated." Rong Jingru didn't forget to explain.
I saw Jin Wushuang grab Ding Qiyan with his hand, and with a mention of his internal strength, he took Ding Qiyan down with light skills.
Originally, these guards still wanted to step forward to take Rong Jingru with them, but she had just visually measured the distance and felt that she could do it with the light skills she was practicing now, so she didn't agree.
Rong Jingru directly hugged Tinker Bell, tiptoed, and jumped down.
At this moment, everyone mentioned their throats, and Rong Jingru finally landed safely.
In this way, one after another came to the bottom, and it turned out that the bottom was also a secret passage like the top, but the only difference was that the ground was relatively flat.
Simply everyone was in danger and landed on the ground.
However, Tinker Bell felt a little bad, and was busy "meowing" at Rong Jingru a few times in a row, because it felt that the road would not be too smooth.
"Don't worry, Tinker will pay attention to me, and if you find something wrong in a while, you must remind me in time." Rong Jingru carefully stroked Tinker Bell's little head.
Tinker Bell seemed to understand Yun Yaru's promise, so she obediently closed her mouth.
"Ma'am, can you understand what it says?" The guards were a little incredible.
"Basically, you can understand it, so let's be careful." Rong Jingru didn't want any loss of personnel.
"We'll be careful." After what happened just now, everyone didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, no one knew what they would encounter next.
"This time, everyone in the back will follow the footsteps in front of them, so it won't be easy to touch any hidden mechanisms." Rong Jingru looked at everyone and instructed with some unease.
Everyone nodded hurriedly, after all, they didn't want to encounter the same thing, so they simply didn't encounter anything for the time being.
"Jingru, you see there seem to be some strange symbols on the wall over there." Jin Wushuang suddenly whispered.
After Rong Jingru approached with a lantern, she squatted down and took a closer look, and found that she had never seen a single symbol.
"Come and see, do anyone know these symbols?" Rong Jingru said, stood up, and gave up her position so that they could see the symbols on the wall.
However, to Rong Jingru's disappointment, none of them knew these symbols, it seemed that she had to rub these symbols down and take them back to her husband, after all, he was the general of Zhenbei, and he might not have encountered them somewhere.
Rong Jingru said to Ding Qiyan: "Qiyan, please take paper and ink to rub these symbols." ”
"Okay." Ding Qiyan said, then took out paper and ink from the small bag and began to rub it.
Soon, Ding Qiyan, with the help of Qiu Mo, printed those strange symbols on the paper.
"Jingru, you put it away, maybe it will be useful when it will be useful?"
Even if Qi Yan doesn't remind her, she will put it away, after all, she still wants to know what these symbols represent.
"Alright, let's move on." Rong Jingru saw that there was nothing else to do, and after putting it away, she continued to walk forward.
It's just that there are different situations several times in a row, and the group will use lanterns to illuminate the walls from time to time to see if there are any similar symbols in the process of walking.
However, at this time, Rong Jingru was really excited in her heart, because she remembered the pictures she saw in the TV series in her previous life, and she was now wondering if these strange symbols would be a treasure map or a map of a certain place, if it was really what she thought, she felt that her trip was not in vain.
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The terrain in this secret passage is actually a bit complicated, especially since they don't know if there are any hidden mechanisms inside.
That's when they came across a fork in the road.
"Madame, which way shall we go?"
"Let's go to the right first, and if it doesn't work, we'll go back here and walk the left road together." Rong Jingru touched her chin and thought about it.
As soon as the words fell, Jin Wushuang had already picked up the long sword in his hand and left a mark directly on the inconspicuous place on the stone wall.
"Alright, let's go."
Rong Jingru nodded, but to their disappointment, they didn't walk for long, and they actually found that there was no road ahead, could this be the legendary dead end.
"Let's all look around and see if there are any mechanisms?" Rong Jingru also wanted to confirm again, otherwise she would not be at ease.
Not necessarily in case the wall was deliberately used by those people to disrupt the view.
While talking, everyone began to grope on the stone wall, not to mention, they were really guessed correctly by Rong Jingru.
I saw Jin Wushuang rotate the candlestick in a reverse circle, and then gently pushed it upward, and then heard a "click" sound, and the stone wall in front of them began to slowly rise upward.
After a while, a bright light appeared in front of me, and the surroundings suddenly opened up.
"Good guy, there is so much food and weapons hidden here." When a guard saw the scene in front of him, he looked shocked and couldn't help but say loudly.
This amount is indeed a bit much, Rong Jingru estimated that if this food was used in the barracks of King's Landing, it would be used for at least three months, which was still her conservative estimate.
As for the various weapons piled up everywhere on the ground, since she didn't count them in detail, she roughly estimated that they should be able to prepare two or three hundred people.
