Chapter 864 Troop Transport Road
Hua Zhuyue began to check the big bed again, even under the mattress. Xu Chunliang looked on and said, "If Sister Hua is worried, I can ask them for another room."
Hua Zhuyue said: "It's not that I don't worry about you, it's better to be careful. If I guess correctly, Cao Mulan will definitely investigate our information next."
Xu Chunliang said: "What if she is found out? Our goal is to enter her lair. If she dares to harm us, I will turn her industrial base upside down."
Hua Zhuyue said: "Would you choose the sofa or the bed?"
Xu Chunliang was lying on the bed and said: "This bed is wide enough for the two of us. You have known me for so long and you still don't know that I am just joking, but in fact I am a true gentleman who does not mess around."
Hua Zhuyue smiled and said: "A true gentleman must pay the price of blood." The scene of Xu Chunliang's nosebleed last night is still fresh in his memory. Hua Zhuyue is really worried, what if this guy spurts out blood again? Will others not misunderstand it as one's own?
Neither of them had the intention to take a shower. Although no surveillance equipment was found after checking, modern technological means are emerging in endlessly. Maybe they are hidden in some inconspicuous corner?
Hua Zhuyue took off her shoes and lay down on the other side. The two looked at each other and laughed. They both guessed why the other was laughing. Hua Zhuyue actually felt a little embarrassed. She picked up a pillow and threw it to Xu Chunliang. Past: "Go to sleep on the couch!"
The pillow hit Xu Chunliang, but there was nothing underneath him, and they fell off the bed together with them.
Xu Chunliang reacted quickly, and immediately planned to fly into the air, but his luck increased, and his meridians felt sharp pain like tearing. If the old injury was not healed, if he forcibly used his true energy, the damage to his meridians would be worsened. In addition, there were still people around him. With Hua Zhuyue, even if Xu Chunliang endured the pain and escaped forcefully, Hua Zhuyue was not as capable as him.
When the big bed fell, all the lights went out, and then the sound of steel plates closing above the head was heard.
The big bed fell on a cushioned air mattress and swayed back and forth a few times. Neither Xu Chunliang nor Hua Zhuyue was injured. Hua Zhuyue turned on the light of her mobile phone to illuminate the surroundings and said at a loss of whether to laugh or cry: "It doesn't seem like this is the first time we have encountered this. It’s a trap.”
Xu Chunliang said: "It seems that your security inspection work is not done properly."
The two got off the bed and stepped on the cushioning air mattress to the ground. The ground they stood on was covered with red sand, and the surrounding walls were made of blue bricks. Xu Chunliang took a closer look under the light and saw that these green bricks were all antiques, blue and gray. The bricks are engraved with inscriptions - Changle Weiyang, Descendants Yichang, Long Live Qianqiu.
Xu Chunliang said: "This is a Han brick."
Hua Zhuyue felt her heart beat faster and was about to speak. As soon as she opened her mouth, Xu Chunliang stuffed a round object into her mouth. It was a bit bitter. Hua Zhuyue's first reaction was to spit it out.
Xu Chunliang whispered in her ear: "This red sand is called Peach Blossom Sha. It can make people confused and intoxicated, and it has an aphrodisiac effect."
Hua Zhuyue secretly thought, isn’t that an aphrodisiac? She swallowed the round pill, still not daring to breathe boldly. She remembered that the last time she was at the Shennong Medicinal Planting Base, she fell into a trap in the concentration box. It seemed that this method was the most commonly used.
The two of them were considered vigilant, but in the end they fell into other people's traps.
Hua Zhuyue said with some annoyance: "They still plotted Baimi Yishu. If we had known this, we shouldn't have stayed here."
Xu Chunliang said: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. This proves that we are not far away from meeting Xiahou Zun."
Hua Zhuyue said: "It seems that our identity has been exposed."
Xu Chunliang said: "Sooner or later, I think that guy Yan Hong will sell us out."
Just as Yan Hong fell asleep, someone put a knife to his neck. When the lights came on, he saw the bearded man holding a Kulko scimitar close to his carotid artery. The bearded man hissed: "Don't move, you can't stop the bleeding if you cut the artery."
Yan Hong said in a trembling voice: "You...why are you doing this? We are all from the same sect..."
The bearded man chuckled and said, "The eldest lady wants to see you." He threw a pair of handcuffs to Yan Hong.
Yan Hong understood what he meant, cuffed himself honestly, and followed the bearded man back to the Baicao Building.
Cao Mulan has taken off her armor and is wearing a long white dress. The charming woman in red is beside her and respectfully pours tea for her.
Yan Hong pretended to be calm and raised his handcuffed hands and said, "Mr. Cao, what do you mean?"
Cao Mulan asked: "Who are the two people who came with you?"
Although Yan Hong realized that something was wrong, he did not admit it immediately. He still followed the original agreement with Xu Chunliang and said: "They are my partners. Let's go to Dongzhou to assassinate Hua Zhuyue..."
Cao Mulan sighed softly and glanced at the woman in red. The woman in red looked at Yan Hong and smiled. Her smile was charming and seductive. Suddenly she raised her hand, and a cold light came out of her hand, but it was a flying stick that was about an inch long. The knife went straight to Yan Hong's right leg and sank deeply into the flesh.
The woman drew the knife so fast that even Yan Hong would have had a hard time avoiding it, not to mention her hands were cuffed.
