"What should I do?" Lin Yutong looked at Fourth Master, whether he should go down or not, that was a question.
Fourth Master pointed at the oil lamp: "Put some more medicine in there..." Even if someone breaks in, it won't be a big deal.
I wanted to go down and have a look.
Lin Yutong had no choice but to add medicine to the wick and oil, and checked the doors and windows. Then he took out the small flashlight and handed it to the Fourth Master. The Fourth Master adjusted the light to the darkest level and then shined it down.
.Going down from the entrance of the cave, there are steps. Where the light shines, there is nothing special, it is steps.
The fourth master walked down first, followed closely by Lin Yutong. He walked lightly along the steps for more than twenty steps, and found a small platform. From here, the steps turned in another direction and continued downward.
After going around like this several times and descending seventy or eighty steps, he found a corridor. After walking for more than ten steps along the corridor, Lin Yutong felt that the smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger. Following this smell, he walked forward two more steps.
Thirty meters away, it suddenly opened up in front of us. This was a stone room with a size of dozens of square meters.
At this time, my nose was filled with the smell of blood, but unfortunately, there was no blood on the ground.
Lin Yutong just said that she wanted to see if there was a dark room here. She felt a cold feeling on the tip of her nose. She touched it with her hand and found that it was sticky and smelly. So she hurriedly shined the flashlight on it. Lin Yutong was almost frightened by this sight and did not scream out.
Even though he had seen a large battle, he was still frightened by the situation before him.
I saw more than a dozen people hanging above. Their arms and legs were locked with iron ropes, and they were hung in the shape of a 'big'. Under each person, there was also a wooden trough hanging.
The blood fell down bit by bit and fell into the wooden trough. What made Lin Yutong's scalp numb was that these people had no face.
Yes! That’s right! He has no face.
Because their faces had been peeled off, their entire faces were covered in blood and flesh. Lin Yutong could still vaguely smell the smell of medicine, which was the smell of white medicine used to treat trauma.
He was tortured, exposed, and bloodletted so cruelly, but he was also given medicine to treat his injuries.
In that case, these people should be alive. They are tortured while they are alive, and they cannot die even if they want to.
It is said that cutting people into pigeons is cruel, but the person in front of me seems to be no better than a pigeon.
Who are they? Why are they imprisoned here by the emperor and subjected to such torture?
The Fourth Master looked around and saw a suspended ladder on one side, and said, "I'll go up and have a look..."
"It's better for me to go." Lin Yutong grabbed Fourth Master, "It's useless for you to go up. Let me see if these people can be saved."
Fourth Master looked up and then at Lin Yutong: "Be careful..."
Before Lin Yutong could answer, he heard the sound of Ruoyouruowu footsteps coming. The two of them instantly turned off the flashlights, stepped back, and stood against the wall of the corridor, slowing down their breathing.
Immediately afterwards, the footsteps became clearer and clearer, but they were only the footsteps of one person.
Without much effort, a little light came faintly from the corridor at the other end. Slowly, the light became brighter and brighter.
What came was a hunched man. He was holding an oil lamp in his hand. After he came in, he hung it on a protruding stone on the stone wall. It was obvious that he was familiar with this place.
"Still don't say anything?" This person said suddenly. His voice was hoarse and low, which made people feel as if there was something blocked in their throats, and then they also felt uncomfortable in their throats.
When he spoke like this, he must have known that the people above him were awake and conscious. Then, couldn't it be that the people above him heard what he just said to Fourth Master?
I was really careless this time.
Fourth Master gently shook Lin Yutong's hand, indicating that nothing was wrong.
I heard the man say to himself: "You said that we have been friends for so many years, and I can't bear to do anything to you. You hand over the token, and I will let you down. I will heal your injury, and you can remain anonymous. Good job
Let’s live a normal life for a few days. It’s better to live here, hiding in the mountains all day long, with neither humans nor ghosts…”
The man above Jie Jie laughed strangely twice: "Token... you want a token? Luo Guo, tell me who your master is, and I'll tell you where the token is?"
