Chapter Twenty-Six: The Stranger in the Secret Room
Not far out of the palace, is the Southern Han Dynasty minister Cao Xiangui's Taiwei Mansion, here is probably in addition to the palace, the most heavily guarded place in the country, five hundred red armor guards patrol day and night, four arrow towers are set up in the four corners of the courtyard, each has eight strong crossbowmen on it, if anyone wants to steal something from the Taiwei Mansion, may just enter, will be shot into a hedgehog by the crossbow.
Night came quickly, and they knew that if they couldn't get the second half of the treasure map tonight, once they were startled, they would only be afraid that it would be difficult to get the treasure map.
"Boss Yu, why am I a little nervous, I didn't find it so difficult to enter the palace that day. Gui Ming rubbed his hands on the side.
"So we have to be more cautious tonight, but we don't know where this study is in the courtyard, and if we act rashly, it is easy to alarm the guards. Yu Zhong looked at the red-armored Jingwei who came and went in the courtyard, and said worriedly.
There was a whisper from the side: "The slave knows, hehe"
The two looked back, and sure enough, it was Su Sui.
"Miss Su, can you not be so elusive every time, don't you know that people are scary, scared to death?" Gui Ming patted his chest.
"At that moment, I will be tired of Miss Su leading the way. Yu Zhong whispered.
"The study is in the northwest corner of the house, the four arrow towers in the courtyard, echoing each other from afar, the thirty-two strong crossbowmen are all one in a million sharpshooters, it is almost impossible to attack, we only have one chance to avoid their vision and enter the courtyard, that is, when they change shifts. "Su Sui is very clear about the guards of the Taiwei Mansion.
Yu Zhong thought to himself: "It seems that this Miss Su has come to investigate more than once, but I don't know why, but she didn't succeed in taking the map." ”
Su Sui seemed to see the rest of his thoughts, and continued: "Entering the courtyard, this is only the first step, there are four red-armored Jingwei at the door of the study, all of them are strong martial arts people, once someone invades, they will issue a warning as soon as possible, I can't solve the four of them at the same time, so I have never successfully entered the study." ”
Yu Zhong said: "Miss Su, are you a roundworm in my stomach, why do you know what I think every time." ”
Su Xuanyan smiled and said, "Hehe, this is a woman's intuition. ”
"Whether we can get in tonight depends on whether Huang Pu Ji comes or not, we will stay here first, this is just an anticline, the arrow tower can't see us, we should recuperate." After saying that, Yu Zhong simply lay down and crossed Erlang's legs, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but I only heard the sound of beating in the distance. Yu Zhong opened his eyes, but Gui Ming and Su Sui didn't dare to relax for a moment, and kept observing the movements in the courtyard. I saw a few black shadows, and they felt into the courtyard from the opposite wall.
"It's coming. Gui Ming said in a low voice.
At this time, the strong crossbowmen on the arrow tower also began to take over.
Yu Zhong looked at the few black shadows that touched into the courtyard, and smiled secretly in his heart: "Huangpu gang leader, you are too easy to recognize, I have to wronged you tonight in order to successfully steal the map." ”
I saw Yu Chong's wrist flick, and a stone flew in the direction where Huang Puyu and the others were, and the sound of hitting the ground was very crisp.
"What people!" the red-armored guards patrolling nearby heard the sound for the first time.
"Up!" The three of Yu Zhong quickly turned into the courtyard to perform light skills, and touched the northwest corner of the courtyard. At this time, many red-armored guards began to surround in the direction of Huang Puyu and others. I only pity the emperor Pu Ji, who was surrounded by people at this time, so that every day should not be called the earth and the earth are not spiritual.
The three of them were cautious all the way, and smoothly touched the outside of the study, only to see that two of the four guards also rushed to support at this time, and only two were left to guard the study.
Yu Zhong and Gui Ming glanced at each other, and the two of them shot together like snakes out of the cave, and the two guards had already fallen down with a muffled sound before they could make a sound.
"Hurry up and find the secret room mechanism, Huang Pu Ji estimates that he can hold up half a pillar of incense at most. Yu Zhong said.
The three of them began to search the carpet in the house, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, but they didn't find it, and their eyes fell on a landscape map on the wall, which was a very ordinary painting, so ordinary that it was not worthy of the identity of the captain at all.
