Chapter 183: One wave after another

The sharp and eerie flute sound suddenly rang out, a few different from what he heard in his dream, and King Yu subconsciously covered his ears.

He soon realized that this time, although the tone was harsh and unpleasant to listen to, it did not have the effect of disrupting the qi and blood in his body and making him irritable and dizzy, perhaps because the flute tone was not aimed at him.

King Yu lowered his hand, carefully recognizing the direction from which the flute sound had come, and continued to chase after the western courtyard.

Powerful wind stirred, the courtyard lying across the fainting brothel beaters, lanterns rolled all over the ground. When King Yu arrived, he saw the Hidden Sword Sect standing on the rockery. It is said that the assassin who attempted to assassinate the crown prince is the Hidden Sword Sect, the emperor was furious, and ordered to round up and exterminate, resulting in the overnight destruction of this hundreds of years of inheritance of the jianghu sect.

However, he had never heard of the Seven Slayers Battalion or the Seven Slayers Token.

Maybe the jungle-born Jing Hongchou out there knew something.

King Yu is trying to go out to see how the battle, suddenly the beams vibrate, “rumbling clatter” in the loud sound, even the house is to visit the green house, the result is that even the ladies have not touched the hands of the ladies, I’m wronged to death!

King Yu smiled calmly at Su Yan, “Don’t worry.” No matter what, there is no way to control the head of the clan. At worst, if he took Su Yan away based on his status, no one would dare to stop him.

Su Yan, however, took a different approach, slapped his thigh and said, “Good timing! I was worried about the lack of manpower, tell them to come in and help dig.”

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As a result, the whore-catching brigade was really used as a strong labor force by Lord Su.

The reason was that “the Northern Zhenfu Division and the Da Lisi jointly investigated the case, and the two lone officials sneaked into the brothel in plain clothes and found that there was something strange going on in the brothel. The suspects escaped into a secret passageway, and now we need the cooperation of the Military Police to clear the entrance.”

The Commander of the Western City Military Division, Wang Zhi, was bluffed, and seeing that Prince Yu was also present, he obediently obeyed and told his men to clean up immediately.

Not long after, the entrance to the secret passage was exposed.

A few soldiers held torches to explore the road, Su Yan wanted to go in to check out what was going on, Shen Qi and King Yu also went in with him, and the soldiers who received them took the rear.

Commander Wang was left with his men and horses, guarding the outside and waiting for news.

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The four walls of the secret passage were rough, as if it was only used as a passageway and no effort was made to decorate it. The group walked for about two to three miles, and in the light of the torches, they could vaguely see that a wide hall opened up in front of them.

The layout of the hall is like a temple hall, with a statue and offering table in the center, shrines on the four walls, rows of futons on the floor, and what seems to be a shadowed giant pattern on the deepest wall. Su Yan squinted his eyes and looked remotely, the pattern seemed very familiar ……

“That’s what Turtle Master called ‘Ming Tang’?” King Yu said.

The scouting soldiers walked in with torches up, and before they could get their footing, the hall suddenly exploded.

The explosions rang out deafeningly in the nearly enclosed space, shaking the four walls, splattering dirt and stone chips everywhere, and filling the air with smoke and dust.

Su Yan was knocked out by the shockwave, and without knowing what he hit in mid-air, he fainted when his eyes went black.

I don’t know how long it took, but he awoke with a choking cough, unable to see anything in front of him. It only felt like there was a person lying on top of him, and there seemed to be a person cushioned underneath him.

The dim light of the fire fold lit up, Shen Qi rolled over and sat up from above him, coughing while calling in a low voice, “Qinghe …… Qinghe!”

“I’m fine.” Su Yan gasped and said, “Thanks to you blocking for me, you didn’t get smashed, right?”

“It’s fine.” Shen Qi said, not moving, and pressed the ribs that were causing pain in his chest.

Su Yan went to touch the person underneath him again, and moved the fire folders over to shine a light, and found that it was King Yu, still unconscious, with the corner of his forehead knocked on the stone, bleeding quite a lot of blood.

He knew that when the explosion occurred, it must have been the two of them protecting each other with their bodies so that he was unharmed, and he was so grateful inwardly that he hurriedly tore strips of cloth from a clean Chinese sheet and went to bandage King Yu’s wounds.

