When the door of the house opened, the lights were brightly lit inside. Seven or eight lanterns were hung in the small room with a radius of two feet, so he could see clearly. Gao Muqing only glanced at it, took half a step back, and reached out to hold Lin Lin.
Sleep sleeves.
It turned out that there was no ground on the ground of the house at all, but a dark hole with a radius of two feet. A cold wind came out of the hole, which gave people goosebumps even in the weather in June.
A dozen strong bandits began to shout in unison, and they pushed the wheel axle. The huge wheel axle rotated in circles, and the thick cable was rolled up in circles. Then, a roar came from the entrance of the hut.
There was a booming sound. Finally, there was a clicking sound, and a thick wooden platform with half-man-high fences on all sides slowly appeared at the entrance of the cave under the pull of the cable, just parallel to the ground.
"Leader Jia, please ascend the platform." the little boss said.
At this point, Jia Dongsheng had no choice but to do anything. Several people filed in and boarded the platform. With a bang, the door was closed. Several people stood on the platform with bated breath. The roof of the hut was almost touching their heads. The whole space was extremely
It's cramped and makes people unable to breathe.
Finally, the shouts from outside started again, and the thick cable slowly descended, rubbing against the wheel axle above, making a bouncing and sliding sound. Every time there was a sound, the platform shook several times, which was very frightening. The platform slowly descended,
The space became larger and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Jue understood that this was a shaft leading underground, surrounded by rock walls, with water seeping out of it, and green and yellow moss growing on it. It looked like it had been built a long time ago. Who would have thought that in this wilderness far away from the inland,
There is such a huge underground project on the island. It has to be said that Hai Dongqing's plan is huge. Such underground warehouses may not only be used as warehouses, but also as a hiding place for troops to be stationed at critical times. I don't know how many people were killed.
They were arrested and forced to excavate this underground project, and I don’t know how many people died as a result.
The cold wind from below the shaft blew upwards, causing the wind lantern hanging in the corner of the platform to sway. A huge rumbling echo echoed in the ears, making people deeply uneasy.
"Master Gao Dazhao, Mr. Lin... Mr. Lin. Don't blame me for not keeping my words in mind. There is only one entrance and exit to this underground warehouse. Without my order, the people above will not twist the platform to let people leave. So.
...If you kill me, you won't be able to come up." Jia Dongsheng said in a deep voice.
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Don't worry, I told you that as long as you don't mess around, we won't kill you."
Jia Dongsheng swallowed and spat and said: "Not only don't you kill me, but if you cause anything down there, it will be a death place, and everyone will die there..."
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Is this really the only entrance and exit? If there is a fire down there, how will the people down there escape?"
Jia Dongsheng's head was buzzing and he was cursing in his heart. Just from Lin Jue's words, it was clear that they were definitely going to pull something off. Are they planning to set fire to the warehouse? That's really serious.
Jia Dongsheng couldn't imagine the consequences. There were hundreds of barrels of kerosene stored on the second floor of the warehouse below. The entire warehouse was filled with weapons, grain, grass and other items. Once a fire broke out, everyone and everything inside would be destroyed.
The entire underground warehouse may collapse.
"Master Lin, the only exit is this lifting platform, there is no other way out." Jia Dongsheng replied in a deep voice.
Lin Jue hummed, nodded and stopped talking.
With a rumbling sound, the platform slowly descended. The cabin above gradually became a bright spot, and it was visually estimated that the underground warehouse was at least dozens of feet deep.
With a roar, the platform touched the ground. It was also a small stone chamber with smooth and neat surroundings. It was obviously an artificial stone chamber carved with an axe. The four people stepped off the platform and walked out from the stone door on one side. In front of them was a long
The open passage is more than two feet wide and about ten feet high. The surrounding stone walls are horizontally and vertically orderly. It is obvious that this is also a manually dug passage.
Lin Jue and the others secretly smacked their lips. Not to mention anything else, just the passage down here and this long corridor alone took an unknown amount of manpower to excavate to be successful. They also don’t know how many people’s blood and sweat were gathered together.
The walls of the corridor were dug into depressions, and inside were burning lamps, illuminating the entire corridor as bright as day. In front of the stone chamber, seven or eight bandit soldiers were on duty. When they saw Dao Jia Dongsheng coming down, a few of them
People rushed forward to salute.
Jia Dongsheng walked past them indifferently. He wanted to shout and ask them to rescue him, but he did not dare to do so rashly. When he thought of Brother Sun's face, he felt terrified. He needed a better opportunity to escape.
A group of people walked through the long corridor and walked forward. The footsteps of a few people echoed in the stone corridor, making a huge response. Although the sound was noisy, when heard in the ears, it felt more lonely and isolated from the world.
