Everyone filled their stomachs as quickly as possible and rushed back to the Dongdaemun scene, the man was no exception.
A rough, callused hand snapped on his shoulder as he returned to the digging.
He trembled, and a trace of vigilance suddenly flashed in his eyes. Just when he subconsciously wanted to knock the other party to the ground with a single move, the other party said heartily: "Hey, Wuzi, where did you go just now? What did you eat?" It's still cold!"
The man's tense body gradually eased, and he touched the bridge of his nose with his dirty palm to make himself look more unrecognizable. Then, he deliberately hoarsely said: "Go to the toilet."
"What's wrong with your throat?" asked the middle-aged imperial guard behind him.
The man whispered: "It's a little uncomfortable."
The middle-aged Yu Linjun patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You, you have never done such a tiring job. Being able to serve the emperor is a blessing we have cultivated in eight lifetimes. When the emperor comes later, don't make a face to know ?"
The man bowed: "Yes."
The middle-aged Imperial Forest Army smiled, no longer delaying, stepped back to his post, picked up the shovel, and continued to dig the hole.
The man silently observed the surrounding situation, four people in a pit... He found three imperial forest soldiers surrounded by a group in a new pit inside the east gate. He lowered his helmet and walked over silently.
However, after Qiao Wei came out of Ji's house and arrived at the Princess Mausoleum in a carriage, Yan Feijue and Hai Shisan also went there.
Several people brought some food, and Hai Shisan thoughtfully prepared two large quilts.
They entered the princess's tomb together, and outside the gate of the underground palace, the cave at the bottom of the tomb, they saw Qiao Zheng and Yi Qianyin who looked embarrassed.
Both of them seemed to have lost their souls, and they both stared at the closed door dully.
Yi Qianyin held a lame sword in his hand, and Qiao Zheng held a big hammer in his hand. The two of them did not know how to break open the gate of the underground palace.
The two even tried digging tunnels and prying ceilings, but the underground palace is like an indestructible cage.
By now, the two of them were exhausted.
Qiao Wei walked over, supported the crumbling Qiao Zheng, gave Qiao Zheng a distressed look, and said, "Father, come and sit for a while, you can see that you are so tired."
Hai Shisan hurriedly moved a small bench.
Qiao Wei helped Qiao Zheng sit up, took off the water bag at her waist, uncorked the bottle, handed it to Qiao Zheng's dry and cracked lips, and said earnestly: "I know you are worried about mother, and I am also worried about her, but Don't burn yourself out, come, drink some water."
Qiao Zheng took the water bag and cried choked up: "I can't hear your mother... Could she have..."
"Of course not!" Qiao Wei interrupted her father's words without thinking, and said with a serious face, "My mother has survived all kinds of storms, so what is this trivial matter? Isn't it just at the door? Wait until we close the door Open it, and she can come back!"
Qiao Zheng burst into tears and said, "Why is there no sound at all?"
This is indeed very strange. Qiao Zheng came late, so it made sense that he didn't hear the voice, but Yi Qianyin has been guarding outside the door every step since the door was closed. According to him, he didn't hear her mother and the ghost king.
It's like... there is no living person in it at all.
Yi Qianyin yelled for a long time, but she didn't get any response from her mother and the ghost king.
This is really... very unusual.
Qiao Wei's heart tightened.
"You also feel that something is wrong, don't you?" Qiao Zheng looked at his daughter with aggrieved eyes.
Qiao Wei regained her composure and comforted her father, "I don't think anything is wrong. Mother and Ghost King must have gone to find a way out. It's only been a night. I believe mother will be fine."
"Really?" Qiao Zheng asked worriedly and expectantly.
Qiao Wei nodded: "Really."
Qiao Zheng looked pale, but after a while he said with a sad face: "But...but how to open this door?"
In addition to Qiao Zheng and Yi Qianyin, there are many new guards here. Fearing that some secret work has been mixed in, Qiao Wei lowered her voice and said, "There is also an escape passage in the underground palace, which can lead to the hinterland of the underground palace. In the palace, Mingxiu has already led people to dig it."
