With the help of the witch, this exploration mission was extremely simple. After Li Ming finished his disguise, he took the witch with the bamboo basket on his back and walked around to the side of the mountain road.
At the back door of the villa and on the mountain path, dense crowds of people were seen one after another, densely covering the entire stone staircase. One group went up the mountain carrying empty bamboo baskets, and the other group returned to the villa carrying full bamboo baskets.
After bypassing a long distance, the two of them slowly approached the back door against the back wall of the villa. While the soldiers were only on their way, they quickly rushed into the group...
The soldiers who came later were stunned for a moment after being blocked by the people in front. The team stagnated for less than two seconds. The entire team returned to its normal state. No one seemed to suspect that an enemy had sneaked in among them...
Carrying a bamboo basket and following the NPC soldier in front, he continued to move forward. After waiting for half a minute and nothing happened, Li Ming let out a sigh of relief...
As he climbed up the mountain mixed in with the team, almost all the soldiers lowered their heads and just went on their way, and he was completely relieved.
Running along the winding stone path, they soon entered a quiet mountain road covered with dense forests. After rounding a bend, the entire team continued to move forward along the fork on the left...
All the way along the winding mountain road, the mountain is getting higher and higher.
But as the team moved forward for more than ten minutes, Li Ming walked horizontally along a straight stone step of 100 meters, and a 90-degree corner appeared in front of him again. As soon as he passed the corner, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a large open space appeared in front of him.
A magnificent palace complex appears across the clearing.
This is a palace complex composed of four or five large palaces. It seems to be the second prince's villa on the mountain. But what is surprising now is that at the foot of a high cliff to the right of the entrance to the palace complex, there are indeed flickering figures.
Outside a dark square hole, countless soldiers wearing armor were guarding there.
And the front end of the team entered this hole!
A team entered the cave, and a long team walked out from the other side carrying earth and rocks on their backs. It seemed that the secret passage for transporting troops by the second prince was here!
Li Ming was extremely surprised, but he still lowered his head and followed the team closer to the entrance of the cave...
Under the gaze of hundreds of guards, Li Ming and the Witch finally followed the team into the cave. Rows of dim lights suddenly appeared in front of them. In this cave that was five meters wide, the stone walls were densely covered with countless lighting crystals.
The entire cave is illuminated as if it were daytime.
And the cave that Li Ming saw stretched straight down to the end, which showed that the second prince had been plotting here for who knows how long, and actually dug such a magnificent underground passage!
I continued to move forward in surprise. There were no forks in the cave, but it just continued to move forward...
Li Ming was curious, where exactly was this cave dug?
Follow the team and keep moving forward. This walk takes nearly ten minutes!
And the cave ahead seems to never see the end, I don’t know how far it is...
Li Ming was extremely shocked. He had been secretly calculating the number of steps and time from the cave entrance to here, and thus calculated the entire length of the cave. After comparing the distance between the manor and Imperial City Mountain on the map, he concluded
A conclusion…
The position where he is standing now is almost within the range of the Imperial City Mountain Tower, but he doesn't know how far away it is from the foot of the Imperial City Mountain?
However, he knew something in his heart that this cave would eventually lead to the Tianming Emperor's Mausoleum halfway up the Imperial City Mountain. If this cave was discovered and started to be excavated into the mountain, it would mean that the second prince's conspiracy was about to be realized. This cave was almost
The designated location has been excavated!
It seems that whatever he is afraid of comes, just when Li Ming was surprised, he suddenly found that the front of the team had obviously walked up a high slope, and the cave under his feet seemed to have a slight slope...
Oops, has this cave been dug?
Li Ming was shocked, and at this moment, the sound of dense metal knocking continued to be heard from the distance of the cave.
Hearing this voice, he felt a little relieved. It seemed that the cave had not been completely opened, and the end of the secret cave was already in front of him.
However, judging from the distance he calculated and the current terrain, although the secret cave has not yet been fully penetrated, it seems to be only the last step away from the second prince's plan.
Fortunately, we have dug the most difficult part of the cave here, because there are hard stone walls everywhere here. Unlike when we first entered the cave, which was surrounded by compacted soil and stone walls, when we entered the last 30 meters of the cave,
, the surrounding stone walls and the ground underfoot were obviously replaced by hard stones.
Li Ming instantly understood that after digging here, the difficulty of digging the cave had increased, so the second prince's plan seemed to be down to the last bit, but it would still take at least several days!
Ding-ding-ding-ding!
As the team continued to move forward, the sound of metal knocking became louder and louder. On the hillside in front of the cave, dense rocks almost sealed the entire front.
The soldiers carrying empty bamboo baskets had already begun to load the stones from the ground into the bamboo baskets, and then turned and left from the other side...
Soon, Li Ming and the witch also came to the cave entrance blocked by stones. Through the gaps in the pile of rocks in front, he saw countless burly figures, waving tools and continuing to dig into the rock cave wall in front.
Sparks are flying everywhere, it seems that the engineering difficulty is extraordinary...
But Li Ming's eyes were soon attracted by the burly figures digging caves. It seemed that these guys were taller than ordinary NPC soldiers, and they actually wore strange helmets with curved horns on their heads.
…
"What kind of warrior is this?" Li Ming was curious.
"Stop looking and leave quickly. That's the Bull Demon Warrior of our demon tribe. I didn't expect that he would be here to help humans dig caves!" The witch's voice came softly from behind.
"What... a demon warrior!" Li Ming was shocked. Now he understood everything. The reason why the second prince dared to covet the throne was not only that he had secretly colluded with the demons long ago, but also received the full support of the demons...
The two squatted down, randomly swept some gravel into the bamboo basket, and then quickly turned around and left with the team in front.
But before leaving, Li Ming quickly recorded the coordinates here. Even though this place is deep underground and the coordinates may not be accurate, as long as there are coordinates, the general direction of the ground can always be determined.
Carrying heavy bamboo baskets, the two began to evacuate safely...
Now that the location of the cave has been basically determined, Li Ming began to worry about the situation of the demons again.
Ever since I came into contact with the massacre of the three major families, there was a demon behind all this, and the ultimate goal was to help the second prince fight for the throne...
No need to guess, Li Ming already understood in his heart that once the second prince ascends to the throne, he will definitely become a puppet of the demon clan. By then, the entire Destiny Empire will be in great danger!
Moreover, the temple will definitely face the conspiracy of the demons, and must find a way to stop this rebellion...