The footsteps of the guards sounded loudly, and the distance got closer and closer. I guess I knew that the guards guarding the courtyard had heard the sound and were running towards the main hall.
Bai Yuanfei couldn't care less at this moment and pushed Li Xingzai into the cave.
"Climb quickly!"
Li Xingzai's vision went dark and he couldn't see anything. There was only a deep and bottomless hole in front of him.
In such a narrow space, it seems that crawling is the only option.
The underground cave leads here from outside the city. The excavated space is not large, and the danger can only allow one person to move forward using both hands and feet. Then, a huge feeling of fear surged over, and Li Xingzai felt as if the four walls of the underground cave were pressing down on him.
Then there was the suffocating tension.
"Hurry up, do you want us all to die here?"
Wang De's voice came from behind, and he was pushing Li Xingzai hard. Unlike Li Xingzai, Wang De often lived underground, and sometimes he was the only one who went into ancient tombs in the middle of the night, let alone today. But Li Xingzai was not like this.
After experiencing this for the first time in his life, he realized that he was so afraid of the dark.
However, Wang De is right, there is not much time left for them. If they delay any longer, none of the three will be able to leave. If he is caught, Li Xingzai will be fine, but he will kill Bai Yuanfei who came to save him.
and Wang De.
He bit the tip of his tongue, let the pain wake him up, and then moved forward with his elbows.
At this moment, the guards had rushed into the room, and the scene before them shocked them. They saw several corpses lying in the hall, and Li Xingzai had disappeared. Only Bai Yuanfei was standing there.
"who!"
"Get him!"
It can be said that the guards' reaction was not slow at all. Although Li Xingzai's salary has been improved these days, the surveillance on him seems to be tight, and the guards who can be sent to guard the courtyard are also the elites of Liangzhou City.
Bai Yuanfei stood there and laughed, suddenly took out a bag of things from his body, lit it with his hand, and threw it at the guard.
"Gunpowder, it's gunpowder!" the guard shouted in shock.
boom!
An explosion sounded, and a corner of the main hall was destroyed. The city lord's palace, which was originally as quiet as the lake, was disturbed by the loud noise.
Song Bokang had not fallen asleep at this time, and was discussing matters with Lu Luo and Dai Bai in the study. The expressions of the three of them were serious, which shows the importance of the matter discussed.
At this moment, a sudden loud noise shook the window lattice, and the three of them looked out the window at the same time, with confused expressions on their faces.
One of his men hurried into the room and said: "Sir, sir, this is not good!"
"What happened?" Song Bokang asked.
"A thief dug a tunnel and sneaked into the city lord's mansion, and kidnapped the sixth prince!"
"What!"
Lu Luo and Dai Bai stood up at the same time, with very shocked expressions. Li Xingzai's existence was extremely important to them, and it involved the following plans, but they did not expect that he would be missing in the city lord's palace.
Song Bokang was a little calmer: "Send people to chase, and we must rescue His Highness alive."
"Someone has already entered the cave to chase him."
Song Bokang, Lu Luo, and Dai Bai hurried to the scene of the incident and saw the hole in the center of the hall.
"Sir, this is where the person escaped. The guards have been sent in to chase him, but there is still no movement yet."
Looking at the black hole on the ground, Song Bokang's face turned ugly. Soon, the guards who entered the hole were blocked. After a long time, a body was dragged out from inside.
The other party's death was very ugly, as he died from a sharp instrument piercing his skull. The cave was so narrow that a person could not turn around inside, and once the corpse blocked the road, even thousands of troops could not squeeze in.
Song Bokang took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.
"The whole city was dispatched, and people were sent to search outside the city to find the exit of the cave as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Dai Bai simply agreed.
There are one hundred thousand elite soldiers in Liangzhou City. When Song Bokang said that the whole city was dispatched, it was these one hundred thousand people who mobilized. Even including himself, all the gates of Liangzhou City were opened, and Song Bokang rode a fast horse out of the city. One hundred thousand people.
The soldiers began to search with a net along the city wall.
One hundred thousand people is not a small number, but for today's task, the manpower is still not sufficient.
Song Bokang knew this very well, so he felt even more anxious, but what he could do now was to do his best to keep Li Xingzai.
As for whether we can keep him or not, we can only do our best and listen to fate.
Li Xingzai felt that he had never been in such pain in his life. The tunnel was narrow, damp, silent, and there were all kinds of bugs that he couldn't name. The stuffy air made Li Xingzai want to tear his chest apart. The key is that this kind of boredom is suffocating.
There was no one to talk to about my emotions, and the silence had never been so terrifying.
Moving forward, the space gradually opened up, but this opening was only to the extent that he could turn around. Immediately afterwards, Li Xingzai faced a challenge he had never faced before in his life.
Water began to accumulate on the ground, all kinds of fishy odors came to my nose, and rats crawled in front of me from time to time.
"What is this!" Li Xingzai screamed in fright.
"Stop talking nonsense and crawl forward quickly." Wang De urged.
"How long do we have until we can leave this hellish place?" If possible, Li Xingzai would like to explode the top of his head immediately to let in fresh air.
"Just one more hour, if you're fast enough." Wang De said: "Don't throw up, it's very disgusting."
"You'll still feel sick."
Li Xingzai resisted his nausea and trudged through the dark and smelly cave bit by bit.
It is actually not easy to dig out a tunnel leading to the city. Various problems will be encountered in the process. Fortunately, Wang De is an expert in this area. At least the landslide did not occur during the project.
After entering the city, the drainage facilities in the city came into play. Naturally, this is not a very pleasant task, but it is the most labor-saving way.
What Li Xingzai encountered now was sewage in the sewers, which was even mixed with human and animal feces. Even though Li Xingzai had been wandering outside these years and was used to living a hard life, this was the first time such a thing had happened.
Outside the city, Song Bokang urged his horse to gallop, and one of his men hurried over and said: "Sir, we have found the tunnel exit."
Song Bokang's eyes lit up: "Come on, take me to see you quickly!"
To the east of the city gate, it is covered with dead branches and straw. When you open it, you can see a large hole. There are trees inside and there are traces of excavation.
Song Bokang felt relieved, and finally found it. As long as he defended this place, Li Xingzai would definitely be unable to escape. However, Cheng Da Lei was really cunning. Toad City was located northwest of Liangzhou City, and they actually dug a tunnel from the east.
"Dig, dig the hole!" Song Bokang ordered fiercely: "Find them!"
After finding the entrance to the cave, Liangzhou soldiers gathered here. At the same time, Li Xingzai was still trekking hard.