Yu Zhong stepped forward and opened the scroll, and a mechanism appeared on the wall, and he pulled the mechanism, only to hear a "boom", and a secret door appeared in the room instantly. The three of them glanced at each other, took out the fire fold, and cautiously walked into the secret door.
I saw a deep staircase inside the secret door, extending into the darkness. Gui Ming was about to go down to take a look first, but was pulled by Yu Zhong. Yu Zhong illuminated the stairs with firelight, and saw that the stairs were covered with dust, but there were a few neat footprints all the way down.
"Follow the footprints!" Yu Zhong walked first.
The three of them slowly followed the footprints, and finally reached the bottom of the stairs, only to see Yu Zhong take out a stone and turn around and hit the stairs without footprints.
"Whoa, whoa. "I saw that two crossbow arrows had been nailed to the top of the stairs, and the arrows shimmered with a dark blue luster under the light of the fire, which was obviously quenched poison.
"It's so dangerous, otherwise Boss Yu, you just grabbed me, and I'd be a hedgehog now. "Guiming is scared when he thinks about it.
"How can there be no mechanism in such an important place, we have to be cautious. Yu Zhong looked around, and the road in front of him was divided into two roads, and he didn't know where they all led.
"Guiming, you go to the right, Miss Su, you and I take the road on the left, and we will meet here in a while. After Yu Zhong finished speaking, he held the fire fold in one hand, and led Su Fei with the other, and walked to the depths of the Yongdao on the left.
The two of them also walked for a while, only to hear a slight voice in front of them, "How can there be someone here?" Yu Zhong thought of this, and couldn't help but grasp Su Xuan's hand behind him tighter. "Miss Su, there seems to be someone in front of here, let's be careful. Yu Zhong whispered, but did not respond, "Miss Su?"
Yu Chong turned around, but found that Su Sui was blushing and looking at him with shortness of breath, "I...... I'm fine!" Su replied.
"That's good, you don't look good, is it because the air is bad?" Yu Zhong said.
Su Sui only said in his heart: "I'm afraid this boy is a fool." ”
The two of them walked through the corridor, and at the end was a stone house, surrounded by walls, with a stone table and several stone benches in the middle, and the sound of chains clashing and gasping for breath came from the depths of the darkness.
"You...... Kill me......" A weak voice came.
There was really a person, I saw that he was unkempt, covered in blood, his face was hideous, his hands and feet were locked by the thick iron chains at the mouth of the bowl, obviously he had been tortured for many years, Yu Zhong couldn't help but let go of Su Xuan's hand, touched Yan Jun on his waist, and asked, "Who are you and why are you imprisoned here?"
"Ahem...... Cough...... I still think of Cao Xiangui, an old turtle, who are you, are you also here for the treasure map, die of heart, I won't say it. The man gasped.
"Seniors, rest assured, we are not all the way with Cao Xiangui, what kind of grudge do seniors have against him, and they have been tortured like this?" Yu Zhong saluted. But the strange man was silent, as if he did not trust them, and closed his eyes.
"Although this strange man is not good, he is locked here by Cao Xiangui, and I am afraid he is also a loyal and good person. Thinking of this, Yu Zhong decided to rescue him.
Yu Chong's right hand flickered, Yan Jun came out of the sheath, and the sound of the sword roared throughout the stone room, only to see a flash of red light, and the four thick iron chains with bowl mouths broke to the ground one by one. Yu Zhong himself was also taken aback, he didn't expect Yan Jun to be so powerful.
"Yu Gongzi, what are you doing?" Su Xuan was also taken aback by Yu Chong's sudden behavior.
"Miss Su, this senior has been tortured like this, and he must have been framed by Cao Xiangui, so let's save him. Yu replied.
"If you don't look for the map, you can make trouble for yourself. Su Xuan muttered.
The strange man opened his eyes wide in surprise at this moment and looked at Yu Zhong: "Less...... Young man, you really came here for the map, where did you get this sword?"
"Back to the words of the predecessors, I also got this sword because of fate, as for this treasure map, I have no interest, but this Cao Xiangui for this treasure map careless people's lives, painstaking management, presumably there must be an unreliable person's purpose, so the younger generation came here to explore. Yu replied.
Seeing that this strange man was still suspicious, Yu Zhong didn't care whether he wanted to or not, he stepped forward and picked him up, and said as he went: "Senior, if there is anything to say, let's go out of this secret passage first, and then say, we can't stay here for a long time." ”
The tiger left the mountain to explore the secret road, and the stone room imprisoned the destined people.