While Liu Ningshi was fighting fiercely with the burly man, Ghost Face and the man with the short sword, the men in black brought by Tingwei and Su Xing fell to the ground one after another, with most of them dead and injured.
Su Xing just watched the group of people fighting without moving, but his brows never relaxed for a moment: "We can't last long if this goes on."
"Kill." Luo Bei, who was already red-eyed, raised the knife and dropped it. A red-clothed court guard fell to the ground. He held the handle of the half-moon knife tightly with both hands and rushed towards Su Xing.
"Ah!" The moment he raised his knife to strike at Su Xing, a black-feathered arrow flew down from the city wall with a "whoosh" and pierced the back of Luo Bei's hand, eliciting a scream.
Everyone looked up and saw a masked man in black on the city wall taking out three more black-feathered arrows from his quiver, pulling out the full-moon bow and flicking it; three more plain barbarian soldiers fell down in response, their arms and feet naked. and the shoulder were hit by arrows.
The man in black didn't stop for a moment. He flew down from the city wall with his feet and fired two arrows in mid-air. Two more barbarian soldiers fell to the ground.
"Who is it?" The burly man was fighting with Liu Ningshi when he suddenly saw a man in black falling from the sky. He injured five people with one strike and greatly damaged morale. He immediately clicked his feet backwards three times and quit the battle. Shouted at the man in black.
"Zuo Tianhao, I'll deal with this group of soldiers first, and then I'll meet you." The man in black ignored him at all, and the locust stone in his hand came out with a "swish", and the remaining plain barbarian army was wiped out in a moment. The man in black rained flowers all over the sky and hit his acupuncture points.
"Brother Xiangyun, you are indeed alive!" Liu Ningshi's eyes suddenly became moist when she heard the voice of the man in black. Looking at his archery and hidden weapon skills, she knew it was Tong Bo.
"Who are you? You actually know my name?" What was even more shocking was the burly man. Since he came to Jinling City, only a few people knew his real name. Unexpectedly, he was called out by a man in black.
With a "swish" of the sword, the man with the short sword forced away the entanglement of the iron ruler in Ghost Face's hand, and stood side by side with the burly man who jumped out of the battle.
Over there, Liu Ningshi, Ghost Face, the man in black, Su Xing, and the few remaining uninjured imperial guards and the man in black stood aside, looking at each other.
"It seems that you can't transport the money out of the city?" The man in black slowly pulled down his face scarf, revealing a resolute face. There is no doubt that it is Tong Bo.
"Miss Liu, I'm sorry for causing you to worry." Tong Bo saw Liu Ningshi's tear-filled eyes and knew something was wrong, so he quickly started teasing her.
"Who is worried about you?" Sure enough, Liu Ningshi snorted when Tong Boyi teased her, and turned away angrily.
"That's good!" Tong Bo said with relief. He was most afraid of seeing other people's tears, especially women's.
"Aren't you trapped in a secret room? Why are you not dead?" Zuo Tianhao was really shocked. He thought Tong Bo was doomed, so he dared to be so unscrupulous.
"Zuo Tianhao, you are indeed powerful." Tong Bo smiled softly: "You used a piece of black cloth to introduce Miss Liu and I into the Fuxi hexagram array, and then you kept monitoring the movements inside."
"You are also very powerful. Not only did you break the formation, you also used your keen insight to find foreign aid and remove the barrier light wall from outside the formation." For some reason, Zuo Tianhao had an urge to kill Tong Bo immediately. .
"Brother Xiangyun, Ningshi also doesn't understand how you found Brother Ren and Huanyu to open the mechanism of the outer barrier." Liu Ningshi calmed down her excitement and turned to ask.
"Thanks to this thousand-mile sound transmission." Tong Bo took out an exquisite wooden bird from the bag on his back and placed it in his palm.
"Yan Jia Bird?" Zuo Tianhao blurted out.
"Yes, these Yanjia birds are a pair; as long as the same person's internal energy is injected into them, they can echo each other." Tong Bo said with a smile: "That day, Ge Er accidentally kicked a small mound of soil out of the barrier; I knew it. , it is possible that this bird can fly out; and after I rescued Yu'er last time, in order to facilitate the delivery of news, I left another bird with Miss Huanyu."
"Even so, you are trapped in the secret room, how can you come out again?" Zuo Tianhao was extremely depressed. It was the first time he had suffered such a big loss since he went out on a mission.
"Miss Liu, do you still want to know how you got out of the secret room?" Tong Bo did not answer Zuo Tianhao directly, but asked Liu Ningshi with a smile.
"Miss Liu, Master Zhongshu! The exit of the secret room outside has been opened. Please hurry up and do your best." Ge Er ran into the stone room excitedly and shouted to Liu Yuanzhi and Liu Ningshi.
"Ge Er?" Liu Ningshi was pouting in anger when she suddenly heard the good news and didn't believe her ears.
"Ning Shi, this guard Tong is really powerful. It seems that my father just made a mistake." Liu Ningshi laughed and said, "In this case, let's go out and have a look."
The three of them came to the secret room outside. The light wall at the entrance of the array had disappeared. Ghost Face was guarding the outside of the door and did not come in. Huan Yu and Tong Bo were also guarding the inside of the door on both sides.
