Despite being separated by a thick wall, Shi Huiru's voice still sounded sharp and frightened: "Yunzheng, Yunzheng!"
Yu Linglong sensitively sensed that something unexpected happened, she said to the wall in a low voice: "Hui Ru, you come out first, hurry up!"
Shi Huiru's voice was a bit crying, and said: "Yunzheng fell to the ground, as if she was injured... or poisoned... I, I can't pull her..."
Yu Linglong quickly scanned the empty room. It was obviously not suitable to stay here for a long time. With Shi Huiru's personality, she would not leave Yang Yunzheng alone in the dark room. Yu Linglong had no choice but to walk into the dark room quickly.
There was no candle in the dark room, so Yu Linglong could only rely on the faint light from the outside, and saw two figures on the ground, one was Shi Huiru, who was desperately pulling a limp figure, trying to move towards the door.
Just as Yu Linglong was about to step up to help, she heard a crash, and the gap behind her was quickly closed, and the dark room was suddenly plunged into darkness.
This sudden change obviously surprised Shi Huiru very much. There was a messy sound in the darkness, as if she had put Yang Yunzheng on the ground and ran over in the direction of Yu Linglong.
"What... what's going on here? How did the door close!?"
Yu Linglong was surprised for a short time, and immediately came back to her senses. She took two steps back, and used her memory to touch the wall that should have a gap, but found that there was no gap at all, let alone walked out. .
It seemed that someone had been guarding outside, and when they saw Yu Linglong entering the dark room, they immediately activated the mechanism and closed the dark room.
Shi Huiru's voice in the darkness was full of panic: "You... where are you?"
Yu Linglong reached out her hand in the direction of the sound, fumbled to grab Shi Huiru's arm, and said in a deep voice, "I'm here."
Like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving straw, Shi Huiru grabbed Yu Linglong's hand and said in a trembling voice, "What the hell is going on?"
Yu Linglong shook her head, and then remembered that Shi Huiru couldn't see her movements at this moment, so she took out the pouch that Xu Wang gave her, took out a fire bag and blew it, and only then did she see the situation around her clearly.
In the jumping flames, Shi Huiru's face was full of fear, even the arrival of the light did not ease her nervousness at all.
"What happened? Why did the door close? What do we do now..."
Yu Linglong patted her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, think about it, there should be a mechanism to get out."
After finishing speaking, she walked to Yang Yunzheng's side, leaned over and turned her face.
Shi Huiru said anxiously: "Just now I touched her face and hands were cold, she...is she dead?"
Yu Linglong paused for a moment looking at the face with her eyes tightly closed under the firelight.
As she expected, this dark room was indeed a trap.
Patting the dust off her hands, Yu Linglong stood up and said, "Yes, she is indeed dead."
Shi Huiru screamed, and her petite body slid weakly from the wall to the ground.
Although her courage is not small, she is just a young lady with no power to restrain her chicken. Now that she has undergone a sudden change, and she is staying in an airtight dark room with a dead body, how can she not faint at this moment? In the past, even if it was bold.
Yu Linglong looked at Shi Huiru and said calmly, "It's just that she's not Yang Yunzheng."
Shi Huiru turned pale with fright, and subconsciously looked at the corpse on the ground: "This...how is this possible?"
There was no candle in the dark room just now, and she was preconceived, thinking that the woman lying on the ground was Yang Yunzheng, but after looking at it now, she found that the corpse was just a strange woman wearing Yang Yunzheng's clothes. I don't know.
Shi Huiru is not a fool, she immediately understood the cause and effect of this matter, she raised her head to look at Yu Linglong, with a look of grief and pain on her face: "She... She lied to me... I even got you involved..."
The more she thought about it, the more sad she became, and she couldn't stop crying loudly.
To be deceived by a good friend like this is really not something an ordinary person can bear. Yang Yunzheng used her with lies to lure Yu Linglong here for the obvious purpose of wanting their lives.
It seems that Yang Yunzheng is right in at least one thing, that is, the Yang family is loyal to the crown prince.
If he could get rid of Yu Linglong, Princess Xu, for the crown prince, it would be a great achievement for the Yang family.
And Shi Huiru, naively listened to Yang Yunzheng's words, and even told Yang Yunzheng the secret of how to open and close her darkroom, but in the end she and Yu Linglong were imprisoned here together.
Betrayed by the person she loves and the friend she trusts most, Shi Huiru's pain at this moment can be imagined.
