The next day, Li Nanke specially brought Leng Xinnan to the residence of the Queen Mother.
The girl who came to receive him was still the girl named Xiaolan.
Seeing that a cold and charming beauty suddenly appeared next to Li Nanke, the two seemed to be very close, and the luster in the girl's eyes suddenly dimmed a little.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, the Empress Dowager is not feeling well and is resting. It is inconvenient to see guests."
Xiaolan tried to calm down her emotions and said apologetically.
Li Nanke seemed to have expected this, so he didn't care and asked Xiaolan to take him to the house where Cang Xiaoyue lived.
After entering the room, Li Nanke planned to deliberately push the girl away, "Miss Xiaolan, please take me, this subordinate, to interrogate other people and go through the process first."
"this……"
Xiaolan wondered, "The Empress Dowager asked this servant to follow Mr. Li."
"It doesn't matter, I'll just wait in this room and won't run around." Li Nanke said with a smile.
Xiaolan hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
After the two left, Li Nanke closed the door, drank the red rain and began to look for the switch to open the secret passage.
Soon, he discovered a circular groove under the flower pot next to the wardrobe.
Li Nanke moved the flowerpot and pressed the groove firmly.
With a slight click, a secret passageway entrance appeared under the bed.
After confirming that there were no other traps, Li Nanke cautiously got into the secret passage.
Just as he expected, the stone walls in the secret passage were indeed inlaid with lighting beads.
Going down the simple steps, what appeared in front of Li Nanke was a winding cave that could only accommodate an ordinary adult man.
Judging from the condition of the soil on both sides, this secret tunnel was excavated not long ago.
Li Nanke kept groping forward, and soon a fork in the road appeared in front of him, leading to different directions on the left and right.
Li Nanke first chose the cave passage on the left and walked forward. After about a moment of burning incense, he encountered a stone door. After pushing it open, he found that the exit was under a rockery.
"Where is this?"
Li Nanke climbed out of the secret passage and looked around, doubtful in his heart.
This is a relatively deserted villa.
Although the yard showed signs of frequent cleaning, judging from the lifeless atmosphere, few people lived in the yard.
Li Nanke jumped onto the rockery. From one side, he could see the palace wall and patrolling guards not far away, while on the other side was the heavily guarded palace gate.
It means that he is still in the palace.
This secret passage was not dug out of the palace.
It's just that compared to other heavily guarded places, the area where Li Nanke is at this moment is obviously less well guarded.
If you are an expert with extraordinary skills, you can easily leave the palace from here.
"Did the impostor leave the palace from here?"
Li Nanke conjectured.
Thinking about it, it is impossible to dig a tunnel directly out of the palace. The risk is too great.
Digging the tunnel to a place where it is easier to get out of the palace not only saves time, but also allows for better concealment.
Li Nanke surveyed the area and then got back into the tunnel.
He quickened his pace, returned to the fork in the road he had encountered before, and entered the secret passage on the right, intending to see where this tunnel led.
However, this time, after less than half a stick of incense, the tunnel came to an end. It looked like it suddenly stopped halfway through digging, without even an exit.
"Why is it half dug? Where do you plan to dig?" Li Nanke, who was completely unfamiliar with the terrain of the palace, was full of questions at this time and it was difficult to guess the situation.
He took out the charcoal pen and notebook he had with him and tried his best to draw the overall layout of the secret passage from memory.
When preparing to leave, Li Nanke took Hongyu again to open his clairvoyant eyes.
As a result, I made a discovery after looking at it.
Buried in the rubble piled nearby was a square box about twenty centimeters long and wide.
Li Nanke dug out the box and opened it.
Inside the box was a hollow metal object shaped like a lantern. Inside the cage was a red diamond-shaped stone, exuding a faint luster.
"What is this stuff?"
Li Nanke was puzzled. He picked up the metal lantern and looked at it carefully. He found that the word "Linggu" was faintly engraved on the bottom.
Spirit Valley?
Li Nanke was stunned and asked in the air: "Is this something from your Linggu?"
However no one responded.
Li Nanke frowned and picked up the metal lantern, "Yan Jiangxue, I want to ask you something. Do you recognize this thing?"
It was quiet all around.
No one said anything.
"Are you deaf? Yan Jiangxue, come out!" Li Nanke was displeased and directly ordered the other party to show up.
But after waiting for a while, the woman did not appear.
Apparently the personal bodyguard was not around.
"Where did this woman go?"
Realizing that the woman did not follow him into the secret passage, Li Nanke cursed secretly, held the metal lantern in his arms and returned from the original route, back to Cang Xiaoyue's room.
"Yan Jiangxue!"
Li Nanke came into the room and shouted several more times, but still no one answered.
It can be seen that the other party did not accompany him to the palace at all.
Such an incompetent bodyguard caused the man to complain.
You should say something when you leave.
After Leng Xinnan finished recording the interviews with the people involved in the case as usual, Li Nanke took her out of the palace.
"That little girl is interested in you."
After walking out of the palace, Leng Xinnan smiled a bit teasingly, brushed the broken hair beside her ear with her tail finger and said, "I have asked about you several times."
Li Nanke shrugged, "Isn't this normal? I'm so handsome and handsome, so it's normal for a little girl to like me."
"Bah, narcissistic."
Leng Xinnan laughed and cursed.
Li Nanke put his arms around the woman's soft and elastic waist, ignored the gazes of passers-by on the street, kissed her beautiful face, and said with a smile: "Even my former boss was fascinated by my handsome appearance, and my ability to call
Narcissistic?"
"Go aside."
Leng Xinnan blushed and pushed the man away.
When he came home, Li Nanke found his wife Gu Ying, took out the metal hollow lantern and asked: "Master's wife, have you seen this thing in Linggu?"
"This is……"
Looking at the exquisite and unique lantern in front of her, Gu Ying frowned, a little confusion appeared on her beautiful face, "It seems to be a thunderbolt?"
Sky-breaking thunder?
It sounds like a bomb.
Li Nanke muttered.
Sure enough, Gu Ying explained: "There are many magic weapons in Linggu. This kind of sky-breaking thunder is a very powerful magic weapon. It is usually placed around the formation. Once activated, it will explode and everything within five feet around it will be destroyed."
It will cause disaster. Even masters with good cultivation will be blown up to the point where no bones are left."
So awesome?
Li Nanke shivered and almost dropped the metal lantern in his hand.
"Why is Linggu's magic weapon here?"
Li Nanke was puzzled.
Gu Ying was equally confused, "It stands to reason that this thing is placed in a forbidden secret room and cannot be accessed by anyone except the leader. Why don't you ask Yan Jiangxue?"
"This woman disappeared suddenly and I don't know where she went."
Li Nanke said dissatisfied.
"disappear?"
Gu Ying was startled, thoughtful.
"But it's very strange. Why is there such a terrifying magical weapon placed in the secret tunnel? Is it intended to blow up the tunnel? But this is too bold."
Li Nanke couldn't understand. After all, once it exploded, it would definitely cause a big commotion.
This kind of behavior is completely courting death.
I will enter the palace tomorrow and try to survey the terrain to see where the tunnel to the right is dug.