"Brother Ren, Huan Yu! Why are you all here?" Even though Liu Ningshi was so smart, she couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.
"Miss Liu, we'll discuss these issues when we get out." The ghost face on the outside condensed his inner strength with his right palm against the wall to protect the formation: "I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on here for long."
"In that case, let's leave quickly." Liu Yuanzhi couldn't wait to go through the door first.
"Oh, there is a box of silver and a box of evidence in the stone chamber." Liu Ningshi suddenly remembered the box inside.
"Miss Liu, stay here for me." Tong Bo pondered for a moment and then made a decision: "Ge Er, let's go and carry out the two boxes."
"But Guard Tong, is this too dangerous?" Ge Er couldn't help but worry. He had died once, and now he cherished life more than anyone else.
"When you have time to speak, the boxes have been moved out." Tong Bo walked into the stone room directly after Liu Ningshi took his place. Ge Er also shrugged helplessly and followed in.
In just ten breaths, the two moved the two boxes to the doorway. Tong Bo said: "Ge Er, you carry the front, and I will follow carefully from behind."
"No problem." Ge Er gradually relaxed after seeing that both boxes were carried out and nothing happened.
When they were carrying the second box, Liu Yuanzhi suddenly shouted to Ge Er: "Be careful of the stones under your feet."
It was okay if he didn't shout, but he was startled when he called Ge Er. He lost his footing and bumped into the ghost face who was protecting the formation, causing his palms to leave the wall.
"Boom, boom, boom." The walls of the stone chamber began to shake, and the gravel on the top of the stone chamber slowly fell down. It looked like it was about to collapse at any time.
"No! Miss Liu, Miss Yu, you go in first, so stand close to the wall." Tong Bo concentrated all his inner strength on his palms to hold the box.
"Ge Er, get out of the way." Tong Bo raised up his might, held the box with his left palm, and struck the box with his right palm. The box flew steadily on top of another box.
Just when Tong Bo hit the box, a huge stone fell from the top of the secret room; Liu Ningshi exclaimed and stretched out a jade hand to pull Tong Bo's clothes: "Brother Xiangyun, come in quickly."
"It's too late." At this flash of lightning, Tong Bo turned his palm into a fist and struck out at Liu Ningshi's palm, sending her outside the stone room. His legs were touching the ground, and his whole body was tilted towards Retreat sharply.
"Boom!" A huge boulder fell, cutting off the sight of Tong Bo and Liu Ningshi facing each other. Liu Ningshi hit the boulder with her fists and shouted excitedly: "Brother Xiangyun, brother Xiangyun."
"Miss Liu, you go first, remember to protect Mr. Zhongshu and this box of evidence." Tong Bo used his inner strength to transmit his voice.
"I remember that Brother Xiangyun was trapped in the secret room." Liu Ningshi recalled this episode as vividly as if it was yesterday.
"But I didn't have time to consider your situation at that time." Tong Bo breathed a sigh of relief, because he also experienced a narrow escape.
"Boom, boom, boom!" More and more stones fell from the secret room, and the tremors became louder and louder. Tong Bo was faced with a difficult decision at this time: "Should we hide in Master Zhongshu's stone room, or should we hide in the stone room?" Go back the way you came.”
"I have carefully inspected Mr. Zhongshu's stone chamber. If you go in, there will be no hope of survival; if you go back the same way, there may be a chance of survival." Tong Bo thought about this, and without hesitation, he stepped forward
He nimbly shuttled among the falling stones and detoured out of the doorway into the secret room; before long, the inner secret room was completely sealed by stones, and even Liu Ningshi's shouts could not be heard.
"Before Miss Liu and I entered the stone chamber, the door on the right was clearly open." Tong Bo returned to the secret room at the connection point along the long and narrow passage: "Now the stone door has been closed, which means that Miss Liu and I have caught up. Those two people were still here when we entered this stone room, and they were spying on us secretly."
The fires from the four braziers were still burning brightly, making the eyes feel a little dazed. Tong Bo rubbed his eyes and shook his head vigorously: "Why don't you first find out if there is a secret room or something like this here."
Tong Bo walked along the wall, tapping here and there with the two fingers of his right hand, and then turned the fire plate at the four corners. He checked it back and forth three times, but still couldn't find anything.
"Huh? Did I guess wrong?" Tong Bo suddenly turned his head and felt that the fire from the brazier in the northwest corner was brighter than the other three, and that sense of trance came over him again.
"There's something wrong with this brazier?" Tong Bo shook his head again and stepped forward to take off the brazier: "Huh? Why can't you take it off?"
"Try another brazier?" Tong Bo tried to pick up the other three braziers in turn, and they all took them off the shelf easily.
"Hmph! It seems that the problem is with the brazier over here!" Tong Bo closed his eyes slightly and concentrated. His right palm was filled with internal energy and he stood quietly by the brazier in the northwest corner. Suddenly, he opened his eyes. With both eyes, his right hand quickly plunged into the fire, twisted it hard, and quickly pulled it out; there was a "bang" on the opposite wall against the door opening on the right, and another secret door opened.
"The person who designed this secret room is really interesting. Is he using this method of pulling chestnuts from the fire to test his courage?" Tong Bo dove into the secret door and closed it from the inside.