Seeing her grief-stricken look, Yu Linglong said in a deep voice, "Now is not the time to cry, think about it carefully, how can you get out from here?"
Shi Huiru came back to her senses, wiped the tears off her face with her hand, leaned on the wall to stand up, and said, "I remember..."
As soon as her hand touched the wall, she quickly retracted it: "Why is it so hot?"
Yu Linglong's heart sank, and she immediately stretched out her palms to test the temperature of the wall. Shi Huiru was right, the wall, which was cold just now, became extremely hot at this moment, and the temperature in the dull and narrow dark room was also constantly rising. , almost becoming unbearable.
Even if she was as calm as Yu Linglong, she couldn't help but uttered a rude sentence: "Damn!"
It's not enough for Yang Yunzheng to put them in a dark room, but also to burn them to death!
There were drops of sweat on Shi Huiru's forehead. She didn't know whether it was heat or fright. She looked at Yu Linglong with guilt in her eyes: "It's all my fault for getting you..."
Yu Linglong clenched her fists tightly and said, "Don't talk about this, think about it quickly, is there a mechanism to get out!?"
Shi Huiru regained his composure, walked quickly to the direction of the entrance, and said while searching the wall, "Yes! I remember my father said that there is a button in this secret room—"
Yu Linglong immediately walked to her side and held the torch for her. The two of them endured the rising temperature, and their eyes quickly searched the dark wall.
Not long after, Shi Huiru let out a cheer: "Here!"
Yu Linglong handed over the fire folder, and saw a thumb-sized iron button embedded in the wall on the right, emitting a gray light under the firelight.
Shi Huiru couldn't wait to reach out to press it, but as soon as she touched the button, she immediately shrank back in pain: "It's so hot—"
The fire outside has been burning this wall, and the button has been baked for a long time, so the temperature is naturally not low.
Yu Linglong quickly pulled off the hairpin ring from her head, and stretched out her hand to dial the button on the wall, but the button was very smooth, although the hairpin was hard, it was far from big enough, and couldn't be used at all.
Apart from jewelry, the two of them have nothing else on their bodies.
Yu Linglong suddenly remembered the dagger in her purse, and immediately took it out, but the handle of the dagger was bigger than the button, and the button was embedded in the wall, so the dagger was completely useless.
Enduring the pain in her hands, Shi Huiru tore off half of her sleeve, wrapped it around her fingers in a hurry, and pressed the button!
A smell of burnt fabric suddenly rose in the sultry air. The temperature was so high that it must have burnt through the thin fabric in an instant, and Shi Huiru's fingers...
Yu Linglong was startled: "Hui Ru—"
Before he finished speaking, he saw that the button sank, and a gap opened on the wall, and the long-lost light immediately poured into the dark room.
Although the time they were locked inside was not long, in the eyes of the two of them, it was almost a pass through the gate of hell.
But before they cheered their success, they were speechless by the scene in front of them.
The room, which was empty just now, was now full of flames running around, crackling. Obviously, Yang Yunzheng was afraid that the dark room would not be able to trap them, so he even set the whole courtyard on fire!
In this way, even if Yu Linglong and Shi Huiru escaped from the dark room, they still cannot escape the flames outside!
Although the dark room was stuffy and hot just now, there was no open flame after all, but as soon as they came out, they were almost immediately plunged into the sea of flames. The flames rushed towards them like poisonous snakes, licking their dresses and hair. The ground was covered with greasy kerosene, and there was nowhere to stay.
Shi Huiru tightly clutched his burned fingers, crying in despair: "What should we do? What should we do!?"
Gritting her teeth, Yu Linglong quickly tore the skirt into two pieces, stuffed one piece for Shi Huiru, and waved the other piece herself, slapping the flames that were madly attacking them, and said loudly: "Go!"
She was never one to give up lightly, even if she couldn't escape, she would never wait here to die!
Seemingly inspired by Yu Linglong's courage, Shi Huiru stood up, followed Yu Linglong's example, waving the dress in her hand, and ran towards the door.
Just a few steps, but the distance between life and death.
Huo seemed to be frightened by their boldness, but after a while, he rushed towards them more fiercely. The clothes in Yu Linglong's hands caught fire quickly, and were burned to ashes in an instant. It wasn't much better, the flames on the cloth grew until it was so hot she had to throw it away.
The door was right in front of them, and the two of them rushed over quickly, one behind the other, protecting their heads and faces.
It seemed that they were unwilling to let them go like this. As the flames expanded, the door above their heads