Qiao Zheng's eyes lit up: "You didn't lie to me?"
Qiao Wei raised the water bag in his hand: "How can it be? From my point of view, don't guard here, go back first, and I will notify you when there is news from the meditation side. "
Qiao Zheng took a sip of water, his throat was not so smoky, and he sighed slowly: "No, your mother is inside alone, I don't worry, I'd better wait here, there is news from your side, I will Go on."
Qiao Wei knew that she couldn't persuade him, so she didn't insist anymore, she just threatened fiercely: "It's not impossible to keep you, but you have to eat well, or I'll knock you out and carry you back!"
Qiao Zheng agreed sullenly.
Qiao Wei and Hai Shisan returned to the courtyard to take care of Yun Zhu, while Yan Fei went to the palace.
On the other side of the palace, more than a dozen deep pits have been dug, but nothing has been found.
The emperor only showed his face at the banquet and ran away. When he came here, he didn't even have time to change the dragon robe.
He glanced at the deep pit inside and out, and asked Ji Mingxiu, "Could you have made a mistake? The entrance is not at the east gate, but somewhere else?"
Ji Mingxiu said with great certainty: "It's just around here, let's expand the scope."
The soldiers of the Royal Forest Army had bleeding blisters on their hands.
In order to hide his identity, the man also dug very hard.
"Wu Zi!" A companion stood on the ground and said to him with a shovel, "Come up, we've changed places."
The man climbed up by pulling the rope.
Yan Feijue rushed over in a hurry, but he didn't expect a person to appear out of the pit, and bumped into the man unexpectedly.
The man was knocked into the deep pit, Yan Feijue instinctively stretched out an arm, and clasped the man's wrist.
Afterwards, Yan Feijue felt a powerful internal force, which made his palms go numb, but this feeling went away too quickly, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
In the past, Yan Fei would most likely think it was his own illusion, but now, after his skills have improved, his perception of opponents has become more acute, and he can almost conclude that the man in front of him is not an ordinary Imperial Forest Army.
After a brief daze, he pulled the person up without a trace.
The man lowered his head, thanked him, picked up his shovel and left.
Yan Fei frowned strangely as he looked at the man's disappearing back in despair.
Ji Mingxiu walked over calmly: "What's wrong?"
Yan Feijue glanced at the man with his back to this side, who was digging a hole hard: "Are these people ordinary imperial guards, or the palace's hidden guards?"
Ji Mingxiu said, "Yu Lin Jun, why are you asking that?"
Yan Feijue pursed his lips and said: "That man, his martial arts are a bit high."
Ji Mingxiu followed the prestige, and at this moment, the man switched places with his companion, facing Ji Mingxiu.
The man's peripheral vision cast towards this side, but he didn't dare to meet Ji Mingxiu's gaze.
Ji Mingxiu took a fixed look at him, and said calmly, "They had dinner just now, go and have a look at the place where the food is kept."
"Yes!" Yan Fei absolutely responded and went.
The place to eat is not far away, in a corridor to the right of the palace road, a few young eunuchs are cleaning up the traces of the meal.
Yan Feijue walked around the scene for a while, and asked the little eunuchs if they saw anything suspicious, and the little eunuchs shook their heads one after another.
Yan Fei paused for a moment, frowned and said, "Where is the hut?"
The little eunuchs pointed the way.
Every scene and every thing in the palace is exquisite. For example, facilities such as huts are unlikely to be built in places that can be seen at a glance.
Bypassing the corridor is a small artificially built back hill, and the hut is in the back hill.
Yan Feijue went to the hut, but found nothing strange, but found a set of eunuch's clothes in the grass beside him.
This set of clothes is very new and smells like soap soap. Who would abandon such good clothes in such a place
When something goes wrong, there must be a demon.
Yan Feijue searched carefully in the back mountain, and finally found a frozen corpse in an abandoned small woodshed.