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Finally, the corridor reached the end and turned a small corner. The next moment, the scene in front of them suddenly changed. Lin Jue and others originally thought that the entire underground warehouse was man-made and neatly regulated, but the situation in front of them was overturned.
What they had imagined before was that the end of the tunnel suddenly opened up, and it turned out to be a huge natural cave. The floor of the high and wide cave was full of raised stalagmite pillars, and on the top were rows of stalactites as sharp as knives.
, the ground is full of pits, and under the illumination of torches and lanterns, shining reflections can be seen. It is a stream of water flowing to an unknown direction in the cave.
Several flat areas have been opened up in the huge cave, and sacks of supplies are piled up like mountains. Among the stone pillars and stalagmites, the figures of patrolling bandit soldiers appear and appear from time to time, and the shadows illuminated by torches flicker on the cave wall like a revolving lantern.
At this moment, Lin Jue and others finally understood that this so-called underground warehouse actually used a natural cave inside the island as a place to store supplies. The reason why the location of the exit was chosen is deep in the dense forest towards the east of the island.
, not entirely because of the need to hide the location, but because of the location of this underground cave. It is the fastest and easiest way to dig a passage on the ground above the cave directly to the cave below. It has to be said that the sea
The Dongqing guys are pretty smart.
The ground has obviously been renovated. Some of the sharp stalagmite pillars have been chipped away, and the potholes have been filled in, forming a path extending in all directions through the strange rocks. You don't have to worry about falling when you walk on it.
"Guys, please take a look here. I have done what you said. This is the underground warehouse of Taohua Island. You should be satisfied now. I hope you can keep your promise." Jia Dongsheng said in a low voice.
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Lin Jue nodded and said: "Chief Jia has done a good job. Don't worry, we won't break our promise. But we can't let you go now. Let me ask you, how many people are there here?"
Jia Dongsheng frowned and said, "Less than three hundred people."
Lin Jue said: "So I understand that we can't let you go at this time. There are only three of us and there are more than three hundred of you. If I let you go, if you fall out, we won't be able to bear it. So, we have to ask Chief Jia to accompany us. This way
Come on, you lead the way and we’ll take a look around here. Let’s walk around here and there. Again, don’t make any mistakes, otherwise my thunderbolt will blow you into two pieces.”
Jia Dongsheng cursed in his heart, but he had no choice but to follow Lin Jue's coercion and start walking around the cave with a few people. There were dozens of material storage yards in the cave. There were piles of food, salt, weapons, crossbows, and carriages.
Armor, bows and arrows, and even saddles and iron ingots were in short supply. After checking all the way, Lin Jue's knowledge was constantly refreshed. He never expected that the pirates had so many good things in their hands, many of which were strictly prohibited from circulation by the imperial court.
The materials are strategic materials.
How did Hai Dongqing get these things? Did he accumulate them through robbery? This is obviously unreliable. Not to mention that most of the people traveling on the sea are merchant ships. They just robbed some food, cloth and other items. These bundles
Where did materials such as weapons, arrows, crossbows, leather armor, and iron ingots come from? Most of the merchant ships in overseas trade exchanged silk, porcelain, and other items from the Zhou Dynasty for spices, ivory, coral, and other rare treasures from foreign countries. This was absolutely not the case.
I will buy things like weapons and iron ingots, because no foreign country has such things that are more advanced than the Great Zhou Dynasty. This is completely unnecessary. Moreover, these things in front of me are obviously the systems of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they are definitely not from other countries.
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The more he checked, the more doubts he had in Lin Jue's mind.
Hai Dongqing's reserve of so many strategic materials also shows that he has indeed prepared for rebellion. His intention to rebel was only at this moment truly confirmed.
However, Lin Jue quickly put these doubts behind him. He had no intention of thinking about these things at the moment. But there was one thing that he found very strange. After checking the materials in the entire cave, he didn't see what he wanted to see most.
The thing I found was kerosene.
Gao Muqing told herself clearly that when she eavesdropped, she heard Hai Dongqing say that he would distribute kerosene to deal with the attacking ships. This was heavy intelligence. Because in the stormy weather, the opponent's warships launched an attack on the island.
Ordinary rockets cannot cause damage to warships. They can only rely on arrows to kill and injure the enemy's troops landing on the island. But if there is kerosene, it will be different. The refined kerosene can burn in the rain, and
Set fire to the opponent's ships. Petroleum arrows are the biggest threat to warships.
Therefore, when Lin Jue heard what Gao Muqing said, his first reaction was to destroy all the kerosene. This was even more important than seizing control of a dock.
But at this moment, although there are many kinds of materials in the cave, there is no kerosene. This is puzzling.
Lin Jue whispered to Gao Muqing, and after confirming that Gao Muqing heard the news correctly, he asked in Jia Dongsheng's ear: "Boss Jia, I heard that there is kerosene here, why didn't we see it?"
