Before those zombies rushed to Yangyuan Palace, Yan Liqiang had already turned around, shed the last tear from the corner of his eyes into the restless air, and then rushed to the back of Yangyuan Palace!
Sun Bingchen could have left with them, but he chose another path. He used his life to give an account to the court, the people of the world, and the ideals he had fought for all his life. For him, this might be a way to completely calm his heart. If he had left with everyone else, then every second of his life might have been lived in endless guilt, self-blame, and the world's curses and accusations. That might have been the cruelest thing for him.
Yan Liqiang could actually leave from other places, but he chose the secret passage of the palace.
Because the imperial physician was also in the secret passage, Yan Liqiang could not watch this evil demon slip away from him again.
Yan Liqiang already remembered the map of the secret passage completely. The reason why Sun Bingchen unfolded the map in front of him was to leave Yan Liqiang a way to leave the palace safely.
The East Palace was in chaos. Because the crown prince had not yet married and had not ascended the throne, there were not many people in the East Palace to begin with. At this time, there were even fewer people. There were almost no people along the way. The corridors and gardens were littered with precious items used in the palace, broken vases, trampled silks and satins, and a lot of scattered gold, silver and jewelry. But at this time, no one cared. As long as they fell on the ground, no one would pick them up. They were thrown away like garbage.
Along the way, Yan Liqiang also saw several corpses of eunuchs and guards. Those corpses were not bitten to death, but killed by weapons. There were wounds on vital parts of their bodies. No one knew what had happened. In such a chaos, anything could happen.
Yan Liqiang moved very quickly, passing through a hall, a courtyard, and a garden, and finally came to a large garden behind the East Palace.
There was an artificial lake in the garden, and on the east side of the lake there was a 50-meter-high rockery. There were pavilions and towers on the rockery, stacked up layer upon layer, in an orderly manner, like a magnificent scene in a pot. At this time, there was a panic outside, but the garden seemed extremely quiet. Almost no one could be seen, and the noise came from outside and far away.
Yan Liqiang rushed directly to the bottom of the rockery and saw an entrance underneath it.
The rockery was rocky and formed by more than a dozen smaller rockeries. There was more than one entrance to the rockery, and the roads in the entrances were inside the rockery, like tunnels, intricate and intricate. The tunnels meandered upward and connected to each other, leading directly to the attic and pavilion at the top of the rockery. Usually, this was a good place to play hide-and-seek and steal jade and perfume. But at this moment, no one knew that this was the secret passage for escape in the East Palace.
Yan Liqiang rushed into the rockery, walked up more than 20 meters along the winding road inside the rockery, and came to an exit on the east side of the rockery. Outside the exit, on the hillside of the rockery, there was a unique small pavilion made entirely of bronze. There was also a plaque hanging on the pavilion - There is a Phoenix Pavilion. Outside the pavilion, there were many bamboos planted, which just completely covered the place.
This is it!
Yan Liqiang rushed into the pavilion, took a look at the bronze eight-immortals table inside the pavilion, put his hands on the table, exerted a little force, and turned it half a circle clockwise.
Click, click, click. With a slight sound of gears turning, a copper pillar in the pavilion did not move, but the pavilion began to move around the pillar, turning a small circle on the spot, and then immediately revealed a huge entrance covered by the pavilion. The winding stone steps extended underground. The Phoenix Pavilion was the cover of this entrance.
Seeing the entrance, Yan Liqiang slipped in instantly. Just as he entered and went more than 30 meters underground, the Feng Pavilion above turned around and covered the entrance.
Following the winding steps downwards, after walking fifty meters, that is, more than twenty meters underground, the steps disappeared and a secret passage appeared in front of Yan Liqiang.
The secret passage is surrounded by hard granite. The entire passage is more than two meters wide and two meters high. It is very spacious and can accommodate several people running side by side in it, and even troops can be deployed. On the walls on both sides of the secret passage, there is a long-burning lamp every ten meters or so, illuminating the secret passage.
There was already a thick layer of dust on the ground in the secret passage, and there were countless messy footprints on the dust, obviously someone had just walked through.
Yan Liqiang had just walked along the secret passage for a few dozen meters when he heard some slight noises in front of the passage. A person suddenly turned out from the front of the passage, and the two of them bumped into each other in the passage.
The one who turned back from the front was the imperial physician. For some unknown reason, the imperial physician, who had originally followed the large group of people, turned back alone.
Seeing Yan Liqiang, the imperial physician's eyes flashed with a strange color. He had never expected to meet Yan Liqiang here. He did not hide his surprise, "Ah, Lord Yan, you are also infatuated. By the way, where is Lord Sun? Aren't you two together?" While speaking, the imperial physician also looked behind Yan Liqiang...