The corpse was a man who practiced martial arts all the year round. His palms and fingertips were covered with thick calluses, and there were also several newly ground blood blisters.
"Blood bubble..."
Today is New Year's Eve, all drills and fortifications have stopped, except for the few imperial guards who are digging holes, no one in the entire palace will have bleeding blisters on their palms.
Yan Feijue returned to the east gate immediately, and repaired his life to Ji Ming: "...the deceased is the real Yulin army. It's in the crowd."
Ji Mingxiu nodded lightly, his gaze fell on the man.
The man probably sensed Ji Mingxiu's sizing up, and a thin trace of sweat oozed from his forehead.
Yan Feijue narrowed his eyes and looked him up and down: "Young master, why am I looking at him... Does he look familiar?"
Ji Mingxiu snorted coldly: "Mu Qiuyang, don't you look familiar?"
Yan Feijue's eyes trembled: "It's him? How did he sneak into the palace?"
Ji Mingxiu said calmly, "Of course it's to find out the news."
Yun Su hid and went back to hide, but he couldn't really be a deaf and blind man, not to mention that there was such a big commotion at the east gate, it would be strange if Yun Su didn't send someone over to take a look.
It's just that Mu Qiuyang is really capable of getting in.
Yan Feijue gritted his teeth and said: "It's really hard to find a place to go through the iron shoes. It doesn't take much effort to get here! Yun Su dared to send Mu Qiuyang to inquire about the news, heh, as long as we catch this kid, we can ask Yun Is it Su's lair? Young master, let me catch it!"
Ji Mingxiu said calmly, "Well, go catch it, remember to live."
"Hey, good!"
Yan Feijue responded excitedly, striding towards Mu Qiuyang.
After taking two steps, Ji Mingxiu stopped him again: "If you really can't catch him, kill him, and don't let him report to Yun Su."
Yan Feijue thought for a while: "I... Follow him to Yunsu's stronghold?"
Ji Mingxiu said flatly: "It's not difficult for him to get rid of you."
Although Yan Feijue didn't want to admit it, that kid's lightness kung fu was indeed superior to his!
It would be great if Shiqi was here, Shiqi would definitely be able to keep an eye on him...
Yan Feijue hummed: "Just wait, I'll catch you alive!"
Mu Qiuyang was digging a hole when he suddenly felt a murderous aura from Ling Ran. When he raised his eyes, he saw Yan Fei charging towards him with a murderous aura.
His eyebrows twitched!
Yan Feijue flew up, and three darts flew over!
Mu Qiuyang picked up the shovel in his hand, and nailed the dart to the shovel!
The imperial guards around were all startled by this sudden scene, they looked blankly at Yan Feijue, the servant of the prime minister, and looked blankly at his companion Wu Zi, really not understanding what Wu Zi did wrong, He was actually hunted down by the prime minister's subordinates!
And the prime minister stood aside leisurely, as if it was acquiescence.
this…
Yan Fei absolutely ignored everyone's surprise, and forced Mu Qiuyang out of the pit, and fought against Mu Qiuyang on the spot.
Everyone retreated one after another.
"When did Wu Zi's martial arts become so good?" Someone muttered.
Mu Qiuyang's skill is not inferior to Yan Feijue's, but Yan Feijue has been with the ghost king for so long, so he has learned a little bit, but it's a bit tricky for Yan Feijue to catch him alive.
After Yan Feijue hesitated, Mu Qiuyang patted Yan Feijue on the shoulder.
Yan Feijue was pushed back more than a dozen steps by a huge force, and Mu Qiuyang took advantage of this force to jump onto a horse outside the door.
"shelf!"
He left quickly.
Yan Feijue spat, ran outside the door, also picked out a steed, and chased after it at full speed!
The Imperial Forest Army outside the east gate failed to stop Mu Qiuyang. Mu Qiuyang broke through the siege, and fled into the streets of the capital under the pursuit of Yan Feijue and a group of Imperial Forest Army.
Tonight is New Year's Eve, the streets are deserted, and the sound of horseshoes is particularly abrupt.
