Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 1604 Master Jiao
The flames of the burning torches flickered slightly, causing the shadows to distort.

"Was there a gust of wind just now?"

The guard holding the whistle stick looked at the torch, then turned and asked his companion.

"What kind of wind is that? Are you dazzled?"

Another person said indifferently:

"Even if there is wind, it will be blown out from inside. It's totally airtight. We two brothers will suffocate to death."

After thinking about it, the man stopped talking and turned around to continue watching the door.

Almost at the moment he turned his head, a figure rushed towards him.

It happened so fast that I didn't even have the chance to open my mouth and scream. Then I felt a pain in my neck and lost consciousness.

"Be gentle, don't beat him to death."

Qin Yan dragged another guard and slowly placed him in the corner, lowering her voice and saying:

"Put it down gently, there might be someone else inside."

Qin Yan knocked the man down with acupressure, and Yang Yiyi did the same. The difference was that Yang Yiyi had learned the Piercing Cloud Finger, so it was hard to say whether it was just a finger that knocked the man unconscious, or whether the acupressure was effective...

Qin Yan quietly placed the guards against the wall, took out the key from them, and opened the iron gate behind her.

The entrance to the secret passage is a large vat. After taking out the debris in the vat, you can see a movable door panel under the vat. Following the door panel, there is a long passage leading underground.

This should be a natural cave that was later simply processed by someone.

After walking through this door, the space became a little wider. It should be a cave washed out by water. The two could hear the sound of underground water flowing.

Looking up, you can vaguely see the sunlight above your head. There are some holes in the ceiling of the cave, but the holes are covered by vegetation. If you look from the outside, it is really difficult to find that there is a cave underneath.

The torches on the wall were about to go out, and the light was not very clear, but it made it easier for them to sneak in.

Relying on the shadows, the two men moved close to the edge of the cave and soon found two more guards appearing in front of them.

The gatekeepers standing under the torches looked safe at first glance, but in reality the guards could not see what was in the darkness of the torches, while those hiding in the shadows could see it very clearly.

Qin Yan commented that the level of professionalism was completely unacceptable.

The two men slowly approached, and when they felt they were about to be discovered, they suddenly jumped up, one by one, and knocked the guard down again.

Use the guard's key to open another door, and behind it is a round stone chamber.

This place was supposed to be a secret warehouse used by the Hai Shi Gang to store food and supplies, and there were still many boxes and shriveled sacks left on the ground.

But now, it seems to be used as a prison cell to detain people.

At the end of the stone chamber, there were several large iron doors that looked particularly sturdy. The two of them slowly approached and leaned over to the windows on the iron doors to look.

After eliminating two or three empty doors, they soon saw a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties behind the fourth door on the left.

With the help of the only oil lamp in the room, one could see that this man seemed to live a privileged life. His clothes were not like those of ordinary people, and he was plump and white. One could tell at a glance that he was the kind of person who lived a life of luxury.

He was sitting on a simple straw bed and seemed to be sighing.

This seemed very similar to the description of her father by Miss Jiao, so Qin Yan gently knocked on the window bars.

Hearing the sound, the man immediately stood up alertly, and when he turned around, he happened to meet Qin Yan's eyes.

"Are you Master Jiao?"

"It's me, the heroine is...?"

"I am Qin Yan from the Sixteenth Village. I am here to look for you at the request of Miss Jiao."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Jiao hurried to the door and saw that besides Qin Yan, there was only Yang Yiyi.

"You two ladies are taking risks. This Haishi Gang is not easy to break into."

“Usually, we get in easily.”

Master Jiao immediately remembered that Qin Yan claimed to be from the Sixteenth Village. It was indeed not difficult to deal with this group of thieves who came and went without a trace.

"Wait a moment, I'll find a way to unlock it." Qin Yan lowered her head to study the lock on the door, pulled out the hairpin on her head and pushed it into the keyhole. The key to this thing was not with the guard.

