After Su Qiqi and others escaped from the dungeon, they sent out a signal flare as agreed in advance, notifying Granny Cui and Protector Sun to meet at the place where the signal flare was raised.
I saw the signal bomb slowly rising into the sky, emitting a faint blue light. After a few seconds, when the light was about to disappear, Grandma Cui, Sun Hufa and others rushed over in time. After everyone met, they returned to the second floor of Juxing Inn . Searching for Gu Zhongkai's whereabouts from room to room.
"Miss Nangong, there is someone here!" Su Qiqi heard Protector Sun's voice and hurriedly ran to the door of the guest room where he was, just in time to see someone from Seven Star Castle pulling someone out from under the bed. Su Qiqi took a closer look and saw that it was the fat and greasy shopkeeper.
Although she was a little disappointed, she thought about it and maybe she could get some useful clues from this guy's mouth, so she stepped forward and asked in a deep voice: "Shopkeeper, which guest room is Gu Zhongkai in?"
The shopkeeper blinked his eyes, shook his head, and said nothing.
Su Qiqi cursed secretly, this old cunning guy! She was just thinking about how to get the shopkeeper to tell the truth when Qin Chuan also came in. When he saw the shopkeeper looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, she became furious and stepped forward with a sword at the tip of his throat. , said sharply: "Are you willing to say it? Or do you want me to send you to the underworld?"
The shopkeeper's eyes rolled around in circles, then suddenly softened, and said flatteringly: "This hero will show mercy with his sword, I say, I say!"
Qin Chuan moved the sword a few inches away and said, "Speak quickly! I don't have much patience!"
The shopkeeper cleared his throat and said hesitantly: "The one named Gu...is...in the second guest room on the east side..." After that, he slowly raised his hand and wiped the fine sweat from his forehead.
Qin Chuan then put away his sword with satisfaction and motioned Su Qiqi to go to the guest room mentioned by the shopkeeper. Su Qiqi nodded and asked Protector Sun and his men to take the shopkeeper away and walk to the guest room on the east side.
After Granny Cui and Zheng Miao broke up, they kept paying attention to the movements behind them to prevent Lin Quan and Yeyou League people from raiding.
After a while, everyone arrived at the door of the second guest room on the east side of the second floor of the inn. Su Qiqi took a deep breath and broke in with Qin Chuan.
The layout of the room was very ordinary. It was similar to the guest room Su Qiqi had stayed in before. It just had a musty and dusty smell, and it didn't seem to be inhabited all the time.
Su Qiqi asked Zheng Miao and Granny Cui to guard the door, and the others searched every corner of the room with her, hoping to find the imprisoned Gu Zhongkai as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, everyone searched carefully for a long time and searched all the corners in the room where someone might be hiding, but still no trace of Gu Zhongkai was found!
Where would a living person be hidden? Could Ye Youwu Chang and the shopkeeper be lying? Su Qiqi pondered for a while, then called Qin Chuan over to discuss it, and the two decided to ask the innkeeper again.
Qin Chuan asked Su Qiqi to wait in the room. He went to the door and carried the shopkeeper in like a chicken and threw him on the ground. The shopkeeper was a bully, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he half-knelt on the ground, pretending to beg for mercy.
Su Qiqi sneered: "Shopkeeper, where is Gu Zhongkai?"
The shopkeeper did not answer immediately, but looked around, and then said with a guilty conscience: "This room belongs to Lin Quan, and only Lin Quan and Ye You's messenger can enter... I don't know... they put people in Locked up somewhere in the room..."
Su Qiqi looked at his wandering eyes and couldn't help but approach him, threatening in a low voice: "You...really don't know?"
The shopkeeper turned his head subconsciously, looked in the direction of the bed and said, "Little one, I really don't know."
Su Qiqi saw that the shopkeeper was deliberately delaying time and waiting for reinforcements. He stopped talking to him. She followed the shopkeeper's gaze and suddenly had an idea in her mind.
She called Qin Chuan over and said, "Let's go take a look at that bed..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a flash of panic in the shopkeeper's eyes. She was even more sure that she guessed it right!
When she and Qin Chuan worked together to move the bed board, they saw a secret passage under the bed. She and Qin Chuan looked at each other and said, "Would you like to go down and have a look?" Qin Chuan nodded and said, "I'll go down first, and you'll come down later."
Su Qiqi nodded and warned: "You have to be more careful!" Qin Chuan nodded, with a pleasant smile on his lips, and then quickly entered the secret passage.