Qiu Mo found that the adult breath on his wife's body was getting colder and colder, so she guessed she was angry, right?
However, she was also very angry, someone actually hid so much food and weapons under the nose of General Zhenbei, if this was not discovered by Madame in time, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Now it seems that we must tell the general about this discovery as soon as possible." Rong Jingru is afraid that if it is too late, it will change, and then it will be troublesome.
She had just settled down in northern Xinjiang, and she didn't want to make trouble again.
"Jingru, the passage on the left, do we still want to go over and explore it now?" Jin Wushuang asked.
"Don't panic for now." Rong Jingru felt that nothing was as important as this pile of food and weapons.
"You press the mechanism to close this place again."
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Zhenbei General's Mansion.
Although they didn't find those people who pretended to be gods and ghosts on their trip to the secret passage, the harvest was still good.
"Qiu Mo, go and invite Uncle Quan over." Rong Jingru paused, "As for the few of you, it's best to forget what you saw today." ”
After all, food and weapons should not be publicized everywhere.
The guards who followed him today were all smart people, and they immediately understood what their wives meant, because they also realized the seriousness of the problem.
"Ma'am, do we need to send someone to guard around that house?" Guard B asked.
"Then I won't look for anyone else, it just so happens that you know about it." Rong Jingru was also worried that before they sent someone over, someone secretly transported the food and weapons.
The guards answered, then turned and retreated.
It didn't take long for Uncle Quan to be found by Qiu Mo.
"Madam, I wonder what is the matter with calling the old slave over so late?" Uncle Quan was a little puzzled, could it be that something was found in that ghost house.
"I'm going to the barracks now." So Rong Jingru told Uncle Quan about the large amount of food and weapons they had accidentally discovered.
Today, if it weren't for the curiosity of his wife to explore the ghost mansion, he would not have found that there was so much food and weapons hidden inside.
"It seems that the reason why that house is called a ghost house should be a ghost made by someone with a heart, the purpose is that they can rest assured that they will build a secret passage in it and hide food and weapons." Uncle Quan immediately understood, and only felt that the person was extremely cunning, which really confirmed the sentence, the most dangerous place is the safest.
Uncle Quan only thought about it for a short time and agreed, after all, only the lady who had been there knew the specific situation best.
"Madam, do you want the old slave to send some more people over?"
"No need, I've already asked the guards who came with me today to go there and guard it, and I think if anyone shows up, they will report to us as soon as possible." Yun Yaru didn't want more people to know about it.
After all, no one knows if there will be eyeliner that other people will put in it, so it's better to be careful.
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"Congratulations to the host for finding so much food and weapons, and avoiding a catastrophe for the northern frontier."
Rong Jingru didn't expect her own Meng Meng to speak out at this time, but she was also very excited when she heard this, after all, she would have to live in Northern Xinjiang in the future, and she didn't want anything to happen.
What can he do for the people of Northern Xinjiang, Rong Jingru also feels very honored.
"I hope that the host can make persistent efforts in the future, and in order to reward the host for this major discovery, a copy of the Poison Sutra will be rewarded."
It seems that Meng Meng wants to let herself develop towards medical and poison practitioners, but this is fine, after all, Northern Xinjiang belongs to the frontier, and although she has a system to reward herself with pills to improve her internal strength, but after all, she has only been learning martial arts for a long time, and sometimes it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, with this poison scripture, she can refine some pills for self-defense.
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Outside the barracks.
"Steward Quan, I wonder what is the matter with you coming here so late?" A soldier guarding outside the barracks saw the figure of Steward Quan and hurriedly asked.
"I have something to see the general, I wonder if he is asleep now?"
"The general shouldn't have slept yet." The soldier looked at the sky before speaking.
"I just don't know the steward, who is sitting in the carriage?" This soldier was still very loyal to his duties, and he didn't see Uncle Quan and let them in.
"Inside are the general's wife and her maid."
As he spoke, Jin Wushuang had already lifted the curtain from inside, revealing Rong Jingru's face.
When the soldier saw the face of the general's wife, he was almost blinded, but fortunately, Uncle Quan coughed lightly, and the soldier came back to his senses.
"If you are not at ease, you can ask someone to inform your general, and say that the general's wife has come to find him on important business." Rong Jingru didn't want to embarrass the soldier, so she spoke up.
Rong Jingru's voice also just relieved the soldier's embarrassment.
After all, the military camp is heavy, and she doesn't enter it casually, even if no one says this, she still knows it.
Uncle Quan didn't expect his wife to be so reasonable, and he was very considerate of the soldiers guarding outside the barracks.
How did he know, it was because Rong Jingru had watched too many TV series in her previous life, although she didn't have the opportunity to really enter the barracks, but there were some things that were all over the place.
"I'll go and report it now, and I'm sorry for you to wait here."