Hearing this voice, everyone's expressions were shocked. Some people who reacted quickly immediately blurted out: "It's empty down here, and there must be a secret passage underneath......"

When Shangguan Bing saw this scene, his face was also full of consternation. It seems that he shouldn't have known that there is another mechanism under this study. After being stunned for a moment, he shouted urgently outside the door: "Butler, find a few people to open this place for me." ”

With Shangguan Bing's shout, five or six family members walked in one after another with shovels and other tools. Facing the floor in the study, he began to dig.

About half an hour later, a secret passage under the study appeared in everyone's sight. And looking at the depth of the tunnel, as well as the surrounding soil and gravel, it should not have been dug up in the last year or two.

Shangguan Bing looked at the black secret passage with some disbelief, and shouted at the butler who was over sixty years old, "Butler, what is going on with this secret passage?"

The old housekeeper was also so shocked that his eyes were about to roll down, shook his head again and again, and said in a very innocent tone: "Young master, I don't know either." Under the master's study, how could there be such a secret passage......"

Ling Lingqi carefully glanced into the secret passage, and shouted coldly, "Bring a lantern!"

But Ling Lingqi's words fell for a long time, and still no one sent a lantern. After all, his master hadn't spoken yet, and the group of guards in the Shangguan Mansion didn't dare to make their own claims.

Seeing this scene, Shangguan Xue's apricot eyes widened, and she shouted angrily at a few family members: "Are you all deaf, hurry up and get a lantern!"

Seeing that the third lady had already spoken, several family members nodded again and again like chickens pecking rice. In just a quarter of an hour, three or five lanterns were picked.

Ling Lingqi went up and snatched a lantern from a family member. Through the faint light, he looked into the dark secret passage. A footprint suddenly came into view, which made him startled, and he immediately jumped down.

Seeing this scene, Shangguan Xue hurriedly shouted: "Ling Lingqi!"

Without waiting for the words to land, Shangguan Xue also snatched a lantern from the hand of the family member closest to her. Without the slightest hesitation, he jumped straight down.

Seeing this scene, Shangguan Bing and the others also grabbed a lantern and jumped into the secret passage one after another.

Other heroes of the rivers and lakes, except for a few people who were more courageous, also followed into the secret passage. The rest of the people could only watch from the outside.

The secret passage is relatively narrow, only allowing one person to pass through, there are about five or six feet, and a man like Ling Lingqi, who is more than seven feet long, has to bow his waist if he wants to pass through. And it's still a piece of Hesse inside, which can be said to be out of sight.

Although Shangguan Xue is more powerful in martial arts, she is still a girl after all. For some unknown things such as night, there is still an inexplicable fear in the depths of my heart.

Ling Lingqi saw Shangguan Xue also coming in, so he immediately turned around and said softly, "Follow behind me, be careful!"

Hearing Ling Lingqi's words, Shangguan Xue's heart, which was still frightened just now, calmed down a lot in an instant. nodded again and again, and replied softly: "I know, you should be careful!"

Ling Lingqi hunched his waist and walked cautiously for nearly half an hour in the dark secret passage, only then did he see a glimmer of light ahead.

"Ling Lingqi, there seems to be light ahead!" Shangguan Xue, who was walking behind Ling Lingqi, saw the light in front of her, and shouted in a slightly excited voice.

Ling Lingqi's expression still didn't have the slightest sense of turmoil. At this time, not only was he not excited to see the light, but there was a solemn meaning in his heart.

After Ling Lingqi carefully stared at the ray of light in front of him, he turned around slightly, and said in a very calm voice to Shangguan Xue who was following closely behind him: "There may be danger ahead, you have to be more careful!"

Outside the secret passage was a forest, and when he first came out, Ling Lingqi blocked his eyes with his hand to get used to the strong light.

"Ling Lingqi, have you found anything?" Shangguan Xue shouted from behind, and then drilled out of the dark secret passage.

Shangguan Xue obviously didn't have Ling Lingqi's experience in the rivers and lakes, as soon as she got out, her eyes were stabbed by the strong sunlight outside, and she was very uncomfortable, and she rubbed it vigorously several times, still feeling a little sour and dizzy.

Seeing this scene, Ling Lingqi asked softly with a hint of concern, "Are you okay?"

Shangguan Xue subconsciously shook her head and said, "It's okay, it's just that your eyes are a little uncomfortable!"

In a daze, Shangguan Xue actually saw a hand stretching out towards her face, and wanted to retreat subconsciously. But when she saw clearly that the owner of the hand was Ling Lingqi, she couldn't help but chuckle in her heart.

Ling Lingqi gently lifted Shangguan Xue's slightly messy sideburns, and then flicked his hand again.

Shangguan Xue was puzzled by Ling Lingqi's series of actions, but when she saw what popped off Ling Lingqi's hand. Only then did I understand that Ling Lingqi was just removing the cobwebs stuck to her hair for herself.

Thinking of this, Shangguan Xue subconsciously looked at the spider web that fell to the ground in the wind, and secretly thought in her heart: Is her face particularly dirty and ugly at this time......

Just when Shangguan Xue was thinking for a while, Shangguan Bing and the other five bold men in the rivers and lakes also drilled out of the secret passage, and their expressions were a little shocked to look at the scene in front of them.

After a while, a touch of incomprehension flashed in Shangguan Bing's black eyes, I don't know if he was muttering to himself or talking to others: "Where is this, why have I never been to this place?"

can make Shangguan Bing, a place where locals have never been. Can you imagine how secret this place is?

Ling Lingqi glanced around, paused slightly, and asked, "What mountains are on the periphery of Yuzhou?"

Shangguan Xue thought for a while, not knowing which mountain Ling Lingqi wanted to know, so she directly said all the famous mountains around her in one breath: "The north is Jade Mountain, and the west is Liang Mountain...... By the way, there is also an unknown hill in the east, because of the large number of sparrows gathered, the locals call it Sparrow Mountain. ”

Ling Lingqi, Shangguan Xue and a few others walked cautiously on Sparrow Mountain for nearly two hours, but they didn't make any substantive discoveries.

At this time, it was already dusk, like a bloody sun, and the entire mountain forest was reflected as if it was covered with a thin layer of blood mist. In addition, in the past few years, there are often ghosts and ghosts here, which adds a bit of horror and gloomy color to it.

When the sun was about to set completely, Ling Lingqi found a relatively empty woodland and said, "Let's spend the night here tonight, let's go around looking for some firewood, and light a bonfire at night to keep warm." (To be continued.) )