"Master Sun asked me to come first. He has something else to do. He will come back later!" Yan Liqiang's expression was extremely calm. As he spoke, he walked towards the imperial physician. "Didn't Master leave with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Why are you the only one here..."
"Ah, I was in too much of a hurry to enter the secret passage just now, and left an important thing in the Prince's Palace. I was just about to go back to find it..." The imperial physician looked anxious.
"I wonder what it is that is worthy for the Imperial Physician to go back at this time?" The two people had already bumped into each other, but Yan Liqiang still did not show any abnormality.
"What I left at the East Palace was the set of golden needles that Enshi personally taught me. When I came to treat His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I accidentally left that set of golden needles at the East Palace. If it were an ordinary golden needle, it would be fine, but that set of golden needles was made of ten thousand year old blood jade and deep sea cold gold. It is difficult to find a second set in the world, so I want to find it back..."
Yan Liqiang looked at the Imperial Physician with concern, and quickly stopped him from being "reckless". "When I came here just now, those rioters had already rushed to the East Palace. I'm afraid the East Palace is in chaos now. If you go out through the secret passage, you will be in danger if you encounter those beast-like rioters. No matter how precious the Golden Needle is, it is a personal possession after all. It is most important to keep yourself useful now..."
While he was talking, Yan Liqiang's Mind Snake had been activated. Yan Liqiang originally wanted to try to see if he could use the Mind Snake to peek into the thoughts of this evil demon, but what surprised Yan Liqiang was that as soon as the Mind Snake was activated, he immediately knew the reason why the Imperial Physician turned back. He actually wanted to mark the entrance of the secret passage to show the way to the White Lotus Sect. He was sandwiched in a large group of people just now and had no chance to make any moves. So he had entered the secret passage and then turned back under the pretext of looking for the Golden Needle for Deliverance. The people with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were only concerned with escaping at this time, so they didn't care about the Imperial Physician's return to look for the Golden Needle for Deliverance...
The imperial physician's face showed an extremely contradictory expression. After a while of changing moods, he stomped his feet with a look of pain on his face. "Forget it, this is God's will. Lord Yan is right. At this time, it is more important to keep a useful body!"
"Your Excellency the Imperial Physician is right to think so. Let's go and catch up with the Crown Prince and the others..." Yan Liqiang said, and walked straight ahead.
"Okay, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the others are not far ahead, let's go together!" The imperial physician looked at Yan Liqiang's back, his eyes narrowed slightly, a trace of ferocity suddenly appeared on his face, and then a smile appeared again. He quickly caught up with Yan Liqiang, and the two of them walked side by side towards the front of the secret passage.
"By the way, Lord Sun hasn't entered the secret passage yet. Is he in danger..." The imperial physician inquired about Sun Bingchen's news inconspicuously.
"I don't know either. I think given Lord Sun's character, he wouldn't put himself in danger..."
"Yeah, that's true!" The Imperial Physician sighed, "I didn't expect that the Imperial Capital would suffer such a disaster. In the future, the Han Empire will have to rely on young and promising people like Lord Yan to support it. We are all old..." As the Imperial Physician spoke, a thin black needle appeared in his hand from his long sleeves. He covered the needle with his sleeves, and then walked with Yan Liqiang, taking the opportunity of swinging his arm to slowly approach Yan Liqiang...
"The Imperial Physician is right. The future of this empire will indeed depend on young people like us. You are too old..."
Hearing Yan Liqiang say this, the imperial physician was slightly stunned, but in the blink of an eye, his expression changed drastically. He looked down and saw that at some point, the tip of a pitch-black sword had already pierced through his heart, a full half foot...
The two stopped walking, Yan Liqiang looked at the imperial physician with a smile on his face, but there was a chilling coldness in his eyes...
The Imperial Physician also looked at Yan Liqiang. He could not have imagined that Yan Liqiang would actually, actually, take the initiative to plot against him at this time, and his first move was a fatal killing move...
Why
why is that
Why is this happening
"Master Yan... you... you..." Big mouthfuls of blood gushed out of the imperial physician's mouth. He stared at Yan Liqiang with wide eyes, and the hand holding the needle trembled as he tried to grab Yan Liqiang...
Yan Liqiang's hand was as fast as lightning. He grabbed the wrist of the imperial physician's hand. His face instantly became extremely cold. Without saying anything, he pulled out the black-scale sword and thrust it in again. In a flash, almost within one tenth of a second, the black-scale sword in Yan Liqiang's hand had stabbed the imperial physician's chest and lower abdomen more than twenty times in a row. Each time, it pierced through the imperial physician's vitals and stirred his body...
“Roar…” The imperial physician roared like a wild beast, and his body swelled up rapidly. The hideous and terrifying stratum corneum and scales like those on a reptile began to rise layer by layer on the skin on his face…
(End of this chapter)