Walking out of this garden, you can see the light of torches coming from the corner of the flower gallery in the distance. It is a patrol of guards coming over again.
The four of them quickly climbed onto the tile roof of the corridor, lay down and watched the fire getting closer and closer. They watched the team walking through the flower gallery under the corridor in neat steps.
The tiled roof of this flower gallery was not strong, and it would make a sound if it moved even slightly. When the four of them were about to get down from it, Gu Yuan reached out to stop the movements of the other three, and pointed to a short distance ahead.
Everyone followed Gu Yuan's finger and looked over. There was a secret guard lying there. His eyes were fixed on the corner of the flower gallery where a group of guards had just passed.
The secret guard was no more than a dozen steps away from everyone. Gu Yuan and the four of them couldn't help but feel lucky. If they had made a slightly larger movement when they were avoiding the group of guards, they might have alerted the man lying in front.
Secret guard.
Zuo Zhan and Little Eagle walked down the edge to the ground and quietly approached the other direction of the flower gallery. In just a few drops of water, they arrived at the feet of the secret guard.
Gu Yuan and Li Cheng hunched their bodies and prepared to attack. After the group of guards had walked a little further, they pounced forward with both feet on the roof of the tiles.
When Gu Yuan's feet landed on the tile roof, he tried not to make any sound. At the same time, he kicked the secret guard on the head with one kick and hit his neck with the other.
The secret guard was kicked in the temple of the head and knocked unconscious instantly. Li Cheng grabbed the secret guard's feet and pushed them down along the edge of the tile roof.
The little eagle grabbed the fallen guard and marveled at his tenacity. He was kicked in the temple and broke his cervical vertebrae with another kick. He was not completely dead yet. He wiped his neck with a knife and sent him on his way.
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After simply packing up the bodies, the group of people set out on the road again. Their hearts tightened, and they became more vigilant. In order to avoid being seen, they once again found a path and climbed over the wall.
Not long after, they once again came to a single-door courtyard with a main room and a wing, an east-west courtyard and a backyard. Originally, they did not want to climb over the wall to enter a courtyard with such a structure.
However, after walking not far, I saw firelight and footsteps approaching at the dark corner of the road ahead. It was someone who was coming this way. Listening to the neat footsteps, I guess it was another group of patrolling guards.
With a garden on one side and an inner house on the other, there was no way to escape. A few people had no choice but to climb over the wall and enter the east courtyard of the inner house to avoid the brigade of patrol guards.
As soon as the four of them landed, they looked at a servant who was holding a tray.
Seeing four teenagers falling from the sky, the servant was stunned. He could no longer hold the tray in his hand, and the things he was holding fell on the floor with a crash.
Without saying a word, the boy turned around and ran back, towards the main house in the east courtyard, and opened his mouth to shout.
Gu Yuan's hands were sharp and he slashed the back of the servant's neck with his sword, knocking him unconscious. At the same time, he stretched out his hand to support the body that was falling limply.
Li Cheng and Zuo Zhan were just about to hide this kid when they heard urging sounds coming from the main room of Dongkuaoyuan. The impatient tone behind the words was hateful to hear.
"Baby, why are you doing some work and you're still beating me? Who are you beating?"
There was someone inside! Little Eagle and Gu Yuan looked at each other and rushed in, only to see a long and stout servant girl packing things.
The servant woman was stunned when she saw the little eagle, but without giving her a chance to react, the little eagle reached out and touched the servant woman's neck, knocking her out with a huge impact.
At this time, Li Cheng and Zuo Zhan also came in carrying servants and a bucket of cold water.
The little eagle splashed cold water on the servant to wake him up, and before the servant shouted, he put the dagger on the servant's neck.
The servant said with a sad face: "There are several heroes, I am just a servant, I don't know anything."
The little eagle grinned and said, "So, you are of no use to us anymore, right?"
After saying that, the little eagle sent the dagger forward, and a blood mark immediately appeared on the servant's neck.
The servant turned pale with fright and immediately said: "It's useful, it's useful. I will tell you everything the heroes want to ask."
The little eagle slapped the servant on the face with a knife, "It would be great if you cooperated so early. Tell us the location of the dungeon and spare your life.
Don’t even think about lying to us, we will have to ask this woman later, if you two say something different, I will kill you both!”
The servant was so frightened that he cried out, "I don't dare, but I really don't know where the dungeon is. Do you have anything else to ask?"
"Then do you know where the West Garden is?"
"I know this……"
After asking questions, he gagged the two servants who had been knocked unconscious, tied them together, closed the door and walked out again.
Four people climbed on the wall and roof to observe the surrounding situation.
Soon I found a dark shadow lying on the roof of the west courtyard, another secret guard.
Listen carefully, in the main room and side rooms of the main courtyard.
The sound of even breathing could be heard from all of them, and they must have all fallen asleep.
The four of them approached the secret guard from behind and touched his back. When they were still two steps away, they woke up the secret guard.
The secret guard noticed someone coming and wanted to resist, but unfortunately he had no chance.
The little eagle pounced on him like a tiger, grabbed his chin and head with both hands, held his head down so that he couldn't make a sound, turned his hands sideways, and broke his neck with a snap.
Until his death, the secret guard did not issue any warning.
I squatted on the roof and continued to observe, and found a hidden guard on a tree on the path ahead, but the direction of his defense was not in the direction where they were.
Precisely because there was a secret guard guarding his back, the secret guard in the tree had his back to them.
Gu Yuan and Li Cheng walked from the roof to the outer wall and descended to the ground in two steps. After confirming that there were no patrols passing by nearby, they quietly went under the tree.
Gu Yuan squatted half-crouched, folding his hands in front of his abdomen to form a footrest. Li Cheng stepped on Gu Yuan's hand. They both pushed upward at the same time, and Gu Yuan sent Li Cheng to the crown of the tree three feet high.
Li Cheng stood up in the air, looked at the position, and stepped on the crook of the secret guard's leg. At the same time, his left hand grasped the branch of the big tree through the secret guard's shoulder, and firmly fixed it.
On top of the tree crown, the blade of the right hand smoothly grazed the dark guard's neck.
The whole process was neat and tidy. The secret guard was struggling against death as Li Cheng pressed him hard against the branch of a tree.
Li Cheng casually tore off the secret guard's belt and tied him to a tree to prevent him from falling. The blood flowed down the tree.
But it's dark now, and no one will notice anything unusual until dawn tomorrow morning.