Chapter 532 Return to Hell
Although these words were made by Xu Yuan as a joke, they were actually somewhat serious.
Although he is staying at home now, he still needs a lot of money. The showdown with his father on the night of New Year's Eve directly put the matter of setting up the Sword Sect on the agenda.
This matter will be very expensive.
Not only that, his plan to use Li Yunqing to lay out Japan also required money and food.
When he was Li Qingyan's personal guard in the north, Xu Yuan had seen with his own eyes the logistics accounts of the Beifeng Army.
In peacetime, a battalion of 5,000 elites will receive about three to four hundred thousand taels of silver just for military pay and spiritual food per month. However, during wartime, military subsidy plus the loss of spiritual blades and war equipment, all kinds of trivial things add up to less than It is said that it will start at 700,000 taels.
Due to the special environment of the Deadly Underground Palace, Xiaobai's underground remnants are more like a religious army built by fanatics than Dayan's army. As long as they are provided with food and military pay, it will be fine, but the problem is that now An army only has personnel and no equipment. Armor, spiritual blades and various ordnance all need money to build new ones.
Xu Yuan thought about asking his father to solve the problem. At this time when the chaos was about to start, there were so many combatable soldiers out of thin air. The other party had no reason to refuse. But the problem was that after the ordnance was installed by the Prime Minister's Mansion, this army But he can't move it at will.
So he has to figure out how to get the money himself.
Of course, Xu Yuan can also leave this mess to Li Yunqing. After all, he is the one who wants to borrow troops, and it is obviously reasonable for him to figure out a way to deal with ordnance.
“Ran Qingmo, do you think it’s a bit dark here?”
“But you have already melted.”
Ran Qing’s Moyu hands were thrown back to dodge, with suspicious eyes:
"Um?"
Using the array magic weapon, the speed is not weaker than that of the Grand Master.
There was a moment of silence, Xu Yuan's expression did not change at all, and he stretched out his hand to pull Ran Qingmo directly:
“I mean I can’t see the road a little bit.”
Looking at the beautiful figure that disappeared in an instant, Xu Yuan frowned and realized a problem.
It is best to maintain a certain supply of money and food for the loaned army. It may not be much, but it must at least be able to maintain the basic operation of the army.
This girl seems to be letting him go all the time.
As soon as the fourth sister heard that her scientific research funds were going to be used, she knelt down in front of Xu Yuan at the speed of light. After she knelt down, she left the words "Third brother, I'll wait for you below" and ran away.
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ˆ˜hiss.
After Xu Xinyao left, Ran Qingmo agreed to Xu Yuan's invitation, walked through the snow in the inner courtyard, and followed him through a secret room in the inner courtyard towards the dark prison.
Ran Qingmo groaned softly: "What's wrong?"
Just in this way, the loaned army can easily be manipulated and corrupted by Li Yunqing. There is no need to doubt the loyalty of the religious army of fanatical believers, but it cannot prevent others from "taking care of the food" all the time.
If a fight breaks out, it seems that he can't even beat these four sisters.
Looking at the seemingly endless dark corridor in front of them, the gentle footsteps of the two people echoed slowly.
“Xu Yuan, my cultivation level is higher than yours.”
“Do you want to hold me in such a dark place?”
Either of these two things is a bottomless pit that requires a huge amount of money and food to fill, and Xu Yuan does not have a stable source of income now, so he naturally focuses on these four sisters.
He raised 8 million taels of silver by selling his exercises to her. Is it reasonable for him to use a few million to do other things?
But it is a pity that Dora A Yao did not give Xu Yuan this opportunity.
After walking together for a long distance, Xu Yuan felt the breath of the girl next to him, looked at the dark environment around him, and suddenly whispered like a whisper:
Seeing this, Xu Yuan directly moved his arms towards Ran Qingmo's slender waist, and his voice was sincere:
“This is a restriction on my technique. Even if you are a master, don’t you still know how to make fire?”
“But you can make a fire.”
Ran Qingmo took a step back to avoid Xu Yuan's grasping hand. After a moment of pause, she whispered again:
"If you can't see clearly, why don't you light a fire now?"
.”Xu Yuan.
Broken, he suddenly felt a little bit how the old man Ran Jianli felt just now, and what was even more desperate was that even if he wanted to use force, the gap in his cultivation level made it impossible for him to touch this big ice lump.
While feeling depressed, Xu Yuan suddenly felt that the hand he was withdrawing was held by a cold and delicate hand.
Xu Yuan subconsciously raised his eyes and met the girl's quiet and calm gaze:
“If you want to take me with you, you can just say so directly, Xu Yuan.”
.”Xu Yuan.