King Yu groaned and gradually came to his senses, touching the straps on his forehead and said in a mute voice, “It seems that gunpowder was pre-buried in that hall. The other party has long been prepared to destroy this place once it is exposed.”

Shen Qi said, “I just spied from the torchlight that there seemed to be portals on the four walls of the hall. Maybe there is more than one secret passage, this hall is the confluence, but it’s a pity that it was blown up and collapsed, I don’t know where those secret passages lead to, if they’re other strongholds of the Seven Killers Battalion.”

Su Yan recalled, “I saw the white wall in the depths, there is a huge pattern, like …… an eight petaled blood lotus?”

King Yu said, “No matter what, the hall has collapsed and we can only turn back. If we’re lucky and the passageway we came from doesn’t collapse with us, we can still return the way we came from, or else we’ll be stuck here.”

Su Yan thought about it and could only turn back and try, sighing, “Pity those soldiers, they were blown to pieces and couldn’t even collect their corpses.”

The two men assisted him to stand up, Su Yan’s head was dizzy and ears were ringing, and there was a bout of dry-heaving due to the after-effects caused by the shockwave.

Shen Qi and King Yu said at the same time, “I’ll carry you.”

Su Yan waved his hand, slowed down this breath, wiped his face with his sleeve, and said, “I can walk, just help me a little.”

He just took a step, a few sheets of paper fluttered down from the hem of his coat, and when he shone the light with the fire fold, it looked like the remnants of some scripture scrolls, which exploded and was blown onto him. Su Yan casually stuffed the pages into the lapel of his coat, holding one in each of his left and right hands, slowly walking towards the way of the past.

Fortunately, the secret passageway from which they had come hadn’t completely collapsed, and in a few places there were still gaps for a single person to squeeze through sideways.

The group finally walked out of the secret passage, still coming out of the entrance of the ruins, and returned to the courtyard of Lin Hua Pavilion.

One by one, the soldiers who survived also came out of the secret passage, most of them less than when they went in.

Commander Wang was shocked when he saw their ashen appearance, “Both adults are unharmed strike …… ah ah ah, the king is injured!”

King Yu waved his hand, “A little flesh wound, no need to make a fuss.”

Su Yan was worried, “Ah Chui will be alright, right ……”

He suspected that his own guards chased Fuyin into the secret passage and met some key person in the hall, causing the other party to have a sense of crisis, and in order to prevent their identity from being exposed, they ignited the pre-buried gunpowder and blew up the hall and the things inside.

This approach is ruthless and decisive, not only blocked the other secret passage, but also let the rear tracking people buried in the ground. As for the hard work of building a dark fortress, said to destroy it, abandon pawns to protect the car, not just like this.

It was assumed that the man had just left shortly after they entered the secret passage.

I just don’t know where Chui is now and if he’s safe.

Su Yan thought left and right, and felt that for the time being, there was no way to contact Ah Chui, so he could only wait for him to come back to find himself after he got out of trouble. In addition, let the Military Horse Division keep an eye on all parts of the city, especially with the Lin Hua Pavilion as the center, two to three miles in a radius, to see if there is any impact on the ground.

He has just finished explaining, outside panting ran in a soldier, reported to the commanding officer of the Military Horse Division, “Great, adults …… collapsed ……”

“What collapsed, speak clearly!” The commanding officer asked sharply.

“The ground collapsed into a big pit at White Paper Place ……, many residential houses fell in, killing and injuring many people ……”

That is exactly the jurisdiction of the Western City Military Division, Wang Commander alarmed: “How can the ground suddenly fall?!”

Su Yan frowned, “I’m afraid it’s exactly the chain reaction caused by that explosion underground.”

Before the words fell, only to see the southwest direction, the sky bright light bright as day, like a big fireball rising from the ground, at the same time, the sound of loud noise like ten thousand thunder.

For a moment, it was as if the sky was crumbling, and the entire earth beneath his feet trembled violently.

The soldiers were unsteady and fell into a piece, Su Yan was firmly protected by Shen Qi and King Yu, so that he didn’t hit the nearby wigwam.

Commander Wang held his hand on the wigwam and called out with a sobbing voice: “White Paper Place is where the Ministry of War’s Gunpowder Bureau is located! It’s over, the stockpile of gunpowder has blown up!”