"My master..." Luo Guo shook his head, "You are really stubborn. You are willing to give your life to someone but not sell it. The emperor is old now and is about to change his master. What are you trying to do by holding on to your old master and not letting go..."
Lin Yutong thought to himself: It turns out that this is internal strife! Someone has infiltrated spies into the secret guard. It was not the emperor who locked people up here.
"Bah!" The person above spat downwards, "You unfaithful and unfilial beast!"
Luo Guo was not angry either. He shook the medicine bottle and said, "Jinjia, you are the eighth generation of Jinjia. Don't think that without you, the outside world will never change. I'm not afraid to tell you. As long as I hold on to your
The person with the face is here. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you have the token or not. I can use it slowly with you. This time this medicine... is not so easy to resist. If you eat it, it will be like being gnawed by ants.
Yes, your whole body hurts and itches, and the ants seem to be burrowing out of your bones. Your limbs are tied up, and you can’t scratch them, and you can’t scratch them..."
"Beast!" Jin Jia was frightened and angry at first, but then he didn't know what he was thinking of. Then he changed his tone and said with some emotion: "My golden armor token must be passed on to my direct disciples. But now I am less than four years old.
Ten, I haven’t accepted a disciple yet. But...as long as my words are spread, whoever kills you, the hunchback, I will pass the token to whoever, by then, I don’t know how many people will be eager to take your head..."
Lin Yutong and Fourth Master looked at each other, and both of them felt that these words were meant for them. Because this Jin Jia might have already known about it when they came in.
Luo Guo chuckled: "You are really confused. This place has been abandoned long ago. No one except me knows that you are locked up here..."
"Yes! Yes!" Jin Jia sneered, "How could I forget it. However, you can't be careless. Besides being able to use poison, what else can you do? That three-legged cat's kung fu..."
"Fart!" Luo Guo suddenly became angry, "Without me these years, who could have cured the injuries of you people, each of you would have died eight hundred times earlier. If others don't tell me, it was you Jin Jia, I saved your life three times...
…”
Lin Yutong thought to himself: This Jin Jia said this just to tell himself and Fourth Master the details of this hunchback.
Thinking of this, she scratched the fourth master's palm and asked him if he needed to take action.
Fourth Master clicked on Lin Yutong's hand.
Lin Yutong popped out a little powder, and it should have landed around the Luoguo. It was dark, and there was only one oil lamp in the cave with rugged rocks. If there was anything underneath, as long as the smell was not strong, it would be difficult to detect.
This person is a master of poisoning. If it weren't for the strong smell of blood, he would not dare to use poison in such a rough way.
Jin Jia did not deny Luo Guo's life-saving grace. He only said: "That day we needed a person with good medical skills, so we came to you... If you hadn't saved so many people's lives, how could you have done it?"
You sneaked into the center to save us in order to win our trust, so I really can't be grateful for your life-saving grace."
Luo Guo frowned, "Don't talk nonsense back and forth with me..." As he said that, he covered his chest fiercely. Then, he pinched his nose and looked around: "Jin Jia... you arranged for a sneak attack... No! No!"
Who is the person you arranged for? Come out..."
When Luo Guo looked this way, the fourth master's arrow shot out. Luo Guo had no time to defend himself and was shot in the shoulder. There was an anesthetic on the arrow, and Luo Guo had just taken out the pills and prepared to detoxify.
People fall down.
"Baby, good job..." Jin Jia laughed heartily from above. The iron chain made a sound as he struggled.
When Fourth Master was about to go out, Lin Yutong held him back. She first threw out a pill. When the pill hit the stone wall, it exploded with a bang, and all the colorful powders were sprinkled on Luo Guo's body. When Fourth Master saw Luo Guo, he
The hand on his chest became stiff.
Lin Yutong breathed a sigh of relief. People who are good at using poisons have some ability to save their lives. Don't look at him fainting. Who knows if he has other detoxification things in his mouth. As long as he is still alive
If he was half awake, the person approaching him would definitely encounter a counterattack with all his strength.
"It's okay!" Lin Yutong said, stepped forward, cut open Luo Guo's clothes with a dagger, and then took them off, leaving him with only a pair of underwear. He then pushed the clothes to the corners, sprinkled with medicinal powder, and untied the possible
The remaining medicinal properties were removed. Then he took off the oil lamp and set fire to the clothes, completely burning them.