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"The Black Prison is deep underground, some distance from the surface. We may need to walk for a while." Xu Yuan took Da Bing Tuozi's boneless cold jade hand and said softly while walking down. : "When you get down there, remember to activate the temporary soul key that Xu Changge gave you."
“Well, okay.” Ran Qingmo followed closely behind him and responded softly.
The stairs spiraled down, and the stone walls on both sides were not illuminated. After a while, the two of them entered a large stone room. The six inner walls of the stone chamber are all regular and even, except for a spherical line carved on the ground, like a round platform.
“We have arrived at the entrance. Now activate the soul key. Once the formation recognizes your identity, we can go down.”
"good"
Hearing this, Ran Qingmo immediately activated the soul key in his hand with his mind and soul.
The next moment,
A rumbling vibration was heard without any warning, and with this vibration, the round platform under the two men began to slowly descend.
Looking at the tremors around him, Ran Qingmo looked around curiously and asked in a low voice:
“Xu Yuan, this round platform doesn’t seem to be driven by a formation?”
Accompanied by the heavy sound of gears running, Xu Yuan explained with a smile:
"Yes, all the building materials in the Black Prison have supernatural properties, so they cannot be engraved with ordinary formations. This formation is just an activation method, and the lifting platform uses a gear mechanism."
Speaking of this, Xu Yuan paused and said:
"By the way, remember not to take out the source crystal down there. The monsters imprisoned in the black prison may cause trouble even if they have even a trace of source energy."
“Oh okay.” Ran Qingmo.
The Black Prison is a huge underground building complex. Although it is far inferior to the Deadly Underground Palace, in order to avoid the detection of the powerful Emperor An, it is still far away from the surface. The lifting round platform descends from slow to fast until half a quarter of an hour. Then it slowly slowed down and stopped. When it came to a complete stop, a deep and narrow corridor came into view of Xu Yuan and Ran Qingmo.
Stepping into it, torches hung on the walls of the corridor provided some illumination, making the shadows of the two people blurry. After walking out for more than ten feet, a simple wooden door quietly appeared at a fork in the road.
This is the entrance to the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and also the end of the Black Prison, where the living room of the Black Prison Commander is located.
It's the old room that Xu Yuan came to before.
Just as he was hesitating whether to take Ran Qingmo in to say hello to Qing, Xu Yuan found that the wooden door was pushed open from the inside.
A tall figure in black robe slowly walked out.
Just when Xu Yuan was about to speak, the corners of Xu Yuan's eyes twitched uncontrollably.
From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Da Bing Tuozi taking out the ink sword beside him.
The atmosphere in the cramped corridor instantly solidified.
The moment she saw the man in black robe, Ran Qingmo felt a biting and cold murderous intent envelope her.
The tense atmosphere lasted for a moment. Xu Yuancai belatedly sensed the killing intent in the air. His spiritual vision swept across it instantly, and he was relieved immediately.
Qingqing was staring at the hands he and Ran Qingmo were holding.
Single dogs are like this. They don’t want to show affection to others, not to mention that they themselves are mentally unstable.
Thinking about it, Xu Yuan sighed in his heart.
and,
Ching should have regarded him as someone else.
Raising his hand and waving it in front of Qing, Xu Yuan reminded him in a low voice:
“Hey, hey, hey, look carefully. Although I may look a bit similar, don’t think of me as my father when he was young.”
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As soon as the words fell, the murderous intention dissipated instantly.
Qing, who was shrouded in black robes, withdrew his gaze, and a sweet and lovely voice came out faintly, with a bit of disgust and disgust, as if he was looking at a **** of plague:
“Xu Changtian, why are you here again?”
Xu Yuan didn’t care about the other person’s tone and said softly:
"You came out just in time. I want to go to the Heavenly Prison to meet someone."
“You have the soul key, can’t you just go there?”
With that said, Qing took a step back and retreated to his room.
Xu Yuan saw this and said quickly:
“I want to go to the Yinliulan prison cell. That place requires your or Lou Ji’s soul key.”
“Silver willow orchid?”
Qing's footsteps paused, and his eyes under the black robe were a little scrutinized:
“What are you going to do there?”
"My father asked me to go there to do something today." Xu Yuan thought for a while and then started to make nonsense. It was impossible for Qing to go to his father to confirm.
Hearing this, Qing’s eyes hidden under the black robe flickered for a moment, and he murmured softly:
“That’s right, today seems to be the first day of the Lunar New Year, come with me.”
After saying that, she prepared to lead the way.
Seeing Qing's natural behavior, Xu Yuan was stunned for a moment:
“Ah? What is the first grade of junior high school?”
His sharp eyes immediately swept over him, with a slightly funny look in his eyes:
"Xu Changtian, others may not know this, but I am the prison commander. I know very well the identity of the prisoners in Yinliulan Prison. What are you pretending to be in front of me?"
(End of this chapter)