"If I had known it would make such a big noise, I wouldn't have been so mean!"
In a long, narrow and dark tunnel, Chu Qi was running wildly without tears.
She didn't know what place was ahead, but the cries that gradually became clearer still made her determined to go and find out.
Let's say that after she entered the secret palace, she found that there was a dead end at the end.
The huge and thick rock wall blocked her path, but after she confirmed that the crying she heard was not an illusion, Chu Qi began to search there carefully again.
Finally, as expected, I successfully touched the switch to open the door in a corner.
Chu Qi thought that this place was so far away from the practice room and there were few people coming and going. She also thought that the sounds she saw and heard along the way were not very loud, so she made up her mind and pressed the button.
Who knew that she had just pressed the button, and before she could release her fingers, she heard a violent "Boom——!" from somewhere, and then she stared at the entire rock wall in front of her in stunned silence. They all rose upwards, revealing hidden tunnels behind the rock walls.
There was no time to think deeply or regret, when he heard the messy footsteps coming from outside the palace, Chu Qi didn't care anymore, rushed into the darkness in a few steps, walked forward, and ran away.
Then, she ran for who knows how long before she finally saw a little light ahead.
Only then did Chu Qi feel more relieved. It would be nice if there was light. If there was light, it meant that there was someone, and someone could investigate and find out what was going on.
However, when she ran to the light, she realized that things were not as simple as she thought.
I saw three roads suddenly appeared at the end of the tunnel:
One leads forward, I don’t know how far it extends, but it’s all pitch black;
One is an upward staircase with torches on both sides. It is obvious that people often walk here;
The last one snaked towards the side where the crying came from, but at the same time, an extremely strong stench came from there.
After only half a second of hesitation, Chu Qi gave up on the steps, turned around and walked in the direction of the crying.
Unexpectedly, the stench got heavier the further along the road went. In the end, she couldn't help but want to retching even if she covered her nose.
But when she saw the scene at the end of the road clearly, her nausea was no longer so important. At this moment, what surged in her heart was overwhelming sadness and anger.
This is a dungeon with an extremely bad environment. There are corpses everywhere inside. Some of them were dragged together and piled up by the people who were still alive, while some were spread wantonly on the dirty ground.
Their limbs were bent, and their bodies were covered with visible scars. Even if they were dead, the expressions on their faces were extremely painful.
What's even more terrifying is that there are still living people in such a dungeon!
There were only a few of them, and they were all covered with bruises, disabilities, or serious illnesses. The heaviness and pain in their bodies made them unable to help but cry out loudly.
Obviously, they must have been thrown here to die because they had lost their labor force.
Perhaps those few living people were thrown in not long ago and have survived to this day.
And the cries that Chu Qi heard came from them.
"This is too cruel..."
As she spoke, the flames of anger began to burn in her heart.
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At the same time, Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao, who were working hard on the other side, finally successfully found the entrance to the valley.
Compared with the Liuli Palace or the Secret Palace that have already been built, the place under the mountain is particularly crowded and the environment is very messy.
As soon as they entered it, they heard a "ding-dong" sound, as if many people were digging or building something.
After Zhan Zhao got rid of the guards at the entrance of the cave, several people approached and discovered that there was actually an altar that had not yet been completed. Dozens of forcibly recruited farmers were being guarded by several government soldiers holding leather whips. The work of digging soil and laying bricks was carried out day and night.
Zhan Zhao found that there were less than ten guardsmen, which was a huge difference from the number of farmers, but none of them dared to resist.
Everyone just silently went about their work, as if they were content as long as they didn't get whipped.
Fortunately, such arduous and terrifying training did not completely weaken their courage. When Zhan Zhao and others jumped out and said that they would save them, some people were willing to try to believe it.
At first it was one, then two.
Then ten, twenty.
Soon, everyone took action, and not long after, the usually arrogant government soldiers were tied up. Each of them had a bruised nose and face, and kept shouting for mercy.
However, such a timid and cowardly person relied on the whip in his hand to suppress them for so long.