Yang Yiyi asked:

"I heard from Miss Jiao that you have a good relationship with the Haishi Gang. How come you were detained?"

"Alas, I originally thought that the Haishi Gang was still led by Gang Leader Yang. He is a reasonable man. I thought that I could return my things to him by just talking to him at his house. I didn't expect to be deceived. I drank two cups of drugged tea, and when I woke up, I was already here."

This Master Jiao had a good relationship with Gang Leader Yang of the Hai Shi Gang, but he did not have a good relationship with the Hai Shi Gang. It just so happened that someone under Gang Leader Yang tried to usurp the throne, and he happened to be caught when he went there.

"We heard that someone is offering money to detain you. Master Jiao, can you guess who it is?"

"Is this happening?"

Master Jiao was also puzzled when he heard this:
"Although I can't say that I have a good reputation, I have never made enemies with anyone in my life. I really don't know who wants to harm me."

If he is not Mr. Jiao’s enemy, then there is only one most reliable possibility.

Northland.

Mr. Jiao's business should be very big, so big that even Tangfeng Trading Company came to discuss medicinal materials. As long as he is eliminated, the business will naturally be disrupted for a while, delaying the Central Plains' supply to the northern front.

This is probably the most reliable guess, but the Hai Shi Gang didn't want to get into big trouble, so they took the money but didn't do anything completely wrong.

We can think about it later whether it is true or not, but let’s find a way to get the person out first.

"Have you two ladies ever seen my family's carriage in the village?"

"Yes, in the yard outside."

Hearing this, Master Jiao said anxiously:

"There is a white jade box wrapped in leather on the carriage. Did you see it, lady?"

"We didn't notice this."

Master Jiao said anxiously:

"The jade box contains the golden dragon scale that I found after searching all over the Central Plains. My wife has been ill for a long time and she depends on this thing to save her life. We must not lose it."

This golden dragon scale is not the scale of a golden dragon in the literal sense, but a special kind of Ganoderma lucidum.

This kind of Ganoderma lucidum is shaped like scales, is golden all over, and absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon. Legend has it that it takes 500 years to mature. It is a magical medicine that only exists in books and very few people have ever seen.

If an ordinary person eats one mouthful, all his illness will be gone; if a dying person eats one mouthful, his life will be extended by ten years; if a martial artist takes it and refines it with his internal energy, his martial arts skills will be greatly enhanced.

Even the emperor had never seen this thing, which was even rarer than the Sky-supporting Stone. In order to find it, Mr. Jiao had exhausted all his connections and traveled to all ten countries in the Central Plains before he found it in the hands of a drug dealer who didn't know the value of it.

Mr. Jiao certainly couldn't tell anyone how precious this thing was. He only said that the Ganoderma lucidum looked strange, so he ordered a batch of goods from the drug dealer and added golden dragon scales to it.

He was supposed to get home a few days ago, but he was robbed by the Hai Shi Gang on the way.

Mr. Jiao was waiting for this thing to save his wife's life, so when he heard about this, he became extremely anxious.

So he is imprisoned here now.

"Don't worry, Master Jiao. When we came in, we saw that the goods in the carriage were still intact. The people from the Haishi Gang don't know what's good, so they may not have touched it at all. Let's talk about it after we get out."

Not to mention knowing about the Golden Dragon Scale, even the number of people who know that this thing exists is very small. It is unlikely to be lost if it is placed on the carriage.

Yang Yiyi comforted Master Jiao and lowered her head to ask Qin Yan:

"Has it not been opened yet?"

"This lock is unusual."

Qin Yan's nose was already sweating. Logically, there was almost no lock that she couldn't open, but this lock was extremely strong.

"Lady, you don't know that this lock was made by skilled craftsmen in the imperial court 20 years ago. Then, somehow, it fell into the hands of the Haishi Gang. Gang Leader Yang once showed it off to me."

In other words, this is not an ordinary lock, and it is normal that you cannot open it.

(End of this chapter)