In less than three minutes, there was a faint sound of dense footsteps in the distance, but they quickly disappeared into the distance.
"The guards have passed by. Come with me. We only have one minute to pass here." The witch said immediately.
Whoosh!
Four black figures rushed into the arch at full speed and were met by a spacious passage with palaces on both sides of the passage one after another. The core of the entire manor appeared in front of Li Ming...
Each palace has tall steps and grand doors. They are all closed at this time, so quietly that no sound can be heard. Moreover, the palace is also dark. No one seems to live in the palace, and even the lights are dim.
It's hard to see.
"No one seems to live here." Lonely Ruyan asked curiously as he accelerated forward and looked around.
"Yes, how can such a large manor seem like no one exists? Then why send so many guards?" General Qing Feng said doubtfully.
"Perhaps, they live in the palace during the day and go out for activities at night..." Li Ming replied thoughtfully.
They rushed through the wide passage and soon reached a fork in the road ahead.
At this time, footsteps sounded intensively again, and several guards appeared at the same time from several forks in the front!
"Follow me and hide in the palace." The witch immediately jumped up, her pretty figure quickly flew into the air, and quickly rushed into the high wall of a palace.
Buzz!
There was a slight sound, and the witch had opened the palace door from inside. The three of them rushed up the steps and hid inside the door.
The gate had just been closed, and three groups of soldiers passed by each other outside, some heading towards the garden, and some heading in the other two directions, continuing their vigilance and exploration.
But Li Ming did not leave the palace immediately. The four of them stood behind the gate, all attracted by this empty and quiet palace.
"There is really no one, but what is this?" Lonely Ruyan looked at the hall curiously. Countless weapon racks were neatly placed in the distance, with sets of armor equipment and weapons with cold light shining on them. The number was very large.
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"These are all weapons used by NPC soldiers, and they look like they have been used before." Li Ming walked to the front of the weapon rack and examined it carefully for a while. He found that these weapons and armors were not brand new. They were different from the ones he saw in the underground arsenal.
The new armor is obviously different.
"These are weapons and armors specially used by the military. They have been used for a long time, and you can see a lot of wear and tear," General Qing Feng said.
He is an expert in this field. Even he said so. Li Ming suddenly felt that the situation here was extraordinary...
"Brother Ming, since the general also said that these weapons and armors are used by others, why are they neatly placed here now?" Lonely Ruyan asked.
"Come and see, there are many packages here..." The witch's voice came from the front. She had passed through a large number of weapon racks and seemed to have discovered something in the distance of the hall...
As the three of them walked over quickly and passed through densely packed weapon racks, a flat open space suddenly appeared in front of them, and they saw countless large and neatly placed bundles on the ground.
"This is a simple outfit for soldiers to wear when marching. There are troops stationed here!" General Qing Feng's face suddenly changed and he reminded nervously.
"Is there an army stationed here?" Li Ming was shocked. It seemed that they had broken into a temporary military camp where soldiers were stationed!
"It's strange. Since there are soldiers stationed there, why are their packages, weapons and armor here? Where have they gone?" Lonely Ruyan said curiously.
"It seems that the situation is like this in all the palaces we passed along the way. If my prediction is correct, these palaces have the same scene. They are all places where soldiers are temporarily stationed. 2
The prince has secretly deployed an army to hide in the manor, ready to plot evil at any time!" Li Ming analyzed deeply.
"Your Excellency's guess is exactly what the general is worried about. Now that there are only equipment and no people, it can only explain one reason. These soldiers rest during the day and are sent out to perform some tasks at night..." General Qing Feng guessed.
"Performing a mission... requires a large number of soldiers?" Lonely Ruyan was dumbfounded, but Li Ming's eyes lit up...
He had been guessing how the second prince would send troops to the Imperial City. After all, the guarding army at Imperial City Mountain was under the command of General Qing Feng, but the second prince had no right to mobilize troops outside the palace.
Even the 50,000 Royal Guards in the Palace City can only be mobilized with the token given to the Second Prince by His Royal Highness. Once action begins, the Second Prince cannot fool these 50,000 Imperial Guards.
In other words, if the second prince wants to rebel, he must find a way to disperse the 50,000 forbidden troops, and then use his own people to deal with the prince and the human emperor in the palace...
Now it is certain that there are so many soldiers stationed in the manor, and with so many palaces combined, the hidden army here reaches at least tens of thousands!
If you want to quietly transfer tens of thousands of people into the palace, the only way is to pass through the Imperial City Mountain, and that place is not the territory of the second prince...
"General, may I ask, are you familiar with the terrain of Imperial City Mountain?" Li Ming asked.
"Your Excellency, are you kidding? The general is leading the troops to guard the Imperial City Mountain. How can he be unfamiliar with that place?" General Qing Feng said in a daze.
"I don't mean to offend you, but I just want to know where is the most suitable place to dig a secret passage from outside the Imperial City Mountain, and is it related to the location of this manor?" Li Ming asked with a smile.
"What... to dig a passage to the Imperial City Mountain?" General Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed drastically!
"You must have thought of something, right?" Li Ming asked with a smile.
"Damn it...this second prince really dares to do anything!" General Qingfeng crouched down quickly, took out a scroll from his arms, and quickly spread it out on the ground...
Li Ming and the two beauties gathered around curiously, and immediately saw that the scroll had a mountain topography drawn on it. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a detailed topographic map of the Imperial City Mountain...
There are huge cliffs on both sides and behind the huge mountain range, which even apes, let alone humans, cannot climb.
At this time, General Qingfeng's fingers had moved to the left side of Huangcheng Mountain, to the edge of a cliff. There was a hidden curve there, which seemed to be a mountain path, leading to a strange place halfway up the mountain.
, it seems that there is a cave there, and there is a relatively large and wide mountain platform outside.
"This is the Tomb of the Emperor of Heaven. The royal family of all dynasties are buried in the cave of the Imperial Tomb. Very few people go there, and it is the only place that can be close to the Imperial Palace City." General Qing Feng said with a frown.
His fingers slid down the mountainside to the imperial mausoleum, and unknowingly he drew a straight line to the foot of the mountain, then left the tower on Imperial City Mountain and drew all the way toward the inner city...
Unknowingly, following a straight line, General Qingfeng's fingers came to a mountain range in the inner city, and on the other side of this mountain range was a spacious manor!
"Found it. They want to dig a secret passage across the foot of the mountain from the end of the manor to avoid the general's defense line and lead directly to the imperial mausoleum area on the mountain col!" General Qing Feng said in shock.