Yan Hong screamed in pain. He looked down and saw that the flying knife reached the end of the handle and penetrated deep into his flesh. He was about to pull it out.
The woman named Hong Xiu said, "I was wrong." She walked towards Yan Hong step by step.
Although the woman was charming and beautiful, she was very scary in Yan Hong's eyes. He shook his head: "No need..." Cao Mulan looked into his eyes coldly and said, "Don't you listen to what I say?"
Yan Hong was shocked by Cao Mulan's aura and stopped with his half-stretched hand.
Hong Xiu came to Yan Hong, grabbed the handle of the knife and pulled it out, bringing out a lot of blood, some of which was stained on Hong Xiu's red skirt. Yan Hong gritted his teeth in pain.
Hongxiu pursed her lips and said, "It's disgusting, my clothes are all stained." She actually stabbed Yan Hong with her backhand and inserted the knife back into Yan Hong's thigh. Yan Hong groaned, and his forehead was instantly covered with cold sweat.
Cao Mulan didn't seem to see anything, and said nonchalantly: "Who are these two?"
Yan Hong realized that their plan had been completely exposed and screamed: "Mr. Cao, they forced me. The man's name is Xu Chunliang, and the woman is Hua Zhuyue from the Orchid Gate..."
Once the defense line collapsed, it was like a flood breaking its embankment. Yan Hong told the story from beginning to end.
After hearing this, Cao Mulan winked, and Hongxiu pulled out the knife again. Poor Yan Hong did not dare to resist, so he could only let it be tortured, and the blood from the wound had stained his pants red.
Hongxiu called Big Beard, helped Yan Hong bandage the wound on his leg, and covered his eyes with a black cloth. After everything was done, Big Beard and Hongxiu all retreated.
Cao Mulan said: "Yan Hong, since you are a disciple of the tired sect, you should know the rules of the sect. If you collude with outsiders to harm the interests of the same sect, you must clean up the sect with three swords and six holes."
Yan Hong was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground: "Mr. Cao, please spare your life. I was forced to do so. Xu Chunliang used vicious methods and humiliated me in every possible way. I am not afraid of death, but the torture of Qiu Hou's life-threatening needle is really intolerable to me." .”
Cao Mulan nodded and said softly: "Come closer and I will help you take a look."
Yan Hong took two steps forward, but there was nothing at his feet. He screamed in fear, and his body fell straight down from a hole.
Yan Hong fell from a height of six to seven meters and was beaten to pieces. When he woke up, he saw a light in front of him. He endured the pain and got up from the ground and walked towards the light. Sitting there was an old man with white hair and beard, who was reading a book.
Hearing Yan Hong's footsteps, the old man put down the book in his hand, waved to him and said, "Come here."
Xu Chunliang and Hua Zhuyue soon discovered that they had fallen into a maze. The underground passages were twisting and turning. After several attempts, they finally returned to the original place.
Hua Zhuyue said: "This is obviously a maze."
Xu Chunliang said: "This Cao Mulan is very good at it."
Hua Zhuyue said: "You mean she built this underground maze?"
Xu Chunliang shook his head: "This underground maze must be old. If I guess correctly, it is probably an undiscovered cave hiding soldiers."
“Cao Cao’s cave for hiding soldiers?”
Xu Chunliang nodded.
Hua Zhuyue had been to Qiaocheng in the past and also visited the Tibetan Soldier Cave. The Tibetan Soldier Cave she visited was also well-known to the public. Because of the breach of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty, the city was flooded and the troop transportation roads were also silted up. Since then, It has been buried deep underground for more than 700 years and has not been discovered.
Until the 1970s, the broad masses of the people responded to the call to “dig holes deep and store grain widely” and dug air-raid shelters in urban areas, accidentally revealing the majesty of this ancient tunnel that had been buried underground for thousands of years. According to expert research, this is the legendary Cao Cao's troop transport method.
This troop transportation road is hailed as the underground Great Wall by the archaeological community. It consists of two parts: the Qiaowang Tower and the ancient tunnel. The entire tunnel is criss-crossed in longitude and latitude, with a mysterious layout, diverse changes, three-dimensional distribution, and complex structure. It criss-crosses and stretches deep to the outskirts of the city. Currently, nearly eight kilometers have been explored.
It seems that Cao Mulan contracted the land here to plant Chinese medicinal materials, but the real purpose was this underground Great Wall.
The labyrinth they were in was set up by Cao Cao's army to prevent enemy troops from invading. It was designed by Guo Jia, a famous counselor under Cao Cao. Guo Jia defeated Lu Bu, settled Hebei, destroyed Wuhuan, and suppressed Liaodong. His wisdom and strategies were not inferior to Zhuge's.
Xu Chunliang and Hua Zhuyue walked around for a long time without leaving the ancient maze, and their mobile phones also lost signal.
Xu Chunliang looked at the Peach Blossom Evil all over the ground and thought to himself, if he hadn't been able to detoxify it, he might have ended up having an affair with Hua Zhuyue by now.
Hua Zhuyue whispered: "It's not an option to keep going like this. I always feel that they are monitoring our every move in the dark."
Her words reminded Xu Chunliang, and Xu Chunliang said: "Go to bed."
Hua Zhuyue was stunned for a moment: "What?"
Xu Chunliang said: "Let's talk about it after we go to bed."
(End of this chapter)