"I checked the map. Unless you have left Suzhou City, otherwise, no matter where you are, if you want to get to where I am, that tunnel is the only way you must pass. I will always be waiting for you near the tunnel. .”
"As a result, as soon as you set off, the people from Huomen began to gather nearby. Haven't you ever thought about how your whereabouts were exposed?"
I was silent for a moment and said, "Tao Xiyu, does the Wugui Sect have any way to communicate secretly?"
"Yes, and there are a lot of them." Tao Xiyu said, "I also think it is inappropriate to suspect Xia Qingqing just because the Wugui Sect is gathering nearby."
Ye Xun said in a deep voice: "How to explain Xia Qingqing's disappearance?"
Tao Xiyu didn't seem to want to argue with Ye Xun and stopped answering Ye Xun's words, but I said in a deep voice: "I still want to give it a try regarding Xia Qingqing."
Ye Xun couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Okay, if you want to try it, go ahead and try it! Where are you going to find her now? Wait for her to come out?"
I thought for a moment and then said: "I know where to find someone. I've seen the map of Suzhou. Let's go!"
The place I took Ye Xun and Tao Xiyu to was the former site of the "Jiangsu Governor's Yamen". When the three of us rushed to the governor's Yamen, it was already late at night. We climbed to the roof under the cover of darkness, and Ye Xuncai asked in a low voice: "Why did you bring me here?"
"Looking for a family member." I said solemnly, "When Yong Zheng was in power, Xue Di Zi was always dealing with those women. Since the Tiger Hill Sword Pond is in Suzhou, Yong Zheng must put some effort here."
"During the Yongzheng period, Jiangsu had developed into the economic center of Jiangnan. The Qing government attached great importance to Jiangsu and established the position of governor of second-rank officials, and also set up the governor's office in Suzhou. If the blood drops are also looking for those people in Suzhou There must be a secret stronghold. That stronghold is probably in the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen."
While I was talking, I happened to see a spot of fire flashing on the rockery in the backyard of the governor's office: "Over there!"
When we jumped off the roof and caught up to the rockery, we happened to see the rockery slowly rotating from west to east, and the secret door hidden under the rockery appeared in front of us.
Xia Qingqing walked out of the secret door: "Please come inside!"
I quietly gestured to Ye Xun, and then followed Xia Qingqing into the secret passage behind the rockery. I quietly held down the handle of the gun and asked, "You brought us here, don't you want to explain something?"
Xia Qingqing said as she walked: "If I told you that I was hypnotized at that time, would you believe it?"
Ye Xun sneered: "Can a master of hypnosis be hypnotized by others?"
Xia Qingqing said slightly angrily: "According to your theory, does it mean that a master of swordsmanship cannot die by the sword, but can only be killed by a gun?"
Ye Xun was speechless for a moment, but Tao Xiyu said coldly: "Don't confuse the concepts. How can knife skills and hypnosis be compared?"
Xia Qingqing smiled lightly and quickened her pace. I followed him down four flights of stairs before entering a secret room underground. The expressionless Sheng Wuqian brought us tea: "Please use tea."
"I'm not busy!" I put down the tea cup, "I want to know the real purpose of establishing the secret room in the governor's Yamen during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng."
"Waiting for people from the Fox Clan." Xia Qingqing said, "The sorcerers of the Yongzheng Dynasty once calculated that one of the Nine Cauldrons fell into the hands of King Wu. The most likely place where King Wu hid the Nine Cauldrons is the Jianchi Tomb."
Tao Xiyu said in a deep voice: "Isn't Yongzheng looking for Jiuding to suppress the fate of the Qing Dynasty? Why didn't he open a sword pond? Don't tell me, Yongzheng had a heart to love the people, or maybe Yongzheng cherished the Huqiu Pagoda monument and didn't touch it. Touch the sword pool."
Tao Xiyu's sarcasm is not unreasonable. In the feudal era, the monarch was the king, and the so-called "people are the most important thing, the king is second" did not have much weight in the eyes of feudal emperors. As long as the existence of Jiuding is confirmed, even if Suzhou really turns into a vast ocean, Xuedizi will forcefully open the sword pool, let alone a Tiger Hill Tower
Xia Qingqing immediately replied: "The Nine Cauldrons govern the country. A single cauldron is more than enough to suppress the destiny of the Wu Kingdom, but using it to suppress the destiny of the Qing Dynasty can only be counterproductive. Unless the Nine Cauldrons are found at the same time, the Nine Cauldrons Formation cannot be activated."
I understand. In ancient times, China was divided into Jiuzhou, Jiuding Zhenguo, and each town had a state. If Yongzheng only takes one tripod, the fate of the other eight states cannot be suppressed, which will inevitably lead to variables. He did not dare to move King Yu's tripod easily.
I put my hands behind my back and said, "What do you mean, there must be Jiuding in the tomb of King Wu?"
Xia Qingqing shook his head and said: "I told you, that's just an inference, not a certainty. Xue Dizi has explored King Wu's tomb three times, but the entire army was wiped out. So, we can say that we don't know what secrets are hidden under the Jianchi. .”
Tao Xiyu sneered: "Is there any place where blood drops can't get in?"
Xia Qingqing retorted: "You mean, as long as you can find a tomb in the world, you can definitely enter it, right? Should I laugh at the Wugui Sect for being so ignorant?"