At this time, the fourth master was staring at the hunchback. Afraid of seeing clearly, he held the oil lamp in his hand and looked at it carefully.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yutong asked Fourth Master, "Do you know him? Or have you seen him before?"
Fourth Master shook his head and chuckled: "No. Just to see if he is really fascinated."
Lin Yutong stopped asking. This was definitely not what the Fourth Master was looking at. She glanced at Luo Guo again and found nothing. She only answered the Fourth Master's words, "I must have fainted. It's okay!" The Fourth Master probably discovered it.
Luo Guo's identity was just that there were outsiders here, so it was inconvenient for him to tell him.
The fourth master then straightened up and looked up, "Senior...shall I let you down?"
Jin Jia had been watching the movements of the two people just now, but he became more and more confused about their identities. "Who are you? Will you enter here now?"
The fourth master did not answer. Lin Yutong went up the ladder, put his hand on the man's wrist, and felt his pulse. The look on his face became strange. "The tendons and tendons of the hands and hamstrings have been severed, and it is difficult for gods to cure him." Even if he can be cured,
The trauma has healed, but from now on he is still a cripple who can only be paralyzed in bed. Moreover, there is something hidden in this man's body, which should be the token he mentioned.
Lin Yutong came down and gave a hint to Fourth Master.
Before the Fourth Master could speak, the man above Jin Jia spoke, "No matter who you are, as long as you help me and my old brothers get free, I will never treat you two badly. There is a locking plate on my neck. Use the locking plate to remove it."
The Tianyuan bank account is where all my savings for half my life have been..."
"Uncle..." Fourth Master suddenly called him this.
Lin Yutong was stunned, Jin Jia was even more stunned than Lin Yutong, "You...are you a member of the royal family?"
The fourth master sighed: "Jin Chengan is my father." Jin Chengan is still the emperor's confidant, and this card is still very useful for Jin Jia, who is loyal to the emperor.
"Jin Cheng'an?" Jin Jia frowned, "Then why are you here? Could it be that your grandfather dared to tell the younger generations like you..."
The Fourth Master's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the grandfather he was talking about was the Jin Jia of the previous generation? He thought so in his heart, but said: "I don't know what the clan uncle means? I only know that someone robbed us."
, threatening my father. Later, this group of people were fascinated by a group of father-in-laws, and we were brought here. I found this place by chance and followed the smell of blood..."
"Nonsense!" Jin Jia scolded: "Don't think that I don't know anything when I'm locked up here? How could a young master from the Duke's mansion be robbed?"
"The emperor is not in good health, Prince Duan is supervising the country, does the clan uncle know about this?" Fourth Master raised his head and asked again.
"What?" Jin Jia's voice was full of surprise, and he obviously didn't know. Then, he understood what he meant. The emperor is sick, so sick that he has to oversee the country. So, these princes have
Isn't it normal to have other thoughts? His breathing slowly became constricted, and he shouted to the Fourth Master: "Boy, come up... What is being carried out here is probably not the emperor's order. You still have to find a way to escape.
..."Jin Chengan is too important to the current emperor.
Fourth Master nodded to Lin Yutong and then walked up the ladder.
Lin Yutong looked below and saw that the Fourth Master was next to the Jin Jia, who whispered something in the Fourth Master's ear. She had a vague guess in her heart. The leader of the secret guard should be a member of the clan.
It is passed down from generation to generation. If Jin Chengan's father is Jin Jia from the previous generation, then the fourth master's identity can easily be recognized by Jin Jia.
The two of them were muttering up there for about an hour. Then the fourth master came down and said to Lin Yutong: "Get some medicine and tell them to leave quickly."
Lin Yutong sighed and handed a bottle of medicine to Fourth Master.
She had already seen it just now. The iron chain had hooks on it and was directly locked on the person's wrists and ankles. Now they have grown together. If she wanted to remove the iron chain, even if she had a tool that could cut iron like mud, she could still do it.
These hands and feet have to be broken again. Living is too painful!
