In the dark stone cave passage, Zhao Bufan took advantage of the light of the torch to carefully look at the spring palace pictures on the stone walls on both sides, only to feel more and more unbearable, and couldn't help but turn around and look at Zhu Lian who was following behind him with his head down.

"Lian'er, I don't think it's suitable for you to continue to go in, it's better to wait outside!"

"Hmm!" Zhu Lian nodded slightly, and the flush on his cheeks almost spread to the base of his neck.

Liu Zhongwu, who was walking in the forefront, also reacted, and shouted at the moment: "Little Wu, take a dozen brothers to escort Princess Zhu out, there must be no accidents!"

"Yes!"

A personal guard responded loudly, beckoning more than a dozen people to quickly escort Zhu Lian away.

Without Zhu Lian's presence, everyone was obviously much more relaxed, and gradually began to appreciate those exquisite murals, not to mention that the content of these spring palace pictures is strange, unheard of, eye-opening, only its artistic value is not low, each picture is vivid, vivid and vivid, if it can be passed down to future generations, it must be a rare treasure.

Zhao Bufan was also amazed, and unconsciously followed Liu Zhongwu deeper and deeper.

Suddenly, Liu Zhongwu paused.

Zhao Bufan was too focused on looking at the Spring Palace map, so he didn't notice him stopping, and directly bumped into it, but it startled Liu Zhongwu.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Zhao Bufan hurriedly explained, looking a little embarrassed.

Liu Zhongwu turned his eyes to look at the murals on both sides, and a narrow smile appeared on his face: "It's okay, these Spring Palace pictures are colorful and strange, and it is normal for the little prince to be fascinated, from an artistic point of view, it is indeed worth appreciating." ”

This made Zhao Bufan even more embarrassed, and said with a smile: "I just take a look at it...... By the way, why don't you leave?"

Liu Zhongwu shook his head with a smile, turned his head to look ahead and said, "The grotto has collapsed, it is impossible to get by, I am afraid this trip is in vain." ”

"Collapsed?"

Zhao Bufan couldn't care about his thoughts, he suddenly looked up at the passage in front of him, and by the light of the torches in the hands of the guards behind, he vaguely saw the scattered boulders, and the entire passage completely collapsed, and there was no gap at all.

His face instantly turned pale.

"Hmph! Such a large grotto will be destroyed if it is said to be destroyed, what a big gesture. ”

Liu Zhongwu was very puzzled in his heart, and looked at it with blazing eyes: "Such a large grotto is by no means something that ordinary people can build, and the cost is extraordinary, but now it is directly destroying this place, it can really be said that it is rich and rich, what kind of force does the little prince want to investigate?"

"Hey!"

Zhao Bufan sighed, didn't want to involve Liu Zhongwu, shook his head and replied: "This matter still needs to be kept secret, General Liu don't ask for the time being, he will naturally know in the future." ”

Liu Zhongwu is now over sixty years old, not only has he fought on the battlefield for decades, but also has been based in the imperial court for decades, how clever his mind is, his eyes squinted and thought for a moment, and he had already guessed in an instant.

"You check Wanhualou?"

"Huh?"

Zhao Bufan's eyes were stunned, he really didn't expect him to guess so quickly.

As if seeing what he was thinking, Liu Zhongwu smiled and said meaningfully: "The little prince went to this troubled place to investigate the case regardless of his own safety, naturally he will not be an ordinary person, now Tong Guan has subdued the law, and there are only a few major events that have happened recently, and the last general knows a little bit, so it is naturally not difficult to guess, not to mention that the last general also knows something about this Wanhualou." ”

"General Liu also knows the background of Wanhualou?" Zhao Bufan asked.

Liu Zhongwu smiled and nodded: "I have heard a little!"

"Then General Liu has any evidence?"

Liu Zhongwu laughed, stroked his beard and said: "If the last general has clear evidence, he will not be played a book long ago, the last general is just a warrior with troops, these are not within the scope of the matter, he has not investigated deeply, and he has no right to investigate, let alone dare to investigate." ”

These words were vague, but Zhao Bufan knew very well what he meant, so he didn't ask any more, and instead said: "Since the general himself also knows about Wanhualou, then I have nothing to hide, this trip is to track down this killer organization, and according to my investigation, this is where their main hall is located." Now that they are destroying this grotto at any cost, it is obvious that they have completely identified my identity, and this trip is considered a trip in vain, and the clue is broken. ”

Liu Zhongwu fell silent, seeming to hesitate.

After a while, he raised his head again: "Little prince, the last general didn't want to meddle in these things indiscriminately, but the little prince worked so hard for the Great Song Dynasty, which is really moving, and the last general will help the little prince." ”

Zhao Bufan heard some taste.

"Is there a way for General Liu to solve my predicament?"

Liu Zhongwu did not rush to give an affirmative answer, but instead asked: "This grotto is huge, why doesn't the little prince start from the supply and demand of its materials?"

"That's where I found it, and that key person is dead, and the clue is broken. ”

Liu Zhongwu nodded calmly: "Why did the identity of the little prince be revealed?"

Zhao Bufan frowned and said: "This is also where I am very confused, it stands to reason that even if I investigate Wanhualou, even if the other party finds me, they should not know who I am, because in the process of investigating here, I was simply easy to look at, but they not only knew, but also let Wang Qing know, so that I was forced to hide some time ago, delaying the best time to investigate." ”

"Why didn't Wang Qing know first and Wanhualou later?" asked Liu Zhongwu.

