He jumped into the well and hunched over a few stones, revealing a slippery cave covered with moss.
He got in immediately.
Several soldiers who had already taken off their armor also followed him in wearing masks.
Zhang Pan entered inside. The space was not large, but it could still accommodate a few people.
Zhang Pan began to push a winch.
The soldiers guarded him all around to prevent him from escaping through some secret passage.
Zhang Pan didn't seem to have any intention of escaping. After turning the winch several times, there was a movement on the ground.
Not long after, the floor was lifted up and then pushed away.
A wide tunnel appeared in front of Rhodes.
A group of soldiers broke in directly.
Zhang Pan climbed up from the well, dirty all over.
He bowed his head towards Rhodes and said, "The tunnel has been opened. Please allow me to guide you."
Rhodes refused: "You can go down first."
Without waiting for Zhang Pan to object, several soldiers immediately surrounded him and dragged his arm towards the depths.
The tunnel was not deep, and Zhang Pan was taken to a warehouse hidden underground by the soldiers.
It was filled with gold and silver jewelry, swords, guns and armor, as well as precious bronze statues, gold Buddhas and so on.
I don't know how long they have been there. The weapons and armor are covered with rust, and some boxes are even covered with mushrooms.
The air here is relatively turbid, and there is a faint smell.
As soon as Rhodes stepped in, he saw Zhang Pan looking towards the door, seemingly searching for traces of himself.
Seeing Rhodes appear, Zhang Pan's eyes lit up and he immediately approached him.
Several soldiers immediately formed a human wall to block him.
But he didn't care and said flatteringly: "My Zhang family has a magic sword, which was accidentally obtained by my ancestors. Now please allow me to dedicate this magic sword to you."
As he spoke, he pried open the stone slab under his feet, took out an old sword box from it, and presented it up.
A soldier took it over, checked it and opened the sword box. Sure enough, there was a sword lying inside.
He took the sword out of its scabbard. The sword was cold and filled with cold light.
As soon as Rhodes spread his hands, the sword was handed into his hands.
Seeing the sword being held by Rhodes, Zhang Pan seemed a little excited, and Rhodes couldn't help but glance at him.
Zhang Pan didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with his behavior at all. Instead, he said, "This sword..."
He began to explain the history of the sword after it fell into their Zhang family.
Rhodes listened for a while and found that what he told was poor and the storyline was not very attractive.
However, this sword is indeed a rare weapon, and its forging process is extremely advanced.
Rhodes played with it for a while and then put the sword back into its scabbard.
The soldiers were already under command and began to move the belongings in the secret room.
There is a lot of property in the Zhang family's secret room, but there seems to be a lack of effective management.
The stacking order is extremely unscientific, as if they were all thrown away casually.
During the moving project, some decayed debris had to be constantly cleaned up, and the bronze statues and golden Buddhas that were holding the boxes had to be removed first, which greatly delayed the progress of the moving.
As a victim, Zhang Pan's face never showed the aggrievedness and misery of a victim. Instead, it began to flush as time went by.
"Okay! Let's move! Get more people to move!"
Watching a group of soldiers carefully moving out a huge golden Buddha, Zhang Pan's squinted eyes seemed to be looking at a dead person.
He took a slow breath, feeling the wonder of the poisonous powder attached to the box on the ground entering his body.
It’s this chronic poison, this is what it feels like!
After it is breathed into the body, it will not attack immediately, but will slowly accumulate in the lungs.
After about one stick of incense has been burned, the toxins accumulated in the body have reached a certain scale, and they will explode immediately and kill the host directly.
This is the last trump card of their Zhang family, the trump card that pulls people back.
Now that the Zhang family has fallen to this point, if he can drag one more person to die, he will make another profit.
Go to hell, go to hell!
"Hahaha."
Zhang Pan couldn't help laughing.
"what are you laughing at?"
Hearing Rhodes' inquiry, he looked at Rhodes' right hand with a smile.
The sword in Rhode's hand contained even more terrifying poison.
Although it penetrates into the skin slowly, it is quite toxic.
"I'm laughing at you because you are short-sighted and don't know how high the world is."
Zhang Pan stopped pretending at this time.
From the changes in his body, he estimated that the toxins had almost accumulated.
"oh?"
Rhodes responded cooperatively.
"Hahaha."
Zhang Pan laughed wildly again.
"You, you!"
Zhang Pan pointed at Rhodes and said with a smile: "Did you know that there is a kind of flower called Mantabaman in this world?"
"We know that the pollen of a poisonous flower is a chronic poison. It is colorless and odorless. After it invades the human lungs, it will accumulate toxins. After killing the host, a flower field will eventually bloom using the corpse as soil."
Rhodes accurately stated the result.
After all, all these years of reading were not in vain.
Zhang Pan was speechless for a moment. I didn't expect Rhodes to know.
But then he felt relieved.
What's this? It's just knowledge from books. Although it's a bit unpopular, it's not an open secret.
He pointed to the ground and said: "Do you know that this place is full of mantapaman pollen?"
Rhodes nodded: "I know."
Zhang Pan's expression froze, but then he snorted coldly and said: "Then you are stupid enough, knowing that there is mantabaman pollen here, you still stayed here for so long."
Zhang Pan pointed in a circle with his finger and said: "You, you people, are all going to die!"
"Oh, is it so?"
Rhodes responded perfunctorily, turned his attention to the property again, and asked his men to speed up the progress.
So more people came down from the ground.
Zhang Pan kept talking for a long time, but found that Rhodes ignored him at all.
Angry and anxious, the toxins in his body gradually began to take effect. His whole body twisted in pain, and he couldn't help but lose his balance and fell to the ground.
There was blood oozing from his nose and mouth, and there were painful roars from his throat.
His eyes were fixed on Rhodes and the soldiers coming in and out.
There was great confusion in his eyes.
"Why... why? Are you going to be okay?"
"Want to know?" Rhodes asked softly.
Zhang Pan nodded.
Rhodes stood there and said to Zhang Pan, "Please beg me."
"I...I..." Zhang Pan blushed and spoke intermittently.
"Ugh...I beg you!"
Zhang Pan spat out a mouthful of black blood and seemed to breathe a little smoother.
He looked at Rhodes, as if waiting for an answer.
Rhodes smiled. Waved to him.
"How can a secret be spread to the public? Come over here and I will tell you quietly."
Zhang Pan's eyes were covered with a layer of darkness, and black, smelly blood began to flow from the corners of his eyes.
But he still kept moving in the direction of Rhodes.
"In the end...what...how..."
He muttered.
Rhodes stood there with his hands behind his back, as if quietly waiting for him to move over.
But just when he was about to approach Rhodes, Rhodes suddenly turned around.
"you you....."
He pointed unsteadily at Rhodes' retreating back.
Rhodes had already walked out of the secret room and stepped onto the stairs to the ground.
It seemed that Rhodes had no intention of answering him from the beginning.
In this state of shock and anger, Zhang Pan's eyes widened and he died.
The kind that never rests in peace.