Su Qiqi stood by the bed and waited for a while. Seeing that there was no movement in the secret passage, she was a little worried, so she asked Zheng Miao to give the shopkeeper an anesthetic pill, and asked Granny Cui and Sun Hufa to guard the shopkeeper who fell asleep. She and Zheng Miao entered the secret passage to help Qin Chuan find someone.
In the secret passage, Zheng Miao lit the candle brought from the guest room, while Su Qiqi followed the stone wall and tapped it with the hilt of her sword. The two walked for a while and saw a faint light on a branch road ahead. She signaled Zheng Miao not to act rashly, and went over alone with her sword to investigate the situation.
When she walked over, she saw Qin Chuan holding a candle and looking for the secret door on the wall. She turned around and called Zheng Miao over, and the three of them searched near the fork in the road.
After about a cup of tea, the three of them finally discovered a hollow wall. Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan used their swords to break open the secret door and found a gold-carved box. Qin Chuan used his sword to pick the lock on the box and opened the box. The three of them stepped forward to take a look and saw a piece of red silk covered in the box, with a small jade figure placed on it. The three of them looked at each other, wondering what the Yeyou League people meant by doing this.
The three of them were stunned for a while. Zheng Miao broke the silence first and said, "Could this jade sculpture be the key to unlocking the mechanism?"
Su Qiqi nodded and said, "It's possible, let's put it away first."
When Qin Chuan heard what she said, he closed the box again and held it in his arms. The three of them continued walking forward.
After going around another fork in the road, Zheng Miao suddenly shouted: "Brother, Sister Su Su, look quickly, there is a hole there!"
Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan responded and looked in the direction of Zheng Miao's finger. They saw a strange small hole in the wall on the upper left side of Zheng Miao. The size and shape were quite similar to the mysterious jade carving they had just harvested!
Su Qiqi had an idea and said, "Qin Chuan, can you try putting the jade sculpture on it?"
Qin Chuan glanced at the small hole, opened the box, took out the jade carving, then handed the box to Su Qiqi, held the jade carving and flew up the wall, put the jade carving into the hole, and it fit perfectly!
All three of them were extremely surprised. However, what surprised them even more was that the jade carving changed and merged with the wall. Then there was a thunderous sound, and an ancient and rough cave door appeared on the wall and slowly opened automatically.
The three of them were stunned and stared stupidly at the cave door slowly moving to reveal the scene behind the cave door.
"There's someone in the cave!" Zheng Miao shouted excitedly. Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan also saw the person in the cave. The person's limbs were chained with iron chains. He was sitting quietly against the wall. At this moment, he seemed to be frightened by the arrival of Su Qiqi and others. He climbed up from the ground. He stood up and looked at Su Qiqi and others in panic.
Su Qiqi stepped forward and asked, "Are you the imperial physician Gu Zhongkai?"
The imprisoned man nodded and asked hesitantly: "Who are you?"
Su Qiqi got straight to the point: "Master Gu, we are from the Weiyuan Escort Agency, and we are here to rescue you..."
After that, Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan stepped forward to cut off the chains and rescued Gu Zhongkai. Zheng Miao gave Gu Zhongkai a pill to treat internal injuries, and applied special medicine to his scarred shoulders, back and limbs. Then Qin Chuan carried Gu Zhongkai on his back, and Su Qiqi and Zheng Miao escorted him one after another. The four of them left the secret room as quickly as possible and returned to the guest room.
Grandma Cui and Protector Sun smiled happily when they saw the four people coming back unscathed. At this time, the shopkeeper also woke up and looked even more uneasy when he saw Gu Zhongkai, Su Qiqi and others together.
Su Qiqi ignored him and just told Protector Sun to take him back to Tai'an Inn.
In order to avoid exposing Gu Zhongkai's whereabouts, Su Qiqi and others specially hired three carriages, one for Qin Chuan to protect Gu Zhongkai, one for Protector Sun to escort the owner of Juxing Inn, and one for Su Qiqi and Zheng Miao and Granny Cui, the three female relatives, and the others walked back to the inn.
The journey went smoothly without any further obstruction from the man in black. Lin Quan didn't show up again, he was probably hiding to recover from his injuries! The only thing I'm worried about now is Ye Youwu Chang. With his consistent style, he will definitely take revenge after suffering a hidden loss!
Thinking of this, Su Qiqi frowned. The real crisis was yet to come!