When Fourth Master came down again, all the people above him had lost their breath.
Lin Yutong then pointed at Luo Guo and asked Fourth Master: "This person... is not from Prince Duan, nor from Prince Heng, but should be from Jin Chengan, right?"
The Fourth Master nodded, "...there is such a person in my memory... My second brother was very ill back then, and my father once brought back a mysterious doctor... It turned out that this child felt better that day, and with that
Guiwu took advantage of the darkness to go out to the night market through the back corner door, but came back late. As soon as he entered the door, he heard footsteps in the distance, hid, and saw his father leading a hunchbacked man in a black cloak out. At that time, he was holding a lantern.
His hands are always in his memory, and blue light flashed on his nails..." As he spoke, he pointed to both sides of Luo Guo's shoulders, "Look at the scars on his body, there is a plum blossom-shaped scar on each shoulder. This kind of scar,
The steward Liu Wu has it, and the prince's Shuang Shou also has it. This should be a status symbol."
I see!
"If Jin Chengan's father is the Jinjia of the previous generation, then this person's mind is probably impure. He must have told Jin Chengan about the secret guard. Moreover, during his tenure, he was afraid of using power for personal gain.
He has planned a lot of things. I am afraid that a lot of the information he collected was intercepted by him and became a stepping stone for the benefit of his descendants." Lin Yutong sighed, "So, where did Jin Chengan's ambition come from and why?
You have such courage. The confidence of all this is probably because of your understanding and even infiltration of the royal guards..." As she said that, she raised her head and said, "That token... should I go up and get it?"
"Let's put the people down first." Fourth Master shook his head, "Now the secret guards here need to be cleaned up urgently..."
Lin Yutong nodded and handed a dagger made of mutated chicken feet to Fourth Master. This thing cut iron like cutting tofu.
Put down all the people above and arrange them one by one, "After...the outside is cleaned up, we can bury them properly."
Lin Yutong looked at Luo Guo, "What should we do with this person? He may have seen our faces."
"Kill him!" Fourth Master snorted, "It's too dangerous to keep him."
Lin Yutong went up and stuffed a pill, and didn't get up until he really died.
The fourth master had already taken out the pendant token and a small sheepskin from Jin Jia's thigh. Lin Yutong got up and sutured the wound. The two of them got up and walked back quickly.
When they arrived at the house, nothing had changed. Lin Yutong put the water tank back to its original place.
The two of them quickly boiled water and washed themselves to get rid of the smell of blood and medicine. They also put the clothes they wore for the night into the space. Seeing that there was no trace of anything inappropriate, they packed up the kang.
The fourth master was playing with the token that had been cleaned of blood. It was a small thing that was only one finger long and wide, black and shiny, with the word "Golden Armor" engraved on it in ancient seal script. And that roll of sheepskin contained all the secrets in the mountain.
The route map of the road. Some of them are passages that only Jin Jia can know. "They are playing with themselves outside. Let's hold this secret guard in our hands first, and everything will be easier."
Lin Yutong suddenly remembered: "Before and after, we were in the hands of the emperor, but now it seems that we are still in the hands of Jin Chengan. Have those exposed faces been made into masks and worn on other people's faces?
Already..."
The fourth master nodded: "Yes, Jin Jia and his eighteen guards were plotted against Luo Guo with poison, so they were imprisoned."
"Then...the previous generation of the Jin family was Jin Chengan's father. He secretly had an identity and was the commander of the secret guard. But on the surface he was still the Duke of the country. So what is the identity of this generation's Jin Jia... Mingli?
"Lin Yutong was very puzzled by this. According to Luo Guo, he had lived in the mountains for half his life. If he wants the fourth master to live like this in the future, then he doesn't need this golden armor token.
But the fourth master shook his head: "It's not what you think. This Jin Jia was originally the emperor's eldest son, but he was born with a birthmark on his face, covering half of his face... That's why..."
Lin Yutong understands that birthmarks have always been thought to be left by the Prince of Hell because of their lack of virtue in the previous life. But for the royal children, the mark grows on the face and covers half of the face. There is really nothing that can be done about it.