King Zhen sighed and said slowly: "I didn't want to open this secret passage at first, but I heard from our ancestors that there is a dungeon under this secret passage, and there are fierce beasts in the city. Release is a disaster for the world, so it is not allowed to do so if it is less than 10,000."
"His Royal Highness King Zhen still believes in this kind of legend." The minister smiled, "I have heard of this legend. It is said that there was a town in the past, and the people in the town were very warlike and murderous. Being cursed, everyone grew old overnight. In order to break the curse, the city lord made a deal with the devil, taking the unopenable treasures left by the ancestors in the city with the devil, and finally released the fierce beast , the fierce beast slaughtered all the people in this town, and later, a tall man passed by the town, pressed the town into the ground, and suppressed the fierce beast in a piece of land."
After the minister finished speaking, he shook his head and said, "However, I have never seen any ferocious beasts in most of my life. These are all made up by the ancestors of Southern Chu to coax children, and passed down from generation to generation. You actually believe it, King Zhen. "
King Zhen did not speak but carefully groped on the wall of the secret passage. Her mother and concubine used to be the Xiao family who hid from the world. This ancestral precept was also told to her by her mother and concubine. As for why there is a secret passage under the residence of Prince Zhen, it depends on It started more than twenty years ago.
More than 20 years ago, Prince Zhen's Mansion was only the residence of the Great General of Southern Chu. The great generals of Southern Chu lived here for generations. The ancestors of the family and the ancestors of the Meng family, the great general of Southern Chu, are two families, so the two families still have contacts.
As a result, the great general Gao Gaizhu was executed by the former Nanchu King, and her mother and concubine were forcibly married into the Nanchu Palace. At the beginning, when she was just named Zhenwang and Her Majesty the Queen was only Qingwang, the mother and concubine wanted to marry her. She took this piece of land and built King Zhen's mansion, and told her that there is a secret passage under Zhenwang's mansion, unless life is at stake, you can't use the secret passage, because there are fierce beasts suppressed under the secret passage, and the secret passage was established using the five elements and gossip techniques, and the existence of the secret passage It is not for the convenience of escaping, but to suppress the beast.
King Zhen looked a little gloomy at this thought.
"Your Highness King Zhen, what are your plans now? We can definitely rush out. I have inquired that Her Majesty the Queen is seriously injured now. We can rush to the Nanchu Palace and take control of the palace!" The minister on the side interrupted King Zhen's train of thought. .
King Zhen glanced at the man, but turned his hand and twisted the other mechanisms. King Zhen was startled and quickly turned the mechanism back. King Zhen looked at the mechanism with lingering fear and said in a low voice: "Almost almost almost Opened another agency."
Some soldiers saw King Zhen's worried and frightened look and shook their heads. If it was Her Majesty the Queen, she would not be so worried. For some reason, the soldiers suddenly felt that Her Majesty the Queen might be more suitable as an emperor.
"The mechanism here cannot be touched randomly." King Zhen said softly, and opened another mechanism while speaking.
The stone gate opened slowly, and King Zhen made a gesture, "Come with me, this is the place where the great generals of Southern Chu stored their weapons. I heard that there is a fierce sword in it. The reason why the great generals can be passed down from generation to generation is because of this. a sword."
"Fierce sword?" someone asked doubtfully.
"That's right, even though it's called that, this sword is extremely powerful, if I can find this sword, maybe I can defeat her." King Zhen's eyes leaked a light that must be won, "If I can get this sword... what sound?"
"Where is there any sound, did you hear it wrong, Your Highness King Zhen?" One person asked suspiciously.
King Zhen listened carefully, and sure enough, she couldn't hear any sound, but just now she clearly heard a small sound, as if something was cracked, did she really hear it wrong
"Forget it, come in with me. You all help me find it. After the general's mansion was confiscated, all the things belonged to the Nanchu treasury. I counted it at the beginning, and I didn't see that. Fierce sword." King Zhen looked around while talking, the secret room was very dark, King Zhen had to light a fire.
There are scattered things in this secret room, there are scrolls and bronze utensils, a layer of dust has grown on the bronze utensils, and the paper of the scrolls is gradually turning yellow, as if telling people how long they have stayed in the dark here.
"Boom."
"What's the sound?" King Zhen asked quickly, startled by the loud voice, but when she looked up and saw the blank faces of the others, King Zhen asked hesitantly, "You didn't hear any sound?" Is it like thunder?"
The people around looked at me and I looked at you, with puzzled expressions on their faces, the soldiers looked at King Zhen with a forced smile and said, "King Zhen, don't be joking, we have so many ears, except for us I didn't hear the sound of walking!"
King Zhen was stunned for a moment, "This king really heard it, what's so obvious about that voice, didn't you all hear it?"
"No." Voices in unison.
King Zhen's heart sank, and a chill crept into her heart. She pursed her lips and said, "Then I probably misheard."
King Zhen glanced back at the place where she heard the voice just now, which was the door they came in just now. Looking over it now, it was pitch black, and the huge darkness seemed to swallow them up.
When King Zhen was looking for the fierce sword, General Qu, who was closing his eyes and recuperating in the inn, suddenly opened his eyes. General Qu picked up the accessories at the side and ran out quickly. Before Chang Zhen could ask where he was going, he disappeared. General Qu ran to the moat of Southern Chu to have a look. The water in the moat was so fast that General Qu's face darkened.
"Look, why did the water in this city suddenly rise so much?" the passer-by said in surprise.
"It hasn't rained recently, and I didn't see the water rising when I passed by this morning." Another passer-by said.
General Qu looked at the rushing water in the moat, and suddenly lay down on the ground with his ears pressed to the ground, listening carefully to the sound of the water. Through the sound of the water, General Qu seemed to hear the tinkling of iron.
"I heard that there is a ferocious beast in the moat. Once the ferocious beast comes out of the moat, it is enough to destroy the entire Southern Chu. Do you think the ferocious beast is about to break out of the water!" A middle-aged man said jokingly, "Haha, if a fierce beast really appears, you can see how I deal with that beast, I can kill it with a single sword, believe it or not."
"How can you not believe it? You can do whatever you say. But if you have the ability, why don't you jump into this moat first and kill the monsters that will appear at the bottom of the river?" Another woman said delicately.