Xia Qingqing was right. Tombs in the world cannot be opened just by finding them.
Take the Qianling Mausoleum where Empress Wu Zetian is buried. Which one of Huang Chao, Wen Tao, and Sun Lianzhong who had ideas about the Qianling Mausoleum was not a warlord, and which one did not use thousands of troops? Huang Chao mobilized an army of 400,000 to dig into the mountain, but failed to touch the Qianling Mausoleum; Sun Lianzhong dispatched a mechanized reorganizer, but failed to see the true appearance of the Queen.
Tao Xiyu is not unaware of these things, and she is not a talkative person. She has been targeting Xia Qingqing, probably because Ye Xun failed twice in front of Xia Qingqing, and she wanted to regain the situation for Ye Xun.
However, she herself has now been attacked by Xia Qingqing. I can't just look at her indifferently!
I coughed twice and said, "Everyone, please stop being vindictive. To be fair, Xia Qingqing does have a lot of doubts about her. Sometimes, I have to doubt her motives. However, we are cooperating now. Without Before there is conclusive evidence, I hope everyone will not attack each other, as this is not good for our cooperation."
Ye Xungang was about to speak, but when the words reached his lips, he swallowed them back.
Since our debut, Ye Xun and I have cooperated with the Detective Hands, the Demon Sect, and the Ghostless Sect. Which time were we not seeking skin from a tiger, and which time were we not escaping from death
Currently, the only one we can reach cooperation with is Xia Qingqing. Although this cooperation is not reassuring, facing the Qingqiu Fox Clan, I can only join forces with Xia Qingqing first.
I believe Ye Xun should understand what I am thinking.
Ye Xun stopped talking, and Tao Xiyu simply turned his head away. I could only pretend that I didn't see anything, and forced a smile and said, "You continue to talk."
Xia Qingqing said: "Since the Yongzheng Dynasty, there have been people in Xuedizi who have been responsible for monitoring the sword pool, but the Fox Clan has never appeared. Although the Detective Hand has made strange movements, it has not been able to bring out the Jiuding."
I was silent for a moment and then said: "Let's ignore the matter of Jianchi for now. What happened over there in the tunnel just now?"
Xia Qingqing said: "Both Sheng Wuyuan and I were hypnotized. The other party's purpose was to make us kill each other. Fortunately, I broke free in time, but Sheng Wuyuan was controlled by hypnosis all the time. I could only Lure him away for now. It's as simple as that."
When I turned to look at Sheng Wuyuan, a flash of embarrassment suddenly flashed in the latter's eyes - I guess that being controlled by others would be tantamount to a great shame and humiliation for Sheng Wuyuan.
Tao Xiyu said coldly: "Then why didn't you join us and go directly to this place?"
"Let you bring people here." Xia Qingqing said in a deep voice, "Don't you see that your every move is under the surveillance of others? Qingqiu Fox should be among them."
Xia Qingqing said confidently: "Even if the Qingqiu Fox doesn't come, the people from the Wugui Sect and the Detective Hand will come. I want to leave some lessons for them here so that they don't get in the way all the time."
As Xia Qingqing spoke, the entire secret room suddenly sounded an alarm.
Xia Qingqing raised her eyes and said, "Here he is indeed. Release the fox."
Sheng Wuyuan casually opened the secret door in the corner, and three healthy foxes flew out of the wall and disappeared into the secret passage in the blink of an eye.
I looked at Xia Qingqing: "You use a fox to catch a fox?"
Xia Qingqing nodded and said: "The Qingqiu Fox Clan may not really be the mythical vixens, but since the battle between Xuedizi and Qingqiu Fox, we have been using foxes to track each other. Facts have proved that only foxes can find foxes."
While Xia Qingqing was still speaking, Sheng Wuyi reached out and opened the mechanism in the secret room, revealing more than a dozen copper tubes hidden in the wall.
This is still the same trick in Tailing. The Blood Droplet should have used the sound coming from the copper pipe to locate us.
Not long after, a rapid fox cry came from one of the copper pipes.
"In the direction of position A. I'll go take a look..." After Sheng Wuyuan pulled away, screams came out from more than a dozen copper pipes almost at the same time, and then, the sound of the knife tip striking was chaotic in the secret room. A group, it sounded like hundreds of masters were fighting desperately in the secret passage of the stronghold, screaming and cursing one after another.
I said in a deep voice: "Xia Qingqing, how many mechanisms have you set up in the secret room?"
Xia Qingqing calmly replied: "Although the mechanisms here are not as good as Tailing, they are enough to withstand hundreds of masters attacking at the same time. Unless the opponent uses high explosives, there is no way to break through the ambush outside."
I frowned and said, "Why do I feel that your mechanism has been breached?"
Xia Qingqing's expression changed slightly and she said, "What do you mean?"
I pointed to the copper pipes on the wall: "Listen for yourself. Isn't the sound of those people fighting too rhythmic?"
Although the screams outside did not come from one person, the sound of the swords clashing was extremely gentle, and even the intervals between each impact were exactly the same. It sounded like two people hitting each other's weapons in a tacit understanding.
Xia Qingqing's face changed drastically as she listened. She took a few steps to grab a copper pipe and shouted to the copper pipe: "On the 11th, what's going on outside?"