Zhao Bufan said with certainty: "If Wang Qingxian knew, then I wouldn't have been able to go to Shiyan Town at all, let alone have the opportunity to check Wanhualou, Wang Qing knew the time after I came to this Shuiquan Peak, in that short period of two or three days, I not only changed my appearance, but also had a limited number of places to haunt, but Wanhualou had the opportunity to find my whereabouts." ”

At this time, Zhao Bufan did not express his doubts about Cheng Zheng and Xie Wufeng, because there was no reason to say that Cheng Zheng and Xie Wufeng were traitors, so he chose to trust, but he only secretly guarded in his heart, but did not treat them as suspects.

"In this way, all the key clues are gone, and it is indeed a bit difficult to do. ”

Liu Zhongwu frowned and said, quietly thinking for a long time, not in a hurry to make any more remarks, but instead walked directly to the outside of the passage.

Zhao Bufan didn't know why, so he followed him out.

When he came to the boulder corridor outside, Liu Zhongwu still didn't talk to him, while quietly instructing a few guards to climb to the top of the mountain, he circled around the boulder corridor again, looked carefully, and seemed to be secretly chattering in his mouth, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

After more than an hour, everyone returned to the gate of the grotto.

The guards who climbed to the top of the mountain also came down quickly, and whispered to Liu Zhongwu for a long time, and Liu Zhongwu's expression gradually relaxed.

Zhao Bufan felt that Liu Zhongwu seemed to have discovered something, and he couldn't bear the doubts in his heart, and asked urgently: "General Liu, don't hide and pinch, I'm really anxious in my heart." ”

Liu Zhongwu smiled slightly: "Little prince, can you tell the last general about the process of discovering this place again?"

"Yes!"

Zhao Bufan nodded, sorted out his thoughts a little, and began to force Zhou Yuanwai to come to Shuiquan Peak, and told this experience in detail.

Liu Zhongwu listened quietly, and a smile appeared on his face.

"The little prince didn't run in vain, and the last general knew where the magic cave of Wanhualou was. ”

Zhao Bufan was stunned.

"Isn't the grotto just in this mountain?"

"No! the grotto is not here!" Liu Zhongwu replied categorically.

"Not here?" Zhao Bufan looked at the cave door next to him in surprise, and didn't know what he meant: "Then what is this cave door?"

"It's a passage, an ordinary passage, a passage that connects to a real grotto. ”

Liu Zhongwu's eyes flashed, and he slowly explained: "Little prince, the last general found that the passage was very long in the cave earlier, and he was extremely puzzled in his heart, this place is already so secret, why do you need to build such a long passage, wouldn't it be better to build a palace cave house directly after entering the door, this is one of the doubts."

After that, we will go out of the gate and walk along this huge stone corridor again, which is to calculate the straight length of the mountain, and estimate where we have walked in the passage earlier, and it turns out that we have already walked to the center of the mountain, which is really strange, if the cave is in this mountain, why we have reached the center or the passage, this is the second doubt.

The third is that the last general sent his brothers to climb to the top of the mountain peak and asked them to find the water inlet I mentioned, but there was no such thing as a non-existent entrance, so the last general basically confirmed that the passage we walked just now was just a passage, and it was not the grotto at all. ”

Zhao Bufan was a little puzzled when he heard this, and asked out loud: "What is the water inlet?"

Liu Zhongwu said with a smile: " There is no mountain spring water source nearby, if the grotto is built in the mountain peak, if they do not store water, what should they do for daily use, since it costs so much, it is naturally impossible to build a place full of defects, so they will definitely try to store water, and no matter how clever their mechanism is, if they want to introduce a large amount of rainwater, there must be a flaw outside, but my guards climbed to the top of the mountain according to my instructions to see, there is no trace at all, and for various reasons, then the final general will conclude that the grotto is not in this peak, and it is just a passage leading to the real grotto。

In addition, I just asked the little prince to tell the way to find here, so as to know the nearby situation, then the location of the grotto and the entire structure has a complete grasp, if there is no accident, then the grotto of Wanhualou is in the Yunshui Temple, they in order to hide people's eyes, ordered the Zhou Yuan to purchase materials outside the detour to the opposite cliff, from the Huangquan Bridge to this stone gate channel, and this stone gate passage is only a hidden road to the Yunshui view. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Bufan's expression changed, and he asked in disbelief: "Why does Wanhualou go to such great lengths? Why should Yunshuiguan go to such trouble if they want to purchase materials? They have many ways to cover people's eyes, so why should they pay such a big price? The Taoist priests of Yunshuiguan don't seem to be fake, how can they act?"

Liu Zhongwu smiled and shook his head: "Little Wangye, you are a bit of a fascination with the authorities, and the last general believes that with the eyes of the little prince, he will definitely be able to distinguish whether the Taoist priest of Yunshui Temple is true or false, and it is indeed impossible for hundreds of people to disguise themselves as Taoist priests, but has the little prince ever thought that it is precisely because the Taoist priests of Yunshui Temple are real, so Wanhualou has to go to great lengths to make such a long passage and open the gate at this Shuiquan Peak?"