Mu Qiuyang hastily abandoned his horse and moved forward with lightness kung fu instead.
When Yan Feijue chased here, there was only one lone war horse left on the endless street.
Yan Fei was so angry that he punched himself with a fist: "This kid, you slipped really fast!"
Dozens of imperial guards chased after him, and the leader asked him, "Hero Yan, do you still want to chase?"
"Chase!"
"It's still..."
Of course it is best to be able to catch him alive. After all, you can know Yun Su’s stronghold by prying open Mu Qiuyang’s mouth, but it is very difficult to catch him alive. If you are not careful, you can let Mu Qiuyang slip away. Live example
If he had known, he would have been ruthless and shot that guy into a sieve with a hidden weapon!
Yan Feijue and the Imperial Forest Army split up and surrounded all the roads around the street.
Soon, Mu Qiuyang was surrounded by people from east to west, from north to south. This is not to say that he is not good at lightness kung fu, and he can't even get rid of a few imperial guards, but that the imperial guards are more familiar with the capital than he is, so they can pass through every house they fight. , can reach the destination as quickly as possible.
In comparison, Mu Qiuyang slammed around like a headless chicken, and he seemed to be at a disadvantage.
Sure enough, after hiding in Tibet for a quarter of an hour, Mu Qiuyang was discovered by a group of Imperial Forest Army.
The leading imperial army said: "The archers are ready - release the arrow!"
The arrows shimmering with cold light came all over the sky, like a big impenetrable net, covering Mu Qiuyang tightly.
Mu Qiuyang pulled out the saber from his waist, picked up the sword flower, and chopped off the arrow that might shoot him into a sieve at any time.
But just after this wave of arrows passed, the next wave of arrows came again.
He frowned coldly, and slashed fiercely at the crowd with a sword aura.
Everyone was overturned to the ground by the sword energy, and he took the opportunity to escape.
After that, he was hunted down three or four times, including Yan Feijue, and each time he was killed.
He didn't remember how he escaped from those people's grasp at all. When he arrived at a cemetery, he found that he had been hit by three poison darts in the shoulder.
"Yan, Fei, Jue!"
He gritted his teeth, took an antidote pill, and then he looked around to make sure he had thrown off anyone before passing through the cemetery and entering a small village.
"Have you lost it?" Yan Fei asked the Imperial Forest Army.
Everyone bowed their heads in shame.
Yan Fei was so angry that he was half dead, so many people! So many people were mobilized! But he couldn't even catch Mu Qiuyang!
On the top of the mountain in a small village, Mu Qiuyang saw Yun Su who was sitting in front of the door of a hunter's house that had long been uninhabited, admiring the snow.
Next to Yun Su sat Gongsun Changli, who was lying quietly on a rattan chair covered with tiger skin, his face was so pale that there was no trace of blood.
Yun Su held his hand gently, with gentle eyes, as if the person who made Gongsun Changli like this was not himself.
He looked at Gongsun Changli with a smile and said, "Changli, don't make me unhappy again."
As soon as Mu Qiuyang entered the yard, what he heard was the words hidden in the smile. These words were not addressed to him, but for some reason, the hairs all over his body stood on end.
He didn't sympathize with Gongsun Changli, after all, he asked for it himself, who let him make his own claim and return the Yunzhu to Ji Mingxiu
But after seeing Yun Su's methods, he had another worry about sympathizing with each other.
"How's the inquiry going?" Yun Su said lightly, not in that gentle tone down to the bone.
Mu Qiuyang returned to his senses, saluted respectfully, and reported: "Ji Mingxiu has found the passage to the underground palace, which is near the east gate of the palace."
Yun Su said casually: "I'm afraid it's not just playing tricks, trying to lure the leader of the sect into the bait?"
Mu Qiuyang thought of the pursuit all the way, and shook his head decisively: "They wanted to catch me alive at first, but then they found that they couldn't catch me, so they changed their minds and wanted to kill me. They had no intention of letting me come back alive! They didn't want me Inform the leader, they have really found a channel!"